thank you for joining me on this important friday night, at the end of a very heavy week. and from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of monday. be good. 9-1-1. what are you reporting? i just heard three gunshots. there is a female victim that was shot in the car, slumped over. i can t believe she s gone. melvin found with apparent gunshot wounds inside an apartment stop, screaming i can t understand you. my husband man shot. most people never know anybody that s been murdered. but to know too, and be stuck right in the middle of the. it was like a hunting party, stalking your family. it was like a hunting party, stalking your family. i had a lot of fears for peoples safety. this guy marshall this whole family is part of this criminal enterprise. there s a moment where he
cory, the rest of the for some da. he was just losing it over gallery. and i could hear mystery in the background screaming and crying. i had all of them falling to pieces at the same time. while the family dealt with the shock, investigators puzzled over who was responsible for her murder houston pd detective, now retired, ran lead on the case. he remembers the crime scene that night. a jumble of shattered glass. or rubber, and blunt. you could smell burning tire. you could see evidence on the ground. where the car was just sitting there spinning for a while. investigators begin with the contents of her car. which explain exactly what kind of crime, this was not.
galareh s friend, kathy soltani, acted as the surrogate. the police told you that they were investigating the lawsuit that the father was within a former yes these are rocks that they did go. but they weren t giving us every little detail unless it was something that they thought they should come and check with the family and get more information. and the list went on. investigators looked at another ex-boyfriend and came by his place for a top. and he had a solid alibi. detectives also checked out a report of a man who bragged about killing women in the area where galareh was shot. he turned out to be disturbed but not homicidal. and they spent some time tracking down a carjacking crew that was working galareh s neighborhood. we had the task force over there. maybe this was the same group trying to steal another. car and it didn t work, out and they shot her? and it didn t work on the shot or.
no i remember calling a friend and telling, them i don t know i happened, but if you don t hear anything from me, by tomorrow noon, look for me. because i said something is wrong and that you re going to be lame? for possibly. he was not the only person detectives had their eyes, on gelareh had a number of friends. and popularity can sure complicate a murder investigation. coming up, it turns out, she recently had an unfriendly encounter, online. he had threatened, terry said you ll be sorry the next time i see you. and she just kind of left about. it when dateline continues. en dateline continues. but then something amazing happened. hello? carvana worked with my shift manager and got everything sorted out so i didn t miss out on the car. super helpful. i was over the moon, even though i was underground.
and then beautiful work up on galleries car. they found a latent print. and sent that off to, on the ground near her car. a cigarette but. evidence perhaps than someone had been waiting for her. and past the time smoking. report, ryan course guard. they didn t know where it came from or who it might ve came from, at that point they gather that dna evidence thinking there might be something on, there to get that processed. investigators canvas the town house complex, door to door, neighbor to neighbor. it turns out, one neighbor had heard something. and then peeked out his window. he heard the gunshots, and then moments later, he saw either a light blue or silver honda accord or to go my camera fleeing the scene. it was it much to go on. it was a start. now the detective wondered among the millions in the greater houston metro area, how did the killer selects gallery. they need to trace her steps in the minutes before her murder. in the car there was a receipt, that night, at