welcome back. shannon crawly and jerme jermeir stroud had managed to keep their affair hid from denita. now detectives felt they had uncovered significant evidence against shannon. there was the gunshot residue in her car, an allibi that did not check out and a potential motive. just one day later it was time for denita s family to mourn their loss. once again here s josh. reporter: they called it a home-going service, the final farewell to 25-year-old denita smith, who had departed this world under the worst of circumstances. just a week earlier denita s mother, sharon, was starting to plan her daughter s wedding. now she was attending denita s funeral. no parent wants to see their child laying in in a casket.
jamere cried. we all cried. he didn t really say a whole lot. jamere and denita had met back in college and became the it couple on campus. they had been dating for a few years. and, you know, before i even met him, denita spoke very highly of him. what d she say? like, he s a gentleman. he s intelligent. he s active, involved, well-rounded, he s kind, he respects me, he protects me. he s loving. the perfect guy. the perfect guy. the perfect guy. he was, apparently, even perfect enough for denita s cautious mother, sharon smith. who came to trust that jamere was the right guy for her precious daughter. i knew what he would be getting. but i didn t know what she would be getting. so i tried to find every reason to not like him. how d you do? i failed because he was very
and i was hurt. and i was in shock. just disbelief because i had i had nothing bad to say about him. this wasn t jamere. yes. i mean, that s exactly, more or less, how i felt. it was just like a nightmare. like, this wasn t reality. denita had trusted jamere. the man investigating her death did not. now, the man who once made denita so happy was in the cross hairs of a murder investigation that was quickly ramping up. and though jamere stroud seemed genuinely devastated by denita s death, openly crying throughout his interview with detectives, he wasn t getting much sympathy. when i first spoke with him, i thought i had my man. jamere? jamere. coming up. what does shannon know? and what is she hiding? as we re leaving, getting