to and why? here s dennis murphy wit indiscretion she was a bubbly woman in her early twenties, just looking for a clean break. the heidi bernadzikowski, baltimore pool league ace, had in recent years under some tough times. but now the shots were startin to drop. a steady job as receptionist, boyfriend she could take to be the parents, top even of a summer wedding in las vegas. and then, it was game over for heidi. just like. that someone had made their way into her role house on a thursday night in april back i the year 2000, and killed he in the most brutal fashion baltimore county 9-1-1. migrants been murdered. what happened was she shot, or - she s cut her throats cut. any parents opens a doo exam, there s two cups-ing
storage facility on an effor to move out. the real reason for the murder, the prosecutor told th jury, was pure and simpl greed. $700,000 two months before heidi s death, steven and heidi had taken out hefty life insurance policie on each other. do i wonder why an hourly employee at a hardware chain i buying almost 1 million dollar worth of coverage? you should, as we explained the jury, they had one car between them, which was hers, civic. they were not married, they di not have any children, and the really did not have an belongings there really wasn t anything t ensure so once they buy the policy it is tiktok heidi had no idea the tim was running out for her. no idea what was going t happen when her boyfrien dropped her home that night. but, according to investigators, steven knew there was a hire killer in the house. he set the wheels in motion driving her home to her death? he knew what was in tha house, he knew what he was
how do you walk to the door and then it says he pounced. then biden said he wipes th place down, and throw forensic off, he ransacked the bedroo and used i.d.s lipstick to mak that number one on the livin room wall. after that, bennett says h fled that s it that s it heidi is dead heidi is dead detective childs press, who
evidence, in this whole entire trial that points to stephen other than the confessed murde and these detectives with thei belief when it came to motive, the turned the case on its head. the defense version. this isn t about stephen searching for a contract kille online but rather, heidi looking for love on the dating website and finding alexande bennett. you surprised her by showing u to baltimore we thought that he met he online, came here to be with her, he rejected him, and he killed her it made sense to us, it made sense with the forensics, it made sense with the physical evidence to backup theory, the defense pointed to this police photo of heidi s keys and bag. if, as bennett testify, he jumped or what you walked in the door, how did her door key and makeup bag and up tightl on the kitchen table in anothe room so the bag on the kitchen table is not a trivial thing for you. no, i think she made it t the kitchen. i don t think he attacked he
the story than just some guy come in colorado to meet a murder and go back home again. did someone closer to hom want her dad you are 99% sure he had something to do with it. but, there s no smoking gun. so many secrets still to be revealed i know more about the sun i said and one more killer still o the run. he knew it was in tha house. he knew what he was doing. the doesn t get any worse in them hello and welcome to dateline. heidi burnett south coast sk had been living with her boyfriend steven cook in a baltimore suburb for about two years. there were whispers of a wedding, but those plans wer tragically cut short whe stephen arrived home to a scen that was both brutal and bizarre. heidi, sprawled in the livin room floor, who would want her