how these grieving family was trying to get on with thei lives. remembering her on her birthda by eating her favorite shrim alfredo. but family events were hard, t say. you couldn t really enjoy the special occasions becaus you are always painfully aware that - you ve got an empty chair yes that she should be there, an she s not. heidi s boyfriend, steven cook, was trying to move o with his life as well. he married, had a child, and landed a steady job. he s got a normal life fo the first time in a while. he does, things are looking pretty good for him. then, in 2011, 11 years after heidi s birth, mayer rejoined the homicide unit and once again, he cracked the file this time, he and vetera baltimore county detective gary childs, got an idea dna technology ha progressed, and we knew no that there is a possibilit that heidi s fingernails may contain some physical evidence
emphasized to myself, that i needs to look like an accident ben its role was the muscle to do the actual hit luis, the middleman, communicated with the client and organized everything in late march, 2000, the arrived in baltimore fro denver he says he waited for th signal to act. in the meantime, he scoped out his victim, breaking into ho these home by tampering with the locks, then posing as that neighborhood watch a volunteer so scared into heidi i do remember her answering the door on april 20th, he says that he heard through lewis, th plane was ongoing. after getting into heidi s house, he hid behind the front door
at last, grant luis cracked he divulged drunke conversation that you had down by a river after bed i got back. he said i hurt someone bad, and he looked over him, and said, i don t want to know and he said, i think someone s dead, i think that s how h said it he said i think someone s dead, and then he said, i know someone. that was it, the corroboration 12 years after heidi s murder, alexander bennett was charged. he was extradited to marylan to stand trial heidi s brother, frank, got th news from their dad. it s another one of those things that just brings you to tears because that just come flooding back in it is such a great feeling t feel like, finally, somethin has happened steven cook s family wa relieved as well, there ha been such a cloud of suspicion around him for so long, that
their. you know less. docket it was a murder case that wasn t going to be solved in a few hours or a few weeks. or even a dozen. nick the heidi moor investigation would go stone cold until one day, and matter of hours really everything became clear and ho strange and terrifying it al turned out to be thank when donna and walter up bernadzikowski miniatur social, top of a family even proceeded the engagement ring. he used to scare the girl away by saying that he wante 12 children, and i said wow want to have 12 children he said oh my god. he did have 12, but thi devout roman catholic couple i did raise their five in baltimore maryland suburb. heidi, the only girl in a se of brothers. when i hear that, i think for. heidi yep growing up with all those boys she wasn t treated like she
how do you stand. now it is quite a shock i started like pinching myself gotta wake up from the stream. this is gonna be a dream i think our whole world jus change a short time later, steve sister kim got a knock to. i remember running to the bathroom, and getting sick and i i can do anything. heidi is boyfriend stephen, meanwhile, had been zero polic station the whole time being interviewed. officers snapped this picture. his clothes bloodied, he said, from trying to perform cpr and then cradling heidi is pleading body how much did you kno about him? not a lot, we just knew the were her relationship. the relationship was good. husbands and boyfriends are always persons of interest but homicide investigators say stephen was cooperative. he told them how, after a shif ending at a local lowest-, h picked up heidi from her job a the car they shared a 1994 red