their home saudi and live in floor. her boyfriend leaned up agains the wall, cradling her, an crying uncontrollably. and appeared she had bee strangled, her throat so severely slashed that her bloo had trip through to th basement and, there was something else. something manson ask scrolls o the roll and red lipstick over heidi s body was the numbe one. he coming up. a possible suspect i m thinking maybe this i our guy. new just kept the knife. gwen dateline continues. claritin-d. ha-ha! it was me the whole time. -whoo-hoo! -[ laughs ] well done, ma am. what.did i do exactly? with snapshot from progressive, you get a personalized discount for doing exactly what you re already doing
for his visit. this girl s fingernails wer take at the time of her death. bennett did have an explanation, and i had nothing to do with committing murder i the house. he remembers a confrontatio that he had at a bus stop with a female in maryland, in baltimore, right around th time of the murder iraq harness cared because, you know, i was trying to figh back, and i think i heard her, i am not sure. the detective didn t, by an thought he used bennet storied s advantage. he presented bennett wit several photographs, a technique police typically use to help identify criminals except this time he was asking a potential killer to identify his victim could bennett pick out th girl from his supposed to fight? heidi s picture was included he knows that he can t give this explanation about havin this fight at the bus stop and pick some other girl
i m thinkin , holy cow. reporter: three weeks before heidi s murder, an officer had spotted alexander bennett walking down a baltimore highway. when a wanted check is run by a patrolman or an officer that check remains in the computer forever. how important was that? incredibly important. reporter: detectives meyer and childs hopped a flight to denver. it was time to meet this alexander bennett. coming up a suspect s story, a surprise to even these experienced detectives. i ve got to tell you it s strange. that s why it is strange. when indiscretion continues. strange. when indiscretion continues. st drive works. they give their customers seven days. and if they don t like it, they give em their money back. wait, they take the car back? that s crazy! what if it was driven by like a zookeeper? or a mud wrestler? or a guy who s on the outs with the missus and he just needs a place to sleep for seven days? yeah. (vo) buy your car online. love it or return it.
monkeyed with? yes. reporter: not long after that discovery of mischief on the locks, a stranger knocked at the front door one night saying he was forming a neighborhood block watch. he scared heidi so much that she told friends. and described the stranger as african-american with a tattoo. stephen demanded new locks and keys from the townhouse management. they were installed on april 19th, 2000. the very next evening was when it happened. are you sending somebody? yes, i am. just send somebody. i m going to. just stay with me okay? reporter: an officer dispatched to their home saw heidi on the living room floor. her boyfriend leaned up against the wall, cradling her, and crying uncontrollably. it appeared she d been strangled, her throat so severely slashed her blood had dripped through into the basement. and there was something else something manson-esque, scrawled on the wall in red lipstick above heidi s body was the number one. coming up a possible suspect. i