straight to peggy s daughter suzanne. not only did suzanne stand t inherit half of her mother s 4 million dollar estate. detectives thought her behavio was suspicious from the moment they arrived on the scene. she s saying, m fingerprints are all over th knife, my dna is all over th house. and she was telling detectives the same thing sh said during the 9-1-1 call, bu it was an accident i think my mother fell down the stairs - in the 9-1-1 call, you ar offering a theory of wha happened that s very unusual. i thought she fell. secondly, you pull the knif out and you tell the polic right away, so you are going t find my fingerprints on th knife. which, sounds like somebody wh is thinking ahead to the fac that knife is going to get dusted for fingerprints. sure. we do not agree that all of that is pretty suspicious when taken together maybe to them, it wasn t to me
so detectives called dian asking her to fill in the gaps i just have to confirm that you are up in washington - what do you mean? we just want to get you cleared. would you spent, where did you spend the night? what did they not tell diana? detectives had a warrant and they were tapping her phone. police now sat back and listened as diana made multipl calls to people she knew i d.c. she tried to find somewhere, anyone, who would say they wer with her in washington at th time of peggy s murder was she ever successful enough to find somebody to say yes, i will say, diana that yo were with me yes she did it was her third attempt detectives heard diana tell a female friend to say tha diana had been at her house in d.c. but the woman seemed confused.
as hot as detectives were o suzanne s trail, they had neve stopped looking at the other members of peggy s immediate family you talk to peggy son jim and his wife diana right after the murder yes, when it came up. they lit they lived i florida, correct yes were they in florida at the time of the murder jim was in florida, dance that she was in d.c. what we see in d.c. she said there was a family wedding. and the records back that up when robin areas looked a jim s cell phone it never left florida. dana s phone records checked out, to. where was diana s phone a that time? in d.c. that s it, didn t move? the phone went to d.c., wen back to florida. get reasonable to assum that diana never left d.c. absolutely. you are smiling get the pattern was just off, there was just a break diana s records wer speaking to areas.
obviously they formed an opinion from the get-go. detectives thought this was odd as well. she said, listen, maybe thi was a burglary, check for laptop, large ring, an jewelry. a cold earl, i said early, check for those three things he can be back and said, hey there s a pretty much the only three things missing then, again, in those first few moments, suzanne started talking about peggy s money. one of the one of the thing she yelled that was my mother worth high seven figures this is not the way i wante to get my money. that s the exact word she used she wants to talk her way right into suspicion absolutely. at one point you said thi is, not how i wanted to get my money? i don t recall saying that. but if they have that on recor but you believe me that tha is what you told police. yeah. because, again, you are
rubber gloves, and some othe items. had the crime scene bee cleaned up detectives didn t think so but still found it suspicious. just before your mother was murdered you go to the sho right, not the one near your house, the one near your mother s house, and you bu rubber gloves and cleaning supplies i did i mean, i buy cleaning supplie all the time i have a cleaning girl, sh probably needed rubber gloves, she probably needed floo cleaner. it s interesting, they kne what i bought. and detectives wanted t know about who peggy might hav had contact with in the hour before her murder. so they made this list o numbers they found on peggy home phone as they look at them, one stoo out. it was a call from an odd area code, and it came in at 1:17 i the morning. that was from what turned out to be a track phone. they are commonly referred t as burner phones these are the funds used by drug dealers, killers, cheatin