do, under those circumstances, was take a long, hard look at her. but donna was cooperating fully with the investigation and was an unlikely killer. she also had an alibi for thursday night and friday morning, the estimated time of death. as the investigation went along, it was clear that the evidence did not point in the direction of donna. david s second ex-wife also had an alibi for the time of david s murder, an alibi confirmed by numerous witnesses. next, investigators questioned david s current girlfriend, 32-year-old tracey frame. tracey said she last saw david on thursday, and she assumed he was headed to las vegas where he liked to gamble. you didn t hear from him any thursday night? no, sir. did you talk to him friday? no. nothing saturday? no. have not talked to him since? have not talked to him since then. it was discovered that he had
some gambling debts and he had some troubles with the irs. tracey consented to a search of the house she shared with david. we searched the home with luminol. we did a search with cadaver dogs. they found no evidence of blood, and the cadaver dogs didn t find anything either. but investigators did find one possible clue. as they searched the house, they found electric blanket controls, but they didn t find an electric blanket, which was kind of odd, because they found david wrapped in an electric blanket. a day later, police found david s white lexus abandoned in a supermarket parking lot within walking distance of their house. there was no blood or sign of violence in the car, but something immediately caught investigators attention. one of the first things
place his house in tracey s name, a decision he came to regret. david wanted to regain control of the house, and tracey wanted to make sure that she kept the house in her name. but there was one seemingly insurmountable hurdle to her being a suspect. in looking at her, investigators had to decide how she could have moved the body. after all, although she was a trim and strong young woman, she was almost half the weight of david, and moving him would have been no easy task. then tracey s neighbors told police they saw a large rental truck parked at their house during the weekend david went missing. are you aware of a moving van be being at your house? i mean, he a moving van? like a u-haul, ryder? yeah. we were getting a truck to move a some large stuff, the pool stuff, pool chairs that the
tracey had a large black dog. it does seem to be highly coincidental that the same person that you re looking at would also have a black lexus, a white lexus, access to a penske truck and to walk a dog similar to the one tracey frame had. because the camera was so far away, there was no way to positively identify the woman. if this was tracey frame, they d need some way to prove it. what happened to david? what happened to him? i don t know. why are you asking me that? i m asking you what happened to david. i don t know. what happened to david? i don t know. i don t know. tracey, we ll be honest with you. i think you do. i must begin my journey,
such as an electric blanket. a fractured rib alerted the medical examiner to a bullet pathway that led from david s left side through his heart. cause of death was a single gunshot. it was a small-caliber handgun. they couldn t determine, you know, what caliber, because we never found the bullet. to investigators, it seemed strange that david s ex-wife reported him missing just three hours before his body was found. and police soon learned she had a possible motive, a $500,000 motive. [ male announcer ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like you re underwater?