about it, and it touched her. but she was so frightened of him, she said. she was determined to remain anonymous. they know each other intimately. she knows how he would react to certain situations. yep. and she was terrified. he certainly would ve remembered his conversations with her. if you told someone that you committed a murder, you would certainly remember having told them that. yes. so, tom bullock went to detective evans. we agreed that whatever information i would give him would be anonymous, because for all we know, the whole thing could ve been hogwash. that s sort of tricky, isn t it? i mean, when you ve got somebody making an accusation, you have to be able to talk to that person. well, yeah. but at that point, beggars can t be choosers. so he gave you a name. so he gave me a name. he gave me the name of shane ragland. shane ragland. the woman s ex-boyfriend. but who was he?
we got information from our state police intelligence section that there was a hit out on this girl. there were phone calls to her friends that would ask, have you seen her? do you know where she is these days, obviously trying to locate her. reporter: that would make you pretty nervous. yes and you ve got to let her know this you ve taken on the responsibility. reporter: sure. we had to keep her and her attorney notice loop. to let them know this is what we re dealing with. reporter: this is a whole little horror movie playing out as a story within a story. it became that, you know. reporter: and with all that going on, she had to do precisely what she didn t want to do, go public, show herself and testify. and the world would know that her name was aimee lloyd. and that she was truly terrified. reporter: coming up, aimee
intimately. she knows how he would react to certain situations. yep. and she was terrified. he certainly would ve remembered his conversations with her. if you told someone that you committed a murder, you would certainly remember having told them that. yes. so tom bullock went to detective evans. we agreed that whatever information i would give him would be anonymous because for all we know, the whole thing could ve been hogwash. that s sort of tricky, isn t and you fed him bits and pieces of information from her without saying. correct. he was blts taking that information, he wasn t writing it down in notes. he wasn t putting it in official files yet. we wanted to see if what she said was credible. that s sort of tricky, sjt it? i mean, when you ve got somebody
reporter: it wasn t as if a successful investigation could somehow undo what happened to trent digiuro. and yet the lack of any answer, year after year, seemed somehow to be an insult to all that was good. and they just had to accept it. i think we d all kind of resigned ourselves as every year passed we were just never gonna know. reporter: and you won even know if it was intentional. it could have been just random. i think we figured it was. if it was intentional we would have known by now. reporter: then it was about five years after the shooting, a local attorney named tom bullock heard from an old friend, a woman. she was nervous, tentative, asked him on the phone, could she reveal what she knew about a crime without saying who she was? she was extremely evasive. she didn t really wanna tell me really anything.
it wasn t as if a successful investigation could somehow undo what happened to trent digiuro. and yet the lack of any answer, year after year, seemed somehow to be an insult to all that was good. and they just had to accept it. i think we d all kind of resigned ourselves as every year passed we were just never gonna know. and you wouldn t even know if it was intentional or not. it was some random thing. i would think, yeah, we would have known by now. then it was about five years after the shooting, a local attorney named tom bullock heard from an old friend, a woman. she was nervous, tentative, asked him on the phone, could she reveal what she knew about a crime without saying who she was? she was extremely evasive. she didn t really wanna tell me really anything. you can give people answers,