killer in a mask. he s clearly a brilliant individual. a brilliantly scary individual. his target, a doting young mom. she was a gorgeous strawberry blond who loved her son more than anything in the whole world. she was so scared. he struck once. would he kill again and would she be next? we were just so shattered and hurting so bad. imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. i was terrified. she will face down evil and come forward with a new revelation that will make your jaw drop. what i did is wrong. there are no words. i have everything to lose. hello, and welcome to dateline. it was a brutal crime and right away one woman said she knew what happened. it would take years to bring the alleged killer to trial. but the verdict was far from the end of this case. it s a story of obsession and control that will keep you guessing until the very end. here s an
imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. i was terrified. she will face down evil and come forward with a new revelation that will make your jaw drop. what i did is wrong. there are no words. i have everything to lose. hello and welcome to dateline. it was a brutal crime and right away one woman said she knew what happened. the verdict was far from the end of this case. it s a story of obsession and control that will keep you guessing until the very end. here s andrea canning with the killing in cobb county. a new attraction can be so exhilarating, but not always. sometimes attraction turns into a dangerous obsession. bonnie spencer says she knows all about that. he would show up at my job. he would show up at the store. no matter where i went, she would be there. bonnie said she had a stalker, a teenager who got into her house, into her car, and worst of all, into her
in my family say that i act just like her. i just know that she was a happy person. a happy life that ended in an appalling act of violence. the police officers who discovered carmen s body got an immediate, emphatic lead from her upstairs neighbor lottie spencer. did you know immediately who had done this? uh-huh. who had committed this. i knew. lottie was certain it was the work of a teenager named waseem daker. she said it would explain the hideous attack. she told detectives the story. things had started so innocently. don t they always? come on. i met him at the paint ball field playing paint ball. we met by being teammates on the same team. lottie was the captain of her team. kind of a den mother to the other much younger players, especially waseem. a
he walked away from the murder, but not some accountability. the police felt like they had a viable way of charging him with aggravated stalking. daker was arrested and charged with stalking lottie spencer. multiple witnesses, friends of hers, friends of his, that observed firsthand some of the stalking activities that were occurring at her apartment, either by hearing the phone, hearing him knock on the door at all hours of the night, seeing him come by. daker was convicted in september of 1996 and sentenced to ten years in prison. it was the close to the worst chapter of lottie spencer s life. but it wasn t a happy ending. did you feel like you had some peace in your life again when he was behind bars? no. no. i mean, because he was getting away with murder. he was getting away with exactly what he told me he would. he needed to pay for what he did to karmen.
he didn t and was arrested again in september. this time, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. prosecutor jesse evans. he s got some severe issues with obsession. i don t think that he has the ability to feel compassion for other people. he s clearly a brilliant individual. he s also a brilliantly scary individual. while daker was hospitalized, lottie packed up and moved to the house in cobb county, about 20 minutes north of atlanta where carmen and nick lived downstairs. so you moved? yes. to try and escape him? uh-huh. in october on friday the 13th waseem daker was released from the hospital. less than two weeks later, carmen smith was dead and lottie spencer was overwhelmed with guilt. waseem is evil. he s pure evil. and that s what she told police. she said her stalker must of