and this is dateline! it s gut-wrenching. there s a body lying off the side of the road. this young woman shot three times. this was a murder. a young single mom, out with friends on game day. it was packed. but as night fell, fear grew. they re asking who would want to harm your sister? but as night fell, fear grew. was it someone that was a stranger? was it someone that we knew? i just had this weird feeling that there was something she was hiding tucked away. in her kitchen a clue to it all. on top of the refrigerator was a manila folder. did it just give you chills? it was horrible. why didn t she just tell us? did a secret lead to murder? it s got to be unimaginable. here s andrea canning with nightfall. welcome to dateline. when the body of brooke morris was discovered by the side of the road, her family started looking for answers. they were surprised to discover that she may have been involved in an allegedly violent relationshi
game day. it was packed. but as night fell, if you re grew. yeah they re asking who would want to harm your sister? was it someone that was a stranger? was it someone that we knew? i just had this weird feeling that there was something she was hiding. talk to in her kitchen, a clue to it all. on top of the refrigerator was a manila folder. did it just give you chills? it was horrible. why didn t she just tell us? did a secret lead to murder? it s got to be unimaginable. welcome to dateline. when the body of brooke morris was discovered by the side of the road, her family started looking for answers. they were surprised to discover that she may have been involved in an allegedly violent relationship. could that revelation be the key to solving her murder? here with nightfall is andrea canning. i d ask that you all close your eyes for a few minutes this morning. i d like for you to envision roane county in the middle of october. the leaves are changing,
her earlier in the day. so we would, like, break off, and i was with some other friends of ours at that time. so i m not really sure where she was. neither dina nor albert ever saw brooke again. and with more than a hundred thousand football fans flooding the city for the game, finding brooke s killer was like looking for a needle in an orange haystack. i thought that maybe someone had kidnapped her, you know? and we were all just tryin to to figure out who would have done this and why. what was their motive, you know? it was a very horrible time. did you think that maybe it could be connected to the game? you never know. you never can you can you can never rule it out it s tennesse football, and you know, she so happened to be wearin a bright orange top and if anybody knows anything about tennessee football, bright orange is the color for the tennessee vols. but brooke s body had been discovered about 40 miles from the football stadium and investigators were still
i called it hotel dina like everyone just stayed. yeah. left it unlocked for everyone, you know. the next day, saturday, was the tennessee lsu football game and everyone was looking forward to tailgating. but the fun day turned sour. brooke borrowed something out of dina s closet, the girlfriends had an argument about it. and i had found out she had wore it without asking. it was a silly fight, but it stuck with brooke. she didn t tailgate for long. she had been calling all these people to pick her up to take her to her car because she wanted to change her outfit for the night, for that night. brooke s friend albert dotson had been tailgating with her earlier in the day. so we would, like, break off, and i was with some other friends of ours at that time. so i m not really sure where she was. neither dina nor albert ever saw brooke again. and with more than a hundred thousand football fans flooding the city for the game, finding brooke s killer was like looking for
killer was like looking for a needle in an orange haystack. i thought that maybe someone had kidnapped her, you know? and we were all just trying to figure out who would have done this and why. what was their motive, you know? it was a very horrible time. did you think that maybe it could be connected to the game? you never know. you never can you can never rule it out. it s tennesse football, and you know, she so happened to be wearing a bright orange top and if anybody knows anything about tennessee football, bright orange is the color for the tennessee vols. reporter: but brooke s body had been discovered about 40 miles from the football stadium and investigators were still stymied as to how she ended up there. did it lend itself to that she maybe was dumped here? or did you think that she was actually shot here? based off of everything that was here at the scene, it appeared that she was shot here. reporter: the crime scene itself yielded little physical evidence, no