i m gonna leave the house and the phone rings. you could see the area where heidi was. i was lost for words just doesn t make sense. a vibrant young woman stalked by killer. i cringe every time i think about it found dead by her boyfriend my brother was just a mess. he was devastated. the most ominous clue, u on the wall to the left of you heidi s body was, was a number one. she s number one and get ready because here comes trouble exactly it was not a break-in the windows, the door, nothing was broken did the killer have a? keith the question always was, how did the person ge into the house a decade later, in a stat 1500 miles away, detective finally found their answer got a dna hit. and more questions. we knew there was more of the story than just some guy come in colorado to meet a murder and go back home again. did someone closer to hom want her dad you are 99% sure he had something to do with it. but, there s no smoking gun. so many secret
caught the eye of a guy holdin accused tech it was steven cook they were shooting agains one another, and he nursed hiding in the bar. kim s steven cook sister. the first night, they actually went home together an three days later they moved in together back fast romance it was really fast, reall fast steven was five years older than heidi his sister says he could b quiet and shy, put alway wanted to be around heidi. they did everything together i don t think that they really did much without each other. look and i tonight, stephen heinie moved to this renta down a house and done do maryland steven s dad, steve senior says after living together for nearly two years, the couple was talking about taking the next up. was it your understanding steve, that they were gonna ge a hitch? yes, in vegas. every time i talk to them, tha was their plan that never changed he loved her the timing seemed good.
i haven t heard anythin about it since it s unheard of now it is yeah. diren s friends help that people won t forget the on deadly mistake he made and instead, the bright, charming guy they loved. you know, you are all prett and to go through this do you feel like this ha changed you? yeah. one hunted percent. yeah everything, every day you think, obviously, something the fac that happen. and you would do things that matter life seems more precious now? it s encouraging us to do a lot of things. i think is still pushing us. that is off at this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin thank you for watching and this is dateline
terry gilley worked wit stephen sister at a safe way just miles from high s house i m thinking, okay. he s african american. i m thinking maybe this is our guy. but sure, heidi is killed with a knife. investigators theorize connection through stephen sister it looking for somebody tha comes to the door. did you ever go to how you store a knock on the door? no. saying from the black watch association? actually, i don t even know where he lived no, never doctrine hurt or but the cops would just accept the butchers denials an be done with that. there were other reasons to di deeper, including an irregularity on his wartim card a time had been changed on one specific day it s the day the murder when his time is handwritten and. so the only day the month, everything else is machines. i can have him not bein able to account for himself th day of the murder. and, there was somethin else heidi herself had said this is
emphasized to myself, that i needs to look like an accident ben its role was the muscle to do the actual hit luis, the middleman, communicated with the client and organized everything in late march, 2000, the arrived in baltimore fro denver he says he waited for th signal to act. in the meantime, he scoped out his victim, breaking into ho these home by tampering with the locks, then posing as that neighborhood watch a volunteer so scared into heidi i do remember her answering the door on april 20th, he says that he heard through lewis, th plane was ongoing. after getting into heidi s house, he hid behind the front door