She defended herself. Reporter so why did others call it murder . My very first words were, she set him up. Reporter caras account, kept changing it hit me just how different all of these stories were and how unbelievable they were. Lies. Its all lies. Reporter what really made cara pull that trigger . The rug was pulled out from underneath her. She was shocked. Reporter and she was angry . Yes. Reporter a jury would have to decide i did what i did because i had to not because i wanted to reporter in this story, the killer was never in doubt. It was motive, that was the mystery. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres keith morrison. With a shot in the dark. Reporter it was night when it happened. Indian rocks beach, gulf coast of florida. Two blocks from the water. 10 05pm. Quiet at that hour, saveor odd passing car and snatches of neighborhood chatter, carried on a cooling ocean breeze. There was a moon, almost full. Cara ryan was in bed. All alone, in a small darkened room. And t
Caught the driver who hit an killed a 74yearold woman and left her to die in polk county. A Successful Bank executive hit and killed her on duff road in lake land they believe. As Melissa Marino shows us, it took weeks for them to track him down. Reporter this is one of the last videos that loved ones have of 74yearold janice joy. Her neighbor betty mata has been her caretaker for years but more like family. Joy had alzheimers alone. The morning of the crash, she got out of her home and a driver hit and killed her. He left janice on the side of the road to die by herself. Reporter after weeks of searching, Sheriff Grady Judd says they found the suspect, 37 yearold jarvis kendrick. Jarvis is a Senior Vice President for mid florida credit union. Reporter investigators through Great Lengths to hide his involvement. Even faking an accident on i4 to cover up the damage. In lakeland, Melissa Marino, challenge challenge. Well, a mother and daughter were left with critical injuries when an suv
Agencies responded. And here is tampa fire rescue. They had divers in the water the past two hours. The divers are now out of the water but they are continuing the search. A coast guard helicopter is here as well. It is still an active scene and they are still actively looking for this man who went under while pushing a boat off the sand bar right off the Courtney Campbell causeway. Thank you paul. A grim situation out there. We will stay with you and get side investigation, safeguarding your vote. Are elections safe and secure or ripe for the picking . A Hillsborough County woman believes someone tried to commit Election Fraud using her personal information. When we did some digging we found there is not much being disown to stop it. Steve andrews joins us now. So, whose job is it to prevent Election Fraud in the first place . Reporter apparently, it is now, the Hillsborough County supervisor of elections relies ton state to weed out phony applications. When i pressed them, i realized
Its now 5 . . Thanks for joining us. Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. Hot and humid with a 50 chance of scattered late day storms. High temps in the lower 90s. Tonight will be warm and soupy; lows in the upper 70s. More late day no closed captioning is jen call it karma. Or just bizarre. But theres an odd twist in a fatal road rage incident in Hillsborough County. wally turns out the man who was gunneddown. Actually killed a man 15years ago. In a similar situation wally fox13s Shayla Reaves is at the Sheriffs Office the man who opened fire this wally jen were also learning more about the woman killed during a Police Academy Training Session in punta gorda. And the officer, who pulled the trigger. jen 73yearold Mary Knowlton was takingpart in a citizens training exercise, tuesday night. And the end of the session, she was selected randomly for a shooting scenario. But officer lee coel accidentally shot her several times. Wit
Northeast Little League in Saint Petersburg pays a company to handle the registration fees but it is striking out when it comes to getting its money back. Peter bernard is live at one of the ball fields the Little League uses and you found out there is an explanation for all of this. Reporter there is an explanation. The Little Leaguers, we are out watching the game. It appears this looks like this could be a huge ripoff or a giant fraud and you cant blame the lk together for thinking so. However, hang with me. Here are some pictures we shot earlier. Two weeks into the season, and two months of fee collection, and the northeast Little League is finding its caught in a pickle. A Texas Company called jevin is not doling out money sent to pay bills. The league hired jevin to manage fee collection and payments. We are talking almost 35,000 that has somehow gone poof. It is putting the league in a bind right now and has parents in a tizzy. With the cash and someone need to be hold accountab