do you have one that got away? he s my first love. the guy who disappeared. except, in her case, he really disappeared. he s going to call me in a couple days. he never called. his family, in agony. i called everyone from oprah winfrey to america s most wanted . a rookie detective finally broke the case. i said, oh my gosh. i think i hit pay dirt. a sweet strange phone call revealed a secret. david needed needed to be gotten rid of. then we got the real story. a bombshell revelation. was she really a believed ex? i always love david. or just maybe a black widow? barbara britton is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline . four years, judy carlson lived in the most painful kind of
trent digiuro s front porch. his friends stood over the body and stared out into the dark with a kind of anticipating horror. you re concerned that there s more to come, you know? that was that was one shot. is there someone who s gonna shoot again? trent was officially pronounced dead at 3:00 a. m. just about the time don evans arrived. evans has retired now, but was a rookie detective back then. this was his first homicide case. what d you find when you got here? there were three young men in this very yard, and they just looked distraught, and they were consoling each other. on the porch, trent s chair was turned over and evans could see blood and debris left by the ambulance crew. what was your first idea of what appeared to have happened here?
trent was officially pronounced dead at 3:00 a. m. just about the time don evans arrived. evans has retired now, but was a rookie detective back then. this was his first homicide case. what d you find when you got here? there were three young men in this very yard, and they just looked distraught, and they were consoling each other. on the porch, trent s chair was turned over and evans could see blood and debris left by the ambulance crew. what was your first idea of what appeared to have happened here? you know, when i first walked up, i went with what appeared to be the obvious. that someone had simply walked from the side of the house, fired the shot, and then exited back toward the rear of the house. so this is almost like an alley here. so it would provide concealment. take advantage of surprise. yeah. if someone was gonna take a shot, that made the most sense. believing the shot came from a handgun, police looked for shell casings. and yet for all they looked, there
a judge now. but back in 1999, a rookie detective. it really shocked me that i was getting a call from california about a case that i had worked in our little gentle town there. had you forgotten all about that case? no, sir. i actually over the years, i ve thought about that case many times. the case, an auto accident in the fall of 99. an accident that killed the first mrs. winkler. cathy. my father called me that night and told me that cathy was no longer with us. what was that like for you? it hurts. still hurts. so many years later, charles carlisle still smarts from the lot of his big sister cathy. just never got over it. but then cathy was also his mentor, his protector, perhaps his only true friend. they grew up on hk dill air force base near tampa, charles
events and was skeptical. that s her job, of course. still, no one else in todd s house saw what happened, so there was no one to contradict his story. but then the investigators found that box with ashes in it. we re realizing, wait, there was a former wife? oh, yeah, there was. todd winkler had been married before and clearly his ex-wife was dead. so what happened to her? no choice, did the prosecutor, she would have to find out. and that s when she set out to follow a trail that led to a man in georgia. and gerald johnson, a jith nudg, but back in 1999, rookie detective. it really shocked me i was getting a call about a case that i had worked from that little town in white count. had you now forgotten about that case? no, sir. actually i thought about that case many times. the case, an auto accident in the fall of 1999. an accident that killed the first mrs. winkler, kathy. my father called me that