hello i m craig melvin and this is dateline. oh god please. ma am. oh god. oh god. i just knew that she was gone. she was a bright, young mom to be. she was beautiful, confident. strong. it was a smile that really got me. moving on from a messy divorce and jumping into a new romance. no one could believe it when they found her. they re saying that it was a homicide,. then police found something else. recordings. everything changed. like instantly. it s weird. he is essentially speaking from the grave? you can see the emotions that she went through. could she point police to her killer? scared to death. once, just in a flash, the life just changed. hello. and welcome to late lane. it started with a little flirtation in the office, that bloomed into a full blown romance. problem was, brittany eldridge was married to another man. then, she found out that she was pregnant. and it was just weeks before her due date that the tragedy struck. inv
must ve been. it was hard to go to sleep some nights. reporter: a young woman living on her own. hurt in the middle of the night. she was vulnerable, alone, and in bed. a crime that jolted a sleepy seaside community. killer walking among them. i do not think that it really sets in, that we are all are in a little more danger at that point. reporter: young, fun, and pretty. cory had plenty of admirers. and one of them like to do much. a strange coworker oh my god. i was, i was obsessed. that is scary stuff, right there. exactly. an adoring friend. her statements about how much she loved cory. peaked our interest. and a young man who made some people very uncomfortable. she called him the night creeper. a gallery of potential suspects, piles of evidence, but the truth would only be revealed by a tiny telltale clue. did everyone s jobs drop? my eyes filled with tears. i could not believe it. reporter: welcome to dateline. she was
must have been, it was hard to go to sleep some night. our young woman living on her own, murdered in the middle of the. night she was at her most vulnerable, alone, and embed. a crime that jolted a sleepy seaside community. killer walking among them. i do not think it really sets in that we are all of that point. young, fun, and pretty. cory had plenty of admirers. and one of them like to do much. a strange coworker oh my god. i was, i was obsessed. that is scary stuff, right there. exactly. and a friend. her statements about how much she loved cory. and a young man who made some people very uncomfortable. she called him indict creepers. a gallery of potential suspects, piles of evidence, but the truth would only be revealed by a tiny telltale clue. did raise jobs drop? my eyes filled with tears. i could not believe it. welcome to dateline. she was a 25-year-old woman enjoying her independents, working hard and playing harder. cory par
look at an old lead. he just said it s a match a person no one would hav ever suspected of murder we were going to end this was suddenly suspect number one. perfect murder. almost hello welcome to dateline . she was a new bride marrie just three months, then she wa found murdered what happened to her remained mystery for decades partly because police told us the thief must have killed her during a break-in gone bad they discovered it wasn t murder, but a suspect whos trail right to their own front door here is josh mankiewicz with the smoking gun. february 1st, 2009. the detective arrived before dawn at the los angeles police department s van nuys station. i was tired i was tired. he had hosted a super bow party the night before and the beer had flowed freely that seemed to be a good da to have a cup of coffee an caught up on my reading. a couple of aspirin maybe he reached for a file sitting on his desk for months the file of sherri rasmu
they re saying it was a homicide. then police found something else. revealing recordings. everything changed like instantly. it s weird. brittany is essentially speaking from the grave. you could see the emotions she went through. could she point police to her killer? i am scared to death. all at once just in a flash your life just changed. hello, welcome to dateline. it started with a little flirtation in the office and bloomed into a full-blown romance. problem was, brittany eldridge was married to another man then brittany found out she was pregnant and it was just weeks before her due date that strategy struck. investigators would home in on the two men in brittany s life but was either capable of murder? here s andrea canning with deadly circumstances. imagine all of your phone conversations being recorded for posterity? how would you feel. what secrets would they tell? why are you talking like you re trying to hide something. reporter: this sto