this song, she told matt her only wish and life was to share it with the world. and when matt heard that, i thot connections, i know people. reporter: and so, a few days later. come with me. have a surprise, let s go. got in the car, told her where we were headed, and she was so happy. i m taking you to a recording studio. are you serious? yeah. no! yeah. no! reporter: matt found an engineer and a producer. what they all heard. because i was blown away. the lyrics were powerful. people intoxicated. i am so addicted to your fake love reporter: ara has now uploaded her song to the online music website band camp, netting nearly $5,000 in downloads. but as much as she needs that money, she says matt matters
unfortunate events and abusive relationships. i ve been in tears, and i remember thinking to myself, you know, god, when is the tide going to turn? reporter: and that is when this guy walks into your life? yeah. lean on me reporter: ara said she had been singing on the street, which she does on occasion, when a stranger came up to her. his name is matt shearer. he is a radio news reporter. carry-on matt was out covering something else that day, but he sensed a better story in her. can i sit with you and chad? absolutely! reporter: and that is when ara told him about her most prized possession. i have a song. and i wrote it here on the streets. reporter: the lyrics were written on a piece of cardboard she had been using as a mat mattress. the melody? only in her mind. but ara felt so strongly about
landry. so the question in your mind is do you expect to find the body of matt landry or the guy in one of the houses? i did not know what to find, but we know that it was still off. they were still searching the bank tuesday night, but they warned the police. this was the first job that we had there. the friends of matt father had come down to investigate on their own. you think your friends some could be in one of these houses. you know you re gonna certainty find it. the family friends, amateur detectives armed with only a flashlight, managed to search dozens of homes. many of whom had burnt out shelves. the local guy challenge them. we told them that we were working on a case, and he believed that we wear the police, who knows what he would ve tried. the two friends, like the cups before, them also went to the sunoco section, and got the owner to play them the video of the atm withdrawal made on matt s car. as the friends that either
like the cops before them, also went to the sunoco station and got the owner to play them the video of the atm withdrawal made on matt s card. as the friend studied the security cam video, a clerk behind the counter was watching local news. up popped a recap of the bank robbery story. it was a, hey, that s him kind of moment. they swivelled heads from the news clip of the sunglasses-wearing bank robber to the figure on their security cam who had just withdrawn the money. bingo. we all put together that it s the same guy. it was the same guy who did the bank robbery, same guy that used matthew s atm card at the sunoco station. reporter: what s more, the guy behind the counter recognized the person in the atm security cam video. a local guy who went by the name of ihop. the counter man said he had a rep as being a gang member and a violent thief. the friends told the landrys what they had learned, that a kid named ihop seemed to be
more activations where he s still at work. and right there. and all of a sudden it switches. and that s at her house. yes. that is directly near the house. and there was more. the detective had noticed a crescent shaped cut on matt s hand. it could ve been made by just a custom nail bending back as she was defending herself. and they found his dna under that fingernails and on the courts were strangled with. so now the detective played his hand. i think you were there when this went down and i think you had something to do with it. and matt exploded. a stream of loud and determined denials. i didn t kill her. i don t know who did. i wasn t [bleep] there that night. i wouldn t be able to watch my uncle harry over the body of his daughter had done this. somebody s murdered my friend and here you are trying to accuse me of it.