the cats you were a well-known entity. the birthday boy, 21 years old was a true rarity, a wildcat walk-on, no scholarship, no invitation, just showed up, tried out for the team. over three years of hard work he earned a starting position. everybody called him a big teddy bear, the great protector of our friends. the party was sweet, informal, friends snapped pictures and evening doddled into night. it was after midnight when the party wound down. i think we turned in somewhere between 12:30, 1:00. antonio and his girlfriend went to bed. outside trent and some of the others settled under the light on the front porch. out there beyond the streetlights was impen trabl dark, inside. we were already in a faint sleep and we heard a loud bang.
we ve done to commemorate trent, to remember trent. and giving these young folks an opportunity that trent won t have. reporter: and remarkably, trent s friends remain exceedingly close, even 25 years after that shot in the dark. they feel like family now? well, they are family. i think it says so much about what trent meant to these kids, young adults now, and what they mean to us. it s been a blessing to us. reporter: they all get together and laugh and tell stories and imagine. who would he have become as an adult? gosh, i m sure he would ve been magnificent, just as he was as a teenager. i m kind of pissed that i don t get to, you know, meet his wife or meet his kids or, you know share all at the adult things
and fbi and behind security to be sure shane wasn t armed. so what s been happening? worked about two years in louisville. reporter: they reminisced for an hour or so. tell me the good things that you remember about our relationship. i remember you used to love your disco music and ask me to dance with ya. reporter: and then she went for it. something s been bothering me. something that you told me a long time ago, and i wish you never had. and i need to know how you feel about it now, so i can understand what kind of person you are now. at that point he paused, and it s like he knew exactly what she was talking about. i regret it. you do now? of course, i do. you didn t before. o and, you know, the thing about it is not knowing trent. that was his name, wasn t it? trent? not knowing him, i just kind of ignored it all this time. reporter: saying trent s name was deliberate. we had talked to her about that. let s make sure we know what
know, that sort of point in the relationship where you say, let me hear the worst. reporter: and her boyfriend said, i killed trent digiuro. and at first she sort of sloughed it off, you know? eh, sure you did. didn t believe him. no, of course not. but then he started describing it. you know, exactly how he did it. reporter: but she still didn t want to believe it. after all, she d fallen in love with the guy. so she said she kind of buried it, stayed with him for another year. but now, years later and single again, she had seen a story in the newspaper about the fifth anniversary of trent s murder in which trent s dad was quoted, somebody knows what happened. she started really thinking about it, and and it touched her. reporter: but she was so frightened of him, she said, she was determined to remain anonymous.
sae s records, and there it was, a pledge list with shane s name crossed off. and then it it hit. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed, is because it was something this weird. reporter: evans went to one of trent s closest friends and asked had he heard of this guy shane ragland? and he said, shane ragland. and then i could just sort of see it at that point on his face, you know? and i let him tell the story. reporter: a story about an unpleasant little incident. shane was among the freshmen pledging the sae fraternity. and one day, as they were getting to know the campus they went into trent s dorm and trent was there and on the wall was a calendar of some sorority girls. reporter: when shane saw that calendar, right away he pointed