with. a twist after twist. instant panic. instant, instant panic. i still get chills. people have secrets. people have a lot of secrets. the family that lived in this cozy house on this quiet street never came back after the awful thing that happened here. it s terrifying. it s terrifying to think of. it was april 10th, 2008. fort smith virginia portsmouth, virginia, police was right nearby when the all points fullerton went out to law enforcement. and then the call comes out and it s literally one block away from where i m standing. did the address ring a bell? it did and it didn t. all he knew was that someone had been killed inside that house. so, you go there and what do you discover? i went into clear the house out of anybody who was inside of the house to make sure this scene status pristine as possible. and when i looked down, i realized, then, that it was meghan. meghan landowski the teenage victim was someone he knew. he knew her who
to get the case salt. the investigators we spoke to, they had such a passion for this case for solving this case. they said they were not gonna let this go. did you feel that? yes. i felt it, yeah. as the investigators tried to keep the case from stalling out, megan s friends yearned for an arrest. did you feel like there was a chance that meghan s murderer may never be solved as the months went by? i guess i thought maybe there was a chance. but a very small one. i know that the police were working very hard. and i didn t think that it was something that they were just going to let go. you had faith that they would solve the case. and then make s dance teacher, kelly derek, came up with an idea. something she thought might help the police. i wanted to do something for the community to raise questions to get somebody talking, to get anything out of anybody. on a saturday in late
meghan s friend heather read about it in the newspaper. at the time they re saying, you know, we knew that we had dna. and his dna did not match. we are shocked by that, but at the same time, the dna does not match, you know? where do you go from there, you know, there is a killer out there. right, and we had no idea, no idea. i think your mind just goes through who in the world to do this? and if they will do it in the middle of the day, to someone so young, are they going to do it again? detectives promised meghan s family they would only call they had an arrest. weeks past, and that call did not come. reporter mike mather covered the story, and said there was a growing sense of frustration. part of you hoped that something so s up quickly. something obvious enough for the police to solve it right away, and not have this community worry about.
me and i told, or i said, tell me what happened. tell me what s going on. and then she told me and i said, are you sure? because this is someone s life you re going to ruin. and she goes, mom, i am absolutely 100% sure. how did you feel on the phone when you were told this news? i was hurt. i was mad. i was said for his family because of what they re about to go through. and i was more hurt for chris. because that was chris s best friend. it was betrayal. plain and simple. but you don t expect it from a guy that you trust with your life. isn t that feeling but you ve got this news, you want to just like run over there and, you know, i don t to say it but, you know oh, trust me oh yeah. 100%. megan s parents decided she needed to talk to the police.
that friends didn t. in his grief and panic, his home, now a murder scene, his stepfather made one more phone call. this want to investigators with the navy. i was in the back of the police car and i called the agent in and see a yes. and i told her, i said, the bastard killed her. a secret was about to come out. a secret that meghan s family believed had everything to do with her murder. coming up i said, tell me what happened! tell me what s going on! megan s shares are explosive secret. first with their parents then with the police. this has got to be excruciating for a 15 year old. yeah. i was hurt, i was mad. it was betrayal, plain and simple. when dateline continues. when dateline continues meet our exclusive dent and scratch resistant stainmaster laminate. check out our most innovative products. only at lowe s.