they went into trent s dorm and trent was there and on the wall was a calendar of some sorority girls. when shane saw that calendar, right away he pointed to one of the girls pictures and he bragged that he d had sex with her. what shane didn t know is that girl was the girlfriend of the president of the fraternity. trent did not like that one bit. got word to the sae president, and that s when shane was blackballed. so, at that point, shane s opportunity to be in that fraternity is pretty much over. the motives for murder are many and varied. but this seemed absurd. it was three years after that slight when trent was murdered in cold blood. could it really have festered so long? and if it had, if that was true, they had another problem. the more that we dug
to say it was a very high-profile murder. where d your mind go when you heard that? i knew which one it was. and then she told him a very strange story. happened in a bar, she said. almost a year after trent digiuro was killed. she was falling hard for a guy. they talked about how much they loved each other. toward the end of the evening, they decided to say, okay, what is the worst thing that you ve done? like, let s get this out of the way. let s just get to it, you know, that sort of point in the relationship where you say, let me hear the worst. 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. but she still didn t want to believe it. after all, she d fallen in love with the guy. so
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. 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. when shane saw that calendar, right away he pointed to one of the girls pictures and he bragged that he d had sex with her. what shane didn t know is that girl was the girlfriend of the president of the fraternity. trent did not like that one bit. got word to the sae
about it. how s that? and they did. and then, about ten minutes later, shane came back with just what the detectives needed to hear. to answer to your question, iiam very, very remorseful. very. i can t tell you. you re so stupid. i know. i was angry at him. i made the wrong decision. there is nothing you can do, you know. she made him so confident and comfortable that he came back to the subject and left us with what we really needed at that point. it came out of his own mouth. they picked him up the next day. took him downtown, asked him was it true what an old girlfriend was telling them? so, if she tells us you sat there and you talked about the murder, she s a liar, basically? because it never happened. she s just making that up to think she s mad at you? 100%. absolutely, that there was absolutely nothing said. shane denied it all. denied knowing trent. didn t even know where he lived. denied talking about trent with her.
didn t take long to find out. shane was the son of a wealthy businessman. just so happened, shane attended the university of kentucky at the very same time as trent digiuro. but after college, he didn t do so well. he ran up at least a dozen convictions, drug charges, multiple duis, and so on. so detective evans went back to attorney bullock. is there any more? can you get me any more? and ultimately he started talking about a motive. and that s when the whole story took a turn into the twilight zone. he told me that it was concerning shane ragland being blackballed from a fraternity. what d you think when you heard that? that s a stupid reason to kill somebody. the fraternity in question was sigma alpha epsilon, sae. detective evans looked through sae s records, and there it was, a pledge list with shane s name crossed off. and then it hit. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed, is because it was something this weird.