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>> only then did it hit k.t. that breonna was not in the house. what scared k.t., was what bri had left behind. >> her whole life was there. her cell phone, shoes, purse. all of her clothes she had brought, everything was at my house. >> so she could not have left? >> no. >> especially since it was wintertime, and freezing cold that night. k.t. called brianna's mom, brigitte. >> she called around ten. >> and your first thought was? >> not good. >> so you are worried right away? >> yes, because her cell phone was there, and she had no car. i knew she was not walking around with no shoes on. so, i said i would be right there. >> back at the house, k.t. made another discovery. a terrible discovery. >> i called her mom right back, and i was, like i was just in hysterics crying like, there is blood on the pillow. so then i called 9-1-1. >> dispatch, this is robin, can i help? you >> high. i need the police at my house. my friend spent the night last night on my couch. she is gone, and there is something that looks like blood on the pillow, and all of her stuff is still here. >> breonna's mom, brigitte, could not get to k.t.'s house fast enough. >> so your mind is working overtime? >> yes, i was really freaked out. there was something really bad. blood, and my child without her cell phone. i mean, what kid is without their cell phone? >> soon, police were everywhere. veteran homicide detectives dave jenkins and his partner, adam, both since retired, we're investigating the scene at mackay court. there, combined 53 years of police work told them the same thing. >> it was pretty apparent that this was not a voluntary missing person. >> family and friends gathered at bridget's house. >> and i said i need this, the media went with it, they did not stop. >> brianna denison as described as five feet tall, 98 pounds and last seen wearing sweats and a white tank top. >> victoria campbell covered the story for k are and via tv. >> police officers everywhere searching through garbage pans, sewers, pulling up the manhole covers, seeing if she had been placed inside a sewer. >> where was breonna? her pillow told a frightening story. friends had seen blood on it. detectives sent it to the crime lab. >> they identified some stains of mascara, and a pattern between the stains. >> patterns that looked like bite marks. >> suggestive that pillow had been pressed hard against the face of miss brighton denison. >> days later, test confirmed the blood on the pillow was brianna's. reno is a casino town, not easily shocked. but this case hit everyone hard, even the reporter, victoria campbell. >> she was one of ours. we would not let her go without a fight. >> brianna denison was a dazzling beauty, with a 1000 watt smile, a straight arrow kid with a huge heart, who had a tough start in life. her dad passed away suddenly when she was just six years old. her younger brother, was an infant. her mom brigitte says that made their family even closer. >> we had to team up. and the kids all had to help. you know, i had a little baby. and she became very protective of me. >> as she got older, she stayed close? that does not happen a lot. >> she stayed close, and he followed the rules. the more she followed the rules, the more freedom she had. >> she decided on college in california, and was in her sophomore year ad santa barbara city college. she had a steady boyfriend, while studying psychology, and wanted to work with kids. then came winter break, and brianna came back to visit her hometown friends. >> so you thought great, home, safe? >> never felt like she was unsafe, because she was so responsible. >> so the detectives wanted to know, how do this responsible girl end up missing? they began to retrace her steps, the day before she disappeared. saturday, january 19th, 2008 started with brianna at her mom's house, doing laundry, walking around in sweats. brianna had plans to join her reno friends at a concert that night. at 9 pm, brianna went into her mom's bedroom, gave her a hug goodbye, and asked if she wanted a check in call at the end of the night. >> and you said? >> i said no, because i knew where she was staying. >> by 10 pm, bri and her friend from high school k.t. hunter or at the concert. >> she wanted to be at the front, to enjoy it. so we pushed our way to the front. we had so much fun dancing and stuff. >> at some point between 12:30 and 1 am, the detectives determined that k.t. and bri met up with another girlfriend, jessica. all 40 left the concert together, on a shuttle bus. >> i got a picture of her when we were driving, riding the bus. >> bri and her friends were dropped off at the sands regency casino hotel, the center of a college party crowd that weekend. >> as k.t. recalls, nothing felt out of place. >> during that time, meet anybody you knew? anybody you think seemed suspicious to you? >> nobody we met who seemed suspicious. >> about 2 am, one of brianna his friends, jessica, decided to leave the party and head back to k.t.'s two crash. she later told police, she said goodnight to her friends, and went outside, and then flagged down a guy driving an suv in the parking lot. a total stranger, to get a ride home. >> i probably could have easily walked. it was freezing, so i just got a ride from the parking lot, someone who is leading. what a bad idea. >> coming up. and it was something else bad, happening in the area. >> the previous month, there had been a stranger, a sexual assault abduction in the same neighborhood. >> with a rapist stalking the young women of reno. when dateline continues. en dateline continues. high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze driftin' on by... ♪ if you've been playing down your copd,... ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day,... ♪ ...it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. ♪...and i'm feelin' good. ♪ no once-daily copd medicine... has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. take a stand and start a new day with trelegy. ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy, and save at trelegy.com. ♪♪ for skin that never holds you back. don't settle for silver. #1 for diabetic dry skin #1 for psoriasis symptom relief and #1 for eczema symptom relief. gold bond. champion your skin. let's get ready for jalapeñoooo popperrrrs! can you hand me some potato skins. theyyyy're loooaded! turns out, michael buffer speaks like that all the time. and it turns out the general is a quality insurance company that's been saving people money for nearly 60 years. and in this corner, coconuuuut shriiiiiimp! for a great low rate, and nearly 60 years of quality coverage - make the right call - and go with the general. let's get rrready for garlic breeeaaad! ♪ got my hair ♪ make the right call - and go with the general. ♪ got my head ♪ ♪ got my brains ♪ ♪ got my ears ♪ ♪ got my heart ♪ ♪ got my soul ♪ ♪ got my mouth ♪ ♪ i got life ♪ >> katie and brie had breakfast at a casino diner, police later obtained this video from the security camera. these are the last pictures of brianna denison, before she disappeared. after breakfast, a friend drop them off at k.t.'s home in mackay court, at about 3:30 am. at the house, brianna made a fateful decision. she decided to sleep on the living room couch. >> she wanted to text her boyfriend anyways, maybe call them because they were fighting at the time. >> the couch was a few feet from the front door. and the front door was a glass paned, giving anybody on the street on easy view of the couch. and that night, the door was unlocked, which was not unusual. >> kind of like a hotel, we all walk our individual doors. but the living room was a lobby, we left it unlocked in case someone forgot their keys. >> around 4 am, k.t. said goodnight to her friend, and went into her bedroom. right next to the living room. >> her last words were, if you need anything, come into my room. >> the detectives looked at her cell phone records, and at 4:23 am, breonna text message her boyfriend in oregon. exactly what happened after that, in the predawn hours of a 24-hour town was a mystery. because by 9 am, the couch was empty, and she had vanished. now, with the evidence they had before them, homicide detectives adam and dave thought brianna had been abducted. >> we suspected she might well be taken out the back door. besides breonna's blood and teeth marks on the pillow, crime lab technicians found another important piece of evidence on the back door. >> we were able to get a touch dna profile off the rear doorknob of the residents. >> touch dna, meaning somebody had grabbed the doorknob with their bare? hands >> there had been sufficient skin cells transferred on just the mere grabbing an opening of the door to allow a dna profile to be obtained. >> but, whose dna was it? where were the evidence lead? and would they find breonna in time? her mother was in a living hell. that night, where were you thinking? >> i'm thinking, would any parent would think. charlotte everything goes to my mind, and it's just, easy enough to imagine. >> brianna dennison had disappeared. detectives believe she had been abducted from this house. her attacker taking her out the back door in the middle of the night. the crime lab found a trace sample of dna on the door handle. it didn't match anyone in the house, so detectives were pretty sure that dna had been left by whoever had taken breonna. reporter, victoria campbell, was on air almost nonstop. >> we learned early on that breonna spherical was blue. blue ribbons covered every inch of the city. every car antenna, -- every telephone pole. >> rihanna's picture was everywhere. people gathered to pray for her safe return. >> we are the biggest little city in the world, and we are the ones to find her. >> the family set up a command post at a casino. every morning, hundreds of people showed up to help in the search. some after working all night. >> you see people still in the work clothes, still in the black pants, white shirt, of a slot machine repairman, or change person from a casino, would put on a parka, and stand in line to search. >> it would not take long for police to identify a suspect. >> there is a person of interest, somebody we need to talk to. >> remember the man who drove just go back to kate piece home, the night of the abduction? the total strangers she flag down. investigators show this image of his suv, urging him to come forward. former lieutenant, robert mcdonald. >> we had an individual whose are known to these women that ridge of one of them home to the residents. he could've come back and abducted brianna. >> within days, the man contacted police. his dna was tested, and he was cleared. a dead end. but, now, detectives had another lee that would take this case to another level. it would no longer be a case of one missing young woman. >> the previous month, there had been a stranger sexual assault abduction, in that same neighborhood. >> breonna still missing, but immediately you're thinking, sexual assault? >> when you get down to, it very view motives to abduct a young woman. >> back in mid december, 2008, a little more than a month before brianna was taken, a 22 year old foreign exchange student had been attacked in the early morning hours, in this parking lot on the university of nevada campus. a few blocks from the house. the attacker came at his victim from behind. >> for ross attest -- one arm, and the other hand her nose in a mouth. she went unconscious shortly after that. most likely from being smothered. next thing she remembers is coming to a vehicle. >> the woman was driven short distance, then sexually assaulted inside the car. >> during the assault, she was told not to look at the suspect. the assault was over she was brought back to her residence. told to get out the car and not look back. >> she hadn't looked at his face, but she had seen a lot. >> she was absolutely certain that the offender was caucasian. she described the suspect as having noticeably thick and meaty fingers. he spoke clear english, without discernible, or noticeable accent. >> from the words that the man used, a behavioural analyst gave detectives a profile. >> the offender was not well educated, was kind of a loner, likely employed in the construction. trades >> even better, the victim described his vehicle so well, that detectives figured out the make and model. >> it is most likely a 2005, to 2006 toyota to coma, extended cab, four wheel drive pick up. >> and the victim gave police other crucial coups. she saw baby shoe on the floor of the car. there was something else that made the suspect stand out. when he was done, she said, the man took her underwear, and kept it. but even more important, police were able to obtain a sample of her attacker's dna. when the crime lab compare that sample to the one on the back door at mackie court, it was a match. >> that's when we knew, there was somebody out there who is making this a habit. and what we hoped wouldn't become a deadly habit. >> for breonna's family, that news was devastating. it also gave her mother some hope. >> you just hope that he lets her go, like the last one. you know, all through the process, i've pretty much had a hope that we would find her. what else do you do? >> there's nothing else you can do. >> the alternative is hard to think about. >> police released a description of the attacker, and of his vehicle. suddenly, it seemed everybody in reno was looking suspiciously at white guys driving extended cab pickup trucks. but, a third victim was about to come forward, and she would fill in a big piece of the puzzle, because she had information that nobody else in the case had. she had seen her attacker's face. >> coming up, and valentine's day appeal, straight from others heart. >> i just want to say to my daughter, breonna, that i love you and i miss you, and nobody 's ever giving up. >> when dateline continues. so you won't have a medicare in the world. ♪ ♪ plus, 90-day refills and same day delivery. larry? that's even less to medicare about. fill your medicare prescriptions with walgreens and save. ♪ ♪ four days after breonna disappeared, police released a description of the man who, they now knew had struck before. a sexual predator, linked to crimes. >> he's a white male, somewhere between the ages of 28 and 40 years old. between five foot six, and six feet tall. he drove a suv, or an extended cab pickup. >> as that became ingrained in the collective mind of reno, another one that came to police, saying that she had been attacked in october, 2000. innate three months before breonna's abduction. >> she didn't want to subject yourself to the inevitable indignities that come from a woman reporting a sex crime. >> but, when she heard about brianna, she knew she had to tell the police are story. she said she was attacked in this parking garage, on the university of reno nevada -- just a few blocks from where breonna was taken. she said her attacker grabbed her from behind. lieutenant robert mcdonald. >> knocked to the ground, told her not to scream. he held a gun to her head, and raped her. there was no dna, but the victim gave police something as valuable. >> what did that victim tell you that you don't already know? >> she had an opportunity to see the offenders face. >> and from her description, a police artist made the sketch, that was released to the public. and one more thing, like the attack on the foreign exchange student a month later, the man made her hand over her underwear. police were now convinced he was keeping his victims under whereas some sort of sophie. they did release that information, not yet. it was now the biggest man hunt in the city's history. trying to find a rapist and kidnap or, before he struck again. >> we had three linked, syria's, violent felonies, by the same individual, and a 400 yard radius. same neighborhood. >> in a short period of time. >> it was a very chilling thing for a community. people were rightfully scared to death. >> parents are pulling their daughters out of the university of nevada renal. those who stayed, were on high alert. owners of a gun and specialty stores saw spike in the business. selling weapons, pepper spray and even tasers. police knew that dna would be the key to breaking the case. the county crime lab tested 3000 criminal dna samples that had been sitting on the shelf. there was no match. no match in any national database, either. detectives look hard at the hundreds of registered sex offenders in the area. >> we began doing face to face interviews. interviews with any individual who didn't already have a dna profile in the system. >> investigators gathered 700 new dna samples from and they questioned. and, from others, who just volunteered. >> they came down and said, i think i'm ashley description, i want to give my dna, just so you don't worry. >> but there was no match there either. >> we were pretty comfortable that that individual would likely not be our suspect. >> when you did find the guy, he said no. >> we were pretty certain that the offender would probably not be too excited about giving up dna. >> the search dragged to february. 25 days since breonna disappeared. the posters and ribbons around time were fading a bit, but her family still held out hope that she was alive. breonna's mother, brigitte, made of valentine's day appeal, on tv. >> i just want to say to my daughter, breonna, i love you and i miss you, and nobody's ever giving up. there are thousands of people looking for you. >> the next day, the weather had turned warm, and the snow had started to melt in reno. at lunchtime, a man was taking a short cut across this field, in an industrial park, south of town. he stumbled on to something he thought might be a body. then, he called police. >> this is breaking news. >> a grim discovery at south reno today. we >> raced to the scene. initially, we're told, it's a young con cajun appearing female. the field is about nine miles after mackie court. >> we know police -- >> according to the tv, victoria campbell was there. >> i was pulling, overcoming over saying, is that her? i was on a search team, had been looking for her. i hope it is not her. >> on the other side of the yellow tape, the detectives could see what was coming. >> this is not what we want it to be, this is not the outcome. i knew deep in my stomach it was her. >> but for a seasoned homicide detective, that horrible site is not the worst part. >> what bothers you, is that other victims, like family, who want to know what happened to their loved one, 24/7. and we need to be the bearer of bad news. and it hurt us. >> his next stop was brigitte's house. >> police told you, right away they thought it was probably her? >> yes. and then i kept asking about her nose stone, she does not have pierced ears, i asked if they could tell if they were pierced ears, and the scar on her angle. and they said with the elements, they were not able to tell. so we had to wait for dna. >> the next day, after an all nighter by the crime lab, police made it official. >> an autopsy today has determined that the remains of that female discovered in the field, are those of 19-year-old brianna denison. the official cause and manner of death was strangulation. it was a sexually motivated crime. >> all i can say to that is at least i am not waiting, four years later, wondering. that is about the only positive i can get out of it. >> back at that field, detectives found something that looked like the killer's calling card. >> they were two sets of andes that were on her right side, tucked underneath the right side. >> thong underwear, one pink and one black, with an image of the pink panther cartoon character. crime lab technicians tested everything and determined that neither pair of underwear belonged to brianna. the pink panther underwear had dna from an unknown person, but the other pair. >> they were identified by forensic dna evidence as having belonged to one of the roommates in the residence where she had been abducted from. >> they belonged to k.t. hunter, the friend of brianna's who lived at mackay court. there was more dna on the thong, some from the suspect, some from brianna. >> and that hip strap matched to the ligature marks on brianna's neck. she was strangled with the stolen underwear. >> even though bridgette knew the killer could not hurt her daughter anymore, she still could not stop worrying. >> i went from being fearful from brianna's life, to being fearful to whoever he was going to get next time. >> you are not thinking just about the last victim, but the next one? >> i was. >> where police encouraging to you? did they make it sound like they thought this would be solved? >> yes. one of the detectives actually promised me they would find him. which i thought, wow. that is being pretty confident. >> now, investigators were not just looking for a rapist and kidnap or, but a killer. reno had a murderer in its midst, the whole town was on edge. but weeks past, with no arrest. more than 40 detectives chased thousands of leads. all the public heard was silence. >> from the outside, there was a perception you guys were not getting anywhere. was that frustrating? >> very. >> yes. >> every day, we will come to work. and we knew we were a phone call a way. >> a phone call away. >> the way that phone call ever come? hoping to shake out a lead, police finally released the information about the underwear found with brianna. they guessed right. that one, tawdry detail would break this case. >> coming up. closing in on a killer. >> with that photograph and initial sketch that we got from a forensic sketch artist, it was very similar. >> when dateline continues. n dateline continues i have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. so i'm taking zeposia, a once-daily pill. because i won't let uc stop me from being me. zeposia can help people with uc achieve and maintain remission. and it's the first and only s1p receptor modulator approved for uc. don't take zeposia if you've had a heart attack, chest pain, stroke or mini-stroke, heart failure in the last 6 months, irregular or abnormal heartbeat not corrected by a pacemaker, if you have untreated severe breathing problems during your sleep, or if you take medicines called maois. zeposia may cause serious side effects including infections that can be life-threatening and cause death, slow heart rate, liver or breathing problems, increased blood pressure, macular edema, and swelling and narrowing of the brain's blood vessels. though unlikely, a risk of pml--a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection--cannot be ruled out. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions, medications, or if you are or plan to become pregnant. if you can become pregnant, use birth control during treatment and for 3 months after you stop taking zeposia. don't let uc stop you from doing you. ask your doctor about once-daily zeposia. every day in business brings something new. don't let uc stop you from doing you. so get the flexibility of the new mobile service designed for your small business. introducing comcast business mobile. you get the most reliable network with nationwide 5g included. and you can get unlimited data for just $30 per line per month when you get four lines or mix and match data options. available now for comcast business internet customers with no line-activation fees or term contract required. see if you can save by switching today. comcast business. >> hi, i'm richard blue, within powering possibilities. our top stories. president joe biden, former president barack obama commemorate the late senate majority leader harry reid on saturday. democratic leaders gathered from around the country to recall him as a man who's in patients for pleasantries was part of a drive to improve the lives of ordinary americans. he died december 20th at home, in henderson, nevada, at 82 from complications from pancreatic cancer. now, back to dateline. now, back to dateline. >> homicide detectives were consumed with the hunt for the killer of brianna denison. >> i did not have a single day off. i was not home more than five or six hours on any day from january 20th, until sometime in the middle of june. >> they had the killer's dna, and they were looking for a white male who drove an extended cab pickup truck. >> you look at every extended cab pickup you passed? >> no. >> the physical description, when you are at a grocery store, parking lot. >> i want to see license plate numbers i would see coming, in and make a note that we would follow them down. >> but, there was nothing. >> so we feared the worst. you know, gosh, we sure hope nothing else happens. >> there have been some promising leads, thinking that a killer who strangled his victim with underwear might also visit prostitutes, police started canvassing some of the legal brothels. the moonlight ranch is about 30 miles south of reno. the owner is janice hough. >> police asking for help. >> i said listen, let's talk to the girls, talk to the gross and find someone who fits that profile, who comes to the ranch. >> one of the women who worked at the ranch told police about a regular client, who seemed to fit the profile. >> she was scared. he tried to choke her a few times. >> you mean, during the session? >> during the session. >> police asked the woman to entice them and back to the ranch. >> well, when they came back the next session, the girl kept him talking, kept in classy, drinking, we turned him over to the police. >> they had dna was rushed to the crime lab, but it did not match the killer. investigation had started off so well, with so many clues about the killer, whose habits, his truck, his dna had now gone almost cold. the detectives pressed on, following more than 4000 leads, all of them to dead ends. but one day in november, 2008, ten months into the investigation, a detective was thumbing through yet another stack of tips. one of them caught his eye. >> one thing struck me as on, because they were talking about the underwear. >> the anonymous tip was about a woman who had found someone else's thong underwear in her boyfriend's truck. >> did they have a name? >> they said that the last name was biela, the first thing started with aj. >> a drivers license produced a search. >> james biela. >> about the right age? >> right. age >> physical description? you look at his driver's license photo? >> the yuri part was, when i obtained that photograph, and our initial sketch that we had from a forensic sketch artist, it was eerily similar. >> it seemed an interesting lead, he drove straight to biela's house. no one was home, so he left his card. >> i wrote on the back of my business card, which identifies me as a robbery homicide detective. mr. james biela, please call me at your convenience. >> 45 minutes later, biela called him. he sounded a little uncomfortable, but who would not be? >> you have a detective who leaves a card on your door, you expect people to be a little nervous. >> the detective told biela he would like to talk to him about an investigation. biela agreed to meet him after work the next day. >> i hung up the phone, i sat back down and my wife looked at me and said, what is wrong? i said, the guy never asked me what i was investigating. >> when your card says homicide, most decent people call and say, oh my gosh, what has happened? who do i know who has been harmed? >> nothing like that? >> pretty unusual. >> you had been looking for a long time? >> this was ten months of terror. >> the next day, as he drove to meet james biela, his instincts told him that he was different from the hundreds of others he had spoken to, right down to the truck biela used to drive. >> he had recently owned the right kind of truck. >> absolutely, fits perfectly. four by four extended cab pickup, toyota pick up. >> but he did not want to get his hopes up. thousands of guys drive pick up trucks in reno. what were the chances this would be the right guy? >> it was like, a common practice like, we would talk to the guy, getting dna swabs, sends him to the lab. >> but it would turn out to be anything but common. >> a detective comes face to face with the potential suspect, will they crack under questioning? 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