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And, i mean, it just comes like a blow. reporter: back in ft. worth, police were still rounding up people gathered outside ashlea s apartment. not among them was april. april, in fact, hadn t seen ashlea for a few days. their romance had hit a bit of a bump. that night we we talked briefly about me coming over after i got off work. but then i went home. reporter: but someone else was there. her name was alexis torres. alexis torres was the last person to see ashlea alive, and was the actual last person to leave her apartment. reporter: that is certainly somebody you d wanna talk to. obviously. yes, sir. reporter: alexis said she and ashlea had gone to an early thanksgiving dinner with friends in ashlea s complex. so you had thanksgiving dinner, and that was i think it was from 12? reporter: sure. and then hung around for the afternoon? yes. reporter: but ashlea had to work that night. ....
Talked to a neighbor who lived directly below ashlea. he had heard noises, heavy breathing coming from ashlea s apartment just before 8:00 a.m. a few minutes later the fire alarm started goin off. water started comin down into his apartment. reporter: and that s when the neighbor saw a black infiniti g-35 driving away. armed with this new information, cedillo went back to alexis torres. i asked her if she knew anyone or if ashlea knew anyone that drove a infiniti g-35. i never gave her a color. i simply asked her about a g-35. alexis said, no. after he was done asking the questions, i walked outside and sat down on the brick. and i believe it was chris that was there. reporter: that would be chris cravey, ashlea s boss at american eagle. alexis told him that police were asking about an infiniti sedan. and chris made a beeline for detective cedillo. ....
reporter: fresh grave? fresh grave. reporter: prosecutors believe the original plan was to kidnap ashlea, kill her, and put her body in that grave. she was killed in her apartment, the prosecutors thought, because she fought so hard. what is that? this is a glock 19 semiautomatic pistol. reporter: in fact, investigators believe ashlea harris was pistol whipped. so when this glock 19 was found in the black infiniti, prosecutor deener had it tested. the results were both sad and conclusive. it came back positive with ashlea s dna on the gun, so that was very significant. there was blood adjacent to her bed. and blood splattered on the bed. this was not an easy death. reporter: hearing all this was so hard on ashlea s mother monica and loved ones like april. i thought i could handle it. huh-uh, nope. so i went out and i went back ....
As far as she s concerned, she gained several daughters. reporter: and when they re all together, ashlea is there too. announcer: that s all for this edition of dateline. i m natalie morales, thanks for watching. welcome to the show tonight, i m katie phang in for zerlina maxwell. it has been five weeks since russia invaded ukraine and if you want to get a sense of the horror inflicted on civilians look no farther than the southeastern port city of mariupol. the city has been under siege for weeks, with dwindling supplies of food and water for the tens of thousands of civilians that are still trapped there. on friday, some residents were able to leave mariupol but yet ....
i approached him. and i said, i know whose car y all are asking about. and he says, i just wanna make you aware that i have a former employee that did drive a infiniti g35. reporter: her name, he said, was carter. carter cervantez, that businesslike assistant manager who worked with ashlea so then i ask him, you know, what color is the g35 that she drove? and he mentions that it s a black one. reporter: what was that like, to hear that? well, it beats hearing the color red or white. reporter: and, by the way, chris told detective cedillo, carter left american eagle because she was fired. cedillo filed that away and sorted through the crime scene and talked to witnesses. and a day that began at 8:30 that morning didn t end until 1:00 am. did you get any sleep? no, sir, i didn t. reporter: the story about carter cervantez and her black infiniti was just bugging him. well, i m thinkin about the ....