nightmare. she screamed and she yelled an she cried, it was terrible did she fell down the steps? no one was thinking someone di this to her, but did someone d this to her. it just unraveled from tha moment on. the fashionista with re lipstick she meant the world to me. when she walked into the roo it was like a movie star walke in corporate executive, caring mom, 1 million dollar smile an a 4 million dollar estate. oh my god, i need a ambulance. murdered. i went screaming out of the house. this was a prominent woman, murdered in her home, late a night. almost certainly someone sh knew correct where would it lead a twisted case of betrayal and greed. the fingers being pointed a me her own daughter of suspect from the start you pulled the knife out an you tell the police oh you are going to find my fingerprint on the knife her son in law who seemed s devoted. they interrogated us fo eight hours. or maybe someone else with million dollar motive.
her answer blew them away. she did say that she wa there at the mother-in-law s did she tell you who stabbe her? no. prosecutor richard moran wa there, listening in anothe room that s the first time w have firsthand information tha diana was in the house before long, diana was in that same miami interrogation roo where she recognized som familiar faces she probabl wasn t pleased to see. john and she knew why they wer there. yes, it was, and after five months the investigation was about to end you are under arrest for th murder of peggy nadeau - that same day, another team arrested benson in d.c..
florida. miami about two miles from diana home detectives contacted th family dollar chain and go very lucky family dollar was able to give them security video of someone buying a track phone on januar 23rd, just two days before peggy was murdered as diana on the tape? it doesn t appear so. so end of the road? now pay no, because the woman buying the phone with someon detectives recognized. not diana definitely not diana, karen and samuel karen ham was already somebody get who had profile as a partner who came up frequently on diana s call records. she was a high frequency color you ve got a friend o diana s buying the disposabl phone that cold peggy just before she was killed. yes
it was a big moment. now, they knew who ha bought a phone the next step was to figure ou who turned the track phone on. track funds need to be activated using another phon to call an 800 number. after three weeks, detective colin hatchet finally persuade a track phone manager to giv him this piece of paper. he had circled the phon number, it was the number that called to activate that trac phone. whose number was that andrea benson had that name surface before yes, absolutely all over diana s phone records she was one of those people that popped into diane is like one day and it was in d.c. and, benson head a rap sheet so what is going on here? how many people are involved i this that s the question of th day. the other big question, wha did diana nagel do well she wa in washington d.c. detectives started with her
innocent and she couldn believe she was ever a suspect you watch dateline? all the time. sometimes, as you kno people look guilty but they ar really not are you in custody right now no. were you ever arrested? no. did you have anything to do with your mother s murder? no. deep into the investigation of peggy nadler yeah the prime suspect was no longer he daughter susan it was her daughter-in-law diana. detectives knew that diana s friend had bought the trac phone they called peggy s hous just before she was murdered diana had told police from the beginning that she had been in washington d.c. to attend wedding. but her alibi was wobbly dana couldn t account for he time in d.c. she hit washington and abou 9:30 and didn t reappear again until about 9:00 the next day.