started yelling, shelley shelley. a young art student murdered. she said, your daughter as been found in blood. and then the phone went dead. this was brutal and sad. the clever killer leaves a blank canvas that had no fingerprints, no dna. yeah. police zero in on three fellow students. the dead girls friend. trying to corner in the hallways at school, texting her on the phone, her boyfriend he had daggers, knives, sorts, who collects that kind of stuff? and her roommate. it felt like a leopard with. you absolutely. you could have been that she sure could have. soon, the dark picture begins to develop. look at this. that s what the whole thing happened. a portrait of the artist says a young killer. you notice the people in there. once there was a quiet little girl in a quiet little town who like to draw. she to the butterflies that floated by her around a plea, texas, like the country, but they pronounce it italy. she drew a but
interrogated. why did you leave that part out? because always mugged over there, sir. mugged? and yet he somehow failed to mention that during his first long session of questioning? coincidentally the same complex, he s approached by a black male with a knife, who rubs him. the rubber took $40 in cash and his backpack, said daniel. you didn t tell me a dam thing about getting robbed. because that s [bleep] he didn t get robbed. the robbery never happened. that s [bleep] clearly, detective ellzey didn t believe him for a minute. and, in fact, no evidence of the claimed mugging ever turned up. but it was that little crumb of truth inside a suspected lie that caught detective ellzey s attention. daniels admission that he went to the false falls
yet, more like her puppy got run over than her roommate got killed. detective ellzey, highly attuned to the subtle reactions of his interviewees will still seeing in his head the image of that intensely personal murder scene. could actually have been so one of the things that can make a roommate situation between two girls deadly is if there is a romantic attachment. did you go down that path with her? no, i went down two directions. i went down the part that maybe they were seeing the same guy. i also because, you have to explore the fact that maybe they were romantically involved, shelley and ashley because the degree of injury that that poor girl suffered, as i stated, it s personal, which is a lot of vented rage. it s something like a lover would do absolutely. yes, sir. that s correct. she sure could have. without a doubt.
and then his friend suggested what might be the real reason. daniel dislike shelley because he was jealous, didn t like nathan spending time with a girl. detective ellzey turned up the heat even more. how can you despise a human being that bad. she never did anything to you. how could you hate that girl so much? i didn t. you hate her enough to kill her? over a dude? i didn t. you hate her that much? that she took nathan away from you that much? that she calls you so much problems in your personal relationship that the only answer was to kill her. that s it? two days after that interview, it was once again actually s turn to talk. and she also revealed something she had not said before. remember, it was quite apparent that, whoever killed shelley must have had a key to her apartment. there was no sign of forced
job, so to speak. they were looking at people close to shelley, someone who had a key, like a boyfriend or a roommate, someone who knew she would be asleep and then surprised her, attacked her with a knife. she was small in statue. it wouldn t take much. but to? as detective tough as detective ellzey was with boyfriend nathan, he was not much farther along than when he started, and how he spent some time with a few of nathan s friends, like his roommate, daniel william. you are older than the other kids. and yes, i was 26 years old. he too was a little different. for one thing, he had been born in indonesia, and struggled with some wheel culture shocks when it s family moved to america. still, he put on a brave face and served in the navy, and