on state s exhibit 1 reporter: ashlea deenor assisted. from the witness stand detective cedillo helped lay out the case. were you able to conduct a search of her apartment and her vehicle, things like that? yes, sir. and did you find a receipt that proved to be helpful? that s correct. reporter: a sales receipt showed some odd purchases on carter s credit card. she had purchased two shovels. she had purchased a tarp. she had purchased gloves. reporter: why was that significant? because of a discovery way out in the texas scrub. a discovery worthy of a horror movie. and the key to finding it was right there on carter and david s cell phones. they would text each other longitude and latitude coordinates, and it led us to a remote area near abilene. reporter: what was there? as soon as we got to where the spot says, you re there, we look up and there s an actual human grave that s been dug.
reporter: ashlea deenor assisted. from the witness stand detective cedillo helped lay out the case. were you able to conduct a search of her apartment and her vehicle, things like that? yes, sir. and did you find a receipt that proved to be helpful? that s correct. reporter: a sales receipt showed some odd purchases on carter s credit card. she had purchased two shovels. she had purchased a tarp. she had purchased gloves. reporter: why was that significant? because of a discovery way out in the texas scrub. a discovery worthy of a horror movie. and the key to finding it was right there on carter and david s cell phones. they would text each other longitude and latitude coordinates, and it led us to a remote area near abilene. reporter: what was there? as soon as we got to where the spot says, you re there, we look up and there s an actual human grave that s been dug. reporter: fresh grave? fresh grave.
on state s exhibit 1 reporter: ashleadeenor assisted. from the witness stand detective cedillo helped lay out the case. were you able to conduct a search of her apartment and her vehicle, things like that? yes, sir. and did you find a receipt that proved to be helpful? that s correct. reporter: a sales receipt showed some odd purchases on carter s credit card. she had purchased two shovels. she had purchased a tarp. she had purchased gloves. reporter: why was that significant? because of a discovery way out in the texas scrub. a discovery worthy of a horror movie. and the key to finding it was right there on carter and david s cell phones. they would text each other longitude and latitude coordinates, and it led us to a remote area near abilene. reporter: what was there? as soon as we got to where the spot says, you re there, we look up and there s an actual human grave that s been dug. reporter: fresh grave? fresh grave.
Search of her apartment and her vehicle, things like that? yes, sir. and did you find a receipt that proved to be helpful? that s correct. reporter: a sales receipt showed some odd purchases on carter s credit card. she had purchased two shovels. she had purchased a tarp. she had purchased gloves. reporter: why was that significant? because of a discovery way out in the texas scrub. a discovery worthy of a horror movie. and the key to finding it was right there on carter and david s cell phones. they would text each other longitude and latitude coordinates, and it led us to a remote area near abilene. reporter: what was there? as soon as we got to where the spot says, you re there, we look up and there s an actual human grave that s been dug. reporter: fresh grave? fresh grave.
reporter: why was that significant? because of a discovery way out in the texas scrub. a discovery worthy of a horror movie. and the key to finding it was right there on carter and david s cell phones. they would text each other longitude and latitude coordinates, and it led us to a remote area near abilene. reporter: what was there? as soon as we got to where the spot says, you re there, we look up and there s an actual human grave that s been dug. 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,