investigators were looking at one other phone call. this one especially intriguing because it happened on the day denita was murdered. shannon had arrived at the 911 call center for her shift, when a personal call came in for her, from a man who did not identify himself. he asked to speak to shannon. when they said hold on, shannon said hello, and the phone went click. i asked jermeir. i said, did you make that call? and jermeir said, yes, i did. why did you make that call? i wanted to know where she was. reporter: so he suspected? so he told me that he did think she was capable of doing it. he tells me that he did make that call to make sure she was at work. this is before we said anything about a burgundy suv. but there was nothing in the past where she ever indicated that she would do harm to denita. that doesn t add up. reporter: why would jermeir need to know shannon s whereabouts just after he found
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became pregnant, but says she and jermeir ended the romance before she had the abortion. but now her story is slightly different from what she first told detectives. we talked about it. there were some complications, which is why i decided to terminate. reporter: the story is that he said to you i don t want to have a baby with you. and the with you part hit you very hard. no. reporter: that conversation never happened? no. one of the things that popped in my head, based on my recent interactions with shannon, was that maybe she had done something. reporter: shannon and jermeir s differing stories are most in conflict when it comes to the day denita smith was murdered. shannon insists he forced her at gunpoint to take him to denita s apartment. he told me that i was going with him, and if i didn t, his exact words to me were either you die for your kids or your kids die for you.