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To buy a weapon from a co-worker because, she said, jermeir threatened not only her but her children. i d protect them at any cost. he knew that. reporter: and she said jermeir used that fact against her when he forced her to drive with him to denita s apartment. and he said, i ll make it real simple. either your children die or you die for your children. reporter: shannon told detective pate that on january 3rd, the day before the murder, jermeir coerced her to drive with him to durham to case denita s apartment. then the next day, she said, jermeir forced her at gunpoint to drive back there again. when we left on the 4th, i never expected to come back home. reporter: shannon said after they pulled up to denita s apartment jermeir got out. she stayed in the suv. he went up the stairs. i sat there. a few more minutes passed, and i ....
reporter: this is what? one big conspiracy? i hate to make it sound like that. it sounds like it. it sounds like it. reporter: assistant d.a. david saacks says the rape was properly investigated and seemed to be nothing more than a hoax. which also, for him, finally answered that lingering question of who was stalking whom. everything was pointing to her and the only thing that was pointing to jermeir was that he was in this affair with shannon. i do not believe he was involved in the murder. i do not think he was involved in the planning or the execution of this murder at all. reporter: and even if jermeir wanted denita out of his life, what could possibly be his motive to kill her? and this is exactly what i thought. why? all he had to do is call denita up and say, it s over. reporter: there s no property. no property. reporter: there s no alimony. and it doesn t make sense. reporter: he seems genuinely crushed by what happened. absolutely. reporter: as ....
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 out denita was killed? investigators considered a ....
betting on it. reporter: if he s calling to intimidate her, what s the point in disguising his voice? correct. it was just no way in my mind that that was jermeir. because when i heard these tapes i knew i had the right person. reporter: the crawley family was infuriated. they were certain the calls cleared their daughter and revealed jermeir as denita s killer. they also insist jermeir was lurking in the charlotte neighborhood where shannon was staying. what we went through in charlotte with him stalking her because he was, to me, he was stalking me as well. honestly, i believe that he was his intention was to kill both of them. i do. i think they both rejected him and he was going to kill both of them. reporter: then something happened that seemed to bear out their worst fears. shannon was out on bail and living with family in charlotte some 100 miles from greensboro, ....
and in the back of your mind, even though you may not want to admit it, we knew jermeir had did this. yes. reporter: wow. that s a story that sort of fits all the facts and exonerates her. it does. reporter: and in it, shannon is not guilty. exactly. so when she s telling this story, i m thinking, wow, this actually sounds pretty decent so far. but then i think, wait a minute. wait a minute. wait a minute. back up. reporter: pate raised an obvious question. if shannon had a story that proved her innocence, why had she waited so long to tell it? when i asked her, where was this story when i arrested you? her exact words were, he had threatened my children in the past. i was scared for their safety. he knew how to get to my children. and i asked her, what s changed? he still knows where your children are. he still knows how to get to them. he could still hurt them. reporter: and her answer? she just looked at me. everything i ve told you is the truth. but you ....