wanted to do this. then it happened again to another mother and another daughter. somebody is killing mothers and daughters. that is about as scary as it. gets who is out there. and who would be next. something you would never imagined would happen. the clues lie here, in abandon mansion, erie, haunting. where was this killer? hiding cold calculating eyes, lifeless. he was almost a ghost. could they catch him? could they stop him? i get chills all over. i m kind of on the edge of my. seat he truly thought he could outsmart us. hello and welcome to dateline. would you recognize danger, if it was lurking nearby? this story that you are about to hear, is a tale of true terror. a killer was stalking victims in a quiet neighborhood, leaving residents panicked that they would be next. police were determined to catch him, unaware he was hiding in plain sight. but soon, a stolen set of keys would help investigators unlock a mystery and unmask a murderer. here is d
yes and within close proximity of where the duets were found burned in the vehicle it was just two blocks away from where the often s were shot in their house. . the detective suspected they were dealing with the same murder and both cases, especially when they realized dolores the wit was a single mom and a nurse, just like karen loft in. but first, they exhausted the usual suspects. dolores had an ex husband and an ex girlfriend, but both had solid alibis. we had given them polygraph tests. they passed. we did bound ground checks on them. we found out where they were and there was nothing that would lead us to say that they were involved. as in the lawton case, when detectives shirts the towards home, they found no sign of a forced entry just an unlocked side window. and inside the house, once again, no forensic evidence. but a different pattern. the killer had taken his victims with him. we don t know if they were killed inside the house and transported away, or if they we
Detectives bernie nelson and tony sharpton or hope that their collective experience would help crack two of the most horrific murder cases they had ever encountered. when you back up and look at what you ve got, the scary fact is somebody is killing mothers and daughters, right? that s the commonality. yes and within close proximity of where the duets were found burned in the vehicle it was just two blocks away from where the often s were shot in their house. . the detective suspected they were dealing with the same murder and both cases, especially when they realized dolores the wit was a single mom and a nurse, just like karen loft in. but first, they exhausted the usual suspects. dolores had an ex husband and an ex girlfriend, but both had solid alibis. we had given them polygraph tests. they passed.
It wasn t him. investigators also interviewed kirkland, karen s ex husband and caresses father. he too had an airtight alibi. he d been in atlanta at the time of the murders. did you go a lot of places? together next on detectives list was karen s former boyfriend, michael lacey. he refused to take a lighted tech to test so police interviewed him three separate times. did you all have keys to each other s? house definitely. not you could just walk over and walk in? we would. call he is someone that we had to rule out completely and we did. that so if you re thinking in your line of work, the usual suspects, the usual suspects were not going to figure in this one. not the media. family defective is nelson ensured or realize they had on their hands, while homicide cops, he obtrusively. the first 48 hours of a case, usually you get a break. and there s something that says chase this, right? yes. normally you would get something within the first 48. hours so this is
With the plague of recent home invasion robberies? if so, why was nothing stolen from the house? her vehicle was still in the driveway, nothing appeared disturbed. investigators did not find any useful forensic evidence. just sixpence shell casings from the bullets that had carried karen and clarissa. fired from a glut 17 handgun. we did find out that just two doors down, across the street, someone had seen a blue vehicle parked right on the right side of the road. in that, right now, at this point that is all i have. so detective nelson set out to find more about his victims. karen loft in turned out to be a devoted mother and nurse with no apparent enemies. she was divorced from caresses father kirkland, who now lived in atlanta the daughter, charisma was in private school had good grades and was still a very attached to her father. chris it was a special girl for me, because at a young age she had open heart surgery, and she bounced right back from.