killer in a mask. he s clearly a brilliant individual. a brilliantly scary individual. his target, a doting young mom. she was a gorgeous strawberry blond who loved her son more than anything in the whole world. she was so scared. he struck once. would he kill again and would she be next? we were just so shattered and hurting so bad. imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. i was terrified. she will face down evil and come forward with a new revelation that will make your jaw drop. what i did is wrong. there are no words. i have everything to lose. hello, and welcome to dateline. it was a brutal crime and right away one woman said she knew what happened. it would take years to bring the alleged killer to trial. but the verdict was far from the end of this case. it s a story of obsession and control that will keep you guessing until the very end. here s an
imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. i was terrified. she will face down evil and come forward with a new revelation that will make your jaw drop. what i did is wrong. there are no words. i have everything to lose. hello and welcome to dateline. it was a brutal crime and right away one woman said she knew what happened. the verdict was far from the end of this case. it s a story of obsession and control that will keep you guessing until the very end. here s andrea canning with the killing in cobb county. a new attraction can be so exhilarating, but not always. sometimes attraction turns into a dangerous obsession. bonnie spencer says she knows all about that. he would show up at my job. he would show up at the store. no matter where i went, she would be there. bonnie said she had a stalker, a teenager who got into her house, into her car, and worst of all, into her
pretty much. she could feel it in her bones. something bad was coming. she felt powerless to do anything about it. i knew he was watching. here he comes again. life used to be much simpler for lottie. in the fall of 1995 she moved to cobb county, georgia, just north of atlanta. she lived in this house with her daughter christina. this is an upper scale neighborhood. me and christina were always outside. life was good. i was happy. their downstairs neighbors were carmen smith and her son, nick. five-year-old nick had a million dollar smile. kristin haran is carmen s sister. she was a gorgeous strawberry blond, feisty. very outgoing young woman who loved her son more than anything in the whole world. they were just
her story, calling him a victim. you know what? i messed up really bad. despicable. lottie s reversal was astonishing. in the years since karmen smith s murder, she was raising her young son in a new home. by recanting her testimony, she put all of that at risk. how worried are you right now that you could go to jail for perjury? i m very worried. i know that i m facing prison time and there will be severe penalty for what i do and i don t want to be ripped away from my little boy. i have everything to lose. a year after daker s conviction, the hearing began on the motion for a new trial. daker again, representing himself called the doctor, the dna expert, to the stand.
doing this because this is right. prosecutor jesse evans portrayed lottie as a unreliable person. evans next move was stunning. he presented evidence that he said explained lottie s incredible reversal, letters confiscated from daker s prison cell. 4,000 pages of correspondance between the convicted murderer and the woman who testified against him. i sent him daily devotions and bible cards and a lot of information, case files. i actually feel like i m his personal secretary in a way. it turned out lottie had actually been helping with daker s appeal. he gave her research assignments. she looked up cases and printed documents, mailed them to prison, and then waited for his