they re in the garage. they re in the garage? yeah, right beside the door. on that, detectives asked hicke flat out, did you go to meghan s house today? do you know who went to meghan s house today? no i didn t that was absolutely the furthest things from my man until they told me what was going on. i have no clue, sir. i wish that i knew but i don t. did you kill meghan? no. are you angry at her? no, not at all. all the stuff that s going on you re not angry other? no, what i did, i did to myself not anybody else. and you have no idea who would hurt her? not a clue, sir. not a living clue. hicke insisted he was not their man. i really don t know what to tell you. i was in shock and i m still in shock. i i i don t know what to think. but was he telling them the truth? the investigation was just getting started.
In the murder. overall physical ability and the fact that she had the four kids all the time, there is a lot of different things they looked at. they just kind of eliminated her. did she have a solid alibi? yes. neither robert hicke or his wife had anything to do with robin s wife. hicke s told dateline that his client any sexual contact with meghan, and the investigation roomed hicke s lie for the time. still, the restorations did not look good to the navy. he was given other than honorable discharge, and denied his . as for the homicide detectives, they were back at square one. are you stumped? we all were. the two lead investigators at the time thought they really had a case solved. and then, there is no dna match. so, they had to start all over again. now it s come down to okay, we have to find our killer. and we need to find her killer as quickly as possible, because
yeah, yes. that s what he told me and that i m because of an investigation that was done prior. they said that they had to consider me a suspect. were you boyfriend and girlfriend at one time? i can t really say anything about that because it has something to do with another investigation. when was the last time that you were at her house? sometime in december. sometime in december, you don t remember? i don t remember when, no. so there s no reason why your fingerprints or anything like that no. would be on her house? no, not unless they ve been there since last december, no. no, they don t last that. no, then no. on the day megan was murdered, hicke said he was busy. he and his wife had an appointment with the marriage counselor. i had to be home by three because our counseling sessions are at four. and, before that, he said he had been at work. and you d only work at all?
i gotta good feeling about this yeah, so let s get it i m feeling good vibes meghan s memorial walk did the trick. one that drummed up a promising new lead. a concerned citizen suggested the tech does talk to meghan s bus driver, the one from her freshman year. so, sergeant mike daniels caught up with the driver outside of meghan s old high school. he turned up at the high school i walked up and he said, a, can i talk to you about meghan. we had already interviewed 12 kids on that bus. and they all said, yes, we knew megan. she wrote the bus. she was a good girl. but the driver said detectives may have missed someone.
Sadness. even for those who knew meghan, a local church dedicated a tree in her honor. this is meghan s tree? this is meghan s tree, and always be in her honor. the place where people can mourn, and it s where people could mourn like agent shortt and shutt. these two had tried to help her in life, and now, they were united in the effort to find her killer. having known her and met her, we know we had to do it for her, find out who had hurt her so terribly. you had a war room, of sorts, with this case. and you met often. yes, i essentially moved into portsmouth police department. i was there every day. and we were all collaborating. we had a list, a to do list, if you will, and it was every day, day in and day out, it consumed all of us. another look at the house gave them greater insight, according to crime scene investigators suzanne and karl s acquire, the attack appeared unsophisticated, the killer tried to clean up quickly.