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
the house in cobb county, about 20 minutes north of atlanta where carmen and nick lived downstairs. so you moved? yes. to try and escape him? yes. in october on friday the 13th waseem daker was released from the hospital. less than two weeks later carmen smith was dead and lottie spencer was overwhelmed with guilt. waseem is evil. he s pure evil. she said her stalker must have been the one behind the attack on carmen and nick. why? daker was obsessed with lottie. he had never met or spoken to carmen. or had he? she thought she knew the answer. a phone call he made to carmen s phone a few days earlier. it was friday the 20th and, like daker s style, the calls started coming in. the phone got put off the hook and then i could hear her phone ringing.
just so good. so very good. do you feel free? finally free? i feel like a lot of weight has been lifted and i m going to close this chapter and just go on with my life in a positive way. that was lottie in 2012. she told us she had closed that chapter, but it turns out she didn t. not by a long shot. in fact, since that interview, she has turned this story completely upside down with astonishing revelations. we sat down with her again to hear her new version of things. so did not expect to be sitting here talking to you again. no. major turn of events. yes, there has been. it all began with a bombshell. mr. daker and i had a consensual sexual relationship. yes, lottie now says in the mid 90s she had an ongoing sexual relationship with waseem
so lottie decided to come forward. she filed affidavits with the court and in 2013 judge mary staley granted daker a hearing for a new trial. but jesse evans wasn t buying lottie s new story. that s because while he was preparing for daker s hearing, he believed he found that story s real source. something s going on behind the scenes that we weren t aware of. coming up i messed up really bad. it s despicable. another revelation inside a prison cell, 4,000 pages of secrets. do you think waseem daker is manipulating lottie from prison? when dateline continues.
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. if a man sleeps in a blanket, can his hair transfer to the blanket? yes. and if a man has sex in a blanket, can his hair transfer to a blanket? yes. the doctor laid the scientific foundation, but daker s chances really hinged on lottie. a hush came over the courtroom as a nervous lottie made her way to the stand and