they were a mother and daughter who had both made mistakes, but there was no mistaking her love . she was not perfect , but she was perfect for me. and when her daughter became a mom, life itself seemed perfect, but not for long. called the sergeant and said, please tell me this isn t true and he said, i can t . but who wanted her daughter dead ? she had lovers not enemies. friends with benefits . the question for police, which fred was the father, and which the killer? it doesn t seem as if she always made the best choices in a man . no. no. single mom tori vienneau was surrounded by love. hello, and welcome to dateline. single mom, tori was surrounded by love. in addition to her baby, dean, she had a boyfriend, a best friend, and a mother who adored her hear the grown-ups work as a team, caring for the baby. when tragedy stuck struck, tori realized, the only way was to fight for justice. here is josh mankiewicz with complicated. in some families, th
true, even though love, maybe even the rejection. at trial, the defense said that you did it. i was there a scapegoat. hard to hear? very hard to hear. but daniel had an alibi, unlike the one given by moen one, did not rely on the word of a close friend. here is daniel on a store security camera at work the night of the murders and his cell phone pinged on the tower near where he worked. daniel was never charged. in the end, it was clear he was not guilty of killing both the woman and baby he loved. we, the jury, find the defendant, dennis potts guilty of the crime of murder. a jury believed all the guilt rested with dennis potts. the family has plenty of money, whatever child support tori was asking for certainly was not going to break them,
very angry. and you were not happy. no, not at all. i said, i can t have these details out there and if it means i don t tell you another thing until this thing is resolved one way or another, that is what i will do, because my obligation is to your daughter and her son. did she understand that? i think she did. reporter: they had not solved the case, but the crime lab did solve one issue, dana had been right, and a test would come out differently. moen s dna proved, he was the father of baby dean, and his dna did not match the dna sample that had been sent to the mail order paternity testing company. the crime lab said, that dna sample came from someone else. it was his friend, max horn, who vouched for him at his house during the timeframe we believe tori was murdered. did that make you very suspicious? absolutely. soon, another promising lead
relationship did not last, their sexual relationship did, on-again, off-again. it survived both high school and several other relationships. how the tori described her relationship with moen one? pretty much friends with benefits. they would sort of hookup, this was high school and afterward? high school, yeah, and then as long as i knew her for. he was always in the background? yes. he was apparently in the background when tori was leaving with neil. in fact, was a paternity test showed that tori s then boyfriend, neil springstube, was not baby dean s father, tori told her mother, it must be dennis. they did a male in paternity test from the same place her and neil did, and the results came back he was not the
i m sorry. i didn t protect you. but police had moved on. daniel moen was no longer a suspect. investigators were now focused on moen one. the prime suspect continued to live at home with his parents and an fiance and spent much of his time with the man who was his alibi for the murders, max corn, his best friend. they even got matching tattoos. lieutenant kevin roney and his team kept working the case . when his cell phone records finally came in, detectives were able to see how tori s last day had taken shape. what did you learn about what tori s plans were for that evening? it was her belief that dennis had made reservations at george s at the cove, a very nice restaurant in la jolla. she had arranged for a sitter that she was going to drop dane