Character. He was always very affectionate tour, and he didnt like. It everyone was suspect. Then a break. Tips from other woman who had been targeted, too. He wanted to get me in there and i didnt budge and all the bells were going off. I took off. I felt i had dodged a bullet. The who is frightening, but the white was much worse. In my wildest dreams i never thought result like this could even exist. He certainly had a motive. Yes you did. It was the afternoon of november 15th, austin, texas. Four pm, there is something ominous in the air. The smell of it, the familiar feel of it against the skin, a storm coming. Something big. They did tell us on the news if you dont have to go out tonight dont. In the sky overhead turned dark by midnight in the afternoon. When it gets like that, it is pitch blackout. You have the fear of tornadoes. Sure enough said the announcers on tv, twisters had been spotted headed to parts of the city, including the northwest. Diane lived in the northwest. I s
The death of diane holik were all too aware that stranger killings were among the hardest to solve. at the point when you are driving around, talking to people here, did you have any idea what you are looking for? no, none. especially if that stranger is as careful as diane s killer appeared to have been. it was true whodunnit. the medical examiner who looked carefully for evidence of sexual assault, seamen, the killers saliva, dna under her fingernails, that sort of thing. and there was none. none at all. so, please 101, maybe one of the neighbors saw something, or someone suspicious. and, sure enough, not one but several neighbors had seen a stranger, a potential home buyer who was welcomed sitter,
Him. and thus, removed the evidence. but there was this one other thing, just a passing comment. they heard it from anita, who, remember, was on the phone with diane as that huge storm was about to roll through austin. she said that she had somebody who had come by earlier and had looked at the house and was very impressed with it. i said that s good, she said i might finally sell this thing, you know. could that visitor be connected to diane s murder somehow? or that discarded towel, with those seven tiny strands of hair? coming up, a stranger knocking on doors. what happened next still on the women who answered. i jumped in my car, locked in the car, and took off. i felt by dodged a bullet. he wanted to get me in there and i didn t budge, i stood there and all the bills were going off. when dateline continues. continues
Suspicious, back in austin investigators were looking at all kinds of possibilities. dennis, ray, and another man diane had known remained on the list. their statements reviewed, their alibis checked and reject. it wouldn t be the first time loved turned murder. but that worry, prosecutor davis talked about, was that really what happened? was the killer some random projector? it s not a great feeling to know that you are going to have to expand out into the possibilities that this was somebody who was a stranger to her, because that makes it so much harder. that second search of the crime scene confirmed everything the detectives found the first time, including this killer, whether a lover or stranger, had been chillingly careful. clearly had prepared for what he or she was going to do. this person was trying to avoid being captured. so he kept zip tie off of her, and took the zip tie with
The room and was standing behind her when she turned around with a baby in her arms. it must have spooked him. he just left? leaving behind the flyer? leaving behind the flyer. so they picked up the real estate flyer and brought in a latent pacing corporate expert. those parents might just belong to her killer. remember, they found no prints in diane s house to compare them to, in fact, and this was strange, even diane s own prints were hard to find. it was if the killer may have wiped them clean. there was really not even the fingerprints that you would think you would find in a house that was occupied. that is very rare. yes, it was very rare. and scary. scary because they couldn t know who he was. scary because, if he was a stranger just looking for a convenient to target, he had probably seen the stories on tv with a composite sketch and knew they were looking for him. so he could have changed his appearance or left the area, or even worse, might strike again