Knew who was in the room with her. She trusted that person. The saddest thing is, the last thing you look at in this world is not your loved ones, its your killer. I miss her so much. Tough, tenacious. As feisty as her name. She would walk into a courtroom and look like she owned the place. She loved defending those clients. She loved law. Reporter she went to read up on a murder case, but the next murder the police investigated was hers. She is investigating some really hardened criminals. Maybe somebody had beef with her. It was personal. The clues . A missing gucci wallet, mystery strands of hair. It suggested that a female killed her and she pulled the hair out. Whodunit . Who came up and did it . Somebody planned this murder. Somebody wanted her out of the way. I told her, i will make this right. I will make this right for you. Welcome to dateline. She was bold, she was brash. Chiquita tate was a rising stall star in the louisiana legal community. A star someone extinguished. The
no. no. we didn t see that. she had expensive jewelry still on her on her hands. she had earrings in her ear. so it it def so this is starting to tell you some stuff about the nature of this killing, huh? that s correct. reporter: it didn t look like a robbery. however, as crime scene techs processed the scene, the investigators realized chiquita s wallet was missing from her purse. and there, in the victim s hand, what looked like a major clue. and her left hand was opened, there was a piece of hair in it. not actually, 91 strands of hair in it. and her right arm was over her head and she just she just died like that. reporter: had she pulled it from her killer s head? the hair was long. had the killer been a woman? what were your theories? what did you think? i actually, uh, did not come to any conclusions because i couldn t think of a soul who would ve wanted her dead. reporter: chiquita s father-in-law,