she didn t answer the phone. she was scared. then terrible news. a student had been murdered. a young woman, but apparently it wasn t alum. the girl on the floor had very black colored hair. she had lighter hair. who was it and where was alex. at that point, it was perhaps one dead and another missing. the killer could be roaming the campus. we are really scared. a mysterious tweet. what do you think it meant? i don t know. a terrifying phone call. my son just called. and a terrible truth. i didn t know how? i didn t know who? i didn t know anything. i just know she was gone. hello and welcome to dateline. a college freshman found brutally beaten, so gruesome, they couldn t identify the victim, but identifying the killer wasn t nearly as hard. he admitted what he did, turning himself into police within hours. it was why he said he did it, it would become the foundation for his defense. here is andrea canning with after midnight. every yea
Clayton, put the knife down. defense attorneys didn t dispute that clayton whittemore killed alex kogut, didn t even try. and they didn t dispute that his anger was years in the making. but they argued this wasn t a case of murder but. the client was guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. why? they said he was under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance, when he killed alex kogut, because clayton whittemore was a victim himself. [inaudible] that is clayton talking to the 9-1-1 dispatcher, hours after the murder. he s talking about his dad. telling the dispatcher his father had abused him and his family for years. that s my entire life. did you see a lot of it? i thought all. getting beaten in the