just hyperaware. ready for anything. >> and ready for his place in law enforcement history. a dea agent who is obsessed with the hunt for the most wanted drug lord in the world. >> i think that's where people had gotten caught up before, is that they just become almost infatuated with the man, with the legend, with the myth. and for me, that was never the case. it was about the challenge. it was about the hunt. that's all that mattered. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i am andrea canning. thanks for watching. anks for w. [music playing] hello, i'm andrea canning, man: there was a party. there was a uk football player that had been shot. he's killed on his birthday. and i was like, it's who?

that can't happen. was shot. >> he was killed on his birthday. i was like, it's two? that can happen. why him? >> no one saw a thing. >> is night, is dark, nobody knows where the bullet comes from. >> you don't have a motive. it's hard to know what h direction to go. >> but someone new. >> she called me and said, i think i know something about a murder. >> we never could find out why trent was killed because it was something this weird. >> she became the key. >> which he also become the next victim? >> she was scared to death to confront him. she knew what he was capable of. >> she was terrified. >> she was terrified.

>> hello and welcome to "dateline." dip to is a force on the football field. popular and fiercely loyal to his friends. one night, the charming athlete was shot dead. his killer left flute few clues and it's a cold until someone came forward with a stunning secret. what the police after tipster to do next with megatarget. how much which it risk to right a wrong. here's keith morrison with "the motive." in her heart was on fire. lost to her, the music, the hum of other voices in the bar. there was only him. they were in the deep end now. as lovers in the flesh of the commitment, they confessed their sins of the abandoned past . the worst things they've ever done. words, just words.

best forgotten until they could no longer be ignored. lexington, kentucky. one year before that night in the bar. a house where students live. and the music and laughter and chatter of a birthday party swelled and ebbed and drifted in and out of the evening air. >> it wasn't a huge party. a low-key party with some good friends. >> they were about to be seniors, the young men who rented the pape place and hosted the party. >> we had a group of four guys that got along extremely well. t >> they were big man on campus. they played football. university of kentucky's wildcats. and the quarterback. >> in lexington, kentucky, if

you play for the cats, you are a well-known entity. >> the birthday boy, 21 years old, was a wildcats walk-on who had no scholarship, no invitation, he just showed up and tried out for the team. over three years of hard work, he earned a starting position. trent digiuro . gentle giant. >> everybody called him a big teddy bear. he was a great protector of all of our friends. >> the party was informal. friends snapped pictures. evening turned into night. it was after midnight. >> i think we turned in summary between 1230, 1:00. >> antonio and his girlfriend went to bed. outside, trent and some of the other set under the light on the front porch. out there be on the street lights, was impenetrable dark inside, -- >> we heard a loud bang.

>> one of the must of slammed the screen door, but no. >> within 10 seconds, you started to hear the cast outside. the screaming, the yelling, the crying. >> and there was trent , slumped in his chair, under the light. >> he was bleeding out of his ears, his eyes in his mouth. it was a horrific scene. >> horrific and confusing. the bank had been a gunshot. but from where? somewhere out there in the dark had someone intentionally fired a gun at their gentle giant, there teddy bear? in their panic and distress, they did not understand. how could they? the nature of the mystery launched here. la or who. in a haze of love may have learned the answer. >> it was just so senseless. once you found out why it was even worse. >> who was trent digiuro?

the target. >> we all started hanging out from first grade. six years old. pretty neat. >> payton turner and sherry liebert has lifelong friends. >> if you are his friend, you are his friend. there was no group for him. everyone got treated the same. >> trent wasn't fourth when he started playing football in his hometown in kentucky just outside louisville. in high school, he was captain of the team and had lots of friends. so popular, just for was homecoming queen king with cheryl lee is clean. >> to be voted as that was special. >> when it came time for college, trent set his sights high in turndown football scholarships to smaller schools. >> at one point he said, i have to know if i can play in the big time. division i school. >> mike digiuro is trent's

dad. >> he worked real hard to get to where he was. >> and trent's teammates saw that hard work. >> he had the ability to o perform so while he might have been a walk-on, his performance allowed him to endure himself to others very quick. er >> that july as trent practice football and prepare for his senior year, his parents went to lexington to see him and talk about his future. >> he was trying to decide what he wanted to do with his life he was talking about maybe going to law school, business school. >> did he talk about his birthday celebration? >> we knew he was going to have some kind of thing and he was going to come home and celebrate his birthday with us, but never made it. >> noto, and of fear washed over the university of kentucky football team. was a killer targeting them? if so, who would be next?

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ask your provider for cologuard. keith morrison: chaos is what there was on trent chaos is what there was on trent digiuro's front porch. his friends stood over the body and their out into the dark with the kind of anticipating car. >> concerned that there is more to come. you know. that was one shot. was someone going to shoot again? >> trent was officially pronounced at 3:00 a.m. just about the time don evans arrived. evans retired out but was a rookie detective back then. this was his first homicide case. >> there were three young men in this yard and they looked distraught and were consoling each other. >> on the porch, trench chair was turned over and he could see letter debris left by the ambulance crew. what was your first idea of

what appeared to have happen? >> when i first walked up, it looked like the obvious spirit that someone simply walked from the side of the house, fired the shot, and then exited back towards the rear of the house. almost like an alley here. it would provide concealment. >> the advantage of surprise. >> yeah. if someone was going to take a shot, that made the sense. >> they look for shell casings. there were none. nor any other evidence. still, detective evans knew there was a party so there were bound to be people who saw something. >> my thought was as soon as i get them to headquarters and separated, someone will tell me what happened. but with each and every person that i talked to, they didn't see anything. >> 80 miles away at 5:00 a.m., the digiuro's phone rang. >> it was numbing. it is hard to imagine the feeling.

>> suddenly you're like doesn't make sense anymore. >> it absolutely stops and pivots in an instant. and then it was kind of, now what? >> soon, everybody knew. >> i could not believe it. who would murder somebody so wonderful? >> it was about then that the first really useful evidence came back from the medical examiner. bullet fragments were recovered in the autopsy. and the ballistics showed it wasn't a handgun at all that killed trent, it was a rifle. which turned the theory upside down. >> the theory about walking up the side of the house goes out the window. the rifle is not designed for a close range shot. >> officers canvassed the neighborhood. a woman who lived across the street said she awoke to a loud noise. and it sounded like it was right outside of her house.

>> based on that, we actually took one of our marksmen on the police department and asked him , could the shop he made from here? from this angle? and we literally reenacted that possibility. >> did it make sense? the location you got? >> it did make sense. we did not eliminate the possibility that something else occurred, but this look pretty strong test. >> so, a working very. trent was shot from across the street and ballistics suggested it was a right but with the particular and uncommon type of barrel. but who owned it? why did he or she shoot trent? no idea. the football team enter the world of dread. was some hater targeting the team? was one of them next? >> we were so nervous and uncertain of what happened that night. it affected our daily lives. driving down the street. at practice.

thinking there might be someone in the woods who want to take you out. >> days and weeks and months went by. nothing happened. over time, the fear eroded. but the investigation went nowhere. >> did you ever get to the place where you thought, we have to live with this uncertainty for the rest of our lives? >> i would say four years into this, it's like, it didn't make any difference. >> is not going to bring him back. >> it won't bring trent back but still, why did this happen? >> really, no closer to solving it from the first case on day one. it would make you doubt yourself. >> then one day a particular woman happen to see an anniversary story about the unsolved murder of the football player back in kentucky. a woman who once sat in a bar in a fog of love. and now was quite terrified.

>> a break in the case from out of the blue. the next lever reveals all including a motive for murder almost too absurd to believe. >> coming up,. >> this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed because it was something this weird. >> when "dateline" continues.

keith morrison: it wasn't as if a successful investigation

could somehow undo what happened to trent digiuro. it wasn't as if an ex- successful investigation could undo what happened to you're watching "the weekend" on msnbc. -- trent digiuro. but the black of any answer year after year seems somehow to be an insult to all that was good and they just had to accept it. >> i think we resigned ourselves that every year past we would never going to know. >> then it was about five years after the shooting, a local attorney named tom -- heard from an old friend, a woman who was nervous and tentative and asked him on the phone, but she revealed what you know about a crime without saying who she was? >> she was extremely evasive. she didn't want to tell me anything. >> but she kept going. finally, she revealed it. she was calling about a murder. >> did she tell you what murder? >> she eventually came around

to say it was a high profile murder. >> where did your mind go when you heard that? >> i knew which one it was. >> then she told him a strange story. it happened in a bar, she said. almost a year after trent digiuro was killed. she was falling hard for a guy. >> they talked about how much they loved each other. towards the end of the evening, they decided to say, what is the worst thing you've done? >> let's get this out of the way. >> let's get to it. that point in the relationship where you say, let me hear the worst. >> and her boyfriend said, i killed trent digiuro. >> at first, she sort of slept it off. you know. sure, you did. >> didn't believe him? >> of course not. but then he started describing it. you know, exactly how he did it.

>> but, she still did not want to believe it. after all, she had fallen in love with the guy so she said she kind of buried it. stayed with him for another year. now, years later and single again, she saw the story in the newspaper about the fifth anniversary of trans-murder in which was quoted, somebody knows what happened. >> she started really thinking about it and touched her. >> but she was so frightened of him, she said, she was determined to remain anonymous. >> they knew each other intimately. she knows how he would react to certain situations. she was terrified. >> he would have remembered his conversations with her. >> if you told someone that you committed a murder, you would certainly remember having told them that. >> so, tom bullock went to detective evans. >> we agreed that whatever

information i would give him would be anonymous because for all we know, the whole thing could have been hogwash. >> that sort of tricky, isn't it? you have somebody making an accusation you have to be able to talk to somebody. >> they gave me the name of shane ragland, the woman's ex- boyfriend but who was he? didn't take long to find out. shane was a son of a wealthy businessman. and he attended the university of kentucky at the same time as trent digiuro. after college, he did not do so well. he ran up a dozen convictions, drug charges, multiple duis and so on. detective evans went back to attorney bullock. >> can you get me anymore? ultimately, he started talking about a motive. >> and that is when the whole story to turn into the twilight zone. >> he told me that it was

concerning shane ragland being blackballed from a fraternity. >> what did you think when you heard that? >> that is a stupid reason to kill somebody. >> the fraternity was sigma alpha epsilon. he looked through the records and there it was. a pledge list with shane name crossed off. >> that it hit. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed because it was something this weird. >> evans went to one of trent's closest friends and f, had he heard of this guy? shane ragland? he said that. >> i could see it. at that point on his face. i let him tell the story. >> the story about an unpleasant little incident. shane was among the freshman pledging the fraternity. one day, as they were getting

to know the campus, -- >> they went into trent's doorman trent with erin on the wall was a calendar. sorority girls. >> when shane saw that calendar, right away he pointed to one of the girl's pictures and brag that he had sex with her. >> what shane did not know is that girl was the girlfriend of the president of the fraternity. >> trent did not like that one bit. outward to the sae president and that is when shane was blackballed. >> at that point, shane's opportunity to be in that fraternity is pretty much over. >> the motive for murder are many and varied. but this seemed absurd. it was three years after that slight when trent was murdered in cold blood. could it really have festered so long? and if it had, if that was true, they had another problem.

>> the more we dug specifically into shane ragland, the marley likelihood that he would get word that he was becoming a suspect in this case. if that happens, this anonymous witness was in real danger. >> evans had no doubt that shane would remember he told an ex-girlfriend about the murder. >> what is going to keep him from eliminating her like he did trent digiuro. >> now evans understood his mystery witness was trying to be brave. but was quite reasonably frightened. how would he ever convince her to take the ultimate risk? >> she was very hesitant to do it. and that she was scared to death. to confront him. >> coming up. setting a trap. >> something has been bothering me. something that you told me. >> but who is going to get caught? >> let me ask you --

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woman who said her ex-boyfriend shane ragland killed trent as payback for having him blackballed from a fraternity. but the woman was insisting she remain anonymous. so to prove their case, investigators would need to earn her trust. once again, keith morrison with "the motive." detective evans new he had to meet this mystery woman. a woman who was claiming she knew what happened to trent digiuro but was too frightened to talk about it. then, finally, with the attorney playing gatekeeper they made a deal to at least meet face-to-face. but any more than that, maybe not. >> it was like, listen, don't get me involved in this. this guy is dangerous. until you have handcuffs on him, you cannot involve me. >> but evans knew even if he arrested the guy, the mystery woman testifying about something and act friend told her would not be enough.

>> i can imagine a prosecutor saying i cannot just put her on the standard his attorney will say, she is full of it. >> but in this particular case, that would not do it. we are still in a situation where this has to come from him. >> kim meaning shane ragland. evans told her they had to find a way to get shane to admit on tape what he did otherwise, what jury would buy such a ludicrous motive for murder. there was only one way, he told her. she would have to wear a wire. >> she wasn't very happy with that, obviously. >> i should not. >> she asked me if i could spell anonymous. >> but she came around. >> she wanted to do what was right all along but wanted to do it without getting herself killed doing it. >> but she would only proceed on one condition. >> i had to prove how we were going to keep her safe. it wasn't enough for me to say, don't worry. we will look for bulges.

>> they came up with a plan. they gave her a cover story to protect a fictitious job, a phony address. then casually she resumed contact with shane. a few emails, a little flirty at times on both ends. >> people sometimes hear from their exs, >> he agreed to meet her. it was in the airport lounge surrounded by undercover cops and fbi and behind security to be sure shane wasn't armed. they reminisced for an hour or so. >> tell me the things you remember about our relationship. >> then, she went for it. >> something's been bothering me. something you told me a long time ago. and i wish you never had.

and i need to know how you feel about it now so i can understand what kind of person you are. >> at that point he paused and it's like, he knew exactly what she was talking about. >> i regret it. >> you do? you didn't before? and you know, the thing is, not knowing that was his name. >> saying his name was deliberate. >> we talked to her about that. let's make sure we know what you are talking about only play this for a jury later. >> coming up was seven motive. -- was the motive. >> i'm sorry, but i have to get this off my chest because i

have to live with it too, you know. i mean, do you plan what you did? >> was he sensing something? the cops knowing they didn't have what they need it, not yet, held their breath and listen. >> you're not setting me up, are you? >> i've never told anybody. >> swear to me that you're not setting me up. because i'm scared to death but >> he said, are you setting me up and that is when things got scary. >> but she kept her cool. >> okay, then must operate >> and they did. and 10 minutes later, shane came back with just what the detectives needed to hear. >> to answer your question, i am very, very remorseful. >> i was angry at him. i made the wrong decision. there's nothing you can do about it now. >> she made him so comfortable that he came back to the subject and left us with what

we really needed. it came out of his own mouth. >> they picked him up the next day. took him downtown and asked him, was it true what an old girlfriend was telling them? >> so she tells us you sat there and you talked about the murder. is she making that up? >> 100%. absolutely. >> shane denied it all. denied knowing trent or where he lived. denied talking about trent with her. >> i never mentioned him. nothing about the murder or anything. >> then his inquisitors got the recording. >> i want to play something for you and i want you to listen to it. >> something's been bothering me. something that you told me a long time ago. >> that's not the truth, is it? >> we were talking about

something. i did not hear her say trent. i did not do this. >> but his denials were to no avail. shane ragland was charged with murder. bail was set and his wealthy father paid it. $1 million cash so shane was free pending trial which was a big problem for the ex- girlfriend who turned him in. police moved her to a slicker location and kept an eye on her. then, strange things started happening. >> we got information from our state police intelligence section that there was a hit out on this girl. the roof phone calls to her friends that would ask, have you seen her? do you know where she is these days? obviously trying to locate her. >> with all that going on, she had to do precisely what she did not want to do. go public. show herself and testify. the world would know that her name was amy lloyd. and she was truly terrified.

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of twelcome back. shane ragland was headed to trial for the murder of trent digiuro despite being terrified of the defendant, shane's ex-girlfriend agreed to testify against him. police moved her to a secure location but now she had to face him in court where her cross-examination would take an x-rated turn. here again is keith morrison with "the motive." >> if there was any doubt about the threats to amy lloyd security, this put it to rest. amy rushed into court by a swat team. but trent digiuro's dad knew that if she told her story. >> i don't know how a jury could not convict him. >> when it came time for trial, the prosecutor lou anna red corn was facing a hard to believe motive. >> i think i was like everybody else.

incredulous that someone would let the fact they were blackballed from a fraternity fester for years and culminate in killing the person they blamed on blackballing them. >> they found what they believed was a murder weapon. a .243 rifle. and it was at his mother's house and on his father's faith they found .243 caliber bullets like these. and fbi experts at testing link those bullets to other fragments from the fatal bullet. the defense argued the tests was not reliable science. now, nearly eight years after trent was killed, here was the one person who could tell the story. amy lloyd finally revealed herself publicly. though because she remains frightened even now, we have scared her image in this video recorded by the court. the prosecution's star witness talked about that night in the

bar and shane, according to her, stricken vesting to murder. >> he said something about how he had trent up if i remember the football player who had been killed. and told me his name. trent. he told me that he shot him. >> the prosecutor knew amy story had a weakness. so, no choice but to confront it. >> he did not break off the relationship after he said this year? >> no. >> you didn't go to the police or anything like >> no. i ignored it. >> just ignored what he said to >> yes. i forgot about it. i did not want to hear it. i did not want to believe it. >> why? because she was in love with him, she said. during amy's testimony, the prosecutor played the tape, the theme meeting at the airport.

that, said the prosecutor clear as day was at a mission that he committed the murder. how do you defend against that? shane's father hired a formidable defense team. guthrie true was one of shane's lawyers. >> if someone told you they engaged in killing of another person and you continue a romantic relationship with them, that seems a bit odd. >> when the defense cross- examined amy she knew it was coming. had to. an attack on her credibility. but could she suspected how personal it would be? this, from true's group cocounsel after he talked about killing someone. >> weren't you concerned about spending the night with somebody who had admitted to you that he had killed someone else? >> i blocked it from my mind.

i didn't want to -- he didn't want to hear that. >> then, a kind of nervous embarrassment filled the courtroom. the defense had gotten access to amy's very personal, very explicit diary and confronted her with her entries. one by x-rated one. >> we are trying to challenge the credibility of the prosecution's case. sometimes that gets uncomfortable. >> this is what amy wrote the day after she said shane confessed to her to murder. >> april 30th, the very next day, you make a notation, made love in the afternoon. great day. >> for the sake of decency, we have left out the most explicit entries made public by the defense that they. >> then, may 3rd what the day you'd say you took a bath together and made love.

right? >> yes. >> on may 7th, you notated, great love and decided i would move in with him in july. perfect. >> yes. >> so, this man who told you he killed someone you made that decision that you were going to live with him? come july? >> yes. >> so, was her credibility harmed? there was still, after all, that incriminating airport recording. or was it incriminating? >> you never did ask him if he shot and killed trent, did you? >> why would i when he already told me that if i said to him, did you kill trent when he already told me five years ago he would have known. know that i was -- that i was there in fact to -- >> to set him up? >> to get him to admit it.

>> and you rehearse that? >> rehearsed what? >> detective evans and others. don't give him an opportunity to deny he had shot trent? >> no. >> had the defense planted a seed of reasonable doubt? the jury adjourned to think about it and trent's friends waited. >> i was never told terrified or scared in my life. >> your heart is going 100 miles an hour. >> five hours later, >> we the jury find the defendant guilty of intentional murder. >> guilty of intentional murder. the sentence, 30 years. >> to know that he was guilty and this guy sitting there smug and i'm remorseful is guilty, found guilty and you feel good about that. >> mike digiuro thought it was done. >> okay, this is it.

he is going to jail. it is over. >> and amy , she had vanished. amy was afraid of shane ragland and we told her if she testified we would do what we could to let her have a new identity and law enforcement helped her get a new identity. >> that no identity would be a problem. >> talk about something that just blows you away. i mean, i could not even grasp that. >> because this case was not over. not even close. >> coming up. a stunning reversal. where there ever be justice for trent? >> is, oh, wow, here we go all over again. >> when "dateline" continues. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. i'm under 7.

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saw coming. here's keith morrison with the conclusion of "the motive." >> it was early spring in kentucky when justice was done for the murder of trent digiuro. they knew the woman who faced

the fear and told her story. >> we never met amy and i am eternally grateful to her. for everything she's done for not only trent and his family but for us. >> except, there was an appeal and of course there was, standard procedure. what happened is not standard at all. a court reversed the decision. and shane ragland went home on a $1 million bill paid by his dad to wait for a whole new trial. >> it's been a long time, shane. >> i don't look at it and i'm looking at the long-term goal of fighting a case against me that is fake and false. they know i am innocent. i don't worry about my feelings. >> why was the verdict turn out? it had nothing to do with amy lloyd or her explosive testimony or the sting tape recorded at the airport all that was fine. so, what was the issue? the bullet that killed trent.

the fbi expert link a fragment of the bullet found during the autopsy to bullets like these found at shane's father's house. but after shane's conviction, the fbi realized the test it used was in fact bad science and stopped using it. >> these are things we have been arguing for years. frankly, it should not have been admitted. >> the court agreed with the defense. >> when this reversal happened, what was that like? >> it was a blow. i mean, it was a real blow. >> it was one of the smaller pieces of evidence. >> in my mind, yes. >> what you thought was done, it gets undone. what does it do to you? >> it's like, oh, no here we go all over again. and yet another time we realize pretty quickly was going to be without some key evidence. amy lloyd wasn't coming back.

>> no. amy lloyd was not going to testify a second time. that was a deal she made her testify once and then disappear . >> there was no way to bring her back. once someone has that level of cover, you cannot undo it. >> no option but to make a deal. shane got to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter. which meant at least he now admitted to firing the fatal shot. >> >> it wasn't 10 more years. it wasn't any more years but he got the time he already served, five years, +3 days of house arrest. >> three more days. >> three more days. he walked out of the courtroom. and that really got us

>> and help the little. the jury awarded him $63 million later reduced to $33 million. but he has not received a penny and does not expect to. but money was never the point. >> he is never really accept the responsibility for what he did. >> shane went on with his life. and then a few years later he was involved in a serious car accident. he is in a wheelchair now. and was back in court on an unrelated case. what about amy? if that is even her name now. how was she doing now? >> she's living a new life. >> anything at all you can tell me? >> i am not going to be able to tell you anything about her current life. >> at all? >> at all. >> as for mike, he had a choice and new he could sink into

bitterness or -- >> where do you put your frustrations over this? >> well, what has come from all of this is we consider a very positive thing. >> the trent digiuro foundation has awarded 100 scholarships to football players and others at the university of kentucky and at local high schools. young people with determination and personal courage just like trent. you will never make any sense of his death but you can make sense of his life. >> make sense of what we done to commemorate trent and remember trent. and given these young folks an opportunity that trent won't have. >> and remarkably, trent's friends remain exceedingly close even 25 years after that shot in the dark. >> they are family. i think it says so much about

what trent meant to these kids. young adults now. and what they mean to us. it has been a blessing. >> they all get together and laugh and tell stories. and imagine. >> i'm sure he would have been magnificent as an adult, just like he was when he was a teenager. i am angry that i don't up >> all the adult things we have had the opportunity to share with each other. >> when i get rid of those been feeling, the underlying feelings of gratitude that he was in my life for a brief moment in time. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm andrea canning. thank you for watching. watchin