this is a first-degree murder charge. >> it makes me wonder what was going through sarah's head when she committed this terrible crime, of how she could do this to her parents. up next -- a hairdresser is attacked in her own salon. >> it's a male fist against a female face. is it personal? it's personal. >> only one of them got out alive. >> it was the most frustrating case i have ever dealt with. >> there is forensic evidence, but it doesn't match any of the suspects. >> the fingerprint was never identified. >> i don't think they are going to catch anybody. >> the case goes cold until an auto mechanic comes forward with a secret. >> there was something inside said it still ain't right. >> he's going to commit one of the most brutal murders in the history of spartanburg county for what reason? why?

>> on a warm july night in 1995, a south carolina woman was waiting for her ride home and witnessed a bizarre incident. she saw a man jump through the window of a hair salon and run away. the witness immediately called police. >> the deputy arrived thinking, okay, i'm going to investigate a burglary at this beauty salon. goes in and it's completely dark. he has a flashlight, training the beam of the flashlight around, walking, looking, seeing nothing. >> but in the back room, he found a woman on the floor murdered. >> it had to be a very chilling discovery. the killer had used a strap, tied it around her neck and then hung her from a hot water heater. >> robbery was not the motive. her purse was left behind and

there was money in the cash register and her car was left behind. it appeared that the motive probably was sexual related. >> the victim was identified as 27-year-old dana satterfield, the owner of the hair salon. she was the mother of two young children. >> she had worked in the hair business for seven years. i want to say she had been in the shop for three or four. when i say shop, it was a converted mobile home made into a beauty salon. >> the murder happened at 8:30 when the shop was still open, although the logbook indicated no one was scheduled for an appointment. >> i think she would usually try to get out before it would get dark, but it wasn't uncommon for her to work that late. >> the witness, diane harris, described the man as white, about 5'9" and wearing jeans and a gray t-shirt. >> she was very good on height. obviously, race is important.

rule out a large segment of the population. >> based on the witness's facial description, a police artist created a composite sketch which was distributed to the media. another witness reported seeing a suspicious vehicle in the area. >> he sees a blue and white ford bronco parked at a business. he notices this because he worked at this business himself. the business was closed and he knew that vehicle probably shouldn't be there. >> inside the salon, police dusted for fingerprints, and they concentrated on the water heater, where the killer strapped dana's body. >> it's a very smooth, hard finish and powder will bring them up real clear, and you can lift them very easy off of a surface like that. >> they found one print that was very clear. >> there was a detective who

said, whoever this print belongs to is definitely the killer. i'm thinking, god, definitely's a strong word. how do you know that? and then he said the way the knot was tied, you have to put your hand there to do it. >> in a surprising development, the print on the water heater matched dana's estranged husband, mike satterfield. the couple, who had two young children, were recently separated. >> all indications from the crime scene would be that the assailant knew dana. it was angry and personal and vicious and vindictive. >> did dana's husband have an alibi?

based on the evidence, investigators believe the killer entered dana satterfield's hair salon shortly before closing, locked the door, turned out the lights, dragged her into the utility room, where he strangled her to death. >> to have a mother of two killed in this way, staged the

way that her body was staged, left in that degraded stage, the guys that i know worked on the case, come hell or high water, they're going to solve this. >> at the autopsy, the medical examiner concluded the cause of death was strangulation. and a rape test kit found evidence of sexual assault. >> once they were able to generate a profile, that's when everybody started looking for a possible suspect. >> investigators found a fingerprint on the water heater next to dana's body. it belonged to dana's estranged husband, mike. >> we had actually had a few problems, and she had actually been living a half a mile from here. the kids were staying here and she was staying there. >> when questioned by police, mike claimed he was with his children at the time of the murder. >> because thwe were with him tt night. of course, when we got the phone

call, we talked to him and there's no way that my dad did it or had anything to do with it. >> and there was a perfectly logical reason for mike's prints to be there. he did all of the repair work. >> i just put that water heater in there. i done all the maintenance up there. i took care of everything. >> and it was clear that mike satterfield did not fit the description of the man the eyewitness saw jumping through the salon window. >> he's an enormous man. with all due respect to him, he couldn't get out that window. there would be a hole in the side of the mobile home if mike tried to get out the window and he'd tell you the same thing. >> in a search for suspects, investigators found other fingerprints at the crime scene, one in dana's blood. all were submitted to the statewide fingerprint database. unfortunately, there were no matches. >> the fingerprint was never identified. and there's no telling how many they ran through, how many

people they checked on that. >> investigators with strong backgrounds into working these type of crimes were brought in for this type of case. >> the search of the blue and white bronco turned up plenty of possibilities. >> it was incredibly distinctive, sawblade rims, white and blue ford bronco. it is not unique, but it is rare. i would think that would be a distinct car, but apparently, there are more of those than i would imagine. >> police checked them all out, but all were dead ends. >> every single time me and my brother saw a blue and white bronco drive by, we had to call it in. we had to tell my dad, "daddy, we saw a bronco. you need to call." >> as leads dwindle, the case gradually turned cold and the year went by with no new developments. then police got a break. a prison inmate told authorities that his cellmate, 29-year-old russell trevor quinn, often spoke of dana satterfield. >> it was something about how

attractive dana was. believe it or not, lots of folks in prison try to swap information for a reduction in charges or less prison time. >> quinn was incarcerated for a crime that bore a marked similarity to dana's murder. >> he was also in prison for raping a woman and tying her to a tree. >> quinn was free at the time of the dana's murder and fit the eyewitness description of the killer. >> the police got his mug shot, put it in a photo lineup, showed it to diane harris, who as you'll remember is our lone eyewitness. diane actually picked russell trevor quinn out of a photo lineup as being the person she came in contact with. one of dana's friends says i've seen this man in the shop before. the police are able to put him in a car not dissimilar to the one seen near the scene. >> but this turned out to be another dead end when his dna

didn't match the biological evidence from the crime scene. >> russell trevor quinn was a hopeful moment for the detectives. i mean, he's what you are looking for in terms of a suspect. he just didn't do it. >> and the case went cold for the next ten years, until dana satterfield's daughter helped to solve the case.

there is no statute of limitations on murder cases, and they are never officially closed, but with each passing year, unsolved cases get more difficult to solve. that was true of the dana satterfield murder. >> it was the most frustrating case i have ever dealt with. for ten years, detectives rick gregory and thomas smith continued to work the case following potential leads. >> there were two banker boxes full of leads. so, there was in excess of 400 leads. >> and the satterfield family never gave up either. >> i had people come up to me, ask me, have they caught him yet, have they heard anything? and i'm like, i know that they're still working on the case, but i don't think they're going to catch him, because i really didn't think they would.

>> ashley satterfield was 8 years old when her mother was killed. now she was 18, in college and trying to move on with her life. one day, ashley took her car in for repairs and those repairs changed the course of the investigation. >> this girl came in with a little red honda and she got an oil change, and i was like, man, she was just in here a couple of weeks ago. and they were like, yeah, that's ashley satterfield. you know dana satterfield that was murdered. and they said, that's her daught daughter. and i said, i didn't know she had kids. >> this man is an automatic mechanic and knew something about dana satterfield's murder, or at least thought he did. >> just by seeing ashley and her being her mother, i had to give them some closure. >> ten years earlier, when the auto mechanic was in high school, his friend, jonothan

vick, gave him a ride home. vick was driving a white ford bronco with blue trim, like the one parked near the crime scene. >> i'm going to go get a haircut tonight. >> a haircut? >> he says he was going to go get his hair cut. i was like, where are you going to get your hair cut at this time of night? and he's like, at dana's. i never knew her last name. >> so hot, man. >> vick said he was interested in more than a haircut. >> he would talk about how pretty she was and what he would like to do, as far as sexualwise and things like that. >> i'm going to ask her out. >> you're going to ask her out on a date? >> yeah, so? >> you serious? >> yes. >> when i laughed at him, he got upset with me. he said, what, you don't think i have a chance? i just laughed. i was like, man, whatever. >> later, when he saw news reports about dana satterfield's murder, she wondered if jonothan vick was involved.

>> if you ask him, he'd say he really didn't believe that he did it, couldn't believe, wouldn't believe. but here's a 17-year-old with no record that you counted as one of your best friends, and he's going to commit one of the most brutal murders in the history of spartanburg county for what reason? why? >> just after dana's murder, this man claims he called police anonymously and told them about his conversation with jonothan vick. he also told them vick was driving a white ford bronco. at the time, police questioned jonothan vick and his mother aggressively. >> investigators questioned her on six different occasions about the vehicle, you know, where was it that night, who was using it? and the family was getting tired of people asking them, was this your bronco here? this your vehicle? and they even went to the length of making a homemade sign that said, "this is not the vehicle"

and putting it on the bronco as it traveled down the road. that's how many people were calling about it. >> police even tried to get a court order for jonothan vick's dna, but the court refused on the grounds that driving a vehicle like the one seen near the crime scene was insufficient probable cause. >> where's the probable cause on jonothan vick at this time? it doesn't exist. >> so police dropped their investigation of jonothan vick. >> there was a time i figured, well, maybe they have cleared him, but there was something inside that said it still ain't right, something's just not right. >> so now, ten years later, this man, jonothan vick's friend, called police again, insisting that they investigate vick for dana satterfield's murder. and just like before -- >> i didn't want to give my name. >> but without his name, police couldn't get a court order to obtain jonothan vick's dna

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after waiting ten long years, prosecutors now had a witness who claimed he knew what happened on the night of dana satterfield's murder. the witness said 17-year-old jonothan vick offered him a ride

home from school. vick said he was going to dana's salon for a haircut. vick also admitted he fantasized about dana, a woman ten years his senior, and said he planned to ask her out on a date. vick entered dana's salon around 8:30 p.m. it was almost closing time. prosecutors believe vick made a sexual advance and dana refused. perhaps she thought he was kidding. that's when vick locked the door, turned out the lights, and attacked. in addition to sexual assault, he strangled her to death. for reasons no one can understand, he decided to leave through the window, which caught the attention of the witness, diane harris. she got a good look at him.

the composite sketch from this brief encounter was remarkably accurate. >> the hair, there was some issue as to whether the hair was light or dark. we had to go find some witnesses that said vick used to tip his hair back then. >> as to why vick's prints weren't found in the salon, investigators say it happens more often than people think. >> just because someone touches something doesn't mean that you left a print. it has a lot to do with the amount of oil on your skin at the time, the surface that you're touching. >> eventually, the anonymous informant explained why he had waited all these years to come forward. he said vick threatened to kill him if he ever told police what he knew about the murder. he also realized, ten years later, that he had a responsibility to the satterfield family, so he gave police his name, michael pace, and police got their court order for vick's dna sample.

>> michael pace is the probable cause that allowed us to get jonothan vick's dna. >> jonothan vick was still living in south carolina after serving two years in the marines. >> i love my wife and daughter. that's all that matters. >> he had had well over 15 different jobs, was getting fired or asked to leave because of his inability to get along with his co-workers or his supervisors. >> vick also had some brushes with the law. >> he had two arrests. one was a domestic violence, which was dismissed, and there was a malicious injury, which is basically a vandalism, that was dismissed. >> now a husband and father of an infant daughter, vick denied any involvement in dana satterfield's murder. >> at the time of the arrest, he basically told us he never knew the woman. >> jonothan vick's dna matched the biological evidence from the

rape test kit gathered at dana's autopsy, a 900 million to 1 match. >> i was relieved, because that particular case had been sitting on my desk for ten years. >> every time you see a poster or see an article or watch tv or on the news or anything about the case, it just, it bothered me. and now it's over with, i feel a lot better. >> investigators believe dana satterfield was vick's first victim, but possibly not his last. there was another acquaintance of jonothan vick's, heather renee sellers, who mysteriously disappeared. she's been missing for several years. >> ms. sellers was actually engaged to him in the weeks prior to her disappearance. >> sellers' car was found at the bottom of a river. her case is still open. in november of 2005, jonothan vick was convicted of dana

satterfield's murder and sentenced to life in prison. >> it was guilty, guilty, guilty. all 12 guilty. i mean, they all knew. yeah. >> i'll never forget the words that he chose, because after all of this, there was still such an arrogance almost, or how can you accuse me, this innocent man that i am? how can they convict me of this? >> dana's murderer is still free and i'm going to prison. she did not get justice today. >> and then the judge said, "you're going prison for the rest of your life." >> i have no sympathy for him or his mother or his wife or anyone in his family. i have no sympathy for none of them, because they all thought that -- or still think that he's innocent, and they know that he's guilty. his mother knew he was guilty. she knew.

and she held back on that. >> he's a pathological, maniacal liar, and i don't like him, but he received a fair trial. he was obsessed with an exotic dancer. >> he kidded that he spent approximately several hundred thousand dollars over the course of several months. >> must have been pretty bad that he had to buy love. >> but the money couldn't last forever. >> thus, he hatched a plot. >> and he didn't care what price he paid to get it. >> when i said, did you plan to kill him? oh, yeah, oh, yeah, i planned to kill him, but i wasn't going to let them know that. >> he just wanted to see what it felt like to kill someone. >> residential real estate in medford, oregon, is an extremely competitive business. so, when roxanne ellis got a last-minute appointment to show a vacant apartment, she was happy to oblige.