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28-year-old denise o'neil. >> she always loved to travel. she always was there swimming or having a game of tennis or scuba diving. goes to museums or anything in the arts she loved. she just loved life. she really loved life. >> after graduating from college, denise took a job as a waitress in palm beach florida while she looked for a job teaching english. de denise was a punctual employee but after missing two consecutive days of work without calling in her manager grew alarmed. >> she had been employed at this restaurant for 2 1/2 years and had never missed a day of work at all. >> her employer notified the police department and they began a missing person's investigation. >> police went to denise's apartment and her car was missing. there were no signs of a break

in. >> her apartment was extremely neat, in order. something seemed to be in disarray. >> they also checked the phone answering machine which provided a clue. >> there was an early alert from a credit cart company saying there was some unusual spending on one of her cards. >> later that afternoon police found denise's car in a parking lot across the street from her apartment. >> they immediately thought that someone else must have been in the car because miss o'neil was a very, very fastidious person and the car was just the opposite. >> a pink jacket belonging to denise was on the back seat. two soda bottles were on the floor. >> there was a cigarette bud on the floor of driver's side car and miss o'neil didn't make. >> i noticed that there was white sand on the right wheel floor mat and on the drivers side and a small amount on the passenger's side. >> in florida, sand is white common but not this kind of sand. >> it wasn't beach sand.

it wasn't black mud. it wasn't course brown sand. it was unique. it was consistent with limestone. >> police dusted the entire car inside and out for fingerprints. >> we found over 20 prints in total. they were all over the car. they were on the inside. they were on the trunk. they were on the outside of vehicle. >> on the day denise went missing, her credit card revealed she bought a pair of women's sneakers at 2:30 in the afternoon but failed to show up for work at 5:30. >> so somewhere in between that window something must have happened to her. >> this was one of the best pieces of evidence for the piece because it gave them a time frame. >> no one at denise's apartment had seen or heard anything suspicious but then a chilling call came in to 911. >> do you have an emergency? >> apparently there's a body in the canal right by our house by

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the medical examiner determined that the cause of denise o'neil's death was asphyxiation. she had been strangled to death.

they also found evidence of sexual assault. >> when the swab from the victim was analyzed in the dna section, a male profile was developed. >> investigators were puzzled by the two electrical cords used to tie the sheet around denise's body. >> these objects i've never seen before. i was very suspicious as to what they even were. i had no idea. >> research identified them as heat rocks. >> a heat rock is a pretty simple device. it's a fake rock that gets heated by up by electricity. people use it to heat warm blooded animals like a pet snake. >> investigators also found some unusual black hairs on the bed sheet. microscopic analysis showed these were dog hairs. >> my killer is going to own a black dog. my killer is also going to own a reptile whether it be a snake or

lizard. my killer is also going to have some type of association with a size 36 belt because of the size belt that we found wrapped around denise's body. >> the sand found in denise's car was similar to the sand in the area near her body. prove denise's car had been used to transport her body. investigators knew that denise had been abducted some type between 2:30 and 5:30 on the day she disappeared. her neighbor said she didn't see or hear anything suspicious. >> i have no clue. >> later that same day, someone used denise's atm card to width draw $700 from her checking account. >> the working assumption at this point for the cops was that whoever used that atm card probably killed denise o'neil. >> unfortunately the

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in the search for denise o'neil's killer, investigator's prime suspect lived just a few feet away from denise's apartment. it was her neighbor, louis cabellero. >> when we first walked up on him, he told us he didn't say it directly but he told us he really didn't like denise. he described her as being

snooty. >> he denied any involvement in denise's murder and said he had no relationship with her other than to say hello. >> we discovered that mr. cavellero was in serious financial trouble. he had a phone bill of $6,000 from phone sex lines that he had been calling that he was behind in his rent that he could be evicted at any time. >> detectives obtained a search warrant for his apartment. >> what struck me immediately was the large amount of pornography inside the closet. the type of pornography that was there dealt with a lot of violence. it was real, real sick stuff. >> we did not find denise o'neil's fingerprints inside cabellero's apartment. >> but they did discover other clues. >> i walked into the actual bedroom area and as i started to turn to the left, i observed what appeared to be and thought

was a faish aquarium. >> they found what looked like impressions at the bottom of the tank and looked like where heat rocks had been. >> police also found a pair of black men's sneakers and cabellero's closet. >> they didn't have any shoe laces in them. >> miss o'neil had been bound with black colored shoe laces. >> there was also a reddish brown stain on the carpet that might be blood. to be sure investigators turned out the lights and sprayed the stain with luminol. three very distinct blood stains emerged. >> it appeared to be consistent with the outline of the but tto area of a human being. >> also in his bedroom investigators found several other important items. >> we found a pair of scissors

and trapped within the hinge of the scissors appeared to be blue scored fibers. we knew that miss o'neil had been wearing a blue colored garment that had been cut. >> he maintained denise had never been inside his apartment but under a card board box investigators found a gym membership card. >> when i picked it up and turned it over and it had denise o'neil's name on it, i was ecstat ecstatic. >> detectives believed this clue was left at the scene by a desperate denise o'neil. >> my first question was have you ever detailed denise's vehicle. >> his response was he has never been in her car and never detailed her car. >> but analysts found his prints inside denise's car.

when faced with this evidence, he changed his story. he now claimed he was an unwl unwitting accomplice. he said the real killer was his friend 19-year-old isaac brown. brown who had no criminal record also confessed but said the killer was cabellero who was broke and desperate for money. brown said he had been planning to rob denise for months. >> there was just loose talk from cabellero saying man, i need to come up. i need to hit somebody. i need some money right now and the only person i could think of that's got some money right now is right there and it always would point across the hall way. >> everybody and their brother was trying to make a deal with the devil. in other words every bad guy was wanting to confess and plead out and get the best deal they

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men in custody for the on ducks of denise o'neil. not surprisingly, each man identified the other as the killer. complicating things further investigators discovered that a third man was with cabellero and brown on the morning they disposed of the body. >> it is absolutely shocking. the defense can now say the real culprit is out there. the real culprit is the person who you haven't charged. >> but who was this third man? >> when police did a background check on louis cabellero, they learned he had been arrested a month earlier for car theft and he had an accomplice. >> he was with an acquaintins of his robert messer.

28-year-old robert messer's fingerprints were on fire. low and behold there were mr. misser's prints on some of the items of denise o'neil's car. >> when police arrested messer, he too denied in the involvement in the murder. >> messer told me, i can't kill her. i will tell you what happened. i was there. messer said he did nothing but that cabellero and brown were both involved. >> messer said he was in cabellero's living room when cabellero and brown raped and murdered denise o'neil in the bedroom. >> i sat there with my fingers in my ears and the tv was up loud. i could barely hear the tv now but i heard her screams. all three men were charged with first degree murder but when dna results came back only one of

the three, louis cabellero was tied to the sexual assault. based on the forensic evidence and witness interrogations investigators believe cabellero planned the attack on an afternoon when denise was doing her laundry. when no one was around, he grabbed her and forced her into his apartment. with isaac brown's help gagged and tied her up. he took her atm card and forced her to divulge her pin number. cabellero then left to get some money and on the way back picked up robert messer. isaac brown stayed behind. at some point denise was able to

remove her gym membership card and hide it underneath a card board box leaving proof that she had been in cabellero's apartment. when cabellero returned with messer, he sexually assaulted her then used electrical cords from the heat rocks to strangle her to death. the trio wrapped denise's body in the sheet using the bet, shoe laces, and the electrical cords. they used denise's car to drive to the canal were they dumped her body. they tracked sand into the car and left their fingerprints behind. later, the three went to breakfast. >> they were absolute bash

aerians. they should be burned alive all three of them. and they say let he who has no sin cast the first stone. let me tell you i would have no problem casting all the stones. >> robert messer was tried and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years. isaac brown was convicted of five counts, including second degree murder. >> louis cabellero was convicted of kidnapping and murder and he now sits on death row. >> i thanked god for forensic science and thank god for the men and women who donate their time to study it to bring to justice these monsters. i am very grateful for forensic science. >> denise o'neil is one of a few victims that i have encountered through my tenure with this agency that have affected me. i still think about denise.

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