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>> i'm craig melvin. and this is dateline
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>> murder is so personal she knew who was in the room with her, she trusted that person and the saddest thing is tha the last person that you loo at in this world is not your loved ones, it's your killer >> gosh i miss her so much >> tough, tenacious, as feisty as her name. hard driving defensive attorne chiquita tate. >> would walk into a courtroom and she would look like sh owned the place. >> loved defending her clients loved the law. >> stay late at work to read u on a murder case but the next murder that polic wound up investigating was hers >> she is representing som really hardened criminals. maybe somebody had a beef with her? >> it was personal >> the clues, a missing gucc wallet, mystery strands of hair >> it's suggested that a femal had maybe killed her
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and had pulled the hair out. >> who done it who came up here ended >> somebody planned this murder >> somebody wanted her out o the way. >> i told her, i will make thi right. i will make this right for you. >> hello and welcome t dateline she was bold, she was brass. chiquita tate was a rising sta in the louisiana legal community. the star that somebody wante extinguished we list of possible suspects was long could an unhappy of client hav wanted her to head, where th police need to look somewher else entirely? here is dennis murphy with shining star >> cajun country is where th dreadful thing happened. >> baton rouge, louisiana stat capital perched on the banks o
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the mississippi. three blocks off the river, on a chilly thursday night, a criminal defense lawyer wa working, drafting for a bi murder trial starting on monda when did the killer take her sometime after 8:00 was th best guess the news lead next morning's early drive. >> i hear on a local new station, they interrupt to say that there is a downtown murde in a law office. >> attorney was in her way t work which of course alerts me. initially, my gosh, as a attorney >> the office now strong wit the yellow crime scene tape. belonged to an up and come named chiquita tate. a local woman, just a few year out of law school, but already making a name for herself in competitive arena of litigatio and criminal defense
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>> she had recently won a half million dollar jury verdict. that is pretty awfully good fo somebody out of a short time >> chicago was one of seven. her father absent, raised by her grandma in the neighborhoo of boarded up houses smart and determined, rose above her impoverished early years. once refuse was lit, she becam a rocket >> she was talented, she had overcome so very much in a short time period. she was the star of her family >> chicago was the first in he family to go to college. then she enrolled and hometown southern law school. got grabbed up by law firm where she started clerking while studying for the bar and that is when she met legal assistant lacey. >> she was driven, wanting t get that next high
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and law school was that. being a lawyer was that. she achieved it. >> she passed the bar on her first shot >> her first shot. >> eagerly lapped up the har cases, the kind that made news accuse killers, drugs, gan bangers. in the spotlight, happil talking to reporters >> shaquille was enjoying such success, she opened her ow firm in a nice building and th complex on the court lacey went with her. >> where areas did she seek ou for herself? >> criminals, wanted to do criminals so bad >> burns watched her inaction, she was want to speak her mind and dress how she wanted and conservative lady lawyer one day in stilettos and spiky hair the next. >> would you walk into a courtroom and look like she ow the place. >> could hear her come i before you saw her >> you could and we always joke, because sh
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would wear four inch heels and you knew she was in th courtroom. >> another, think she was al about family, she had hired he sister to help with the office and they need at knew better than anyone that hard drivin tricky that could be one minute, and a gulf coast next. >> she fired me like every week >> she fired you >> you are her offic assistant. >> yeah, and at night she woul call me and say, we will talk, and then she would say see m in the morning, i'm like i thought i was fired. >> in fact it was a skirmish with chiquita that sparked a young man named gregg harris who almost literally bumpe into her while they were cruising around town greg's brother, mike, said i started when gregg shook i off. >> she's blowing the horn of him and and you know you cut m off. so they pull up to the red light and i heard a few smiles
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one from him, one from her and after that, it's all she wrote. >> greg harris was doing wel as a contractor. romance blossomed and shaquill moved into gregg's home. a big step up from the falling down neighborhood of shock and houses where she grew up they got married in a smal wedding with family in 2008. and a year later, chiquita was moving into a nice new office, varnishing bookshelves,proudly hanging out her -- >> did anybody worry about her and her clients? >> there were. but i don't think that it wa to the point where either sh had to worry or anybody else had to worry >> on february 19th, 2009, tricky that was working hard prepping her defense at double homicide case >> she told leslie that she ha to work late, just a couple of hours. but chiquita never returne home that night.
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her husband called her offic repeatedly, but got no answer. and around long, drove down to the office, troubled he woul say, to see his wife humme parked where she'd left. it he could not get in the loc building, so he called 9-1-1 >> my wife, she was workin late last night, i can't get inside the building, i need cop over here quick. >> suddenly spotted a patrol car inflicted down >> an office worker left the police in the building, whil greg called his sister-in-law, sounding frantic >> the hummer still parked here they won't let me in the office >> once upstairs, it took only a glance for the patrol office to declare chiquita's office a crime scene. a bad one. the shining starlight of chiquita tate had been cruelly extinguished by whom? and for one reason >> coming up, the first clues. >> no blood in the, elevator n blood in the lobby
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february morning - to family and friends of chiquita tate were convergin on the street below thei office >> try to run in the office of the police grabbed me. man, you can't go in there i was, like if mr. next >> just like the sister her assistant, leslie huckman, was stopped on the strip and officer. >> he saw me coming. he came toward me and grabbe me pretty much to hold me u because i was going down that is when he told me that she was dead >> chiquita slugged ones wer huddled together when detectives rolled up to the scene. the responding officers told you that's the husband ove there. we haven't approached him yet. >> he was upset to the point where uniform patrol had put him in the back of the unit. >> did you go to
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them >> know, we try to grab a much as information as possible >> they began their standard investigative ritual holding a timeline of th victims last day assists didn't leslie huckma was part of it >> that thursday, how does tha fit in your recollection was that they like >> pretty regular day. >> we chiquita had gone to court and that very day talk t reporters about her case >> statute is the question i want the appellate court t review >> after a quick check, sh headed back to her office wher they were finishing. she left at her regular time 5:30 leslie remembers being concerned about the smell of varnish. >> i said, chiquita, don't stain here too late. the smell was overpowering she says, leslie, i'm no staying here late. i'm gonna read this. >> but she did stay late weeks chiquita husband said sh called around seven or so an asked to please bring he
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something to eat he set out with about 20 minutes away >> he said he went t mcdonald's in baker and go some hamburgers, rise, brought it to chiquita's office. chiquita met him downstairs. a 5:30 in the evening, and the next morning, the building is lot. >> unless it was a card? >> exactly >> he told the cops he encountered a number of tenant in the building. he remembered runnin downstairs on us mall aaron fo his wife >> she had a client that was coming over to pick up som money. he went downstairs to pay puck line, pick up some paperwork for his wife >> the detective said she ha more work to do and anothe client to see. he said he took off her home sometime around 8:30 with >> what happened next was a bloody mystery it would be up to detectives and also burns to figure out
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the attorney hearing the awful news on her radio, the one who got such a kick out of chiquit court, was actually a legendar prosecutor >> my boss was out there there were so many polic officers out there the crime scene ban was there. so, i went and immediately sai to my boss, i want this. i want this case >> she insisted, a show is does, on viewing the crime scene as she entered the office, she noticed chiquita had bee fixing things up >> when you proceeded into the next room where her body was, was like, oh, my lord. she was butchered. she was butchered. she was laying on the floor. she had little slipper socks o her feet the way all of us are like whe we stay up after work. we're not keeping our heels on she had a law book that, i think, she had been reading, i was in her hands at the time o the attack began
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>> chiquita had been stabbed 4 times. the attack was brutal an messy. the bloodstained wall suggeste a fight to the death >> did you have a murder weapon? >> no. >> did you get lucky with footprint or partial print i blood or anything? >> not that lucky with footprint. >> no blood in the elevator, n blood in the lobby, no blood o buttons. >> the killer had vanished without leaving a trail. at first glance, hadn't take anything either. >> had the opposite contrast and he would be looking throug files anything like that >> we didn't see that. >> she had expensive jewelry still on her hands earrings in her ear. so - >> it's starting to tell you some stuff about the nature of this killing >> that's correct. >> it didn't look like a robbery. however, as crime scene tech process the scene, investigators realized tha chiquita's wallet was missin from her purse then, in the victims had, what looks like a major clue.
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>> in her left hand, it wa open there is a piece of hair it. when i need one strands of hai in it. her right arm was over her head she just died like that. >> had she pulled it from he killer's head? the hair was long. had the killer been a woman? >> for your theories when you think happened? >> i, actually, i didn't com to any conclusions i couldn't think of a soul who would wanted her death >> chiquita's father-in-la admired her courage, but wondered about the kind of clients that came with her lin of work. >> being a criminal lawyer that's what you deal with. criminals. you have to accept a degree of bad people >> the toughest of the tough >> that's what i hear. if you want to her, she trie to help you. >> could've been an unhapp client don't like the results they go from her >> could have been could have been a member of th victims family >> the list of potential
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suspects could be as long as her client list. yet, chiquita's brother in law says, he can't understand wh someone would do such a thing. >> heartless completely tidier to her when i get on my knees and night, i pray he'll get justice. >> police were confident the would get their man or woman something up a street poll gav them hope. outside's office were city surveillance cameras a traffic cams, did one of several cameras and her after greg left? there may not have been a trai of blood, with a little luck those cameras just might giv them a portion of their killer or killers suitable for framing >> well the cameras captur chiquita's killer? and that mystery clump of hair what might it reveal coming - up >> if you're in a fight and pull someone's hair out, you are going to find root hairs
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rouge's criminal system family detectives johnson and howard, up to them to find a killer. >> but what is it like >> crime cameras, crim coverage down here in the offices, come camer vapor. >> we have traffic cameras there's one. signal light here's right here. >> you could get really lucky. >> we thought we would be. >> depending on where you're going. >> that is correct >> this camera, a block away from chiquita's office was working fine it showed a quiet street normal activity. what they really wanted was th shot from this camera, which slept right past chiquita' office door. bad luck a recent storm had knocked i out. it wasn't working properly >> so, no picture of the suspect. this wasn't going to be open and shut case. there was evidence to work
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with the crime scene techs office had taken scrapings from underneath her nails and sen off for analysis had she scraped dna material from her villain that way for findings. likewise, the club of harr found in her hand. did it contain i dna i did fin the killer >> if you are to fight and pul some of her out, you are going to find hairball's >> the lab was back on the hair. there were no words on the pai -- >> this is a woman >> exactly >> two women are fighting. she has a bit of this we've. >> that's exactly. >> the theory of two women in death struggle didn't make sense to the cops. the attack seemed to violent to overwhelming. the homicides, you never know. the early hours of the investigation, they did captur a major break. a report had come into
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dispatch a woman driving through a high crime area known as guard your lane, called police to say she found a wallet it belonged to chiquita tate >> she is driving down the line, sees a wallet on the side of the road >> amazingly enough, the founder of the ball it new chiquita the young attorney had given a speech at her daughter schoo and made quite an impression >> that prompted her to call the police advise us that she located thi wallet >> unexpectedly, a wallet take from a victims person then tossed, chiquita's i.d. an credit cards were all inside which got investigator thinking maybe the killer planted the wallet there, hoping som street person would find it an stumble right into a homicid investigation. >> when you take a nice, gucci wallet, loaded with credit cards, a sleeve in the streets someone is going to pick it up and start going to the mall,
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spending some of those credi cards. the first thing that is goin to happen is the police ar going to have a film of th transaction and go to that person and say, you killed chiquita tate. >> your suspect. >> absolutely. >> this killer unknown started taking on some traits of the detectives minds the person was good or lucky enough to get out of the offic building without leaving a trail of blood after what had to have been forensic attack, still have th composure to pick out the re herring of the tossed wallet it looks like a cool customer, perhaps professional as the cops went on the list o dubious characters on he client roster, they look closely to men who had bee accused of killing a man and a 17-year-old son. possible suspects? >> one of them was in jail a the time at the homicide. it was very unlikely tha someone who she worked so hard for would kill her >> a you have the people on he
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client list were incarcerate at the time of her killer. others had alibis. but she also had clients tha were free to come and go but one of them have a appointment? >> was there anyone do to come in that evening? >> now not after hours. >> after hours >> no. that would have been ver unusual. >> i would've known. >> a mystery client, worst grudges? a woman unknown? only theories until the cops played poker with a witness an hit the jackpot with their onl holding a pair of juices >> coming up - revealing a phone call with jaw dropping tip for police. >> a voice saying, i think i know who may have killed chiquita >> when dateline continues ? it's good to go. before advil. advil dual action fights pain two ways. advil targets pain at the source, acetaminophen blocks pain signals.
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injured after shots were fired into a crowd of people in west louisville park las night. police still searching for tha suspect. this comes just days after a mass shooting at a bank in downtown louisville. five people were killed there. japan's prime minister i uninjured after someone thre an explosive object near him during a campaign event. suspect was detained at th same police are still looking for a motive for that attack now, back to dateline. >> there is a concept in polic were called, victimology writing a back story o someone's life to understand what made them tick. in chiquita's case, they found for sure, a woman loved, respected, admired they also learned that she had a capital t for temper >> she was extremely aggressive >> to the point bein irritating >> to some
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to some extent >> had she pushed someone to far or too hard? as detectives ran to the evidence, they had been talkin to the husband, greg harrison, right from the start >> craig was being ver helpful. he had a lawyered up you saw the story of his night here's the key summary vehicle take a look. go to the house. check it out i'm with you >> absolutely. >> they conducted thos searches because spouses, no matter how cooperative, ar always suspects. what crime scene investigators found when they poured over th house was, well, at firs glance, not much no weapons, certainly. no blood soaked clothes. they took dna swabs a variou items for lab analysis then, in a closet, they found really odd ball souvenir when an audio recording made b greg of him and chiquita engaged in a screaming match
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this sounded like a couple splitting thin sheets, givin up the household goods >> she was aware that he sister was unhappy, but, realistically, she didn't thin her strong willed sister would ever be happy in a marriage. >> in a relationship, you have to compromise. i don't think she was willin to do it it's her way or no way >> she says her tempestuou sister was always threatenin to storm out of the marriage right up to her last day >> that morning, on february the 19th, she called and sai that i can't do the merry thin anymore. >> craig's parents, silver ray and julie believe that the couple had hit a rough patch >> i think it had to do with her not being at home very often. she would take cases that woul take or to new orleans should work on cases into th night. >> too much career going on fo her. >> no time for him
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i think he wanted more time. >> but in the early hours of the investigation, detective learned the fight recorded a the couple's home wasn't a isolated incident. their files showed that a 9-1- domestic call brought police t greg and chiquita's house tw months before they got married >> what was that like? >> police were called up because chiquita accused rak of hitting her from what we understand, a charges filed against both o them >> with that in mind, when gregg sat down wit investigators, the conversatio became contentious, even combative. >> i love my wife. we were trying to make the relationship happen. >> you were trying >> no, we both work. >> they had had problems, he admitted but said he wasn't violent wit chiquita detectives told greg what they picked up. that chiquita was leaving th marriage rock, counter the husband. >> she was living with me. there was any close. pat [inaudible] doin everything else.
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>> they reviewed greg' timeline the night how he brought his wife dinner left her working at the office sometime around 8:30 >> where did you go? >> where did i go? i went home. >> straight home >> i went straight home. >> which pattern took you home >> interstate. >> that's when police clearl suspicious of great, used ploy to smoke him out. to catch him in a lie, if he were in fact lying >> according to cameras, that' not the path he took las night. >> we convinced him that we ha cameras, which we do hav cameras up we convinced him that we can track a cell phone >> in fact, did you have anything like that >> now, we were bluffing him >> phone records your phone records her phone records. every tower that you hit when you make a phone call >> that's fine that's five. >> with great thinking the cop knew his every move, the confronted him with an important question about the place where chiquita's walle
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had already been found >> last night, guardian lane >> guardian light? i want to guardian lane last night. >> really? >> yes >> what time did you go to guardian lane? we >> i don't know what time i was. >> approximately >> what does he say he's doing there? >> he said he went to bu steroids he's a big i lift weights that's where the steroid deale lived. >> a transaction >> right >> whatever the explanation, greg harris had put himself in the neighborhood where the wallet had been tossed for the cops, it was a got you moment well they had no evidence, n dna, no forensics that connected him to the killing he did have some leverage. old domestic dispute call. although she and drake wer charged, only the charge against chiquita was dropped >> why are you the one had a warrant? >> these were supposed to be dismissed. other than this, i don't kno anything about it. i never hit this girl a day in
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my life. >> using a year and a half -year-old warrant, unrelated t the death of chiquita tate they put great concussion for few days >> put him on ice? >> absolutely. while the forensics are bein tested from the crime scene. >> then, seemingly out of th blue, came a strange tip fro an anonymous caller. >> saying, you need to loo into this angle. i think i know who may hav killed him chiquita. >> this is a voice on th phone. >> this is a voice on th phone. it's like, you need to loo into it. she was involved in a lesbia love triangle. >> did that explain the comp o hair, the impassioned intimate killing? investigation was charging off in a wholly new direction. >> coming up - chiquita's has been, greg, was he in danger >> someone came up to hi bedroom and shoots in th window >> when dateline continues in as little as 2 weeks.
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your prescription for... staying right where you are. ♪ ♪ your prescription for... the blue or white pill. ♪ >> just as investigators wer zeroing in on the husband, gre harris, they got a tip tha brought them back to the chiquita tate's list o clients. it wasn't about getting th career criminals on her roster the tip concerned a female client the same-sex couple that chiquita had been helping in a adoption case. anonymous caller suggested their lawyer clien
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relationship was more than that >> females said there was tw women that chiquita was having a love triangle. she even gave them the two suspects names she indicated that one suspect has scratches on their body. >> that would explain a crim of passion, a signature here also why there was here in the palm of her hand some sort of tussle. that goes a long way towards explaining a lot of it a romantic relationship. police confirmed the names o the two women on chiquita' client list and paid each call >> we investigate. contact both individuals caught statements from them. >> the detectives told the prosecutor that both women insisted that chiquita wasn' their lover. just a good attorney >> we loved her work she was a friend, but that's where it ended >> still, the detectives took closer look at the couple. >> we didn't see scratches o their arms we realize the suspect had braids and not a weave in he hair >> what's more, police sai
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both women had alibis. legal assistant, leslie huckman, believe the secret lov triangle was nonsense. >> i know about the option i knew the clients everything is going well >> is there any way that you can see is somehow involve with chiquita being butchered? >> now no >> the investigators put the tip in their back false an proceeded to check out the tipster. they traced her call to a town in texas they even drove their. after questioning a few locals managed to reach a woman b phone with an oddly familiar voice. >> i immediately recognize her is the voice i heard that ha called the office that time. i asked her, how did she kno him chiquita tate? >> she said, chiquita tate i to be married to my brother. >> this was craig harris's sister >> correct >> the tip that sent the cop off to texas had led them righ back to break, the husband was great, maybe sister, tryin to plant a false lead? crime burns added that to he
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list of concerns about gre harris she was also discovering tha craig had a bad history of som of the women in his life heard investigators discovered that he had a temper according to chiquita's family members and old girlfriends. >> he just wanted them withi his eyesight within his control >> she also learned that chiquita had taken out and - lease on an apartment. she hadn't moved into he place. burns believes that chiquita was, indeed, going to divorc greg which meant that he had lost control of her >> i believe that's what happened with chiquita it's that he wasn't going to let her -- >> nobody leaves me. >> no one leaves gregg harri unless craig throws them out o the house on to the front lawn >> craig's brother, mike, it doesn't leave it for a second. his brother, he says, wasn't violent. what's more, he says that brea and chiquita we're working i out. >> we all go through bumps
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there's also a phase calle reconciliation and healing you know that's what they had >> as for that tip for the same-sex couple, breaks father silver gray, says his daughter wasn't trying to throw off the cops the female love triangle was a legitimate concern of his. >> she got that from me, which i got from another attorney. we wanted to look at all of th options to make sure that al the bases recovered. we wanted to look at these two women. >> did you encourage her t call the cops? >> she did on her own. it wasn't nothing to lure th cops off if you investigate, you have t look at all of the angles. >> in fact, craig's father and mother and brother, mike, so they couldn't believe that police even suspected greg >> a son that helped raise his brothers he made sure that they were fe when i worked. he made sure that they did their homework
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>> you have people you want to grow up to be like my model was my older brother. i wouldn't be the person i a today, if it wasn't for him. >> even chiquita's sister coul not imagine greg as the killer >> can you see him in that office >> no. >> in a rage, slashing you sister >> no. >> if i'm moving from here t there? >> no. i can't even picture it. >> craig's parents and his brother believed that whoeve killed chiquita also wante great debt they recount an incident tha happened after gray quiz released from custody. shots were fired into the home >> someone came up to hi bedroom window about 3 to 4 in the morning and shoots in th bedroom, five times with a ten millimeter gun hoping he was in the bed grateful asleep on the sofa. that saved he was not in the bed. >> craig's family convinced he was innocent, became only more so when they heard this -- scrapings from under chiquita' nails show dna, not only fro
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greg, but from someone else, a well an unknown male. what could that mean >> coming up - >> if greg had done this, yo would find an enormous amoun of blood that wasn't the case >> another dna surprise is coming when dateline continues nucala. nucala is a once-monthly add-on treatment for severe eosinophilic asthma that can mean less oral steroids. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless told by your doctor. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. may cause headache, injection site reactions, back pain, and fatigue. ask your asthma specialist about a nunormal with nucala.
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husband suspected of killing his high-profile attorney wife was under the my core scope of police and detectives. some new dna evidence was abou to be revealed when it be good for the defens or the prosecution here now with the conclusion o shining star >> the case against him. craig harris was the last on to see chiquita alive. his marriage to chiquita had been volatile and he put himself near the street of chiquita's stolen wallet was tossed what galvanized this case fo the prosecutor was a pair of sunglasses discovered and gray carrots's car. >> the glasses are under the street >> was there blood evidence on them >> there was there is a combination of hi blood and her blood on the lef lands. when i was told we it's thei blood, mixed on this left lens and right arm of those classes i said, i don't need anythin more >> on march 16th, 2009, crai
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harris was charged with second degree murder. he went on trial two years after chiquita's death in marc of 2011. the prosecution set out to prove that great kille chiquita because she was going to leave him former girlfriends testified that break had a jekyll an hyde personality sweet when he was courting volatile and controlling onc he won them over >> he would hit them he would fight with these girls. as long as he could contro them, he was fine. prosecutors played the wet 9-1-1 take from that domesti abuse called well both chiquita and drake were charged, the call didn' sound as though they wer locked in a fair fight >> he grabbed my finger an then i took the ring and threw it at him. and then he choked me. and i couldn't move! and the prosecution argued greg had another motive. money. >> the night the murde happened, he called his boss and said, i need to get an
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advance or alone on my 401k. his boss said, you know, i can't do it i'm sorry, greg >> as burns told the jury, gre could get about $60,000 in insurance if chiquita were t die. >> motivation, more so, we chiquita had planned to leav break. that's one thing break could not accept >> the prosecution told th jury that greg might have been angry, but he was also cool an calculated planning both the crime and th cover-up case in point? those long hairs that suggeste a female killer. the state argue that gre brought her to the crime scene and then planted it. >> her hand was not clenchin it, as if she died that way. it was actually strewn as if someone had taken it and weaved it through her hand >> it was a ploy, said the prosecution. designed to throw off the cops just like the tossed and found wallet from guardian lane,
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where craig eventually admitte he went the night of the killing. >> guardian light? i want to guardian lane last night. >> misdirection, according t the prosecutor, was craig' ammo she even suspects he fired those shots into his own bedroom, to make it look as if the killer was still at large. >> he was kind of like, she le me call and say that there is lesbian love triangle. let me plant the hair. it's like, let me just go on step further >> of course, there was th blood evidence prosecutors presented more tha the bloodstain glasses a lab analysis revealed that there were dots of blood through outbreak and chiquita' house. there was his significan bloodstain on the floor. >> on the clarks bottle. it was out on the sink it had blood visible to th ice. >> prosecutors say that we sample contained bot chiquita's and greg's dna. >> what makes sense to you >> what makes sense to me is
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that gronk had no -- >> but there - is not nearly enough evidenc to convict drake harris. nothing put him at the site of the killing. alleged motive and blood evidence, paltry >> our theory is very clear. if greg harris had done this we would've found an enormou amount of blood in tha mercedes and on his clothes an at the close at baker. that just wasn't the case. >> lance, out of the courthous here, very interest about this chorus bottle. the comingled blood. what is that that's a problem for you >> well, practically, it's not a problem. in a normal course of living, little blood on a cleric bottle is not that big of deal chiquita live there. of course her dna would be o that battle. >> as for the hair the prosecution said was planted defense argued that that was just an unproven theory. those two female clients may not have been involved, but th long strands suggest another woman may have been there. >> it suggested that a femal
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head, maybe, killed her. in the middle of the fight, sh pulled the hair out. between that and the amount of cleanup that would have been required, we always believed t people who are involved in thi murder >> as for that visit chick guardian line, the defense lawyer said that craig was reluctant to admit it, but not because he had tossed th wallet >> because he was vying to steroids discussing buying steroids which is illegal >> kill her for the insurance? the defense said, no way >> he had too much going for him. he did not buy the prosecutors theory that he would do it because he was in some's financial stress we didn't buy into that for minute >> the defense argued that cop didn't look hard enough at the list of scary clients who ma have wanted chiquita dead. that unknown male dna, the source is so unknown >> we believe there was more t this then was given to tha jury >> trial lasted 16 days. that, jurors were given thei instructions after listening to the evidence,
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the sister was torn. she remembered how she fel went after three and a hal hours of deliberation, the jur announced it had a verdict >> it read through your mind and stomach as you went back i the courtroom. >> shaking, couldn't stand o my feet. we were holding hands, walking >> did they see grid as a ston killer, capable of premeditate murder or, an innocent, grievin husband? the answer is neither. the verdict they reached was something in between guilty of manslaughter, lesser charge, which the judge allowed them to consider prosecutor was flabbergasted >> i just about passed out so did the defense attorney. no one argued manslaughter she wanted to know why the jur rejected her argument of premeditated murder. >> i went, backtrack to th jury you know what we think, we think something went on up there that got out of hand >> judge had a lot of latitude in opposing sentence manslaughter could carry anywhere between a few month
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to 40 years in prison. >> a lesser conviction election to charge the judge threw th metaphorical book at the 40 years without the possibility of parole. >> correct >> maximum sentence. in 2012, and appeals court upheld gray carris's conviction amid his sentence to 40 year with the possibility of parole then, in 2015, greg bega working with a different lawye to get his conviction reversed he argued that the judge shoul never have presided. before a judge, treating white disclose that she knew the victim and that chiquita had been her lot clerk the defense didn't object. >> should she have accused trial are? >> she was a very fair judge >> craig's lawyer, he said tha the judge did not disclose everything about their relationship >> we discovered that chiquita the victim, had actually represented judge white in a civil lawsuit. >> judge white did not respond to our request for comment
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greg's attorney also said th harris family received letters after the trial, claimin someone else killed chiquita because she knew too much abou something. the cops will tell you tha every lead they chased dow brought them back to one man someone who robbed a family of a shining star april 2016, a louisian district court denied greg harris's petition for a ne trial. >> so, it is been years now. do you miss her? >> i miss her so much. everything i missed it all. >> baton rouge, the river roll on without that fiery young lawye who come so far, so fast >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin thank you for watching >> hello, i'm craig melvin, an this is dateline

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