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this week it's the beach versus the big apple. we're on the hunt for a new home with reality star turned tv host audrina patridge. oh my gosh. it's so pretty. sara gore: high profile agents from the west coast. look, i lived in new york, and as much as i like a closet sized apartment, ryan, doesn't cut it anymore. sara gore: and the east. i typically don't like to fight guys smaller than me, but i'm going to do it today. let's go. sara gore: pull out all the stops to seal the deal. plus we're taking a trip to savannah, georgia to visit the queen of grits and gravy. so y'all, i don't say this to just everybody, but would you like to come into my bedroom. we're on tour with chef paula deen.

you're watching "open house." today i'm coming to you from a prewar gem on the upper east side. located on park avenue, this spacious apartment features an entrance gallery, beamed ceilings, a wood burning fireplace, an enormous eat in kitchen, and so much more. these huge windows allow for wonderful light and open vies to central park. this three bedroom, four and a half bath home is a perfect blend of prewar charm and modern conveniences. we are getting started with an age old question. which would you rather? living on the east coast or the west? the host of nbc's "1st look" is deciding just that. audrina patridge is a true southern california girl at heart, but is contemplating a move to the big apple. she turned to power real estate agents from bravo's "million dollar listing" franchise on both coasts to help find her the perfect pad under $2.5 million. on the la side, we have the altman brothers, and here in new york, ryan serhant. let's see who will seal the deal.

hey guys, i'm audrina patridge, and today i'm meeting with the altman brothers here in the hollywood hills because once again i'm on the hunt for the perfect home. the only difference is that this time i'm actually looking in new york city as well as la. i just love the energy of new york. a lot of my friends live there. i work there a lot, and it just kind of makes sense, but the only thing holding me back is my family and where i grew up is here in la. so i'm debating. josh altman: i'm josh altman. matt altman: and i'm matt altman. of the altman brothers of the famed douglas elliman. we're in the nichols canyon area of the hollywood hills, and we're going to show audrina why $2.5 million is better spent in la in my opinion than in new york. why, josh? because you can get a closet for $2.5 million in new york? josh altman: you got the beach. you got the view of the city. it's incredible. you got the beautiful weather. i'm really excited to be working with the altman brothers, and i cannot wait to see what they have for me today in the hills.

hey, guys. hey, audrina. good to see you. -how you doing? -good. -good to see you again. -you too. -how are you? -nice. this house looks beautiful. well, you know, i figure you're an la girl yourself. yeah. so this is kind of perfect for what you're looking for. and i am kind of debating on the east coast as well. you're an la girl. you got to stay here. there's a reason why we moved from the east coast to the west coast. i'm trusting you guys, but let's take a look at this house first. -cool. come on in. come on in. oh my gosh. it's so pretty. the view as soon as you walk in-- i love this. it's very open, which is what i'm looking for-- white, and bright, and chandeliers, which i'm a big fan of. what i love about this house is just the floor plan, the fact that, when you walk in, all your entertaining space is up top here. you've got the living room, the dining room, outdoor space, and the kitchen. why don't we start by going over to the living room? ok. all right, well now we're walking into the formal living area. i personally love this room because you've got the really

high ceilings in here. audrina patridge: and it's so bright. i'm loving it. we're right here in the living room. there's windows, and then there's a little courtyard that leads to the kitchen. speaking of the kitchen, wait until you see it. come check it out. look at this gourmet kitchen. audrina patridge: this is beautiful. i love the natural lighting, the fact that it has a view, again. audrina, you cook a lot? when i'm home, i do. matt altman: yeah, what's nice is this kitchen is basically new. it was completely redone. we got all the state of the art new appliances, and i'll be honest with you. you could have a condo in new york about the size of this kitchen, or you could have a house. so let's keep checking it out. welcome to the master bedroom. audrina patridge: i love the bedroom. it's huge-- the high ceilings, the flooring, but where's the closet. we knew you were going to ask. -i know. it's a huge closet. go check it out. oh my god. it's huge. and let's go over there, because check

out the view from the bed. matt altman: yeah this is what i love about the master bedroom-- is that when you're actually laying in bed, you have this beautiful view. you feel like you're almost in italy. you do. it's very beautiful. and what's nice is right outside these doors is this massive balcony, and you have this incredible view of all of the hills. well, listen, why don't you go check out the rest of the house, and because it's so beautiful we'll meet you out there at the end. ok, sounds good. all right. all right, audrina, what did you think? i love it. it's beautiful. it's everything i want. well, we saved the best for last. we wanted to show you this giant porch that wraps around the entire bottom floor. the porch is so spacious. i would definitely put a jacuzzi out here-- the view and everything-- but i feel i need to look at my last option in new york, and then make my decision. look, you cannot find this in new york. i'll tell you that. ryan, good luck, buddy. i don't think it's an east or west coast thing.

i think it's a no brainer. ryan, you're going to lose on this one. west side. next stop, nyc. oh, that's a lot of tough talk from la. a little later we head to new york city to see what ryan serhant hand has in store for audrina. this is where all the energy happens. this is the capital of the world. and next, a dose of southern comfort from paula deen. so welcome to our beautiful outside living space. announcer: "open house" is brought to you in part by coldwell banker, where home begins.

welcome back. now we are taking a trip to savannah, georgia to visit the home of chef, restaurateur, and author paula deen. this waterfront property sits on more than five acres of lush land, and it has just about everything a celebrity chef needs, like an indoor outdoor kitchen, a barn,

and even in a chicken coop. hello, y'all. welcome to my home. i live in savannah, georgia, and my house is located on wilmington island, and i'm so excited about y'all visiting. you know, everybody that comes into my front door, i want them to walk away with one of my biscuits, because i tell you personally i think they're the best in the world. when we were working on this house, it was so important to michael and me that it was all about detail, detail, detail, y'all, and what i love about it also, y'all, it's a grand house for entertaining. if you like to have friends over, this house doesn't have but nine rooms. i didn't want a lot of rooms, but the rooms i did want, i wanted them to be nice and gracious. so let's get these in the oven, y'all, and let's go tour the rest of the house.

so here we go, y'all. the entrance hall is very, very gracious, but y'all, it was so important to me-- i wanted when my friends walk in the door that the house feels like it's wrapping its arms around you, and giving you a kiss, and saying, hey, y'all come on in. that was just so important that it be comfortable. i've got from hobbies, y'all. one of them is shelling, and i found this beautiful bust, and i used a briwax on him to get him the color i wanted, and i shelled this entire bust. this is our great room, or i refer to it as our living room. this is a built in buffet table. it's got refrigerators, freezers, warming drawers. we just pull all the food out of the warming drawers and sit right up here, and this becomes our side board.

so it is the perfect, perfect way to entertain. and of course, the views that we get here, y'all-- the sun sets right out our back door. so y'all i don't say this to just everybody, but would you like to come into my bedroom? so we're on our way to the bedroom, gus, ok? but just one second. i want to show you y'all one of my husband's loves, and that's his tropical fish tank. they say if you sit and watch one and relax it'll actually lower your blood pressure, and there's some days i really need that. let's dance, baby. come on, let's dance. you know, there's so many things in this room that kind of make it just feel real special, makes me feel special--

the fireplace, the venetian plaster on the walls. so welcome to our beautiful outside living space. one of the things that attracted us so much to this place was the property. we have almost five acres on deep water, and there's a dock house that sits over the water. there's even a hole in the floor so michael and i can sit in the kitchen and fish or crab right there. there's wild plum trees, the kumquats, raspberry bushes, and do you hear somebody talking? well they're talking to us, and that's my precious little goats. hey, charlie. how are y'all doing? hi, boys and girls.

so let's check the biscuit, y'all. i think they should be ready, and they are. look at that. now that's a biscuit, y'all. i so appreciate y'all coming in today and visiting with me, and i think that you need to try the best biscuit in the world. here, have one. oh, thanks paula. i love a good southern biscuit, especially with lots of butter. don't go anywhere. up next, family friendly design by lindsay lane, and later it's the battle of the brokers in an east coast versus west coast showdown. which property will audrina patridge like the most? we're back on the hunt, coming up on "open house." we're back on the hunt, coming up on "open house."

we're back on the hunt, coming up on "open house." welcome back to "open house." now we're meeting up with lindsey lane. her client wanted a comfortable home for their three kids that wasn't cluttered or stuffy, but they also wanted a touch of glamour, and lindsey lane did not disappoint. hi, i'm lindsey lane, and i'm an interior designer based in new york city. i designed this prewar park avenue apartment for a young family with three kids and a dog. so that meant no room could be off limits. despite the classic architectural shell of this apartment, i didn't want it to be stuffy.

i wanted it to be open, airy, and bright with a little touch of modern. now follow me into the heart of the home, the kitchen. this kitchen gets used a ton, so it had to be open, a place where you could really spread out. this kitchen is white and bright, but we didn't want it to seem stark, so we added a lot of color and pattern in the fabrics. we have floral curtains, turquoise table lamps, leopard bar stools, and texture in the red mohair dining chairs. taken together, these pops of color, pattern, and texture give the room the sense of whimsy that it needs. i hope i've shown you that designing within traditional architectures doesn't have to be stuffy. this park avenue apartment balances touches of glamour with pops of color for a playful vibe to make it the perfect family home. there's so much more ahead on "open house." we are checking back in on audrina as she hunts for a new home, but will she settle down on the east coast or stay out west.

plus how designer sandra nunnerley drew inspiration from far and wide to decorate her new york city townhouse.

here on "open house" we love it when interior designers take us on a tour of their own homes. we had the pleasure of touring sandra nunnerley's upper east side apartment. take a look at how sandra seamlessly blends the old with the new while keeping her abode comfortably stylish. hello, my name is sandra nunnerley, and welcome to my apartment on the upper east side of new york. the key to my master bedroom above all is serenity. the walls are painted in a blue gray,

which is a very restful color. the french doors that i put in when i did the renovation open up into a view of the gardens. the furnishings in the bedroom reflect my usual mix match of things, from a louis xvi side table to the bench, which is a fabric i brought back from java, the [inaudible] scalamandre fabric on the headboard. the plexi chair in the corner just adds a touch of whimsy and a touch of the modern. i always say that good design never happens without inspiration and imagination, but great design also celebrates reality. i hope this will inspire you on your own design journey, and thank you for joining me on mine today. still ahead, it's a "million dollar listing" show down. will [inaudible] audrina patridge be swayed to leave la and move her digs to nyc? we are checking in after the break.

welcome back.

right now we're back on the hunt for a new home with "1st look" host audrina patridge. audrina is a true southern california girl, who is considering making a move to the big apple. her budget? just around $2.5 million. she turned to bravo tv power brokers, the altman brothers, on the west coast, and in new york, ryan serhant. now let's see what ryan has up his very tailored sleeve. so right now i'm in new york city. i've already checked out some places in la, which were very, very nice, but now it's time to check out and see what new york has to offer. i'm always here in new york for work, plus all my friends live here, and hotel life gets a little tiring. i want, like, a home. i want to go to my own space. i'm hoping that ryan is going to impress me today with an amazing property. hey, my name is ryan serhant, and i'm the top real estate broker in new york city, and you might know me from "million dollar listing new york." today i'm meeting audrina, and i'm showing her

an amazing duplex apartment in the heart of the east village that has insane outdoor space. boys, i have never been one to turn down a fight, but next time don't bring your brother. audrina. hi. good to see you. good to see you. how do you like this heat? good? it is hot today. it's nice. but i wore a full suit just for you. you look very handsome. ryan serhant: so you are right here. audrina patridge: so this is it, and it looks modern. it is super modern. yeah, i like it. let's get inside and look at it. all right. this way. after you. ladies first. thank you. so you're basically tucked away here by yourself. super private. i like that. yeah, it's kind of like your own little town house. welcome home. ok, this is so nice.

i love it. i love it. it's so white and clean, and this kind of what i've been looking for. like, very fresh. i'm telling you. this is my job. this is what i do. i find your dreams, and i bring them to you. and it's in new york. ryan serhant: so most people use their ovens for storage in new york city, but you won't need to, because this apartment has like a billion closets. well, that's good because that is one of the main things i'm looking for, especially in new york, because i know they're not the biggest places, and the fact that the living room is right next to the kitchen-- this is perfect. and you have a breakfast bar, so you can serve here or just hang out, and then there is kind of great integration into what's actually a really big living room for new york. i love these big windows that lead outside. ryan serhant: yep. this is amazing. this is so perfect. so this is really rare in new york. ryan serhant: like insanely rare. because i usually see, like, little balconies, like, up there, but nothing like this, and it's all downstairs. and i love that the bedroom is upstairs.

and we should go see that. let's do it. ok. after you. it's nice and private up here. it's a good size room. i love that there are windows right here. lots of natural lighting. and then behind this wall is, like, the greatest thing ever. this is the closet. yep. ok, let's check this out. this is a really good size. ryan serhant: and in new york, you don't need as many clothes. well, don't you need more jackets, and jackets take up space. -sure. but those can go in the stove. yes. this is the bathroom. i really like it. i love the white and the little bit of green. so that's it. that's the apartment. -all right. so why don't you take a minute, kind of poke around a little bit. make sure you get a good idea of what the space is. i'm going to answer some emails, and we'll meet downstairs. -ok, sounds good. -all right.

-hey. -hello. all right. so i've been taking it all in right now. it is beautiful. i think i want to look at some more options though. ok, well i'm not going to let scurry off to la into, like, the evil hands of the altman brothers just yet. so i kind of thought that you might say that, so i have a couple other things picked out for us. ok. and i'm ready to go. i'm ready too. i have all day. so-- great. --let's go eat, and then go house hunting. all right. after you. the altman brothers and ryan definitely have their work cut out for them because it's hard for me to choose. i'm picky, and i won't say yes until i see more options. sorry, guys. looks like i got your girl. i'll tweet you photos, though. hope you don't feel too bad. serhant wins again. out. that's all for now. we hope you enjoyed the show. now if paula deen's buttery biscuits have you yearning for more, head to our "open house" facebook

page. we've started a movement here on the show, and it's all about food, my favorite thing, and we want you to be a part of it. check out my "breakfast with open house" videos on facebook every weekend and share what you're having with us. we're back next week with more homes, more design, and hopefully more biscuits. we'll see you then.

murder is so personal. she knew who was in the room with her. she trusted that person. and the saddest thing is that the last person you look 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 defense attorney chiquita tate. >> she would walk into a courtroom and she looked like she owned the place. >> she loved defending those clients. she loved law. >> she'd stayed late at work to read up on a murder case. but the next murder police wound

up investigating was hers. >> she's representing some really hardened criminals. maybe somebody had a beef with her. >> it was personal. >> the clues? a missing gucci wallet. mystery strands of hair. >> it suggested that a female had maybe killed her and she'd pulled the hair out. >> whodunit? who came up here and did it? >> somebody planned this murder. >> somebody wanted her out of the way. >> i told her, "i will make this right. i will make this right for you." >> i'm lester holt. and this is "dateline." here's dennis murphy with -- "shining star." >> reporter: cajun country is where the dreadful thing happened. baton rouge, the louisiana state

capitol perched on the banks of the mississippi. three blocks off the river, on a chilly thursday night, a criminal defense lawyer was working late, drafting a writ for the big murder trial starting monday. when did the killer take her? sometime after 8:00 was the best guess. the news led next morning's early drive. >> i hear on a local news station, they interrupt to say that there is a downtown murder in a law office. >> reporter: attorney prem burns was on her way into work. >> which, of course, alerts me. initially, my -- my gosh -- is it an attorney? >> reporter: the office, now strung with yellow crime scene tape, belonged to an up-and-comer named chiquita tate. a local woman just a few years out of law school, but already making a name for herself in the competitive, pads and helmets, arena of litigation and criminal defense.

>> she had recently won a half-million dollar jury verdict. that's pretty good for somebody out such a short time. >> reporter: chiquita was one of seven, her father, absent, raised by her grandma in a tired neighborhood of boarded-up houses. smart and determined, she rose above her impoverished early years and once her fuse was lit, she became a rocket. >> she was talented. she had overcome so very much in a short time period. she was the star of her family. >> reporter: chiquita was the first in her family to go to college. then she enrolled in hometown southern law school. got grabbed up by a law firm where she started clerking while studying for the bar. that's when she met legal assistant lessie hookfin. >> she was just driven, wanting to -- to get that next -- i'll call it that next high.

and law school was that, being a lawyer was that. and she achieved it. >> reporter: she passed the bar on her first shot? >> on her first shot. >> reporter: she eagerly lapped up the hard cases, the kind that made news. accused killers, druggies, gang-bangers. she seemed at ease in the spotlight, happily talking to reporters. >> chiquita was enjoying such success, she opened her own firm in a nice building a few blocks from the courts complex. lessie hookfin went with her. >> reporter: what areas did she start to stake out for herself? >> criminal. she wanted to do criminal so bad. >> reporter: prem burns watched her in action. chiquita was one to speak her mind and dress how she wanted in conservative lady lawyer pantsuits one day and stilettos and spiky hair the next. >> she would walk into a courtroom and she looked like she owned the place. >> reporter: you could hear her coming before you saw her, huh? >> you could, you could. and we always joked, because chiquita would wear four-inch heels and just strut in and you knew chiquita tate was in the courtroom.

>> reporter: another thing, chiquita was all about family. she hired her sister denita to help in the office. and denita knew better than anyone that hard-driving chiquita could be sunny one minute and a gulf coast storm the next. >> she fired me, like, every week. >> reporter: she fired you? >> yeah, every week, and then, at night-- >> reporter: you were her office assistant. >> yeah, and at night -- at night she will call me and say "we'll talk," and then she'd say, "see ya in the mornin'." i'm, like, "i thought i was fired." >> reporter: in fact, it was a skirmish with chiquita that sparked the interest of a young man named greg harris who, almost literally, bumped into her while they were both cruising around town. greg's brother mike says it started when greg cut chiquita off. >> she's in a corvette. he's in a mercedes. she's blowin' the horn at him and, you know, "oh, you -- you -- you don't cut me off." and so they pull up to the red light. and i heard a few smiles went

from him, a few smiles went from her. and after that, it was all she wrote. >> reporter: greg harris was doing well as a contractor. the romance blossomed and chiquita moved into greg's home a big step up from the falling down neighborhood of shotgun houses where she grew up. they got married in a small wedding with family in 2008 and a year later chiquita was moving into that nice new office varnishing the bookshelves, proudly hanging out her shingle. >> reporter: did anybody ever worry about her and her clients? 'cause there were some tough -- >> i -- >> reporter: -- hombres that she was defending. >> there were. but i don't think that it was to the point where either she had to worry or anyone else had to worry. >> reporter: on february 19, 2009, chiquita was working hard, prepping her defense in a double homicide case. she told lessie she had to work late just a couple of hours, but chiquita never returned home that night. her husband greg called her office repeatedly but got no

answer. around dawn he drove down to the office, troubled, he'd say later, to see his wife's hummer parked where she left it. he couldn't get in the locked building, so he called 911. >> um, my wife, um, she was working late last night, but i cant get inside the building. i need a cop over here quick. >> reporter: greg suddenly spotted a patrol car and flagged it down. an office worker let the policeman in the building while greg called his sister-in-law denita. >> and he was, like, "d, the hummer is still parked here. and they won't let me in the office." >> reporter: once upstairs, it took only a glance for the patrol officer 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 what reason? >> when we come back, the first clues. >> no blood in the elevator, no blood on the lobby. her left hand was opened.

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tate were converging on the street below her office. >> so i tried to run in the office, and the police grabbed me. they was, like, "ma'am, you can't go in there." i say, "that's my sister in there." >> reporter: just like denita, chiquita's legal assistant lessie hookfin was stopped on the street outside by an officer. >> and he saw me coming. so he came toward me and grabbed me pretty much to hold me up because i was going down. and that's when he told me she was dead. >> reporter: chiquita's loved ones were huddled together when veteran homicide detectives chris johnson and elvin howard rolled up to the scene. >> so the responding officers told you, "that's the husband over there," but he's on the edge of things for you. you haven't approached him yet?" >> that's -- that's correct. >> he was upset to the point where uniform patrol had to put him in the back of the unit. >> so do you go up at the point? >> no. at that time, we try to gather as much information as possible. >> reporter: the detectives began their standard

investigative ritual -- putting together a timeline of the victim's last day. assistant lessie hookfin knew some of it. >> so that thursday, how does that fit in your recollection? what was that day like? >> pretty regular day. >> reporter: chiquita had gone to court and that very day talked to reporters about her latest case. >> the statute is the question that i would like the appellate court to review. >> reporter: after a quick chat, she headed back to her office where workers were refinishing a bookcase. lessie left at her regular time, about 5:30. and she remembers being concerned about the smell of varnish . >> i said, "quita, don't stay in here too late," because the smell was just overpowering. she said, "less, i'm not gonna stay in here late. i'm just gonna read this." >> reporter: but she did stay late. chiquita's husband greg told police his wife called him around 7:00 or so and asked him to please bring her something to eat, so he set out from their home in baker, about 25 minutes away.

>> then he said he went to mcdonald's in baker and got some hamburgers and fries and brought it to chiquita in her office. chiquita met him downstairs, according to greg, and let him into the building, because at 5:30 in the evening until 7:30 in the next morning the building is locked. >> and unless you have a swipe card, you can't get access. >> exactly. >> reporter: greg told the cops he encountered a number of tenants in the building working late that night. he remembered running downstairs on a small errand for his wife. >> yeah. chiquita had a client that was coming over to pick up some money. so he went downstairs to pay this client and pick up some paperwork from this person for chiquita. >> reporter: greg said chiquita had more work to do and yet another client to see, so he took off for home he said. it was sometime around 8:30. what happened next was a bloody mystery. it would be up to the detectives and also prem burns to figure out. the attorney hearing the awful

news on her car radio that morning -- the one who got such a kick out of chiquita in court was, in fact, a legendary baton rouge prosecutor. >> my boss, the district attorney, was out there. there were so many police officers there, the crime scene van was there. and so, i went into that and immediately said to my boss, "i want this. i want this case." >> reporter: prem insisted -- as she always does -- on viewing the crime scene. as she entered the office she noticed chiquita had been fixing things up. >> but then, when you proceeded into the next room where her body was, i was like, "oh, my lord." she was butchered. she was butchered. she was laying on the floor. she had little slipper socks on her feet, the way all of us would be if we stay after work. we're not going to keep our heels on. she basically had a law book that i think she had been reading that was in her hands at the time the attack began. >> reporter: chiquita had been stabbed 43 times.

the attack was brutal and messy, the bloodstained wall suggesting a fight to the death. >> did you have a murder weapon? >> no, we didn't. >> reporter: did you get lucky with a footprint or a partial print or anything in blood? anything like that? >> no, we did not get lucky with a footprint. >> no blood in the elevator, no blood in the lobby, no blood on the buttons. >> reporter: the killer had improbably vanished without leaving a trail. and at first glance, hadn't taken anything either. >> had the office been trashed? had anybody been looking through files or something like that? >> no. >> no. >> we didn't see that. >> she had expensive jewelry still on her -- on her hands. she had earrings in her ear. so it -- it def -- >> so this is starting to tell you some stuff about the nature of this killing, huh? >> that's correct. >> reporter: it didn't look like a robbery. however, as crime scene techs processed the scene, the investigators realized chiquita's wallet was missing from her purse. and there, in the victim's hand, what looked like a major clue.

>> and her left hand was opened, there was a piece of hair in it. not -- actually, 91 strands of hair in it. and her right arm was over her head and she just -- she just died like that. >> reporter: had she pulled it from her killer's head? the hair was long. had the killer been a woman? >> what were your theories? what did you think? >> i actually, uh, did not come to any conclusions because i couldn't think of a soul who would've wanted her dead. >> reporter: chiquita's father-in-law, silver ray harris, admired her courage, but wondered about the kind of clients who came with her line of work. >> bein' a criminal lawyer, that's what you deal with, criminals. so you have to accept a degree of bad people. they come lookin' for -- >> for the toughest of the tough, huh? >> that's what i hear. that she would -- she'd -- if you went to her, she'd try to help you. >> could have been an unhappy client. >> could well have been -- >> someone who didn't like the results that they got from her. >> could have been. or could have been a member of the victim's family. >> reporter: the list of potential suspects could be as long as her client list. yet, chiquita's brother-in-law

says he can't understand how anyone could do such a thing. >> heartless. completely. to do her that way. when i get on my knees at night, i pray he'll get justice. >> reporter: police were confident they would get their man or woman. and something up a street pole gave them hope. outside chiquita's office were city surveillance cameras and traffic cams. did one of several cameras see someone enter after greg left? there may not have been a trail of blood, but with a little luck, those cameras just might give them a portrait of their killer, or killers, suitable for framing. coming up -- >> she sees the wallet on the side of the road. >> the missing wallet and that mystery clump of hair. what might it reveal? >> if you're in a fight and pull someone's hair out, you're going to find root hairs. >> so the scenario that occurs

to me is that this is a wo

>> reporter: chiquita tate's vicious killing -- stabbed and slashed dozens of times -- had shaken her friends and family to their very roots. and as an officer of the courts, it was also an attack on baton rouge's criminal justice system family. the heat was on detectives johnson and howard to find the killer. >> you're looking at the poles around here. what was that, chris? >> yeah, the crime cameras. we know that most of baton rouge has crime cameras and there are several locations. and across from the office there is a crime camera right there on the pole. >> we also have the traffic cameras that are on each signal light. >> there are some right there. >> yes, that's correct. >> so you could get really lucky maybe. >> yeah, hopefully. >> and get the perpetrator coming or going. >> that's correct. >> reporter: this camera, about a block away from chiquita's office, was working fine. it showed a quiet street the night of the killing. normal activity.

what they really wanted was the shot from this camera, which swept right pass chiquita's office door. but bad luck. a recent storm had knocked it out. >> the camera in front of the office was not working properly on that particular night. >> reporter: so no picture of a suspect. this wasn't going to be an open-shut solve. but there was evidence to work with. the crime scene technician had taken scrapings from under chiquita's fingernails and sent them off for lab analysis. had she scratched dna material from her killer? they'd have to wait on findings. and likewise the clump of hair found in chiquita's hand. did it contain dna identifying the killer? >> if you're in a fight and -- and pull someone's hair out -- >> yeah. >> you're gonna find root hairs, hair balls. >> reporter: but, the lab work was back on the hair sample. there were no roots on those strands. but the hair had come from a woman's hair extension or a weave. >> so the scenario that occurs to me is that this is a woman that's in this assault-- >> exactly.

>> -- two women are fighting and she's gotten a bit of this weave and yanked it -- >> exactly. >> reporter: the theory of two women in a death struggle didn't make sense to the cops. the attack seemed too violent, too overwhelming. but with homicides, you never know. in the early hours of the investigation though, they did catch a major break. a report had come into dispatch. a woman driving through a high-crime area known as gardere lane called police to say she'd found a wallet. and it belonged to chiquita tate. >> she's driving down gardere lane and she sees the wallet on the side of the road. >> reporter: amazingly enough, the finder of the wallet knew chiquita. the young attorney had given a speech at her daughter's school and made quite an impression. >> that prompted her to call the police and advise us that she -- she located this wallet. >> reporter: and unexpectedly for a wallet taken from a victim's purse and then tossed, chiquita's id and her credit cards were all inside, which got investigators thinking.

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