here's dennis murphy. >> broad daylight, morning in a busy parking lot and then pop, pop, pop, pop. >> several shots were fired. >> a man gunned down at close range outside a nursery school in a wealthy atlanta suburb. a silver minivan screeched from the lot. startled witnesses saw a man slumped on the ground. they recognized the man shot as a dad who just dropped off his 2-year-old son. a preschool, of all places, had become a crime scene. >> we are told all of the children are perfectly safe. >> the shooting victim being rushed to the hospital turned out to be 36-year-old rusty sneiderman, a married father of two. >> i just hung my head and cried. >> rusty's older brother steve was on a plane to hawaii when he got the shocking news. rusty was dead. >> walking around the plane, pacing around the aisles. i went to the bathroom and i looked at the door and i thought about jumping. >> he was desperate to get home to his family, desperate to find out what had happened to his little brother. >> my brother was murdered. no one should have to face that. >> he appeared at a press conference

returning to our story, here again is dennis murphy. >> where was meredith hope emerson? could she still be alive somewhere out there in the national forest? and did the 24-year-old hiker have a prayer if she were indeed in the clutches of mystery man gary hilton? the search on blood mountain went into a third day. >> we had the hope. we were there from sunup to sundown plus. we were there through the night and the cold. if anybody could survive, it was meredith. if somebody could fight somebody like that, it was meredith. >> meredith's parents had flown in from colorado and joined the search. peggy bailey, a family friend was their spokesperson. >> let me tell you something, meredith emerson could do anything. she is feisty. she is strong. she's tiny and petite, 120 pounds. she can run those mountains. she's a strong person. if anybody can survive this, she can. >> the missing woman was deceptively strong. not just an experienced hiker, but an accomplished martial arts enthusiast as well. >> a blue belt in akido and a blue belt in judo. >> take her on at your peril? >> a

here again is dennis murphy.>> gary hilton's trial for the florida murder of sheryl dunlap began in february, a little more than three years after he had pleaded and skatd the death penalty in georgia. but there was no chance a plea deal in this tallahassee courtroom. he might be doing life in georgia, but this was a capital murder case. if convicted, hilton could die by lethal injection. remember, lead prosecutor georgia cap elleman couldn't tell the jury about hilton's conviction in the emerson murder or mention he was the prime suspect in the north carolina double homicide nor tell the jury anything about the slasher in the forest movie "deadly run" that he'd help make. >> ms. dunlap found herself in a situation and ultimately came to an end that is something we only think about in nightmares. she spent two days with mr. hilton before he decided it was time to murder her in cold blood, chop off her head and hands, and dump her body. >> after her opening statement, the state built the brick and masonry are of i

here is dennis murphy with "betrayed." >> if you ask someone in town where the buzziest part of ft. lauderdale lies, they'll probably steer you here, las olas boulevard. and way up there in this high-rent district is a penthouse office suite that once upon a time was home to a high-powered law firm. the boldest, brassiest bunch of politically connected lawyer players in south florida, the rothstein law firm. >> it had a gorgeous, sweeping, panoramic view all the way out to the ocean. >> from a few guys with law degrees to a juggernaut by the mid-2000s. with more than 70 attorneys led by scott rothstein. mike mayo was a columnist for the ft. lauderdale "sun sentinel." >> he probably thinks, i'm king of the world. >> reporter: and the firm is where melissa lewis, an earnest, by-the-book attorney, found great success for herself and her clients. she was by all accounts a workaholic who loved what she did. no shrinking violet either. melissa loved those boozy, splashy office parties just as much as the other lawyers. she'd found herself a nice slice of the american pie. and that's the t

returning to "the deed," here's dennis murphy. >> bambi bennett sat in a jail cell stunned.st been charged with two counts of murder. >> i thought, i'm just having a bad dream. this cannot be happening. not only were my parents just murdered, now i'm being accused of being the ones that killed them. i said, y'all have lost your mind. i said, this doesn't make any sense. i didn't do anything wrong. >> but to prosecutor fran humphries, it made perfect sense. >> the motive is unavoidable in this case. bambi needed her stepfather and mother dead, so she could get her property back. >> property valued at north of $1 million. classic question people in your line of work poses, well, who benefited. >> bambi. >> as for bambi's boyfriend, rick, humphries believed bambi persuaded him to help her carry out the murderous deed. but both rick and bambi said the prosecutor had it all wrong. they insisted they wouldn't do anything to harm diane or charlie. bambi down played the argument over the land. >> she wants the land. that is the most ludicrous thing ever. it was given to me by my dad

here's dennis murphy with "the farm." >> reporter: sitting way up in the cab of a tractor can give an iowa corn and soybean farmer like bill carter plenty of time to reflect on just how hard this life can be sometimes. >> we put this farm together from nothing. >> reporter: there was the summer when the heat scorched the crops the winter when there wasn't enough snow on the ground and always expensive equipment to be maintained. just a lot. but bill carter had way too much time to contemplate things no man on a john deere should ever have to. there was something shakespearean brewing in these cornfields. something out of the old testament. >> thou shalt not kill. thou shalt not commit adultery. >> 911 where is your emergency? >> i need a -- i need an ambulance fast. >> my life ended that day. >> reporter: before the acreage and the little house before the three children. they were two high-schoolers, billy carter and shirley worthington. the only girl he ever really went out with. >> where'd you go on your first date, do you remember? >> took her to the homecoming dance. i played foot

here's dennis murphy with "diabolical." >> reporter: locked in a cage -- the shrieks of women howling in the night. >> this isn't real. this is like something you would see in a movie. this doesn't happen in real life. >> reporter: how did a self-described goody two-shoes, a disney princess, get swept away in a conspiracy so convoluted, so twisted? >> this is one of the most well thought out, well executed plans. and it's scary. >> diabolical -- >> absolutely. >> reporter: a tangled web? you bet. an altogether bizarre plot. >> complicated scheme. >> very complicated. very creative. >> this is the most shocking form of love rivalry that i've ever seen. >> reporter: there would be allegations of harassment. cyber stalking. assault and attempted rape. someone was going to get hurt -- someone was going to jail. and at the end of the nightmare? well, no one saw that coming. you decide whether it was a love rivalry, but in the beginning it was clearly a boy meets girl love story. >> it was a very intense period of my life in the sense of just a very kind of whirlwind type of romance. >> rep

here is dennis murphy with house of secrets. the lake in ivana trump ka new york. where you'll find one of the most competitive, prestigious universities in the united states. kornell. the ivy league big red. >>> there's no doubt a kornell education can be a gold plated entrance location to adult life and only the best need apply. students like charlie tan. he was so kind his high school classmates featured him in a video random acts of kindness giving gifts to complete strangers. >> not just a great kid, but the greatest of great kids. >> son of chinese immigrants who became mr. everything in his high school years. he is such a nice guy. always happy and energetic. >> personality. kind of guy that comes in the room and tells jokes. >> everybody knows him. starts telling a funny story. >> you think charlie tan was another ivy league overachiever poised for takeoff and great things to come. that's not this story. this is about charlie tan and keeper of secrets and possibly something worse. >> he was very excited when he got the letter. >> he was so excited. super ha

. >> pretty ebb bullish especially after -- dennis mike murphy hope you are doing well, looking. >> heyback above 60, what are thoughts on oil here in near future? >> anything above 63 dollars for wti is so profitable for almost any sort of fracker, that it is going to be very difficult i maintained did i to get above 36 to 65 dollars approved a resoundingly difficult area for the crude oil market to begin with, and what we have to understand, supplies in united states and around the world are background larger, demand is falling, one of the things that people are not paying attention to, pay attention to what is going on with amazon, pay attention to what is happening there, as everybody goes to the mall less and less and less than they had been in the past. at the same time, you are getting stuff delivered to you, perhaps that means a tenth of gallon a fifth of a gallon half a gallon of gas used less each month by every automobile driver in the united states that weighs heavily on market. maria: interesting point. >> i think the people are missing that fact, supplies are increasing an