here's dennis murphy. >> broad daylight, morning in a busy parking lot. 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 the victim slumped on the ground. >> right now his condition is unknown. >> parents and teachers recognized the man who had been shot as a dad who had just dropped off his 2-year-old son. a preschool, of all places, had become a crime scene. >> we are told all 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 mean, i looked at the -- 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

here's dennis murphy with "diabolical." >> locked in a cage. shrieks of women howling in the night. >> this isn't real. it is like something you would see in a movie. this doesn't happen in real life. >> how did a self-described goody-two shoes, a disney princess get swept away in a conspiracy so convoluted and twisted. >> this is one of the most well-thought-out plans and scary. >> diabolical? >> absolutely. >> a tangled web, you bet. an all-together bizarre scheme. complicated scheme. >> very complicated. >> it is the most shocking love rivalry i have ever seen. >> there would be allegations of harassment, cyberstalking, 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. >> august 2013, 20-something michelle hadley met a u.s. marshal nam

here is dennis murphy with "house of secrets." >> cayuga. that's cayuga lake in ithaca, new york.here you'll find one of the most prestigious universities in the nation. cornell, the ivy league. big red. more than 13,000 undergrads here working towards degrees will with good fortune take their places in medicine, the law, the arts. there's no doubt a cornell education can be a gold-plated entrance to adult life. and only the best need apply, students like charlie tan. he was so kind, his classmate 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. >> reporter: charlie was the son of chinese immigrants who became "mr. everything." scholar, class president, the guy with the cool friends, hannah valentine opened up her parents' summerhouse to charlie and his other teenaged pals. >> he was always happy and energetic. >> the guy that tells jokes? >> everybody knows him. they'll walk in. the room lights up, he starts telling a funny story. >> so you'd think charlie tan was another ivy league overa

here is dennis murphy with "secrets in seattle." >> seattle was raw after a week of relentless winter rain. a woman lost had been found in the tangle of the blackberries. a naked body. a small tattoo on the back. a necklace and signs of strangulation. the detectives sent to a patch of trees and boggy undergrowth near the seattle airport's runways guessed it was her. they would soon be proved correct. nine days to find her, the answer to where. another seven years still ahead to answer the questions of all homicide -- who? and why? but we have to go back, before the crime scene photos and the medical examiner's findings, before she became those chilly words, "the victim." to find the dearly loved person named nici. nici pietz, wife and daughter, sister and friend. >> she seemed to be able to uplift people in ways that none of us knew how to do. >> she had a way to make you smile. she had a way to let you know that everything was going to be okay. >> gayle was her mother. >> nici was sunshine. she was the kind of person that when she walked in a room, the room lit up. >> gayle raised ni

the foreign service, other mentors have included ambassadors ryan crocker, dick murphy, bill burns, david welsh and dennis ross, all of whom i watched maneuver through complex environments. adept negotiating skills, calm temperament and commitment to results. i've also had the extraordinary privilege to work directly for and with six of the last seven secretaries of state, and i'm eager to work closely with secretary pompeo if confirmed. during my 34 years in the foreign service, i've developed a solid grounding in the work of the undersecretary for political affairs, a role which entails extensive diplomatic action as well as the oversight of the regional and international organizations and bureaus. i have spent many years at high-threat posts including as ambassador to jordan and lebanon and most recently pakistan. it was in lebanon that i first had the opportunity to work with secretary come pay owe, then visiting as -- secretary pompeo, then visiting as a member of congress. i worked with him to free an american citizen and her family from terrorist captivity. using my diplomatic skills to rescue an a