he said the real killer was his friend 19-year-old isaac brown. ad 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 could. >> brown's prints were found on a soda bottle in denise's car. prove he was involved. despite brown and cabellero's conflicting versions of what happened. their stories were identical on one count, they had breakfast together just hours after dumping denise's body in the canal. >> they went to an i hop restaurant off a commercial boulevard in 441 in the city of tamarack. investigators tracked down