keith morrison: didn't make sense.r lindsey phoenix, who requested copies of all the lab reports from the highway patrol's crime lab. i got a lovely letter from them saying, here you go. here's everything that we have. and it included every test except for the one that i was looking for. keith morrison: but it had to be there. so lindsey went in person to the state highway patrol. and i said, i want to examine every piece of evidence that you have. and i brought a video camera and a cell phone camera, and i photographed every thing, trying to be inconspicuous. i didn't want to take a chance of me finding something and it disappearing. keith morrison: and that is when she found them-- two small canisters. and inside-- lindsey phoenix: the stubs from the gunshot residue test that were labeled robe. and i took the photo. i texted it to dwight and just said, jackpot. and then i had to go through the rest of those boxes like i was still looking for something else and act like it wasn't a big deal. and i was ecstatic. keith

here's keith morrison with killer role. keith morrison (voiceover): this is a horror movie. oh, yes, a horror movie with all its requisite darkness, its setting, its spine-chilling story, its disturbing characters. but really-- please, stop. keith morrison (voiceover): --where does performance end and reality begin? dispatcher (on phone): jackson county 911 emergency. tell me what the emergency is. carla tryber (on phone): all i can tell you is a gun went off. keith morrison (voiceover): this is also a story about family, about ambition, accomplishment, sharing. dispatcher (on phone): are you in danger? carla tryber (on phone): yes. dispatcher (on phone): ok. is the person that did the firing of the weapon, are they there now? carla tryber (on phone): yes. keith morrison (voiceover): so, yes, a horror movie. matthew spickard and his daughter, trinity, live in the siskiyou mountains of southern oregon. isolated, yes, but not very far from the town of ashland with its shakespearean festival, artists of all kinds. trinity and her dad had evolved into a talented, even quirky lit

keith morrison: such timing. to want to fix their marriage, kandi became a study in pretense. honesty took a holiday. i was living a lie. being in an affair is just living one big lie. keith morrison: yes, and she lied to herself too. you were thinking of you and he together striding across the bow of the "titanic." this is going to be it for you for ever. yes. keith morrison: then one night a couple of months into the affair, events suddenly ticked measurably toward their deadly conclusion. around bedtime, kandi received a text from emmett and couldn't hide it. the text popped up, and rob read it. and it said, "i wish i was there with you tonight." he-- - what did he say? he was angry. he just-- kandi, what is this? and i said, i don't know. so he calls emmett. rob goes, why are you texting my wife at this time of night? keith morrison: emmett's answer-- two minutes later, he showed up at rob's house. they talked like dueling lovers out on the sidewalk. then rob came back inside. rob tossed my phone up on our be

once again, here's keith morrison with manson.orrison: nearly 24 hours after this truly horrific crime, with la in deep shock, the police were baffled. anything that i'd tell you at this point would be mere speculation. keith morrison: and then it happened again. >>> >>> welcome back. the unsolved murders of the pregnant actress sharon tate and her friends sent the rumor mill churning because her husband roman polanski -- or were the brutal stabbings drug related? a second attack was about to send the media into overdrive with the shock waves traveling through the 40 the hollywood hills. here's keith morrison with manson. >> with l.a. in deep shock, the police were baffled. >> anything i tell you would be mere speculation. >> and then it happened again. >> the bodies of a man and his wife, found in their home, both stabbed to death, repeatedly stabbed. >> for 30 years. >> what's their names? >> labianca. >> rosemary and leno labianca. rosemary's children found them. the scene every as horrible as ten miles away. leno's hands were

keith morrison (voiceover): who ever heard of such a thing?f what certainly looked like the actual bomb that killed roberto ayala. was it real, a ruse, a lucky guess? if it was for real, who sent it? was it from the lead suspect, peter moore, or a hitman as the letter claimed? or was it from somebody who wasn't even on detective song's radar? wherever it was, five weeks into the case it was about the only lead investigators had. so they played along with the guy, placed an ad as requested in the sacramento bee. and sure enough, somebody responded. cops rushed to see him, perhaps arrest him. he was pretty surprised when he got a visit. keith morrison (voiceover): false alarm. it was just an unlucky guy looking for a job. the killer, though? the killer never called. so this whole ms13 thing, this mexico deal gone wrong, was just some sort of game the real bomber was playing. trouble was, nobody knew the rules or the purpose, or where the game might end. but more than one way to find a guy brazen enough to send that material to the cops. brian pa

keith morrison: the autopsy came in.or jarae estepp, the girl on the conveyor belt. >>> the autopsy came in. >>> the autopsy came in. the one for jarrae estepp, the girl on the conveyor belt. >> it is bad. it was bad. it was bad. >> reporter: strangled, beaten, sexually assaulted viciously, according to the deputy da. >> it should have been a college:worry about grades and boyfriends and football games and those things. >> one wrong turn and you never know. >> reporter: but almost 3 weeks in, detective julissa trapp seemed stock. >> i think she got frustrated and got a little desperate came up with the idea of using the computer database. >> reporter: that is the computer database of sexual offenders, if they had a serial killer on their hands, it was a chance he had run afoul of the law at some point. it was a bit like come just poking a finger into the haystack, frankly and helping to encounter a needle. but worth a try. so trapp called this woman. sexual assault protective laura lomeli. >> all sexual offenders on paro

keith morrison: a year had passed since carol kennedy's death. >>> ana year had passed since carol kennedy's death. her ex-husband steve had been charged with murder. now, an anonymous email sent to steve's attorney said the killing was a result of a drug deal gone wrong with carol's neighbor jim knapp. steve said he was told a similar story. >> steve said somebody was communicating to him through the ventilation system in the jail and told him a story about how a drug ring out of phoenix had been trying to collect money or seek some retribution against jim knapp for involvement in a prescription drug ring. >> the attorneys arranged for a meeting. opportunity for steve to tell law enforcement what they heard so they could investigate it. they showed him the mysterious email. listen to his reaction. the dna the medical examiner >>? >> there was more than the email to go on. remember the dna the medical examiner found under carol's fingernail? turned out it wasn't steve's. or jim naps. police called the dna evidence item 603. to the investigator robertson it didn't represented more. >> a becam

keith morrison: of course, they talked to the other man in the family, too. --, >> i had cuts on my handdid you get that? >> blake then 18 and naturally the ex-husband, clay. what was he doing december 1 the day shana went missing, the day she likely died? >> he told me at the time his card broken down on high desert drive. >> clay city spent the day fixing his car and never saw chanin at all. who, if anyone, was chanin with that day? is detectives continue to dig , they found what might be an answer, right there in chanin's phone. a message from a different man. one named john wilson. and used another name, wondering 06. >> it appeared from the communication they were trying to meet, set up a date and they were gonna meet december 1, 2011. >> the day detectives believe shana was murder. but when they traced the phone number from which this john wilson called? they found themselves looking at a public payphone. when they googled it and just wondering 06, they found profiles on dating sites and facebook and realized this man was not who he appeared to be. >> it was a pretty minimal site.

keith morrison: sometimes, the best detective is named luck.metimes, the best detective is named look. a dropped glove leaves leads to a hitman named suckow, whose phone provides the direct connection to the man who may have under the order the murder of chennai. investigators were able to rule out all of doug carlile's business partners in washington state . >> at this time, that you feel like you have the outlines of what the conspiracy was? >> i think we had a pretty good idea of what was going on, but it turned out to actually be a lot more. >> a sentiment, which, as the investigators turned rapidly to be north dakota. sarah, a.k.a. mrs. james henderson, could have put it in the same words, but for a more personal reason. >> there was rumors of james having an affair. >> it is an old story, of course, husband cheats on wife with a younger woman, even younger than sarah, who was only in her 20s. >> what was he like to hear that he was cheating on you in the first place? >> it was hurtful. it was so off-the-wall, i just did not leave it. >> l

here is keith morrison with deadly trust. >> there is a place, pot of gold at the end of ambition of the american dream. a place where they build their mansions by the sea. newport beach, orange county, california where the most unexpected events would be. murder. >> things like this rarely happen in newport beach let alone in an area as secure as this area. >> let alone evolving people like this. attractive, charismatic, living large like like nanette packard . >> she had a beautiful home and drove an expensive car. living the dream california lifestyle. talk about housewives of california, she could've been on the show. >> she said she turned down an offer to be on the show about over-the-top excess in orange county although she did end up on a tv show called american thunder about motorcycles, showing off her own excess including a bike she bought for 50 grand. >> what your favorite part? >> i love the way it looks? >> and then there was eric naposki, wannabe actor, who starred in a never aired reality show called the newport 40. this is where the show ends and the real begins. be

keith morrison: before chanin starbuck was murdered, she told her friends and family that her ex-husband, clay, had been controlling. still, says summer starks, it seemed almost like a joke >>>ou before chanin starbuck wa murdered, she told her friends and family that her ex-husband clay had been controlling. still, says sommer, it seemed like a joke the first time chanin wondered out loud if clay may try to hurt her. >> i told her, quick being dramatic. she was kind of being a drama queen. that's ridiculous. i said that only happens in the movies or on dateline. said you are so full of it. >> but, according to sommer, chanin was scared. particularly after the windows were mysteriously shot out of the car parked in her driveway. chanin changed the locks in her house and didn't give the kids a key. telling friends, she was afraid clay would find a way to steal a copy. >> she was vocal about her fear that he would kill her. >> hardly surprising that with but a sinister spin and everything police observed about clay. starting with the first police and direction the day chanin's body was dis

keith morrison: a year had passed since carol kennedy's death. >>> ana year had passed since carol kennedy'ssteve had been charged with murder. now, an

a little more-- keith morrison: more nancy. man: --little more nancy, yeah. >>> a very good morning, everyone welcome to "street signs." i'm silvia amaro, and here are your headlines he says he'll walk away as the german lender vows to fight against a merger and the cfo will be be the next ceo. >>> and u.s. futures also point lower, pairing back tuesday's record close on the dow and the s&p 500. >>> chinese talks extend their rally as the central bank cuts its medium-term lending rate and sending the you want to a six-month high >>> a commander is killed as israel's strikes kill hundreds of people with tens of thousands displaced while israel's president says there's more to come. >> whatever it takes in our cities that's the situation we've shown our capabilities, and we have much more on the way if they will continue. >>> a very good morning, everyone let's get a check on the action in the european eck request the equities the stoxx 600 is just currently below the flat line, however, yesterday the benchmark ended the session

keith morrison: once in meridian idaho were two happy, successful families. wasn't quite enough for some of them. and the wreckage is forever. and that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. y in los angeles-- a missing woman-- cindy ertman: he said cindy, where's my mom? and i just instantly knew. and i just said michael, call the police. i'm on my way. josh mankiewicz: a loving mother-- always there for me. josh mankiewicz: --a beloved friend-- she was just so easy to like. josh mankiewicz: --vanishes. something was very, very wrong. josh mankiewicz: was she murdered? was it for her money? how much money did she have in the bank? i think it was over seven figures. josh mankiewicz: or was it something or someone else? it really threw him for a loop when he found out that my mom had met somebody else. josh mankiewicz: police had a suspect and the case that was about to take an unbelievable turn-- one of the most shocking things i've ever seen in a courtroom. hello, and welcome to "dateline". deede keller had made a comfo