♪ ♪ ♪ >>> before he ever set foot at the crime scene, detective ej johnson had been praying for renee pageldonated a kidney for someone at his church. >> did you just think i need answers for this family? >> absolutely, yeah. >> and his call to 9-1-1, rene's father had mentioned that surgery as a possible explanation for her death. but he also reported seeing cuts on her arm. >> she had a laceration on her wrist, you said? >> not on her wrist, on the upper part of her arm. >> when i got up there i was just told that the father thought it was a potential suicide. but she did have a major surgery. but what happened was, one of the deputies took a photograph of her. so i looked at the photograph and saw numerous wounds on renee, so i knew it was more like a suicide than a complication. >> the detective went in to see it with his own eyes. renee had been stabbed more than once. >> when i walked into the bedroom, i see renee laying sideways on the bed. and i was seeing blood all over the betting. then i started to look at her arms, and on her arm, face, and just a lot of lacerations and cuts. >>