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Then, they got a devastating setback. the witness now said he made the whole thing up. >> he was trying to score points with his girlfriend is what it basically boiled down to. thats a weeks worth of work and its down the tubes and its very disappointing. >> as family and friends mourned stephen holmes, police wondered who would want him dead. >> nobody who knew him, as far as i was concerned at that time, could have hurt him, especially like that. >> we interviewed a lot of his friends, a lot o...

Injuries. >> stephens best friend and co-worker, wilson saintil, was among the first to offer condolences. >> i heard wailing. i came inside and it was wilson in the living room crying. my wife consoled him and grabbed his shoulders and just said, think about stephens smile and he would forgive whoever did this and i think he started wailing more. >> the day after stephen holmes murder, a man working across the street from the crime scene contacted police. >> this individual indicated that a whi...

Anything. >> but investigators naturally went further, comparing saintils dna to the blood droplets on the kitchen counter and faucet. >> those six foreign male dna profiles found at the scene did match the suspect in the case. >> the 51-year-old haitian national was arrested on suspicion of murder. >> do you have anything to say at all? >> theyve got the wrong guy. >> they got the wrong guy? >> yes. >> you didnt kill stephen holmes? >> no. >> you dont know anything about it? >> stephen was my g...

Inside the kitchen area and made its way down that small hallway into the door of the office and then right there in the office is where the final struggle took place. >> it appeared stephen tried to make it into his office and shut the door. there were actually stab marks on the door. >> there was a large concentration of blood on that door. there was a huge amount of blood on the floor. the victim very well may have slipped on his own blood. >> there were dozens of foot prints made by the kill...

>> that is when he saw all the bloody footprints and he saw and found mr. holmes lifeless body. >> stephen holmes had been stabbed to death. >> ive never seen a crime scene this horrific. it was a pretty bad scene. >> in a clear case of overkill, stephen was stabbed more than 40 times. >> when you think of a murder, you sometimes think, okay, somebody is shot or stabbed. this was a vicious, vicious attack. he was almost decapitated. >> robbery appeared to be the >> robbery appeared to be the mot...

Fingerprint in stephens office and his blood drops near the sink. >> you had feet print leading to the managers office and shoe prints leading from the office to the kitchen. >> now the case is coming full circle. >> prosecutors believe wilson saintil was desperate for money, and believed his only recourse was to rob the restaurant where he worked. as the maintenance man, he stopped by after hours, knowing the cash receipts would be in the safe. saintil probably made some noise in the kitchen. s...

First met her husband. they were both at the same super bowl party. >> i saw him sitting there with the perfect hair and his leather jacket, perfect smile. so we stood there, and hes like, "hi, im stephen. hi, im jen." >> a year later, the two were married, and 29-year-old stephen became a father to jennifers young son. they also had plans to have children of their own. >> as far as his career, he was -- i noticed this about him. he was always happiest when he was working in a restaurant. >> ste...

Fully roll each and every finger of each and every employee. >> in a stunning development, the print on the manila folder matched the last person anyone expected, especially stephen holmes family. it belonged to wilson saintil, stephens best friend, the restaurants maintenance man and prep cook. stephens family couldnt believe it since the two often worked late together. >> stephen would bring in cds specifically that he knew was the type of music that wilson liked so that they could put it in a...

Stopped dozens of trucks that fit the description, checking the interiors for blood and drivers for any fresh wounds. then, they got a devastating setback. the witness now said he made the whole thing up. >> he was trying to score points with his girlfriend is what it basically boiled down to. thats a weeks worth of work and its down the tubes and its very disappointing. >> as family and friends mourned stephen holmes, police wondered who would want him dead. >> nobody who knew him, as far as i ...

They were both at the same super bowl party. >> i saw him sitting there with the perfect hair and his leather jacket, perfect smile. so we stood there, and hes like, "hi, im stephen. hi, im jen." >> a year later, the two were married, and 29-year-old stephen became a father to jennifers young son. they also had plans to have children of their own. >> as far as his career, he was -- i noticed this about him. he was always happiest when he was working in a restaurant. >> stephen was an assistant m...