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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 and it would go through the whole store and they could be listening to that music while they...

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 white pickup truck with a horizontal stripe alongside of it raced out of the durangos parking lot prior to the police arriving. >> the witness said this happened at about 11:00, just after the time police believe stephen w...

>> around midnight, an exterminator entered the restaurant with his own key. >> 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...

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 good friend. >> although his blood and fingerprint were both at the scene, police had a problem. there was a plausible explanation for his blood to be at the sink in the kitchen. >> the defense is c...

That night, except for stephen. i feel that was a godsend. >> stephens the only person that knows this guy is showing up. and thank god he shows up on that night, because that narrows the timeline, that preserves the crime scene at that point, and that prevents wilson saintil from coming back and cleaning up the crime scene. >> when we found out later it was him, its a weird feeling that he had the nerve to come here to our home the see -- its still hard to comprehend that. >> wilson saintil was...

>> thats when stephen saw the knife. stephen ran to his office and tried to close the door, but saintil was still able to get inside. stephen was stabbed more than 40 times and died in his office. as saintil washed his hands and the knife, his blood, possibly from a bloody nose from the fight, dropped onto the kitchen counter and faucet. saintil took the $8,000 from the safe. since he knew the surveillance cameras had captured the fight, he cut the cables and removed the video recorder. but as h...

I feel that was a godsend. >> stephens the only person that knows this guy is showing up. and thank god he shows up on that night, because that narrows the timeline, that preserves the crime scene at that point, and that prevents wilson saintil from coming back and cleaning up the crime scene. >> when we found out later it was him, its a weird feeling that he had the nerve to come here to our home the see -- its still hard to comprehend that. >> wilson saintil was tried and convicted of first-de...

To his neck and his face. it was obvious it was a very big struggle. >> part of the struggle started 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 vic...

>> around midnight, an exterminator entered the restaurant with his own key. >> 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...

>> 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 white pickup truck with a horizontal stripe alongside of it raced out of the durangos parking lot prior to the...