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Right there. For months the murder stayed cold. Didnt have witness, didnt have video, didnt have dna. We had everything going against us. We would go down and talk to the detective. We wouldnt let it go. Then a break, another victim. He would duct tape me, duct tape my mouth. And she knew a secret. Could she risk revealing it . Something is going to happen tonight. A killer ready to run, facetoface with the one person who might be able to stop him. He just reached over the glove compartment and ...

♪ there are some things which once seen can never be unseen. amber belken, sprawled in death in the back office of a video game store, her head wrapped in a plastic bag. mariano rivera dialed 911, his mind a horrified confusion. he stared at ambers assistant manage nt, brandon beil. >> i was angry, i was upset. im looking at brandon, like i dont understand, how does this happen. you dont want to blame anybody, but your first thought is you look around and say, maybe he had something to do wi...

So again mariano looked in through the big front window, but this time he saw someone, ambers assistant manager brandon just standing there behind the counter. >> i knock on the door, and so he lets me in. i said, brandon, have you seen amber. hes like, no, but something is strange. theres money on the floor, looks like there was some kind of struggle or something happened, things got knocked over. my first thought was wheres amber. so he said he didnt know. you know, of course right away im thi...

Intention of killing somebody. they go in there, do the robbery and leave. putting a plastic bag on her head. >> squeezing it that long. >> it takes four or five minutes, it takes commitment. >> no kidding. >> you know shes struggling. shes not going to just lay there. it takes a while. it does kind of seem personal. >> they had brandon in the back seat of a patrol car. a detective went to talk to him. >> he tells me a story and it is just not making any sense. >> so he had brandon taken downtow...

Just -- when you have a guy like that whos not really the same type of attitude or mentality that the rest of us were, it causes some problems. >> did she trust him? >> you know, i dont know. i think at some instances with some things, no. >> even ambers parents said they knew she was dissatisfied with brandon. >> because she had written him up. >> she had prepared a negative work review. >> she was going to turn it in that day. >> it is just his last chance, mom, she said. i cant -- i cant allo...

Try to get some kind of evidence on brandon, and there was none there. >> yeah. >> there was none there because he didnt do it. >> that alibi about helping his fiances parents checked out. and his phone records revealed he was miles from the store when amber was murdered. finally, brandon beale was cleared. >> did you at some point think, im going to be charged with murd sner. murder? >> yes, i did. >> the memory is still fresh. >> had nightmares of going to jail. it was hard to sleep. >> that t...

>> theres no surveillance video in the store. theres none in the strip center that the store is located in. theres no video anywhere. there was video at the starbucks next door, but it only showed the front door and thats it. you dont see anything. >> who would know that? who would know it was the video game companys only store in san antonio not equipped with cameras? the answer was obvious, thought the detective. an employee would know, just like an employee would know amber hadnt taken the ca...

The store that day. >> in my heart, i think he knew. >> after all giovanni worked for the game store company, knew who managed the store and knew amber. >> if he was going to pick somebody to rob, why wouldnt he pick this 52", 110 pound young women instead of brandon? >> instead of the big guys. he knew. >> when he got there, said giovanni. >> she recognized me. and when i was in there, i asked for the money, and i tried to explain to her, i am having some problems, and she, she said, just take ...

Supposed to be working. >> brandon told detective roberts he had no idea amber was in the store, no idea amber intended to submit a negative work review about him that very day. didnt notice her car in the parking lot, he said. didnt think the obvious mess in the store meant they had been robbed. >> you saw the disarray. >> yeah. >> if an employee saw that disarray -- >> a normal person you would think would go in and start looking, somethings up. >> somethings wrong here? >> yeah. >> so roberts...

There he was at the funeral, in front of them. brandon beale. >> did you think, my god, her killer has come to the funeral? >> oh, he came in, shook my hands. he got up, my knees got weak and i just fell. >> and then ambers mother was sure she saw brandon walk up to the casket and put something into it. >> he put one of the game stop tag holders that had their id on it, he put one of those in her casket. and i got that thing out of there as fast as i could and put it in a tissue and put it in my...