she was a message light i this dark world. that is what she was about, sh was just a cup of love and i am like, who saw thi coming a beautiful young student gunned down. things like that just didn happen there why? who? who would want to do this? i thought i had my man. her fiance was a police officer. anyone knew how to do thi and get away with it, wouldn t it be him? then someone told polic what he saw. he told me he saw a femal that was about 5:10, she pulls off and takes off at the complex. what did she know she said i m in fear of m life the story starts to unravel. a secret tape why are you whispering? you know why. because somebody s listening. a secret lover he wanted her to come bac to him and she didn t. and a secret reveal as we re getting ready to finish up, someone hands me note who killed denita you ve told me some thing you d only admit to a priest and you can t tell me this las little piece of the puzzle. why? t
district attorney david saacks who was assigned to prosecute, says he was extra careful in building his case agains shannon precisely becaus jermeir was a police officer i needed to make sure tha everything was done by the boo and we vetted everything a well as we could, and delved into everything as deep as w could because he was a cop because if you clear him, you know you re going to get that criticism absolutely. we ended up having to have several different interviews wit jermeir. and each time we woul get maybe a little something more. and so it took a littl while sometimes to pull al that stuff out investigators say h appeared devastated. jermeir stroud insisted he had no idea that his secret romance migh place denita in danger. bu detective pate still thought jermeir was not entirely forthcoming. jermeir would tell me the truth, but you had to ask it he wasn t volunteerin anything absolutely not.
maybe someone like jermeir fiancee, denita smith. detective pate now thought shannon crawley had the means, the opportunity, and the motiv to commit murder it got to the point we w thought this is all we re goin to get right now. and it s mor than enough. well, was it enough? police had no dna, no fingerprints, n murder weapon, and no forensic at the crime scene that linked shannon to denita s murder. bu detective pate was als thinking about denita s family the family is suffering let s go ahead and give them a little peace right now five days after denit smith s murder, detective pate drove back to greensboro with warrant to arrest shanno crawley. she and her childre were staying at her sister s house when police arrived. shannon comes out. they cuf her. she walks out the door as though she s going to check th