kind of something, you know, on the shirt. reporter: a patch like on the uniform shannon wore as a 911 dispatcher. and there was more. investigators discovered shannon clocked in at about 10:00 a.m., some two hours after denita smith had been murdered. more than enough time for the 55-mile drive from durham to her job at the 911 center in greensboro. so police obtained a search warrant for shannon s house. and we do find greensboro communication 911 center uniforms. and they are exactly as described by the maintenance supervisor down to the color of the patch and the shape. reporter: you find a gun? no gun was found. no bullets were found. nothing incriminating other than that. reporter: and then came this. shannon had told police she had never been to durham, but her cell phone records clearly showed she had been there. not on the day denita was killed. shannon or at least her phone had been there the day before.
reporter: and as for where she was on that chilly january morning? she told me she was at a doctor s appointment with one of her children. that was easy to check out. her supervisor was on scene. and she did tell her supervisor that she was taking her child to reporter: shannon s story seemed to add up. maybe she wasn t the distraught woman the eyewitness saw leaving the scene of denita s murder, 50 miles away from where shannon lived and worked. detective pate was just about out of questions. and then an interesting thing happened. as we re leaving, getting ready to finish up the interview with her, someone hands me a note. and it s from a supervisor. and it says, a gentleman, one of her co-workers would like to speak with you before you leave. reporter: and what that co-worker had to say would raise serious questions. not just for shannon crawley but
intimidate her, what s the point in disguising his voice? correct. it was just no way in my mind that that was jermeir. because when i heard these tapes i knew i had the right person. reporter: the crawley family was infuriated. they were certain the calls cleared their daughter and revealed jermeir as denita s killer. they also insist jermeir was lurking in the charlotte neighborhood where shannon was staying. what we went through in charlotte with him stalking her because he was, to me, he was stalking me as well. honestly, i believe that he was his intention was to kill both of them. i do. i think they both rejected him and he was going to kill both of them. reporter: then something happened that seemed to bear out their worst fears. shannon was out on bail and living with family in charlotte some 100 miles from greensboro, where jermeir stroud still lived and worked for the police department.
reporter: shannon told detective pate that on january 3rd, the day before the murder, jermeir coerced her to drive with him to durham to case denita s apartment. then the next day, she said, jermeir forced her at gunpoint to drive back there again. when we left on the 4th, i never expected to come back home. reporter: shannon said after they pulled up to denita s apartment jermeir got out. she stayed in the suv. he went up the stairs. i sat there. a few more minutes passed, and i heard him arguing, him yelling at someone. i got out of the car, started up the sidewalk to the breezeway, and i heard a gunshot. reporter: moments later, said shannon, jermeir rushed past her and got in the driver s seat, which would explain how gunshot residue was found there. he got out of the driver s seat by sliding up over the back seat and got into the back seat and just told me to get in.
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