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Her life was just beginning. Andrea canning amber made friends for life. There was just no trying with our friendship. It just was. Eaamber made friends for lif there was no trying with her friendship. It just was. That h life didnt last long im on the floor, face down, and she has a plastic bag wrapped around her head. Most people that rob a store dont kill anybody. My whole world just died right there. For months, the murder stayed cold. Didnt have witnesses, didnt have video. We go down and t...

realizing that its amber. how could that be? her life was just beginning. >> amber meet friends for life. >> there was just no trying with our friendship. it just was. >> but that life didnt last long. >> amber is on the floor, face down, and she has a plastic bag wrapped around her heads. >> it still is open, the door is open. >> most people who rob a store dont kill anybody. >> my whole world just died right there. >> for months, the murder stayed cold. >> didnt have witnesses, didnt...

wrapped around her heads. >> it still is open, the door is open. >> most people who rob a store dont kill anybody. >> my whole world just died right there. >> for months, the murder stayed cold. >> didnt have witnesses, didnt have video, didnt have the any. we had everything going against us. >> we go down and talk to the detective, we would not 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 i...

This on this young black man. you know? >> when they questioned his fiancée, now wife -- >> it was trying to convince her that i didnt do it. they were saying thanks to her like how can you sleep with a murderer? you know he did it. your possibly next. >> when they searched his house -- >> a seemed like a scene out of a movie. just going through drawers, throwing clothes. they left my house a mess. >> even when he was finally cleared, he said, no one told him. nor he said was he told amber had ...

Brandon biel. did you think, my god her killer has come to the funeral? >> oh, he came in and shook my hand. i got up and my knees just felt weak and i fell. >> then said ambers mother, she was sure she saw brandon walk right up to the casket and put something into it. >> he put one of the gamestop tag holders that had their i. d. 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 purse. because i thought, thats t...

>> she was a firecracker. thats the easiest way to pocket. >> this man is in texas politics nowadays, but back then he worked in amber belken s store. >> she would let you know what you wanted. i think she was one of the kindest souls i ever met. depends on what size you met her on and how much you made are mad. >> she could be tough? >> she loved her job. >> she did. >> monica and ashley were amber s best friends. was she cut out to be a manager? >> oh, yeah. >> she was fierce. [laughs] but she...

So, he told us, he thinks of ambers parents and understands. >> i couldnt imagine losing one of my children. >> but if brendan biel didnt kill amber belken, then who did? >> coming up -- >> i am sitting at the office and a phone rings. >> a caller reluctant to give his name, but gives up someone else is. >> he said, "well i know who killed this girl." >> when "dateline" continues. ontinues nexgard is the flea and tick protection thats #1 with vets. your vet trusts it for her patients and her own...

As he played one of the video games he stole from ambers store. detective roberts got his suspect exactly where he wanted him. >> were in a jail, a cold jail, im detective roberts -- all this background noise i read him his rights, you have the right to remain silent. and he starts talking. >> ive had this guilt for a long time. ive been wanting to turn myself in so -- but i always put the needs of others before me. >> put the needs of others before me? really? >> he says this is the past christ...

Brandon. >> they had never learn to work together yet. when you have a guy like that who is 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 it in some instances, 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. >> its just his last chance, mom...

Then a detective with the san antonio police department. >> it looks like a robbery gone bad. the store is in disarray. the clerk was found in the back office. shes dead. i try to get some information on her. any witnesses. >> so we hold the scene down, get the crime scene detectives out there. >> the news, indistinct, unconfirmed, spread through the texas afternoon. somebody dead in ambers store. but most people did not know who. including ambers father as he headed over there. >> i jumped in m...