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
house and saw his opportunity. so, if four hours he raped or, if it was 3:00 then when doe the sun come up? it was 7:00. it would ve been daylight then yes, dog doesn t bark anything like that shannon said she was sure and then added one mor horrifying detail, jermeir had used a knife to rape her it would take ten days for the results to come back, so in th meantime police of cours question jermeir. he insiste he was in greensboro tha morning, nowhere nea charlotte. when you go t jermeir, and say, shannon said she was raped by you, what s his answer he says, no. that s preposterous. you can check my phone, check my work logs an you could see where i was yo can do what you need to do but shannon told police tha all the evidence they need, it
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
and you think what s goin on there thinking it s recon shannon showed up a day early to find out exactly whic apartment denita lived in. you have to know when to be there and where to place yourself. where to stand without looking suspicious because if you just linger for hours, someone s going to say, you don t even live here. what are you doing? police also check jermeir stroud s cell phone and police radio. and found he was nowher near durham that day before th killing. only shannon. s police impounded her suv we did gunshot residue test on the car. the steering wheel the gear shifter, and come back there is gunshot residue. and if all that didn t look bad enough, shannon s alibi no started to fall apart. she had told her supervisor an detectives she was taking he child to the doctor at the tim of denita s murder. but th pediatrician told police shannon didn t show up tha
peacock. feathers completely on display showing anyone who would look. and shannon was in the back of the church at the time, and sa that we heard that that was th first time shannon realize the were engaged shannon s family says the d and the detective heard wrong. the day that you ar referring to in the church shannon wasn t there. we wer there. less than two weeks later denita smith would still b wearing that engagement ring a she lay dead at the bottom o her apartment steps. durham police thought the had the right person sitting i the lock-up, they had arrested shannon crawling, and charge with the murder of her ex-boyfriends new fiancée, denita smith. investigators ha not completely taken their eye off of jermeir. the man who wa involved simultaneously with both women. shannon crawlies father, keith, her mother, and her brother keith junior, neve doubted her.