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Hurry. >> reporter: she would have time to do her routine she usually does before she leaves she did not. >> reporter: it appeared that dee dee had left in her car. the garage was empty. her silver 1999 mercedes was gone. but, strangely, police found the car keys sitting on her patio. >> we decided to call the l.a. county sheriffs department homicide bureau to come and assist us. >> reporter: jimmy gates was the detective who answered that call. >> there was no forced entry whatsoever. when we s...

It was from a .22 caliber pistol. police found a spent 16-gauge shotgun shell on the roof of brendas van, an indication there were two different weapons used in the attack. the empty cans on the garage floor indicated rob saw the gunmen and grabbed the bag of empty cans as a shield. >> as the second gunshot wound is about to be inflicted on him, he is looking up and looking at the face of his killer. >> the motive apparently wasnt robbery. >> his wallet was not taken. in fact, some of the pellet...

Underneath that, they were blood stains and i tested that and they were indeed positive for blood. >> the comforter didnt have any blood but the sheets underneath did. this meant someone pulled the comforter over the sheet after the blood was dry, which would have been about 30 minutes later. on the bathroom floor were some used towels and two cigarette butts were in the toilet with the seat and lid left up. all these clues told a story. >> some man had been in her home, some man had used the to...

>> while searching the property a family member found a .25-caliber shell casing on the barn floor. but there was no blood evidence anywhere nearby. >> a bullet like that will usually not travel through a human body. if it does not travel through, you usually do not get blood running anywhere. its not like the typical tv shows where you see blood flying everywhere. >> there were no eyewitnesses. unless maybe there were some barnyard animals, and, of course, they werent talking. >> joanne waited ...

But there was no blood evidence anywhere nearby. >> a bullet like that will usually not travel through a human body. if it does not travel through, you usually do not get blood running anywhere. its not like the typical tv shows where you see blood flying everywhere. >> there were no eyewitnesses. unless maybe there were some barnyard animals, and, of course, they werent talking. >> joanne waited for two days before she filed a missing persons report. police found melvins pickup truck about 60 m...

Her apartment, the motive certainly wasnt robbery. >> her purse, which she always kept on a chair where she sat and watched television, was there. her wallet as there, the keys to her car were there. >> forensic scientists found another important clue on arlenes bed. tiny bits of metal, most no bigger than a fraction of an inch. >> these are metal fragments which werent just one type, even visually. some were silver color, some were brass color, some were copper colored. it was quite a large mix...

>> brenda andrew suffered a gunshot wound and was rushed to the hospital. >> her wound is in a fatty portion of her left upper arm. >> the bullet that hit brenda went through her arm and lodged in the wall of the garage. it was from a .22 caliber pistol. police found a spent .16-gauge shotgun shell on the roof of brendas van, an indication there were two different weapons used in the attack. the empty cans on the garage floor indicated rob saw the gunmen and grabbed the bag of empty cans as a sh...

Fiance could get married. >> after rebecca was finished work one october night in 1999, a bouncer took her to her car and she drove away. as she drove up to her apartment, someone, possibly a customer from the strip club, may have made an advance. whatever happened, the killer fired with a .45 caliber handgun. >> i need an ambulance. >> what is the problem there? >> my girlfriend. i just woke up and i noticed she wasnt with me. so i go out there and shes out in her car and her doors open, and i ...

But there was no blood evidence anywhere nearby. >> a bullet like that, it will usually not travel through a human body, if it does not travel through, you usually do not get blood running anywhere. its not like the typical tv shows, where you see blood flying everywhere. >> there were no eyewitnesses. unless maybe there were barn yard animals and of course they were not talking. >> joanne waited for two days before she filed a missing persons report. police found melvins pickup truck about 60 m...

Young woman and trying to make some extra money so she and her fiance could get married. >> after rebecca was finished work one october night in 1999, a bouncer took her to her car and she drove away. as she drove up to her apartment, someone, possibly a customer from the strip club, may have made an advance. whatever happened, the killer fired with a .45 caliber handgun. >> i need an ambulance. >> what is the problem there? >> my girlfriend. i just woke up and i noticed she wasnt with me. so i ...