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KNTV Dateline NBC November 17, 2014

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And Jack Nicholson said this made more sense filming one flew over the cook coos nest. The warriors win it 136 to 150. Thats our team right there, we were at our best, everybody chipping in offensively, defensively, challenging shooters, getting stops, is so that we can get out and run and get into our flow offense. It was a dangerous game for us, we played very well yesterday. Back to back. Youve got to be careful with these games and the big thing for us was we moved the ball, we stuck to our game plan and i think we controlled the whole tempo of the game. I know its early, i think that steve curry hire is a good one. Tonight in stan jose, tonight the san jose rookie goaltender shot 35 shots, he became the 22 and nhl goalkeeper to we got sharks, we got canes, we got game six of sharks seven games on the road and this guy making his first career start. Early in the first, loses to the stick, but Tyler Kennedy hands in his and makes two saves with someone elses stick. Thats pretty good. Eventually got his stickback, his stick is bigger and better. Later in the frame, sharks take the lead. Into the second, three more brig saves, including a diving glove save. He finished with 31 saves. End of the third now, he makes two saves. And the win brought tears to his dads eyes. Its kind of a scream come u true and its kind of like just like you write it up when youre a little kid. The guys played great in front of me, i saw so many pucks, not too many difficult ones i felt like. More football still ahead, the defending champs fall to a familiar fate. Were talking playoff next. helicopter whirring roars siren wails pop music playing when youre ready ready, ready, ready come and get it get it, get it when youre ready, come and get it na na na na na na na na na na na when youre ready, come and get it na na na na. Female announcer its a great big world and it can all be yours. Here and only here. Come and get it. Cardinals versus detroit. Michael floyd, touchdown, 42 yards for the score. Floyd end up for this one. He climbed that ladder. This team is very dangerous. Theyre very good. Later in the quarter, they hook up again, 12 yards for the score, thats all they would need. The cardinals win 146, theyre 9 and 1. Stanton, quarterback, seahawks and chiefs, third quarter, Russell Wilson with the play fake, 2017, seattle. Fourth quarter, jahmahl charles. Get away from me defenders. Runs 47 yards, finished with a buck 59 and four scores. Very nice play, nile davis, plugs it in. Chiefs hold on to win 2420. All of a sudden seattle looks vulnerable. Nfc west standardings, first place arizona. Seattle and San Francisco knotted at 6 and 4. They will play twice in three weeks. They still havent played starting first on thanksgiving at levis stadium. You like the position the niners are in right now for a playoff spot . I do. Niners are in a great position, the biggest thing is the niners, they have to start scoring some points. Theyre having stops. Right now San Francisco the seventh seed, of course the first six are in the playoffs, oaklands not winning no matter what. They can win every game and still not theyre not winning any games, my point is San Francisco didnt play great today, offense didnt look great, but they won, they won two straight on the road. My point is, theyre winning, theyre on a little bit of a run now, even if they dont look great. You got to realize too, they played against the saints who is a dangerous team, hadnt lost in that dome. Thats a tough place to win. They have won 11 straight there. Then they go to new york and new yorks always a dangerous team. Found a way to win that game, two games didnt look pretty, but they found a way. Thats the mark of a good team, so they got to keep this rolling. Well go to the central time zone, the eastern time zone, they have debated staying back east. Thats a tough scenario and they did it twice on the road. You got to commend their coaching staff, getting these young men to play at the 49ers, theyre sitting at a great position, they have to find a way because its getting tough. Its going to get exciting. For the old decade man, load me up, im dave feldman, thanks for watching. Not as well as i wish i did. Most of my memories are just stories i have been told by other people. Carmens sister kristen and her husband jim helped raise nick. Bedtime stories were often about his beautiful mother. She was very athletic. She was in swimming and basketball, softball, track, and she was in homecoming court, prom queen. She dated a football player, she was a cheerleader. Her liveliness. She was very vivacious, very beautiful, and very fun. She had nick fairly early in life and did a great job of working and providing for nick at the same time. Did you feel robbed that you never got to experience all those things a mother and son get to experience together . Definitely. A lot of people in my family say that i act just like her. That she was a happy person. A happy life that ended in an appalling act of violence. The Police Officers who discovered carmens body got an immediate, emphatic lead from her upstairs neighbor Lottie Spencer. Did you know immediately who had done this . Mmhmm. Who had committed this . I knew. Lottie was certain it was the work of a tooker named waseen daker. Waseen and lottie had a history. She said it would explain the hideous attack. She told detectives her story. Things had started so innocently. Dont they always . I met him at the paint ball field playing bant paul. So we met by being teammates on the same team. Lottie was the captain of the team, kind of a den mother. To the other, much younger players. Especially waseen, a georgia tech student 12 years her junior. He didnt have anybody else he could open up and talk to, or share his thoughts and feelings with. So you felt kind of like a big sister to him . Thats exactly how i felt. Daker was a bit of a loner. He latched onto lottie, started calling her at work, at home, and wouldnt stop. I told him that, you know, i have a life, and youre just taking too much of my time. And then he would cry, and then i knew that there was a problem. What was a knewson knewson at first, lottie said quickly escalated, her phone was ringing off the hook up to 100 times a day. Why didnt you just stop talking to this person . I should have. I felt really sorry for him. I really didnt want him to get into trouble. It sounds so crazy. But maybe that also says about you that youre a good person. Or a very poolish person. Foolish, lottie says, because dakers stalking became bolder, increasingly bizarre. He started flipping out, yelling that hes going to get me. And slit my daughters throat in front of me. And i would come home from work, and there would be a pair of my underwear on my doorknob. Or a few days later a bra. What message is he sending with that . Look at me. Im getting into your place and getting away with it. Theres nothing you can do to stop me. Another time i came home early, and run into my bedroom and there was waseen daker. Naked. Wearing garter hose and a garter belt. Looking at himself in my mirror. This is any womans Worst Nightmare . Mmhmm. Lottie says things reached a Tipping Point when, once again, daker threatened her and her daughter. This time while brandishing a knife. He has always told me he could get away with the perfect murder. His plan was in the making. Finally, lottie decided to let the Justice System take over. Daker was arrested in august, but released on bond. A judge ordered him to stay away. He didnt. And was arrested again in september. This time he was sent to a Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation. Prosecutor jesse evans. Hes got some severe issues with obsession. I dont think he has the ability to feel compassion for other people. Hes clearly a brilliant individual, but hes a brilliant scary individual. While daker was hospitalized, lottie packed up and moved to the house in cobb county, about 20 minutes north of atlanta, where carmen and nick lived downstairs. So you moved. Yes. To try and escape him . Mmhmm. In october, on friday the 13th, waseen daker was released from the hospital, less than two weeks later, carmen smith was dead. Now Lottie Spencer was overwhelmed with guilt and anger. Waseen daker is evil. Hes pure evil. Hes a monster. And thats what lottie told police. She said her stalker must have been the one behind the attack on carmen and nick. But why . Daker was obsessed with lottie. He never met or even spoke to carmen. Or had he . Lottie thought she knew the answer. A phone call she says daker made to carmens phone a few days before the murder. It was friday the 20th and the calls started coming in. The phone got put off the hook and i could hear her phone ringing. Carmen answered and then hung up abruptly. What was said . Nobody knows. But carmen told her sister and brotherinlaw that the call was from lotties stalker. She said im going to go get a hammer and put it next to the bed, and i remember laughing,nying, if that guy decides to get in the house, hes in trouble. Gut you really never think it would go to where it went. When you talked about her, you know, packing some stuff and coming to stay with us for awhile. Lottie says seeing carmens reaction to dakers call was heartbreaking. And she did what she could to help her neighbor feel safe. The entryway from within her dwelling went from the sliding glass door, and so we just barricaded the door with some wood. She was so scared. She was shaking. And she was so scared. Just three days later, that glass door was open, and smeared with blood. And waseen daker was the lead suspect in a horrible crime. Coming up, evidence at the scene of the crime. There was a broken knife blade and hair and fiber evidence was recovered also from carmens body. Will it be enough to catch the killer . He was getting away with murder. He was getting away with exactly what he told me he would. When dateli looking for one of these . Yoplait. Smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family. Just three days before she was killed, carmen smith told family and friends she had been called by waseen daker, the man who had been arrested for stalking her neighbor. It was the strongest allegation yet connecting the victim to the suspect. Investigators tipped off about that call by lottie now closed in on zaccer. Did you execute a search warrant on his house that night . We did. John dawes is a homicide detective with the Cobb County Police department. In his room, we found a piece of paper with the address where this crime occurred. We found a torn up letter that was his words to Lottie Spencer. Dakers tornup letter to lottie was hateful, and threatening. Prosecutor jesse evans. He specifically talks about having plans and backup plans to exact revenge on lottie and the worst part about the letter is he gets to the end and says im going to let you live. Im going to get revenge on you, but im go to let you live. To police and prosecutors, this wasnt just a rant. It looked like a blueprint for murder. Now they tried to link daker to the crime scene. Some of the important evidence that we start with is the hair and faber evidence that was recovered off of carmen smiths body. There was a broken knife blade. It was a fairly clean crime scene other than that. Carmen had small puncture wounds on her back, and terrible bruising suggesting a ferocious struggle. She had been not only tortured and murdered, but she had been undressed at some point and redressed. At carmens bedside, the hammer shed wanted for peace of mind. Never touched as she fought for her life. Not far away was the suspected murder weapon, a piece of rope. Crime scene technicians dusted for fingerprints and collected blood samples. The evidence was sent to the state crime lab for analysis. The lab tests kept coming back without the physical evidence that we needed that linked him to the dead body of carmen smith. Thats when we knew that it may always be a circumstantial case. And the circumstantial part of the case was just too weak to make an arrest. Prosecutors still believed daker was the only viable suspect in carmen smiths murder and the stabbing of her son nick, but they didnt have the evidence to prove it. The investigation stalled. What waseen daker walked away from the murder . He walked away from the murder, but not from some accountability. The police felt like they had a viable way of charging him with aggravated stalking. Daker was arrested and charged with stalking Lottie Spencer. There are multiple witnesses, friends of hers, friends of his, that actually observed firsthand some of the stalking activities that were occurring at her apartment, either by hearing the phone, hearing him knock on the door, he would come by. Daker was convicted in september of 1996 and sentenced to ten years in prison. It was the close to the worst chapter of Lottie Spencers life. But it wasnt a happy ending. Did you feel like you had some peace in your life again when he was behind bars . No. No, i mean, because he was getting away with murder. He was getting away with exactly what he told me he would. He needed to pay for what he did to carmen. After the trial, lottie decided to leave georgia to try to start over. Nick smith went back to the same school and the protective embrace of his family. I kind of just went back into the normal routine, i think that was the best way that i could have dealt with it. And i think my family did a pretty good job of trying to keep my life as normal as possible. During the next ten years, nicks life did finally return to normal. But in 2006, daker was released, and moved nearby. All the terrifying memories of the masked man wielding a knife came rushing back. Police decided to provide security to keep nick safe. They would have the cops sit outside of our house at night and we had cameras installed in my house on the outside, just as a precaution. Lottie says he was also looking over her shoulder. Telling me about the day that he got out, that he was a free man again . Not a good time. Were you waiting every day for the phone to ring or that bang on the door . Yes, i was starting to unravel again. Coming up, the fear begins all over and so does the push for justice. You had your smoking gun . Absolutely. Its another trial for what waseem daker. And just look whos addressing the jury. Did you remember to pay the dog sitter . Yeah, citi mobile. And deposit that check . Citi mobile. Pack your bathing suit . Wearing it. Niiice bank from almost anywhere with the citi mobile app. Waseem daker was a free man, but still a suspect in the murder of karmen smith and the stabbing of her son nick. He was still terrorizing you in some ways . Yes. Just the fact that he was out was kind of terrorizing. He is that character in those horror movies. Hes like your Worst Nightmare. After his release, daker got a job and moved to suburban atlanta. He was a free man and enjoying life. Here he is skydiving. And loving it. Dakers freedom galled homicide detective john dawes. The karmen smith murder was now officially a cold case. To dawes, daker was the one who got away. Does a case like this haunt a Police Department . Absolutely. Because these cases go home with you in your mind. But for years dawes couldnt do anything about it. And then just by chance, he was sent to a dna Training Seminar in 2008. A random assignment that would change everything. Back in the mid nineties, very, very little at all could be done with the hair except to say the color of the hair. Now when theres any tissue from the root on the hair whatsoever. It takes just a mint amount of tissue to come up with a full profile of dna. Its called nuclear dna testing and dawes immediately thought of karmen smith. Karmen was a strawberry blonde, and he remembered the short, dark hairs recovered from her body, not hers, under layers of bedding. I felt it was invaluable evidence if there was enough tissue on that hair that was underneath her sweater. Dawes brought one of those dark hairs to a zdna lab in texs and waited. It was almost 15 years after karmen smiths murder when the call came in. There was a match. They have identified waseem dakers hair, him and only him, to the exclusion of all others, on the dead body of karmen smith at the time that she was found. You had your smoking gun . Absolutely. I got a call from detective dawes. I was very happy, but it was really hard for me to have to go back and tell the story of the things that he did. Lottie dreaded the thought of testifying in open court, in front of daker, but she knew there would be no avoiding it. Daker was arrested and charged with murdering karmen smith and stabbing her son nick. His trial started in september of 2012. All rise. Prosecutor jesse evans was there for the state. This case ladies and gentlemen is about obsession. Evans argued that daker was a violent stalker and that his obsession with one woman led to the murder of another. You cant get into the mind of a psychopath and see why they chose to kill. Evans said daker had left a trail of destruction, and those critical hairs. The cold case, with dna technology, Proof Positive that it was waseem daker defending waseem daker was waseem daker. Initially i want to point out a couple of things. Just three principles of law that im going to give you. Before he took over his own case, daker had been represented by an experienced father and son team, michael and jason treadaway. They were still advising him, and believed the states case was vulnerable. They had no case without those hairs. Thats why they didnt go forward. Initially. They didnt have a case. And they knew it. Their advice to daker, focus on those hairs and dont obsess about lottie. This case

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