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Then, terrible news. A student had been murdered, a young woman but apparently, it wasnt alex. The girl lying on the floor had dark, almost black colored hair. She had much lighter hair. So who was it and where was alex . At that point, it was one dead and perhaps another missing. The killer could be roaming a campus full of students. We were really scared. A mysterious tweet. I dont exactly know. A terrifying phone call. My son just called and told me he killed somebody. And a terrible truth. I didnt know how. I didnt know who. I didnt know anything. I just know shes gone. Here is Andrea Canning with after midnight. Every year, as summer fades into fall and lazy days at the beach come to an end, students flood back to college. Its the same scene year after year at campus after campus. And every year, there is that new bunch, the freshmen. I was nervous for classes the first day because im that scared little freshman. All those worries, all those questions. Do i really have to go to these classes and what is this teacher like and that stuff. They are not quite adults, they are not quite teens but now, suddenly, they are on their own. Leaving home for the first time can be scary. Scary for the kids, for their parents, too. Every mom has that, my baby. Going to college. Most of the time kids fail through the expert sail through the experience, meet new people and move on. But there are others who are not so lucky. They are the victims of a troubling trend that caught the nations attention, dating violence. It could happen to anyones daughter. This could happen to anyone. It was late september 2012. The college at brock port was well into the new school year. 18yearold alexander was having the time of her life. As soon as i met here, i knew we were the Perfect Match for each other. Alex and Samantha Turner met within days of arriving at campus, besties from the beginning. You clicked with alex . I did. Why did you like her so much . I liked her because i could act so funny in front of her and myself f. I had a problem, she was there for me. By september they were inacceptable swapping cloths and confidences. Sounds almost like you were sisters. Pretty much. Every second i saw her, woe would have fun and laugh together, every possible thing just made our relationship grow stronger. But on friday, september 28th, they were going off in different directions. Samantha was heading home to see her family, alex was staying on campus counting the hours until her longtime boyfriend arrived for a weekend visit. That afternoon, alex went down the hall to samanthas dorm room to say goodbye. It was around 3 00 maybe, and i was about to go home, and shes like can i pick out some clothes in your closet . I was like sure. So she took three of my shirts and a pair of my shoes and she was all excited like clayton will be here in half an hour. 21yearold clayton was alex boyfriend and coming to spend the weekend but first, alex had a swim team meeting. She had been swimming since high school where Paige Whitney was the captain. You were the captain of the swim team but call alex more of the heart of the swim team. Yeah, definitely. In high school, she definitely wasnt the fastest on our team, but she was one of the most important people on our team because she had the most heart. She would be behind you at every single one of your races cheering you on, wishing you luck. Now, paige and alex were teammates again. She must have loved knowing she had you to lean on. I know there was definitely that sense of security. That friday the team meeting ran late. Alex boyfriend got to town before it ended. Alex texted to apologize she wasnt there to greet him. Please dont kill me, im sorry. No worry he answered and soon the two got together. Midway through the everything, samantha texted alex. I told her, cant wait to see you tomorrow, love you, good night and she said the same. But later, in the early hours of saturday morning, samantha was awakened by a call. Alex mother was on the line. What in the world was up . She was scared. She didnt know where alex was, what she was doing. She had a sign, i dont know how something was wrong her mother just thought something was wrong and called you. Yes. Freaking out and i was like im home. I dont know. A fearful mother on the phone in the middle of the night searching for her daughter. What happened to set her off . Why was she so distraught . Sandra whitney is a good friend of alex parents, shes paiges mom. They had gone off for a weekend vacation and been texting that everything and becky was sending her pictures of the hotel room, you know, you get to a hotel, hey, look and alex didnt respond. And she tried over and over again and didnt respond and thats not how their relationship worked. You text, you call, you always respond. Is that unusual, though, that she wouldnt respond in college, its a weekend, her boyfriend is coming. I imagine the first couple times maybe she wasnt concerned but when it was several, thats what raised flags for becky. Was it a little mothers intuition, you think . I imagine it was. Alex mom worked the phone frantically trying anyone who might know where her daughter was. Finally, at 2 42 a. M. She called the Campus Police to ask them to go to her daughters dorm room to check on her. Officer Michael Johnson. You took that call. I did. And you headed over to the dorm. Yes. And then what happened . When we went there, i knocked on the door and i knocked twice and since it was a welfare check, let me see if this door is unlocked. It was and officer Michael Johnson will never forget what was inside that room. It just seemed that something really bad happened there that night. Coming up, what had happened in room 108 . Police were about to confront a frightening and confusing scene. You never come to work thinking youre going to see Something Like that. A young victim but who is it . They are just telling everybody keep your door shut, dont come in the hall. We didnt really know what was going on. It helps this place tell a story all your own. Its whats there in the air when youve made your house a home. Air wick home is in the air. Life lessons with ziploc. Tomorrows science project requires 150 cats eye marbles. If this bag breaks emmas chance of impressing the teacher could slip away. Life needs ziploc. Sc johnson. Sir, were going to need you on the runway. vo theraflu starts to get to work in your body in just 5 minutes. vo theraflu breaks you free from your worst cold and flu symptoms. vo theraflu. Serious power. Do you suffer from constipation or irregularity . 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The blood spatter that was in the room, the bloody footprints around her all indicated something violent had happened in that room. What feeling do you have when you see Something Like that . The adrenaline kicks in and you need it at that moment and it was time to go to work and if she was alive, i had to do something for her. Officer johnson knew he needed help fast. I heard this guy yelling and i thought it was a drunk college kid. Hailey lived across from alex room. The commotion woke her up. A man was yelling for help and stuff so i woke up and i started looking through my peephole and it was a Police Officer yelling. Lieutenant daniel works with officer johnson on the campus force. He radioed me for the aed. Whats an aed . Defibrillator. So i arrived and grabbed it and went running to his location. When what did you think when you saw what you saw . I couldnt believe it. I guess you never come to work thinking youre going to see Something Like that. Hailey was now glued to her peephole. She saw residents officials everywhere. They were just telling everybody, keep your door shut, dont come in the hall and we didnt really know what was going on. The news was spreading, hailey was fielding a storm of texts from worried students. Everyone was so confused. Like i dont know. I think somebody is hurt. But i dont know what has happened. By now, the cops realize the young woman on the floor was dead. Hailey soon learned that, too. What happened was the ambulance showed up and the Police Officer said to the paramedic, we only need one of you to go in and pronounce her and the paramedic went in and came out pronounced her jane doe and it was just like oh, wow. I knew that that meant that they couldnt identify who it was and they left. And i woke my roommate up, and i said, you know, somebody died. And she didnt believe me at first and i told her, you know, like they left. The stretcher had nobody on it. The students on their phones tried to stay calm but it wasnt easy. After all, a College Residence is supposed to be safe but now there might be a killer on the loose. We were really afraid. The Police Officers are like youre okay, were here, youre safe but we were really scared. Hailey went over and over the events of that night in her mind. And she remembered something about 1 15 a. M. As she was trying to go to sleep, an unusual sound but was it related . It was like little thud, thud and then it was like maybe like a pause and then it was like more and then kind of another break and some of them were louder than others. Now, as the activity in the hallway intensifies, hailey heard a line straight out of a cop show. The Police Officer said this is now a crime scene, nobody touch anything. At that time i knew we had to do our jobs and preserve everything for the safety of the rest of the campus. The officers had a million questions, number one, who was the girl lying with her face to the floor . Alex the girl they were asked to check on had blonde hair. There were pictures of her in the room. The glirl onirl on the floor was a brunette. Her face was bloody, unrecognizable. So then you must be wondering, well, where is alex . Right. Yes. The cops learned that aleck entered the dorm with her boyfriend after midnight and made a startling discovery when they looked closer at the photos of the room they saw a young man they recognized, in fact, they issued him a ticket that very night. So we knew who he wanted to look for at that time. It was clayton. If we have someone that did this violent act here in this specific room, you know, what is he capable of doing what he leaves here . Coming up, a missing boyfriend, an anxious best friend. Left here at 4 00 in the morning. And a mist flying murder. There were so many things that didnt make sense it was hard to say this is what happened, case closed. How can i avoid maintenance fees . Why would you want to avoid them . Because i dont want to. You know what . Im gonna bring my maintenance guy in here to tell you all about it. Roddy so, uh, without your fee your checking chamber cant run smoothly. Every time you put money in it causes, uh. Deposit friction. Gotta get some fiscal lube on there. [ male announcer ] its time to bank human again. [ defeated] okay. [ male announcer ] avoid monthly maintenance fees at td bank with a minimum checking balance of just 100. Td bank. Americas most convenient bank. The campus cops investigating the murder in mcclain hall werent sure who the victim was but recognized a young man in photos in the dorm room. They seen that same young man when they were patrolling the campus earlier that night. I observed a couple coming down the street here. We could see he had an open container in his hand. As he kept coming, we intercepted him here on the sidewalk. I requested his id. I could see it was an open beer can and explained we have a local ordinance here that says you cannot have an open contain container. Did he seem angry and agitate snd. No, he was cooperative and i gave him the ticket and he walked away. The young man that got the ticket was clayton wittamore returning home from a party with his girlfriend. When they left, did they seem fine . They seemed normal to me. I was even doing small talk with the female he was with and was able to make her laugh little bit. So if anything was bothering her, she didnt let us know. So just a normal couple out on a friday night and wasnt quite the last of him. No, they both started walking away, i observed him drop the beer can onto the ground and i made a comment to him that could be another 100 fine, and he compiled and went back and picked it up and after doing that, i saw him cross the street here and the same time the female stayed on this side of the street and then they both continued to walk on separate sides of the street. Alex and clayton had been dating for a year and a half by then. They were both from the town of new hartford. They got together when alex was in high school. Clayton had already graduated and now they were trying to make a go of a Long Distance relationship. They really wanted to make it work and it was working. She really did love him. What did she say about clay, describing him or the time they spent together . Just Little Things here and there, i cant wait to see him. I miss him. You could see it in her eyes she really did want to be with him. Clayton, number 21 had been a standout hockey player in high school. After he graduated in the spring of 2010, he spent a season playing for a college prep team in Florida Living with a host family there. He was like the star player. He was the guy that scored the goals. Hunter fernandez, one of claytons teammates lived with the same host family. Paint a picture of clayton for us. He was hard working. He was really nice guy. He was funny. Always had a good time. Did you guys ever get into a little trouble . No, we never really got in trouble. We were always busy. What about girls . Did you hang out with girls or time . No. Partying . Drinking . He drank once. Seems like the tamest bunch of hockey players ive heard of. Yeah. It was surprising alex was drawn to another athlete and clayton was a catch. Paige whitney, alex swim team pal knew that. She had gone through high school with clayton and sat beside him in math class. She felt like he deserved more and she was very, very lucky. Really . Yes. So she considered herself lucky he had chosen her . Absolutely. Watching them together, did it seem that he really cared about her, that he really liked her . Absolutely. Happy to be in that relationship . Yeah, you see them laughing together and getting along so well. Their twitter messages were lighthearted. They called each other dork and freak and lived out their lives in twitter. Before clayton arrived this friday, alex tweeted awe, see you soon. Her family liked him, too. They had given him a care package for her and her mom contributed 20 towards gas for the trip. Once alex swim team meeting ended that day, the couple met up and had alone time and went to dinner. Alex and samantha were texting of course. I asked how she was doing and what. She said were out to dinner now and went out to a friends house and came back to the dorm. On the way back, clayton got that ticket and the cop saw the two walk away separately. Then, at 12 13 a. M. , alex posted a cryptic tweet, should have known it read, should have known. What do you think it meant . It probably does have something to do with clayton, but i dont exactly know. Minutes later, alex swiped her card to enter her dorm with clayton. It was 12 17 on saturday morning. So now, investigators were desperate to find out where clayton wittamore was. Luckily, we had all his information from the ticket. But clayton was a model of cooperation then. What could he tell them, if anything, about what happened in the dorm room that night. What is your gut telling you happened . I couldnt put together what happened because it was so violent and so many things that didnt make sense in the room it was hard to say this is what happened, you know, case closed. What were the scenarios you were thinking of . Maybe there was an altercation between roommates, maybe possibly alex and clayton were on the run and this was the roommate that was on the ground. Maybe alex was abducted by clayton. Maybe clayton hurt the roommate. A lot of things are running through your mind . Yes. Lots of things on other peoples minds, too. At her parents house, Samantha Turner was phoning all her friends when she got through to her roommate, a college official got on the line and told her there was a situation. And then i broke down and i grabbed my sister and i was like we need to go now and i rushed here. 4 00 in the morning. 4 00 in the morning and got here, saw the police cars. You didnt know at this point what had happened still . I didnt know exactly who it was. Hundreds of miles away, a frantic mother waited desperate for answers but when those answers came, they would be unbearable, and they were coming soon from the killer himself. Coming up, two frantic phone calls from a mother. She was breathing and she stopped. And her son. What is going on there, bud . I did something. Hey rich, whats that in your