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stuff which paid very well. in fact, ricky was the proud owner of a new bmw, and though he's still lived at home he was if anything mature for his ears. this didn't matter a bit to the girls of the house sporty. to to them he, was tall and good-looking and what else matter besides? that >> amy and one of our other friends was fighting over him because they had a little thing for him. >> right away, boom she wanted? him >> well, when you are a teenage girl and you see a cute guy of course, everything falls into place. >> well, it's certainly did. >> was he crazy about her to begin? with >> yeah, he matter and i was like instantly. >> they were together from that very first night. it didn't seem to matter to ricky than aimee was still in high school, she was a sophomore, they were in love. he took her away on trips, he butter lots of gifts. but when he introduced her to his parents, debbie and rick senior, they were not quite so bold over by amy.
just met a girl and got her pregnant right away would not be reacting that way. >> no, but ricky was a little different from everybody. >> he seemed more grown up. >> by, then amy had had a change of heart to. >> she, said i'm going to make this work. it's worth making work. i want my daughter to grow up with her dad here. >> which brings us to august 12th, 1997. rickie left for work early. amy lieutenant promising to be back by nine to spend time along with him. and then, that afternoon, she called him. as he worked out in the hot desert just to confirm their plans. and, later when his dad and he went to the county fair to set up the lights, the calls from aimee kept coming. when are you getting home? she asked him. of course, she had been out all day with friends. around 9 pm, sarah in tow, she headed home to see if ricky had arrived. >> and she goes pounding up at the stairs. she gets up to the top of the stairs, i'm looking, at her and she turns on the light in the
>> 9-1-1 with your emergency? >> so what did happen? it began just after christmas the previous winter, 1996. there was this house party. >> amy's parents went out of town and so aimee said let's just invite some people over, have a good time. >> shannon came along of course. >> they were drinking, acting a bit outrageous, smoking, drinking partying. >> sara was there and amy. jennifer too. >> they were party girls. >> little on the wildes? >> yeah. they wanted to be adults before their time. they wanted to grow up. they didn't want anyone telling them what to do. >> but one of the people at the party actually was an adult or close to it. shaman's brother ricky came to the party. ricky was almost 21. he was done with school and it was working full-time at his family's electricity business, high voltage lines, dangerous
>> and five hours later -- >> we the jury find the defendant guilty of intentional murder. >> guilty of intentional murder. the sentence, 30 years. >> to know that he was guilty, know that this guy who's sitting there smug and non-remorseful is guilty and found guilty. and boom, you feel good about that. >> mike digiuro thought it was done. >> okay, this is it. he's going to jail. it's over. >> and aimee? she had vanished. >> aimee was afraid of shane ragland. and we told her that if she testified, we would do what we could to let her have a new identity. and law enforcement helped her get a new identity. >> and that new identity would be a problem.
seriously police took perceived threats to aimee lloyd's security, this put it to rest. aimee, rushed into court by a s. w. a. t. team. but trent digiuro's dad mike knew that if she braved the danger and told her story -- >> i don't know how a jury could not convict him. >> but when it came for trial, then prosecutor luanna redcorn was all too aware she was alleging a very hard to believe motive. >> i think i was like everybody else, a little incredulous that somebody would let the fact that they'd been blackballed from a fraternity fester for years and culminate in killing the person they blamed on blackballing them. >> mind you, they had a bit more than just aimee. they'd found what they believed was the murder weapon, a 2.43 weatherby rifle at shane's mother's house. and at his
felt she had risked her life to testify against ex-boyfriend shane ragland. now shane was headed to prison, sentenced to 30 years for the murder of trent digiuro. but aimee was still afraid. so law enforcement gave her a new life and a new identity. then the story took a turn no one saw coming. here's keith morrison with the conclusion of "the motive. " >> it was early spring in kentucky when justice was done for the murder of trent digiuro. thanks, his friends knew, to a woman who faced up to fear and told her story. >> we've never met aimee and i'm eternally grateful-- >> absolutely. >> -- to aimee for everything that she's done for not only trent and his family, but for us. >> except there was an appeal. of course there was. standard procedure. but what happened was not standard at all. a court reversed the jury's
engaged in a killing of another person and you continued a romantic relationship with them, that seems a bit odd. >> when the defense cross-examined aimee, she knew it was coming. had to. an attack on her credibility. but could she have suspected how personal it would be? this from true's co-counsel when aimee said she went home with shane that night after he talked about killing someone. >> weren't you concerned about spending the night with somebody who had admitted to you that he had killed someone else? >> i blocked it from my mind. i didn't want to -- i didn't want to hear that. >> and then a kind of nervous embarrassment filled the courtroom. the defense had gotten access to aimee's very personal, very explicit diary and confronted her with her entries, one by x-rated one. >> we are trying to challenge the credibility of the prosecution's case, and sometimes that gets uncomfortable. >> this is what aimee wrote the
responsibility for what he did. >> shane went on with his life. and then a few years later he was involved in a serious car accident. he uses a wheelchair now, and was back in court on an unrelated case. and what about aimee, if that's even her name now? how's she doing now? >> she's living a new life. >> what's she do? you wanna tell me anything? anything at all? >> i'm sorry, but i'm not going to be able to tell you anything about her current life. >> at all. >> at all. >> as for mike, he had a choice, he knew. he could sink into bitterness or -- so where do you put your frustrations over this? >> well, what has come from all this is we consider a very positive thing. >> the trent digiuro foundation has awarded nearly a hundred scholarships to walk-on football players and others, at the university of kentucky and at local high schools. young
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and i tell you, my attitude just changed. >> the very thing she suspected -- >> saw what you had seen all along. >> right. named the investigation really got going. >> an investigation as unusual and convoluted as the apparent crime, in which a eager liz golyar would try and help prove that her rival amy killed cari. of course, all the while, detectives knew amy was innocent. but they let liz think otherwise. >> she made any -- inferred threatening statements, to carry, the goal is to get something like that. >> and what do you know, within days, liz began for running them emails from aimee, she said. although the misspellings looked awfully familiar. >> i shot you liz, to make sure dave stayed away from you.