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tell them? >> they wanted to check th trunk. they didn't know there was a body in the trunk, because a that point, they still hadn' determined, you know, who it was actually on the dorm roo floor of 108 >> that was about to change. the cops back in brockport, wh initially thought the victim might be alex kogut's roommate had learned the roommate was staying elsewhere that night but where? they started an urgent search. until they spoke to her, the couldn't be certain of the victims identity, because of the hair color, investigator steven peglo >> the girl lying on the floor had very dark, hair. and when you saw the photo that alex had put up in he dorm room, of her and clayton, she had much lighter hair. the roommate had darker hair >> investigators knocked o students doors, questionin them then, a nugget buried in a conversation they learned that alex had recently died her hair brown they had what they needed to i d. their victim. now, they want to hear fro
blew it over >> that one was scary. >> hunter fernandez was called to the stand hunter had played hockey on th college florida team wit clayton. and he had a scary experienc too. it happened after clayton drin a half dozen beers >> he walked into the kitche and got the knife. and it looked like he wa possessed, he took a ste towards us, our host mom she was like clayton put the knife down >> defense attorneys didn' dispute that clayton whittemor killed alex kogut, didn't even try. and they didn't dispute that his anger was years in the making but they argued this wasn't case of murder, their client was guilty of the lesser charg of manslaughter. why? they said he was under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance when he killed ale kogut, because clayton whittemore was a victi himself. >> i'm turning myself in for
there was a murder on a colleg campus a beating so brutal, that th victim couldn't be identified. with a killer on the loose police were desperate fo answers. and they were about to get them, thanks to an unexpected phon call once again, here is andrea canning with after midnight. >> early saturday morning, steven peglo, a vetera homicide investigator with the monroe county sheriff's office has been called to the campus. the cops there had seen murder on their hand, a body they couldn't identify, and a kille on the loose >> everyone thought they kne what was going on, but nobod really did until you got there and started to put the piece together you didn't know. >> as he drove to the campus investigator peglo reviewed th facts as he knew them. one young woman was dead another was missing. >> it was reported there was a young lady still alive, an needed help. right then, that was m priority in my mind when i wen to the office. >> do you think that clayton had taken alex and had her t her? she was still alive? or that someone else may b
growing up with my dad one man i despised >> your dad? >> in the minutes before he wa arrested, clayton wrote bizarre apology to alex and th family, sorry to the family an you, he texted, nothing will ever fix or undo what i did. i became my father in court, clayton sister too the stand and supported he brother's story. their father, scott whittemore did not respond to datelines calls. there is no records of complaints against him, but defense expert, a psychiatrist testified, scott admitted that as a former marine he may have been rough because of that abuse, the expert concluded that clayto was suffering that extreme emotional disturbance an snapped in the dorm room the prosecution begged t differ >> it's sad and tragic, yo know, we never discounted or deny and his past but that doesn't excuse what he did
wasn't so good after all the couple had dinner, and then, the party. clayton said he and alex drank moderately, but at the party he got annoyed with her, and said he felt disrespected. >> she'd like raise her voic at me and said anybody els said anything to her, she'd be all giggly >> as they walked back from th party, clayton got that open container ticket >> so i was already aggravated and it aggravated me more. >> clayton, remember, walk t the other side of the street t cool off and then alex posted that fina cryptic tweet, should have known. >> we'll never really know wha that meant but - >> what do you think it meant? >> maybe that they shouldn't b together maybe we should perk up. >> at 12:17 am, alex went to her dorms. she and clayton entered he room clayton said they were fightin about cheating old stuff, he called it. >> what was she saying >> she's like i saw a pictur on your phone, way back, you know november of last year o
the roommate was dead and that alex was with clayto somewhere. but then, new information from clayton's mom. clayton had just called hi sister, and told her a frightening story about alex >> he said something like sh was breathing and then she stopped. >> he said the girlfrien stopped breathing? >> yes >> clayton's mother was beside herself. -- did you go to the college ou there? >> yes, they're looking fo him. >> and then, once more tha morning, the call line lit u at the 9-1-1 center in oneid county this time, it was a call everyone was waiting for clayton whittemore was on th line >> what's going on there buddy >> i did something >> it was 3:44 am, the horro of what had happened in room 108 would soon be revealed >> coming up - >> who had clayton whittemor
>> all of a sudden, i just snapped. d you hit her back? >> to her up against the wall. >> the attack that followed wa savage, unthinkable. in a tiny dorm room surrounded by sleeping students, clayto whittemore beat his girlfriend to death investigator steven peglo ha seen plenty of homicide scenes but never one like this. >> there were a few of us in the room people were like, we have bloo on this. we have blood on this. it gives you an idea of th rage that have gone on in th room >> peglo who has studied tha interview video, says one thin he can forget. clayton told police that nea the end, he relies alex' breathing had become labored he realized the girl that he loved was dying. >> - that's why did the other stuff that i did, because -- i'm not gonna watch them suffe
paige was a student at brockport too. her omit woke her up aroun seven at that morning. >> and she said we had to go we're all meeting together something happened page called me, and she said something happened to alex >> what? >> she said it's a terribl accident, and she said she okay? and she said, no i said is she in the hospital? and she said, no, mom. she's not. and i said, has she died and she said, yes. so, i was shocked and all could think was, what coul have happened to alex in her dorm room? >> the new york state police we're asking clay widow more that same exact question, that very morning >> - >> no, we're good. >> clayton put the piece together for the police abou what happened that night and it began with the fact tha his relationship with alex
street here. and at the same time, th female stayed on this side o the street and then, they both continue to walk on separate sides of the street >> alex and clayton have bee dating for a year and a half b then they were both from the town o new hartford in central ne york they got together when alex wa in high school clayton had already graduated. now, they were trying to make go at a long distanc relationship >> they really want to make it work, and i think it was working. i think she really did lov him. >> what kind of things that yo take shape to you about clay describing him >> it was just kind of jus little things here and there like oh i can't wait to see him, i miss him you could see it in her eyes that she really did want to be with him >> clayton, number 21, had bee a standout hockey player i high school. after he graduate in the spring of 2010, he spen
>> what do you think of that >> they probably have somethin to do with clayton, but i don' know exactly >> minutes later alex wiped he car to enter the door with clayton. it was 12:17 on saturday morning. so, now, investigators wer desperate to find out wher clayton whittemore was, an whether alex was with him. >> luckily, we had all thi information from the ticke that we issued to him. >> but clayton had been a mode of cooperation that. what could he tell them, i anything, about what had happened in the dorm room that night? >> i couldn't put together wha happened because it was so violent. there was so many things tha didn't make sense in the room, that it was very hard to gauge what happened. you know, case closed. >> what were the scenarios tha you were thinking of >> maybe there was a altercation between roommates. maybe, possibly, alex an clayton were on the run, and this was the roommate that was on the ground. maybe alex was abducted by clayton. maybe clayton had hurt the roommate >> lots of things runnin through your mind? >> yes >> lots of things on other