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Bathroom window. which at first seemed like an impossible idea. >> each time they used the bathroom, they chipped away at the mortar holding the bricks together blocking the window. then they would replace the loose bricks until one day the hole was big enough and they made a break for it. >> from the moment that i dropped down a out of that bathroom window and hit the sand below, i knew that it was bad. >> they sprinted for a mosque. the one place where they thought they'd be safe. >> right before we stepped in, i looked back and i saw 21 of our young captors. >> inside the mosque, one person...

>> reporter: by then, conrad said he realized heidy had been shot in the head. when you went to heidy, did you see a gun? >> no. >> reporter: he remembered the pop he had heard and wondered if a stray bullet might have come through the bathroom window and hit heidy. >> i was trying to think of the noise and how it wasn't very lou and, you know, maybe someone could have shot something at the house. >> reporter: it seemed farfetched but he said neighborhood vandals had recently been shooting the back of his house with paint balls. >> i was utterly confused. >> reporter: within minutes, sergeant ...

Doing? >> he's screaming and he's yelling. >> reporter: and, as these police photos make clear, covered in blood. >> i'm asking him, like, conrad, what's going on? what happened here? he said, she was in the bathroom, you know, and just, i don't know what happened. everything was just different answers and different theories, different little things. >> reporter: right away crook went to check one of those theories, a stray bullet perhaps coming through the bathroom window. >> the window was closed but there's no bullet hole. >> reporter: nothing to indicate that anybody fired a shot. >> that'...

I felt this was an important part of the story that i could tell, about a dangerous stalking situation. and if there's any information that i could offer up, i wanted to do so. keith morrison: and as she began, it was clear she was here to join the defense's campaign against victim mark stover's character. would you agree that mark stover was dogged in pursuit of his prey? yes, i would. keith morrison: the defense claimed michiel oakes knew linda opdycke had been stalked by her ex-husband. and that went to his state of mind when he acted in self-defense. so now, linda told the jury some storie...

>> mm-hmm. yes. >> she had just told me that shawn was getting violent. >> he broke into her apartment one night, came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. >> reporter: brooke's family didn't know about any of this. the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasn't until after her death that her family finally learned brooke's secret. >> did that just give you chills when you found that -- >> yeah, it was -- >> -- manila envelope? >> it was horrible. >> reporter: it was brittany who discovered it, as she went about the grim task of cleaning out brooke's apa...