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Then, they got a devastating setback. the witness now said he made the whole thing up. >> he was trying to score points with his girlfriend is what it basically boiled down to. that's a week's worth of work and it's down the tubes and it's very disappointing. >> as family and friends mourned stephen holmes, police wondered who would want him dead. >> nobody who knew him, as far as i was concerned at that time, could have hurt him, especially like that. >> we interviewed a lot of his friends, a lot of family members, co-workers. you could not find a single person that would say anything bad abo...

Injuries. >> stephen's best friend and co-worker, wilson saintil, was among the first to offer condolences. >> i heard wailing. i came inside and it was wilson in the living room crying. my wife consoled him and grabbed his shoulders and just said, think about stephen's smile and he would forgive whoever did this and i think he started wailing more. >> the day after stephen holmes' murder, a man working across the street from the crime scene contacted police. >> this individual indicated that a white pickup truck with a horizontal stripe alongside of it raced out of the durango's parking lot p...

Anything. >> but investigators naturally went further, comparing saintil's dna to the blood droplets on the kitchen counter and faucet. >> those six foreign male dna profiles found at the scene did match the suspect in the case. >> the 51-year-old haitian national was arrested on suspicion of murder. >> do you have anything to say at all? >> they've got the wrong guy. >> they got the wrong guy? >> yes. >> you didn't kill stephen holmes? >> no. >> you don't know anything about it? >> stephen was my good friend. >> although his blood and fingerprint were both at the scene, police had a problem. ...

Inside the kitchen area and made its way down that small hallway into the door of the office and then right there in the office is where the final struggle took place. >> it appeared stephen tried to make it into his office and shut the door. there were actually stab marks on the door. >> there was a large concentration of blood on that door. there was a huge amount of blood on the floor. the victim very well may have slipped on his own blood. >> there were dozens of foot prints made by the killer. unfortunately, there were no clear impressions for comparison. >> it was someone that may have h...

>> that is when he saw all the bloody footprints and he saw and found mr. holmes' lifeless body. >> stephen holmes had been stabbed to death. >> i've never seen a crime scene this horrific. it was a pretty bad scene. >> in a clear case of overkill, stephen was stabbed more than 40 times. >> when you think of a murder, you sometimes think, okay, somebody is shot or stabbed. this was a vicious, vicious attack. he was almost decapitated. >> robbery appeared to be the >> robbery appeared to be the motive. about $8,000 was missing from the safe in the manager's office. this was much more than usual...