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The print on the manila folder matched the last person anyone expected, especially stephen holmes' family. it belonged to wilson saintil, stephen's best friend, the restaurant's maintenance man and prep cook. stephen's family couldn't believe it since the two often worked late together. >> stephen would bring in cds specifically that he knew was the type of music that wilson liked so that they could put it in and it would go through the whole store and they could be listening to that music while they were working. >> wilson saintil went to the ceremonies to honor the deceased, hugged family me...

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 prior to the police arriving. >> the witness said this happened at about 11:00, just after the time police believe stephen was killed. >> the description was so detailed. i mean, a loud muffler, stripes on the side, you k...

>> around midnight, an exterminator entered the restaurant with his own key. >> 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 motive. about $8,000 was missing from the safe in the ...

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. there was a plausible explanation for his blood to be at the sink in the kitchen. >> the defense is clear, he's a maintenance worker. he's a prep cook. people cut themselves all the time. >> and the...

That night, except for stephen. i feel that was a godsend. >> stephen's the only person that knows this guy is showing up. and thank god he shows up on that night, because that narrows the timeline, that preserves the crime scene at that point, and that prevents wilson saintil from coming back and cleaning up the crime scene. >> when we found out later it was him, it's a weird feeling that he had the nerve to come here to our home the see -- it's still hard to comprehend that. >> wilson saintil was tried and convicted of first-degree murder. he was sentenced to life in prison without the possi...