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>> that's when stephen saw the knife. stephen ran to his office and tried to close the door, but saintil was still able to get inside. stephen was stabbed more than 40 times and died in his office. as saintil washed his hands and the knife, his blood, possibly from a bloody nose from the fight, dropped onto the kitchen counter and faucet. saintil took the $8,000 from the safe. since he knew the surveillance cameras had captured the fight, he cut the cables and removed the video recorder. but as he did, he left his partial fingerprint on the manila folder, which fell to the floor upside down. s...

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 possibility of parole. saintil left e...

To his neck and his face. it was obvious it was a very big struggle. >> part of the struggle started 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 kil...

>> 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 ...

>> 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 prior to the police arriving. >> the witness said this happened at about 11:00, just after the time police be...