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Inside the kitchen area and made its way down the hallway into the doorway 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 had ...

And his blood drops near the sink. >> you had feet print leading to the manager's office and shoe prints leading from the office to the kitchen. >> now the case is coming full circle. >> prosecutors believe wilson saintil was desperate for money, and believed his only recourse was to rob the restaurant where he worked. as the maintenance man, he stopped by after hours, knowing the cash receipts would be in the safe. saintil probably made some noise in the kitchen. stephen walked out of his office to see who was there. >> hello? >> that's when stephen saw the knife. stephen ran to his office an...

Fully roll each and every finger of each and every employee. >> in a stunning development, the print 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 listen to that music while they were working. >> wilson sainti...

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 manager's office. this was much more than usual,...

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...