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Ex-husband who admitted to killing El Segundo real estate agent released on parole

Ex-husband who admitted to killing El Segundo real estate agent released on parole
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dead in the trunk over silver mercedes. the car had been the subject of a massive search ever since deede had been discovered missing a week earlier from her home, two hours north. homicide detective jimmy gates who'd always thought finding the car would be the key to finding deede, now gave the mercedes a thorough going over. fingerprints or dna in the car? >> there wasn't one fingerprint either on or in that car or was there any partial prints. >> deede's or anybody else? >> nothing. >> what does that say, professionally? >> someone went to great lengths to make sure that they were not going to be identified their fingerprints. that's for sure.

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life, to help care for her and her dogs. that request had apparently been misinterpreted by erwin. we know he started wearing his wedding ring again. erwin wanted back in her life, and it sounds to me like on some level she sort of appreciated that part of him, that adored her and wanted to take care of her. even if it's somebody that you're not gonna be with anymore? >> yes. >> do you think she made that point clear enough to him? >> no. >> she was too nice? >> always too nice, and very trusting. >> and that may be why investigators thought, erwin seemed surprise, when just two weeks before deede's murder, erwin gained access to her murder and found emails referring to a relationship with a new man, bobby lowe. >> i think it really threw him

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ultimately, their divorce was amicable. and a year after the split, in the summer of 2004, deede seemed to be finding her footing once again. she had begun dating a well-known south bay carl salesman named bobby lowe. that new relationship was going so well, and on the evening of thursday, july 8th, bobby lowe took deede out to dinner at this restaurant, to meet his father. >> i talked to her before her date. >> any sign of she was nervous about anything? >> she was in a happy state when i talked to her and we had made plans to hopefully get together the following night, so i could get the update on the date. >> but that conversation never took place. >> i called her on friday and she didn't call me black back, which was not unusual for

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she left the house, she would always put the tv on to a classical music station so it would relax the dogs. but it was on cnn when we came into the house. >> so, deede was watching cnn, had the dogs there, was having a drink and the left for some reason. suggesting whatever happened she left in a big hurry. >> she didn't have time to do the routine that she usually does before she leaves. >> and it appeared deede had left in her car. the garage was empty. her silver 1999 mercedes, gone. but strangely, police found the car keys sitting on deede's patio. >> we decided to call the l. a. county sheriff's homicide brought in to assist us. >> jimmy gates was the detective who answered that call. >> there was no forced injury, whatsoever. when we started walking through the house i noticed several articles that were very

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>> the killer did leave a clue, in the tape wrapped around didi's body. >> it appeared to us to be consistent with red duck to. >> that started gates in one direction, but he also looked closely at the way deede's had been placed in that car. >> someone took great care to place her in that car, and that indicated to us that someone cared deeply about her. >> so, part of this says professional and part of this says someone who knew her? >> that is exactly correct. >> but the suspicions that said professional, soon fell away in favor of those that said someone who knew her. not her children, but someone who had re-entered deede's life in the months before her death, her ex husband, erwin howard. do you ever think of him as dangerous? >> no. >> i never suspected that he would do something physical. >> but detective soon learned something had change in erwin howard in the months before deede's murder. remember, after the car and accident in january 2004, deede had invited erwin back into her

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you hear that opening statement and something changes? >> something change. after the opening statement i went back into lock-up and i spoke to him and said listen, remember how i was speaking about the circumstantial case and it could be powerful, i think there could be some problems now. and his answer was, i need to tell you something. >> that's something would stun deede keller's friends and families and the prosecutor himself. >> one of the most shocking things i have ever seen in one of my cases in the courtroom. >> "dateline" returns after the break. afe place and your child safer. to close, twist until it clicks. tide pods child-guard packaging. why hide your skin if dupixent has your moderate-to-severe eczema

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>> that was one more key piece of evidence, the day after the murder, a witness saw a mercedes on the street in el segundo, she thought it belonged to a friend. so she sped up to catch her, -- >> she see it's not her friend and she sees a male hispanic driving the car and she remembers that license plate. >> the license plate belonged to the mercedes owned by deede keller. the man driving? the witness helped a police artist draw this sketch. who does it look like? >> it looks like erwin. >> the witness was then shown a photo lineup and she picked out erwin howard. that is like lightning striking? >> twice. >> and then it struck again. six months after the murder, jimmy gates's phone rang. it was deede's next door neighbor who was interviewed once and had offered nothing of value, but now, apparently, she was having an attack of conscience. the neighbor now told the detective that she'd seen erwin on june 30th, the day erwin had

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me. please, i don't want to lose you. i love you, i don't want to lose you. >> how tightly were you holding her? >> i felt her body going limp. i stood there and i thought god, god, i've killed her. i've killed her, i've colder, i've killed or. >> he said he came back the next evening, to put deede's body in the car using a spare key have from the mercedes he started driving in heading from mexico, but he wonder how he would get back the border. he left a car on a street incendiary go, and hired an off-duty taxi to take him back to l. a.. the erwin admitted to the murder but he talked about it in a way that made it seem almost accidental? >> yes, he was willing to accept responsibility for the rage and for the anger he was not willing to accept responsibility that the murder happened intentionally. >> second degree murder. >> but despite that, lewin fell to second degree conviction was the best he could secure and after. erwin left the stand and took the plea, deede friends's and family had the chance to speak to him, they offered surprising

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business trip to the san francisco area. >> when i called her cell phone, the voicemail was full and that had never happened with my mom. she prided herself on being responsive. >> so, you you go over to your mom's house. >> so, i went in the back gate and instantly it was clear that she had not been there for a while. >> what made that clear? >> the dog's water dish was bone dry. my mom would die of thirst before her dogs went without water. >> mike's first call was to cindy. >> and he said, "cindy, where is my mom? " and i just instantly knew, in that moment, that something had happened. i just knew. and i just said, "michael, call the police, i'm on my way." >> where was deede keller? not only was there no water left outside for deede's beloved dogs, but detectives notice lots of other things wrongs inside the house. her purse was there but her wallet was missing. and this was a woman with money, a lot of it. >> was deede's hefty bank account the factor in her disappearance? investigators follow the money trail. coming up -- >> who got that money in the event of her death? >> the beneficiaries were her two children. >> and detectives wondered where we're deede's son and daughter when she vanished? >> both out of town at the time that their mother went missing. >> when dateline continues.

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