detectives bernie nelson and tony sharpton or hope that their collective experience would help crack two of the most horrific murder cases they had ever encountered. when you back up and look at what you ve got, the scary fact is somebody is killing mothers and daughters, right? that s the commonality. yes and within close proximity of where the duets were found burned in the vehicle it was just two blocks away from where the often s were shot in their house. . the detective suspected they were dealing with the same murder and both cases, especially when they realized dolores the wit was a single mom and a nurse, just like karen loft in. but first, they exhausted the usual suspects. dolores had an ex husband and an ex girlfriend, but both had solid alibis. we had given them polygraph tests. they passed.
you want to do from prying eyes, have? absolutely. and at night this is absolutely pitch. dark this is just a playground the jason sky had. the task force called in the forensic team. we walk down here through these rocks here and that s when i first initially saw the sweater, which was right down here in the rocks. it was the charred remains of a blue sweater, the kind ebony dewitts had worn the last time she was seen alive. once we saw, that we said hey this is it this is finally, something you were talking about a high five moment. you walk further down these rocks here, and gathered in these leaves where the other two pieces. jeans that seem to match the gene fragments covered from dolores dewitt body. detective sharpen are brought in expert to the spooky, house to identify the foliage. and he pulled up here and he
we did bound ground checks on them. we found out where they were and there was nothing that would lead us to say that they were involved. as in the lawton case, when detectives shirts the towards home, they found no sign of a forced entry just an unlocked side window. and inside the house, once again, no forensic evidence. but a different pattern. the killer had taken his victims with him. we don t know if they were killed inside the house and transported away, or if they were just transported away and killed elsewhere. the burned out nissan maxima that carried the mother and daughters bodies didn t yield any significant clues either. the fire had destroyed everything but a tiny piece of jeans on dolores his body. and attached to the jeans, some leaves foliage experts identified as coming from a beach tree. odd because there were no trees like that in the neighborhood. and the mystery only deepened when the autopsy results came back. ebony and dolores were actually killed 24 ho
zooming up from up here on the street, and comes by her at a fast rate of speed. that s my car. okay it just seems past me. wow. she sees it while she s on the phone. there comes, there goes. absolutely. police swarmed the neighborhood hoping to nab the car thief. he was nowhere to be found but police soon discovered the stolen car captured here on a cruisers dash camera. it was parked in the driveway with vacant houses engulfed in flames. firefighters called to the scene to extinguish the fire made agreeably discovery. two bodies burned beyond recognition. and the victims, another mother and her teenage daughter. dental records confirmed the identities of the bodies found monday in the trunk of the stolen car. 42 year old dolores do it and her daughter, 19 year old ebony to it. she worked at a nursing home and she love taking care of the elderly population. i mean, she loved those people. and they loved her. patricia smith remembers her sister dolores as a mother and nurse who
detectives bernie nelson and tony sharpton or hope that their collective experience would help crack two of the most horrific murder cases they had ever encountered. when you back up and look at what you ve got, the scary fact is somebody is killing mothers and daughters, right? that s the commonality. yes and within close proximity of where the duets were found burned in the vehicle it was just two blocks away from where the often s were shot in their house. . the detective suspected they were dealing with the same murder and both cases, especially when they realized dolores the wit was a single mom and a nurse, just like karen loft in. but first, they exhausted the usual suspects. dolores had an ex husband and an ex girlfriend, but both had solid alibis. we had given them polygraph tests. they passed. we did bound ground checks on them. we found out where they were and there was nothing that would lead us to say that they were involved. as in the lawton case, when