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And evans could see blood and debris left by the ambulance crew. what was your first idea of what appeared to have happened here? >> you know, when i first walked up, i went with what appeared to be the obvious. that someone had simply walked from the side of the house, fired the shot, and then exited back toward the rear of the house. so this is almost like an alley here. so it would provide concealment. >> reporter: take advantage of surprise. >> yeah. if someone was gonna take a shot, that made the most sense. >> reporter: believing the shot came from a handgun, police looked for shell casi...

Detective evans looked through sae's records, and there it was, a pledge list with shane's name crossed off. >> and then it -- it hit. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed is because it was something this weird. >> evans went to one of trent's closest friends and asked had he heard of this guy shane ragland? >> and he said, "shane ragland." and then i could just sort of see it at that point on his face, you know? and i let him tell the story. >> a story about an unpleasant little incident. shane was among the freshmen pledging the sae fraternity. and one d...

Don't get me involved. i want to do this for the family. this guy is dangerous. but until you get handcuffs on him, you can't involve me. >> evans knew even if he arrested the guy, a mystery woman testifying about something an ex-boyfriend told her, it wouldn't be enough. >> i can imagine the prosecutor saying, i can't just put her on the stand. his attorney will come along and say, "she's full of it." >> yeah, and in this particular case it's, yeah. you know what? that in itself is not gonna do it, nor should it. we're still in a situation where this has to come from him. >> him, meaning shan...

Comcast business. powering possibilities. >> chaos is what there was on trent digiuro's front porch. his friends stood over the body and stared out into the dark with a kind of anticipating horror. >> you're concerned that there's more to come, you know. that was -- that was one shot. is there someone who's gonna shoot again? >> trent was officially pronounced dead at 3:00 a.m. just about the time don evans arrived. evans has retired now, but was a rookie detective back then. this was his first homicide case. what'd you find when you got here? >> there were three young men in this very yard, a...

Would remember he told an ex-girlfriend about the murder. >> and what's gonna keep him from then going up and eliminating her like he did trent digiuro? >> so now evans understood his mystery witness was trying to be brave, but was quite reasonably frightened. how would he ever convince her to take the ultimate risk? >> she was very hesitant to do it, and she was scared to death to confront him. coming up, setting a trap. >> something has been bothering me. something that you told me a long time ago. i wish you never had. >> but who's going to get caught? >> let me ask you a question. you're...