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Recent interactions with shannon was that maybe she had done something. >> he told everything on the stand. >> reporter: but he didn't hold back? >> no, he really didn't hold back. the story is out. so you have to go ahead and tell the truth because if you don't you look like a liar now. >> reporter: so in that sense, jermeir did do the right thing? >> he did. >> reporter: the defense argued shannon was being framed for a murder jermeir alone committed. >> shannon crawley's lawyer was trying to paint jermeir as a crooked cop, you know, everything kind of elevates shannon crawley as she couldn'...

Around the time denita was killed. >> i'm hearing gunshots coming from somewhere around here. >> reporter: the caller was the apartment's maintenance supervisor, who'd been working near denita's unit. >> when he heard the shot, he'd looked up in that direction and he told me he saw a female that was about 5'10", hair in a ponytail, and had some kind of emblems on her clothing. >> the young lady that stays over here, she heard it too and she's like upset and shaking and stuff like that. >> she was covering her face and she went and got into her truck and started driving away. >> reporter: this ...

Lipstick, keys, that kind of thing. all coming down the staircase. and first thing i'm wondering is, was there a struggle? >> was her wallet there? >> the wallet was there. >> and money in it? >> there must have been because at first we didn't think it was a robbery. >> reporter: edythe, who knew none of this, now rushed to denita's building, where she hoped to find her close friend but instead was greeted by several of the university's professors. >> i was like, "what are you all doing here?" and they were like, "you know, unfortunately she's not alive." everything in me, you know, just went ...

Eyeball, and she still has her hands over her face. and he says, "ma'am, did you hear a shot or something?" and she shakes her head up and down yes. and he says, "where'd it come from?" and she points her head in one direction and he says, "why are you nervous?" and she's like, "you heard the shot." and he says let me call the police. and then she pulls off and takes off out the complex. >> reporter: what do you make of that? >> that's kind of like make the hair on the back of our neck stand up. >> reporter: so now police called jermeir stroud, who was on his way back home to greensboro, and a...

What might have just happened there? >> i didn't see anyone. >> just to hear how she presented the information, her poise and her demeanor and all that kind of stuff, she's a credible witness. i mean, she tells a credible story. >> reporter: and the defense did have those phone conversations shannon recorded in which she insists jermeir threatened her and incriminated himself. >> you know i already got away with murder once. you think i can't do it again? >> i'm sure you can. >> reporter: but shannon's defense attorney ultimately chose not to play them. instead they were presented by the prose...