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Deal they could. >> brown's prints were found on a soda bottle in denise's car. proof he was involved. despite brown and caballero's conflicting versions of what happened, their stories were identical on one count. they had breakfast together just hours after dumping denise's body in the canal. >> they went to an i-hop restaurant. off commercial boulevard and 441 in the city of tamarac. >> investigators tracked down the receipt for that meal. >> when it asked for the waitress to enter how many customers were present, it didn't say two customers. it said three customers. >> this explained why t...

Investigators now had two men in custody for the abduction and murder of denise o'neill. luis caballero and isac brown. not surprisingly each man identified the other as the killer. complicating things further, investigators discovered that a third man was with caballero and brown on the morning they disposed of the body. >> it is absolutely shocking. the defense now can say the real culprit is out there. the real culprit is the person who you haven't charged. >> but who was this third man? when police did a background check on luis caballero they learned he had been arrested a month earlier f...

>> they were absolute barbarians. they should have been burned alive. all three of them. and i make no bones about it. and they say, let he who has no sin cast the first stone. let me tell you, i would have no problem casting all the stones. >> robert messer was tried and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years. isac brown was convicted of five counts, including second-degree murder. luis caballero was convicted of kidnapping and murder, and he now sits on death row. >> i thanked god for forensic science. and thank god for the men and women who donate their time to study it. to bri...

Isac brown stayed behind. at some point, denise was able to remove her gym membership card and hide it underneath a cardboard box, leaving proof that she had been in caballero's apartment. when caballero returned with messer, he sexually assaulted her. then used electrical cords from the heat rocks to strangle her to death. the trio wrapped denise's body in the sheet using the belt, shoelaces, and the electrical cords. they used denise's car to drive to the canal, where they dumped her body. they tracked sand into the car and left their fingerprints behind. later, the three went to breakfast.

But when dna results came back only one of the three, luis caballero, was tied to the sexual assault. based on the forensic evidence and witness interrogations, investigators believe that caballero planned the attack on an afternoon when denise was doing her laundry. when no one was around, he grabbed her -- and forced her into his apartment. and with isac brown's help gagged and tied her up. he took her atm card and forced her to divulge her p.i.n. number. caballero then left to get some money and on the way back picked up robert messer.