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Fingerprints were on file. >> lo and behold, some of mr. messer's fingerprints were on denise's car. >> when police arrested messer, he too denied any involvement in the murder. >> he said i didn't kill her, i'll tell you what happened. i was there. >> messer said he did nothing. but that caballero and brown were both involved. messer said he was in caballero's living room when caballero and brown raped and murdered denise o'neill in the bedroom. >> i sat there with my fingers in my ears. the tv was up loud. i could barely hear the tv but i heard her screaming. i heard her screams. >> all thre...

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, shoe laces 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. >> they should have been bur...

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 isaac brown's help gagged and tied her up. he took her atm card and forced her to divulge her pin number. caballero then left to get some money and on the way back picked up robert messer. isaac brown stayed behind.

>> investigators now had two men in custody for the abduction and murder of denise o'neill. luis caballero and isaac 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 earli...