1 00:00:15,782 --> 00:00:18,318 TONIGHT ON "DATELINE: A MYSTERY 2 00:00:18,318 --> 00:00:21,488 IN PARADISE. A YOUNG WOMAN, MURDERED, NEAR 3 00:00:21,488 --> 00:00:26,793 THE WHITE SANDS OF JACKSONVILLE BEACH. 4 00:00:26,793 --> 00:00:31,564 >> I WOULD PLAY OUT POSSIBILITIES OF WHAT HAPPENED 5 00:00:31,564 --> 00:00:43,443 THAT NIGHT I JUST THOUGHT ABOUT HOW SCARED 6 00:00:43,443 --> 00:00:47,614 SHE MUST HAVE BEEN >> YOU COULD TELL THAT SHE HAD 7 00:00:47,614 --> 00:00:51,518 FOUGHT FOR HER LIFE. YOU COULD SEE WHAT ALMOST LOOKED 8 00:00:51,518 --> 00:00:53,353 LIKE HAND PRINTS COMING OUT OF THE WINDOW 9 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:54,320 AND THOSE WERE IN BLOOD. >> PEOPLE WERE SCARED. 10 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,022 WOMEN WHO LIVED ALONE WERE SCARED 11 00:00:56,022 --> 00:00:57,624 NEIGHBORS WERE SCARED. >> Reporter: WAS YOUR GUT 12 00:00:57,624 --> 00:00:59,192 TELLING YOU THAT THIS WAS SOMEONE SHE KNEW 13 00:00:59,192 --> 00:01:00,860 >> YES >> EVERYBODY BECAME A SUSPECT. 14 00:01:00,860 --> 00:01:02,362 >> DO YOU THINK THAT YOU WERE OBSESSED WITH HER? 15 00:01:02,362 --> 00:01:03,930 >> I WAS I WAS OBSESSED 16 00:01:03,930 --> 00:01:05,532 >> HE POINTED DOWN TO COREY'S WINDOW AND SAID, "I WATCH THAT 17 00:01:05,532 --> 00:01:06,700 GIRL DOWN THERE. >> Reporter: ARE YOU STARTING TO 18 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:08,168 THINK SHE COULD BE COREY'S KILLER 19 00:01:08,168 --> 00:01:09,936 >> SHE WAS A PERSON OF INTEREST, DEFINITELY 20 00:01:09,936 --> 00:01:11,905 >> Reporter: HOW ARE YOU FEELING. 21 00:01:11,905 --> 00:01:13,473 I MEAN, THIS IS A MURDER INVESTIGATION! 22 00:01:13,473 --> 00:01:15,075 >> BULLIED HELPLESS 23 00:01:15,075 --> 00:01:16,643 >> WE HAD A PROFILE. WE KNEW THIS WAS OUR KILLER. 24 00:01:16,643 --> 00:01:19,879 >> Reporter: DID EVERYONE'S JAWS DROP 25 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:32,492 >> MY EYES FILLED UP WITH TEARS, I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. 26 00:01:32,492 --> 00:01:41,735 >>> HERE'S ANDREA CANNING WITH "REAR WINDOW." 27 00:01:49,209 --> 00:01:51,311 >> Reporter: MAYBE IT WAS THE HYPNOTIC HUM OF NIGHT COMING TO 28 00:01:51,311 --> 00:01:53,980 LIFE THEN AGAIN, MAYBE IT WAS JUST 29 00:01:53,980 --> 00:01:56,116 THE BOOZE OR THE TALK OF SOME EASY MONEY 30 00:01:56,116 --> 00:01:58,752 >> WE'RE ALL JUST SITTING THERE HAVING A COUPLE BEERS FISHING, 31 00:01:58,752 --> 00:02:00,854 RELAXING AND ENJOYING. >> Reporter: SOMEHOW THREE 32 00:02:00,854 --> 00:02:06,693 FRIENDS KICKING BACK ON A LAKESIDE DOCK FOUND THEIR 33 00:02:06,693 --> 00:02:08,828 EVENING SLIDING INTO THE PAST, A BRUTAL UNSOLVED MURDER, AN 34 00:02:08,828 --> 00:02:13,600 INVESTIGATION STALLED, AN OLD NAME RESURRECTED 35 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,770 AS THEY REMEMBERED, THEIR EYES GREW WIDE. 36 00:02:16,770 --> 00:02:19,406 WHAT IS YOUR GUT TELLING YOU AS YOU'RE SITTING ON THAT DOCK? 37 00:02:19,406 --> 00:02:23,109 >> WE'RE PROBABLY ON TO SOMETHING. 38 00:02:23,109 --> 00:02:27,480 >> Reporter: AND SOMEONE WHO WOULD PREFER TO STAY HIDDEN. 39 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:36,156 STRANGE HOW THE NIGHT CAN SHINE A LIGHT INTO THE DARKEST PLACES. 40 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:38,458 LIKE SO MANY OTHERS, COREY PARKER CAME TO FLORIDA FOR THE 41 00:02:38,458 --> 00:02:41,561 WAVES AND WEATHER, BUT SHE STAYED FOR THE PEOPLE. 42 00:02:41,561 --> 00:02:43,296 LIKE AMY LAVIN DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME 43 00:02:43,296 --> 00:02:47,467 YOU MET COREY PARKER >> I DO. 44 00:02:47,467 --> 00:02:50,470 >> Reporter: COREY, A YOUNG 20-SOMETHING WHEN SHE AND AMY 45 00:02:50,470 --> 00:02:54,374 BECAME FAST FRIENDS. >> WE WERE AT PETE'S BAR ON THE 46 00:02:54,374 --> 00:02:56,976 BEACH. AND WE WERE ACTUALLY IN THE 47 00:02:56,976 --> 00:03:00,180 BATHROOM WAITING IN LINE >> Reporter: AND WHAT DID YOU 48 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:03,883 SAY TO HER >> I THINK SHE STARTED THE 49 00:03:03,883 --> 00:03:06,753 CONVERSATION AND JUST SAID, HEY, I SEE YOU AROUND ALL THE TIME. 50 00:03:06,753 --> 00:03:08,088 YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD HANG OUT I SAID ALL RIGHT 51 00:03:08,088 --> 00:03:10,724 >> Reporter: DID YOU TWO GET INTO A LOT OF TROUBLE? 52 00:03:10,724 --> 00:03:13,393 >> WE DIDN'T GET CAUGHT DOING THINGS OR WE PROBABLY WOULD 53 00:03:13,393 --> 00:03:16,529 HAVE >> Reporter: COREY WAS A 54 00:03:16,529 --> 00:03:19,733 TRANSPLANT FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK, TOWERING AND SWEET LIKE A 55 00:03:19,733 --> 00:03:23,436 SUGAR MAPLE. >> COREY WAS 5'11", AND SHE 56 00:03:23,436 --> 00:03:32,412 WOULD WEAR HEELS SO SHE WAS SO TALL, AND I'M VERY 57 00:03:32,412 --> 00:03:34,581 SHORT. I THINK EVERY TIME SHE WALKED 58 00:03:34,581 --> 00:03:37,917 INTO A ROOM, PEOPLE LOOKED AT HER AND SHE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL 59 00:03:37,917 --> 00:03:40,387 >> Reporter: DID SHE KIND OF LOOK LIKE A MODEL BEING 5'11"? 60 00:03:40,387 --> 00:03:43,089 >> SHE COULD DEFINITELY MODEL. >> Reporter: INSTEAD SHE CHOSE A 61 00:03:43,089 --> 00:03:45,658 HUMBLER ROUTE, TAKING CLASSES AT A LOCAL COLLEGE AND WAITING 62 00:03:45,658 --> 00:03:47,660 TABLES AT RAGTIME TAVERN AT JACKSONVILLE BEACH 63 00:03:47,660 --> 00:03:50,930 AMY SAYS THAT WAS PURE COREY DID SHE LIKE BEING A WAITRESS? 64 00:03:50,930 --> 00:03:55,335 >> SHE LOVED IT. SHE COULD TALK TO PEOPLE AND 65 00:03:55,335 --> 00:03:57,771 SHE WAS SUPER FRIENDLY >> Reporter: SHE WAS A PEOPLE 66 00:03:57,771 --> 00:04:00,707 PERSON >> YES 67 00:04:00,707 --> 00:04:02,809 >> Reporter: ANOTHER REASON SHE LOVED COREY, BOTH WERE FIERCELY 68 00:04:02,809 --> 00:04:06,513 INDEPENDENT. COREY, IN PARTICULAR, HAD JUST 69 00:04:06,513 --> 00:04:09,182 MOVED INTO HER OWN APARTMENT >> THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AN 70 00:04:09,182 --> 00:04:11,251 EXCITING MOMENT FOR HER, MOVING INTO THIS PLACE BECAUSE SHE WAS 71 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:13,953 FINALLY BEING ABLE TO DO IT ON HER OWN. 72 00:04:13,953 --> 00:04:16,056 >> Reporter: THIS WAS A BIG KIND OF INDEPENDENCE DAY FOR HER 73 00:04:16,056 --> 00:04:17,691 THEN >> IT WAS A REALLY BIG DEAL, 74 00:04:17,691 --> 00:04:20,060 YEAH >> I WAS EXCITED THAT SOMEBODY 75 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:21,861 ELSE WAS GOING TO BE MOVING IN THAT I MIGHT BE ABLE TO TALK 76 00:04:21,861 --> 00:04:25,065 WITH >> Reporter: ASHLEY BURG 77 00:04:25,065 --> 00:04:29,269 REMEMBERS COREY'S MOVE-IN DAY THAT SEPTEMBER OF 1998 78 00:04:29,269 --> 00:04:31,371 ASHLEY, THEN 18, LIVED NEXT DOOR WITH HER MOM AND OLDER BROTHER 79 00:04:31,371 --> 00:04:34,574 JOE. COREY, AT 25, SEEMED LIKE A BIG 80 00:04:34,574 --> 00:04:38,211 SISTER >> WE WOULD SIT OUTSIDE. 81 00:04:38,211 --> 00:04:40,380 SHE WOULD DO HER LAUNDRY, WE'D HAVE A LITTLE GLASS AND WINE AND 82 00:04:40,380 --> 00:04:43,583 JUST TALK. >> Reporter: ABOUT WORK, SCHOOL 83 00:04:43,583 --> 00:04:47,821 AND COREY'S NEW BOYFRIEND, A YOUNG MAN SHE'D ONLY MET THREE 84 00:04:47,821 --> 00:04:49,389 WEEKS EARLIER AT ONE OF HER FAVORITE LATE NIGHT HAUNTS, THE 85 00:04:49,389 --> 00:04:53,093 RITZ ASHLEY SENSED HER NEIGHBOR WAS 86 00:04:53,093 --> 00:04:56,262 FALLING IN LOVE. >> IT STARTED GETTING PRETTY 87 00:04:56,262 --> 00:05:00,500 CLOSE FOR THEM I REALLY FEEL LIKE THAT. 88 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:02,602 >> Reporter: BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING TROUBLING, TOO 89 00:05:02,602 --> 00:05:06,840 COREY WAS FEELING UNEASY ABOUT HER GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT 90 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:11,611 HER BEDROOM AND FRONT DOOR WERE ACROSS FROM ANOTHER BUILDING 91 00:05:11,611 --> 00:05:16,383 >> IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE IN OUR BUILDING THAT SAW A PEEPING TOM, 92 00:05:16,383 --> 00:05:20,487 AND SAW THAT SOMEONE WAS LOOKING INTO HER WINDOWS 93 00:05:20,487 --> 00:05:23,256 >> Reporter: ASHLEY SAYS FOR THAT REASON COREY PREFERRED 94 00:05:23,256 --> 00:05:26,426 HANGING OUT IN THE BACK OF THE APARTMENT IN THE KITCHEN 95 00:05:26,426 --> 00:05:30,130 THAT'S WHERE THEY WERE THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING. 96 00:05:30,130 --> 00:05:32,966 COREY WAS MAKING DESSERT TO BRING TO A FRIEND'S HOUSE FOR 97 00:05:32,966 --> 00:05:34,934 THE NEXT DAY'S FEAST >> SO WE DRANK A BEER, STARTED 98 00:05:34,934 --> 00:05:37,070 MAKING SOME PIES, AND SHE WAS TELLING ME ABOUT THANKSGIVING. 99 00:05:37,070 --> 00:05:41,241 SHE WAS TELLING ME WHERE SHE WAS GOING. 100 00:05:41,241 --> 00:05:46,546 AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW SHE COULD BAKE 101 00:05:46,546 --> 00:05:49,215 >> Reporter: WHEN SHE FINISHED, COREY WENT OUT FOR THE EVENING 102 00:05:49,215 --> 00:05:51,851 AMY, WHO HAD LEFT TOWN FOR THANKSGIVING, REMEMBERS BEING 103 00:05:51,851 --> 00:05:55,555 TEMPTED TO STICK AROUND JACKSONVILLE BEACH SO SHE COULD 104 00:05:55,555 --> 00:05:57,657 PARTY WITH HER BEST FRIEND >> LOOKING BACK, I WISH I HAD, 105 00:05:57,657 --> 00:06:01,361 BUT I OPTED TO GO TO MY MOM'S THE NIGHT BEFORE AND SPEND THE 106 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:05,598 NIGHT. >> Reporter: PHOTOS FROM THAT 107 00:06:05,598 --> 00:06:09,336 NIGHT SHOW COREY INSIDE HER HANGOUT, THE RITZ. 108 00:06:09,336 --> 00:06:13,039 SHE'S SEEN LOOKING BACK AT THE CAMERA, ONE OF THE WOMEN THERE 109 00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:16,710 WAS A NEW FRIEND HER NAME WAS TIFFANY ZIENTA. 110 00:06:16,710 --> 00:06:18,445 >> WE WERE YOUNG AND ALL IN COLLEGE AND FELT THAT, YOU KNOW, 111 00:06:18,445 --> 00:06:20,447 WE JUST WOULD ALL GO HANG OUT. >> Reporter: YOU AND COREY WENT 112 00:06:20,447 --> 00:06:22,048 OUT A LOT? >> WE DID. 113 00:06:22,048 --> 00:06:24,084 >> Reporter: YOUR RELATIONSHIP KEPT GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER 114 00:06:24,084 --> 00:06:26,219 >> YES ON MY PART, I GUESS. 115 00:06:26,219 --> 00:06:31,057 I CAN'T ANSWER FOR COREY BUT YEAH 116 00:06:31,057 --> 00:06:37,430 FROM MY VANTAGE POINT. >> Reporter: THAT NIGHT, TIFFANY 117 00:06:37,430 --> 00:06:42,102 SAYS, COREY, USUALLY THE BUBBLIEST IN THE ROOM HAD 118 00:06:42,102 --> 00:06:43,703 FIZZLED OUT EARLY, 1:30 A.M. >> WE LEFT AT THE SAME TIME. 119 00:06:43,703 --> 00:06:46,306 >> Reporter: HOW DO YOU PART WAYS 120 00:06:46,306 --> 00:06:49,509 >> SHE GOT IN HER CAR AND I GOT A RIDE FROM A CO-WORKER. 121 00:06:49,509 --> 00:06:53,213 >> Reporter: SHE SAYS COREY PROMISED TO STOP BY HER PLACE 122 00:06:53,213 --> 00:06:55,815 THE NEXT DAY, BUT THANKSGIVING CAME AND COREY WAS A NO-SHOW 123 00:06:55,815 --> 00:06:59,085 >> I DIDN'T THINK MUCH ABOUT IT. BUT I DID TELL MY MOM THAT I WAS 124 00:06:59,085 --> 00:07:01,154 A LITTLE BUMMED OUT THAT SHE DIDN'T CALL AND DIDN'T COME BY 125 00:07:01,154 --> 00:07:03,256 >> Reporter: WAS THAT LIKE COREY TO NOT CALL -- 126 00:07:03,256 --> 00:07:06,192 >> NOT AT ALL. >> Reporter: IS SHE THE TYPE 127 00:07:06,192 --> 00:07:09,095 THAT WOULD SAY, HEY, I'M GOING TO BOW OUT FOR TONIGHT 128 00:07:09,095 --> 00:07:13,633 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: IT WASN'T UNTIL THE 129 00:07:13,633 --> 00:07:15,468 DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING, BLACK FRIDAY, THAT SOMEONE FINALLY 130 00:07:15,468 --> 00:07:18,638 NOTICED COREY MISSING. SHE DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR HER 131 00:07:18,638 --> 00:07:28,181 MORNING SHIFT AT THE RESTAURANT. NO ONE HAD HEARD FROM HER IN 132 00:07:28,181 --> 00:07:30,450 MORE THAN A DAY. >> SO ONE OF THE COOKS, WHO WAS 133 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:32,919 A FRIEND OF OURS, SAID I'LL GO CHECK ON HER, BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T 134 00:07:32,919 --> 00:07:35,055 LIVE FAR FROM WHERE SHE WORKED >> Reporter: THE MAN RETURNED TO 135 00:07:35,055 --> 00:07:37,190 THE RESTAURANT TO REPORT THAT COREY HADN'T ANSWERED HER DOOR 136 00:07:37,190 --> 00:07:39,826 ALARMED, THE MANAGER SENT HIM BACK 137 00:07:39,826 --> 00:07:43,063 >> HE WALKED AROUND THE BACK OF HER APARTMENT, AND HER BLINDS 138 00:07:43,063 --> 00:07:47,233 WERE CLOSED IN THE BACK, HER BEDROOM, BUT THERE WAS A LITTLE 139 00:07:47,233 --> 00:07:50,403 OPENING. AND HE COULD SEE HER FOOT AND 140 00:07:50,403 --> 00:07:53,073 THERE WAS BLOOD ON HER FOOT. >> Reporter: THE CO-WORKER 141 00:07:53,073 --> 00:07:56,776 IMMEDIATELY RACED BACK TO WORK IN A PANIC 142 00:07:56,776 --> 00:08:00,013 POLICE WERE CALLED COREY PARKER HAD JUST BEEN 143 00:08:00,013 --> 00:08:06,486 FOUND. >> WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO COREY? 144 00:08:06,486 --> 00:08:08,421 WHEN WE COME BACK, THE FIRST CHILLING CLUES 145 00:08:08,421 --> 00:08:11,091 >> YOU COULD TELL THAT SHE HAD FOUGHT FOR HER LIFE. 146 00:08:11,091 --> 00:08:13,727 >> AND WHY DETECTIVES ARE SURE HER ATTACKER WAS NO STRANGER 147 00:08:13,727 --> 00:08:34,614 >> THAT SPEAKS TO SOME SORT OF A >>> IT WAS JUST BEFORE NOON ON 148 00:08:34,614 --> 00:08:39,152 BLACK FRIDAY ASHLEY BURG WOKE UP TO BANGING 149 00:08:39,152 --> 00:08:42,555 AT HER FRONT DOOR. IT WAS THE POLICE. 150 00:08:42,555 --> 00:08:45,692 >> THEY'RE LIKE, ARE YOU COREY PARKER 151 00:08:45,692 --> 00:08:47,293 I SAID, NO, I'M NOT. I SAID, I POINT AT THE KIND OF 152 00:08:47,293 --> 00:08:51,297 LIKE THE WINDOW NEXT TO ME, WHICH WAS HER HOUSE. 153 00:08:51,297 --> 00:08:53,700 AND I SAID, SHE LIVES RIGHT THERE. 154 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:55,802 >> MOMENTS LATER, OFFICERS WERE IN COREY'S APARTMENT 155 00:08:55,802 --> 00:09:03,243 >> AND I HEARD WHAT, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD SAID THERE SHE IS 156 00:09:03,243 --> 00:09:06,112 AND I JUST FELL TO MY KNEES. >> Reporter: 25-YEAR-OLD COREY 157 00:09:06,112 --> 00:09:12,419 PARKER WAS DEAD. IT WAS CLEAR SHE'D BEEN 158 00:09:12,419 --> 00:09:19,492 MURDERED INVESTIGATORS CALLED ANGELA 159 00:09:19,492 --> 00:09:21,094 COREY, THEN AN ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR 160 00:09:21,094 --> 00:09:23,730 >> THE POLICE WERE ALL THERE WHEN I ARRIVED, AND SO THEY 161 00:09:23,730 --> 00:09:26,366 WALKED ME THROUGH THE SCENE. >> Reporter: HOW HARD WAS IT 162 00:09:26,366 --> 00:09:28,435 SEEING COREY PARKER IN THAT WAY? >> IT WAS BRUTAL BECAUSE YOU 163 00:09:28,435 --> 00:09:31,137 COULD TELL THAT SHE HAD FOUGHT FOR HER LIFE 164 00:09:31,137 --> 00:09:34,274 YOU COULD TELL THAT SHE WAS AT HER MOST VULNERABLE. 165 00:09:34,274 --> 00:09:37,043 ALONE AND IN BED AND THAT SHE HAD BEEN, YOU KNOW, BRUTALLY AND 166 00:09:37,043 --> 00:09:39,079 VICIOUSLY STABBED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 167 00:09:39,079 --> 00:09:41,214 >> Reporter: STABBED MORE THAN A HUNDRED TIMES. 168 00:09:41,214 --> 00:09:45,118 THIS WAS A SICK INDIVIDUAL WHO DID THIS 169 00:09:45,118 --> 00:09:48,088 >> VERY, VERY. >> Reporter: IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG 170 00:09:48,088 --> 00:09:50,757 FOR WORD OF COREY'S DEATH TO SPREAD FROM THE TINY APARTMENT 171 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:54,461 AMY LAVIN, STILL VISITING HER MOTHER OUT OF TOWN, GOT A CALL 172 00:09:54,461 --> 00:09:57,130 FROM COREY'S BOYFRIEND >> HE WAS CRYING 173 00:09:57,130 --> 00:09:59,232 AND HE SAID, DID YOU HEAR WHAT'S GOING ON 174 00:09:59,232 --> 00:10:01,901 I'M SO CONFUSED. I SAID NO. 175 00:10:01,901 --> 00:10:04,037 WHAT'S WRONG EVERYTHING'S FINE. 176 00:10:04,037 --> 00:10:07,207 AND HE SAID, COREY, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH COREY 177 00:10:07,207 --> 00:10:09,843 SOMEBODY FOUND HER IN BLOOD. AND I SAID, NO 178 00:10:09,843 --> 00:10:12,479 NO, SHE'S FINE I TALKED TO HER YESTERDAY. 179 00:10:12,479 --> 00:10:18,318 EVERYTHING'S FINE. >> Reporter: STILL, SHE DROVE 180 00:10:18,318 --> 00:10:23,623 BACK TO JACKSONVILLE BEACH, STRAIGHT TO THE POLICE STATION, 181 00:10:23,623 --> 00:10:28,361 JUST TO MAKE SURE. DID IT FINALLY REGISTER AT THE 182 00:10:28,361 --> 00:10:31,564 POLICE STATION EVENTUALLY? >> I WENT INTO A ROOM WITH A 183 00:10:31,564 --> 00:10:33,733 DETECTIVE. THEY DID CONFIRM THAT SHE WAS 184 00:10:33,733 --> 00:10:36,236 FOUND IN HER HOME DEAD I KEPT THINKING, SOMETHING 185 00:10:36,236 --> 00:10:37,871 HAPPENED TO HER HEART. I DON'T KNOW WHY I KEPT GOING 186 00:10:37,871 --> 00:10:40,006 BACK TO THAT IN MY MIND. I DON'T KNOW WHY 187 00:10:40,006 --> 00:10:42,409 >> Reporter: TIFFANY ZIENTA WHO HAD BEEN OUT WITH COREY TWO 188 00:10:42,409 --> 00:10:45,111 NIGHTS EARLIER, WAS FINISHING HER BARTENDER SHIFT WHEN A 189 00:10:45,111 --> 00:10:47,981 CUSTOMER BROKE THE NEWS TO HER >> I HAD THIS FEELING KIND OF 190 00:10:47,981 --> 00:10:51,685 WASH OVER ME AND CALLED AMY 191 00:10:51,685 --> 00:10:58,058 AND ASKED HER IF IT WAS TRUE AND SHE SAID IT WAS. 192 00:10:58,058 --> 00:11:02,295 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES ON THE SCENE, MEANWHILE, WERE BUSY 193 00:11:02,295 --> 00:11:06,466 TALKING TO COREY'S NEIGHBORS AND SIZING UP THE LAYOUT AND 194 00:11:06,466 --> 00:11:09,169 LOCATION OF HER APARTMENT. THAT IN ITSELF WAS A RED FLAG. 195 00:11:09,169 --> 00:11:14,474 MY FIRST TIME HERE AT FIRST GLANCE DOESN'T NECESSARILY FEEL 196 00:11:14,474 --> 00:11:16,810 LIKE THE SAFEST SITUATION FOR A YOUNG WOMAN LIVING IN THIS 197 00:11:16,810 --> 00:11:19,713 GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT >> RIGHT 198 00:11:19,713 --> 00:11:21,381 THERE'S A LOT OF TRANSIENT TRAFFIC THAT COMES THROUGH HERE. 199 00:11:21,381 --> 00:11:25,085 THE BEACH IS THREE BLOCKS FROM HERE 200 00:11:25,085 --> 00:11:29,322 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES BILLY CARLYLE AND KATIE KINGSTON, BOTH 201 00:11:29,322 --> 00:11:32,525 NOW RETIRED, WORKED THE CASE >> SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN 202 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:34,627 AND WHENEVER SHE WOULD WALK TO AND FROM HER APARTMENT, I'M SURE 203 00:11:34,627 --> 00:11:36,763 THERE WERE A LOT OF GUYS THAT WERE LOOKING AT HER. 204 00:11:36,763 --> 00:11:38,331 >> Reporter: THERE'S A LOT OF APARTMENTS AROUND HERE 205 00:11:38,331 --> 00:11:42,268 YOU MUST HAVE HAD TO DO A LOT OF CANVASSING 206 00:11:42,268 --> 00:11:43,703 >> WE DID. WE HAD TO TALK TO EVERY ONE OF 207 00:11:43,703 --> 00:11:46,306 THOSE PEOPLE, DOCUMENT IT ALL. >> THERE'S A LOT OF PARTYING 208 00:11:46,306 --> 00:11:48,975 GOING ON AT THE BEACH. YOU HAVE PEOPLE WANDERING UP AND 209 00:11:48,975 --> 00:11:53,747 DOWN THE STREETS HERE AT 2:00, 3:00 IN THE MORNING SOMETIMES. 210 00:11:53,747 --> 00:11:57,450 SO YOU KNOW, YEAH, THAT'S A CONCERN. 211 00:11:57,450 --> 00:11:59,552 >> Reporter: NEIGHBORS TOLD POLICE THERE HAD LATELY BEEN A 212 00:11:59,552 --> 00:12:01,688 PEEPING TOM CREEPING AROUND THE AREA 213 00:12:01,688 --> 00:12:03,790 SO IT WAS POSSIBLE SHE WAS KILLED BY A COMPLETE STRANGER 214 00:12:03,790 --> 00:12:10,163 WHO HAD BROKEN INTO HER APARTMENT. 215 00:12:10,163 --> 00:12:14,934 >> IT LOOKED LIKE THE SUSPECT HAD PUT HIS HAND ON THE KITCHEN 216 00:12:14,934 --> 00:12:17,570 COUNTER RIGHT THERE AT THE LIP OF THE SINK IN ORDER TO LIFT 217 00:12:17,570 --> 00:12:19,706 HIMSELF UP ON THE CABINET TO BE ABLE TO EXTRICATE HIMSELF FROM 218 00:12:19,706 --> 00:12:22,342 THE WINDOW >> YOU COULD SEE WHAT ALMOST 219 00:12:22,342 --> 00:12:26,613 LOOKED LIKE HAND PRINTS COMING LIKE THEY LOWERED THEMSELF OUT 220 00:12:26,613 --> 00:12:29,249 THE WINDOW AND THOSE WERE IN BLOOD. 221 00:12:29,249 --> 00:12:31,351 >> Reporter: IT WAS COREY'S BLOOD. 222 00:12:31,351 --> 00:12:33,486 TRACES OF HER MURDER LEFT BY THE KILLER 223 00:12:33,486 --> 00:12:37,090 BUT THE IDEA THAT THIS WAS A RANDOM KILLING DIDN'T SIT WELL 224 00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:38,792 WITH DETECTIVES. WAS YOUR GUT TELLING YOU THAT 225 00:12:38,792 --> 00:12:40,927 THIS WAS SOMEONE SHE KNEW? >> YES 226 00:12:40,927 --> 00:12:43,096 YES. >> Reporter: WHAT WAS IT 227 00:12:43,096 --> 00:12:46,733 WHY WERE YOU THINKING THAT >> WELL, BECAUSE OF THE 228 00:12:46,733 --> 00:12:50,470 EXTENSIVE STAB WOUNDS. SHE WAS STABBED 101 TIMES. 229 00:12:50,470 --> 00:12:54,708 AND THAT SPEAKS TO SOME SORT OF A RELATIONSHIP 230 00:12:54,708 --> 00:12:57,344 >> Reporter: THEY HOPED TO FIND TRACES OF HER KILLER IN THE MESS 231 00:12:57,344 --> 00:12:59,446 LEFT BEHIND. THERE WAS PLENTY OF EVIDENCE TO 232 00:12:59,446 --> 00:13:03,183 TEST FINGERPRINTS ON WINEGLASSES AND 233 00:13:03,183 --> 00:13:05,285 CIGARETTE LIGHTERS, HAIR AND BLOOD EVERYWHERE 234 00:13:05,285 --> 00:13:08,488 >> YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHAT'S VALUABLE 235 00:13:08,488 --> 00:13:10,623 SO YOU TRY AND PHOTOGRAPH EVERYTHING, THEN YOU TRY AND 236 00:13:10,623 --> 00:13:14,260 EXAMINE EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN, THAT YOU THINK IS POTENTIALLY 237 00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:16,963 INVOLVED IN IT >> Reporter: AND EVERY ONE 238 00:13:16,963 --> 00:13:19,599 THE FIRST PERSON THEY NEEDED TO TALK TO WAS THE NEW MAN IN 239 00:13:19,599 --> 00:13:21,735 COREY'S LIFE YOU ALL WANTED TO TALK TO THE 240 00:13:21,735 --> 00:13:24,371 BOYFRIEND, A LOGICAL PLACE TO START. 241 00:13:24,371 --> 00:13:29,142 ANY RED FLAGS THERE WITH HIM >> NO. 242 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:31,244 WE DETERMINED THROUGH PLANE FLIGHT TICKETS THAT HE WAS OUT 243 00:13:31,244 --> 00:13:33,613 OF TOWN AT THE TIME. HE WASN'T EVEN HERE IN 244 00:13:33,613 --> 00:13:35,515 JACKSONVILLE BEACH >> Reporter: WAS IT A SOLID 245 00:13:35,515 --> 00:13:40,820 ALIBI? >> SOLID CONFIRMATION. 246 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:42,889 >> Reporter: BUT THESE WERE EARLY DAYS IN THE INVESTIGATION, 247 00:13:42,889 --> 00:13:46,126 AND THERE WERE MANY PEOPLE IN COREY'S WORLD FOR POLICE TO RULE 248 00:13:46,126 --> 00:13:49,796 IN OR OUT INCLUDING A MAN WHO LIVED RIGHT NEXT DOOR. 249 00:13:49,796 --> 00:13:53,566 ASHLEY BURG'S BROTHER. POLICE HAD A REASON TO TALK TO 250 00:13:53,566 --> 00:13:55,669 HIM. >> COMING UP - 251 00:13:55,669 --> 00:14:00,407 >> DID HE HAVE A SOLID ALIBI >> NO. 252 00:14:00,407 --> 00:14:03,610 >> QUESTIONS ABOUT A NEIGHBOR'S WHEREABOUTS, AND THEN SUSPICIONS 253 00:14:03,610 --> 00:14:06,246 ABOUT A CO-WORKER'S FEELINGS FOR COREY. 254 00:14:06,246 --> 00:14:07,847 >> DID SHE KNOW YOU WERE OBSESSED WITH HER? 255 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:27,400 >> I WAS >>> THIS WAS LOW-KEY 256 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,070 JACKSONVILLE BEACH, FLORIDA, WHERE THE MAIN CONCERN OF THE 257 00:14:30,070 --> 00:14:33,239 DAY WAS HOW HIGH THE WAVES WERE RIDING 258 00:14:33,239 --> 00:14:40,680 A YOUNG, SINGLE WOMAN ATTACKED IN THE NIGHT IN HER BED JUST 259 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,883 DIDN'T HAPPEN HERE >> I THINK THIS CASE ILLUSTRATES 260 00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:45,985 EVERY WOMAN'S NIGHTMARE THAT AS HARD AS COREY PARKER TRIED TO BE 261 00:14:45,985 --> 00:14:48,621 SAFE AND SHE HAD ALL HER DOORS LOCKED, SHE STILL WAS THE MOST 262 00:14:48,621 --> 00:14:50,757 VULNERABLE IN THE SANCTITY OF HER OWN HOME 263 00:14:50,757 --> 00:14:53,393 >> WOMEN WHO LIVED ALONE WERE SCARED 264 00:14:53,393 --> 00:14:56,596 >> Reporter: MELISSA NELSON, THEN AN ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR WHO 265 00:14:56,596 --> 00:14:59,432 JOINED THE CASE, RECALLS THE FEAR 266 00:14:59,432 --> 00:15:03,536 >> NEIGHBORS WERE SCARED, PEOPLE SHE WORKED WITH WERE ALARMED 267 00:15:03,536 --> 00:15:06,139 IT WAS A VERY SCARY TIME FOR THAT COMMUNITY 268 00:15:06,139 --> 00:15:09,309 >> Reporter: TIFFANY ZIENTA RAISED IN JACKSONVILLE BEACH 269 00:15:09,309 --> 00:15:12,045 COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS HAD HAPPENED TO SOMEONE SHE KNEW 270 00:15:12,045 --> 00:15:14,614 >> I MEAN, THEY KEPT CALLING IT THE BLOODIEST CRIME SCENE IN 271 00:15:14,614 --> 00:15:18,852 JACKSONVILLE BEACH IN 25 YEARS THAT'S NOT REALLY COMFORTING TO 272 00:15:18,852 --> 00:15:22,055 FEEL OR TO HEAR. >> Reporter: ASHLEY BURG WAS 273 00:15:22,055 --> 00:15:24,691 ALSO FRIGHTENED, FOR ANOTHER REASON 274 00:15:24,691 --> 00:15:27,360 DETECTIVES THOUGHT HER BROTHER JOE HAD BEEN TOO VAGUE ABOUT 275 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,530 WHERE HE'D BEEN IN THE HOURS SURROUNDING COREY'S DEATH. 276 00:15:30,530 --> 00:15:35,869 DID HE HAVE A SOLID ALIBI? >> NOT REALLY, NO. 277 00:15:35,869 --> 00:15:40,106 >> Reporter: WHAT WAS HE DOING >> WELL, YOU KNOW, HE WAS AT THE 278 00:15:40,106 --> 00:15:43,810 APARTMENT JUST HANGING AROUND. AND HE COMES AND GOES. 279 00:15:43,810 --> 00:15:46,446 SO WE COULDN'T REALLY ESTABLISH A SOLID ALIBI AT THE TIME OF THE 280 00:15:46,446 --> 00:15:48,081 CRIME. >> Reporter: THEIR INTEREST GREW 281 00:15:48,081 --> 00:15:50,784 WHEN THEY FOUND A HAIR ON A SOCK IN COREY'S BEDROOM 282 00:15:50,784 --> 00:15:52,852 THE HAIR LOOKED LIKE IT COULD HAVE COME FROM JOE 283 00:15:52,852 --> 00:15:54,954 >> I KNOW WE DID A MICROSCOPIC COMPARISON 284 00:15:54,954 --> 00:15:57,090 AND THAT THE MICROSCOPIC COMPARISON DEVELOPED THAT 285 00:15:57,090 --> 00:15:59,726 LIKENESS >> Reporter: THE TEST THEY USED 286 00:15:59,726 --> 00:16:04,464 BACK THEN WASN'T DEFINITIVE, BUT IT WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE POLICE 287 00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:07,701 SUSPICIOUS AND FOR JOE TO WORRY. >> SO THEY WOULD ASK, WELL, WHY 288 00:16:07,701 --> 00:16:10,637 IS YOUR HAIR ON HER SOCK HE COULDN'T ANSWER THAT. 289 00:16:10,637 --> 00:16:15,108 HE WAS PETRIFIED PETRIFIED. 290 00:16:15,108 --> 00:16:18,845 HE DIDN'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO NEXT 291 00:16:18,845 --> 00:16:24,117 >> Reporter: WHAT POLICE DID WAS TAKE A SAMPLE OF JOE'S DNA FOR 292 00:16:24,117 --> 00:16:28,388 TESTING AND PRESS ON MEANWHILE, THERE WAS ANOTHER 293 00:16:28,388 --> 00:16:32,092 YOUNG MAN THEY WERE INTERESTED IN 294 00:16:32,092 --> 00:16:35,295 A DISHWASHER NAMED ERIC EALY >> HE WAS A CO-WORKER THAT 295 00:16:35,295 --> 00:16:40,333 WORKED WITH COREY AT RAGTIME TAVERN 296 00:16:40,333 --> 00:16:44,304 >> Reporter: AND EVERYONE KNEW HE REALLY LIKED COREY. 297 00:16:44,304 --> 00:16:46,072 >> HAD COME ON TO HER ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS AND HAD ALSO 298 00:16:46,072 --> 00:16:48,508 DONE THAT TO SEVERAL OF THE OTHER WAITRESSES UP THERE. 299 00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:52,245 THEY JUST THOUGHT HE WAS A CREEPY GUY 300 00:16:52,245 --> 00:16:54,914 >> Reporter: WHO HAD GROWN STRANGER BY THE DAY. 301 00:16:54,914 --> 00:16:58,585 POLICE FOUND OUT HE'D BEEN PESTERING COREY TO HAVE 302 00:16:58,585 --> 00:17:01,821 THANKSGIVING DINNER WITH HIM ALONE. 303 00:17:01,821 --> 00:17:04,424 EACH TIME SHE TURNED HIM DOWN. DETECTIVES BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN 304 00:17:04,424 --> 00:17:07,227 IN FOR QUESTIONING >> DID YOU ASK COREY OUT FOR 305 00:17:07,227 --> 00:17:09,729 THANKSGIVING DINNER PRIOR TO CALLING ON - 306 00:17:09,729 --> 00:17:11,865 >> I MAY HAVE MENTIONED IT, BUT I DON'T I DIDN'T ASK HER A 307 00:17:11,865 --> 00:17:13,466 DIRECT QUESTION. >> Reporter: BUT TO THE 308 00:17:13,466 --> 00:17:15,735 DETECTIVES, WHAT THE DISHWASHER DID NEXT WAS A MOVE STRAIGHT OUT 309 00:17:15,735 --> 00:17:21,441 OF A NORMAN BATES' PLAYBOOK. >> HE MADE THIS REALLY NICE 310 00:17:21,441 --> 00:17:24,077 THANKSGIVING DINNER IN HOPES THAT HE COULD CALL HER AND SAY, 311 00:17:24,077 --> 00:17:26,179 I'VE MADE THANKSGIVING DINNER. I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO COME OVER 312 00:17:26,179 --> 00:17:27,747 AND ENJOY THANKSGIVING DINNER WITH ME. 313 00:17:27,747 --> 00:17:29,382 >> Reporter: SO HE MADE THE DINNER FIRST 314 00:17:29,382 --> 00:17:32,052 >> YES >> Reporter: AND THEN CALLED 315 00:17:32,052 --> 00:17:34,254 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: THAT'S A TINY BIT 316 00:17:34,254 --> 00:17:37,357 ON THE CREEPY SIDE >> YEAH. 317 00:17:37,357 --> 00:17:41,061 IT WAS A LITTLE STRANGE. >> Reporter: IT WAS CLEAR HE WAS 318 00:17:41,061 --> 00:17:42,662 INFATUATED >> DO YOU THINK THAT YOU WERE 319 00:17:42,662 --> 00:17:44,164 OBSESSED WITH HER? >> I WAS SLIGHTLY OBSESSED 320 00:17:44,164 --> 00:17:46,866 >> YOU WERE GREATLY OBSESSED, ERIC 321 00:17:46,866 --> 00:17:49,069 JESUS. ADMIT IT 322 00:17:49,069 --> 00:17:51,104 MY GOD >> I WAS 323 00:17:51,104 --> 00:17:52,739 I WAS OBSESSED >> Reporter: FROM THERE, THE 324 00:17:52,739 --> 00:17:55,575 INTERVIEW TOOK AN EVEN DARKER TURN 325 00:17:55,575 --> 00:17:59,612 THE YOUNG MAN ADMITTED TO VIOLENT FANTASIES. 326 00:17:59,612 --> 00:18:01,247 >> TELL ME THE THINKS THAT YOU THINK ABOUT DOING WITH WOMEN 327 00:18:01,247 --> 00:18:03,850 THAT YOU WOULDN'T DO BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE RIGHT THING TO 328 00:18:03,850 --> 00:18:06,519 DO >> YOU LIKE TAKE THEM INTO A 329 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:08,621 BEDROOM AND JUST RAPE THEM >> YEAH. 330 00:18:08,621 --> 00:18:10,757 >> Reporter: HE'S TALKING ABOUT RAPE 331 00:18:10,757 --> 00:18:17,130 THAT'S SCARY STUFF RIGHT THERE >> EXACTLY 332 00:18:17,130 --> 00:18:19,766 >> Reporter: THAT PALED IN COMPARISON TO WHAT HE SAID NEXT. 333 00:18:19,766 --> 00:18:22,936 HE DESCRIBED HOW HE THOUGHT COREY HAD BEEN KILLED. 334 00:18:22,936 --> 00:18:27,707 >> HOW WOULD YOU CONTAIN HER >> TAKING HER DOWN UNTIL SHE WAS 335 00:18:27,707 --> 00:18:30,343 TIRED. AND JUST POKED HER, YOU KNOW, 336 00:18:30,343 --> 00:18:33,079 WHATEVER, STABBED HER. >> Reporter: IN FACT, THAT'S HOW 337 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:36,182 COREY WAS KILLED DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE SCENARIO 338 00:18:36,182 --> 00:18:39,352 THAT HE MIGHT HAVE FELT REALLY REJECTED BY COREY AND HE 339 00:18:39,352 --> 00:18:43,623 SNAPPED? >> ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, YES 340 00:18:43,623 --> 00:18:45,725 THAT COMES INTO YOUR MIND THAT HE ASKED HER MULTIPLE TIMES TO 341 00:18:45,725 --> 00:18:52,899 GO OUT WITH HIM. ALTHOUGH SHE WAS CORDIAL TO HIM, 342 00:18:52,899 --> 00:18:54,467 SHE JUST NEVER WENT THERE. >> YOU SOUND LIKE YOU KNOW A 343 00:18:54,467 --> 00:18:56,603 LITTLE BIT MORE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO COREY 344 00:18:56,603 --> 00:18:58,738 HOW WOULD YOU -- >> HOW WOULD I KNOW? 345 00:18:58,738 --> 00:19:01,741 BECAUSE MAYBE -- MAYBE I WOULD SHARE THE SAME THOUGHTS AS THIS 346 00:19:01,741 --> 00:19:04,177 PERSON THAT DID IT >> Reporter: HE SOUNDED LIKE AN 347 00:19:04,177 --> 00:19:06,179 OBVIOUS SUSPECT. >> I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE 348 00:19:06,179 --> 00:19:08,815 FANTASIZED MYSELF DOING IT INSTEAD OF HIM DOING IT. 349 00:19:08,815 --> 00:19:12,552 BUT I DIDN'T DO IT >> Reporter: DESPITE ALL HIS 350 00:19:12,552 --> 00:19:15,188 INCRIMINATING DESCRIPTIONS, THE DISHWASHER WAS ADAMANT HE HADN'T 351 00:19:15,188 --> 00:19:17,323 KILLED COREY AND POLICE DIDN'T HAVE ANY HARD 352 00:19:17,323 --> 00:19:20,026 EVIDENCE THAT PUT HIM INSIDE HER BEDROOM. 353 00:19:20,026 --> 00:19:23,663 >> HE'S GOT A DENIAL AND YOU GOT NOTHING TO PUT HIM 354 00:19:23,663 --> 00:19:28,301 THERE. >> Reporter: FOR THE TIME BEING, 355 00:19:28,301 --> 00:19:30,070 POLICE HAD TO LET THE MAN GO JUST WHEN IT SEEMED THEIR CASE 356 00:19:30,070 --> 00:19:32,706 COULDN'T GET MORE COMPLICATED, IT DID 357 00:19:32,706 --> 00:19:35,375 COREY'S FRIEND HAD BEEN TALKING AROUND TOWN ABOUT THE MURDER, 358 00:19:35,375 --> 00:19:38,044 AND SHE WAS SAYING ALL THE THINGS THAT CATCH A DETECTIVE'S 359 00:19:38,044 --> 00:19:41,514 ATTENTION. >>> COMING UP -- 360 00:19:41,514 --> 00:19:44,918 ARE YOU READY FOR ANOTHER POTENTIAL SUSPECT? 361 00:19:44,918 --> 00:19:48,121 THIS CLOSE GIRLFRIEND OF COREY'S. 362 00:19:48,121 --> 00:19:50,423 WAS SHE A LITTLE TOO CLOSE >> TIFFANY WAS INFATUATED WITH 363 00:19:50,423 --> 00:19:52,359 COREY? >> YES 364 00:19:52,359 --> 00:20:10,310 HER STATEMENTS ABOUT HOW MUCH SHE LOVED COREY PIQUED OUR 365 00:20:10,310 --> 00:20:13,580 >>> IN THE MONTHS AFTER COREY PARKER'S MURDER, POLICE HAD 366 00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:16,149 SEVERAL POTENTIAL SUSPECTS INCLUDING A NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR 367 00:20:16,149 --> 00:20:19,319 WITH A VAGUE ALIBI AND AN OBSESSED DISHWASHER. 368 00:20:19,319 --> 00:20:21,988 BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TO MAKE AN ARREST 369 00:20:21,988 --> 00:20:29,796 COREY'S FAMILY EVEN OFFERED A REWARD FOR INFORMATION 370 00:20:29,796 --> 00:20:33,199 MELISSA NELSON, NOW A STATE ATTORNEY, WORKED THE CASE. 371 00:20:33,199 --> 00:20:35,869 >> TO THAT END, EVERYBODY WHO PRESENTED AS A POTENTIAL 372 00:20:35,869 --> 00:20:37,704 SUSPECT, THEY WERE RUNNING THAT TO GROUND. 373 00:20:37,704 --> 00:20:39,539 COULD IT BE THIS PERSON? IS IT THIS PERSON? 374 00:20:39,539 --> 00:20:41,174 >> Reporter: AMY LAVIN FOUND HERSELF LOOKING AROUND AT 375 00:20:41,174 --> 00:20:43,243 COREY'S OTHER FRIENDS AND WONDERING COULD IT BE ONE OF 376 00:20:43,243 --> 00:20:44,844 THEM >> EVERYBODY WAS AN ACTUAL 377 00:20:44,844 --> 00:20:46,946 SUSPECT. SO THAT BECAME A LITTLE BIT 378 00:20:46,946 --> 00:20:49,649 SCARY TO ME. >> Reporter: HER KILLER COULD 379 00:20:49,649 --> 00:20:51,751 HAVE BEEN RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE? >> YEAH. 380 00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:54,421 >> Reporter: TIFFANY ZIENTA REMEMBERS JUST WANTING TO BE 381 00:20:54,421 --> 00:20:57,057 HELPFUL LIKE MOST OF COREY'S FRIENDS, SHE MET WITH THE 382 00:20:57,057 --> 00:20:59,192 DETECTIVES THEY WANT TO TALK TO YOU, 383 00:20:59,192 --> 00:21:00,794 DETECTIVES >> WE ALL MADE A STATEMENT 384 00:21:00,794 --> 00:21:03,463 >> Reporter: WELL, THEY WANTED TO TALK TO YOU 385 00:21:03,463 --> 00:21:07,133 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: TIFFANY TOLD THE 386 00:21:07,133 --> 00:21:13,073 DETECTIVES SHE'D BEEN WITH COREY AT THE RITZ BAR WEDNESDAY NIGHT 387 00:21:13,073 --> 00:21:17,777 INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF THANKSGIVING 388 00:21:17,777 --> 00:21:22,082 SHE SAID THEY LEFT THE BAR AT THE SAME TIME, AROUND 1:30 A.M 389 00:21:22,082 --> 00:21:24,684 TIFFANY HITCHED A RIDE WITH ANOTHER FRIEND TO GO BAR 390 00:21:24,684 --> 00:21:28,388 HOPPING. COREY, SHE NOTED, GOT INTO HER 391 00:21:28,388 --> 00:21:30,523 OWN CAR AND HEADED HOME. LATER, TIFFANY SAID, SHE CALLED 392 00:21:30,523 --> 00:21:34,227 COREY'S HOME PHONE >> IT WAS LIKE 2:15. 393 00:21:34,227 --> 00:21:37,430 IT WAS RIGHT AFTER WE LEFT THE ORIGINAL BAR 394 00:21:37,430 --> 00:21:39,566 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES FOLLOWED UP ON WHAT TIFFANY HAD TOLD 395 00:21:39,566 --> 00:21:41,134 THEM CARLYLE SAYS THEY QUICKLY 396 00:21:41,134 --> 00:21:44,437 NOTICED A WRINKLE IN HER STORY >> HER PHONE CALL WAS NOT ON THE 397 00:21:44,437 --> 00:21:46,439 PHONE RECORDS OF COREY PARKER'S HOME RESIDENCE PHONE 398 00:21:46,439 --> 00:21:48,742 >> Reporter: SO SHE'S STARTING TO MAKE SOME INCONSISTENT 399 00:21:48,742 --> 00:21:50,677 STATEMENTS >> EXACTLY 400 00:21:50,677 --> 00:21:52,812 INCONSISTENT STATEMENTS. >> Reporter: MORE TROUBLING TO 401 00:21:52,812 --> 00:21:55,482 POLICE WAS WHAT THEY WERE HEARING FROM COREY'S FRIENDS 402 00:21:55,482 --> 00:21:58,118 THEY WERE SAYING TIFFANY HAD BEEN DESCRIBING THE MURDER, THE 403 00:21:58,118 --> 00:22:00,787 STAB WOUNDS TO THE BODY, DETAILS THAT HADN'T BEEN MADE PUBLIC 404 00:22:00,787 --> 00:22:04,491 THEY ALSO BELIEVED SHE HARBORED DEEP FEELINGS FOR COREY THAT 405 00:22:04,491 --> 00:22:06,626 WEREN'T MUTUAL TIFFANY WAS INFATUATED WITH 406 00:22:06,626 --> 00:22:09,262 COREY? >> YES 407 00:22:09,262 --> 00:22:13,066 >> Reporter: WHAT WERE YOU TOLD? >> WE WERE BASICALLY TOLD THAT 408 00:22:13,066 --> 00:22:15,669 IT WAS BORDERING ON A LITTLE STRANGE, YOU KNOW, WITH WHAT WE 409 00:22:15,669 --> 00:22:22,075 HEARD ABOUT HER STATEMENTS ABOUT HOW MUCH SHE CARED ABOUT COREY 410 00:22:22,075 --> 00:22:25,745 AND HOW MUCH SHE LOVED COREY, IT PIQUED OUR CURIOSITY AND 411 00:22:25,745 --> 00:22:31,084 INTEREST >> Reporter: NOW DETECTIVES 412 00:22:31,084 --> 00:22:36,356 WANTED TO SIT DOWN AGAIN WITH TIFFANY, BUT BY THEN MORE THAN 413 00:22:36,356 --> 00:22:38,992 FIVE MONTHS HAD PASSED SINCE COREY'S MURDER, AND TIFFANY HAD 414 00:22:38,992 --> 00:22:41,161 LEFT TOWN. FOR NEW ORLEANS. 415 00:22:41,161 --> 00:22:43,263 THE MOVE ONLY MADE HER LOOK WORSE TO POLICE. 416 00:22:43,263 --> 00:22:45,932 SO THEY TRACKED HER DOWN HOPING TO CONFRONT HER, BUT TIFFANY 417 00:22:45,932 --> 00:22:48,101 WASN'T HAVING IT >> SHE AT SOME POINT DECIDED SHE 418 00:22:48,101 --> 00:22:51,271 WASN'T GOING TO COOPERATE FURTHER AND REFERRED US TO HER 419 00:22:51,271 --> 00:22:53,907 LAWYER >> Reporter: SO DETECTIVES 420 00:22:53,907 --> 00:22:58,678 DECIDED TO GET A WARRANT FOR TIFFANY'S DNA. 421 00:22:58,678 --> 00:23:01,881 >> WE HAD TO GET A COURT ORDER TO GET HER STANDARDS, HER HAIR, 422 00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:04,050 AND HER BLOOD. >> Reporter: ARE YOU STARTING TO 423 00:23:04,050 --> 00:23:06,786 THINK SHE COULD BE COREY'S KILLER 424 00:23:06,786 --> 00:23:09,289 >> WELL, YOU JUST HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT LEAD. 425 00:23:09,289 --> 00:23:14,060 WE FELT LIKE, BASED ON WHAT WE KNEW TO THAT POINT, THAT SHE WAS 426 00:23:14,060 --> 00:23:17,797 A PERSON OF INTEREST DEFINITELY. MAYBE A VIABLE SUSPECT 427 00:23:17,797 --> 00:23:22,068 >> I'M NOT THE PERSON THAT'S GOING TO KILL SOMEBODY 428 00:23:22,068 --> 00:23:25,238 >> Reporter: LOOKING BACK, TIFFANY IS CONVINCED DETECTIVES 429 00:23:25,238 --> 00:23:27,874 SET THEIR SIGHTS ON HER FROM THE MOMENT SHE FIRST TALKED TO THEM. 430 00:23:27,874 --> 00:23:32,112 THE FACT THAT SHE WAS THE LAST FRIEND TO SEE COREY ALIVE, SHE 431 00:23:32,112 --> 00:23:35,815 SAYS, SHAPED EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWED 432 00:23:35,815 --> 00:23:39,552 >> I NEVER KNEW THAT SAYING I WAS THE LAST ONE WITH HER WAS 433 00:23:39,552 --> 00:23:42,188 GOING TO COME BACK TO HAUNT ME YOU KNOW 434 00:23:42,188 --> 00:23:44,324 POLICE WERE LIKE, WELL, THE KILLER WAS THE LAST ONE. 435 00:23:44,324 --> 00:23:46,960 UNTIL YOU THINK ABOUT IT THAT WAY, YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT IT 436 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,095 THAT WAY >> Reporter: FIRST OF ALL, SHE 437 00:23:49,095 --> 00:23:51,231 SAYS, SHE NEVER LIED ABOUT THAT CALL TO COREY. 438 00:23:51,231 --> 00:23:55,468 NO MATTER WHAT THE PHONE RECORDS SAID 439 00:23:55,468 --> 00:23:58,104 HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT? >> ACCORDING TO MY ATTORNEY, HE 440 00:23:58,104 --> 00:24:00,240 HAD HAD OTHER CLIENTS THAT HAD CALLED PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T SHOW 441 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,909 UP ON PHONE RECORDS EITHER I DON'T KNOW 442 00:24:02,909 --> 00:24:07,247 I DON'T KNOW WHY IT DIDN'T SHOW UP 443 00:24:07,247 --> 00:24:09,249 I HAVE NO IDEA >> Reporter: AS FOR BEING IN 444 00:24:09,249 --> 00:24:12,452 LOVE WITH COREY, IS THERE ANY TRUTH TO THAT? 445 00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:14,554 >> NO. BECAUSE I'M NOT GAY. 446 00:24:14,554 --> 00:24:17,424 I THOUGHT SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL. I THOUGHT SHE WAS A GREAT 447 00:24:17,424 --> 00:24:19,325 PERSON HAVE I BEEN INFATUATED WITH 448 00:24:19,325 --> 00:24:23,063 COREY? NO 449 00:24:23,063 --> 00:24:26,232 >> Reporter: EVERYTHING ELSE SHE DID IN THIS CASE, SHE SAYS, WAS 450 00:24:26,232 --> 00:24:28,835 OUT OF INNOCENCE OR PANIC. SHE LEARNED ABOUT THE BLOODY 451 00:24:28,835 --> 00:24:33,073 CRIME SCENE FROM A FRIEND, A PARAMEDIC WHO HAD BEEN THERE 452 00:24:33,073 --> 00:24:36,309 SHE WENT TO NEW ORLEANS TO REST, NOT ESCAPE 453 00:24:36,309 --> 00:24:40,547 SHE FOUND A LAWYER OUT OF FEAR, NOT GUILT. 454 00:24:40,547 --> 00:24:43,183 HOW ARE YOU FEELING AS THIS IS GETTING MORE INTENSE 455 00:24:43,183 --> 00:24:48,521 I MEAN, THIS IS A MURDER INVESTIGATION. 456 00:24:48,521 --> 00:24:52,759 >> HELPLESS. BULLIED. 457 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:55,929 HELPLESS LIKE THERE WERE GOING TO BE NO 458 00:24:55,929 --> 00:24:59,132 ANSWERS. AND THIS WAS GOING TO HANG OVER 459 00:24:59,132 --> 00:25:02,302 ME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE >> Reporter: BUT BEFORE THEY 460 00:25:02,302 --> 00:25:05,038 COULD MAKE AN ARREST, DETECTIVES NEEDED TO LINK HER DNA TO THE 461 00:25:05,038 --> 00:25:08,675 CRIME SCENE. THAT'S WHEN THINGS GOT REALLY 462 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:13,246 INTERESTING. >>> COMING UP -- 463 00:25:13,246 --> 00:25:22,789 YET ANOTHER PERSON OF INTEREST THIS ONE LURKING IN THE SHADOWS. 464 00:25:22,789 --> 00:25:27,560 >> IT WOULDN'T TAKE MUCH IF SHE AND DO YOU THINK HE'D BEEN 465 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:46,446 WATCHING HER FOR A WHILE >>> JACKSONVILLE BEACH HAD BEEN 466 00:25:46,446 --> 00:25:49,182 HOME TO TIFFANY ZIENTA NOW IT SEEMED HOME HAD TURNED ON 467 00:25:49,182 --> 00:25:51,184 HER. DID YOU THINK THERE'S A CHANCE I 468 00:25:51,184 --> 00:25:54,921 COULD GET ARRESTED >> YES 469 00:25:54,921 --> 00:25:58,558 FOR SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO. >> Reporter: BUT SHE WASN'T 470 00:25:58,558 --> 00:26:00,727 ARRESTED AND NEITHER WAS ANYONE ELSE IN THE MONTHS FOLLOWING 471 00:26:00,727 --> 00:26:08,702 COREY PARKER'S MURDER. A YEAR WENT BY 472 00:26:08,702 --> 00:26:11,338 ANGELA COREY SO THIS WASN'T SOLVED AFTER THE 473 00:26:11,338 --> 00:26:14,040 COMMERCIAL BREAK >> OH, NO. 474 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,142 NO, NO WE WENT INTO THIS KNOWING WE 475 00:26:16,142 --> 00:26:18,878 WERE IN FOR THE LONG HAUL. WITH THAT PHRASE WE KNEW IT WAS 476 00:26:18,878 --> 00:26:20,380 GOING TO BE A MARATHON, NOT A SPRINT 477 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:22,482 >> Reporter: THEY HAD THEIR LIST OF POSSIBLE SUSPECTS, BUT THEY 478 00:26:22,482 --> 00:26:25,118 DIDN'T HAVE THE EVIDENCE OR THE SCIENCE YET TO DEFINITIVELY LINK 479 00:26:25,118 --> 00:26:27,320 ANYONE TO THE CRIME. >> DNA TESTING WAS ACTUALLY IN 480 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,957 THE MIDDLE OF EVOLVING AT THAT TIME 481 00:26:30,957 --> 00:26:34,661 >> Reporter: EVENTUALLY THE SCIENCE AND THE EVIDENCE CAME 482 00:26:34,661 --> 00:26:37,831 TOGETHER INVESTIGATORS RECOVERED A STRAND 483 00:26:37,831 --> 00:26:41,568 OF FOREIGN HAIR FROM COREY'S UNDERWEAR. 484 00:26:41,568 --> 00:26:45,171 THEY BELIEVED THAT SINGLE STRAND WAS RICH IN DNA. 485 00:26:45,171 --> 00:26:47,374 >> IT HAD BEEN CLEARLY RIPPED OUT OF A HEAD. 486 00:26:47,374 --> 00:26:50,076 >> Reporter: LIKELY, THEY BELIEVED, THE KILLER'S HEAD. 487 00:26:50,076 --> 00:26:52,445 NOW THEY HAD TO TEST IT AGAINST THEIR POSSIBLE SUSPECTS. 488 00:26:52,445 --> 00:26:54,814 YOU ESSENTIALLY HAD YOUR KILLER IN YOUR TEST 489 00:26:54,814 --> 00:26:56,950 >> LOCKED IN A TUBE. >> Reporter: DIDN'T KNOW HIS 490 00:26:56,950 --> 00:26:59,085 NAME >> HAIRS ON SLIDES, THAT'S 491 00:26:59,085 --> 00:27:01,187 RIGHT. >> Reporter: THAT'S WHEN THE 492 00:27:01,187 --> 00:27:03,857 CASE TOOK ITS MOST DRAMATIC TURN YET. 493 00:27:03,857 --> 00:27:07,027 THANKS TO THIS MAN WOULD YOU CALL YOURSELF A BOUNTY 494 00:27:07,027 --> 00:27:11,264 HUNTER >> I'VE BEEN CALLED BOUNTY 495 00:27:11,264 --> 00:27:12,832 HUNTER BEFORE, BUT I'D PREFER FUGITIVE SPECIALIST. 496 00:27:12,832 --> 00:27:14,934 >> Reporter: FUGITIVE SPECIALIST 497 00:27:14,934 --> 00:27:20,206 OKAY WILLIAM RENSLER KNEW ABOUT 498 00:27:20,206 --> 00:27:26,046 COREY'S MURDER AND HE KNEW THERE HAD BEEN A REWARD POSTED FOR 499 00:27:26,046 --> 00:27:33,420 INFORMATION LEADING TO HER KILLER 500 00:27:33,420 --> 00:27:35,555 >> WHEN I CAME ACROSS THE ONE INDIVIDUAL, SOMETHING STRUCK ME 501 00:27:35,555 --> 00:27:37,657 AS ODD >> Reporter: THE INDIVIDUAL WAS 502 00:27:37,657 --> 00:27:39,793 A YOUNG MAN NAMED ROBERT DENNEY. HE WAS 17 YEARS OLD LIVING IN A 503 00:27:39,793 --> 00:27:42,462 NEARBY BUILDING WHEN COREY WAS KILLED 504 00:27:42,462 --> 00:27:45,098 HE'D BEEN QUESTIONED AND DISMISSED BY DETECTIVES EARLY ON 505 00:27:45,098 --> 00:27:49,069 IN PART BECAUSE HE WAS SO YOUNG. WHAT SEEMED ODD TO WILLIAM WAS 506 00:27:49,069 --> 00:27:50,937 THAT THE TEEN DISAPPEARED NOT LONG AFTER THE MURDER. 507 00:27:50,937 --> 00:27:54,974 AS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND ROLLED AROUND, WILLIAM FOUND HIMSELF ON 508 00:27:54,974 --> 00:27:56,776 A DOCK WITH TWO FRIENDS. >> WE WERE FISHING AND THEN 509 00:27:56,776 --> 00:27:58,845 HAVING A COUPLE OF BEERS AND I WAS GOING OVER MY NOTES. 510 00:27:58,845 --> 00:28:01,014 >> Reporter: SUDDENLY, HE REMEMBERED THAT ROBERT DENNEY 511 00:28:01,014 --> 00:28:03,683 HAD WORKED AT THE SAME RESTAURANT AS HIS FRIENDS. 512 00:28:03,683 --> 00:28:08,455 THEY RECOGNIZED THE NAME INSTANTLY. 513 00:28:08,455 --> 00:28:23,470 >> THEY FELT THAT HE WAS AN OFFBEAT INDIVIDUAL 514 00:28:23,470 --> 00:28:32,312 >> Reporter: WILLIAM TALKED WITH THE DETECTIVE. 515 00:28:32,312 --> 00:28:34,647 SHE THEN WENT OVER TO CHECK OUT DENNEY'S OLD APARTMENT FOR 516 00:28:34,647 --> 00:28:36,583 HERSELF. >> YOU CAN SEE HOW CLOSE IT IS 517 00:28:36,583 --> 00:28:38,184 >> Reporter: IT WAS APARTMENT NUMBER 4 AND ITS BACK BALCONY 518 00:28:38,184 --> 00:28:40,453 WAS LESS THAN THREE FEET FROM COREY'S OLD KITCHEN. 519 00:28:40,453 --> 00:28:41,888 WHEN POLICE MET WITH DENNEY'S CO-WORKERS, THEY SAID HE HAD 520 00:28:41,888 --> 00:28:44,057 TALKED ABOUT WATCHING A YOUNG WOMAN FROM HIS BALCONY 521 00:28:44,057 --> 00:28:45,592 DO YOU THINK HE'D BEEN WATCHING HER FOR A WHILE. 522 00:28:45,592 --> 00:28:47,727 >> YEAH. >> ABSOLUTELY. 523 00:28:47,727 --> 00:28:50,897 NO QUESTION ABOUT IT >> Reporter: SOMETHING STRAIGHT 524 00:28:50,897 --> 00:28:53,066 "REAR WINDOW," A VULNERABLE YOUNG WOMAN, A MAN WATCHING, 525 00:28:53,066 --> 00:28:59,406 SEEING BUT UNSEEN. DENNEY DIDN'T MATCH THE 526 00:28:59,406 --> 00:29:01,541 DESCRIPTION THEY'D GOTTEN EARLIER IN THE CASE OF THE 527 00:29:01,541 --> 00:29:07,380 PEEPING TOM, BUT THAT DIDN'T MEAN HE HADN'T BEEN SPYING ON 528 00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:09,482 COREY, SAID DETECTIVES >> IT WOULDN'T TAKE MUCH IF SHE 529 00:29:09,482 --> 00:29:11,084 HAD HER LIGHTS ON TO SIT UP THERE IN THE DARK AND BE ABLE TO 530 00:29:11,084 --> 00:29:13,186 WATCH HER AS MUCH AS HE WANTED TO 531 00:29:13,186 --> 00:29:15,221 >> Reporter: KINGSTON DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THE MAN LIVED NOW, 532 00:29:15,221 --> 00:29:26,466 BUT SHE FOUND OUT HE HAD A SISTER IN THE AREA 533 00:29:26,466 --> 00:29:28,034 >> Reporter: THE SISTER SAID KINGSSTON COULD FIND HER BROTHER 534 00:29:28,034 --> 00:29:30,170 IN EASTON, MARYLAND. HE'D MOVED THERE TO BE WITH A 535 00:29:30,170 --> 00:29:31,771 WOMAN HE MET ONLINE. KINGSTON AND CARLYLE IMMEDIATELY 536 00:29:31,771 --> 00:29:33,340 HEADED NORTH THEY NEEDED TO COMPARE THEIR 537 00:29:33,340 --> 00:29:35,475 SUSPECT TO THAT HAIR SAMPLE FROM THE CRIME SCENE. 538 00:29:35,475 --> 00:29:37,043 YOU NEED HIS DNA >> ABSOLUTELY. 539 00:29:37,043 --> 00:29:39,179 >> Reporter: WITH THE HELP OF EASTON POLICE, THEY CALLED UP 540 00:29:39,179 --> 00:29:40,780 THEIR SUSPECT AND FLAT-OUT LIED. THEY MADE UP A STORY ABOUT A 541 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:42,882 RECENT ASSAULT COULD HE COME IN FOR 542 00:29:42,882 --> 00:29:45,051 QUESTIONING. >> SO HE AGREED TO COME IN AND 543 00:29:45,051 --> 00:29:46,586 HE SAT DOWN WITH US. >> Reporter: WHAT FOLLOWED WAS 544 00:29:46,586 --> 00:29:48,722 VINTAGE CAT AND MOUSE. POLICE TRIED TO GET DENNEY'S DNA 545 00:29:48,722 --> 00:29:50,857 OFF A CIGARETTE. DENNEY WENT FOR THE SMOKE BUT 546 00:29:50,857 --> 00:29:52,492 WHEN HE WAS FINISHED - >> HE TOOK THE CIGARETTE BUTT 547 00:29:52,492 --> 00:29:54,527 AND PUT IT BEHIND HIS EAR. WOULDN'T PUT IT IN THE CIGARETTE 548 00:29:54,527 --> 00:29:56,696 ASHTRAY. >> Reporter: SO THEY MOVED ON TO 549 00:29:56,696 --> 00:29:58,798 PLAN B THEY OFFERED HIM A BOTTLE OF 550 00:29:58,798 --> 00:30:01,001 WATER. >> HE TAKES THE WATER, BUT HE 551 00:30:01,001 --> 00:30:02,502 DOESN'T TAKE THE TOP OFF OF IT HE SAT THERE THE WHOLE TIME 552 00:30:02,502 --> 00:30:04,637 NEVER DRANK FROM THE WATER BOTTLE 553 00:30:04,637 --> 00:30:07,307 SO NOW YOU'RE ON TO PLAN C >> Reporter: WHICH WAS THIS. 554 00:30:07,307 --> 00:30:10,010 THEY ASKED DENNEY TO FILL OUT SOME FORMS 555 00:30:10,010 --> 00:30:12,078 POLICE PROCEDURAL STUFF, THEY SAID 556 00:30:12,078 --> 00:30:14,180 >> AND WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO IS HAVE HIM SIGN THOSE FORMS AND 557 00:30:14,180 --> 00:30:16,850 THEN PUT THEM IN AN ENVELOPE AND THEN SEAL THE ENVELOPE 558 00:30:16,850 --> 00:30:18,952 THERE WAS THREE DIFFERENT ENVELOPES. 559 00:30:18,952 --> 00:30:21,087 >> Reporter: DENNEY FILLED OUT THE FORMS BUT DIDN'T LICK THE 560 00:30:21,087 --> 00:30:24,257 ENVELOPES. >> AND HE LOOKS AT US AND SAYS, 561 00:30:24,257 --> 00:30:26,393 YOU GUYS HAVE TRIED THREE SEPARATE TIMES TO GET MY DNA 562 00:30:26,393 --> 00:30:29,596 SAMPLE HE SAYS, YOU CAN SEAL THEM 563 00:30:29,596 --> 00:30:31,164 YOURSELF IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE 564 00:30:31,164 --> 00:30:32,766 >> Reporter: THE BEST LAID PLANS. 565 00:30:32,766 --> 00:30:35,935 >> THE BEST LAID PLANS OF MICE AND MEN. 566 00:30:35,935 --> 00:30:38,605 HE DIDN'T FALL FOR IT. >> Reporter: DENNEY WAS DONE, 567 00:30:38,605 --> 00:30:41,441 BUT CARLYLE WASN'T >> I WASN'T GOING ANYWHERE 568 00:30:41,441 --> 00:30:43,376 WITHOUT A DNA SAMPLE >> Reporter: SO THEY STAKED HIM 569 00:30:43,376 --> 00:30:48,682 OUT AT THE COMPUTER STORE WHERE HE WORKED. 570 00:30:48,682 --> 00:30:52,919 AND SNAPPED THESE PHOTOS AS THEIR PREY CAME OUTSIDE FOR HIS 571 00:30:52,919 --> 00:30:56,656 CIGARETTE BREAKS ONCE AGAIN, THEIR MOUSE WAS A 572 00:30:56,656 --> 00:30:59,325 STEP AHEAD >> HE WAS SMOKING A CIGARETTE 573 00:30:59,325 --> 00:31:00,894 AND WHEN HE WAS FINISHED WITH IT, HE WOULD TAKE IT AND PUT IT 574 00:31:00,894 --> 00:31:03,063 BEHIND HIS EAR >> Reporter: DO YOU THINK HE 575 00:31:03,063 --> 00:31:05,665 KNEW THAT MAYBE YOU WERE WATCHING HIM 576 00:31:05,665 --> 00:31:08,835 >> I'M SURE. >> Reporter: BUT ON THE SECOND 577 00:31:08,835 --> 00:31:12,539 DAY, DENNEY DID SOMETHING HE HAD PROBABLY DONE A THOUSAND TIMES 578 00:31:12,539 --> 00:31:15,208 BEFORE >> HE STARTS SPITTING ON THE 579 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:17,877 GROUND OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE >> Reporter: SPIT HAS DNA IN IT. 580 00:31:17,877 --> 00:31:21,281 >> AND WE WERE LIKE -- WE WERE JUMPING FOR JOY AT THAT POINT. 581 00:31:21,281 --> 00:31:22,615 >> Reporter: SO YOU'VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY IN YOUR LIFE TO 582 00:31:22,615 --> 00:31:28,288 SEE SOMEONE -- >> NEVER SO HAPPY TO SEE THAT. 583 00:31:28,288 --> 00:31:32,625 >> Reporter: -- SPIT WHEN DENNEY LEFT, CARLYL 584 00:31:32,625 --> 00:31:34,761 RACED OVER, TOOK A SAMPLE AND WENT STRAIGHT TO THE FBI'S DNA 585 00:31:34,761 --> 00:31:38,498 LAB. ALL THERE WAS LEFT TO DO NOW WAS 586 00:31:38,498 --> 00:31:41,668 WAIT JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER. >>> COMING UP -- 587 00:31:41,668 --> 00:31:43,803 NO MATTER HOW THE TESTS COME BACK, DETECTIVES WILL HAVE TO 588 00:31:43,803 --> 00:31:46,973 EXPLAIN A LOT OF OTHER EVIDENCE AT THE SCENE 589 00:31:46,973 --> 00:31:49,609 >> THERE'S UNIDENTIFIED FINGERPRINTS AND THERE'S 590 00:31:49,609 --> 00:31:51,745 UNIDENTIFIED HAIRS IN THE VICTIM'S HANDS 591 00:31:51,745 --> 00:31:55,982 >> HAD SOMEONE ELSE BEEN AT COREY'S? 592 00:31:55,982 --> 00:31:59,185 THEN WE SIT DOWN WITH ROBERT DENNEY 593 00:31:59,185 --> 00:32:22,142 >> DID YOU MURDER COREY PARKER >> THE REASON DENNEY SAYS POLICE 594 00:32:22,142 --> 00:32:26,212 >>> IT HAD BEEN A YEAR AND A HALF SINCE COREY PARKER'S MURDER 595 00:32:26,212 --> 00:32:28,348 WHEN POLICE DISCOVERED OR REDISCOVERED ROBERT DENNEY, HER 596 00:32:28,348 --> 00:32:30,250 OLD NEIGHBOR >> WE WENT FULL BORE ON ROBERT 597 00:32:30,250 --> 00:32:32,585 DENNEY AT THAT POINT >> Reporter: HERE'S WHY. 598 00:32:32,585 --> 00:32:38,258 DENNEY LIVED RIGHT BEHIND THE VICTIM 599 00:32:38,258 --> 00:32:45,865 HE DISAPPEARED SOON AFTER HER MURDER 600 00:32:45,865 --> 00:32:47,434 AND DETECTIVES LEARNED THIS. DENNEY HAD AN OLDER BROTHER IN 601 00:32:47,434 --> 00:32:49,336 PRISON FOR MURDER. YOU'RE STARTING TO THINK THIS 602 00:32:49,336 --> 00:32:50,603 MIGHT RUN IN THE FAMILY? >> YOU CAN'T HELP BUT THINK 603 00:32:50,603 --> 00:32:52,205 THAT >> Reporter: DENNEY'S BROTHER 604 00:32:52,205 --> 00:32:53,773 HAD BEEN CONVICTED YEARS EARLIER IN TEXAS 605 00:32:53,773 --> 00:32:55,375 AND HIS CRIME WAS EERILY SIMILAR TO THIS CASE 606 00:32:55,375 --> 00:32:57,410 >> THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT THE BROTHER WAS THAT, IN HIS 607 00:32:57,410 --> 00:32:59,112 CASE IN EL PASO, HE STABBED THAT WOMAN 96 TIMES 608 00:32:59,112 --> 00:33:02,816 AND WE'RE DEALING WITH A HOMICIDE WHERE OUR VICTIM'S BEEN 609 00:33:02,816 --> 00:33:10,757 STABBED 101 TIMES. SO THE SIMILARITY WAS JUST TOO 610 00:33:10,757 --> 00:33:14,494 MUCH TO OVERLOOK >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVES HAD 611 00:33:14,494 --> 00:33:17,397 TO WONDER IF DENNEY HAD KILLED COREY IN A TWISTED ATTEMPT TO 612 00:33:17,397 --> 00:33:19,265 OUTDO HIS SIBLING. ONE THING DETECTIVES WERE SURE 613 00:33:19,265 --> 00:33:21,368 OF, HE HAD BECOME FIXATED ON HER. 614 00:33:21,368 --> 00:33:25,071 A CO-WORKER RECALLED BEING IN ROBERT DENNEY'S APARTMENT. 615 00:33:25,071 --> 00:33:27,140 >> ROBERT POINTED DOWN TO COREY'S WINDOW AND SAID, I WATCH 616 00:33:27,140 --> 00:33:29,876 THAT GIRL DOWN THERE >> Reporter: THEY WERE CONVINCED 617 00:33:29,876 --> 00:33:33,079 DENNEY WAS HER KILLER, BUT THEY NEEDED PROOF 618 00:33:33,079 --> 00:33:36,216 SO THEY WAITED FOR TESTS TO COMPARE DENNEY'S SALIVA SAMPLE 619 00:33:36,216 --> 00:33:38,351 TO THAT STRAND OF HAIR FOUND AT THE SCENE. 620 00:33:38,351 --> 00:33:44,190 AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW, DENNEY'S DNA WAS A MATCH. 621 00:33:44,190 --> 00:33:47,660 NOT JUST TO THAT HAIR BUT ALSO TO A TINY SPECK OF BLOOD 622 00:33:47,660 --> 00:33:49,095 RECOVERED NEAR HER KITCHEN SINK. ALL THE OTHER POSSIBLE SUSPECTS, 623 00:33:49,095 --> 00:33:53,199 THE NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, DISHWASHER AND TIFFANY, WERE 624 00:33:53,199 --> 00:33:55,335 CLEARED IN THE CASE. >> WE WERE JUMPING UP AND THE 625 00:33:55,335 --> 00:33:58,471 DOWN >> WE WANTED TO GO GET HIM THEN. 626 00:33:58,471 --> 00:34:01,675 >> Reporter: AND PROSECUTOR ANGELA COREY SAID NO 627 00:34:01,675 --> 00:34:05,378 >> HE CAN COME UP WITH A STORY TO EXPLAIN THAT DNA AWAY 628 00:34:05,378 --> 00:34:08,048 I CARRIED HER GROCERIES IN FOR HER, AND I CUT MY FINGER 629 00:34:08,048 --> 00:34:12,285 YOU CAN'T GIVE ANYBODY A CHANCE TO EXPLAIN IT AWAY 630 00:34:12,285 --> 00:34:16,523 >> Reporter: THE PROSECUTOR WANTED HIM ON THE RECORD DENYING 631 00:34:16,523 --> 00:34:19,693 HE'D EVER SET FOOT IN THE VICTIM'S APARTMENT 632 00:34:19,693 --> 00:34:23,963 THEN THEY'D HIT HIM WITH THE DNA PROOF TRAPPING HIM 633 00:34:23,963 --> 00:34:28,234 SO THEY SENT KATIE KINGSTON BACK TO MARYLAND TO ROBERT DENNEY'S 634 00:34:28,234 --> 00:34:30,337 HOUSE. >> WELL, I WAS GOING TO PLAY 635 00:34:30,337 --> 00:34:33,540 LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING. >> Reporter: YOU WERE ACTING 636 00:34:33,540 --> 00:34:36,176 >> JUST ACTING KIND OF DUMB. >> Reporter: SHE TOLD DENNEY 637 00:34:36,176 --> 00:34:39,379 THEY HAD FOUND THE MAN WHO KILLED HIS OLD NEIGHBOR COREY 638 00:34:39,379 --> 00:34:41,414 PARKER THE DETECTIVE WAS JUST HERE TO 639 00:34:41,414 --> 00:34:45,719 TIE UP LOOSE ENDS. HE SEEMED WILLING TO HELP. 640 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,956 WHAT HE DIDN'T KNOW THE DETECTIVE WAS WEARING A WIRE 641 00:34:49,956 --> 00:34:52,092 >> DNA OF COREY PARKER OR EVER TALK TO HER? 642 00:34:52,092 --> 00:34:55,795 >> NO. >> OKAY. 643 00:34:55,795 --> 00:34:58,965 NO >> Reporter: THEN THE DETECTIVE 644 00:34:58,965 --> 00:35:02,369 ASKED THE CRUCIAL QUESTION HAD HE EVER BEEN IN COREY'S 645 00:35:02,369 --> 00:35:07,474 APARTMENT? YOU ALL DIDN'T GO BACK AND FORTH 646 00:35:07,474 --> 00:35:09,042 TO EACH OTHER'S APARTMENTS >> I KNEW THE GUY NEXT TO THAT. 647 00:35:09,042 --> 00:35:16,516 >> SO YOU ALL DIDN'T GO BACK AND FORTH. 648 00:35:16,516 --> 00:35:17,584 AND ALL THAT STUFF OKAY 649 00:35:17,584 --> 00:35:20,520 >> Reporter: THAT WAS ALL THE DETECTIVE NEEDED 650 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,057 THE CAT IT SEEMED HAD FINALLY GOTTEN ITS MOUSE 651 00:35:24,057 --> 00:35:26,059 >> WHEN I HEARD THE RECORDING, I HAD THE ARREST WARRANT READY TO 652 00:35:26,059 --> 00:35:27,660 GO AND I FINISHED PLUGGING IN WHAT THEY TOLD ME OVER THE 653 00:35:27,660 --> 00:35:31,898 PHONE, AND WE WERE ECSTATIC. WE KNEW WE HAD HIM 654 00:35:31,898 --> 00:35:35,068 >> Reporter: COREY PARKER HAD BEEN DEAD ALMOST TWO YEARS TO 655 00:35:35,068 --> 00:35:38,371 THE DAY WHEN POLICE SLIPPED THE HANDCUFFS ON ROBERT DENNEY 656 00:35:38,371 --> 00:35:43,076 AT THE POLICE STATION RIGHT AFTER HIS ARREST, HE PROTESTED 657 00:35:43,076 --> 00:35:46,212 HIS INNOCENCE. >> YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE 658 00:35:46,212 --> 00:35:53,953 IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. BECAUSE I DIDN'T DO IT 659 00:35:53,953 --> 00:35:55,555 I CAN'T ADMIT TO SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO. 660 00:35:55,555 --> 00:35:57,424 >> Reporter: AND WHEN CARLYLE MENTIONED DENNEY'S BROTHER HE 661 00:35:57,424 --> 00:35:59,292 AGAIN TOLD DETECTIVES HE HAD IT ALL WRONG. 662 00:35:59,292 --> 00:36:01,161 >> THAT'S MY BROTHER >> I UNDERSTAND THAT. 663 00:36:01,161 --> 00:36:06,099 >> THAT'S MY BROTHER >> I UNDERSTAND THAT 664 00:36:06,099 --> 00:36:09,169 >> THAT'S NOT ME >> Reporter: DETECTIVES WEREN'T 665 00:36:09,169 --> 00:36:17,077 BUYING HIS TEARS THEY WERE CONVINCED THEY HAD 666 00:36:17,077 --> 00:36:19,446 ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO PUT ROBERT DENNEY AWAY FOR LIFE 667 00:36:19,446 --> 00:36:21,548 IT TOOK FINE YEARS TO COME TO TRIAL. 668 00:36:21,548 --> 00:36:23,683 IT WAS A COMPLICATED INVESTIGATION. 669 00:36:23,683 --> 00:36:25,251 DENNEY'S DNA WAS FOUND AT THE CRIME SCENE BUT THERE WAS ALSO 670 00:36:25,251 --> 00:36:31,124 EVIDENCE THEY COULDN'T LINK TO HIM. 671 00:36:31,124 --> 00:36:33,893 >> THERE'S STILL UNIDENTIFIE PIECES OF EVIDENCE AT THIS CRIME 672 00:36:33,893 --> 00:36:35,895 SCENE. >> Reporter: ROBERT DENNEY'S 673 00:36:35,895 --> 00:36:38,064 ATTORNEY, RICK SITKA >> THERE'S UNIDENTIFIED SEMEN 674 00:36:38,064 --> 00:36:40,967 STAINS AND FINGERPRINTS AND HAIRS IN THE VICTIM'S HANDS. 675 00:36:40,967 --> 00:36:44,404 SO IT'S A QUESTION OF WHO DONE IT 676 00:36:44,404 --> 00:36:47,574 >> Reporter: NOT A CASE OF DENNEY DID IT, HE SAID 677 00:36:47,574 --> 00:36:50,777 TO UNDERSCORE THAT, DENNEY EVEN TOOK THE STAND TO SHOW JURORS HE 678 00:36:50,777 --> 00:36:56,082 WAS JUST A BOY NEXT DOOR, NOT A MONSTER AT THE DOOR. 679 00:36:56,082 --> 00:36:58,718 ONLY IT DIDN'T WORK. AFTER A THREE-WEEK TRIAL, THE 680 00:36:58,718 --> 00:37:03,523 JURY NEEDED LESS THAN AN HOUR TO RENDER A VERDICT, GUILTY OF 681 00:37:03,523 --> 00:37:16,336 FIRST DEGREE MURDER. DENNEY WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN 682 00:37:16,336 --> 00:37:19,339 WITHOUT PAROLE WE MET HIM IN PRISON 683 00:37:19,339 --> 00:37:23,043 DID YOU MURDER COREY PARKER? >> NO, I DID NOT 684 00:37:23,043 --> 00:37:24,744 >> Reporter: HE BELIEVES THE SINS OF HIS BROTHER MADE POLICE 685 00:37:24,744 --> 00:37:26,780 QUICK TO ZERO IN ON HIM. THERE HAS BEEN A CONNECTION MADE 686 00:37:26,780 --> 00:37:28,415 AS FAR AS THE THEORIES OF THE POLICE, THE PROSECUTORS THAT 687 00:37:28,415 --> 00:37:30,483 THIS WAS SOME TWISTED BROTHERLY BOND OR RIVALRY. 688 00:37:30,483 --> 00:37:33,653 IS THERE ANY TRUTH TO THAT >> NONE AT ALL 689 00:37:33,653 --> 00:37:35,755 SIMPLY BECAUSE MY BROTHER IS CONVICTED OF MURDER DOES NOT 690 00:37:35,755 --> 00:37:38,425 MAKE ME A MURDERER >> Reporter: HE SAYS THE WAY 691 00:37:38,425 --> 00:37:42,128 POLICE LATER GOT HIS DNA SHOWS THEY WERE DETERMINED TO LINK HIM 692 00:37:42,128 --> 00:37:47,467 TO COREY'S MURDER. >> WHEN I FIRST HEARD THAT MY 693 00:37:47,467 --> 00:37:50,103 SPIT WAS WHAT THEY COLLECTED TO MATCH TO ANY DNA AT THE CRIME 694 00:37:50,103 --> 00:37:52,205 SCENE, IT WAS JUST UNREAL. I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, HOW 695 00:37:52,205 --> 00:37:54,874 COULD THIS BE? >> Reporter: HE'S ALSO CONVINCED 696 00:37:54,874 --> 00:38:02,582 THAT THE LABS, INCLUDING THE ONE AT THE FBI, DIDN'T FOLLOW 697 00:38:02,582 --> 00:38:07,253 PROTOCOL WHEN THEY TESTED HIS DNA AGAINST THE EVIDENCE FROM 698 00:38:07,253 --> 00:38:12,359 THE CRIME SCENE. >> THERE'S DEFINITELY EVIDENCE 699 00:38:12,359 --> 00:38:19,165 THAT SUGGESTS THAT MAY HAVE MIXED UP SAMPLES 700 00:38:19,165 --> 00:38:21,267 >> Reporter: THE HARDEST PART TO MIX YOUR HEAD AROUND IS THERE 701 00:38:21,267 --> 00:38:22,869 CAN BE CONTAMINATION ON BOTH THE BLOOD AND THE HAIR 702 00:38:22,869 --> 00:38:25,038 >> RIGHT I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD 703 00:38:25,038 --> 00:38:26,573 FEEL THAT WAY AND MAYBE THAT GOES TO EXPLAINING WHAT THE 704 00:38:26,573 --> 00:38:28,141 POLICE MIGHT HAVE DONE WITH THE EVIDENCE 705 00:38:28,141 --> 00:38:29,809 WE DON'T KNOW. IF I KNEW, I WOULDN'T BE HERE. 706 00:38:29,809 --> 00:38:31,344 >> Reporter: IT JUST SEEMS A LITTLE FAR-FETCHED THAT THE 707 00:38:31,344 --> 00:38:34,514 POLICE WOULD RANDOMLY PLUCK YOU OUT OF OBSCURITY YEARS LATER AND 708 00:38:34,514 --> 00:38:40,353 DECIDE TO FRAME YOU. >> I UNDERSTAND. 709 00:38:40,353 --> 00:38:43,490 AND I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS, AND IT HAPPENED 710 00:38:43,490 --> 00:38:46,192 POLICE DO FRAME PEOPLE WE SEE IT ALL THE TIME NOW IN 711 00:38:46,192 --> 00:38:48,828 AMERICA. >> Reporter: THE POLICE HAVE 712 00:38:48,828 --> 00:38:53,066 FRAMED YOU AND TWO SEPARATE CRIME LABS HAVE CONTAMINATED THE 713 00:38:53,066 --> 00:38:56,236 EVIDENCE >> YES 714 00:38:56,236 --> 00:38:58,371 >> Reporter: YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT - 715 00:38:58,371 --> 00:39:01,541 >> I CAN SEE HOW THAT IS - >> Reporter: VERY FAR-FETCHED. 716 00:39:01,541 --> 00:39:04,210 >> FAR-FETCHED YEAH, I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT. 717 00:39:04,210 --> 00:39:07,380 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE IN THIS CASE SAYS HE IS 1,000% 718 00:39:07,380 --> 00:39:11,084 CERTAIN HE HAS THE RIGHT PERSON. >> HE'S WRONG. 719 00:39:11,084 --> 00:39:13,753 HE DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT PERSON 720 00:39:13,753 --> 00:39:15,355 >> Reporter: SO WHO DID IT THEN? >> IF I KNEW, I WOULDN'T BE HERE 721 00:39:15,355 --> 00:39:18,525 NOW. I WISH I KNEW. 722 00:39:18,525 --> 00:39:23,296 >> Reporter: YET THE PEOPLE WHO ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED DENNEY 723 00:39:23,296 --> 00:39:25,432 INSIST TWO INDEPENDENT LABS DID FOLLOW PROTOCOL LINKING HIS DNA 724 00:39:25,432 --> 00:39:33,873 TO EVIDENCE FROM THE CRIME SCENE. 725 00:39:33,873 --> 00:39:37,477 AN APPEALS COURT DENIED DENNEY'S MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL 726 00:39:37,477 --> 00:39:40,613 BUT IT DID AGREE HIS SENTENCE, LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE, VIOLATED 727 00:39:40,613 --> 00:39:47,454 THE GUIDELINE FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS, WHICH HE WAS AT THE 728 00:39:47,454 --> 00:39:57,097 TIME OF THE MURDER NO DATE HAS BEEN SET FOR HIS 729 00:39:57,097 --> 00:40:01,801 SENTENCING HOW DID YOU DEAL WITH THAT 730 00:40:01,801 --> 00:40:07,240 >> DRINK MORE. TRIED TO LOSE WHO I WAS, TRIED 731 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:12,178 TO CHANGE WHO I WAS. DIDN'T LIKE MYSELF VERY MUCH 732 00:40:12,178 --> 00:40:19,119 TAKEN ME A WHILE TO GET BACK TO WHO I NEEDED TO BE 733 00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:27,427 >> AMY LAVIN HAS ALSO STRUGGLED WITH THE PAST. 734 00:40:27,427 --> 00:40:29,562 >> I GO TO THAT DAY. WHY DIDN'T I INVITE HER TO 735 00:40:29,562 --> 00:40:32,932 THANKSGIVING WITH ME MAYBE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE. 736 00:40:32,932 --> 00:40:34,334 EVEN TO THIS DAY, THERE'S A LOT OF GUILT WITH THAT 737 00:40:34,334 --> 00:40:36,436 >> Reporter: BUT THERE'S ALSO GRATITUDE TO INVESTIGATORS WHO 738 00:40:36,436 --> 00:40:39,606 NEVER GAVE UP, TO THREE STRANGERS ON A DOCK PLAYING ARM 739 00:40:39,606 --> 00:40:41,207 CHAIR DETECTIVE AND, MOST OF ALL, TO A BEST FRIEND. 740 00:40:41,207 --> 00:40:43,877 >> I DEFINITELY FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE KNOWN HER FOR THE AMOUNT OF 741 00:40:43,877 --> 00:40:45,478 TIME I DID I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT SHE WOULD 742 00:40:45,478 --> 00:40:47,614 HAVE ACCOMPLISHED BY NOW >> Reporter: WHATEVER IT WAS, 743 00:40:47,614 --> 00:40:51,284 AMY FEELS CERTAIN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE THE WOMAN HERSELF, AS 744 00:40:51,284 --> 00:40:58,158 VIBRANT AS A NORTHERN SKY, AS UNFORGETTABLE AS A SOUTHERN 745 00:40:58,158 --> 00:41:00,293 NIGHT. >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION 746 00:41:00,293 --> 00:41:08,301 OF "DATELINE." 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