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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>Two young real estate agents</i>

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<i>are executed in their</i>
<i>suburban office.</i>

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<i>- It was a brutal scene.</i>

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I can't think what they were
thinking before this happened.

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<i>- They had their hopes,</i>
<i>their dreams.</i>

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Before dinner, they're dead.

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<i>narrator: But who would commit</i>
<i>such a brutal crime</i>

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<i>in broad daylight?</i>

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[police sirens wailing]

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<i>- But we had</i>
<i>a still photograph.</i>

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The individual was trying
to hide his face.

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<i>You could tell it was a white</i>
<i>person in a black vehicle.</i>

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>And just as detectives</i>

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<i>identify a suspect...</i>

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- The co-worker of his
recognized him and said,

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"I think this could
be our person."

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>He disappears.</i>

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- He calls me and says that
they saw a big white guy

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running through the backyard.

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<i>He's on the run.</i>

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<i>narrator: As the team embarks</i>
<i>on a cross-country manhunt,</i>

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<i>they race to catch him</i>
<i>before he strikes again.</i>

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<i>- If some poor</i>
<i>innocent person gets hurt</i>

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or some cop gets shot,
it's gonna be on me.

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We gotta get him.

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<i>[dramatic music]</i>

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<i>* *</i>

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<i>[sirens wailing]</i>

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<i>[upbeat music]</i>

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<i>* *</i>

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<i>narrator: In 2003,</i>
<i>the Empire City of the South</i>

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<i>was expanding</i>
<i>in all directions</i>

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<i>as Fortune 500 companies</i>

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<i>make Atlanta the home</i>
<i>of their headquarters.</i>

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- Atlanta was really booming.

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The housing market
was going up.

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<i>Lots of new homes</i>
<i>were being built.</i>

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- It was a successful time

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and a prosperous time
in Atlanta.

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>The prosperity also spreads</i>

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<i>to the more distant areas</i>
<i>of the metro-Atlanta area--</i>

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<i>in particular, the idyllic</i>
<i>suburb of Powder Springs.</i>

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- In 2003, the area
was a little bit rural still.

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There was a lot of housing,

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<i>new communities</i>
<i>popping up everywhere.</i>

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>But on November 3, 2003,</i>

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<i>a 911 call comes in</i>
<i>that turns the American dream</i>

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<i>of buying a home</i>
<i>into a brutal nightmare.</i>

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<i>- And I can remember it</i>
<i>like it was yesterday.</i>

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And I heard the radio traffic.

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Precinct 5 had been dispatched

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<i>pursuant to the 911 call--</i>

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<i>two deceased females</i>
<i>in a house.</i>

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<i>[dramatic music]</i>

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<i>narrator: The crime scene is</i>
<i>an office inside a model home.</i>

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<i>- The location of this scene</i>
<i>was in a newer development,</i>

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which is why they
had the model home

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and were showing this home
as an example

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<i>of what you could get</i>
<i>in that neighborhood.</i>

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<i>narrator: Detective</i>
<i>Eddie Herman and his team</i>

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<i>make their way</i>
<i>to the high-end development.</i>

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<i>- There was this</i>
<i>adrenaline rush.</i>

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I always had the passion.

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It didn't make any difference
what I was dealing with.

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<i>I was gonna be</i>
<i>headfirst into it.</i>

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<i>I was all in.</i>

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<i>narrator: Herman learns</i>
<i>the two victims were</i>

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<i>discovered by a builder that</i>
<i>worked in the subdivision.</i>

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- The builder identified the
victims as Cynthia Williams.

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<i>She was 33.</i>

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<i>And Lori Brown</i>
<i>was 21 years of age.</i>

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<i>And I entered</i>
<i>with the crime scene tech.</i>

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<i>And I saw a female, nude,</i>
<i>laying in front of the desk.</i>

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And she had on
black leg stockings.

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<i>But she was nude</i>
<i>other than that.</i>

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<i>Turned out to be Lori Brown.</i>

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<i>- She's shot once in the head.</i>

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It's almost like a kill shot.

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- If you step to the side
and look behind the desk

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<i>was victim Cyndi Williams.</i>

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And she was nude, except for
stockings, slumped forward.

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<i>- Cyndi was found</i>
<i>shoved under her desk</i>

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and also had been
strangled in some way,

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'cause there was
a ligature around her neck.

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And the ligature was actually
a pair of underwear.

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And she had two gunshot wounds,
but they're really in the back.

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So what that tells us is,
she was shot from behind.

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<i>[gunshots]</i>

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<i>- I remember the sense</i>
<i>that we were just dealing</i>

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<i>with a matter of a few hours.</i>

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It was no more, in my opinion--

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no more than four hours
that they had been murdered.

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- So when you see a female
naked with underwear off

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and around their neck, you look
at that a little more closely

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because there is some
suggestion of a sexual assault

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in all of that.

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<i>narrator: Investigators know</i>
<i>if there was a sexual assault,</i>

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<i>the autopsy may reveal</i>
<i>DNA evidence.</i>

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<i>- It was a brutal scene.</i>

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I mean, it was almost inhumane.

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<i>You can't think what</i>
<i>they were thinking</i>

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<i>before this happened.</i>

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<i>Just a desperate,</i>
<i>cowardly act.</i>

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<i>narrator: The team scours</i>
<i>the scene for ballistics.</i>

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<i>- We didn't find</i>
<i>any shell casings.</i>

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Obviously, the killer--
or killers--

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took time to pick up
the shell casings.

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<i>narrator: Detectives will have</i>
<i>to wait for autopsy results</i>

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<i>to recover any bullets</i>
<i>and determine</i>

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<i>the make of the weapon.</i>

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<i>The forensics team brushes</i>
<i>for fingerprints</i>

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<i>and swabs for DNA.</i>

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<i>They come up empty.</i>

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<i>But some markings on a nearby</i>
<i>desk pique their interest.</i>

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<i>- It appeared to the police</i>
<i>that there were some markings</i>

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that someone noticed on some
of the paper in the area

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where it wasn't actual writing,
but it was the indentations

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<i>from where someone</i>
<i>had written some numbers.</i>

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<i>narrator: Unsure of what</i>
<i>the numbers mean,</i>

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<i>the CSI team collects</i>
<i>the mysterious clue.</i>

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<i>Detective Herman tries to make</i>
<i>sense of this puzzling scene.</i>

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- The first thing I noticed
was a drink in a Wendy's sack

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<i>with some food in it</i>
<i>and a pocket book on a desk.</i>

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<i>There were no wallets</i>
<i>in the pocket books.</i>

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<i>There was no IDs, bank cards.</i>

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I thought the fact
that Lori Brown

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<i>still had jewelry on,</i>
<i>that was taking us away</i>

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<i>from some type of theft</i>
<i>or robbery.</i>

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<i>You got a lot of things</i>
<i>you're thinking about.</i>

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Are we dealing
with some type of hired hit?

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<i>Or is this domestic related?</i>

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<i>If it's domestic related,</i>
<i>why do we have two victims?</i>

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- We had had a few
double homicides before this.

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Most of the others
were domestic related

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or something of that nature,

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<i>but this one</i>
<i>was a true whodunit.</i>

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<i>narrator: As they wrap up</i>
<i>the crime scene,</i>

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<i>the team starts investigating</i>
<i>those closest to the victims--</i>

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<i>family and significant others.</i>

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- Murders usually occur between
people who know each other--

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a husband and wife,
or coworkers.

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<i>It's uncommon, I would say,</i>
<i>for a stranger</i>

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to murder two women
just out of the blue.

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>But first, they have to break</i>

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<i>the devastating news to Cyndi</i>
<i>and Lori's families.</i>

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<i>They start by speaking</i>
<i>with Lori's mother.</i>

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<i>- He said, "I'm sorry</i>
<i>to have to tell you,</i>

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but your daughter is dead."

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And I'm like--

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I'm like, "You are crazy."

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<i>I said, "I just left that kid</i>
<i>an hour and a half ago."</i>

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I said, "Let's get in the car,
we'll go over there,

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and I'll show you
you're wrong."

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This is not happening.

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And he said, her partner,
Cyndi Williams, is dead also.

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<i>[somber music]</i>

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<i>* *</i>

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<i>Lori was always outgoing,</i>

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always forceful,
very matter of fact.

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<i>And she was caring.</i>

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<i>- She drew you in.</i>

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She had this
infectious personality

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that everyone wanted to know--
what did Lori have to say?

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<i>Why was Lori always smiling?</i>

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<i>Lori went straight into real</i>
<i>estate out of high school.</i>

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She was doing something
with her life.

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<i>And she was waiting</i>
<i>till she got</i>married

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<i>to go live with her fiancé,</i>
<i>soon-to-be husband.</i>

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>Investigators then contact</i>

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<i>Cyndi Williams' husband.</i>

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<i>- He kept telling us</i>
<i>this isn't true.</i>

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<i>You're looking at him,</i>
<i>and he's crying.</i>

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<i>You're trying to convince him</i>

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<i>that his wife</i>
<i>has been murdered.</i>

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And he's just--
he didn't believe it.

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And that's a gut punch.

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It's just truly sad.

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I mean, truly sad.

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<i>- Cyndi was a little bit older</i>
<i>than Lori,</i>

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<i>and she kind of took Lori</i>
<i>under her wing.</i>

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<i>And they became</i>
<i>really good friends.</i>

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Cyndi used to be
an event planner.

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And she was gonna help Lori
with her wedding

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<i>free of charge.</i>

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She had a really good sense
of humor, very outgoing,

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very statuesque girl.

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<i>And she and Lori</i>
<i>were very similar.</i>

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<i>- In your initial contact</i>
<i>with the family,</i>

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<i>you're looking for anything</i>
<i>that may give you any reason</i>

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to think, are they estranged?

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Is there a relationship issue?

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We didn't have that
in this case.

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>Detectives checked the alibis</i>

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<i>of Cyndi's husband</i>
<i>and Lori's fiancé.</i>

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<i>Both are confirmed.</i>

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<i>- I had all but eliminated any</i>
<i>domestic angle or a hired hit</i>

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once we got knee deep
into the victims' backgrounds.

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<i>That didn't fit.</i>

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<i>We were standing outside</i>
<i>of the crime scene</i>

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and we were talking
about the case,

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<i>and I remember telling the</i>
<i>lieutenant, whoever did this,</i>

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he's got a history
with the area

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<i>because it's off</i>
<i>the beaten path.</i>

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We have to try
to find out who did this.

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<i>[dramatic music]</i>

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<i>* *</i>

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<i>I just felt like it was just</i>
<i>gonna be a matter of time.</i>

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<i>Once he started</i>
<i>using those ATMs,</i>

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we were gonna get him soon.

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<i>- He's a big guy,</i>

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<i>and we suspect</i>
<i>he may have stolen</i>

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one of his coworker's weapons.

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<i>And we're also pretty sure</i>
<i>he's on parole.</i>

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The antennas went up
on that one.

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<i>[dramatic music]</i>

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<i>narrator: Real estate agents</i>
<i>Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown</i>

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<i>were murdered in their office</i>
<i>in broad daylight</i>

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<i>in the idyllic Atlanta suburb</i>
<i>of Powder Springs.</i>

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- They had their hopes,
their dreams,

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looking forward to their life,

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and before dinner,
they're dead.

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<i>We do all homicides wide open,</i>
<i>hard as we can go,</i>

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but there's a little something
extra for a double like that.

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<i>* *</i>

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- When we were trying to get
through those first few hours,

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and, um...

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I remember Lori Brown's mom
took my hand, and she said,

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"I can't change what happened,
but you can.

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You can help.
Just please help us."

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[clears throat]

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It's--it's kind of hard
to talk about that.

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If I didn't need any drive
or desire or heart

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or whatever you wanna call it
to get after whoever did this,

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you take it
from that kind of meeting

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<i>and it became a passion.</i>

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>Detectives have eliminated</i>

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<i>the family as suspects.</i>

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<i>Now they turn</i>
<i>the investigation</i>

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<i>to the hours</i>
<i>right before the murder.</i>

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<i>* *</i>

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<i>Lori's mother</i>
<i>tells investigators</i>

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<i>that she</i>
<i>and her daughter worked</i>

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<i>for the same</i>
<i>real estate company.</i>

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<i>A few hours</i>
<i>before Lori was murdered,</i>

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<i>they attended</i>
<i>a company meeting together.</i>

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- They announced that day
that she was moving up

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to a senior sales position.

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<i>She was so excited.</i>

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<i>And so we leave there, and we</i>
<i>go to Wendy's drive-through.</i>

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<i>Then we came back home</i>
<i>to get her car.</i>

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>The two then split off,</i>

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<i>each going back</i>
<i>to their real estate office.</i>

253
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<i>- It was probably about</i>
<i>10 after 1:00 on that Monday.</i>

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That's the last time I saw her.

255
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<i>- When we met</i>
<i>with Cyndi's husband, Ted,</i>

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<i>we learned that Cyndi Williams</i>
<i>had gone home for lunch.</i>

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<i>And she had started back</i>
<i>around 12:15, 12:30,</i>

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<i>to go back to the office.</i>

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<i>The time frame we were looking</i>
<i>at for what had happened--</i>

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<i>Lori Brown's mom,</i>
<i>she left her about 1:10.</i>

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<i>So we're dealing with a</i>
<i>condensed time frame there.</i>

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The initial contact could have
been 12:45, 12:50

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<i>with Cyndi Williams,</i>
<i>then at some point,</i>

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<i>maybe about 1:15, 1:20</i>
<i>with Lori Brown.</i>

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<i>And then in talking</i>
<i>with the builder,</i>

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<i>he got back to the site</i>
<i>about 1:45 p.m.</i>

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<i>narrator: With a more precise</i>
<i>timeline for the murders,</i>

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<i>investigators check</i>
<i>phone records in the office</i>

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<i>between the hours</i>
<i>of 1:10 and 1:45 p.m.</i>

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<i>And they get a hit.</i>

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<i>- There were two calls</i>
<i>from the office phone</i>

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to 800 numbers,
which turned out to be banks.

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<i>And they were most likely</i>
<i>for the purpose</i>

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of obtaining bank information
for the two ladies.

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>The victims' wallets</i>

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<i>were missing</i>
<i>from the crime scene.</i>

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<i>But what remained was a series</i>
<i>of mysterious numbers</i>

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<i>etched into a notepad.</i>

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<i>- You can see on this pad</i>

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there were two sets
of numbers, four digits.

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- And they realized what
they had on the notepad--

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pin numbers, bank numbers.

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And they were able to talk
to the families to say,

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"Hey, don't do anything
with the bank accounts

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because we're gonna be
watching."

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<i>narrator: Investigators</i>
<i>reach out to both banks</i>

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<i>to see if anyone tried</i>
<i>to withdraw money</i>

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<i>after the victims were killed.</i>

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- We were notified by
Bank of America security

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that both victims'
bank accounts had been accessed

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at two different banks.

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<i>We dispatched two detectives</i>
<i>to both banks.</i>

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<i>There were receipts</i>
<i>on the ground</i>

294
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<i>that fit the time frame.</i>

295
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<i>One of them had said</i>
<i>"declined."</i>

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And they'd used the card
then used it again,

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<i>and tried a third time,</i>
<i>and it declined there.</i>

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<i>narrator:</i>
<i>Investigators asked the banks</i>

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<i>to tap into their</i>
<i>surveillance system</i>

300
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<i>to see if this</i>
<i>could be their killer.</i>

301
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<i>- But we had</i>
<i>a still photograph.</i>

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You could tell
that the individual

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was trying to hide their face.

304
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<i>You could tell</i>
<i>it was a white person</i>

305
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<i>and that it was</i>
<i>a black vehicle.</i>

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But that was it.

307
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You couldn't really
make anything else out.

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<i>And it was good information.</i>

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<i>I just felt like it was just</i>
<i>gonna be a matter of time.</i>

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Once they started using
those ATMs, we were--

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<i>we were gonna get them soon.</i>

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<i>narrator: The image is grainy</i>
<i>and hard to make out,</i>

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<i>but it's their first real look</i>
<i>at the killer and their car.</i>

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- They needed more information
on what kind of car

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the suspect was driving,
the make and model at minimum,

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<i>and perhaps even the year.</i>

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<i>narrator: Detectives canvass</i>
<i>the neighborhood</i>

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<i>where Cyndi and Lori</i>
<i>were killed</i>

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<i>to see if anyone has seen</i>
<i>a large white person</i>

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<i>in a black truck.</i>

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<i>Luckily, one neighbor</i>
<i>provides a crucial tip.</i>

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- She had come home from school
and was meeting her boyfriend,

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<i>and she noticed</i>
<i>a black Dodge Durango,</i>

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<i>and she noticed a white male</i>
<i>walking back,</i>

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<i>getting in the Durango,</i>
<i>and driving away.</i>

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That information at the scene

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that we got
from the witness was huge

328
00:17:28,848 --> 00:17:32,385
because you don't always
get that with eyewitnesses.

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<i>We were looking</i>
<i>for a black Durango.</i>

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I was sure that was our guy.

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<i>[dramatic music]</i>

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<i>narrator: Investigators</i>
<i>are working around the clock</i>

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<i>to identify a suspect</i>
<i>in the killing</i>

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<i>of two young</i>
<i>real estate agents</i>

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<i>in the quiet Atlanta suburb</i>
<i>of Powder Springs.</i>

336
00:18:05,552 --> 00:18:08,021
<i>After obtaining a surveillance</i>
<i>photo of the suspect</i>

337
00:18:08,054 --> 00:18:11,191
<i>and his vehicle, police are</i>
<i>now frantically searching</i>

338
00:18:11,224 --> 00:18:13,693
<i>the Atlanta area</i>
<i>for the killer's car,</i>

339
00:18:13,727 --> 00:18:16,496
<i>a black Dodge Durango.</i>

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00:18:16,529 --> 00:18:19,265
<i>As the news spreads</i>
<i>in the community,</i>

341
00:18:19,299 --> 00:18:22,669
<i>so, too, does a sense</i>
<i>of fear and dread.</i>

342
00:18:22,702 --> 00:18:25,338
<i>- Model home where the two</i>
<i>sales reps were murdered</i>

343
00:18:25,372 --> 00:18:27,507
<i>remains surrounded</i>
<i>by crime scene tape,</i>

344
00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:30,143
<i>a vivid reminder--</i>
<i>the killer or killers</i>

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00:18:30,176 --> 00:18:32,078
<i>remains on the loose.</i>

346
00:18:32,112 --> 00:18:35,682
<i>- It was very shocking,</i>
<i>and the community was on edge.</i>

347
00:18:35,715 --> 00:18:38,351
<i>We would get a few calls</i>
<i>to the DA's office.</i>

348
00:18:38,385 --> 00:18:40,053
Is anything solved yet?

349
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- And they think
this person's at large.

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00:18:42,288 --> 00:18:45,125
And they could
do this again, you know?

351
00:18:45,158 --> 00:18:48,828
<i>People were very cautious.</i>

352
00:18:48,862 --> 00:18:51,831
<i>- There was a BOLO placed out</i>
<i>on the Durango,</i>

353
00:18:51,865 --> 00:18:57,370
<i>and it was a fairly popular</i>
<i>machine and color at the time.</i>

354
00:18:57,404 --> 00:18:59,906
They got a lot of returns
off of that,

355
00:19:00,006 --> 00:19:03,410
most of which were meaningless.

356
00:19:03,443 --> 00:19:06,112
But you don't know until
you search everyone down.

357
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<i>narrator: While police search</i>
<i>for the black Dodge Durango,</i>

358
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<i>the team gets word</i>
<i>that the results</i>

359
00:19:11,451 --> 00:19:13,553
<i>are in from the autopsies.</i>

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- When the victims were found,
they were both nude.

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And Cyndi had a ligature.

362
00:19:18,692 --> 00:19:21,695
<i>There is some suggestion of</i>
<i>a sexual assault in all that,</i>

363
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but we didn't find any evidence
of seminal fluid.

364
00:19:24,831 --> 00:19:27,200
<i>narrator: With no DNA</i>
<i>from the perpetrator</i>

365
00:19:27,233 --> 00:19:28,835
<i>found on either victim,</i>

366
00:19:28,868 --> 00:19:31,905
<i>investigators turn</i>
<i>to the ballistics evidence.</i>

367
00:19:31,938 --> 00:19:37,410
- We had at least three gunshot
wounds in the two victims.

368
00:19:37,444 --> 00:19:39,145
<i>We had a fractured projectile</i>

369
00:19:39,179 --> 00:19:42,749
<i>that was in the coagulated</i>
<i>blood at Lori Brown's head.</i>

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00:19:42,782 --> 00:19:45,785
The firearms examiner--
they jumped right on it

371
00:19:45,819 --> 00:19:47,087
<i>and told us within hours</i>

372
00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:49,789
we're looking
for a 9-millimeter.

373
00:19:49,823 --> 00:19:51,558
<i>narrator: Armed with the</i>
<i>descriptions of the killer's</i>

374
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<i>weapon and vehicle, detectives</i>
<i>re-canvass the neighborhood.</i>

375
00:19:56,262 --> 00:19:59,432
- Area residents said that
they saw a black Durango

376
00:19:59,466 --> 00:20:03,737
in the days and as far back
as a week before

377
00:20:03,770 --> 00:20:04,871
driving in the area.

378
00:20:04,904 --> 00:20:08,108
<i>It's very possible that</i>
<i>it was him driving around,</i>

379
00:20:08,141 --> 00:20:10,944
<i>checking the office out.</i>

380
00:20:10,977 --> 00:20:13,847
<i>narrator: Investigators wonder</i>
<i>if it's possible the killer</i>

381
00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,883
<i>was stalking</i>
<i>the housing development.</i>

382
00:20:16,916 --> 00:20:19,819
<i>Herman then speaks with a</i>
<i>real estate agent whose office</i>

383
00:20:19,853 --> 00:20:22,155
<i>sits across the street</i>
<i>from the murder scene,</i>

384
00:20:22,188 --> 00:20:24,524
<i>who says she had</i>
<i>an unsettling encounter</i>

385
00:20:24,557 --> 00:20:27,660
<i>an hour before the murderers.</i>

386
00:20:27,694 --> 00:20:30,363
<i>- A man in a black Durango</i>
<i>came into her office</i>

387
00:20:30,397 --> 00:20:32,799
<i>and asked where</i>
<i>the other two realtors were.</i>

388
00:20:32,832 --> 00:20:35,268
Supposedly, he was looking
for them specifically.

389
00:20:35,301 --> 00:20:37,804
- He had told her
that he had checked

390
00:20:37,837 --> 00:20:40,607
the office at Morrison Homes,
and that

391
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,809
there wasn't anybody there.

392
00:20:42,842 --> 00:20:44,377
<i>- He was looking</i>
<i>to buy a home,</i>

393
00:20:44,411 --> 00:20:46,980
and the lot number
was managed by the women

394
00:20:47,013 --> 00:20:50,417
in the Morrison Homes office.

395
00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:52,385
<i>He asked why</i>
<i>these women weren't there</i>

396
00:20:52,419 --> 00:20:54,421
<i>and when they would be back.</i>

397
00:20:54,454 --> 00:20:57,257
<i>He then left</i>
<i>the real estate agent alone</i>

398
00:20:57,290 --> 00:20:59,626
because she wasn't
who he had come for.

399
00:21:02,962 --> 00:21:06,166
- And then he went back out
and sat in the Durango

400
00:21:06,199 --> 00:21:08,068
and waited for them.

401
00:21:08,068 --> 00:21:10,070
<i>narrator: Based on the</i>
<i>witness's account,</i>

402
00:21:10,070 --> 00:21:12,072
<i>it becomes clear to detectives</i>

403
00:21:12,072 --> 00:21:16,409
<i>that this killer had targeted</i>
<i>these two specific women.</i>

404
00:21:16,443 --> 00:21:18,211
<i>- She seemed to be</i>
<i>the best witness</i>

405
00:21:18,244 --> 00:21:21,848
<i>out of everybody we had</i>
<i>who had a look at the killer.</i>

406
00:21:21,881 --> 00:21:23,950
<i>And we had her come in</i>
<i>with the forensic artist</i>

407
00:21:23,983 --> 00:21:26,453
and do a drawing of who

408
00:21:26,486 --> 00:21:28,755
the individual was
that had came in.

409
00:21:28,788 --> 00:21:31,658
<i>narrator: With the description</i>
<i>of a possible suspect in hand,</i>

410
00:21:31,691 --> 00:21:34,094
<i>detectives cross-check</i>
<i>with the victims' families</i>

411
00:21:34,094 --> 00:21:36,096
<i>for a possible ID.</i>

412
00:21:36,096 --> 00:21:38,365
<i>They come up empty.</i>

413
00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:42,202
<i>So investigators disseminate</i>
<i>the drawing to local media.</i>

414
00:21:42,235 --> 00:21:45,538
<i>- Placing a name to the face</i>
<i>will be difficult.</i>

415
00:21:45,572 --> 00:21:48,708
<i>It looks like solving</i>
<i>this case will take time.</i>

416
00:21:48,742 --> 00:21:50,577
- They're confident that
they're gonna solve the case,

417
00:21:50,610 --> 00:21:53,279
but it is--you know,
it's a troubling case,

418
00:21:53,313 --> 00:21:55,115
and it's a baffling one
at this point.

419
00:21:55,115 --> 00:22:00,086
<i>- What we had out there was</i>
<i>a large, balding white male,</i>

420
00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:04,691
early 30s, 6-foot-plus,
200-plus,

421
00:22:04,724 --> 00:22:08,094
driving a black--a nice,
clean, black Dodge Durango.

422
00:22:08,128 --> 00:22:10,363
<i>The phones started blowing up.</i>

423
00:22:10,397 --> 00:22:12,332
<i>I mean, we were getting a lot</i>
<i>of leads and a lot of tips.</i>

424
00:22:12,365 --> 00:22:15,669
And so we were trying to sift
through them and prioritize.

425
00:22:15,702 --> 00:22:18,304
<i>narrator: Within hours</i>
<i>of releasing the sketch,</i>

426
00:22:18,338 --> 00:22:22,575
<i>one caller insists he knows</i>
<i>the man in the picture.</i>

427
00:22:22,609 --> 00:22:24,978
<i>He tells police</i>
<i>he's the man's boss,</i>

428
00:22:25,078 --> 00:22:28,615
<i>and he's known him</i>
<i>for over a year.</i>

429
00:22:28,648 --> 00:22:31,618
- We got a call from 911
that they had

430
00:22:31,651 --> 00:22:34,454
an individual on the phone
by the name of Ben Lindsey.

431
00:22:34,487 --> 00:22:37,657
And he was a supervisor
on a job site.

432
00:22:37,691 --> 00:22:39,993
<i>He said he got an individual</i>
<i>that works for me</i>

433
00:22:40,093 --> 00:22:41,795
<i>whose behavior</i>
<i>has been bizarre.</i>

434
00:22:41,828 --> 00:22:44,330
<i>He made some comments,</i>
<i>"Well, I guess the cops</i>

435
00:22:44,364 --> 00:22:46,499
<i>are gonna be looking for me."</i>

436
00:22:46,533 --> 00:22:48,535
<i>- He says he's a big guy,</i>

437
00:22:48,568 --> 00:22:51,104
<i>and we suspect</i>
<i>he may have stolen</i>

438
00:22:51,137 --> 00:22:53,440
<i>one of his coworker's weapons.</i>

439
00:22:53,473 --> 00:22:56,309
And we're also pretty sure
he's on parole.

440
00:22:56,343 --> 00:22:57,811
The antennas went up
on that one.

441
00:22:57,844 --> 00:22:59,612
We're like,
that sounds like somebody that

442
00:22:59,646 --> 00:23:01,614
we would need to look at
really close.

443
00:23:01,648 --> 00:23:04,617
<i>narrator: Detective Herman</i>
<i>asks the tipster</i>

444
00:23:04,651 --> 00:23:07,287
<i>what he remembers</i>
<i>from the day of the murders.</i>

445
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,889
<i>- He said, "I can tell you</i>
<i>he was not at work on Monday."</i>

446
00:23:09,923 --> 00:23:12,058
So we had a name--

447
00:23:12,058 --> 00:23:13,460
Stacey Humphreys.

448
00:23:15,962 --> 00:23:18,264
<i>narrator: And then</i>
<i>Humphreys' boss delivers</i>

449
00:23:18,298 --> 00:23:23,803
<i>a crucial piece of information</i>
<i>that blows the case wide open.</i>

450
00:23:23,837 --> 00:23:27,974
- He says he's driving
a black Dodge Durango.

451
00:23:28,074 --> 00:23:29,843
This could be our killer.

452
00:23:29,876 --> 00:23:36,182
<i>* *</i>

453
00:23:36,216 --> 00:23:38,318
<i>- All thoughts were that</i>
<i>he was on the run</i>

454
00:23:38,351 --> 00:23:40,153
<i>with a murder weapon.</i>

455
00:23:40,186 --> 00:23:42,455
And that's dangerous
for everybody in the community.

456
00:23:42,489 --> 00:23:44,557
<i>- I remember sitting</i>
<i>in the office,</i>

457
00:23:44,591 --> 00:23:47,093
<i>getting the maps out,</i>
<i>and plotting the path.</i>

458
00:23:47,093 --> 00:23:49,396
Which way would he go?
We gotta get him.

459
00:23:49,429 --> 00:23:51,831
[sirens wailing]

460
00:24:00,507 --> 00:24:03,343
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

461
00:24:04,144 --> 00:24:06,046
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>A brutal double murder</i>

462
00:24:06,046 --> 00:24:09,482
<i>has paralyzed the Powder</i>
<i>Springs community with fear.</i>

463
00:24:11,184 --> 00:24:13,720
<i>After releasing a composite</i>
<i>sketch of the suspect</i>

464
00:24:13,753 --> 00:24:16,823
<i>to the public,</i>
<i>calls have been pouring in.</i>

465
00:24:16,856 --> 00:24:21,428
<i>But one tip</i>
<i>in particular stands out.</i>

466
00:24:21,461 --> 00:24:23,430
<i>- We had a call</i>
<i>from a man that said,</i>

467
00:24:23,463 --> 00:24:25,565
"Look, I've got a guy
that works with us

468
00:24:25,598 --> 00:24:27,467
"on a construction site.

469
00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:29,135
"He drives a black Durango.

470
00:24:29,169 --> 00:24:31,171
He looks a lot like this."

471
00:24:31,204 --> 00:24:34,774
<i>He was able to provide a name,</i>
<i>Stacey Ian Humphreys.</i>

472
00:24:34,808 --> 00:24:37,844
<i>- We found out that</i>
<i>he had come to work</i>

473
00:24:37,877 --> 00:24:40,680
the day after the murders,
later in the day,

474
00:24:40,714 --> 00:24:44,684
making comments about,
you know, the two women killed,

475
00:24:44,718 --> 00:24:48,555
and that he expected a call
from his parole officer.

476
00:24:48,588 --> 00:24:50,457
<i>A coworker out there</i>
<i>on the job site</i>

477
00:24:50,490 --> 00:24:53,093
<i>had a Ruger 9-millimeter</i>
<i>stolen,</i>

478
00:24:53,093 --> 00:24:55,395
and he had suspected
Humphreys was involved.

479
00:24:55,428 --> 00:24:57,797
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>A Ruger nine-millimeter,</i>

480
00:24:57,831 --> 00:25:01,134
<i>the same weapon used</i>
<i>in the murders.</i>

481
00:25:01,167 --> 00:25:04,137
- When I punched him into
our system, he's an ex con.

482
00:25:04,170 --> 00:25:05,205
He's a parolee.

483
00:25:05,238 --> 00:25:08,408
<i>He had previous arrests</i>
<i>from a few years earlier</i>

484
00:25:08,441 --> 00:25:11,144
on a subdivision
immediately adjacent

485
00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:13,913
to where our crime scene was.

486
00:25:13,947 --> 00:25:16,783
<i>And I did some more</i>
<i>digging around on him.</i>

487
00:25:16,816 --> 00:25:19,219
<i>He'd been arrested</i>
<i>for carrying a firearm</i>

488
00:25:19,252 --> 00:25:20,954
<i>up at Town Center Mall.</i>

489
00:25:21,054 --> 00:25:24,691
Got into the tag system, found
that he owned a Black Durango.

490
00:25:26,793 --> 00:25:28,561
<i>- Humphreys' sister lived</i>

491
00:25:28,595 --> 00:25:31,064
<i>about a mile</i>
<i>from the development.</i>

492
00:25:31,064 --> 00:25:35,368
Humphreys had lived
with his sister for years.

493
00:25:35,402 --> 00:25:37,237
<i>- We're looking for somebody</i>
<i>that's been</i>

494
00:25:37,270 --> 00:25:38,738
<i>in the area and is familiar.</i>

495
00:25:38,772 --> 00:25:40,707
<i>He listed an address</i>
<i>at a house</i>

496
00:25:40,740 --> 00:25:42,075
<i>in the Brookstone subdivision,</i>

497
00:25:42,075 --> 00:25:45,178
which is within a mile
of where we were at.

498
00:25:45,211 --> 00:25:46,279
So that puts him out here.

499
00:25:46,312 --> 00:25:49,082
<i>narrator: Not only</i>
<i>had Humphreys lived nearby,</i>

500
00:25:49,115 --> 00:25:51,718
<i>but detectives find something</i>
<i>from his work history</i>

501
00:25:51,751 --> 00:25:54,487
<i>that ties him</i>
<i>directly to the subdivision.</i>

502
00:25:54,521 --> 00:25:57,524
<i>- We found out that</i>
<i>he had done some contract work</i>

503
00:25:57,557 --> 00:25:58,892
with Morrison Homes.

504
00:26:02,462 --> 00:26:07,033
I remember, I was thinking
he's looking good as a suspect.

505
00:26:07,033 --> 00:26:10,103
<i>narrator: But Detective Herman</i>
<i>needs more than just a call</i>

506
00:26:10,136 --> 00:26:12,605
<i>from the tip line</i>
<i>to make an arrest.</i>

507
00:26:12,639 --> 00:26:14,641
<i>He meets</i>
<i>with a real estate agent</i>

508
00:26:14,674 --> 00:26:18,111
<i>that had an encounter</i>
<i>with the suspect.</i>

509
00:26:18,144 --> 00:26:22,415
<i>- I met with Ruth Jenny again,</i>
<i>had her come in.</i>

510
00:26:22,449 --> 00:26:24,517
And I had prepared
a photo lineup,

511
00:26:24,551 --> 00:26:26,252
and I had her view the lineup,

512
00:26:26,286 --> 00:26:30,090
and she was not able
to make an identification.

513
00:26:32,192 --> 00:26:36,629
<i>It was sort of a gut punch</i>
<i>when she couldn't identify</i>

514
00:26:36,663 --> 00:26:37,964
<i>Humphreys out of the lineup,</i>

515
00:26:38,064 --> 00:26:41,401
because I felt like
if she had been able to,

516
00:26:41,434 --> 00:26:43,603
I probably would have
moved forward at that time

517
00:26:43,636 --> 00:26:45,271
with an arrest warrant.

518
00:26:45,305 --> 00:26:47,607
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>Detective Herman still thinks</i>

519
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,142
<i>Humphreys is a suspect.</i>

520
00:26:49,175 --> 00:26:53,680
<i>But without a positive ID,</i>
<i>he can't make an arrest.</i>

521
00:26:53,713 --> 00:26:55,782
- The last thing I wanted
to do in this case

522
00:26:55,815 --> 00:26:58,284
was take an arrest warrant

523
00:26:58,318 --> 00:27:02,322
just kind of based
on iffy circumstances.

524
00:27:02,355 --> 00:27:04,024
I wanted it to be strong.

525
00:27:04,024 --> 00:27:08,061
I didn't--it had
to pass muster, so to speak.

526
00:27:08,094 --> 00:27:11,498
<i>Stacey Humphreys</i>
<i>was a convicted parolee.</i>

527
00:27:13,166 --> 00:27:15,235
So I wanted
a controlled environment.

528
00:27:15,268 --> 00:27:18,238
I knew he lived
with his grandmother.

529
00:27:18,271 --> 00:27:21,207
I wanted to avoid
a confrontation there.

530
00:27:23,043 --> 00:27:25,045
<i>I made the decision</i>
<i>to reach out</i>

531
00:27:25,045 --> 00:27:28,548
<i>to Stacey Humphreys'</i>
<i>parole officer.</i>

532
00:27:28,581 --> 00:27:33,186
So I asked him, can you arrange
to have him come back in?

533
00:27:33,219 --> 00:27:36,222
If you can get him in there,
we'll be there with you,

534
00:27:36,256 --> 00:27:40,760
and then we can encounter him
in that controlled environment.

535
00:27:40,794 --> 00:27:42,896
<i>narrator: The parole officer</i>
<i>tells Humphreys</i>

536
00:27:42,929 --> 00:27:45,165
<i>to meet him first thing</i>
<i>in the morning.</i>

537
00:27:45,198 --> 00:27:48,068
<i>But that night,</i>
<i>Detective Herman makes sure</i>

538
00:27:48,101 --> 00:27:51,838
<i>to keep an eye</i>
<i>on his suspect, just in case.</i>

539
00:27:51,871 --> 00:27:55,308
- I had a couple of detectives
sitting outside

540
00:27:55,342 --> 00:27:56,476
of his grandmother's house.

541
00:27:56,509 --> 00:27:59,212
<i>narrator: The next morning,</i>
<i>Detective Herman waits</i>

542
00:27:59,245 --> 00:28:01,581
<i>at the parole office</i>
<i>for Humphreys to show up.</i>

543
00:28:01,614 --> 00:28:05,385
<i>At the same time across town,</i>
<i>another detective unit</i>

544
00:28:05,418 --> 00:28:10,156
<i>continues to watch the house</i>
<i>where Humphreys lives.</i>

545
00:28:10,190 --> 00:28:12,225
<i>- As they were</i>
<i>surveilling the home,</i>

546
00:28:12,258 --> 00:28:15,395
<i>they saw him</i>
<i>packing up his car.</i>

547
00:28:15,428 --> 00:28:17,897
The car had been backed
into the driveway,

548
00:28:17,931 --> 00:28:21,034
and the trunk
of the car was open.

549
00:28:21,034 --> 00:28:23,570
<i>- I got a phone call</i>
<i>at the parole officer's office</i>

550
00:28:23,603 --> 00:28:25,839
<i>from Detective Mike O'Connell,</i>

551
00:28:25,872 --> 00:28:28,174
and he was watching Humphreys.

552
00:28:28,208 --> 00:28:30,410
<i>O'Connell said,</i>
<i>"It doesn't look like</i>

553
00:28:30,443 --> 00:28:32,679
<i>he's gonna head your way,"</i>
<i>and I said,</i>

554
00:28:32,712 --> 00:28:35,382
"Well, whatever we do,
don't let him--

555
00:28:35,415 --> 00:28:36,850
don't let him leave again."

556
00:28:38,952 --> 00:28:42,422
<i>And Humphreys spotted</i>
<i>the unmarked car.</i>

557
00:28:42,455 --> 00:28:45,058
<i>So he started moving</i>
<i>and getting some things</i>

558
00:28:45,058 --> 00:28:47,060
<i>out of the Durango.</i>

559
00:28:47,060 --> 00:28:49,963
He went back into the house
holding a bag

560
00:28:50,063 --> 00:28:53,233
and closed the garage door.

561
00:28:53,266 --> 00:28:57,604
<i>At that point, O'Connell</i>
<i>told me, "So we may have a--</i>

562
00:28:57,637 --> 00:28:59,205
we may have a standoff
out here."

563
00:28:59,239 --> 00:29:01,441
<i>narrator: Herman rushes</i>
<i>over to Humphreys' house,</i>

564
00:29:01,474 --> 00:29:04,644
<i>determined to avert</i>
<i>an armed confrontation.</i>

565
00:29:04,678 --> 00:29:08,415
- We're headed over there,
and O'Connell calls me and says

566
00:29:08,448 --> 00:29:11,651
the next-door neighbor
saw a big white guy

567
00:29:11,685 --> 00:29:13,453
running through the backyard.

568
00:29:13,486 --> 00:29:16,423
Humphreys had fled the house
and took off.

569
00:29:16,456 --> 00:29:19,025
<i>That was a gut punch.</i>

570
00:29:19,025 --> 00:29:20,093
<i>So now he's on the run.</i>

571
00:29:22,328 --> 00:29:24,864
<i>narrator: But despite</i>
<i>their efforts to catch up,</i>

572
00:29:24,898 --> 00:29:27,567
<i>he disappears.</i>

573
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,303
<i>Now that he's on the run,</i>
<i>Cobb County PD</i>

574
00:29:30,337 --> 00:29:33,740
<i>mobilizes their search teams</i>
<i>to track him down.</i>

575
00:29:33,773 --> 00:29:36,343
<i>- Dunwoody looked like it was</i>
<i>under siege this morning.</i>

576
00:29:36,376 --> 00:29:38,745
<i>DeKalb County</i>
<i>police helicopters</i>

577
00:29:38,778 --> 00:29:41,047
<i>flying low over the rooftops,</i>

578
00:29:41,047 --> 00:29:44,284
<i>search dogs looking</i>
<i>for a trace.</i>

579
00:29:44,317 --> 00:29:46,653
<i>- All thoughts were that</i>
<i>he was on the run</i>

580
00:29:46,686 --> 00:29:48,154
<i>with a murder weapon,</i>

581
00:29:48,188 --> 00:29:51,858
and that's dangerous for
everybody in the community.

582
00:29:51,891 --> 00:29:54,060
<i>- I just remember</i>
<i>praying that,</i>

583
00:29:54,060 --> 00:29:57,197
please, don't let him
hurt anybody else.

584
00:29:57,230 --> 00:29:58,732
We gotta get him.

585
00:30:07,474 --> 00:30:09,242
<i>narrator: Investigators have</i>
<i>finally identified a suspect</i>

586
00:30:10,343 --> 00:30:13,113
<i>in the cold-blooded murders</i>
<i>of real estate agents</i>

587
00:30:13,146 --> 00:30:15,949
<i>Lori Brown and Cyndi Williams.</i>

588
00:30:15,982 --> 00:30:18,451
<i>The suspect,</i>
<i>30-year-old Stacey Humphreys,</i>

589
00:30:18,485 --> 00:30:21,454
<i>has an appointment</i>
<i>to meet his parole officer.</i>

590
00:30:21,488 --> 00:30:25,458
<i>But instead,</i>
<i>he makes a run for it.</i>

591
00:30:25,492 --> 00:30:27,394
<i>- Well, whenever someone</i>
<i>like this is loose</i>

592
00:30:27,427 --> 00:30:29,629
<i>in the community,</i>
<i>it's a huge danger.</i>

593
00:30:29,662 --> 00:30:30,830
But you can't unring that bell.

594
00:30:30,864 --> 00:30:33,566
Once he's gone, he's gone.

595
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,336
<i>narrator: In the hours after</i>
<i>Humphreys' disappearance,</i>

596
00:30:36,369 --> 00:30:39,039
<i>detectives keep tabs</i>
<i>on him through his credit card</i>

597
00:30:39,072 --> 00:30:41,474
<i>and bank account activity.</i>

598
00:30:41,508 --> 00:30:45,078
<i>- And we found out that</i>
<i>he's at the rental car agency.</i>

599
00:30:45,111 --> 00:30:47,847
<i>He had rented</i>
<i>the Jeep Cherokee.</i>

600
00:30:47,881 --> 00:30:50,216
This is all real-time
information coming in.

601
00:30:50,250 --> 00:30:52,986
<i>At this point, it was just</i>
<i>a matter of tracking him</i>

602
00:30:53,019 --> 00:30:54,954
<i>and getting him in custody.</i>

603
00:30:54,988 --> 00:30:56,956
<i>narrator: The Cobb County</i>
<i>Police Department</i>

604
00:30:56,990 --> 00:30:59,192
<i>enlist the help</i>
<i>of the U.S. Marshals</i>

605
00:30:59,225 --> 00:31:01,428
<i>to bring their killer in.</i>

606
00:31:01,461 --> 00:31:03,730
<i>Through new technology</i>
<i>for 2003,</i>

607
00:31:03,763 --> 00:31:07,300
<i>the marshals keep close tabs</i>
<i>on Humphreys' cell phone.</i>

608
00:31:07,334 --> 00:31:12,105
<i>- The phone pinged</i>
<i>in Nashville, Tennessee,</i>

609
00:31:12,138 --> 00:31:14,507
<i>in Southern Indiana.</i>

610
00:31:14,541 --> 00:31:16,142
<i>We knew he was going north.</i>

611
00:31:16,176 --> 00:31:18,511
What he was doing was,
he was turning it on

612
00:31:18,545 --> 00:31:21,314
and checking his voicemail,
and then turning it off.

613
00:31:21,348 --> 00:31:24,517
And when he turned it on,
you get the ping.

614
00:31:24,551 --> 00:31:27,721
<i>I remember sitting in the</i>
<i>office getting maps out</i>

615
00:31:27,754 --> 00:31:30,523
and plotting a path.

616
00:31:30,557 --> 00:31:32,525
Which way would he go?

617
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:35,695
<i>- If a person that could</i>
<i>potentially face</i>

618
00:31:35,729 --> 00:31:39,099
<i>the death penalty</i>
<i>gets into the Canada area,</i>

619
00:31:39,099 --> 00:31:42,002
Canada will not extradite him
back to the United States

620
00:31:42,102 --> 00:31:45,138
unless the prosecutor
waives the death penalty,

621
00:31:45,171 --> 00:31:47,907
<i>and that was very likely</i>
<i>where he was headed.</i>

622
00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:51,544
<i>- We put the lookout out</i>
<i>on the Cherokee,</i>

623
00:31:51,578 --> 00:31:54,814
<i>gave it to all the agencies</i>
<i>in that area,</i>

624
00:31:54,848 --> 00:31:56,249
proposed path he may drive.

625
00:31:56,282 --> 00:31:58,852
The first 24 hours
in a case like this

626
00:31:58,885 --> 00:32:00,754
are always pretty involved
and intense,

627
00:32:00,787 --> 00:32:03,189
but from the time he got away,

628
00:32:03,223 --> 00:32:06,793
I think was as intense as I've
ever dealt with in my career.

629
00:32:06,826 --> 00:32:11,231
<i>All I could think about was,</i>
<i>if some poor innocent person</i>

630
00:32:11,264 --> 00:32:13,533
<i>gets hurt or some cop</i>
<i>gets shot,</i>

631
00:32:13,566 --> 00:32:15,502
you know, it's gonna be on me.

632
00:32:15,535 --> 00:32:17,270
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>As Humphreys heads north</i>

633
00:32:17,303 --> 00:32:19,339
<i>through Nashville</i>
<i>and Southern Indiana,</i>

634
00:32:19,372 --> 00:32:21,708
<i>Cobb County PD</i>
<i>and the U.S. Marshals</i>

635
00:32:21,741 --> 00:32:25,311
<i>put out a BOLO to all</i>
<i>jurisdictions in its path.</i>

636
00:32:46,766 --> 00:32:50,837
<i>* *</i>

637
00:32:50,870 --> 00:32:53,840
<i>narrator: Just 16 hours</i>
<i>after he made a run for it,</i>

638
00:32:53,873 --> 00:32:57,210
<i>Humphreys' rented Jeep is</i>
<i>spotted right before daybreak,</i>

639
00:32:57,243 --> 00:32:59,112
<i>outside Milwaukee.</i>

640
00:32:59,112 --> 00:33:01,614
- A sharp-eyed officer
in Wisconsin

641
00:33:01,648 --> 00:33:04,484
had just pulled his patrol car
off to the side

642
00:33:04,517 --> 00:33:06,052
of the entrance ramp
on the interstate

643
00:33:06,052 --> 00:33:07,787
after eating breakfast.

644
00:33:07,821 --> 00:33:10,423
And he pulled up
on his computer screen

645
00:33:10,457 --> 00:33:14,627
about a BOLO out of Georgia
wanted in this double homicide,

646
00:33:14,661 --> 00:33:16,629
a Jeep Grand Cherokee.

647
00:33:16,663 --> 00:33:19,332
<i>narrator: The officer</i>
<i>is a highway patrolman</i>

648
00:33:19,366 --> 00:33:21,201
<i>out of Waukesha County,</i>
<i>Wisconsin,</i>

649
00:33:21,234 --> 00:33:24,371
<i>about 660 miles</i>
<i>from the Canadian border</i>

650
00:33:24,404 --> 00:33:27,440
<i>and 830 miles from Atlanta.</i>

651
00:33:29,542 --> 00:33:31,845
<i>- The officer said,</i>
<i>and I looked.</i>

652
00:33:31,878 --> 00:33:36,116
<i>Here comes a Cherokee</i>
<i>that fit the description.</i>

653
00:33:36,149 --> 00:33:37,417
And he pulls out on it.

654
00:33:50,430 --> 00:33:53,466
- By this time, he's got
a couple cars helping him,

655
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:56,236
and the chase is on.

656
00:33:56,269 --> 00:34:00,173
<i>- One of the Wisconsin</i>
<i>agencies used stop sticks.</i>

657
00:34:00,206 --> 00:34:01,808
<i>And he went over</i>
<i>the stop sticks</i>

658
00:34:01,841 --> 00:34:04,044
<i>that blew the two front tires.</i>

659
00:34:04,077 --> 00:34:06,146
And he was still going
a pretty good speed.

660
00:34:10,216 --> 00:34:12,218
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>For 35 minutes,</i>

661
00:34:12,252 --> 00:34:14,220
<i>more than half a dozen</i>
<i>police vehicles</i>

662
00:34:14,254 --> 00:34:16,690
<i>from different jurisdictions</i>
<i>in Wisconsin</i>

663
00:34:16,723 --> 00:34:19,592
<i>continue the chase</i>
<i>to capture Humphreys.</i>

664
00:34:37,077 --> 00:34:41,848
<i>* *</i>

665
00:34:41,881 --> 00:34:44,918
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>Humphreys finally gives up.</i>

666
00:34:44,951 --> 00:34:50,090
<i>He exits the rented Jeep</i>
<i>and is taken into custody.</i>

667
00:34:50,123 --> 00:34:51,257
- There was a huge sense
of relief

668
00:34:51,291 --> 00:34:54,327
when I finally talked with
a sheriff's captain up there

669
00:34:54,361 --> 00:34:56,162
and said, "We got him.
He's in custody.

670
00:34:56,196 --> 00:34:57,597
Nobody's hurt."

671
00:34:57,630 --> 00:35:01,701
That was, like, huge.

672
00:35:01,735 --> 00:35:05,038
<i>narrator: Now with the suspect</i>
<i>in custody,</i>

673
00:35:05,038 --> 00:35:08,341
<i>sheriff's deputies</i>
<i>search his Jeep.</i>

674
00:35:08,375 --> 00:35:10,410
<i>- In the console</i>
<i>of the Jeep Cherokee</i>

675
00:35:10,443 --> 00:35:13,113
<i>was a Ruger 9-millimeter.</i>

676
00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:18,752
There was some blood
that was submitted

677
00:35:18,785 --> 00:35:20,653
later on for processing.

678
00:35:20,687 --> 00:35:22,756
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>A Ruger 9-millimeter--</i>

679
00:35:22,789 --> 00:35:25,692
<i>the same gun that was used</i>
<i>in the killings.</i>

680
00:35:25,725 --> 00:35:28,762
<i>If the blood is a match,</i>
<i>Humphreys' connection</i>

681
00:35:28,795 --> 00:35:31,664
<i>to the murder</i>
<i>is all but certain.</i>

682
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,536
<i>Detective Herman and his team</i>
<i>head north to Wisconsin</i>

683
00:35:36,569 --> 00:35:40,907
<i>to finally confront</i>
<i>their suspect.</i>

684
00:35:40,940 --> 00:35:44,077
<i>- That was a haul.</i>
<i>That was a legit 12 hours.</i>

685
00:35:44,077 --> 00:35:47,280
You're not tired, even though
you haven't slept in a week.

686
00:35:47,313 --> 00:35:49,416
Hey, this is--this is
what it's all about.

687
00:35:49,449 --> 00:35:52,452
I'm gonna get
a face-to-face with him.

688
00:35:52,485 --> 00:35:54,587
<i>I can remember thinking,</i>
<i>you know, for somebody that's</i>

689
00:35:54,621 --> 00:35:58,291
<i>as big as he is and has</i>
<i>committed this kind of crime,</i>

690
00:35:58,324 --> 00:35:59,893
<i>I mean, he's just a weakling--</i>

691
00:35:59,926 --> 00:36:03,697
<i>beat down, his shoulders</i>
<i>slumped, mumbling his words.</i>

692
00:36:20,714 --> 00:36:24,117
- My methodology has always
been just being laid back

693
00:36:24,150 --> 00:36:26,152
and dangling it out there

694
00:36:26,186 --> 00:36:28,221
<i>instead of being</i>
<i>confrontational.</i>

695
00:36:28,254 --> 00:36:31,358
<i>He says, "I will talk to you.</i>

696
00:36:31,391 --> 00:36:34,060
<i>I'm not gonna answer</i>
<i>a bunch of questions."</i>

697
00:36:48,875 --> 00:36:51,511
- And there's a time
to be confrontational.

698
00:36:51,544 --> 00:36:53,113
If I could get him to talk,

699
00:36:53,146 --> 00:36:55,081
it would just
strengthen the case.

700
00:37:12,465 --> 00:37:14,868
<i>[dramatic music]</i>

701
00:37:15,135 --> 00:37:17,470
<i>* *</i>

702
00:37:17,504 --> 00:37:20,440
<i>narrator: After a 24-hour,</i>
<i>cross-country manhunt</i>

703
00:37:20,473 --> 00:37:23,476
<i>spanning six states,</i>
<i>the search for justice</i>

704
00:37:23,510 --> 00:37:25,512
<i>in the double murder</i>
<i>of Cyndi Williams</i>

705
00:37:25,545 --> 00:37:28,481
<i>and Lori Brown</i>
<i>is one step closer.</i>

706
00:37:28,515 --> 00:37:30,817
<i>The suspected killer,</i>
<i>Stacey Humphreys,</i>

707
00:37:30,850 --> 00:37:36,556
<i>has been captured after</i>
<i>a 35-minute, high-speed chase.</i>

708
00:37:36,589 --> 00:37:38,391
<i>Detective Eddie Herman</i>

709
00:37:38,425 --> 00:37:41,494
<i>now sits across</i>
<i>from his prime suspect.</i>

710
00:37:41,528 --> 00:37:43,463
- He told me--he said,
"There's nothing wrong with me.

711
00:37:43,496 --> 00:37:45,498
I don't remember
what happened."

712
00:37:59,879 --> 00:38:02,549
<i>- I did not believe that</i>
<i>he was having blackouts,</i>

713
00:38:02,582 --> 00:38:04,384
<i>that he was having</i>
<i>a loss of memory</i>

714
00:38:04,417 --> 00:38:05,819
<i>when it comes to the crime.</i>

715
00:38:05,852 --> 00:38:09,589
I just kept at him because
I wanted to try

716
00:38:09,622 --> 00:38:11,925
to get as much information
as we possibly could.

717
00:38:12,025 --> 00:38:13,927
I still was trying
to pick out details

718
00:38:14,027 --> 00:38:15,929
which I thought would
be important later on

719
00:38:16,029 --> 00:38:17,931
when we went to trial.

720
00:38:18,031 --> 00:38:20,533
<i>- He didn't confess</i>
<i>or anything of that nature.</i>

721
00:38:20,567 --> 00:38:23,470
But they were convinced
they had their guy.

722
00:38:23,503 --> 00:38:25,805
<i>- To me, he remembered</i>

723
00:38:25,839 --> 00:38:27,807
<i>what went on</i>
<i>inside that sales office.</i>

724
00:38:27,841 --> 00:38:29,209
I think he remembered it

725
00:38:29,242 --> 00:38:31,544
like it was as clear--
crystal clear.

726
00:38:31,578 --> 00:38:34,447
He just was not
gonna talk about it.

727
00:38:34,481 --> 00:38:36,549
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>The interrogation ends</i>

728
00:38:36,583 --> 00:38:39,352
<i>without a confession</i>
<i>from Humphreys.</i>

729
00:38:39,386 --> 00:38:43,256
<i>But his connection to the</i>
<i>crime and the area is clear.</i>

730
00:38:43,289 --> 00:38:45,191
- This crime was not random.

731
00:38:45,225 --> 00:38:47,360
He had been
stalking these women

732
00:38:47,394 --> 00:38:49,529
and chose them for this attack.

733
00:38:49,562 --> 00:38:51,197
Why he killed them?

734
00:38:51,231 --> 00:38:53,233
We'll probably never know.

735
00:38:53,266 --> 00:38:56,202
<i>narrator: Detectives describe</i>
<i>what they believe happened</i>

736
00:38:56,236 --> 00:38:59,773
<i>to Cyndi Williams</i>
<i>and Lori Brown that afternoon.</i>

737
00:38:59,806 --> 00:39:02,742
- Cyndi Williams gets back,
she walks in,

738
00:39:02,776 --> 00:39:06,579
<i>and the shooter then</i>
<i>either walks in behind her</i>

739
00:39:06,613 --> 00:39:07,714
<i>or waits a minute.</i>

740
00:39:10,450 --> 00:39:12,919
<i>She's dealing</i>
<i>with the killer first.</i>

741
00:39:17,824 --> 00:39:22,595
<i>She's forced to undress,</i>
<i>give up her bank information.</i>

742
00:39:22,629 --> 00:39:25,265
- He may have been about
to sexually assault her

743
00:39:25,298 --> 00:39:30,370
or was sexually assaulting her
when Lori Brown walked in.

744
00:39:30,403 --> 00:39:33,740
<i>- And then when</i>
<i>Lori Brown walked in,</i>

745
00:39:33,773 --> 00:39:35,475
<i>his plan</i>
<i>wasn't gonna work out.</i>

746
00:39:35,508 --> 00:39:37,577
<i>So then he's got both women.</i>

747
00:39:39,412 --> 00:39:41,681
<i>He executes Cyndi Williams</i>

748
00:39:41,715 --> 00:39:44,217
and then is dealing
with Lori Brown.

749
00:39:44,250 --> 00:39:48,054
And after getting
her bank information

750
00:39:48,054 --> 00:39:51,257
<i>and making the calls</i>
<i>to the banks,</i>

751
00:39:51,291 --> 00:39:53,493
<i>she's then killed also.</i>

752
00:39:56,229 --> 00:39:57,797
<i>narrator:</i>
<i>Humphreys is transferred back</i>

753
00:39:57,831 --> 00:40:00,767
<i>to Cobb County</i>
<i>to appear in court.</i>

754
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,237
<i>In the meantime, results for</i>
<i>the DNA on the 9-millimeter</i>

755
00:40:04,270 --> 00:40:07,440
<i>found in the Jeep come back</i>
<i>from the lab.</i>

756
00:40:08,708 --> 00:40:12,012
<i>- The murder weapon</i>
<i>had blood on it.</i>

757
00:40:12,045 --> 00:40:15,648
The DNA of that blood
matched Lori.

758
00:40:15,682 --> 00:40:20,553
So it was such
a crucial piece of evidence.

759
00:40:20,587 --> 00:40:23,957
<i>- He was charged</i>
<i>with two counts of felony,</i>

760
00:40:23,990 --> 00:40:27,794
two counts of malice murder,
two counts of felony murder,

761
00:40:27,827 --> 00:40:30,430
and two counts
of armed robbery.

762
00:40:31,998 --> 00:40:36,302
<i>narrator: Humphreys appears in</i>
<i>court to answer the charges.</i>

763
00:40:36,336 --> 00:40:38,405
<i>He pleads not guilty.</i>

764
00:40:41,074 --> 00:40:42,676
<i>- To this day--</i>

765
00:40:42,709 --> 00:40:43,843
<i>I said it then,</i>
<i>I'll say it now--</i>

766
00:40:43,877 --> 00:40:50,016
the type of murder it was,
the fact they were executed,

767
00:40:50,050 --> 00:40:53,086
<i>that case screamed</i>
<i>for the death penalty.</i>

768
00:40:53,119 --> 00:40:57,424
I just believe in this case
that it's necessary,

769
00:40:57,457 --> 00:41:00,527
and that's true justice.

770
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,429
<i>- I felt we had put</i>
<i>everything we had</i>

771
00:41:02,462 --> 00:41:06,066
into getting that
and justifying a good reason

772
00:41:06,066 --> 00:41:09,069
for the death penalty.

773
00:41:09,102 --> 00:41:11,404
<i>narrator: A change of venue</i>
<i>and the intense prep</i>

774
00:41:11,438 --> 00:41:17,644
<i>of a death penalty case delays</i>
<i>the trial for four years.</i>

775
00:41:17,677 --> 00:41:21,815
<i>In August of 2007,</i>

776
00:41:21,848 --> 00:41:24,584
<i>the trial finally begins.</i>

777
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:30,523
<i>- In the beginning of the</i>
<i>trial, we sat behind him.</i>

778
00:41:30,557 --> 00:41:35,962
I remember shaking, like,
violently inside,

779
00:41:35,995 --> 00:41:39,099
just knowing that
he was in the same room.

780
00:41:39,099 --> 00:41:42,402
<i>- Prosecutors present their</i>
<i>case against Stacey Humphreys.</i>

781
00:41:42,435 --> 00:41:46,106
- In this case, we're looking
at circumstantial evidence.

782
00:41:46,106 --> 00:41:49,009
For instance,
the gun that was stolen

783
00:41:49,109 --> 00:41:52,679
from Stacey Humphreys'
workplace, he stole it.

784
00:41:52,712 --> 00:41:55,148
<i>It was the gun he used</i>
<i>to murder two women.</i>

785
00:41:55,181 --> 00:41:59,652
<i>And the DNA on that gun linked</i>
<i>back to the crime scene.</i>

786
00:41:59,686 --> 00:42:02,956
<i>Direct evidence would be</i>
<i>when he went to the ATM,</i>

787
00:42:03,056 --> 00:42:05,525
<i>and we actually have pictures</i>
<i>from the ATM camera</i>

788
00:42:05,558 --> 00:42:09,729
of him putting in the card
and getting money from the ATM.

789
00:42:09,763 --> 00:42:13,900
<i>So to me, that was</i>
<i>a very strong case.</i>

790
00:42:13,933 --> 00:42:17,404
<i>narrator: In October 2007,</i>
<i>Stacey Humphreys</i>

791
00:42:17,437 --> 00:42:19,606
<i>is found guilty on all counts.</i>

792
00:42:19,639 --> 00:42:23,343
<i>He is sentenced to death.</i>

793
00:42:23,376 --> 00:42:26,813
<i>- Not only do you have to go</i>
<i>through the pain and agony</i>

794
00:42:26,846 --> 00:42:29,182
<i>of losing your child,</i>
<i>but then you've</i>

795
00:42:29,215 --> 00:42:34,154
<i>got to go through this battle</i>
<i>to see this person convicted</i>

796
00:42:34,187 --> 00:42:37,090
of what they had done
to your child.

797
00:42:37,123 --> 00:42:41,394
And so there is a lot of pain
involved in that.

798
00:42:41,428 --> 00:42:43,697
<i>[somber music]</i>

799
00:42:43,730 --> 00:42:46,599
<i>- I particularly was close</i>
<i>with Lori's mom,</i>

800
00:42:46,633 --> 00:42:50,437
and she gave me a big hug
and was crying.

801
00:42:50,470 --> 00:42:53,640
And I always wanted
the right ending.

802
00:42:53,673 --> 00:42:56,910
I felt like we had
the right ending here.

803
00:42:56,943 --> 00:43:00,347
<i>narrator: Stacey Humphreys</i>
<i>sits on death row to this day.</i>

804
00:43:00,380 --> 00:43:01,681
<i>While the families wait</i>

805
00:43:01,715 --> 00:43:04,050
<i>for his sentence</i>
<i>to be carried out,</i>

806
00:43:04,050 --> 00:43:06,619
<i>they hold the memories</i>
<i>of their loved ones</i>

807
00:43:06,653 --> 00:43:08,555
<i>close to their hearts.</i>

808
00:43:08,588 --> 00:43:10,724
<i>- The company created an award</i>

809
00:43:10,757 --> 00:43:12,625
<i>for her and Cyndi</i>
<i>in their honor.</i>

810
00:43:12,659 --> 00:43:15,895
And it was called
the Shining Star Award.

811
00:43:15,929 --> 00:43:17,831
She was a shining star.

812
00:43:17,864 --> 00:43:21,801
I think about her every day
in some manner, some way.

813
00:43:21,835 --> 00:43:24,137
<i>My husband and I talk</i>
<i>about it, you know,</i>

814
00:43:24,170 --> 00:43:26,773
<i>a lot of times about</i>
<i>some of the crazy things</i>

815
00:43:26,806 --> 00:43:28,475
<i>that she said and did.</i>

816
00:43:28,508 --> 00:43:30,677
And so
she'll never be forgotten,

817
00:43:30,710 --> 00:43:32,379
not as long as I live.

818
00:43:32,412 --> 00:43:39,519
<i>* *</i>