(suspenseful music)
- Powder springs is a nice, quiet bedroom community.
We have a homicide maybe once every two years.
- It was a beautiful, quaint little town.
Time goes by so slow in powder springs.
- But time is the devil.
(grim music)
- They see a female lying on the floor in a pool of blood.
It made me so angry.
How do you shoot somebody and leave the child there?
- This doesn't appear to be
Some sort of random crime of violence.
- We have no idea who did this to her.
- I went right to the spot where she died,
And I told her I was sorry.
I was just so sorry.
- I sat down, I had a recorder going,
And then they very coldly explained
That they were the murderer
And there was just no remorse at all.
(tense suspenseful music)
(gun fires)
(suspenseful music)
(sirens wailing)
(upbeat bright music)
- [narrator] only 30 minutes north of atlanta,
Nestled among peach orchards and suburban splendor,
Lies the bucolic town of powder springs, georgia.
- Powder springs is a nice, quiet bedroom community.
- Powder springs is an ideal place to live
If you wanna just a little bit of taste of the country
While being so close to the city.
- It was a beautiful, quaint little town.
The neighbors knew each other. We did things together.
- Powder springs was a great place.
You didn't have any paranoias or anything like that.
- [narrator] but the peaceful tranquility of powder springs
Would come to an abrupt end on a rain-soaked January night.
(phone line rings)
(police siren)
- [narrator] officers from powder springs pd
Head over to do a welfare check
And find the 911 caller, joshua gibson,
Standing outside the house.
- Joshua gibson was trying to make contact with his child
And his child's mother, danielle marshall.
- He said that danielle lived with her mom, gloria,
But gloria was at work, and he's saying to them
That he can hear his baby crying inside.
As an officer, anytime you hear a child crying,
It really makes that blood move in your body
And to wanna take control of the situation.
So they check the front door, it's locked.
Check the windows, those are secure.
And as they move around to the back of the house,
That's when they find the rear door just slightly ajar.
(grim music)
- The first place they come upon is the hallway,
And the child is crawling out of a bedroom crying
And actually reaching up at one of the officers.
(baby crying)
(grim music continues)
- At this point, joshua wasn't listening
To officers' commands of to stay in front of the house,
Don't come inside.
And the officers had to lead him back out
And actually had to put him in a patrol car
So he would calm down.
- [narrator] with police cars so uncommon in the area,
One of the neighbors, althea allen approaches to offer help.
- When they put him in the police car,
I told the police officers to give the baby to me.
Me and her mom, gloria, we're real good friends.
So the police officer finally said,
"okay, you have to call."
So I called gloria.
I said, "gloria, you just need to come home from work.
Somethin's going on at the house."
- [narrator] once the child is safe
At the neighbor's house,
Responding officers head deeper into the home
Where they make a grisly discovery.
- They start clearing the other rooms
To make sure nobody else was in the house.
And as they go into the kitchen,
They see a female lying on the floor
And she's in the fetal position, dead.
The child apparently had been wandering around the home
The entire time mom was laying in the pool of blood.
It was terrible.
(police radio chatter)
(camera shutter clicks)
- So at that point, the officers were able to locate
Her personal belongings in the house along with her id
And determined it was danielle marshall.
- [narrator] and now this welfare check
Has turned into a homicide investigation.
So joshua is brought to the station
To give a witness statement,
And patrol officers begin locking down the area
As detectives arrive.
- [randolph] when I got to the crime scene,
It was very close quarters,
And she's in the kitchen lying on the floor.
- We could see that danielle marshall
Suffered from a gunshot wound to her head.
We didn't see overtly an exit wound, though.
- She was laying down in the pool of blood.
And it wasn't coagulated at all yet,
So it really hadn't been that long since she'd died.
- [narrator] the medical examiner determines
That danielle was killed between 11 p.M. And midnight,
But she endured more than just a shooting.
- Looking at the scene,
It appeared that she had possibly been beaten
Or pistol whipped.
She had defensive marks on her arms and hands.
That's pretty, pretty brutal to see fighting for her life.
- You can't help but look at danielle crumpled on the floor
And think just how terrifying that must have been.
(sad piano music)
- And it is heartbreaking to think about
What that child was going through.
The only thing that gives you solace
Is hoping that the baby doesn't remember.
- It made me so angry at the time,
To know that there's this beautiful child in the house
And you leave the child there with your dead mother.
That's cruel. How does somebody even do that?
It was very disheartening.
- [narrator] investigators scour the kitchen
For any clues that could lead them to danielle's killer.
- We didn't see overtly an exit wound,
But clearly there was another shot
That was fired inside the home,
Because the crime scene investigators
Could see a bullet hole in one of the cabinets
Just above her head
And the bullet recovered from inside the wall
Was a .38 caliber.
- At that point, we took the bullet fragment from the wall
And sent it off for further examination.
- We didn't have the weapon.
And so one thing we noticed we didn't find
Were any shell casings on the floor.
So either it was a revolver of some sort
That did not eject the shell casings
Or somebody picked them up and took 'em with them.
- [narrator] detectives fan out
And search the rest of the home for clues.
- We pointed out laptops, cell phones,
Other electronic devices.
- We were very interested in danielle's cell phone.
I saw it plugged in in her bedroom on the bed.
- And at that point, the csi team collected dna,
Any blood smears, any scrapings underneath the fingernails,
Fingerprints, photograph the entire scene.
And then all of that together,
They're going to send off for further examination.
Walking through the house, several things stood out to me.
One that it wasn't in any type of burglary disarray.
And it's in the middle of the night.
Your child's there,
You wouldn't let some stranger in the house
In the middle of the night.
So putting that all together,
She had to have known the person who killed her.
- [narrator] as the team continues working
The crime scene,
Danielle's mother, gloria marshall
Rushes home early from her night shift.
- Well, I saw all the people by my house,
So I went into my neighbor's driveway
And the police came up to me and they told me,
"we have a deceased woman in the house."
I said, "well, who is it?"
My mind wouldn't even let me think
That it was my own daughter.
I thought someone got in my house and killed somebody.
And they were like, "ma'am, your daughter has died."
And I'm just like, it took so long
For it to register in my brain. (sighs sharply)
(rain pattering)
That night, not one tear came out of me.
(gloria breathes deeply)
You know, you just don't expect
A vibrant 23 year old to be dead.
- Gloria said that it was a normal night.
She left around nine o'clock,
And danielle and eva were gonna be there when she got back.
Gloria said there was nothing out of the ordinary.
Talking to gloria, I really was motivated
To find who did it.
Who murders somebody in front of their child?
Just unthinkable. It's cruel.
- [narrator] gloria's home is now a crime scene.
So she stays at her neighbor's house with her granddaughter
While investigators travel to headquarters
To talk to danielle's ex-boyfriend,
The man who called 911, joshua gibson.
(tense music)
(joshua sighs)
(joshua sobs)
- Joshua is the ex-boyfriend.
Joshua was the only one at the house.
It absolutely appeared that she knew who killed her.
And typically yes, it's gonna be the husband
Or the ex-boyfriend.
So you wanna talk to him,
You wanna lock him into a statement, get the timeline.
So you can either rule him out or he could be your murderer.
(tense music swells)
- Jeremy had been there with danielle
The night of the homicide.
- Daveda discovered this dual relationship
That was going on.
- There was bad blood between them over josh.
- There is a possibility in our mind
That she could've killed danielle.
(tense suspenseful music)
(suspenseful music)
- [narrator] hours after 23-year-old mother,
Danielle marshall, was found murdered
In her powder springs home,
Investigators are speaking with joshua gibson,
Her ex-boyfriend who first called 911
To report her missing.
- Gloria, she worked at night,
And joshua would come over there at night
While she was at work.
But I just found it extremely odd
That daveda, his girlfriend,
Would allow him to go over to see danielle
In the middle of the night.
That didn't make any sense to me.
(tense music)
- At this point, he was back
Living with his first girlfriend, daveda,
But he was still having sexual relations with danielle.
- To say that danielle's relationship with joshua
Is complex would be an understatement,
And it was just an added layer in the investigation
That now we have to consider.
Could this on-again, off-again relationship
Be a motive for why he would wanna do something to danielle?
- He was cooperative, and he was just upset.
And looking at the totality of joshua being there,
There's no way that joshua's gonna go into the house,
Murder danielle, leave the child in there,
Go outside and call police.
It's kind of a crazy story.
(tense music)
- At that point, he agreed to allow us to have access
To his cell phone and he turned over his clothing
For further forensic investigations.
- So we let him go at that time.
- [narrator] it will take several days
Before the phone data and forensics results come in.
So detectives turn to danielle's family and friends
To learn as much as they can about the young mother.
- After I was separated from my husband,
I moved from new york to powder springs
With my daughter, danielle and my son.
In 2013, it was just me and my baby girl, danielle,
In the house.
We went everywhere together, you know,
And we laughed at everything.
And at that time, she wanted to be successful.
She signed up for college and she was working at goodwill.
- I met danielle at goodwill in powder springs.
We worked there together.
I gravitate toward fun, energetic people.
And that was danielle.
Joshua was working with us before they began to date.
He was kinda, you know, boisterous, you know, kinda guy.
And things with danielle and joshua took off like a rocket.
I could see the googly eyes and all of that.
But I was surprised that danielle was pregnant
Because it was so quick.
- Danielle, she was just so happy.
She wanted a girl so badly.
Danielle, as a mom,
She wanted to give this child the world.
- But gloria expressed and explained
That she didn't like joshua.
Gloria and danielle and eva, they lived together,
So she knew every time they got into a fight
And why they got into a fight.
- When I first met josh, he was pleasant, you know?
Then I started finding out the guy has control issues.
Josh wanted to control the woman.
And I told her, "please, danielle,
This is really what you want?"
- And we also learned joshua was not
In a monogamous relationship, by any means, with danielle.
- From what I understand, danielle being pregnant,
That was too heavy for him
And he felt that it was a better move for him
To go back with daveda.
- [narrator] given the complicated love triangle
Coming up again, detectives decide to turn their attention
To the one member of the triangle
They haven't talked to yet, joshua's girlfriend daveda.
And when they punched daveda's name
Into the powder springs police database,
They make a disturbing discovery.
- About a year before, there was a cobb county police report
That said that danielle was walking out of the goodwill
And daveda actually tried to run over danielle.
(tires screech)
- Obviously, there was bad blood
Between daveda and danielle over josh.
(tires screeching) (tense pulsating music)
- So after reading that report,
There is a possibility in our minds
That she could've killed danielle.
(tense suspenseful music)
(uneasy music)
- [narrator] detectives from the quiet
Atlanta suburb of powder springs
Are investigating the murder
Of 23-year-old danielle marshall.
Danielle's ex, joshua gibson
Says he was at home with his girlfriend, daveda,
At the time danielle was killed.
But investigators have just discovered that a year earlier,
Daveda had tried to run danielle down with her car.
- When daveda discovered this dual relationship
That was going on with joshua,
Daveda almost ran over danielle with her car.
So daveda looked like a good suspect
For the killing of danielle.
- After finding out this information,
I absolutely wanted to talk to daveda.
So I called her up.
"hey, will you come into the police department?"
She agrees to come in.
And we sit down, and she is just cold.
Daveda said that danielle was not a threat to her.
She didn't do anything to her.
- [narrator] detective randolph asked daveda where she was
Between 11 p.M. And midnight the night danielle was killed.
- Daveda's alibi was that she was at work.
She worked until 9:30 and then she said she went home
And was with joshua until around 1:30 in the morning,
When he left to go check on danielle.
- We had already put in the request
To get josh gibson's cell phone records.
So we executed a search warrant
For daveda's cell phone records
That contains data about where the handset is
At any given time.
- [narrator] a week into the investigation,
Joshua and daveda are both potential suspects.
But when investigators get the results back
From their cell phones, they're taken aback.
- Looking at the data,
It showed they were at daveda's house
At the time that we believe that the murder was committed.
- There was no way that daveda or joshua
Could've killed danielle.
We didn't have the evidence to tie them to the crime.
- So at that point, we sort of pivot
And be open to the possibility
That other person or persons
Might be involved with danielle's murder.
We need to look deeper.
- It was really frustrating at this point.
I wanted so much to bring some kind of peace,
Some kinda closure, but we have no idea who did this to her.
- [narrator] discouraged by yet another dead end,
Investigators search for new leads
While danielle's community and family
Mourn the death of the beloved young mother.
- The neighbors were a bit unnerved,
And they don't know who would do this to this young woman
With a young child in the house.
- And I just couldn't imagine
Her baby being present in the home in all of this.
I cried a lot, but I took solace
In the fact that her mother is the one raising eva.
- After danielle died, it was difficult.
It was very difficult.
I mean, my family, they embraced me so much.
And my friends wanna know if I'm okay.
You know, there's no answers.
And people would say, "oh, you gonna be all right,"
You know, "oh, she's still with you,"
It doesn't help.
At the time, I didn't feel like it was my home
And I didn't feel like I belonged there.
But I felt that my daughter's spirit was still in that house
And I wanted to say bye.
(thoughtful sad music)
I went right to the spot where she died
And I got on my knees and I told her I was sorry.
I was just so sorry.
And I kissed the floor in the kitchen
Where her body was and I told her goodbye
And I was so sorry I had to leave her.
And that was my closure of that house.
(tender music)
- [narrator] as gloria and her family
Reel from this unspeakable murder,
Investigators keep pushing for justice for danielle.
And with their two most- likely suspects cleared,
They turn to other possible avenues to find the killer.
- It absolutely appeared that she knew who killed her,
Because there's no signs of forced entry.
You're like, okay, who's doing this?
Is it possible that somebody outside of their relationship
Wanted danielle dead?
(pensive music)
We started moving on to other people
And talking to a couple close friends of danielle's.
They told me that danielle was moving on from joshua.
- She had had been speaking with
And spent time with a guy named jeremy pitts.
So we started tracking down jeremy pitts.
- [narrator] detectives immediately run
Jeremy pitts' name through their database
And uncover some potentially important information.
- Looking into his past, he had some criminal charges.
- We definitely wanna talk to him.
So we had called and made contact with him by phone.
Jeremy had outstanding warrants,
And he was scared we were gonna lock him up.
So we made a deal with jeremy, "meet us in a public place.
We will not arrest you."
And then we met jeremy pitts the next day.
- Jeremy had been there with danielle
The night of the homicide.
So now we were wondering,
"is he actually a suspect in this homicide?"
(grim music)
- Jeremy is a little scared and changed his story.
- [cadwell] why did he go to danielle's house?
- We knew that what he had created was a false alibi.
This wasn't some crime of passion.
- So we, again, question him.
"did you witness him shoot her?
Did you have anything to do with it?"
(tense suspenseful music)
- [narrator] detectives in the atlanta suburb
Of powder springs have tracked down jeremy pitts,
Who was dating danielle marshall when she was murdered
About one month earlier.
Pitts agreed to meet with investigators in public
And has just revealed that he saw danielle
The night she was killed.
- This was significant because a lot of the times
The last person to see a deceased person
Is the person who killed them.
And when I talked to him, jeremy is a little scared.
- Jeremy changed his story
About going over there that night.
Why he would do that,
He said he was just a party kinda guy.
And he was like, "listen, I was at the hotel that night,
Partying with three or four other people all night long."
At this point, we didn't have the evidence, at that time,
To tie him to the crime.
So we let him go
And just looked into his alibi a little bit further.
(pulsating suspenseful music)
We go to the hotel, verify.
Yes, they were all there partying all night long.
- We even looked at jeremy's cell phone
And cell phone records,
And we were able to conclusively determine
That he was not at the crime scene
When the murder was committed.
- He didn't have a motive.
He wasn't at her house at all.
So at this point, we ruled him out as a murder suspect.
- It was very frustrating when we were taking a look
At all these potential leads and potential individuals
Only to, at every turn, find
That these were not viable suspects.
- At this point, we try to go back through her phone
And go back over the timeline.
Search phone numbers, or addresses, or names,
Or anything like that.
But eventually we ran out of phone numbers.
I really was motivated to find who did it,
But there's just nothin' there.
And by the end of 2013, the case was cold.
(pensive music)
- While time was going by, it had me thinking,
"what do I need to do?"
'cause everything was outta my control.
And powder springs police,
They were very, you know, kind to me,
They answered my questions, they kept me informed,
Whatever little things they knew, they just didn't have it.
So I just waited and just waited and waited.
(sighs) time is the devil.
- [narrator] the case lies dormant for months.
One year after danielle marshall was murdered,
The investigation is reassigned
To the county prosecutor's cold case team
In the hopes that they uncover a lead
And finally bring closure to danielle's family.
- My name's nick o'conor.
And in 2013-2014, I was a major crimes investigator
Working with the cold case unit
For the cobb county da's office.
Obviously, there is a love triangle involved in this case.
Josh is now in another relationship
With a young lady named daveda.
So when we started this cold case,
I decided to do a real deep analysis
On josh and daveda's phone records.
When I started looking through the phone records,
I located a number in josh's phone
For the night that danielle was murdered.
And one of the calls the night of our murder
Was at 11:22 at night when they were supposed to be asleep.
So I wanna look into that
And find out who that individual is.
- [narrator] and when investigators
Put the number through their database, they discover a name.
- The calls were from a young man named jesse
That josh had gone to high school with
That still lives in the area.
And most importantly, he had never been identified
During the initial investigation.
We prepared a search warrant affidavit for his cell phone.
When we got the cell tower information back,
We find that this individual
Was right near danielle's house
When we know danielle was murdered.
- Now of the biggest questions we've had
Is why did he go to danielle's house
And why did josh make a phone call to jesse chapman?
At this point, we don't know,
So we definitely wanna talk to him.
We discussed our strategy
Of how we were going to approach jesse chapman
And talk with him,
And we decided we were just gonna pay him a surprise visit
At his workplace.
- We go to jesse's work
And brought jesse into the conference room.
- Jesse chapman walked in
And he had no idea what the police
Would wanna talk to him about,
So we started talking to him about danielle's homicide.
Does he know joshua?
Does he know danielle?
- Right off the bat, he denied any knowledge
Or involvement with anything concerning danielle's death.
We let him go with the statement for a little while
And then we slowly started peeling that back
With the information that we had
At about the 45-minute time period.
- He's like, "no, I don't go to danielle's house,"
So investigator o'conor laid down the map in front of him
And showed him, "every time your phone's on,
It pings, it tracks you.
Here's where you left your house,
You went to danielle's house."
- You could tell that he was stressed,
But he was wanting to come clean.
And at that point, jesse kinda started breaking down.
He comes out and admits he went over to danielle's house
The night that danielle was murdered with josh.
(suspenseful music builds)
(suspenseful music)
- [narrator] one year after danielle marshall
Was found murdered in her suburban atlanta home,
The powder springs cold case task force
Has just had a break in the investigation.
The team can place jesse chapman at danielle's house
At the time she was killed.
And when questioned about it, chapman says he wasn't alone.
He was accompanied by danielle's ex, joshua gibson.
- He comes out and admits josh had mentioned
The potential of having a threesome with danielle.
And on the night that danielle was murdered, the plan was,
As soon as his girlfriend goes to sleep, daveda,
I'll come pick him up
And then we'll go over there for the threesome.
They drive over to danielle's house,
Parked across the street, not in front of the home,
And go to the door.
Jesse said he could tell that danielle didn't expect them.
She was very uncomfortable. She's not down for it.
They walk out the front door
And she closes the door behind 'em.
At that point, they get in the car, and then josh says,
"hey, I need to go back inside for a minute."
(car door slams)
And walks in, and he's gone for a couple minutes.
Danielle's killed between 11 and 12 that night.
And now he's tellin' me that josh is alone with her
During this time period.
(dramatic music)
That information blew the case wide open.
- Jesse said, around midnight,
Joshua went back inside the house.
So we again questioned him.
"did you witness him shoot her?
Did you have anything to do with it?"
Jesse was extremely scared at that point,
And he felt terrible that he didn't speak to us before.
When he found out that she had been killed a year before,
He's like, "I had nothing to do with it.
I never saw guns, I never heard gunshots, never nothin'."
At that point, jesse was sittin' far enough away
Down the street.
It's very possible he didn't hear a gunshot.
So we believed he was actually telling us the truth.
- At this point, we were ruling jesse out as a suspect
And jesse only being a witness.
Josh had a very strong alibi because of his cell towers.
But when we got this information,
We knew that what he had created was a false alibi.
- [narrator] with chapman placing joshua gibson
Inside danielle's home at the time she was killed,
The team now looks at gibson's initial story
Through an entirely different lens.
- Danielle's murder was cold and brutal.
And as we reexamine all the evidence,
It became very obvious.
This wasn't some quick decision from josh.
This wasn't some crime of passion.
There was a massive amount of planning that went into this.
Jesse goes and picks him up, just like josh planned,
So josh's car isn't in the neighborhood.
He left his phone at home,
So if anyone pulled his cell tower information,
He could appear to be asleep
At the time danielle was killed.
That shows this is very well planned.
Josh is covering his tracks very well.
(suspenseful music)
(woman shouts)
And he hit her on the left side of her face
And then shoots danielle point-blank execution style.
(gun fires)
And josh then went home.
Then even more, now that we know that he was there,
The idea that he's sending these text messages
While he's on his way later on that night,
You know, "hey, I'm sorry I didn't come over earlier,"
So he's sitting in an interview room crying
And acting emotional and distraught.
He's just playing a role, and that's all it is.
And we knew we were dealing with a very cold
And calculated killer,
And we would need to get josh off the street.
- [narrator] as the case against gibson gains momentum,
Investigators know it's not a slam dunk.
- Still don't have the gun, we still don't have
As much physical evidence as we would like.
But given all these other facts,
The da's office allowed us to go ahead
And take a warrant for him for his arrest.
And we went to the house and arrested him.
So when we brought josh in,
It went back and forth for probably almost two hours.
- But the day of his arrest, he did not wanna speak with us.
- [narrator] joshua gibson is charged
With the murder of danielle marshall and is taken to jail.
News of gibson's arrest quickly spreads
Throughout the close-knit powder springs community.
- I was just in shock when I found out
Josh was arrested for the murder.
What kind of person
Can actually murder a woman execution style
Knowing that she's the mother of your child?
- We learned that joshua gibson
Has lived a life of domination, manipulation, and control,
And we discovered domestic histories
Based on journal entries and things that she had made,
Showing a past of violence between the two of them
And how scary this relationship was.
- One of the biggest questions we've had is why.
Why did you kill danielle?
And the only thing that we were able to determine
Was child custody with eva.
- We learned that after she was killed,
Josh was fighting for custody.
So murder was about control.
Control of a child.
He wanted to control that child.
And he couldn't control danielle
And she needed to be out of the way.
When we found out about that,
That felt like we were on our way
To getting justice for danielle
And that we could survive a trial.
- [narrator] while prosecutors are confident
Gibson murdered danielle,
Proving it to a jury is another matter.
And in January 2018,
The trial that would decide gibson's fate begins.
- This isn't a case with huge pieces of evidence,
It's about a lot of little things.
And we had to show the cell tower evidence,
Things that he tried to cover up and how he planned things.
Text messages, talking with jesse.
- I attended the trial every day. Every day.
Looking at josh sitting in that seat,
It almost looked like he didn't care,
Like he thought he was gonna get away with it.
And I was looking at the jurors,
And I was like, "god, are these people paying attention?"
- The hardest part for a case like this
Is having to sit down and let 12 strangers
Decide the fate of the defendant.
You never know what a jury's gonna do,
Particularly when it comes to a cold case.
- So despite every effort, they were very concerned
He was gonna be able to get out of this case.
(suspenseful music builds)
(uneasy music)
- [narrator] joshua gibson is on trial
For the chilling murder of his ex-girlfriend,
Danielle marshall, who was shot dead
In her suburban atlanta home.
With only circumstantial evidence
Tying gibson to the killing,
Prosecutors hope the jury will vote to convict
And finally bring closure to danielle's family.
- I hoped that the jury saw all that evidence,
The cell phone records, jesse's admission
That he brought joshua down to the crime scene
And then drove him back to his house,
And that they would reach the same conclusion that we did.
- It was scary. It really was.
'cause I didn't know if they wanna say guilty.
Honestly, I didn't.
- The jury had a lot of evidence to look at
And it took a couple of days for them to deliberate.
So we were starting to get concerned.
- [narrator] and after a two-week trial,
The jury returns its verdict.
- Joshua gibson is convicted of murder.
(gavel pounds)
- Joshua was sentenced to life without parole
And he was gonna spend the rest of his life in jail,
Which that's where he belongs.
- I was so happy.
Finally, finally justice for danielle and her family.
- I screamed when I heard the verdict.
I was so in shock that I think josh was in shock.
- And then he got so frustrated,
So upset that he actually slapped
His own attorney in court.
(grim music)
- That just culminated everything
That we'd learned about josh.
I mean, josh was a bully.
He was just gonna lash out at it.
- [narrator] gibson never took the stand at trial.
But after the conviction,
Investigators finally hear his side of the story.
- I actually interviewed him at the jail
After he was convicted.
I sat down, I had a recorder goin',
And josh very coldly explained
That he in fact was the murderer.
He explained how he did it.
He even explained that he wore a shoe size too big,
Hoping to confuse police if they ever looked into him.
And it was just very plain and it was very cold.
He said, "yeah, I knew from the moment
She told me she was pregnant I'd have to kill her."
And there was just no remorse at all in his eyes.
And it was just like
We were having a conversation about baseball.
- [narrator] while the case is closed,
Danielle's family and friends
Are still left with an incalculable loss.
(sad contemplative music)
- The shock of it and the sadness and the disbelief,
And everything, I went through everything.
- It still affects me now, now that I'm talking about it.
To know that somebody will take your child's life
For no reason.
Danielle would've been successful.
She had that personality and look, that fearlessness.
So she would've been great.
And it's a waste.
(somber music)
- The death of danielle, the world lost an opportunity
To meet a fabulous woman, okay?
She could've contributed a lot.
She was going to college to be a nurse,
And that's why her daughter wants to be a nurse.
And she was just a very happy person, you know?
Danielle had the deepest dimples
And the biggest smile, oh my god.
She was just my love.
I am very proud of danielle.
And I think of danielle every day, to this day.
I think her spirit is just behind me.
(somber music fades)
(bright music)