The last thing that she said to me
before she went to sleep was...
"Goodnight. I love you."
♪
And when I woke up, she was gone.
We get a phone call from patrol.
They have a floater in the Hudson River.
A single mother found dead.
Lisa would never harm herself.
Why she would be even close to the Hudson River.
We started looking into her life.
Who was she?
Leaving several clues behind.
The car was still outside.
We're looking for who had access to her car.
And leading detectives to uncover
another man's dark past.
We just realized we'd have a whole other world of things
that we'd have to now look into
in terms of understanding what his history was.
And the first thing out of her mouth,
"We told her, 'Stay away from that man.'"
♪
After 35 years on the NYPD, there's many tragic questions
my fellow detectives and I still talk about.
This is one we'll never shake.
This is really a tricky case for our guys to crack,
and our investigation took teams both on land
and in the water.
♪
The cruise docks and piers
along the west side of Manhattan Island
are popular spots for both tourists
and local New Yorkers alike,
but this one April morning before any sightseers arrived,
a boat crew spots something strange.
It was here that the great mystery began.
911. Where's the emergency?
It was a Sunday morning,
and we got a phone call from patrol
that they have a floater
in the Hudson River
at Chelsea Piers.
When we get to the location, that's when I found out
she was pregnant.
And we see paramedics doing CPR,
working on this female,
trying to save the unborn child.
They relayed to me her body temperature was warm,
so she wasn't in the water that long.
The staff, the paramedics,
everybody did everything in their power,
and they kept on working on her.
But they couldn't save her. They couldn't save her child.
♪
She didn't have visible signs of any trauma to the body,
no blood, no scratches, no marks at all.
♪
I initially thought this was a suicide.
Maybe she was depressed.
Maybe the father didn't want her and the baby.
We had to have all those thoughts going on.
NYPD detectives are baffled.
What could have happened to this expectant mother?
As is standard in this type of situation,
an autopsy is ordered.
She had a military ID on her person,
so using that, we learned who she was.
She was identified
as 33-year-old Brooklynite Lisa Eatmon.
Next up was we have to check with her family,
make a notification with them,
know that their family member had passed.
We use our databases that the police department
has access to to find an address.
She had a vehicle registered to her name
that matched the address that I came up with in Brooklyn.
As we're pulling opposite Lisa's address,
I seen her car.
And I told my partner, "There go her car."
The puzzling discovery of Lisa Eatmon's car
gives our detectives reason for pause.
We know she didn't drive it over there
to where we found her unless someone took her there.
But she could have got to Manhattan many ways.
A bus, a cab, the subway.
So she still could have got there on her own
without the vehicle.
Detective Vega and his partner
make a mental note of the car
and proceed to Lisa's apartment entrance.
As we knocked on the door, we were met by a young girl
and asked, "Does Lisa Eatmon live here?"
And she told me yes.
And I said, "Can I speak to your mom?"
She told me, "That is my mom."
I said to myself, "Oh, boy."
♪
The girl is 12-year-old Marsielle Eatmon,
Lisa's daughter.
I asked her, "Can I come inside?"
She told me, "Mommy told me never to let strangers in."
So I said, "How about this?
"How 'bout if I get on the radio
"and I call a patrol car with a police officer in uniform
"and they come here,
would you feel more comfortable to let me in?"
She said yes, and she let us in the apartment.
♪
Vega and his partner bring Marsielle
back to the 10th Precinct
and await the arrival of Lisa's family
to help break the unimaginable news to Marsielle.
I'm a father of two.
And knowing that her mother's not coming back,
how do you tell her?
♪
I was very confused.
I was just kind of like, "I don't know what's going on"
and "Why am I here?" and "Where's my mom?"
♪
With young Marsielle waiting at the 10th Precinct,
detectives notified Lisa's out-of-the-area family.
April 3, 2005, we were at my dining room table
when we received a phone call
that they had found Lisa's body
in the Hudson River,
and I just yelled and dropped the phone.
I didn't know what to think.
All I heard was they found her body in the Hudson River.
I could not even fathom
why she would have been in the Hudson River,
why she would be even close to the Hudson River.
♪
Lisa and I were six years apart.
We all grew up in Philadelphia.
And Lisa, she was very energetic, always fun-loving.
My aunt Lisa was very bubbly.
She loved to dance, she loved to sing.
She had that personality just to light up a room.
♪
When she went to high school, she went through ROTC.
My father had been in the Army,
and she followed his footsteps into the Army.
While she was in the military,
she loved working on computers and machines,
so that was, like, her passion: to fix things.
She traveled a lot
and she just had a wonderful time in the military.
Her family tells detectives
that during her time in the Army,
Lisa fell in love with a fellow soldier.
Lisa met Marsielle's father
while they were in the military.
They were actually both stationed at the same place.
They got married
and they were together for approximately four years.
There were some marriage issues,
so they ended up having a divorce before I was even one.
When Lisa and Marsielle's father split up,
she decided to leave the military.
We learned that in 2002,
after Lisa had completed her service,
she decides a change of scenery is in order
and together with Marsielle, she heads to the big city.
New York was definitely a new start for her.
She found a wonderful apartment she fell in love with,
and she loved New York because of the arts and everything.
Everything is in New York. They had the Fashion District.
She was always into buying fabric, making things,
so that was just her passion to be in New York.
I was, like, 10 or 11,
and moving to New York was definitely something
that I feel like both of us needed.
♪
She loved doing things with Marsielle.
The two of them together, they were amazing,
the way they fed off of each other.
♪
Back at the 10th Precinct,
while the 12-year-old waits for her family,
she helps Detective Vega learn more
about what might have happened to Lisa
by answering some questions.
Then I asked Marsielle,
"When was the last time you saw your mother?"
The night before.
We stayed up and watched shows together.
And the last thing that she said to me
before she went to sleep was, "Good night. I love you."
She gave me a kiss on my forehead,
and then, you know, she went into the back room
to go to sleep while I stayed on the couch.
And when I woke up, she was gone.
♪
That morning, the first thing I remember waking up
is that my mom was not in her bedroom.
Her car was still outside.
It made me really uneasy.
Her purse was scattered on the bed.
It was just weird.
Everything was there. Just she wasn't there.
When Lisa's family finally arrives at the 10th Precinct,
they are faced with having to tell Marsielle
the truth about her mother.
I found out that my mom passed...
and I just cried instantly.
I was just shocked.
While consoling Lisa's family members,
the NYPD detectives are pressed
to continue their investigation.
We don't know if it was accidental.
Maybe she fell in the water by accident.
Maybe she dropped something in the water,
and she went to retrieve it and slipped and fell,
and she wasn't a good swimmer.
We don't know if it was suicide.
While speaking with her family,
the NYPD detectives broach the difficult subject
of Lisa's mental health.
It never crossed our mind that she committed suicide.
Never.
Lisa would never harm herself, her unborn baby,
or hurt Marsielle in no kind of way like that.
♪
The next morning, Detective Vega and his partner
pay a visit to the office of the chief medical examiner
and are stunned by their findings.
The medical examiner recovers
a small-caliber bullet from the back of Lisa's head,
and I asked the medical examiner,
"We didn't see this. How could that be?"
She had a small, almost the size of a pencil eraser,
small-caliber bullet hole that was beneath her braids that,
to the naked eye, you wouldn't see it.
Once we realized
she was shot in the back of the head,
we got a homicide.
Coming up...
Was she picked up at home by car?
Was she dropped off?
We needed to try to identify the last 24 hours of her life.
He was a potential boyfriend.
He was one of the last people to see her alive.
You're telling us you had the car that night?
Damn right he's a suspect.
♪
After the medical examiner's surprising discovery
during Lisa Eatmon's autopsy,
fellow NYPD detectives suddenly
have a murder on their hands.
♪
This takes our investigation from an unknown cause of death
into a homicide.
It changes things completely.
With this startling information,
our investigators had to look at the facts they had
in order to piece together a timeline.
Marsielle last saw her mom
between 1:30 and 2:00 in the morning.
That's all I had.
We knew she lived at location A in East New York, Brooklyn,
and she ended up in Manhattan at location B.
Somewhere in between there, she traveled.
How did she travel?
Was she picked up at home by car?
Was she dropped off?
We needed to lock in
and really drill down and get granular
and try to identify the last 24 hours of her life.
♪
We had a team of detectives
that flooded Lisa Eatmon's neighborhood.
Talked to neighbors.
We also had the K-9 unit come in...
They did the search from the apartment, through the street,
trying to get Lisa's scent.
The dog took us a couple blocks,
but it just stopped walking.
♪
It seemed like she got in a vehicle
and was taken from that spot.
Lisa Eatmon was eight months pregnant,
her body found floating in the Hudson River this weekend.
While in the thick of the investigation,
New York City's press also catches wind of the tragedy.
Eatmon lived in this Brooklyn apartment
with her 12-year-old daughter.
Everyone had clippings
of the "New York Daily News."
"Hudson River Horror."
For detectives,
the presence of Lisa's car parked outside her house
remains a major factor in this investigation,
but we first needed to figure out
where Lisa's car keys were,
and so far, they were nowhere to be found.
At that point,
I'm thinking someone took her to the West Side.
In an after effort to assess whether Lisa's car
is a piece of this puzzle,
the team obtains a search warrant
and has the car towed to the crime lab
to look for all the usual evidence.
We're looking for hair, any sort of fibers,
any fingerprints,
anything that could possibly point us in a direction
as to who had access to her car and had been close to her.
♪
While awaiting the crime lab's findings
from the search of Lisa's car, back at the 10th Precinct,
our detectives sit down with Lisa's family
to learn more about their victim.
We started looking into her life.
Who was she?
Who were the people in her circle?
Was there anybody who was jealous, love interests?
Immediately, one of the main things
you're going to look at, it was--
you couldn't ignore it. She's pregnant.
There's a father out there. Who was that father?
Detectives learn that in the summer of 2004,
Lisa became pregnant with her second child.
Lisa and the father stopped seeing each other
around the time that she had become pregnant,
but she was okay with it.
She called me, and she said, "I raised one child by myself,
"and I had enough family and love around me
to support me to raise the baby."
When detectives hear
the unborn baby's father is out of the picture,
their next interviewee comes into focus.
The father was identified to us by her family.
They suggested who they thought might be the father,
and that was a boyfriend she'd been dealing with.
♪
The baby's father was believed to be Roscoe Glinton.
I don't know who Roscoe is, but I have to speak to Roscoe.
We learn that Roscoe Glinton was a New York City employee.
He worked for Department of Sanitation.
We're like, "Oh, fellow city employee brother."
Detective Tony Vega gets ahold of the 42-year-old
and asks him to come in for an interview.
♪
Roscoe comes in the precinct
and he told me, "What is this about?"
I said, "Listen. You want something to drink?"
Goes, "Sure, give me a cup of water, officer."
So I get him a cup, give it to him,
and I tell him, "I'm sorry to tell you this,
"but, um, Lisa Eatmon was found dead
"floating in the Hudson River.
I heard that you could be the father of the child."
Roscoe appears genuinely distraught by the news
and is forthcoming about his relationship with Lisa.
Roscoe informed me that he met Lisa while working.
They exchanged numbers,
and they started dating immediately after that.
Roscoe says his relationship with Lisa soon became serious.
They bonded over single parenthood.
Lisa had Marsielle
while Roscoe was widowed with three children of his own.
When I first met Roscoe,
he seemed like a really kind person, genuine.
He treated us as family.
He also seemed to treat his own children well.
It felt more like a family setting
versus just, you know, this guy who has a interest in my mom.
During his interview,
Roscoe gives detectives additional insight
into his relationship with Lisa.
He goes, "Yeah, we dated, but we broke that off.
I haven't seen her in months."
And then I told him, "You know, she was pregnant."
He goes, "Yeah, she told me that I might be the dad,
"but I don't think I'm the father
"because she had other relationships.
So it could be any of those guys, the father."
While Roscoe might be telling the truth about Lisa
having another man in her life,
our detectives aren't ready to bite.
Investigators press Roscoe on his whereabouts
the night of Lisa's murder.
His alibi was that he'd gone out with the guys
from his sanitation depot.
They were going to have a couple of drinks.
He was there all night with the guys.
He got home between 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning.
Roscoe tells our detectives
that they're wasting their time speaking to him.
Roscoe said that he thought Lisa was dating another man,
a neighbor near where she lived.
He thought that maybe that was a lead for them.
He stuck to his story.
He had no reason to do this to her.
Roscoe is free to go, but little does he know
he has inadvertently just done us a tremendous service.
And he left, but he left the cup.
So now I know I got DNA.
I took that cup right away to the police lab
for a DNA test.
If he's not the father, doesn't mean he didn't do it,
but at least we know he's not the father.
But if he is, the level goes up a little bit.
♪
While waiting for those results,
Detective Vega begins working to corroborate Roscoe's alibi,
and our other detectives seek out the man
who Roscoe alleged was the actual father of Lisa's baby
and her potential killer,
but our detectives didn't need to do much searching
to find this mystery boyfriend.
The other team of detectives are at Lisa's home,
and a male shows up, and a detective at the scene
told him that Lisa Eatmon had just passed.
And he goes, "How could that be?
"I just borrowed her car the night before.
I got her car keys here."
We're looking at each other.
I said, "This has to be the person."
During their interview with Lisa's one-time boyfriend,
Roscoe Glinton,
detectives learn that Lisa may have had
a more recent romantic partner,
one who might be the father of her child.
And luckily for detectives,
this alleged recent boyfriend shows up at Lisa's front door
while officers are safeguarding the property.
And a detective at the scene
told him that Lisa Eatmon had just passed.
And he goes, "How could that be?
"I just borrowed her car the night before.
I got her car keys here."
The team have been looking for Lisa's car keys,
and now the detectives have the answer.
But they also have a brand-new lead.
He acknowledged that him and Lisa had a relationship.
It was not a steady relationship,
but, you know, they did have a sexual relationship.
This new mystery boyfriend
also seems genuinely shocked by the news of her death,
but he also acknowledges that he saw Lisa on Saturday night,
which makes him one of the few known people
aside from Marsielle to have last seen Lisa Eatmon alive.
He stated the last time he saw Lisa
was the night before he went to work.
He had car trouble
and he called her up if he could borrow her car.
He'd done it in the past, and Lisa always said,
"You can borrow my car. No problem.
Just bring me the keys the next day."
And he got the keys from her, went to work,
and when he came back to return her keys,
that's when he saw the police
and the detectives at Lisa's apartment.
The crime lab still hasn't finished
processing Lisa's car,
but Lisa's family confirms Lisa's friend's story.
He would help her out a little bit with Marsielle.
She would help him out.
It was very common for Lisa's friend to borrow her car.
When we interview him, he says he worked
the midnight shift to 8:00 in the morning
and brought the car back.
He parked it, went home, and that was his alibi.
But Lisa's neighbor was one of the last people
to see her alive.
He was a potential boyfriend and he had her car.
He was definitely a suspect
because you're telling us you had the car that night.
Damn right, he's a suspect.
The team is now even more eager
to get the lab results back on the car.
If there's any trace of evidence
linking this friend to Lisa's murder,
the detectives would have their main suspect.
In the next several days while waiting for those results,
some of our guys follow up on her ex,
Roscoe Glinton's alibi, to account for his whereabouts
when Lisa was killed.
Where Roscoe says that night,
there was a going away party for one of my coworkers,
and we all gathered to go to this bar.
♪
Video was found inside the bar
that teammates of mine were able to watch
that they see Roscoe enter in with his colleagues
and they're having a good time.
Roscoe's alibi appears pretty solid,
so while awaiting the results
from Roscoe's DNA paternity test,
our team shifts back to Lisa's other guy,
the one Roscoe swears is actually the baby's father.
Roscoe said that he thought Lisa was dating another man,
a neighbor near where she lived.
Detectives learn Lisa's friend is an employee
of the New York City Port Authority,
a midtown Manhattan bus terminal
which just so happens to be located suspiciously close
to where Lisa's body was found.
We were ultimately able to drill down
and find that he had been in fact at work
on the night that she was killed.
Lisa's friend was at his job, seen on video,
and as an added bonus,
he punched in and out of a clock.
That helped boost his alibi's credibility.
But in addition,
the crime lab finally finishes their search
of Lisa's vehicle that he borrowed.
We search it for any DNA, any blood stains,
and, um...
it was a clean. There was nothing there.
♪
With news of the lab results and after verifying his alibi,
detectives are now certain
that Lisa's neighborhood boyfriend was not involved.
However, we still didn't have anything on Roscoe either.
♪
But our detectives feel they might just be back in business
when a few days into their investigation,
Lisa's cell phone logs finally come in to the 10th Precinct.
When we got records, we see that she gets a call
at 3:00 in the morning.
We don't know who's calling Lisa at that time.
That number, it turned out,
was from a pay phone at a gas station.
Why would a person want to use a gas station phone
instead of using their own cell phone?
That kind of gave us the impression of intent,
a person looking to cover their tracks.
But most suspicious is that the pay phone is located
just a few blocks away from Lisa's home.
Once we got the news from the pay phone,
we're looking at each other.
I said, "That's her last call she ever received."
So she knew the person that called her,
you know, and she spoke to the person,
so now I know he's the main suspect.
Coming up...
His first wife had gone missing seven years earlier.
They didn't find any trace of her. There was nothing.
He shut down. He said, "Call my lawyer."
So they couldn't question him anymore.
♪
After Lisa Eatmon's cell phone logs reveal
a mysterious 3:00 a.m. call
from a nearby gas station,
NYPD detectives are eager
to dive into their strongest lead to date.
Once we got the news from the pay phone,
we're looking at each other.
I said, "This has to be the person."
So we sent a team of detectives to the gas station
to see if they had any surveillance cameras,
the surrounding buildings,
surrounding homes, surrounding businesses.
We were not fortunate enough to find any sort of video
that corroborated anyone's presence at that location.
Another dead end.
But like always,
the team keeps their focus on the main goal:
getting justice for Lisa and for her unborn child.
♪
And as the investigation continues,
back in her hometown of Philadelphia,
Lisa's family lays her to rest
one week after her murder.
I feel as though nobody should ever have wanted
to hurt her in this way.
She was just murdered, and her unborn baby
was not able to take its first breath.
We were devastated.
I was just so heartbroken.
I had two Beanie Babies.
I put one in her casket and I kept one for me, too.
It was overwhelming for me.
He left a motherless daughter,
a baby that the mother was carrying.
You want to catch this guy. You want to get him.
♪
In search of new leads, the NYPD taps into
other New York City law enforcement agencies,
and soon enough, detectives catch a big break.
We get a call from the DEA, and we find out that the DEA
was running their own investigation
on the same block that the bar was at
where Roscoe and his coworkers were having this party.
NYPD's branch of the DEA
was in the midst of an unrelated operation
and they just happened to be surveilling that same area.
And luckily for us,
Lisa Eatmon's investigation was a big topic of discussion
among other New York City law enforcement agencies.
And we got word from them, "Hey, listen.
"We got surveillance of that block.
If you guys need it, let us know."
It happened to be that the DEA was there that night.
But during the interview, Roscoe tells them
he gets to the bar around 12:00, 12:30 at night,
and he's there for hours with the guys.
But with the DEA tape,
the surveillance shows Roscoe leaving before that,
leaving earlier.
Where does he go next? That remained to be found out.
And we had to figure out another way to delve into that.
♪
Detectives decide it's time to seek answers by way
of an unexpected source...
Mrs. Glinton.
From our interviews, we learn that he was married
and that would definitely create a dynamic
that could be, uh, that could lead to motivation
to want to get rid of his pregnant girlfriend.
Roscoe may have been forthcoming with Lisa
about being widowed by his first wife,
but was he as upfront about having remarried?
Lisa did not know that Roscoe was married, initially.
I believe at some point she did find out,
but it was after she found out that she was pregnant.
Even though he's married,
he's having this relationship with Lisa.
So I met his wife and we spoke
and she didn't know Lisa.
She just knew about her when she saw it on the news.
And she was surprised that Roscoe
could be possibly the father of her child.
♪
She was adamant that he wouldn't be involved.
She was stoic.
She completely believed in him.
Despite staunchly standing by her man,
she does tell Detective Vega
that Roscoe had been acting peculiar a few nights ago.
The wife told me that the evening Lisa went missing,
he went to this bar in the city with his coworkers.
And Roscoe was out late, and she was worried,
so she was calling him because she knew they had to go
to Pennsylvania the next day to go to a family barbecue.
And she's calling him nonstop, and he's not answering.
So she says when Roscoe got home,
he came in early in the morning.
And she said, "Where were you?
I must have called you over 100 times."
He said, "Oh, I was at the bar with the fellas.
It was so noisy."
She tells Detective Vega
how later that day at the barbecue,
Roscoe seemed pretty agitated
and wanted to return to the city.
After driving back to New York,
Roscoe tells her, "Before we go home,
"I want to stop by the sanitation garage.
I want to pick something-- get something at the garage."
He pulls up right in front of the garage.
He looks at it
and proceeded to drive south on the West Side Highway.
And she tells him,
"Didn't you want to stop and get something there?"
"Eh, I'll get it on Monday.
I'll get it on Monday when I go back to work."
♪
Lisa was found, like, approximately a half a mile
from where Roscoe worked at.
♪
Rang some bells there.
I was like, "Wait a minute.
This is too close for comfort."
♪
The NYPD detective squad sets out to explore
the latest major possible lead about Roscoe Glinton.
The new information,
provided by his current wife, Mrs. Glinton,
helps shed light on their prime suspect's whereabouts
from the night of Lisa's murder.
♪
Meanwhile, ongoing efforts to speak
with people in Lisa's inner circle
lead to one of her friends
sharing a staggering bit of information.
The first thing out of her mouth...
"Roscoe Glinton did it. Roscoe Glinton killed her.
We told her, 'Stay away from that man.'"
And they went into a tale explaining that they'd heard
that he'd been involved
in the disappearance of his first wife.
Lisa Eatmon's friend somehow knew
that Roscoe had skeletons in his closet.
With this new revelation,
our detectives put all our resources
into learning as much about Mr. Glinton as possible.
We just realized we'd have a whole other world of things
that we'd have to now start to look into
in terms of understanding the suspect, his involvement,
and really what his history was.
♪
Roscoe's first wife, Deborah,
had gone missing seven years earlier in Newburgh,
a town about an hour and a half north of New York.
I called Newburgh Police Department right away.
The detective answered,
and I asked him about Roscoe Glinton.
♪
Detective Vega is informed that on June 20, 1998,
the dentist office where Deborah Glinton worked
called the police after their always-reliable assistant
never arrived for her shift.
We learned that Roscoe was the number one suspect
in the disappearance of Deborah Glinton.
Investigators working in that town
conducted extensive searches.
They didn't find any trace of her.
There was nothing.
A short time later,
Roscoe Glinton moved with his three children
down to Brooklyn to start anew.
All the while, he maintained he had no involvement
in his wife's disappearance.
Deborah Glinton seems to have vanished into thin air.
Until an unexpected discovery
on the morning of November 24, 2001.
Approximately three years later,
her remains are found by a hunter
along the New York State Thruway.
Deborah Glinton was identified
through her dental records.
And once they called Roscoe,
"Listen, we've found Deborah's remains," he shut down.
He said, "Call my lawyer."
So they couldn't question him anymore.
The medical examiner in Upstate New York
couldn't determine cause of death.
Didn't have enough evidence,
so they couldn't charge Roscoe with the murder
because they didn't know if it was accidental,
a homicide.
♪
When I look at what happened with Deborah Glinton,
it was easy to compare what had just happened with my sister.
They were both at home at one point.
They left home, but then they never returned home.
And I thought it was so weird
because they looked almost alike,
Deborah and my mom.
Like, the same facial features.
It was just so weird.
Newburgh PD did not have enough evidence
to prove that Deborah's death was a homicide.
It's important in an investigation like this
that we keep things in perspective.
Roscoe's first wife, Deborah, was found deceased,
but her cause of death was never determined,
and Roscoe was never officially charged
with anything
as there was nothing for him to be charged with.
So in our line of work,
we can't let things like this cloud our judgment.
We have a job to do,
and our job was to determine who killed Lisa Eatmon.
Back in Manhattan,
our NYPD detectives remain more determined than ever
to crack this complex case.
New York City Police Department,
it's the best police department that I know of.
I mean, just the equipment, the knowledge, the experience,
it's top notch.
That's why the call us the finest.
♪
With Roscoe's cell phone geolocation data now in hand,
our detectives are able to track his movements
from the night Lisa Eatmon was killed.
In the course of the investigation,
we were able to recover
all the locations for the cell sites
that Roscoe's phone was pinging off of
during that window of time where Lisa had met her demise.
He'd received dozens upon dozens
of phone calls from his wife.
And there's nothing that an ignored person does more
than just call you more and more.
Every one of those phone calls gave me a pin,
a digital footprint.
I was able to watch as his phone
traveled from being with his coworkers
at the bar in the West Side of Manhattan,
going all the way to Central Brooklyn
close to where Lisa resided.
Roscoe's cell phone pings him at the location
from the same pay phone that Lisa got that last call from.
He's there for a little while,
and it proceeds to follow him back into the city.
To a location that we came to learn
was right next to the sanitation depot
on the waterfront.
With this new information, a few of our guys head over
to Roscoe's job in Manhattan at the Sanitation Department
to see if any of his colleagues
noticed anything strange.
So when talking to Roscoe's coworkers
at the sanitation depot,
we quickly learned that he was the guy
that if something was dropped on the ground,
he would leave it on the ground.
But one of them couldn't help but notice
that he miraculously was cleaning up on a balcony area
where they have a barbecue grill
and was going to great lengths
to make sure that that zone was neat.
He was hosing down the whole area, scrubbing it.
So I told the coworker, "Can you show me the spot?"
He walks me to it, and there's a railing,
and overlooking the railing,
right below is the Hudson River.
Immediately, I told the gentleman,
"Step back."
And I designated it a crime scene.
At the New York City sanitation depot
where Roscoe Glinton works,
Detective Vega has deemed the patio area as a crime scene.
And he immediately called in the CSU
to conduct a massive sweep for any evidence.
We notified the scuba team
because it's possible if a gun was used,
he tossed the gun into the Hudson.
So the NYPD scuba team came, they went into the water,
they search, but they came back negative.
♪
Despite the lack of a murder weapon,
the crime scene unit
eventually discovers a different smoking gun.
Ultimately, they did find trace evidence of blood
in the concrete on that deck area
outside of the sanitation depot.
The small blood stain is chiseled out
and sent off to the crime lab for rush DNA analysis.
It was tested and it was determined a match to Lisa.
♪
On April 22, after two weeks of investigating,
the team finally has enough to arrest Roscoe Glinton
for Lisa Eatmon's murder.
The homicide unit
apprehended him at his apartment.
At first, he didn't want to come out, but he came out.
No fighting or nothing. Came out.
I'm thrilled, thrilled that we had him arrested,
knowing that he killed Lisa.
Put closure for Lisa's family and for Marsielle.
We were so ecstatic.
We were so thankful and grateful
for the detectives of the New York Police Department.
♪
But despite their relief,
Lisa's family is left wondering
why Roscoe Glinton did this.
♪
I don't think he wanted his wife to know about the baby.
At the trial, the prosecution argues
that Roscoe wasn't keen on providing for another child,
especially one he repeatedly denied was his.
During the trial,
the district attorney submits the DNA
to see if he's a match to the baby,
and it came back to be 99.9 that Roscoe was the father.
Roscoe doesn't cooperate
and never confesses to the killing,
but the police have the following theory.
I believe Roscoe called Lisa to say, "Listen.
"Meet me when I get to your door.
"Come with me to the sanitation garage.
I can give you money for the baby."
She didn't bring her purse with her,
didn't bring her keys, and left her daughter.
She went with a man, someone that she trusted
and that it would be a quick-- a quick, little ride
for whatever it was.
Ultimately, the data that buried him
was really created by all the phone calls
that he was just ignoring from his wife.
When I look at Roscoe Glinton,
I see someone who cares only about himself.
He doesn't care about any other human being.
He thinks he's smart.
He thought he could beat this case,
thought he was slick enough
to try and get away with this horrific act,
but he made some marked mistakes along the way.
♪
And unfortunately,
the only people who will ever really know
what happened that night are Roscoe and Lisa.
♪
On November 21, 2006,
Roscoe Glinton is found guilty of second degree murder
and sentenced to 25 years to life.
But Lisa's family feels it wasn't enough.
Unfortunately, Roscoe was only charged
with the murder of Lisa.
New York does not allow for charges
to be brought against an unborn baby.
♪
I was vengeful for a little while.
I kind of grew out of that.
You know, from there,
it was just more so trying to figure out how to, like,
cope with it and, you know,
just trying to remember good memories of her,
and I kept a lot of the things that were hers.
I kept the very coffee table that we had our last dinner on.
I have it with me now.
Like, I just... I've carried all of it.
It's gotten easier throughout the years,
but it's definitely been a bumpy, hard ride
throughout the whole thing.
It doesn't heal.
I don't think it will ever heal.
I just wish she was here with us.
All I can do for Lisa to keep her spirit alive
is just think of her every day.
And I still talk to her.
I still talk to her as if she was here.
My mother really shined.
I miss her and I love her so much.