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00:00THE CITY OF CHARLOT
00:3025 years later, detectives talk about the case that still haunts Charlotte to this day.
00:47Information indicates that this person was responsible for the deaths of 10 women.
00:51A wave of murders that left 10 families desperate for justice.
00:57I'm 25 years old and I still don't have the words to describe what I felt.
01:04The police fear they are serious stranglers.
01:09It was a unit that was overflowing with bodies.
01:12They were the perfect elements.
01:21Mr. Homicide, Charlotte's predator.
01:38The first body appeared after midnight.
01:53Another strangulation victim raises investigators' concerns.
01:59When spring arrives in Charlotte in 1994, a murder is committed.
02:04The victim is a young African-American woman named Brandi Henderson.
02:08On March 10, 1994, I received a call from one of my partners, Detective Stansberry,
02:13saying that there was an 18-year-old girl dead at the scene with a towel around her neck.
02:23At first, when he said, "We found a body," I didn't think anything of it.
02:27Everyone finds a body when they work on homicide cases.
02:30But when I entered that place and saw Stansberry's face,
02:35I realized things were going to get complicated from there, Indiana.
02:38Brandi Henderson was the victim.
02:44And her boyfriend had left for work and returned home around midnight.
02:51Brandi!
02:53Why is the door open?
02:55The door was not locked.
02:56Brandi!
02:57And he found that very strange.
02:59He saw that the living room was in disarray, as if something had happened there.
03:04Brandi!
03:05The objects were on the floor, knocked over, as if some kind of struggle had taken place.
03:11Brandi!
03:13Brandi!
03:15Brandi was in the room, lying on the bed with a towel around her neck.
03:21The victim, 18-year-old Brandi Henderson, was strangled with two towels.
03:26And she wasn't alone in the house when the killer knocked on the door.
03:32Then Lamar came in and saw his son with a kind of shorts tied tightly around his neck.
03:37Brandi's boyfriend manages to remove the piece of clothing from her 10-month-old son's neck, saving his life.
03:44The initial impression suggested a robbery; after all, that wasn't uncommon, it was the 90s.
03:58With the crack epidemic, there were many addicts, and they were all looking for something they could sell on the streets.
04:03But when I spoke to Stansberry, he said that three weeks ago there was another murder of a black woman with a towel wrapped around her neck, just like in the case of Brandi Henderson.
04:11The woman was found strangled inside her home, just 13 kilometers from Brandi Henderson's apartment.
04:17What caught people's attention was that she was strangled, and he used a towel to do it.
04:24To me, this raised suspicions.
04:26We investigated many homicides. In the case of strangulation, there was one per year, but never two in a single year.
04:32Right away, that caught our attention.
04:35For us, it was serious, it was grave.
04:39The other case is also familiar to Detective McFadden.
04:42On the way back to the police station, we looked through our files, and one of them was mine.
04:47That was the case with Shawna Hawke.
04:51This happened almost a year before Brandi Henderson's body was found on the other side of town.
04:58As her mother, Dee, well remembers, Shawna Hawke's day began like any other.
05:08It was a very cold day.
05:12I woke up and Shawna woke up.
05:15Mom, we're leaving in five minutes.
05:17She had a busy morning that day.
05:19She was a good mother to her two-year-old son.
05:23She left to drop German off at daycare, and then she had two classes.
05:29Eat everything, German. That's all we have for today.
05:33From there, she would work all day at the restaurant and then pick up German from daycare.
05:40I heard the two of them downstairs, making noise, getting ready.
05:48And then she went out the door.
05:50Mom, we're leaving.
05:52And she went on with her life.
05:55I love you.
05:55She called me later that day and I remember asking, "Are you okay?"
06:05She said, yes, ma'am.
06:07And I said, are you sure?
06:08And she answered, yes.
06:10And that was around two in the afternoon.
06:13That was my last conversation with her.
06:15I arrived home around 5:15.
06:21And as I was parking, I realized her car wasn't there.
06:26I entered the house and nothing seemed out of place.
06:31Then the phone rang.
06:34It was her boyfriend, Darren.
06:37He said, "Have you seen Shona?"
06:39I said, no.
06:41Isn't she with you?
06:42No, ma'am.
06:44I didn't see her all day.
06:47Next, Dee hears a beep.
06:51There is another connection on the line.
06:54She was the mother of her godson.
06:57Immediately, I sensed anguish in her voice.
07:01And I asked, are you okay?
07:04Well, no.
07:06Shona didn't come to pick up Germana Cresce.
07:09At that moment, I thought that perhaps something had happened to her.
07:16She could have been in a car accident and not been able to find a phone.
07:20Then Dee remembers that Shona's boyfriend, Darren, is still on the other line.
07:24I said, "So you didn't talk to her?"
07:27Didn't you see her?
07:29And I said, Darren, I need you here.
07:32Come here now.
07:35I waited for him at the door.
07:37When he came in, I said, listen, I don't have time for nonsense.
07:42If anything happened, let me know.
07:46And he said, I'm not feeling well.
07:48Something is wrong.
07:50And I said, you're not kidding.
07:52You're right.
07:53Something is wrong.
07:54Something is very wrong.
07:56Darren searches the house to make sure.
07:59Meanwhile, Dee struggles to remember any place Shona might have gone without telling her.
08:05I went into the dining room.
08:07I couldn't accept the fact that we couldn't locate her or have any news of her.
08:15At that moment, he stood up and I heard him walking down the hallway.
08:18And I heard when he went into the bathroom.
08:34And then I heard a scream.
08:42He shouted very loudly, several times.
08:46Then he looked at me and said, "Mrs. Dee, call emergency services."
08:58Shona is in the bathtub.
09:01And the water is cold.
09:05Please call emergency services.
09:08Can I stop?
09:18At 7:48 p.m., paramedics arrive at the residence and immediately attempt to resuscitate Shona.
09:25They put her on a regular ambulance stretcher.
09:32A wheeled stretcher was brought out, and they took her outside.
09:38And I remember everyone telling me, you need to calm down, you need to stop yelling.
09:44Stay calm.
09:45And all I could think was...
09:49She's gone, she's gone, she's gone, and she's dead.
09:52An ambulance takes Shona and her mother to the hospital.
09:58Moments later, Charlotte police arrive at the scene.
10:01Although Detective McFadden wasn't immediately assigned to the case, he was at the crime scene that night.
10:08Every crime scene tells a story.
10:10And as homicide detectives, we analyze, observe the scene, and hope that its elements will reveal something.
10:16Well, what do I remember about the Shona Hawk case?
10:22It didn't look like anyone had broken into the house, nor that anyone had fought inside.
10:26I remember the bathtub was full of water.
10:30There was a child's toy floating in the water.
10:32But it didn't look like an ordinary crime scene.
10:35Tidy, very clean.
10:36If there wasn't a body at the hospital, I would think someone had come home and taken a shower.
10:44We checked the windows and doors of the house to see if there were any signs of forced entry.
10:48We looked at the back door to see if there were any fingerprints.
10:51There were no signs of a struggle or forced entry.
10:54And in light of all this, it seemed as if she had let the murderer in.
10:57She felt comfortable, at least before being attacked, when she opened the door for the assailant.
11:03My biggest question at the crime scene was, why wasn't there a forced entry?
11:07She must have let the guy in.
11:09Speaking with her mother and friends, we learned that she was very cautious.
11:13She wouldn't let anyone into the house.
11:15It seemed as though she knew her attacker.
11:21At the hospital, although Dee desperately hopes that Shona will somehow survive,
11:28She is declared dead.
11:29It looks like Shona Rock drowned.
11:37Shona was the foundation of the family.
11:40She was the one people turned to if they had a problem.
11:43Because they knew Shona would find a way.
11:47We couldn't believe this had happened to someone we knew and loved.
11:52You try to believe what your ears are hearing,
11:55But his mind refuses to believe it.
11:57It was only after I saw her in the coffin that I believed it.
12:06The following morning, Shona's autopsy report arrives.
12:10And with it, some new information.
12:14Shona was found fully clothed in the bathtub.
12:17and there were no physical injuries to indicate that she had been a victim of rape.
12:21The report shows that the cause of death was not drowning.
12:26Shona's vocal cords are damaged and there are bruises on her neck.
12:30Both signs indicate strangulation.
12:33Death by strangulation is a personal matter.
12:35The killer is known, and he displays a great deal of anger, hatred, and emotion during the strangulation.
12:41He has the courage to look the victim in the eyes and suffocate her to death.
12:44At this moment, the detectives are searching every inch of the house for clues.
12:53collecting fingerprints, hair fibers, and DNA samples.
12:58But they find no trace of the killer.
13:00When we begin to analyze the scene, we not only identify certain impressions,
13:09But there are cases where the scene has been altered.
13:11We see cleaning marks that are much more visible.
13:16And these cleaning marks were all over the house.
13:21in places that must have been touched by the person who broke into the house.
13:26The house was very clean because the murderer tried to tamper with the scene.
13:30to make it seem like nothing had happened in the house.
13:33So, whoever he was, he was a professional and methodical assassin.
13:36He knew what he was doing.
13:39The case of Shona Hawke never left Detective McFadden's mind.
13:43Although they are two different crimes,
13:46After the murder of Brandy Henderson, it's hard to ignore the similarities.
13:51I needed to know if Shona's case was really related to Brandy's case.
13:55At Brandy's crime scene, there was a young woman who had been strangled in her apartment.
13:59with a lot of mess and objects scattered around, which are signs of a struggle.
14:02The victim must have resisted, and there was a child present.
14:05We consider the crime to be unorganized homicide.
14:08In the Hawke case, there was a young woman strangled in the bathtub.
14:10Everything tidy, everything clean.
14:11It was the opposite.
14:12Two different scenes, two different killers.
14:15But at that time, we didn't know.
14:17At the start of the investigation into Shona's death,
14:20Suspicion falls on her boyfriend, Darren.
14:23who was the one who found her in the bathtub.
14:25So I considered Darren a suspect.
14:28And why did his name stand out?
14:31Well, the victim's relatives heard him talking about the arguments between him and Shona.
14:35And certain things were not compatible with what the family knew.
14:39And there is also a method used.
14:43Strangulation.
14:45Strangulations are rare.
14:46They occur more often in domestic disputes or in cases where people are in a relationship.
14:54Darren initially appears to be the prime suspect.
14:57But the detectives are unable to link him to Shona's murder.
15:01We didn't find anything to prove that he was the murderer.
15:05He had no likely motive.
15:08At best, it must have been someone who knew her.
15:12The most important thing we wanted to know was who the victim would let into their home.
15:18The police are investigating each individual who, according to the family, Shona allowed into the house.
15:25But no suspect has been confirmed.
15:27Then, eight weeks after the crime, a clue finally emerges.
15:33A campus security guard finds Shona's car parked at the local college where she studied.
15:38We found her car in the central Piedmont field, covered in a layer of dust.
15:44We knew she had gone to college.
15:46The suspect took the car.
15:48She arrived at the location.
15:50At that time, we didn't know.
15:51The police immediately began searching the car for clues about how it got there and who was driving it.
15:58I love analyzing a car because you might find a promising clue.
16:03In this case, I observed the bank.
16:05The bank was far behind.
16:08Shona was 1.60m tall.
16:10It means the bank should be moving forward.
16:13He didn't readjust the seat to Shona's height.
16:17So, it was someone taller than 1.60m.
16:20That was a solid lead.
16:22Police now believe that Shona's killer drove the car alone to the parking lot and abandoned it there.
16:31When we find a car, the analysis is thorough.
16:34We searched for strands of hair and fibers, residual evidence, blood, saliva, any bodily fluid, and tried to extract fingerprints.
16:43The process revealed marks that he had tried to erase.
16:48The rearview mirror, the door handles, all surfaces.
16:53This was a clear indication that he deliberately tried to erase his fingerprints.
16:58And there's another detail that leads McFadden to believe that Shona knew her killer.
17:05So we spoke with the campus police and learned that this was where Shona used to park.
17:11So, this person knew Shona well enough to bring the car back and park it in the exact same spot where she parked every day.
17:20We know that the person was watching Shona Rock, knew her routine, what she did, her lifestyle.
17:32It wasn't a typical assault or robbery.
17:36That was... deliberate.
17:38So, this was someone who was taking precautions and covering their tracks.
17:45He was a cold and calculating killer.
17:49Despite the discovery of Shona Rock's car, the case is stalled.
17:55And the police were unaware at the time that a clue in the case had gone unnoticed.
18:01One of Shona's coworkers had disappeared a year earlier.
18:06Shona wasn't the only unsolved case we had back then.
18:10On the other side of town, there was another young woman who had also disappeared.
18:15And we found out that she was friends with Shona Rock, which I found strange.
18:22In the summer of 1992, 20-year-old Caroline Love, a friend and coworker of Shona's, mysteriously disappears.
18:31Caroline lived in the East Zone and I lived in the West Zone.
18:37And we used to work at the same restaurant.
18:40We were inseparable.
18:42We went to church, we went to school together, so we were inseparable.
18:48On June 15th, Kathy takes three days off to celebrate her birthday.
18:54When she returns to work, she receives disturbing news.
18:57The manager called me aside and said, "Caroline hasn't come to work for three days."
19:03I was shocked and thought, it can't be.
19:06Caroline was the type of person who never missed work.
19:10She came every day.
19:12She never did that, you know?
19:14Something was wrong.
19:15Shortly after her disappearance, Caroline's sister, her roommate, and her boyfriend reported her disappearance to the police.
19:31Initially, the only clue we had was that she had left her workplace and gone home.
19:38This seemed highly suspicious from the start.
19:45The detectives go to Caroline's house with her sister, Kathy, in search of clues.
19:52When I entered that apartment, I got chills.
19:58I had a strange feeling.
20:01The kitchen was right at the entrance, on the left-hand side.
20:04Then there was a dining room.
20:09The room on the left was headquarters, or the one on the right was Caroline's.
20:14There was a dressing table, two bedside tables, and an open Bible.
20:22But she had disappeared.
20:28Caroline never returns home.
20:31I arrived at the police station one night and the captain on duty said,
20:36We have a missing girl; we want you to investigate.
20:39I knew a member of the victim's family, and that was an advantage.
20:44When I spoke with this person, we discovered that she had a relative named Rob Ross.
20:48Rob saw Caroline walking down the street.
20:50He gave her a ride.
20:53And he left her at her apartment that night.
20:56The detectives return to Caroline Love's apartment.
21:03looking for evidence that she may have deliberately fled.
21:08The agent in charge of this case was Tony Rice.
21:10When I spoke to Tony, we initially believed that Caroline had grown tired of the family pressure.
21:16He took a few days off, left town, and went to a hotel room just to relax.
21:20Was there any indication of a forced entry into the house?
21:24Had something gone missing?
21:25Perhaps a suitcase full of clothes is missing?
21:27None of that was true.
21:30People leave deliberately for various reasons.
21:34Sometimes it's a family problem.
21:36Sometimes they are depressed.
21:39But that was not the case for Caroline Love.
21:42The more we investigated, the more we believed that something had happened to Caroline.
21:46Weeks turn into months, and Caroline's family anxiously awaits news of her whereabouts.
22:01There were many efforts from her family, and of course the police also did their part.
22:05to see if she could find a clue as to what had happened to her.
22:10They found nothing.
22:12It was difficult because the days went by and nothing happened.
22:21We tried not to lose hope, you know?
22:26I saw missing people on TV and never thought it would happen to her.
22:30Caroline Love's case is not progressing.
22:36Neither the family nor the police acknowledge any connection between Caroline Love's case and Shona Hawk's.
22:43eight months later.
22:45And there are other families in Charlotte who are suffering and waiting, praying and hoping.
22:52Just like Caroline Love's family.
22:54Around the same time Caroline disappeared, we received reports of four or five other young people.
23:00who had disappeared without leaving any trace.
23:02In the years leading up to the discovery of the bodies of Brandy Henderson and Shona Hawk,
23:12In addition to those who were strangled in their homes, several other women have disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
23:20One of them is Caroline Love, who disappeared while walking home one night in 1992.
23:26The second was a girl whom Detective McFadden had met personally years before.
23:32Her name was Sharon Nance.
23:39In 1978 I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, to attend Johnson C. Smith University.
23:46Then my parents took me to the bus station.
23:49I got off near the college and went in through the front door.
23:53And the second person I met in Charlotte was Sharon Nance.
23:56She was standing on a street corner and it was raining a little.
24:03I came from the countryside, and I wanted to show that I was a gentleman.
24:05So I opened my umbrella and said,
24:07Hello, miss, I think you need an umbrella. Keep it.
24:11She was very well dressed, a little provocatively.
24:14I didn't know what she did for a living.
24:16I just wanted to be kind.
24:18Sharon Nance was my friend.
24:19On that day in May, the body of 33-year-old Sharon Nance was found among the bushes on one of the access roads to the city.
24:29Sharon Nance's body was found in the western part of Charlotte, on the outskirts of the city.
24:35by a group of workers who were cleaning the side of the road.
24:39One of them went into the woods and that's when he found the body, about 5 or 6 meters from the edge of the wooded area.
24:48It was quite obvious that it was a spawning ground.
24:51The crime did not happen there.
24:52The skull was fractured in several places.
25:00His nose was badly injured.
25:03There was an immense number of serious injuries.
25:06He was angry, very angry.
25:13It was awful.
25:15Traumatic. It was very bad.
25:18When it's someone you know, it's very difficult to accept.
25:21I didn't want to see Sharon in that state.
25:25It's very different when it's personal, when you know the victim.
25:34Sharon Nance had gone out one night to meet some friends.
25:38When he didn't return home, his family knew something was wrong.
25:42Sharon was living with an aunt at that time.
25:46Despite traveling a lot, she always sent news and kept in touch with her aunt.
25:54She left, told her aunt she was going out to have fun, and that was practically the last time she was seen alive.
26:02There were no witnesses, no murder weapon, and very few traces at the scene.
26:08But around the time of Sharon Nance's murder in the summer of 1992, the police began to focus more on the growing number of missing women in Charlotte.
26:18At that time, the feeling of insecurity increased greatly because the disappearances and murders of Black women began to rise significantly.
26:29One of the detectives asked me to write about the missing girls.
26:33His concern was that this would become a pattern.
26:37So, at the time, the Charlotte police department organized a task force to investigate the disappearance of these women.
26:44We used resources from several agencies, the FBI with the Behavioral Science Unit, the ATF, the State Investigation Agency, all of them.
26:55We were looking for similarities. They knew each other, were kidnapped, or seen in the same location.
27:00They wore similar clothes, had similar hairstyles, and worked in similar places.
27:06We didn't find any of that with those women.
27:08One factor that links several of these women is their profession.
27:16Prostitution.
27:18Caroline Love was not a prostitute, but investigators believed her case might be related.
27:25We only included Caroline Love's case at the time because it was likely a homicide and she was last seen on the street.
27:35Even with the help of the FBI and other agencies, investigators never find Caroline Love.
27:41But the task force comes to a conclusion.
27:45There were no serial crimes, no common patterns; it was just one person or a group of people acting violently.
27:53We could only conclude that there was a problem, but we didn't have answers for the families.
27:58The answers they wanted.
28:01They just wanted an explanation for the disappearances.
28:05Despite the task force's findings, the crime wave continues.
28:11In fact, it seems she has returned to Charlotte in full force.
28:17Two years later, nothing had changed.
28:19There were the cases of Brandy Henderson, Shona Hawk, Sharon Nance, and now Caroline Love had disappeared.
28:26That was just the tip of the iceberg, and we never imagined we'd be in the middle of a huge storm in the coming days.
28:39In 1993, the city of Charlotte was growing rapidly, and so was the crime rate.
28:46In the 90s, the population skyrocketed like a rocket.
28:51The economy was thriving, and the banking sector was growing very rapidly.
28:56But crack and cocaine had entered this city, and the streets were very, very violent.
29:06It wasn't even possible to go to the supermarket.
29:09It was madness.
29:11I don't even know how to describe it.
29:14In 1988, Charlotte was responsible for 42 murders.
29:18And in '92 and '93, there had already been more than 100 murders.
29:22We continue to break homicide records.
29:26In a week like this, detectives barely have time to go home and sleep at night.
29:31I think we all felt the pressure.
29:33The biggest problem at that time was that there were nine detectives investigating 72 homicides.
29:41At that rate, when I received a call, I would say to my wife,
29:46I'll see you when I can.
29:47There were no fixed hours.
29:51We didn't say, 'Okay, we've already worked on this scene for three hours, let's go home.'
29:56That's not how it used to happen.
29:57We worked hard all day, until late, until there was nothing left to do.
30:05It's hard work.
30:07The city's police force was overwhelmed.
30:11As a police reporter, I was always writing about corpses.
30:14So, that was a very difficult time in Charlotte.
30:20Focused on a wave of drug-related homicides,
30:23The police officers can't connect the dots.
30:26Regarding the increasing number of African-American women murdered.
30:31And this is starting to worry the victims' relatives.
30:34especially Shona Rock's family.
30:37It had already become a weekly meeting, because I was going to Judy's house all the time.
30:44But that Saturday afternoon, I was crying, desperate,
30:50And she looked at me and said, I can't take this anymore.
30:54Do you need to do something, Dee?
30:56And she said, you know, maybe God wants you to do something else.
31:01Have you ever thought about creating a support group?
31:03And we came up with a name: Mothers of Murdered Girls.
31:11That year alone saw the highest number of homicides in the city's entire history.
31:20Our goal was to help other families, because nobody was thinking about us.
31:26We certainly didn't want anyone to go through this.
31:29or felt what we were feeling.
31:31In 1993, Dee's support group received new members.
31:40Another young African-American woman is murdered in Charlotte.
31:47And the cause of death is disturbingly familiar.
31:52Strangulation.
31:53On June 25, 1993, another crime occurred.
31:56There were homicides in the city all the time, and another one happened.
31:59Another young woman was strangled to death.
32:02Just four months after the Sean O'Hawk case.
32:06Audrey Spann was found in her room, under the covers.
32:11She had two pieces of cloth around her neck.
32:15One was a bra and the other was something that looked like a towel.
32:19Once again, there was no break-in.
32:21So, it must have been someone the victim allowed into their home.
32:26At the time, detectives were investigating four possible suspects.
32:31But they are released and the case does not progress.
32:37Then, on September 15, 1993, there was another case.
32:41The Stinson case.
32:42Michelle Stinson's body is found in her apartment by a friend.
32:46There were two small children in the house.
32:51They were unharmed.
32:52They were too young to give us any details.
32:54Furthermore, someone hurt their mother.
32:59She was found inside the kitchen, lying on her back.
33:02She was fully dressed.
33:04There was a deep mark around her neck.
33:12We believe he was wearing a belt.
33:14She was also stabbed multiple times.
33:19There are also no signs of forced entry at Michelle Stinson's house.
33:24They question people close to the victim, but they are unable to find the killer or a motive.
33:31The autopsies of the two women revealed no signs of sexual assault.
33:36DNA and blood samples are collected and sent to the local police for analysis.
33:41But, due to Charlotte's high homicide rate, results are slow to arrive.
33:47The police didn't realize this at the time.
33:50But Audrey Spain's house was only 800 meters from Caroline Love's apartment and 5 kilometers from Michelle Stinson's house.
33:58They all lived in the eastern part of the city.
34:00Now there was a closeness between these women.
34:03But back then we considered these cases to be individual homicides.
34:07In retrospect, it seems there was a connection.
34:09But at the time, Charlotte police believed the murders were random acts of violence with no connection between them.
34:17In reality, the police were chasing a killer who would become their worst nightmare.
34:23Perhaps he was a serial killer operating in the shadows.
34:26But we didn't know that yet.
34:281993 was a bad year and we were already heading into '94.
34:31We had already hit the iceberg.
34:33The boat was sinking and we didn't know who would survive the shipwreck.
34:39In 1993, the Charlotte police department is overwhelmed and understaffed.
34:48And they investigate a new murder at short intervals, relying on only nine detectives.
34:54But almost forgotten amidst this wave of violence, more and more young African-American women are disappearing or being murdered.
35:01By the end of 1993, Hawke had been strangled, Spann had been strangled, Stinson had been strangled, and, in addition to them, Caroline Love was still missing.
35:13So, at that time, we considered these cases as individual homicides.
35:17A year passes.
35:21With her daughter's killer still at large, Dee Sumter tries to draw attention to Shona's case.
35:28We were desperate.
35:30We were beyond desperate.
35:33So, I had an idea.
35:36Talk to him.
35:37This is the letter I wrote to Shona's then-unknown killer.
35:50Dear murderer.
35:53I am Shona Denise Hawke's mother.
35:57I am writing to you because you murdered my only daughter in our home on February 19, 1993, between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
36:13I find it very hard to believe that a whole year has already passed since that horrible Friday night.
36:22When Shona's body was found in the bathtub where you left her.
36:31I don't hate you.
36:34Why would that make a difference?
36:37However, I really want you to come forward and confess to the terrible atrocity you committed.
36:46This was published exactly one year after Shona's murder.
36:53In addition to Dia's letter to the assassin, she makes a public appeal.
36:59Of course I have questions and I want answers.
37:02Dee Sumpter started holding press conferences and telling the media that we had nothing and that we didn't care about the young African-American women who were being killed.
37:11But Dee Sumpter still wonders, what if some of those young women were white instead of black?
37:18I am very hurt and betrayed.
37:21I sat down and cried a lot because I wanted that same dedication to extend to my daughter.
37:27Press conferences didn't bother me, but this particular one that Dee Sumpter held, I felt it was directed at me because I was in charge of her daughter's case.
37:36But Dee needed to know that we wanted the same thing. We wanted the man who killed her daughter to be captured.
37:45Dee's appeal to Shona's killer does not cause him to come forward, nor does it prevent other murders.
37:53The following day, after that press conference, another young African-American woman was killed.
38:02Vanessa Mack
38:03Vanessa Mack is a 25-year-old single mother who works outside the home, studies, and strives to raise her two daughters, Natalia and Natara.
38:15When Natara goes to stay with her father, Barbara Rip does everything in her power to help her with the baby.
38:22Every Sunday, very early, I would go to pick up Natalia, take her to my house, and take care of her there all day.
38:31And I would take her back at night when her mother arrived.
38:35I would pick up the baby at six in the morning and wait for her to answer the door.
38:41Of course she didn't show up. The door was open. Why would she leave the door open?
38:46Vanessa?
38:49It was open, and I pushed it open, and when I went inside, the only thing on was the stove light in the kitchen.
38:57Why is the front door open?
38:59Well, I couldn't see anything because only the stove light was on.
39:02Vanessa!
39:03I went in a little further and there was a small hallway.
39:07And when I looked to my left, I saw the baby in the living room, on the sofa, alone.
39:13And I got worried. Why was she alone on the sofa in the dark?
39:21Vanessa!
39:21So I went straight to her room because I was yelling and she wasn't answering.
39:29You know you need to go to work.
39:34Barbara Rippey finds Vanessa Mack in bed.
39:37She is the fourth strangulation victim in Charlotte in twelve months.
39:42I knew she was dead. I knew it as soon as I found her, and there was no going back.
39:47I knew she was dead.
39:51I picked up the baby, went to the phone in the living room entrance, and called the police.
40:04What is the emergency?
40:06What happened?
40:07The police arrive at the house in a few minutes.
40:10The victim was lying in bed with a cloth around her neck.
40:22Blood was dripping from her nose, and she had a large, thick cloth, like a towel or a sheet, around her neck.
40:29When we saw the method of strangulation, it was similar to the one used in Brandy Henderson's case.
40:40But the attack on Vanessa Mack appears to have been the most sadistic yet.
40:48Her face was bright red from petechial hemorrhage, which happens when veins burst in the body while someone is trying to breathe.
41:00Typically, we see that the victim dies with petechial hemorrhage in the eyes.
41:08And we saw it on the face and also in the neck area, which was quite unusual.
41:15And that was the most extreme case I had ever seen.
41:18The neck impressions indicated that the object had been adjusted to tighten around another area of the neck and suffocate her again.
41:27It seemed as if he repeated the process several times.
41:30Near death, he would start again.
41:33And that was very unusual.
41:36The autopsy reveals no signs of rape, but the killer's sexual gratification may have come from the act of strangulation itself.
41:45The victim stood there staring at the killer with death in his eyes, and the killer watched the victim die before his eyes.
41:51But then he would revive her and play with her.
41:54So, for me, that was torture.
41:56The detectives closely observe Vanessa's crime scene with one question in mind.
42:06Who is your killer?
42:08Well, at that moment, we started connecting the dots.
42:14There were no signs of forced entry.
42:16Nothing was out of place when I walked in.
42:19This indicated that she knew the attacker.
42:21I also noticed that there was a bag on the bed that had been turned upside down and its contents were empty.
42:28At that moment, I thought, there must have been a reason.
42:31Maybe he robbed her and then found the bank cards.
42:35So, at that moment, I said, maybe I have a bank card missing.
42:39Whenever we arrive at a crime scene and find things like credit cards, checkbooks, bank cards,
42:46We look for financial institutions.
42:48We try to find out if there have been any bank transactions and try to find any connection to a possible suspect.
42:55At ATMs, at the bank, or at checkbook withdrawal points.
43:00The detectives discover that the bank card was used at a nearby ATM.
43:06We requested the ATM footage to see if it showed the time of the withdrawal.
43:13I had photographs of the moment the card was used, and I managed to get a photograph of the ATM from the bank.
43:22So, we started looking for the killer and, after that, we saw him leaning over the ATM, with an earring in his ear.
43:30He could have been our man. That could have been the killer's face.
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