1 00:00:02,002 --> 00:00:04,613 [theme music] 2 00:00:04,830 --> 00:00:06,615 [tense music, sirens] 3 00:00:06,832 --> 00:00:08,791 [helicopter whirring] 4 00:00:11,620 --> 00:00:15,798 BARBARA KOZLOFF: In 2014, there were over 300 5 00:00:16,016 --> 00:00:19,019 murder cases in Detroit. 6 00:00:19,236 --> 00:00:20,629 It's hard to keep up with. 7 00:00:20,846 --> 00:00:23,762 [ON] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: It's so bleak. 8 00:00:23,980 --> 00:00:26,591 It's from that type of environment 9 00:00:26,809 --> 00:00:28,985 you have some of the most brutal crimes rise 10 00:00:29,159 --> 00:00:30,030 to the surface. 11 00:00:32,293 --> 00:00:34,469 There was trash everywhere. 12 00:00:34,686 --> 00:00:36,949 Swarms of flies. 13 00:00:37,124 --> 00:00:40,039 They found pieces of a human body. 14 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,345 Another victim 15 00:00:41,563 --> 00:00:43,695 is found in a nearby abandoned basement. 16 00:00:43,913 --> 00:00:45,915 A woman wrapped in plastic. 17 00:00:46,089 --> 00:00:47,873 So we've got two bodies 18 00:00:48,048 --> 00:00:49,919 found in close proximity. 19 00:00:50,093 --> 00:00:51,138 [ON] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: Police are 20 00:00:51,355 --> 00:00:54,228 looking at a serial killer. 21 00:00:54,445 --> 00:00:56,752 - He just disappeared into thin air. 22 00:00:56,969 --> 00:00:57,927 [OFF] BARBARA KOZLOFF: She didn't 23 00:00:58,101 --> 00:01:00,060 show up for her older daughter's 24 00:01:00,234 --> 00:01:02,062 kindergarten graduation. 25 00:01:02,279 --> 00:01:04,107 Everybody is operating 26 00:01:04,325 --> 00:01:06,631 at, like, 100 miles an hour. 27 00:01:06,849 --> 00:01:08,110 [OFF] BARBARA KOZLOFF: State police 28 00:01:08,111 --> 00:01:10,679 were able to get old-fashioned fingerprints 29 00:01:10,896 --> 00:01:13,246 for a direct comparison. 30 00:01:13,247 --> 00:01:15,771 - He may have had something to do 31 00:01:15,988 --> 00:01:17,599 with both of these deaths. 32 00:01:17,816 --> 00:01:20,167 - His home address is only 8 miles away 33 00:01:20,384 --> 00:01:21,689 from where the body was found. 34 00:01:21,690 --> 00:01:22,734 - What's the worst thing that could happen? 35 00:01:22,952 --> 00:01:23,995 You get life, right? 36 00:01:23,996 --> 00:01:24,954 [ON] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: We know 37 00:01:25,128 --> 00:01:26,564 that he was prone to violence. 38 00:01:26,782 --> 00:01:29,828 - There was an argument turned physical. 39 00:01:30,046 --> 00:01:33,266 The smell was so bad that he burned his clothes. 40 00:01:33,267 --> 00:01:35,834 What is she not telling us? 41 00:01:36,052 --> 00:01:38,533 Did he just vanish, or is 42 00:01:38,750 --> 00:01:39,751 it something more sinister? 43 00:01:44,495 --> 00:01:48,411 [water running] 44 00:01:48,412 --> 00:01:49,892 [car engines] 45 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:55,332 [guitar music] 46 00:01:55,550 --> 00:01:57,987 BARBARA KOZLOFF: For a long period of time, 47 00:01:58,161 --> 00:02:03,774 the automotive industry had a huge impact on Detroit. 48 00:02:03,775 --> 00:02:07,083 Then, the economy changed, plants closed. 49 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:12,088 A lot of people just left their homes behind, 50 00:02:12,262 --> 00:02:13,349 and they were left vacant. 51 00:02:13,350 --> 00:02:15,744 And then, they just deteriorated. 52 00:02:15,961 --> 00:02:17,311 [OFF] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: You have this kind 53 00:02:17,528 --> 00:02:19,095 of desolate landscape. 54 00:02:19,269 --> 00:02:20,617 Roofs are falling in. 55 00:02:20,618 --> 00:02:22,664 You've got these beautiful old homes. 56 00:02:22,881 --> 00:02:26,276 Now they sit around and decay. 57 00:02:26,494 --> 00:02:30,498 Nothing violent is off of the table in this environment. 58 00:02:30,715 --> 00:02:35,155 BARBARA KOZLOFF: We get narcotics, overdoses, murders. 59 00:02:35,329 --> 00:02:37,113 Either way, bodies are found. 60 00:02:37,287 --> 00:02:40,943 [dramatic music] 61 00:02:44,686 --> 00:02:48,037 [birds chirping] 62 00:02:48,211 --> 00:02:50,909 Late May, 2014, the weather 63 00:02:51,127 --> 00:02:52,432 is starting to warm up. 64 00:02:52,433 --> 00:02:57,001 People are wanting to do work around their homes. 65 00:02:57,002 --> 00:02:59,657 - Terrance Hayes was doing yard work 66 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:01,746 and couldn't find his garden hose. 67 00:03:01,964 --> 00:03:04,184 And he recalled that he had lent it to a neighbor. 68 00:03:04,401 --> 00:03:06,577 So he decided just to go ahead and look 69 00:03:06,795 --> 00:03:11,756 inside the neighbor's detached garage to see if it was there. 70 00:03:11,974 --> 00:03:15,803 Next to his hose, he noticed there were two plastic totes 71 00:03:15,804 --> 00:03:17,545 like footlockers. 72 00:03:17,762 --> 00:03:22,158 He detected a foul odor, so he went and lifted the lid. 73 00:03:26,771 --> 00:03:30,297 There are swarms of flies. 74 00:03:30,514 --> 00:03:33,865 Inside of the totes, there was actually concrete, 75 00:03:34,083 --> 00:03:38,043 and protruding out of the concrete is a human foot. 76 00:03:38,218 --> 00:03:41,612 [dramatic music] 77 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:44,833 - He backs out and decides that it's 78 00:03:45,050 --> 00:03:46,226 time to call the police. 79 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,099 [dramatic music] 80 00:03:51,709 --> 00:03:53,537 BARBARA KOZLOFF: When homicide detectives arrived 81 00:03:53,755 --> 00:03:57,062 at the scene, there was a foul odor that you 82 00:03:57,237 --> 00:03:58,847 would associate with death. 83 00:03:59,064 --> 00:04:02,024 [clicking] 84 00:04:02,242 --> 00:04:04,505 BARBARA KOZLOFF: They observed two containers 85 00:04:04,722 --> 00:04:06,027 filled with concrete. 86 00:04:06,028 --> 00:04:08,857 There appeared to be body parts protruding 87 00:04:09,074 --> 00:04:11,207 through the concrete. 88 00:04:11,381 --> 00:04:12,990 [ON] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: They opened 89 00:04:12,991 --> 00:04:16,647 the other container and, to their shock, it was a head. 90 00:04:16,865 --> 00:04:20,434 [dramatic music] 91 00:04:21,696 --> 00:04:25,787 - State of decomposition was advanced. 92 00:04:26,004 --> 00:04:29,443 And given the size of the containers, 93 00:04:29,660 --> 00:04:34,099 we thought there may be more than one victim. 94 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:36,754 I had seen a lot of weird [bleep] in Detroit, 95 00:04:36,972 --> 00:04:40,149 but that was one of the weirder ones. 96 00:04:40,323 --> 00:04:42,891 Because the remains were found dismembered, 97 00:04:43,108 --> 00:04:47,417 we have no idea how this person or persons were killed. 98 00:04:47,635 --> 00:04:51,116 No idea who this body was buried in cement 99 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:53,118 in a backyard garage. 100 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:57,122 [dramatic music] 101 00:05:09,265 --> 00:05:12,921 - I live in New York a long time. 102 00:05:13,138 --> 00:05:14,792 It's a good neighborhood in Brooklyn. 103 00:05:15,010 --> 00:05:17,273 It's beautiful. 104 00:05:17,447 --> 00:05:20,320 It's quiet. 105 00:05:20,494 --> 00:05:22,147 I was a single mom raising three 106 00:05:22,322 --> 00:05:24,236 kids, two boys and a girl. 107 00:05:26,717 --> 00:05:33,115 Deisha was the oldest, Shaun is the middle, 108 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:36,858 and Sheldon is the baby. 109 00:05:37,075 --> 00:05:41,079 SHAUN PRAWL: My mom, she was born in Jamaica. 110 00:05:41,297 --> 00:05:46,215 She had all of us kids here in New York. 111 00:05:46,389 --> 00:05:48,565 So I said we got both sides. 112 00:05:48,783 --> 00:05:53,483 We got the Caribbean, and we also got the American. 113 00:05:53,701 --> 00:05:55,529 BEVERLY DALEY: I'm always there for all three of them. 114 00:05:55,746 --> 00:05:57,094 I worked. 115 00:05:57,095 --> 00:05:59,881 I'm a single mom who's struggling through life, 116 00:06:00,098 --> 00:06:01,448 but I'm making it. 117 00:06:04,189 --> 00:06:05,626 - When my sister was older, 118 00:06:05,843 --> 00:06:10,108 she became basically like my second mom. 119 00:06:10,326 --> 00:06:14,374 It was my sister who always do for me and Sheldon. 120 00:06:14,548 --> 00:06:16,680 We was always together. 121 00:06:16,898 --> 00:06:19,030 We eat together, fight together. 122 00:06:19,248 --> 00:06:20,423 We just always had that bond. 123 00:06:23,339 --> 00:06:26,037 - In '09, my daughter Deisha, she has 124 00:06:26,255 --> 00:06:29,737 a sudden massive heart attack. 125 00:06:29,954 --> 00:06:33,915 When she passed away, that was a devastation for me. 126 00:06:36,483 --> 00:06:37,919 Sheldon was the baby. 127 00:06:38,136 --> 00:06:39,660 This affectionate kid. 128 00:06:39,877 --> 00:06:41,139 He don't talk much. 129 00:06:41,357 --> 00:06:45,927 Very low key, but he shows love. 130 00:06:46,144 --> 00:06:47,623 SHAUN PRAWL: Me and Sheldon, 131 00:06:47,624 --> 00:06:51,715 we had a relationship where sometimes we bump heads, 132 00:06:51,933 --> 00:06:53,369 sometimes we don't. 133 00:06:53,543 --> 00:06:56,111 That was always my baby brother. 134 00:06:56,328 --> 00:06:58,766 Anything I got, you got. 135 00:06:58,983 --> 00:06:59,897 [OFF] BEVERLY DALEY: My children. 136 00:07:00,115 --> 00:07:00,942 They love their mom. 137 00:07:01,159 --> 00:07:01,943 I love them. 138 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,423 We stay in touch. 139 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,425 Make sure I know everything about them, 140 00:07:05,599 --> 00:07:08,993 where they're at, where they go. 141 00:07:09,211 --> 00:07:11,866 Sheldon graduated from Sheepshead Bay High. 142 00:07:17,001 --> 00:07:19,613 He went down there to North Carolina 143 00:07:19,830 --> 00:07:23,312 to work for a military contractor. 144 00:07:23,486 --> 00:07:26,053 In the beginning, Sheldon stayed with Christopher, 145 00:07:26,054 --> 00:07:27,316 his childhood friend. 146 00:07:27,490 --> 00:07:31,755 [dramatic music] 147 00:07:37,848 --> 00:07:39,589 Months later, Sheldon met 148 00:07:39,807 --> 00:07:43,375 this young lady, Cheri Davis. 149 00:07:43,550 --> 00:07:46,640 She was working at the same company. 150 00:07:46,857 --> 00:07:49,250 She was so in love with my son. 151 00:07:49,251 --> 00:07:51,208 He felt comfortable around her. 152 00:07:51,209 --> 00:07:53,211 He moved in her apartment. 153 00:07:59,348 --> 00:08:04,309 For some reason, on October 31, 2013, Halloween, 154 00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:07,311 I don't hear from him. 155 00:08:07,312 --> 00:08:09,358 I was worried. 156 00:08:09,532 --> 00:08:11,403 And I said, not like Sheldon. 157 00:08:11,578 --> 00:08:13,928 Usually, he keep in touch with his mom. 158 00:08:14,145 --> 00:08:17,235 Because every day, if he don't text, he call. 159 00:08:17,453 --> 00:08:21,239 And we talk, and, you know, he said, Mom, I love you. 160 00:08:24,329 --> 00:08:26,941 Then, the next day, I was calling. 161 00:08:27,158 --> 00:08:28,028 No answer. 162 00:08:28,029 --> 00:08:29,552 Keep calling and texting. 163 00:08:29,770 --> 00:08:31,118 No answer. 164 00:08:31,119 --> 00:08:34,688 It wasn't sitting right with me for some reason. 165 00:08:34,905 --> 00:08:37,342 Good thing he gave me Cheri Davis' number. 166 00:08:37,517 --> 00:08:38,779 I called her. 167 00:08:38,996 --> 00:08:40,519 She said, he's not here. 168 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,697 She said, we get into an argument, and he went up north. 169 00:08:43,914 --> 00:08:45,481 I said, up north? 170 00:08:45,655 --> 00:08:48,440 She said she didn't know where he is. 171 00:08:48,615 --> 00:08:52,096 Not like him not to keep in touch with friends and family. 172 00:08:52,314 --> 00:08:53,533 It just did not feel right. 173 00:08:53,707 --> 00:08:57,406 [dramatic music] 174 00:08:59,147 --> 00:09:04,369 SHAUN PRAWL: On November 2, my mom called me so upset, 175 00:09:04,544 --> 00:09:06,981 saying that nobody knows where Sheldon is, 176 00:09:07,198 --> 00:09:10,593 that he's not answering his phone. 177 00:09:10,811 --> 00:09:12,900 And I'm like, that's not right. 178 00:09:13,117 --> 00:09:15,076 So I just called all the hospitals 179 00:09:15,293 --> 00:09:19,340 in North Carolina and here in New York, 180 00:09:19,341 --> 00:09:22,562 but nobody got a record of him. 181 00:09:22,779 --> 00:09:24,085 Where else can he be? 182 00:09:28,829 --> 00:09:30,526 BEVERLY DALEY: I called Cheri again. 183 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:33,790 She was crying and worried that he's still missing. 184 00:09:34,008 --> 00:09:36,444 I said, I think you need to go to the precinct 185 00:09:36,445 --> 00:09:37,794 to make a report. 186 00:09:38,012 --> 00:09:41,057 Because, at this point, we all know something 187 00:09:41,058 --> 00:09:42,538 was definitely wrong. 188 00:09:46,716 --> 00:09:48,413 November 4, 2013, 189 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:50,720 Cheri Davis comes to the Jacksonville Police Department 190 00:09:50,938 --> 00:09:53,114 to file a missing person report for her boyfriend, 191 00:09:53,331 --> 00:09:54,941 Sheldon Prawl. 192 00:09:54,942 --> 00:09:57,988 They met each other in February of 2013 and began dating. 193 00:09:58,206 --> 00:10:04,038 I believe Sheldon moved in to Cheri's house in June of 2013. 194 00:10:04,255 --> 00:10:07,215 She said, on Halloween, they had an argument. 195 00:10:07,432 --> 00:10:09,478 He told her that he was going to move away, 196 00:10:09,652 --> 00:10:13,656 and she never spoke with him again. 197 00:10:13,874 --> 00:10:15,658 That same day that the report was taken, 198 00:10:15,876 --> 00:10:18,313 Sheldon's mother called the Jacksonville Police Department. 199 00:10:18,530 --> 00:10:21,795 She hadn't heard from her son in about five days. 200 00:10:22,012 --> 00:10:23,405 BEVERLY DALEY: I said, Sheldon didn't drop 201 00:10:23,623 --> 00:10:24,798 off the face of the earth. 202 00:10:25,015 --> 00:10:26,321 Something is wrong. 203 00:10:28,976 --> 00:10:30,238 Every effort was 204 00:10:30,455 --> 00:10:32,066 done to find Sheldon Prawl. 205 00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:37,637 Detectives went door to door in the entire neighborhood looking 206 00:10:37,811 --> 00:10:39,072 for anybody that might have seen him 207 00:10:39,073 --> 00:10:40,683 or vehicle that he was in around the time 208 00:10:40,901 --> 00:10:42,336 that he was leaving. 209 00:10:42,337 --> 00:10:44,294 They were unable to find anybody that saw 210 00:10:44,295 --> 00:10:47,081 anything or heard anything. 211 00:10:47,298 --> 00:10:50,171 SHAUN PRAWL: Cheri and I made some missing posters. 212 00:10:50,388 --> 00:10:52,608 Still no word of Sheldon. 213 00:10:52,782 --> 00:10:54,088 It was like one big mystery. 214 00:10:57,047 --> 00:10:58,222 BEVERLY DALEY: It's horrible. 215 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,486 I was just all over the place. 216 00:11:01,661 --> 00:11:04,881 I told the police officers in North Carolina, 217 00:11:05,099 --> 00:11:08,015 something is clearly wrong. 218 00:11:08,232 --> 00:11:10,844 I'm going to come down here to Jacksonville. 219 00:11:13,977 --> 00:11:15,544 I want to know where my son is. 220 00:11:18,634 --> 00:11:19,940 There's a foul odor 221 00:11:20,157 --> 00:11:23,116 emitting from under the door. 222 00:11:23,117 --> 00:11:26,947 They see the head of a woman. 223 00:11:27,164 --> 00:11:29,210 - It's no longer a missing person. 224 00:11:29,427 --> 00:11:30,080 It's a homicide. 225 00:11:30,298 --> 00:11:34,694 [dramatic music] 226 00:11:45,661 --> 00:11:47,097 Sheldon Prawl 227 00:11:47,315 --> 00:11:50,318 disappeared on Halloween 2013 after arguing with 228 00:11:50,535 --> 00:11:53,060 his girlfriend, Cheri Davis. 229 00:11:53,277 --> 00:11:55,192 His family never believed for a second 230 00:11:55,410 --> 00:11:56,846 that he would just get up and leave. 231 00:12:03,331 --> 00:12:05,072 - I go down to North Carolina 232 00:12:05,289 --> 00:12:07,161 to find my son. 233 00:12:07,378 --> 00:12:10,294 Cheri Davis picked me up at the airport. 234 00:12:10,512 --> 00:12:12,427 She's very nice to me. 235 00:12:12,644 --> 00:12:15,604 She's going to help me figure out where Sheldon is. 236 00:12:18,694 --> 00:12:21,217 On November 13, 2013, 237 00:12:21,218 --> 00:12:24,221 Beverly Daley and Cheri Davis came to the Jacksonville 238 00:12:24,439 --> 00:12:25,396 Police Department. 239 00:12:27,877 --> 00:12:29,052 BEVERLY DALEY: Oh my god, Cheri 240 00:12:29,270 --> 00:12:31,925 Davis, she was tearing up. 241 00:12:32,142 --> 00:12:33,796 And I told her that, as a mother, 242 00:12:34,014 --> 00:12:37,060 I was thinking all the worst things. 243 00:12:37,278 --> 00:12:39,497 DANIEL KARRATTI: Both Beverly and Cheri Davis 244 00:12:39,715 --> 00:12:41,630 had told us that this is not something that Sheldon 245 00:12:41,804 --> 00:12:42,935 normally would do. 246 00:12:42,936 --> 00:12:44,198 If he were to leave, he would contact 247 00:12:44,415 --> 00:12:45,852 somebody almost immediately. 248 00:12:46,069 --> 00:12:47,897 Both of them coming in and saying that this 249 00:12:48,115 --> 00:12:49,725 is out of the ordinary raises more concern 250 00:12:49,899 --> 00:12:52,989 for this missing person. 251 00:12:53,207 --> 00:12:55,644 Detectives called every bus company around. 252 00:12:55,818 --> 00:12:58,560 Didn't have a bus ticket in Sheldon's name. 253 00:12:58,778 --> 00:13:00,430 Called cab companies. 254 00:13:00,431 --> 00:13:02,085 Nobody had a pickup from that address within the time frame 255 00:13:02,303 --> 00:13:03,608 that he would have left. 256 00:13:03,783 --> 00:13:05,131 There was just nothing. 257 00:13:05,132 --> 00:13:09,963 He just seemed to have left without a trace. 258 00:13:10,180 --> 00:13:11,790 At that point. 259 00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:13,226 Sheldon's brother, Shaun, called the Jacksonville police 260 00:13:13,227 --> 00:13:15,316 to provide information on the best friend of Sheldon 261 00:13:15,533 --> 00:13:17,144 Prawl, Chris Frazier. 262 00:13:20,234 --> 00:13:22,627 SHAUN PRAWL: I had called Chris. 263 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:26,631 Chris said that he was with my brother on October 31 264 00:13:26,806 --> 00:13:28,328 in the morning. 265 00:13:28,329 --> 00:13:31,854 Sheldon was going to give Chris a ride to the house. 266 00:13:32,072 --> 00:13:34,552 Chris said he was sitting in the car. 267 00:13:34,770 --> 00:13:38,121 He said he saw my brother Sheldon and his girlfriend, 268 00:13:38,339 --> 00:13:39,993 Cheri, in the house arguing. 269 00:13:43,953 --> 00:13:46,086 Later on that same day, Chris sees 270 00:13:46,303 --> 00:13:48,479 a text message from Sheldon saying, 271 00:13:48,697 --> 00:13:50,917 oh, I'm going out of town. 272 00:13:51,134 --> 00:13:53,397 He found that strange, but he didn't question 273 00:13:53,615 --> 00:13:56,836 it because he's a grown man. 274 00:13:57,010 --> 00:13:58,794 So days went by. 275 00:13:58,968 --> 00:14:01,362 Chris didn't even think that Sheldon was missing. 276 00:14:05,583 --> 00:14:06,846 DANIEL KARRATTI: So Chris Frazier 277 00:14:07,020 --> 00:14:08,717 came into the department to be interviewed. 278 00:14:08,891 --> 00:14:12,329 He confirmed everything Sheldon's brother said. 279 00:14:12,547 --> 00:14:15,811 But then, Chris tells us that on October 31, 280 00:14:15,985 --> 00:14:18,945 he sees Sheldon outside Cheri's house 281 00:14:19,162 --> 00:14:22,644 banging on the front door, asking to be let in. 282 00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:26,213 Also, that morning, he sees Cheri Davis's brother, Carleton 283 00:14:26,430 --> 00:14:27,867 Davis, at the residence. 284 00:14:30,173 --> 00:14:33,133 This is new information, because when asked about who 285 00:14:33,350 --> 00:14:35,961 was at the home, Cheri doesn't mention her brother 286 00:14:35,962 --> 00:14:38,529 being there at all. 287 00:14:38,747 --> 00:14:43,360 For Chris Frazier to add this starts to raise red flags. 288 00:14:43,578 --> 00:14:46,842 What is Cheri not telling us? 289 00:14:47,016 --> 00:14:49,149 Detectives go to Cheri. 290 00:14:49,366 --> 00:14:52,152 Cheri says, no, her brother Carleton wasn't there. 291 00:14:52,369 --> 00:14:54,371 He was there the week prior. 292 00:14:57,461 --> 00:15:00,116 We reached out to Carleton. 293 00:15:00,334 --> 00:15:03,511 He said that he was in Jacksonville the week before 294 00:15:03,728 --> 00:15:07,428 and got a bus ride from Jacksonville back to Detroit. 295 00:15:07,645 --> 00:15:12,346 He provides the investigative division with the ticket. 296 00:15:12,563 --> 00:15:14,957 The detective then goes back to Chris and Chris insists, 297 00:15:15,175 --> 00:15:16,523 no, he was there. 298 00:15:16,524 --> 00:15:19,135 Neither one of them were changing their story. 299 00:15:19,353 --> 00:15:21,137 So we're back to square one. 300 00:15:21,355 --> 00:15:22,747 We still don't know anything. 301 00:15:22,922 --> 00:15:24,924 Could possibly have something happen to Sheldon? 302 00:15:25,098 --> 00:15:26,054 Yes. 303 00:15:26,055 --> 00:15:27,056 But can we prove it right now? 304 00:15:27,274 --> 00:15:28,492 No, we can't. 305 00:15:30,494 --> 00:15:31,974 We do reach out to the cell phone company 306 00:15:32,192 --> 00:15:34,194 and request Sheldon's cell phone records. 307 00:15:34,411 --> 00:15:35,846 That takes time. 308 00:15:35,847 --> 00:15:38,937 So at this point, we don't have evidence or proof 309 00:15:38,938 --> 00:15:41,288 to say that there's foul play. 310 00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:47,642 December 2013. 311 00:15:47,859 --> 00:15:50,558 The cell phone company finally get a result back. 312 00:15:50,775 --> 00:15:54,692 There is no information after October 31 313 00:15:54,910 --> 00:15:59,045 when Cheri and Sheldon had their last text conversation. 314 00:15:59,262 --> 00:16:00,915 It doesn't appear that his phone 315 00:16:00,916 --> 00:16:04,659 had been turned on at all in the two months following that. 316 00:16:04,876 --> 00:16:07,792 At this point, it doesn't look good at all. 317 00:16:07,967 --> 00:16:11,579 You typically don't see zero activity, no text messages, 318 00:16:11,796 --> 00:16:14,582 no phone calls for two months. 319 00:16:14,799 --> 00:16:15,886 At this point in the investigation, 320 00:16:15,887 --> 00:16:17,498 we just-- we don't have anything. 321 00:16:17,715 --> 00:16:19,935 Sheldon just disappeared into thin air. 322 00:16:26,811 --> 00:16:28,726 March 2014. 323 00:16:28,944 --> 00:16:30,293 It's been months since anybody's 324 00:16:30,511 --> 00:16:32,687 heard from Sheldon Prawl. 325 00:16:32,904 --> 00:16:35,385 So now we have nothing further to investigate. 326 00:16:35,603 --> 00:16:36,908 We finally closed the case. 327 00:16:37,083 --> 00:16:37,996 Leads exhausted. 328 00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:39,868 We don't know where he's at. 329 00:16:40,042 --> 00:16:41,565 It's not a good feeling. 330 00:16:41,783 --> 00:16:43,263 It's almost like a failure on your part 331 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:44,742 that you can't help the family. 332 00:16:49,921 --> 00:16:51,184 BEVERLY DALEY: I was devastated. 333 00:16:51,401 --> 00:16:54,056 I get sleepless nights. 334 00:16:54,274 --> 00:16:57,407 It's horrible. 335 00:16:57,625 --> 00:17:00,889 SHAUN PRAWL: I told myself he was dead. 336 00:17:01,063 --> 00:17:03,239 I think everybody looked at me, oh, he's strong. 337 00:17:07,330 --> 00:17:09,332 It's rough. 338 00:17:09,550 --> 00:17:14,468 [dramatic music] 339 00:17:22,693 --> 00:17:25,348 - Late May 2014, the Detroit Police 340 00:17:25,566 --> 00:17:28,699 Department received a call from Terrance Hayes, who reported 341 00:17:28,917 --> 00:17:30,440 that he found what he believed to be 342 00:17:30,658 --> 00:17:35,619 human remains in a neighbor's detached garage. 343 00:17:35,837 --> 00:17:40,058 This particular house was obviously vacant, 344 00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:43,062 and they detected a foul odor. 345 00:17:46,152 --> 00:17:48,110 There was trash everywhere. 346 00:17:48,328 --> 00:17:49,894 There are swarms of flies. 347 00:17:50,069 --> 00:17:52,897 They look inside of plastic containers. 348 00:17:53,072 --> 00:17:59,382 They find pieces of a human body, and they see a head. 349 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,298 Now, this is a full-on murder investigation. 350 00:18:06,563 --> 00:18:08,043 A crew from homicide, 351 00:18:08,217 --> 00:18:10,045 along with the Wayne County medical examiner, 352 00:18:10,219 --> 00:18:13,266 retrieved the remains. 353 00:18:13,483 --> 00:18:17,748 The search was conducted of the interior of the vacant house. 354 00:18:17,966 --> 00:18:22,101 There were some firearms that were recovered, 355 00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:27,410 but there wasn't any signs that a crime happened there. 356 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:33,329 Due to the advanced state of decomposition, 357 00:18:33,547 --> 00:18:37,333 we didn't know who the remains belonged to. 358 00:18:37,551 --> 00:18:40,815 We didn't know how they got there. 359 00:18:41,032 --> 00:18:43,470 This was not an accidental death. 360 00:18:43,687 --> 00:18:47,387 [dramatic music] 361 00:18:47,604 --> 00:18:51,173 - Remains belong to a male, likely 362 00:18:51,391 --> 00:18:53,044 between 25 and 35. 363 00:18:54,959 --> 00:18:56,744 The police have no idea who 364 00:18:56,961 --> 00:18:58,441 would kill someone like this. 365 00:19:00,922 --> 00:19:03,881 So the police questioned Terrance Hayes, who 366 00:19:04,099 --> 00:19:06,884 actually found the remains. 367 00:19:07,102 --> 00:19:10,366 Mr. Hayes says that he hadn't seen his neighbor, Danny Ervin, 368 00:19:10,584 --> 00:19:12,237 in a week or so. 369 00:19:12,238 --> 00:19:15,545 Mr. Hayes says that Danny Ervin had actually been squatting 370 00:19:15,763 --> 00:19:19,158 in this abandoned house. 371 00:19:19,375 --> 00:19:20,680 [ON] BARBARA KOZLOFF: When he was 372 00:19:20,681 --> 00:19:22,900 questioned about the remains, Terrance Hayes 373 00:19:23,118 --> 00:19:26,382 wasn't overly upset. 374 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:27,905 [OFF] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: Maybe an argument 375 00:19:28,123 --> 00:19:30,691 developed between these two. 376 00:19:30,908 --> 00:19:34,129 Maybe Terrance Hayes had called this in himself 377 00:19:34,303 --> 00:19:38,046 after having perpetrated this heinous crime. 378 00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:40,135 Danny Ervin might be the one in the concrete. 379 00:19:40,309 --> 00:19:44,226 [dramatic music] 380 00:19:56,673 --> 00:19:58,893 BARBARA KOZLOFF: Late May 2014, 381 00:19:59,110 --> 00:20:00,851 the dismembered body found in the garage 382 00:20:01,069 --> 00:20:02,244 is still unidentified. 383 00:20:02,462 --> 00:20:04,855 [clicking] 384 00:20:05,073 --> 00:20:07,728 BARBARA KOZLOFF: Crime scene services are swabbing 385 00:20:07,945 --> 00:20:11,645 the tote for potential DNA and for fingerprints, 386 00:20:11,862 --> 00:20:15,388 but detectives have no solid leads. 387 00:20:15,605 --> 00:20:17,085 Several residents in the neighborhood 388 00:20:17,259 --> 00:20:19,218 could very well be persons of interest. 389 00:20:22,003 --> 00:20:26,137 Danny Ervin was residing in the house. 390 00:20:26,312 --> 00:20:27,964 Investigators at the scene 391 00:20:27,965 --> 00:20:31,230 didn't know where Danny was, how long he had been missing, 392 00:20:31,404 --> 00:20:33,710 and how long this body had been in the garage. 393 00:20:36,104 --> 00:20:38,846 This whole house is a crime scene. 394 00:20:39,063 --> 00:20:41,718 And Danny Ervin suddenly shows up in this location 395 00:20:41,936 --> 00:20:44,591 just outside the tape. 396 00:20:44,808 --> 00:20:46,680 - He inquired what was going on 397 00:20:46,897 --> 00:20:48,638 and why the police were there. 398 00:20:48,856 --> 00:20:51,685 He denied any knowledge of how these remains 399 00:20:51,902 --> 00:20:54,122 appeared in his garage. 400 00:20:54,296 --> 00:20:57,386 We informed him that we took the firearms as evidence. 401 00:20:57,604 --> 00:20:58,866 Being a convicted felon, he wasn't 402 00:20:59,083 --> 00:21:01,869 allowed to possess firearms. 403 00:21:02,086 --> 00:21:04,567 He was immediately placed into custody. 404 00:21:07,353 --> 00:21:10,138 We didn't have any solid evidence linking him 405 00:21:10,312 --> 00:21:14,577 to this homicide, but he had control over the garage 406 00:21:14,795 --> 00:21:17,406 and the house, and he didn't report that there 407 00:21:17,624 --> 00:21:18,886 was remains in his garage. 408 00:21:19,103 --> 00:21:21,976 So Danny Ervin was our prime suspect. 409 00:21:25,066 --> 00:21:29,331 Danny Ervin was interviewed by homicide detectives. 410 00:21:29,549 --> 00:21:31,420 He adamantly denied having anything 411 00:21:31,638 --> 00:21:35,859 to do with human remains found in his garage. 412 00:21:36,077 --> 00:21:39,776 We found that he was in and out of jail for some low level 413 00:21:39,994 --> 00:21:41,474 narcotic crimes. 414 00:21:41,691 --> 00:21:43,302 And Danny expressed concern that he 415 00:21:43,519 --> 00:21:46,305 was being set up or framed for this crime 416 00:21:46,522 --> 00:21:48,872 because of his rap sheet. 417 00:21:51,701 --> 00:21:53,486 And he said that the neighbors knew 418 00:21:53,703 --> 00:21:57,664 he was absent from his house and that they 419 00:21:57,881 --> 00:22:00,057 could have used it to their advantage 420 00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:03,844 to hide evidence of a crime. 421 00:22:04,061 --> 00:22:06,542 Anyone could have had access to this garage 422 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,631 and dispose of the remains there. 423 00:22:11,721 --> 00:22:15,463 We interviewed Danny Ervin's neighbors. 424 00:22:15,464 --> 00:22:19,381 And Richard Jackson, his house is backed up 425 00:22:19,599 --> 00:22:21,514 to the garage, where we found the remains, 426 00:22:21,731 --> 00:22:26,693 but he didn't indicate he had seen anything unusual. 427 00:22:26,910 --> 00:22:29,696 In fact, we didn't have anyone report that they knew 428 00:22:29,913 --> 00:22:31,611 anything about this crime. 429 00:22:31,828 --> 00:22:35,528 [dramatic music] 430 00:22:37,312 --> 00:22:39,227 BARBARA KOZLOFF: At this point in the investigation, 431 00:22:39,401 --> 00:22:41,360 we didn't have enough to say Danny Ervin 432 00:22:41,534 --> 00:22:44,058 was definitively the killer. 433 00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:48,932 But since he was charged with felony possession of a firearm, 434 00:22:49,150 --> 00:22:51,108 that kept him incarcerated while we 435 00:22:51,326 --> 00:22:52,240 were doing our investigation. 436 00:22:58,551 --> 00:23:00,030 [ON] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: On June 9, 437 00:23:00,248 --> 00:23:03,207 another disturbing discovery was made-- 438 00:23:06,297 --> 00:23:13,392 a woman, wrapped in plastic, found in the basement of a home 439 00:23:14,436 --> 00:23:16,525 in an adjacent Detroit neighborhood. 440 00:23:19,615 --> 00:23:21,704 - Uniformed police officers responded. 441 00:23:24,794 --> 00:23:28,449 They were directed to the basement. 442 00:23:28,450 --> 00:23:31,192 They discover an old, warped door 443 00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:35,152 on top of a bunch of blankets. 444 00:23:35,370 --> 00:23:39,069 There was a foul odor emitting from under the door. 445 00:23:39,287 --> 00:23:43,030 [dramatic music] 446 00:23:44,771 --> 00:23:51,125 They see the head of a woman, 447 00:23:51,342 --> 00:23:54,824 another partially dismembered, decomposing body. 448 00:23:57,914 --> 00:24:00,613 - Now Detroit Police is facing 449 00:24:00,830 --> 00:24:04,051 two bodies found in vacant homes in close proximity 450 00:24:04,268 --> 00:24:07,576 in a close time frame. 451 00:24:07,794 --> 00:24:09,448 JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: Police have a huge task 452 00:24:09,665 --> 00:24:10,796 on their hands here. 453 00:24:10,797 --> 00:24:13,103 Within a month, two bodies have been 454 00:24:13,321 --> 00:24:15,671 found partially dismembered. 455 00:24:15,889 --> 00:24:20,633 And with both of these deaths, the bodies are obscured. 456 00:24:20,850 --> 00:24:25,681 So, given the close proximity, are police 457 00:24:25,899 --> 00:24:27,422 looking at a serial killer? 458 00:24:27,596 --> 00:24:31,687 [dramatic music] 459 00:24:32,732 --> 00:24:33,689 [ON] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: We know 460 00:24:33,907 --> 00:24:35,212 that he was prone to violence. 461 00:24:35,430 --> 00:24:36,562 DANIEL KARRATTI: It goes from being 462 00:24:36,779 --> 00:24:40,391 a cold case to murder. 463 00:24:40,566 --> 00:24:43,307 - How did a man missing from North Carolina 464 00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:45,353 end up in Detroit? 465 00:24:45,527 --> 00:24:51,533 [dramatic music] 466 00:25:00,281 --> 00:25:02,283 - Detroit homicide detectives are still 467 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,633 attempting to identify the man found dismembered 468 00:25:04,851 --> 00:25:05,895 in a backyard garage. 469 00:25:08,419 --> 00:25:10,378 But then, another victim is found 470 00:25:10,552 --> 00:25:14,643 in a nearby abandoned basement, buried under a rotting door. 471 00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:22,085 Homicide detectives collect DNA and biological evidence 472 00:25:22,303 --> 00:25:25,306 and completely document the crime scene. 473 00:25:25,524 --> 00:25:26,786 There was evidence 474 00:25:27,003 --> 00:25:30,180 of partial dismemberment. 475 00:25:30,398 --> 00:25:34,662 Unlike the body that had been found back in May, 476 00:25:34,663 --> 00:25:37,623 this body was more recently deceased. 477 00:25:40,364 --> 00:25:42,149 BARBARA KOZLOFF: Since the state of decomposition 478 00:25:42,366 --> 00:25:44,499 wasn't as advanced as our male victim, 479 00:25:44,673 --> 00:25:47,241 the identification was more immediate. 480 00:25:47,458 --> 00:25:51,201 Family members identified her clothes. 481 00:25:51,419 --> 00:25:54,683 She was identified as Alicia Fox. 482 00:25:54,901 --> 00:25:56,903 She had been shot multiple times, 483 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:59,732 including twice in the head. 484 00:25:59,949 --> 00:26:03,779 On June 6, 2014, when she didn't show up for her older 485 00:26:03,997 --> 00:26:05,825 daughter's kindergarten graduation, 486 00:26:06,042 --> 00:26:08,392 her family had filed a missing persons report 487 00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:11,265 for Alicia and her children. 488 00:26:11,482 --> 00:26:14,224 Her children, who were six years old and eight months old 489 00:26:14,442 --> 00:26:17,488 at the time, were not found. 490 00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:23,582 Homicide detectives were able to develop 491 00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:28,412 a suspect in Alicia Fox's murder, her estranged 492 00:26:28,587 --> 00:26:31,633 husband, Erin Justice. 493 00:26:31,851 --> 00:26:34,984 Alicia's family members reported that he had a temper 494 00:26:35,202 --> 00:26:38,248 and he had a lengthy criminal history. 495 00:26:38,466 --> 00:26:42,078 And then, suspiciously, he didn't report her missing. 496 00:26:45,168 --> 00:26:46,909 JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: Given the close proximity 497 00:26:47,127 --> 00:26:51,914 in time to our earlier dismembered body, 498 00:26:52,132 --> 00:26:54,569 Detroit detectives theorized that Erin 499 00:26:54,743 --> 00:26:56,484 Justice may have had something to do 500 00:26:56,658 --> 00:26:58,094 with both of these deaths. 501 00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:05,580 We've got a woman found deceased in a basement. 502 00:27:05,754 --> 00:27:08,017 Husband that can't be found anywhere. 503 00:27:08,235 --> 00:27:11,281 Police sent out a multi-state bulletin. 504 00:27:11,499 --> 00:27:13,544 All law enforcement, nationwide, 505 00:27:13,719 --> 00:27:15,895 should be on the lookout for Erin Justice. 506 00:27:18,549 --> 00:27:22,684 [traffic passing] 507 00:27:22,902 --> 00:27:24,381 - While homicide investigators 508 00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:27,471 search for Erin Justice, the medical examiner's 509 00:27:27,646 --> 00:27:30,518 office contacted me. 510 00:27:30,692 --> 00:27:33,085 They're taking pictures of the remains. 511 00:27:33,086 --> 00:27:35,654 And the male victim had a tattoo 512 00:27:35,871 --> 00:27:40,223 that was very distinctive, and it was still visible. 513 00:27:40,441 --> 00:27:44,792 The fact that the offender used concrete to conceal 514 00:27:44,793 --> 00:27:50,756 these remains ironically aided in preserving the tattoo. 515 00:27:50,973 --> 00:27:55,674 The tattoo read "RIP Deisha." 516 00:27:55,848 --> 00:28:00,026 It had a date 4/7 of '09. 517 00:28:00,243 --> 00:28:01,810 It appeared to be a memorial tattoo. 518 00:28:04,552 --> 00:28:07,337 We were really lucky we had it. 519 00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:11,211 We gave the tattoo to a member of a task force 520 00:28:11,428 --> 00:28:14,867 so they could do a search. 521 00:28:15,084 --> 00:28:17,608 We also took a photo of the tattoo 522 00:28:17,783 --> 00:28:21,438 and gave it to the media, who broadcast it on the internet. 523 00:28:24,093 --> 00:28:27,618 [traffic passing] 524 00:28:29,795 --> 00:28:31,448 SHAUN PRAWL: Time went by, 525 00:28:31,666 --> 00:28:33,886 and it was over six months since my brother being missing 526 00:28:34,103 --> 00:28:36,105 and no word of Sheldon. 527 00:28:39,195 --> 00:28:42,068 And then, Sheldon finally resurfaced. 528 00:28:45,158 --> 00:28:49,728 My brother, Sheldon, had a tattoo on his forearm, 529 00:28:49,945 --> 00:28:56,473 and it was my sister named Deisha with her date of birth. 530 00:28:56,691 --> 00:29:00,826 Our friends from Detroit called us and said, 531 00:29:01,043 --> 00:29:02,652 I think we found your son. 532 00:29:02,653 --> 00:29:05,047 I don't know how he got here, but I think we found him. 533 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:09,922 So I call the police 534 00:29:10,139 --> 00:29:12,446 officers there in Detroit. 535 00:29:12,663 --> 00:29:15,144 [dramatic music] 536 00:29:15,362 --> 00:29:17,364 [phone rings] 537 00:29:17,581 --> 00:29:20,541 - I received a call from a woman 538 00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:23,457 from New York, said that she believed the tattoo belonged to 539 00:29:23,674 --> 00:29:26,547 her son, Sheldon Prawl. 540 00:29:26,765 --> 00:29:30,769 He had been missing since Halloween from North Carolina. 541 00:29:30,986 --> 00:29:33,946 This was the first time I had a name, and it was huge. 542 00:29:34,163 --> 00:29:37,340 So we had to work quickly to confirm that that, 543 00:29:37,558 --> 00:29:39,778 in fact, was Sheldon Prawl. 544 00:29:39,995 --> 00:29:46,306 I obtained fingerprints from North Carolina that confirmed 545 00:29:46,523 --> 00:29:49,657 our victim was Sheldon Prawl. 546 00:29:49,831 --> 00:29:53,617 [dramatic music] 547 00:29:57,796 --> 00:30:01,887 BEVERLY DALEY: I was so devastated and hurt. 548 00:30:02,104 --> 00:30:05,847 How could you cut up my son? 549 00:30:06,065 --> 00:30:07,718 There's so much evil out there. 550 00:30:10,112 --> 00:30:12,114 There's so much evil. 551 00:30:12,332 --> 00:30:16,902 I can't grip it, like what these people are made of, 552 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:18,294 you know? 553 00:30:18,512 --> 00:30:21,297 [sniffling] 554 00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:25,867 [sad music] 555 00:30:26,085 --> 00:30:27,434 It's just too much. 556 00:30:36,356 --> 00:30:37,923 I asked Sheldon 557 00:30:38,140 --> 00:30:43,145 Prawl's mother if Sheldon had any connection to Detroit. 558 00:30:43,363 --> 00:30:46,191 She said none that she knew of. 559 00:30:46,192 --> 00:30:49,891 The question was, how did a man missing from North Carolina 560 00:30:50,109 --> 00:30:55,027 end up buried in cement in a garage in Detroit? 561 00:30:55,244 --> 00:30:58,595 [dramatic music] 562 00:31:03,383 --> 00:31:07,691 [dramatic music] 563 00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:15,134 [OFF] BARBARA KOZLOFF: Identifying 564 00:31:15,351 --> 00:31:17,310 the victim's tattoo, with this advanced 565 00:31:17,527 --> 00:31:19,094 state of decomposition, was really 566 00:31:19,312 --> 00:31:20,530 key in this investigation. 567 00:31:22,532 --> 00:31:24,883 The victim is identified as North Carolina 568 00:31:25,057 --> 00:31:28,582 resident Sheldon Prawl. 569 00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:30,889 Sheldon's mother, Beverly, relayed 570 00:31:31,063 --> 00:31:33,717 that she had constant contact with him 571 00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:35,763 prior to his disappearance. 572 00:31:35,937 --> 00:31:37,721 She knew something was wrong. 573 00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:40,681 She was wondering who would have killed her son, 574 00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:43,684 and how did he end up in Detroit? 575 00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:45,816 - So while Sheldon Prawl's case 576 00:31:45,991 --> 00:31:51,386 is being investigated, the police 577 00:31:51,387 --> 00:31:53,650 were hot on the lookout for Alicia Fox's 578 00:31:53,868 --> 00:31:56,653 former husband, Erin Justice. 579 00:31:56,871 --> 00:32:00,657 We know that he was prone to violence. 580 00:32:00,875 --> 00:32:05,401 Given the close proximity in time to finding our earlier 581 00:32:05,619 --> 00:32:10,667 dismembered body and the discovery of Alicia Fox's body, 582 00:32:10,885 --> 00:32:13,975 Erin Justice may have killed Sheldon Prawl. 583 00:32:17,065 --> 00:32:22,114 The Detroit Police got a break in regards to Alicia Fox. 584 00:32:22,331 --> 00:32:25,073 Erin Justice had been arrested in Atlanta. 585 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,383 - He was extradited back to Michigan. 586 00:32:32,907 --> 00:32:36,911 Erin Justice told us that he killed Alicia Fox. 587 00:32:39,609 --> 00:32:41,307 The Detroit Police continued to interview 588 00:32:41,524 --> 00:32:43,395 him to see if he had any kind of connection 589 00:32:43,396 --> 00:32:44,658 in the murder of Sheldon Prawl. 590 00:32:44,875 --> 00:32:46,616 - What's the worst thing that could happen? 591 00:32:46,834 --> 00:32:48,357 You get life, right? 592 00:32:48,575 --> 00:32:50,054 [ON] JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN: They're 593 00:32:50,055 --> 00:32:53,275 not able to elicit anything else from Erin Justice. 594 00:32:53,493 --> 00:32:56,844 But through the diligence of the detectives involved 595 00:32:57,018 --> 00:33:00,021 in investigating both of these cases, 596 00:33:00,239 --> 00:33:03,285 the police were able to state affirmatively 597 00:33:03,503 --> 00:33:06,071 that there were no connections between these two deaths. 598 00:33:09,030 --> 00:33:11,685 BARBARA KOZLOFF: Our focus is now on the fact 599 00:33:11,902 --> 00:33:14,470 that Sheldon went missing from North Carolina. 600 00:33:14,688 --> 00:33:18,431 [dramatic music] 601 00:33:19,562 --> 00:33:21,216 Jacksonville Police Department 602 00:33:21,434 --> 00:33:23,740 receives a phone call from the Detroit Police Department 603 00:33:23,958 --> 00:33:25,873 informing us that they found our missing 604 00:33:26,047 --> 00:33:28,528 person, Sheldon Prawl. 605 00:33:28,745 --> 00:33:30,094 The case is reopened. 606 00:33:30,095 --> 00:33:32,880 Everybody is operating at 100 miles an hour. 607 00:33:33,054 --> 00:33:34,012 It's no longer a missing person. 608 00:33:34,229 --> 00:33:35,752 It's homicide. 609 00:33:35,970 --> 00:33:39,365 It goes from being a cold case to a murder. 610 00:33:39,582 --> 00:33:42,020 [dramatic music] 611 00:33:42,194 --> 00:33:43,630 DANIEL KARRATTI: He's found in Detroit. 612 00:33:43,847 --> 00:33:45,066 He's never been to Detroit. 613 00:33:45,284 --> 00:33:47,547 Never told anybody about going to Detroit. 614 00:33:47,764 --> 00:33:51,638 We believe he was killed here in North Carolina. 615 00:33:51,855 --> 00:33:56,034 It's up to all of us to figure out how he got to Detroit. 616 00:33:56,208 --> 00:33:59,820 You've got Cheri Davis saying they got into an argument. 617 00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:01,865 Sheldon just left. 618 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,738 The best friend of Sheldon Prawl, Chris Frazier, 619 00:34:04,955 --> 00:34:09,656 saying, I saw Cheri Davis's brother, Carleton Davis, there. 620 00:34:09,873 --> 00:34:12,267 We start looking into Carleton. 621 00:34:12,485 --> 00:34:14,182 When a background check was done on Carleton Davis, 622 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,793 we find out that his home address in Detroit 623 00:34:17,011 --> 00:34:18,839 is only 8 miles away from the location 624 00:34:19,057 --> 00:34:20,188 where Sheldon was found. 625 00:34:20,406 --> 00:34:24,192 [dramatic music] 626 00:34:24,410 --> 00:34:26,934 - That raises a huge red flag to us. 627 00:34:27,108 --> 00:34:29,893 Carleton Davis is the only connection between Sheldon 628 00:34:30,068 --> 00:34:32,418 Prawl and Detroit. 629 00:34:32,635 --> 00:34:35,508 - This is a big lead for our case. 630 00:34:38,598 --> 00:34:41,557 We interviewed one of Carleton Davis's ex-girlfriends. 631 00:34:44,647 --> 00:34:50,392 She informed us that a mutual friend of Carleton and hers 632 00:34:50,610 --> 00:34:56,703 requested that she purchase some footlocker-type totes, 633 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,445 and that was key to our investigation 634 00:34:59,662 --> 00:35:04,493 because, obviously, Sheldon's remains were found in totes. 635 00:35:04,711 --> 00:35:09,150 She reported that she had heard rumors that Carleton had gotten 636 00:35:09,368 --> 00:35:13,415 into an argument with Sheldon, and that Carleton 637 00:35:13,633 --> 00:35:20,509 had killed Sheldon and that he had broken his neck. 638 00:35:23,599 --> 00:35:27,125 Based on that information, Carleton Davis was 639 00:35:27,299 --> 00:35:28,561 emerging as our prime suspect. 640 00:35:31,303 --> 00:35:33,043 - Now that we've got information 641 00:35:33,218 --> 00:35:36,830 tying Carleton to this murder, we have to look back 642 00:35:37,047 --> 00:35:39,180 at Carleton's sister, Cheri. 643 00:35:39,398 --> 00:35:41,008 What is she not telling us? 644 00:35:43,489 --> 00:35:47,623 In June of 2014, a month after Sheldon 645 00:35:47,841 --> 00:35:52,019 was located in two totes in a garage in Detroit, 646 00:35:52,193 --> 00:35:54,891 we execute a search warrant on Cheri's house, 647 00:35:55,109 --> 00:35:57,633 ripping up carpet and looking on the underside 648 00:35:57,851 --> 00:36:00,245 to see if we can find blood stains. 649 00:36:00,462 --> 00:36:04,292 We collected pieces of carpet, electronics, 650 00:36:04,510 --> 00:36:08,731 coveralls you would wear when you're painting. 651 00:36:08,949 --> 00:36:11,691 The evidence is sent to our evidence desk. 652 00:36:11,908 --> 00:36:14,433 Unfortunately, there was nothing on the coveralls 653 00:36:14,650 --> 00:36:16,174 or on that carpet. 654 00:36:16,391 --> 00:36:19,264 However, I knew that something happened. 655 00:36:19,481 --> 00:36:20,787 Sheldon did not just walk away. 656 00:36:26,358 --> 00:36:27,750 As the case progressed, 657 00:36:27,968 --> 00:36:31,493 we got a call through our tip line 658 00:36:31,711 --> 00:36:35,323 saying that Richard Jackson, the man we previously 659 00:36:35,541 --> 00:36:38,718 interviewed who lived in the house behind the garage 660 00:36:38,935 --> 00:36:41,677 where the remains were found, was involved 661 00:36:41,895 --> 00:36:42,983 in the disposal of the body. 662 00:36:47,379 --> 00:36:49,816 Looking at Richard, we were able to connect 663 00:36:50,033 --> 00:36:54,864 Richard to Carleton Davis. 664 00:36:55,082 --> 00:36:57,432 They were seen together in that neighborhood 665 00:36:57,650 --> 00:37:00,174 just after Halloween when Sheldon disappeared. 666 00:37:02,959 --> 00:37:06,398 And we discovered that they had been in prison together. 667 00:37:06,615 --> 00:37:10,489 [dramatic music] 668 00:37:15,363 --> 00:37:19,628 [dramatic music] 669 00:37:24,546 --> 00:37:25,982 [OFF] BARBARA KOZLOFF: Detectives 670 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,158 have found the connection to Detroit, Detroit 671 00:37:28,333 --> 00:37:30,291 resident Carleton Davis, the brother 672 00:37:30,509 --> 00:37:32,467 of the victim's girlfriend. 673 00:37:32,685 --> 00:37:36,341 He was in North Carolina at the time Sheldon disappeared. 674 00:37:36,558 --> 00:37:39,779 Now they've linked him to the location where the body was 675 00:37:39,996 --> 00:37:43,304 discovered by his association with next-door neighbor 676 00:37:43,522 --> 00:37:44,958 Richard Jackson. 677 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,789 At police headquarters, Richard Jackson continued 678 00:37:50,006 --> 00:37:51,530 to deny his involvement. 679 00:37:51,747 --> 00:37:54,228 But when confronted with the knowledge 680 00:37:54,402 --> 00:37:57,144 of his specific actions from a witness, 681 00:37:57,318 --> 00:37:59,364 he began to make admissions in his role 682 00:37:59,581 --> 00:38:03,324 in the disposal of Sheldon's remains. 683 00:38:03,542 --> 00:38:05,326 DANIEL KARRATTI: After speaking with Detroit Police, 684 00:38:05,544 --> 00:38:07,546 we learned that Richard Jackson had 685 00:38:07,763 --> 00:38:10,026 a friend named Jerry Dorris. 686 00:38:10,244 --> 00:38:13,639 Jerry Dorris helped move Sheldon's body to the shed 687 00:38:13,856 --> 00:38:17,382 on the other side of his yard. 688 00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:19,514 The smell was so bad that he burned 689 00:38:19,732 --> 00:38:21,473 his clothes because he didn't want 690 00:38:21,690 --> 00:38:23,257 any questions about the smell. 691 00:38:25,825 --> 00:38:27,217 I mean, that breaks the case. 692 00:38:27,392 --> 00:38:29,132 That opens it wide up for us. 693 00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:34,224 And then, we got the arrest warrant for Carleton Davis. 694 00:38:34,399 --> 00:38:35,965 BARBARA KOZLOFF: Carleton was charged 695 00:38:36,183 --> 00:38:38,272 by North Carolina authorities. 696 00:38:38,446 --> 00:38:45,192 He was arrested in Detroit about 8 miles from our scene. 697 00:38:45,366 --> 00:38:48,761 [birds singing] 698 00:38:50,110 --> 00:38:54,462 - The pain of knowing people are so evil. 699 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:55,333 I cried day. 700 00:38:55,550 --> 00:38:56,986 I cried night. 701 00:38:57,204 --> 00:39:01,339 How could Cheri lie to me, knowing 702 00:39:01,556 --> 00:39:02,992 that my son was already dead? 703 00:39:06,996 --> 00:39:10,173 But I was like, thank you, God. 704 00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:11,740 I'm going to get some justice. 705 00:39:16,702 --> 00:39:19,835 - After this month-long investigation, 706 00:39:20,053 --> 00:39:23,361 we learned that on Halloween 2013, 707 00:39:23,578 --> 00:39:26,538 there was an argument between Cheri Davis and Sheldon Prawl 708 00:39:26,755 --> 00:39:29,584 that turned physical inside that house. 709 00:39:29,802 --> 00:39:31,499 Due to the very close relationship 710 00:39:31,717 --> 00:39:34,981 that Carleton and Cheri had, it seems 711 00:39:35,198 --> 00:39:37,418 Carleton Davis just snapped. 712 00:39:37,636 --> 00:39:40,290 Carleton came out of her room and choked 713 00:39:40,465 --> 00:39:41,988 Sheldon Prawl until he died. 714 00:39:47,254 --> 00:39:50,387 Carleton Davis contacted Richard Jackson in Detroit 715 00:39:50,388 --> 00:39:54,392 for help disposing of the body. 716 00:39:54,609 --> 00:39:57,438 In order to transport the body, it's 717 00:39:57,656 --> 00:39:59,788 dismembered in Jacksonville. 718 00:40:02,878 --> 00:40:07,056 They put it in the Quikrete and traveled all the way back up 719 00:40:07,274 --> 00:40:10,451 to Detroit and put the totes in what he believed 720 00:40:10,669 --> 00:40:12,235 was an abandoned property. 721 00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:15,717 [dramatic music] 722 00:40:23,856 --> 00:40:26,424 BARBARA KOZLOFF: In 2018, Carleton Davis 723 00:40:26,598 --> 00:40:30,166 went on trial for the murder of Sheldon Prawl. 724 00:40:30,384 --> 00:40:31,951 - We had to prove to the jury 725 00:40:32,168 --> 00:40:33,996 that there was nobody that could 726 00:40:34,214 --> 00:40:37,304 have committed this murder other than Carleton Davis. 727 00:40:39,959 --> 00:40:41,264 It's nerve wrenching when you're 728 00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:43,789 waiting to see if everything you've done 729 00:40:44,006 --> 00:40:48,097 over these past years finally accumulates to the verdict 730 00:40:48,315 --> 00:40:50,273 that you want. 731 00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:55,278 At the end of the week-long trial, it went to the jury. 732 00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:57,585 Five hours later, they come back. 733 00:41:00,588 --> 00:41:04,897 Guilty on all counts of second-degree murder. 734 00:41:05,114 --> 00:41:08,074 His sentence was 38 years in prison. 735 00:41:11,164 --> 00:41:13,819 - Richard Jackson was charged in Detroit 736 00:41:14,036 --> 00:41:16,343 with accessory after the fact. 737 00:41:16,517 --> 00:41:18,258 DANIEL KARRATTI: Richard Jackson didn't go to trial. 738 00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:20,739 He decided to plead on his own and was 739 00:41:20,956 --> 00:41:22,305 sentenced to seven years. 740 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:26,571 [dramatic music] 741 00:41:26,788 --> 00:41:28,442 DANIEL KARRATTI: Cheri was subsequently arrested 742 00:41:28,616 --> 00:41:31,489 for accessory after the fact. 743 00:41:31,706 --> 00:41:35,623 She pled guilty, and she was assigned probation 744 00:41:35,841 --> 00:41:37,059 and community service. 745 00:41:37,277 --> 00:41:40,628 [dramatic music] 746 00:41:40,846 --> 00:41:44,327 DANIEL KARRATTI: I'm very satisfied that after almost 747 00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:47,505 five years, not only was Sheldon located, 748 00:41:47,679 --> 00:41:50,333 but there was some sort of closure for Beverly Daley. 749 00:41:53,423 --> 00:41:56,731 [sniffs] Every day I 750 00:41:56,949 --> 00:42:00,082 have to grieve my son. 751 00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:05,392 There's always that part of me that just thinking of him. 752 00:42:05,566 --> 00:42:12,486 His smile, the way he said, Mom, I miss that part. 753 00:42:13,618 --> 00:42:15,968 SHAUN PRAWL: There was only one Sheldon. 754 00:42:16,185 --> 00:42:18,361 At the end of the day, I miss my bro. 755 00:42:18,536 --> 00:42:22,191 [sad music]