1 00:00:07,758 --> 00:00:10,758 --Captions by VITAC-- www.vitac.com 2 00:00:10,758 --> 00:00:13,724 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 3 00:00:13,724 --> 00:00:18,724 ♪♪ 4 00:00:18,724 --> 00:00:23,103 IT'S THE MIDDLE OF WINTER ON CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, 5 00:00:23,103 --> 00:00:26,551 THE ULTIMATE SMALL TOWN. 6 00:00:26,551 --> 00:00:28,517 -HOW MANY YOU GOT? -JUST ONE. 7 00:00:28,517 --> 00:00:32,758 TESSA VANHART HAD A PIZZA DELIVERY 8 00:00:32,758 --> 00:00:34,758 AS SHE HAD MANY NIGHTS BEFORE. 9 00:00:34,758 --> 00:00:38,586 ♪♪ 10 00:00:38,586 --> 00:00:41,206 SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BACK IN A FEW MINUTES. 11 00:00:41,206 --> 00:00:44,793 ♪♪ 12 00:00:44,793 --> 00:00:46,413 BUT SHE DIDN'T COME BACK. 13 00:00:46,413 --> 00:00:51,517 ♪♪ 14 00:00:51,517 --> 00:00:55,172 Woman: A CALL COMES INTO THE LOCAL POLICE STATION. 15 00:00:55,172 --> 00:00:57,448 Kenda: TESSA VANHART IS MISSING. 16 00:00:57,448 --> 00:01:00,724 [ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER ] 17 00:01:00,724 --> 00:01:03,068 THEY DRIVE LOOKING FOR THIS WOMAN. 18 00:01:03,068 --> 00:01:06,448 ♪♪ 19 00:01:06,448 --> 00:01:09,206 THEY BECOME CONCERNED. 20 00:01:09,206 --> 00:01:11,068 IT'S AN ISLAND. 21 00:01:11,068 --> 00:01:12,586 HOW COULD SHE BE MISSING? 22 00:01:12,586 --> 00:01:17,724 ♪♪ 23 00:01:17,724 --> 00:01:19,482 THEY SEE A CAR RUNNING. 24 00:01:19,482 --> 00:01:22,689 NO ONE'S BEHIND THE WHEEL. 25 00:01:22,689 --> 00:01:24,931 THEY FIND THAT TO BE EXTREMELY ODD. 26 00:01:24,931 --> 00:01:27,793 ♪♪ 27 00:01:27,793 --> 00:01:29,482 [ SIREN WAILS ] 28 00:01:29,482 --> 00:01:32,517 [ SIREN STOPS ] 29 00:01:32,517 --> 00:01:34,482 [ GEAR SHIFTS ] 30 00:01:34,482 --> 00:01:43,620 [ INDISTINCT POLICE CHATTER ] 31 00:01:43,620 --> 00:01:50,724 ♪♪ 32 00:01:50,724 --> 00:01:54,413 OH, GOD. 33 00:01:54,413 --> 00:01:57,793 AND WHAT THEY SEE IN THE BACK SEAT HORRIFIES THEM. 34 00:01:57,793 --> 00:02:02,034 ♪♪ 35 00:02:02,034 --> 00:02:06,620 I SPENT MY CAREER CLOSING MURDER CASES. 36 00:02:06,620 --> 00:02:11,793 BUT I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO ANSWERED THE CALL. 37 00:02:11,793 --> 00:02:16,241 IT TAKES A RARE BREED TO SOLVE THE UNSOLVABLE, 38 00:02:16,241 --> 00:02:18,896 TO CATCH A RUTHLESS KILLER, 39 00:02:18,896 --> 00:02:22,965 TO FIND JUSTICE FOR THE DEAD. 40 00:02:22,965 --> 00:02:27,689 THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN AMERICAN DETECTIVE. 41 00:02:27,689 --> 00:02:29,482 ♪♪ 42 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:31,000 MY NAME IS DANNY PLOTT. 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,551 I'M A FORMER SPECIAL AGENT 44 00:02:32,551 --> 00:02:35,793 WITH THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE VIOLENT CRIMES UNIT. 45 00:02:35,793 --> 00:02:38,241 [ TELEPHONE RINGS ] 46 00:02:38,241 --> 00:02:41,551 I RECEIVED A CALL FROM MY SUPERVISOR IN RICHMOND 47 00:02:41,551 --> 00:02:45,241 THAT THERE HAD BEEN A MURDER ON THE ISLAND OF CHINCOTEAGUE. 48 00:02:45,241 --> 00:02:47,965 WHEN THIS CALL CAME IN TO DANNY PLOTT AT HIS HOME, 49 00:02:47,965 --> 00:02:51,206 HE HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING THE FAR REACHING EFFECTS 50 00:02:51,206 --> 00:02:54,517 IT WOULD HAVE ON EVERYONE ON THAT ISLAND. 51 00:02:54,517 --> 00:02:57,482 A REMARKABLE CHAIN OF EVENTS HAS BEEN SET IN MOTION. 52 00:02:57,482 --> 00:02:59,551 HE JUST DIDN'T KNOW HOW REMARKABLE IT WAS. 53 00:02:59,551 --> 00:03:05,241 [ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER ] 54 00:03:05,241 --> 00:03:07,344 WHEN MY PARTNER AND I, JIM HUDDLE, 55 00:03:07,344 --> 00:03:08,724 ARRIVED ON SCENE, 56 00:03:08,724 --> 00:03:10,068 WE WERE GIVEN DETAILS BY 57 00:03:10,068 --> 00:03:12,827 THE CHINCOTEAGUE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 58 00:03:12,827 --> 00:03:16,724 Kenda: THEY HAVE DETERMINED THIS PERSON IS 23 YEARS OF AGE. 59 00:03:16,724 --> 00:03:18,413 HER NAME IS TESSA VANHART. 60 00:03:18,413 --> 00:03:22,551 ♪♪ 61 00:03:22,551 --> 00:03:24,758 TESSA WAS A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY 62 00:03:24,758 --> 00:03:27,344 WHO HAD A WHOLE FUTURE IN FRONT OF HER. 63 00:03:27,344 --> 00:03:30,448 SHE HAD TWO KIDS, A LOVING HUSBAND. 64 00:03:30,448 --> 00:03:33,034 Shea: SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL. SHE REALLY WAS. 65 00:03:33,034 --> 00:03:35,206 SHE JUST HAD THIS WAY ABOUT HER, YOU KNOW? 66 00:03:35,206 --> 00:03:38,344 SHE WAS QUIET AT FIRST, BUT AS YOU GOT TO KNOW HER, 67 00:03:38,344 --> 00:03:42,689 THERE WAS JUST THIS SPECIAL WAY ABOUT HER. 68 00:03:42,689 --> 00:03:44,482 Kenda: THE OFFICERS REPORT THAT TESSA VANHART 69 00:03:44,482 --> 00:03:46,689 IS EMPLOYED AT THIS PIZZA SHOP. 70 00:03:46,689 --> 00:03:51,034 HER HUSBAND ALSO WORKS THERE. 71 00:03:51,034 --> 00:03:53,931 PLOTT IS ALSO INFORMED THAT HER HUSBAND, WALTER, 72 00:03:53,931 --> 00:03:57,000 REPORTED HER MISSING BY DIALING 911. 73 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,793 ♪♪ 74 00:04:00,793 --> 00:04:02,689 TESSA WAS FOUND IN THE BACK SEAT 75 00:04:02,689 --> 00:04:07,965 WITH TWO GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE BACK OF HER HEAD. 76 00:04:07,965 --> 00:04:10,310 THERE WASN'T A LOT OF BLOOD 77 00:04:10,310 --> 00:04:13,793 BECAUSE THE WOUNDS WERE CONTAINED INSIDE HER SKULL. 78 00:04:13,793 --> 00:04:17,620 ♪♪ 79 00:04:17,620 --> 00:04:20,551 PLOTT ALSO OBSERVES GRASS 80 00:04:20,551 --> 00:04:23,965 AND DIRT AND MUD ON THE VICTIM'S KNEES. 81 00:04:23,965 --> 00:04:26,724 SHE OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T GET THAT IN THE BACK SEAT OF THAT CAR. 82 00:04:26,724 --> 00:04:30,965 SO THERE IS ANOTHER CRIME SCENE. THEY JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE. 83 00:04:30,965 --> 00:04:32,310 PIZZA'S STILL HERE. 84 00:04:32,310 --> 00:04:34,172 YEAH, SO IS HER PURSE. 85 00:04:34,172 --> 00:04:36,344 Plo THERE WAS STILL MONEY IN IT. 86 00:04:36,344 --> 00:04:37,620 SHE WAS NOT ROBBED. 87 00:04:37,620 --> 00:04:39,275 TO THE EXPERIENCED INVESTIGATOR 88 00:04:39,275 --> 00:04:42,724 THAT WOULD INDICATE THAT SOMEBODY IS ONLY INTERESTED 89 00:04:42,724 --> 00:04:45,344 IN THIS VICTIM, NOT IN HER POSSESSIONS. 90 00:04:45,344 --> 00:04:48,655 AND THAT'S VERY DIFFERENT. WHY HER? 91 00:04:48,655 --> 00:04:52,689 ♪♪ 92 00:04:52,689 --> 00:04:56,241 LET'S HAVE FORENSICS TAKE THE CAR BACK TO THE LOT. 93 00:04:56,241 --> 00:04:57,862 YOU WANNA GO TALK TO THE HUSBAND? 94 00:04:57,862 --> 00:04:59,448 YEAH. 95 00:04:59,448 --> 00:05:01,379 -LOCK IT DOWN, STEVE. -YES, SIR. 96 00:05:01,379 --> 00:05:05,241 SO PLOTT HAS LEARNED WHAT HE CAN BY LOOKING AROUND THIS CAR. 97 00:05:05,241 --> 00:05:07,137 NOW IT'S TIME TO TALK TO WALKER. 98 00:05:07,137 --> 00:05:10,206 [ SIREN WAILING ] 99 00:05:10,206 --> 00:05:15,551 ♪♪ 100 00:05:15,551 --> 00:05:19,000 NOTIFYING A FAMILY THEY LOST A LOVED ONE, 101 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,517 I'VE DONE SEVERAL TIMES. 102 00:05:20,517 --> 00:05:24,551 IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU'RE THE GRIM REAPER. 103 00:05:24,551 --> 00:05:27,689 THIS WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO HAD JUST LOST HIS WIFE 104 00:05:27,689 --> 00:05:32,206 AND NOW WAS A FATHER OF TWO SMALL CHILDREN 105 00:05:32,206 --> 00:05:36,689 AND WAS ALMOST IN SHOCK. 106 00:05:36,689 --> 00:05:39,551 EXCELLENT MOTHER, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. 107 00:05:39,551 --> 00:05:43,241 SHE WAS MY SOULMATE. I'LL SAY THAT. 108 00:05:43,241 --> 00:05:45,241 Shea: WHEN THEY WERE GONNA GET MARRIED, 109 00:05:45,241 --> 00:05:46,620 YOU JUST KNEW. 110 00:05:46,620 --> 00:05:49,931 HE KNEW FROM THE GET GO THAT SHE WAS RIGHT FOR HIM. 111 00:05:49,931 --> 00:05:52,137 Walter: SHE WAS GREAT MOTHER TO HER KIDS, 112 00:05:52,137 --> 00:05:56,448 WHAT LITTLE BIT OF TIME SHE GOT WITH THEM. 113 00:05:56,448 --> 00:05:59,103 THE HARDEST THING I EVER HAD TO DO IS THE NEXT DAY, 114 00:05:59,103 --> 00:06:01,586 TELL THEM, YOU KNOW, THAT MOM WENT TO HEAVEN. 115 00:06:01,586 --> 00:06:03,448 IT'S THE ONLY WAY I CAN PUT IT, YOU KNOW. 116 00:06:03,448 --> 00:06:07,344 ♪♪ 117 00:06:07,344 --> 00:06:10,551 I THINK THE WORD THAT I GET THE MOST WHEN I ASK PEOPLE 118 00:06:10,551 --> 00:06:14,931 ABOUT MY MOM IS BEAUTIFUL AND SWEET, CARING. 119 00:06:14,931 --> 00:06:15,931 A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LIKE, "OH, MY GOD, 120 00:06:15,931 --> 00:06:18,206 YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR MOM." 121 00:06:18,206 --> 00:06:19,482 IT'S GOOD TO HEAR. 122 00:06:19,482 --> 00:06:22,758 I THINK IT'S MY FAVORITE COMPLIMENT WHEN I HEAR THAT. 123 00:06:22,758 --> 00:06:24,517 YOU AND TESSA, 124 00:06:24,517 --> 00:06:26,551 YOU WORK TOGETHER IN THE PIZZA SHOP? 125 00:06:26,551 --> 00:06:27,758 YEAH. 126 00:06:27,758 --> 00:06:29,137 Shea: HE WAS IN THE BACK. 127 00:06:29,137 --> 00:06:31,482 HE DID MOST OF THE COOKING AND SHE DID THE DELIVERY. 128 00:06:31,482 --> 00:06:33,482 THE NIGHT EVERYTHING HAPPENED, 129 00:06:33,482 --> 00:06:36,137 SHE CAME IN IN THE AFTERNOON AND DID DELIVERIES AT NIGHT. 130 00:06:36,137 --> 00:06:40,034 ♪♪ 131 00:06:40,034 --> 00:06:43,344 -HOW MANY YOU GOT? -JUST ONE. 132 00:06:43,344 --> 00:06:46,862 ♪♪ 133 00:06:46,862 --> 00:06:48,724 BYE. 134 00:06:48,724 --> 00:06:52,724 -BYE. -LOVE YOU. 135 00:06:52,724 --> 00:06:56,413 HE WATCHED HIS WIFE WALK OUT THE DOOR WITH FULL EXPECTATION 136 00:06:56,413 --> 00:06:58,655 THAT SHE WOULD RETURN BACK. 137 00:06:58,655 --> 00:06:59,965 BUT SHE DIDN'T COME BACK. 138 00:06:59,965 --> 00:07:02,448 AND THE LONGER SHE WAS GONE, 139 00:07:02,448 --> 00:07:04,275 THE MORE ALARMED HE BECAME. 140 00:07:04,275 --> 00:07:07,551 I WAS THINKING SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THE CAR, YOU KNOW. 141 00:07:07,551 --> 00:07:09,103 AND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME WENT BY 142 00:07:09,103 --> 00:07:12,206 AND WE ENDED UP CALLING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT 143 00:07:12,206 --> 00:07:14,137 AND GETTING THEM INVOLVED. 144 00:07:14,137 --> 00:07:15,275 DO YOU KNOW WHERE TESSA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE 145 00:07:15,275 --> 00:07:17,379 DELIVERING THE PIZZA? 146 00:07:17,379 --> 00:07:18,965 NO. 147 00:07:18,965 --> 00:07:24,034 BUT WE SHOULD HAVE IT WRITTEN DOWN AT THE SHOP. 148 00:07:24,034 --> 00:07:25,862 WE FELT LIKE THE BEGINNING OF THIS CRIME 149 00:07:25,862 --> 00:07:28,793 WAS A CALL FOR A PIZZA DELIVERY. 150 00:07:28,793 --> 00:07:31,448 AND IN FACT, THERE WAS A SLIP OF PAPER 151 00:07:31,448 --> 00:07:33,655 THAT WE WERE ABLE TO GAIN 152 00:07:33,655 --> 00:07:36,241 THAT LISTED THE HOUSE THAT SHE WAS SENT TO. 153 00:07:36,241 --> 00:07:44,275 [ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER ] 154 00:07:44,275 --> 00:07:46,758 Kenda: SO THEY GO OUT TO SEE THIS HOUSE. 155 00:07:46,758 --> 00:07:55,965 ♪♪ 156 00:07:55,965 --> 00:07:57,896 THERE'S NOBODY LIVING HERE RIGHT NOW. 157 00:07:57,896 --> 00:07:59,862 Plo THE HOUSE THAT SHE WAS SENT TO 158 00:07:59,862 --> 00:08:02,724 WAS A VACATION OR RENTAL HOME. 159 00:08:02,724 --> 00:08:04,655 THIS WAS JANUARY. 160 00:08:04,655 --> 00:08:07,413 MOST OF THE VACATION HOMES ARE RENTED DURING WARM WEATHER 161 00:08:07,413 --> 00:08:10,379 WHEN CHINCOTEAGUE IS FULL OF PEOPLE VISITING. 162 00:08:10,379 --> 00:08:12,655 Kenda: THIS PLACE IS TOTALLY LOCKED UP AND SECURE. 163 00:08:12,655 --> 00:08:17,965 NO LIGHTS, NO POWER, NO ANYTHING HAPPENING. 164 00:08:17,965 --> 00:08:21,517 -GOT LIGHTS ON NEXT DOOR. -LET'S CHECK IT OUT. 165 00:08:21,517 --> 00:08:24,724 Plo WE THOUGHT THAT MAYBE SOMEONE AT THE PIZZA PLACE 166 00:08:24,724 --> 00:08:28,172 HAD ACCIDENTALLY WRITTEN DOWN THE WRONG ADDRESS. 167 00:08:28,172 --> 00:08:30,931 SO WE BELIEVE TESSA WENT TO THE HOUSE NEAR 168 00:08:30,931 --> 00:08:33,896 WHERE THE PIZZA WAS ORDERED AND ATTEMPTED TO MAKE DELIVERY. 169 00:08:33,896 --> 00:08:41,758 ♪♪ 170 00:08:41,758 --> 00:08:46,379 Kenda: AS THEY'RE APPROACHING THIS OTHER HOME... 171 00:08:46,379 --> 00:08:47,517 LOOK AT THIS! 172 00:08:47,517 --> 00:08:48,965 Kenda: PLOTT SEES SOMETHING IN THE GRASS 173 00:08:48,965 --> 00:08:51,241 THAT DRAWS HIS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. 174 00:08:51,241 --> 00:08:53,137 THERE WAS A SMALL AMOUNT OF BLOOD 175 00:08:53,137 --> 00:08:56,310 FOUND IN THE BACKYARD OF THIS HOUSE 176 00:08:56,310 --> 00:09:01,344 AND WAS MOST LIKELY WHERE TESSA WAS MURDERED. 177 00:09:01,344 --> 00:09:04,586 Kenda: SO NOW THE FOCUS IS THIS HOUSE. 178 00:09:04,586 --> 00:09:07,482 WHO IS IN THERE WITH THE LIGHTS ON? 179 00:09:07,482 --> 00:09:11,413 BECAUSE THERE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A HOMICIDE IN YOUR BACKYARD. 180 00:09:17,103 --> 00:09:21,827 ♪♪ 181 00:09:21,827 --> 00:09:23,793 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ON CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND 182 00:09:23,793 --> 00:09:27,655 HAS DISCOVERED A HOMICIDE ON THIS VERY SMALL ISLAND 183 00:09:27,655 --> 00:09:31,275 WHERE THEY'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS. 184 00:09:31,275 --> 00:09:33,758 Plo CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND IS A SMALL COMMUNITY 185 00:09:33,758 --> 00:09:36,586 ON VIRGINIA'S EASTERN SHORE. 186 00:09:36,586 --> 00:09:39,517 ♪♪ 187 00:09:39,517 --> 00:09:43,379 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. 188 00:09:43,379 --> 00:09:45,517 A LOT OF FAMILIES COME HERE FOR THE SUMMER. 189 00:09:45,517 --> 00:09:47,862 [ BIRDS CALLING ] 190 00:09:47,862 --> 00:09:50,551 [ HORSE BLUSTERS ] 191 00:09:50,551 --> 00:09:52,862 BUT IN THE WINTER, 192 00:09:52,862 --> 00:09:54,137 IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLACE. 193 00:09:54,137 --> 00:09:58,379 ♪♪ 194 00:09:58,379 --> 00:10:02,137 AND NOW, DETECTIVE DANNY PLOT HAS DISCOVERED A CRIME SCENE 195 00:10:02,137 --> 00:10:05,586 IN THE BACKYARD OF AN OCCUPIED HOME. 196 00:10:05,586 --> 00:10:09,275 NOW DETECTIVES NEED TO SPEAK TO WHOEVER IT IS THAT'S IN THERE. 197 00:10:09,275 --> 00:10:17,758 ♪♪ 198 00:10:17,758 --> 00:10:19,793 STATE POLICE OPEN UP. 199 00:10:19,793 --> 00:10:24,655 ♪♪ 200 00:10:24,655 --> 00:10:25,793 WHAT DO YOU WANT? 201 00:10:25,793 --> 00:10:27,655 THE HOUSE WAS OCCUPIED BY A MAN. 202 00:10:27,655 --> 00:10:29,965 HE WAS NOT COOPERATING WITH QUESTIONING. 203 00:10:29,965 --> 00:10:32,172 HE SAID HE DID ORDER A PIZZA. 204 00:10:32,172 --> 00:10:34,413 -GET OFF MY PROPERTY. -SIR, WE -- 205 00:10:34,413 --> 00:10:36,517 WE STILL NEED TO ASK YOU A FEW QUESTIONS. 206 00:10:36,517 --> 00:10:39,517 WHEN PLOTT ENCOUNTERS THIS RESISTIVE PERSONALITY 207 00:10:39,517 --> 00:10:42,206 WHO HAS A CRIME SCENE IN HIS BACKYARD, 208 00:10:42,206 --> 00:10:45,000 IT MAKES HIM A PRIME SUSPECT. 209 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,206 YOU DIDN'T SEE OR HEAR ANYTHING THIS EVENING? 210 00:10:47,206 --> 00:10:48,689 THIS EVEN THIS GUY WAS DIFFERENT. 211 00:10:48,689 --> 00:10:49,931 HE WAS HINKY. 212 00:10:49,931 --> 00:10:52,379 NOW THERE IS A STORM AND THAT'S TRUE. 213 00:10:52,379 --> 00:10:56,413 COULD IT HAVE OBSCURED THINGS, NOISE OR HEARING SOMETHING? 214 00:10:56,413 --> 00:10:59,448 YEAH, IT COULD, BUT IT STILL SEEMS RATHER ODD. 215 00:10:59,448 --> 00:11:01,068 IT'S OKAY TO BE ODD. 216 00:11:01,068 --> 00:11:04,241 IT'S ALARMING WHEN YOU'RE ODD STANDING NEXT TO A CRIME SCENE 217 00:11:04,241 --> 00:11:05,724 WHERE SOMEONE HAS BEEN MURDERED. 218 00:11:05,724 --> 00:11:06,827 THAT'S A DIFFERENT PROBLEM. 219 00:11:06,827 --> 00:11:09,448 YOU MIND IF WE SEARCH YOUR YARD FOR EVIDENCE? 220 00:11:09,448 --> 00:11:11,034 BE MY GUEST. 221 00:11:11,034 --> 00:11:13,344 WELL, THAT'S NOT ALL WE'D LIKE TO DO. 222 00:11:13,344 --> 00:11:17,137 A POLYGRAPH WAS SUGGESTED AND I BELIEVE HIS STATEMENT WAS, 223 00:11:17,137 --> 00:11:19,655 "IF I TAKE A POLYGRAPH AND PASS IT, 224 00:11:19,655 --> 00:11:21,379 WILL YOU LEAVE ME ALONE?" 225 00:11:21,379 --> 00:11:23,586 AND OF COURSE, WE SAID ABSOLUTELY. 226 00:11:23,586 --> 00:11:29,482 ♪♪ 227 00:11:29,482 --> 00:11:32,517 AFTER WE ESTABLISHED THIS HOUSE AS A CRIME SCENE, 228 00:11:32,517 --> 00:11:37,275 OUR FORENSIC TECHS DID THE BEST THEY COULD TO EXAMINE IT. 229 00:11:37,275 --> 00:11:40,172 WHEN TESSA HAD BEEN ASSAULTED AND MURDERED, 230 00:11:40,172 --> 00:11:42,551 IT WAS COLD AND IT WAS RAINING. 231 00:11:42,551 --> 00:11:45,206 WE KNEW OUR EVIDENCE COULD BE WASHED AWAY. 232 00:11:45,206 --> 00:11:47,896 ♪♪ 233 00:11:47,896 --> 00:11:52,448 THEY PHOTOGRAPH, THEY MEASURE, THEY DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN DO, 234 00:11:52,448 --> 00:11:55,931 BUT THE CONDITIONS MAKE IT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE 235 00:11:55,931 --> 00:11:59,724 TO HAVE ANYTHING OF VALUE COME OUT OF THAT EXAMINATION. 236 00:11:59,724 --> 00:12:02,862 HOWEVER, DETECTIVE PLOTT IS NOT GIVING UP. 237 00:12:02,862 --> 00:12:05,206 HE HAS ONE MORE TACTIC HE CAN DEPLOY. 238 00:12:05,206 --> 00:12:08,034 ♪♪ 239 00:12:08,034 --> 00:12:12,310 POLICE CANINES ARE OFTEN USED TO SEARCH CRIME SCENE AREAS, 240 00:12:12,310 --> 00:12:17,241 THE OLFACTORY SENSES OF A DOG ARE 600 TIMES THAT OF A HUMAN. 241 00:12:17,241 --> 00:12:19,413 THEY SMELL THINGS THAT HUMANS DON'T EVEN NOTICE. 242 00:12:19,413 --> 00:12:23,482 ♪♪ 243 00:12:23,482 --> 00:12:25,758 EVERY DOG HAS A DIFFERENT ALERT SIGNAL... 244 00:12:25,758 --> 00:12:30,000 ♪♪ 245 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:35,275 ...WHEN THEY FIND SOMETHING OF INTEREST, 246 00:12:35,275 --> 00:12:38,241 SOMETHING DOESN'T BELONG HERE. 247 00:12:38,241 --> 00:12:39,896 Woman: SIR! 248 00:12:39,896 --> 00:12:48,448 ♪♪ 249 00:12:48,448 --> 00:12:53,620 WE WERE ABLE TO RECOVER A .22 CALIBER SHELL CASING. 250 00:12:53,620 --> 00:12:57,000 WE WEREN'T SURE, BUT WE BELIEVE WAS PART OF THE CRIME. 251 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,344 Kenda: THAT CASING BECOMES VERY IMPORTANT. 252 00:12:59,344 --> 00:13:00,758 IT'S NOW PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 253 00:13:00,758 --> 00:13:03,241 THAT COULD LINK THEM TO A HOMICIDE WEAPON. 254 00:13:03,241 --> 00:13:07,068 ♪♪ 255 00:13:07,068 --> 00:13:09,379 WE TOOK THIS GUY TO OUR HEADQUARTERS 256 00:13:09,379 --> 00:13:13,206 IN CHESAPEAKE, VIRGINIA, WHICH WAS ABOUT TWO HOURS AWAY. 257 00:13:13,206 --> 00:13:15,413 MR. PEREZ IS NOW IN A POLICE STATION 258 00:13:15,413 --> 00:13:17,241 AND NOT THE COMFORT OF HIS OWN HOME. 259 00:13:17,241 --> 00:13:19,137 I DON'T KNOW HOW THE BLOOD GOT IN MY YARD. 260 00:13:19,137 --> 00:13:20,517 I'M BEING HONEST. 261 00:13:20,517 --> 00:13:24,344 ♪♪ 262 00:13:24,344 --> 00:13:26,172 Plo SO HE TOOK THE POLYGRAPH. 263 00:13:26,172 --> 00:13:32,310 ♪♪ 264 00:13:32,310 --> 00:13:34,586 HE PASSED THE POLYGRAPH. 265 00:13:34,586 --> 00:13:38,275 THERE WAS NO SIGNS THAT HE WAS DECEPTIVE IN ANY WAY. 266 00:13:38,275 --> 00:13:41,620 WHAT SEEMS LIKE A PROMISING LEAD JUST EVAPORATED. 267 00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:47,068 WHAT THAT DOES FOR PLOTT, IT TAKES HIM BACK TO SQUARE ONE. 268 00:13:47,068 --> 00:13:49,379 CAN I ASK YOU ONE MORE THING BEFORE YOU GO? 269 00:13:49,379 --> 00:13:51,137 WHAT? 270 00:13:51,137 --> 00:13:54,206 Plo WE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR. 271 00:13:54,206 --> 00:13:56,965 WHO OWNS IT? WAS THERE SOMEONE THERE? 272 00:13:56,965 --> 00:13:58,344 Kenda: PEREZ EXPLAINS HIS NEIGHBORS... 273 00:13:58,344 --> 00:13:59,586 NEIGHBORS ARE ALREADY GONE. 274 00:13:59,586 --> 00:14:01,000 Kenda: ...THEY'RE FROM ANOTHER STATE. 275 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,551 THEY ONLY COME IN THE SUMMER. 276 00:14:02,551 --> 00:14:04,620 HE HASN'T SEEN THEM SINCE LABOR DAY. 277 00:14:04,620 --> 00:14:08,206 NOBODY'S AROUND THAT PROPERTY. THEY DON'T RENT IT OUT. 278 00:14:08,206 --> 00:14:11,689 SOMEBODY DIDN'T ORDER A PIZZA FROM THIS HOUSE. 279 00:14:11,689 --> 00:14:14,793 SO PLOTT'S ELIMINATED TWO THINGS -- 280 00:14:14,793 --> 00:14:17,482 THE OWNERS OF THIS PROPERTY AND MR. PEREZ. 281 00:14:17,482 --> 00:14:22,379 NOW WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE PLOTT? AS IF HE WAS JUST ARRIVING. 282 00:14:22,379 --> 00:14:23,724 HE DOESN'T KNOW ANY MORE THAN HE DID. 283 00:14:23,724 --> 00:14:31,655 ♪♪ 284 00:14:31,655 --> 00:14:34,103 THE BEST EVIDENCE NOW CAN BE FOUND 285 00:14:34,103 --> 00:14:35,517 ON THE REMAINS OF THE VICTIM. 286 00:14:35,517 --> 00:14:37,586 Plo DR. BUSH. 287 00:14:37,586 --> 00:14:39,724 AUTOPSIES ARE EXTREMELY USEFUL. 288 00:14:39,724 --> 00:14:41,827 WHEN YOU FIND A DECEASED PERSON, 289 00:14:41,827 --> 00:14:45,758 WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT HAPPENED. 290 00:14:45,758 --> 00:14:48,103 WERE THEY SHOT OR STAB SOME PLACE 291 00:14:48,103 --> 00:14:50,172 IS NOT READILY APPARENT? 292 00:14:50,172 --> 00:14:53,000 Kenda: PLOTT LEARNS THIS GIRL HAD BEEN BEATEN. 293 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,068 SHE SHOWS EVIDENCE OF BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA TO THE FACE 294 00:14:56,068 --> 00:15:00,206 AND TO THE CHEST WHERE SHE'S BEEN PUNCHED AND/OR KICKED. 295 00:15:00,206 --> 00:15:02,448 THE CORONER ALSO DETERMINES THAT THERE'S EVIDENCE 296 00:15:02,448 --> 00:15:04,413 OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEMINAL FLUID 297 00:15:04,413 --> 00:15:07,724 HAS BEEN RECOVERED FROM THE VICTIM. 298 00:15:07,724 --> 00:15:10,965 DR. BUSH SAID THAT SHE DIED FROM EITHER 299 00:15:10,965 --> 00:15:14,758 ONE OF TWO GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE BACK OF HER HEAD. 300 00:15:14,758 --> 00:15:17,551 BOTH WERE .22 CALIBER ROUNDS, 301 00:15:17,551 --> 00:15:20,724 WHICH WAS WHAT WE FOUND IN THE BACKYARD. 302 00:15:20,724 --> 00:15:22,482 THANKS, DR. BUSH. 303 00:15:22,482 --> 00:15:32,241 ♪♪ 304 00:15:32,241 --> 00:15:34,689 Kenda: SO NOW WE KNOW MORE THAN WE DID KNOW. 305 00:15:34,689 --> 00:15:37,413 SOMEONE ORDERS A PIZZA, 306 00:15:37,413 --> 00:15:40,206 OUR VICTIM ARRIVES TO DELIVER SAME, 307 00:15:40,206 --> 00:15:43,896 ENCOUNTERS HER ATTACKER, WHO THEN RAPES HER, 308 00:15:43,896 --> 00:15:47,137 AND THEN KILLS HER WITH A .22 CALIBER WEAPON. 309 00:15:47,137 --> 00:15:49,344 THIS INDICATES A PLAN. 310 00:15:49,344 --> 00:15:51,172 HE DOESN'T HAVE A WEAPON OF OPPORTUNITY. 311 00:15:51,172 --> 00:15:54,413 HE BRINGS A WEAPON BECAUSE HE INTENDS TO USE IT. 312 00:15:54,413 --> 00:15:58,206 ♪♪ 313 00:15:58,206 --> 00:16:02,724 Plo WE BEGAN TO LOOK AT ANYONE ON THE ISLAND. 314 00:16:02,724 --> 00:16:06,310 WAS THERE SOMEONE THAT WAS INFATUATED WITH HER? 315 00:16:06,310 --> 00:16:08,517 WAS THERE SOMEONE THAT WAS STALKING HER? 316 00:16:08,517 --> 00:16:10,793 BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE A SUSPECT, 317 00:16:10,793 --> 00:16:13,655 EVERYONE WAS A POSSIBLE PLAYER. 318 00:16:13,655 --> 00:16:17,379 Kenda: SO WHO IS THIS PERSON? 319 00:16:17,379 --> 00:16:20,655 WHO IS THE SHADOW IN THE RAIN? 320 00:16:20,655 --> 00:16:23,896 WE WERE ALMOST POSITIVE THAT SOMEONE HAD TO KNOW 321 00:16:23,896 --> 00:16:27,551 THEIR WAY AROUND THIS ISLAND TO DO THIS, 322 00:16:27,551 --> 00:16:30,275 TO KNOW WHERE TESSA WOULD GO 323 00:16:30,275 --> 00:16:33,172 AND BASICALLY LIE IN WAIT. 324 00:16:33,172 --> 00:16:36,172 WE THOUGHT WE WOULD FIND THIS PERSON PRETTY QUICKLY. 325 00:16:36,172 --> 00:16:39,586 ♪♪ 326 00:16:39,586 --> 00:16:41,827 Kenda: SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE PIZZA SHOP. 327 00:16:41,827 --> 00:16:45,000 LET'S TALK TO ALL THE EMPLOYEES, ALL THE COWORKERS, 328 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,586 AND SEE WHAT CAN BE LEARNED. 329 00:16:46,586 --> 00:16:48,379 YOU WERE WORKING WITH TESSA THE NIGHT OF THE INCIDENT. 330 00:16:48,379 --> 00:16:49,931 YEAH. 331 00:16:49,931 --> 00:16:53,965 THE GIRL THAT TOOK THE CALL WAS JUST WRACKED WITH GUILT 332 00:16:53,965 --> 00:16:57,896 AS IF IT WAS HER THAT SENT TESSA OUT TO BE MURDERED, 333 00:16:57,896 --> 00:16:59,379 WHICH, OF COURSE, SHE HAD NOT. 334 00:16:59,379 --> 00:17:01,827 WE ASK, WHAT'D HE SOUND LIKE? 335 00:17:01,827 --> 00:17:04,068 DID HE SOUND OLD? DID HE SOUND YOUNG? 336 00:17:04,068 --> 00:17:05,172 I DON'T KNOW. 337 00:17:05,172 --> 00:17:06,620 ALL SHE REALLY TOLD US WAS 338 00:17:06,620 --> 00:17:09,551 HE SOUNDED LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE THAT CALLED HERE. 339 00:17:09,551 --> 00:17:10,931 SHE'S TELLING THE TRUTH, 340 00:17:10,931 --> 00:17:13,241 BUT IT'S NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR. 341 00:17:13,241 --> 00:17:16,896 DID HE ASK FOR TESSA OR IF SHE WAS WORKING? 342 00:17:16,896 --> 00:17:20,482 SEVERAL PEOPLE DELIVERED PIZZAS FROM THAT PLACE. 343 00:17:20,482 --> 00:17:22,931 HOW DID THIS PERSON KNOW THAT TESSA 344 00:17:22,931 --> 00:17:25,517 WAS GOING TO DELIVER THE PIZZA? 345 00:17:25,517 --> 00:17:28,000 SO YOU ALSO DELIVER PIZZA FOR THE SHOP? 346 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,931 WE WENT AS FAR AS TO ASK THE FEMALE DELIVERY DRIVERS, 347 00:17:31,931 --> 00:17:34,827 ESPECIALLY, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SOMEPLACE 348 00:17:34,827 --> 00:17:37,758 THAT THE HAIR STANDS UP ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK 349 00:17:37,758 --> 00:17:39,586 WHEN THIS PERSON ANSWERS THE DOOR. 350 00:17:39,586 --> 00:17:43,241 PEOPLE INSTINCTUALLY KNOW SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR 351 00:17:43,241 --> 00:17:44,758 WHEN THEY SEE IT. 352 00:17:44,758 --> 00:17:47,793 YOU DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT. IT DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT. 353 00:17:47,793 --> 00:17:49,034 IT DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT. 354 00:17:49,034 --> 00:17:51,448 IT STRIKES YOU AS A LITTLE BIT SCARY. 355 00:17:51,448 --> 00:17:53,586 THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS. 356 00:17:53,586 --> 00:17:57,241 THERE'S THIS ONE GUY THAT HE'S KIND OF OFF. 357 00:17:57,241 --> 00:18:00,620 SHE HAD DELIVERED A PIZZA TO THIS MAN BEFORE 358 00:18:00,620 --> 00:18:05,275 AND HE TRIED SEVERAL TIMES TO GET HER TO COME INSIDE. 359 00:18:05,275 --> 00:18:07,482 HE JUST GAVE ME THE CREEPS. 360 00:18:07,482 --> 00:18:09,827 WELL, THAT'S INTERESTING, MY DEAR, 361 00:18:09,827 --> 00:18:12,655 BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKING FOR A REALLY CREEPY GUY. 362 00:18:12,655 --> 00:18:17,655 THIS GUY APPEARED TO BE A GOOD SUSPECT. 363 00:18:17,655 --> 00:18:21,931 THIS EMPLOYEE IDENTIFIES A CUSTOMER THAT FRIGHTENED HER, 364 00:18:21,931 --> 00:18:24,482 MADE HER FEEL VULNERABLE, 365 00:18:24,482 --> 00:18:29,172 MADE HER UNCOMFORTABLE TO BE AROUND HIM. 366 00:18:29,172 --> 00:18:32,620 WHAT IF THIS PREDATOR MAKES THESE CALLS ALL THE TIME, 367 00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:36,482 GETTING UP THE NERVE, TRYING TO DECIDE HOW TO DO THIS? 368 00:18:36,482 --> 00:18:39,034 HE'S NOT ASKING TO HAVE A PIZZA DELIVERED. 369 00:18:39,034 --> 00:18:41,862 HE'S ASKING TO HAVE A VICTIM DELIVERED. 370 00:18:41,862 --> 00:18:43,137 WE NEED TO TALK TO THIS GUY. 371 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:51,862 ♪♪ 372 00:18:51,862 --> 00:18:55,241 DANNY PLOTT OF THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE IS ON THE SEARCH 373 00:18:55,241 --> 00:18:58,655 FOR A SUSPECT AND A COWORKER OF TESSA VANHART 374 00:18:58,655 --> 00:19:00,586 MAY HAVE JUST PROVIDED ONE. 375 00:19:00,586 --> 00:19:05,206 SHE SAID THIS GUY WAS DIFFERENT, THAT HE GAVE PEOPLE THE CREEPS. 376 00:19:05,206 --> 00:19:09,275 THE EMPLOYEE IDENTIFIES THIS PERSON AS MATTHEW BIRCH. 377 00:19:09,275 --> 00:19:11,758 HE IS A UNITED STATES COAST GUARDSMEN 378 00:19:11,758 --> 00:19:15,068 ASSIGNED TO THE STATION ON CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND. 379 00:19:15,068 --> 00:19:17,482 Plo SO WE WENT TO THE COAST GUARD. 380 00:19:17,482 --> 00:19:20,482 THEIR COMMANDS ARE USUALLY VERY COOPERATIVE. 381 00:19:20,482 --> 00:19:23,379 THEY CERTAINLY DON'T WANT ANY MEMBER OF THEIR COMMAND 382 00:19:23,379 --> 00:19:26,862 TO BE INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. 383 00:19:26,862 --> 00:19:29,310 MATT, WE APPRECIATE YOU SITTING DOWN WITH US. 384 00:19:29,310 --> 00:19:30,965 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO TALK TO ME FOR. 385 00:19:30,965 --> 00:19:33,689 I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING WRONG. 386 00:19:33,689 --> 00:19:36,206 Kenda: BIRCH'S BODY LANGUAGE AND HIS DEMEANOR 387 00:19:36,206 --> 00:19:38,793 POINT OUT THAT HE IS NERVOUS. 388 00:19:38,793 --> 00:19:41,482 HE DOESN'T MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH PLOTT. 389 00:19:41,482 --> 00:19:45,448 WHENEVER WE HAD SOMEONE THAT APPEARED TO BE A GOOD SUSPECT, 390 00:19:45,448 --> 00:19:47,689 WE DID OUR BEST TO REMIND EACH OTHER 391 00:19:47,689 --> 00:19:53,655 NOT TO GET TUNNEL VISION BECAUSE A PERSON FITS A LITTLE BIT. 392 00:19:53,655 --> 00:19:57,620 -YOU LIVE OFF BASE, MATT? -I DO. 393 00:19:57,620 --> 00:19:59,551 YOU DON'T WANT TO ACCUSE ANYBODY OF ANYTHING 394 00:19:59,551 --> 00:20:02,689 BECAUSE THAT MAKES THEM SHUT UP, YOU ASK QUESTIONS. 395 00:20:02,689 --> 00:20:04,068 DO YOU LIKE PIZZA, MR. BIRCH? 396 00:20:04,068 --> 00:20:06,344 DO YOU ORDER PIZZA FROM THE LOCAL SHOP? 397 00:20:06,344 --> 00:20:08,241 YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT MOTIVE THAN PIZZA, 398 00:20:08,241 --> 00:20:09,344 BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT. 399 00:20:09,344 --> 00:20:12,758 WE FINALLY SAID, "HAVE YOU EVER OFFERED 400 00:20:12,758 --> 00:20:14,896 THE PIZZA DELIVERY TO COME INSIDE?" 401 00:20:14,896 --> 00:20:19,172 "WELL, YEAH. YEAH, I OFFERED TO SHARE THE PIZZA WITH THEM." 402 00:20:19,172 --> 00:20:20,344 HOW ABOUT TESSA VANHART? 403 00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:23,206 HAVE YOU EVER ASKED HER TO COME INSIDE? 404 00:20:23,206 --> 00:20:26,862 I DON'T KNOW. PROBABLY. SO WHAT? 405 00:20:26,862 --> 00:20:29,275 HE GOT A LITTLE BIT MORE IRRITATED 406 00:20:29,275 --> 00:20:31,758 AS WE START TO HONE IN ON WHERE WERE YOU? 407 00:20:31,758 --> 00:20:35,103 HE REALIZES, "THEY'RE AFTER ME." 408 00:20:35,103 --> 00:20:37,689 MATT, CAN YOU TELL US WHERE YOU WERE THE NIGHT SHE WAS KILLED? 409 00:20:37,689 --> 00:20:41,862 I WASN'T AROUND. I WAS VISITING SOME FRIENDS IN MARYLAND. 410 00:20:41,862 --> 00:20:44,000 CAN YOU PROVE IT? 411 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,758 I PROBABLY HAVE SOME CREDIT CARD RECEIPTS. 412 00:20:45,758 --> 00:20:52,275 ♪♪ 413 00:20:52,275 --> 00:20:56,206 WE WERE ABLE TO EXCLUDE HIM BECAUSE HE WAS NOT PRESENT 414 00:20:56,206 --> 00:20:59,827 ON THE ISLAND THAT NIGHT. 415 00:20:59,827 --> 00:21:01,758 THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD 416 00:21:01,758 --> 00:21:05,551 AND THIS GUY WAS VERY DIFFERENT, BUT HE WAS NOT TESSA'S KILLER. 417 00:21:05,551 --> 00:21:13,482 ♪♪ 418 00:21:13,482 --> 00:21:16,034 Kenda: SO THEY CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE. 419 00:21:16,034 --> 00:21:18,034 PLOTT AND HIS ASSOCIATES 420 00:21:18,034 --> 00:21:21,137 PRACTICALLY MOVED ON TO CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND. 421 00:21:21,137 --> 00:21:25,310 Plo ...PAPERWORK IN THERE. 422 00:21:25,310 --> 00:21:28,172 WE ESTABLISHED A COMMAND POST 423 00:21:28,172 --> 00:21:30,758 AND WE BROUGHT MULTIPLE SPECIAL AGENTS IN 424 00:21:30,758 --> 00:21:33,724 TO RUN DOWN LEADS AND DO INTERVIEWS. 425 00:21:33,724 --> 00:21:35,275 I WANT YOU AND YOUR TEAM 426 00:21:35,275 --> 00:21:37,413 COVERING THIS ENTIRE NORTH SIDE OF THE ISLAND. 427 00:21:37,413 --> 00:21:40,655 SO BECAUSE IT IS SMALL AND PEOPLE TEND TO KNOW 428 00:21:40,655 --> 00:21:42,448 A LOT ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE, 429 00:21:42,448 --> 00:21:45,931 PLOTT AND OTHER OFFICERS BEGIN TO CANVASS EVERY RESIDENT. 430 00:21:45,931 --> 00:21:49,448 ♪♪ 431 00:21:49,448 --> 00:21:53,655 WE TALK TO SO MANY PEOPLE, SOME EX-BOYFRIENDS. 432 00:21:53,655 --> 00:21:56,482 I'M WITH POLICE DEPARTMENT. MAN, SORRY TO WAKE YOU UP. 433 00:21:56,482 --> 00:21:59,241 I BELIEVE WE TALKED TO AN EX-GIRLFRIEND 434 00:21:59,241 --> 00:22:00,551 OF THE HUSBAND. 435 00:22:00,551 --> 00:22:01,689 GOOD MORNING, MA'AM. 436 00:22:01,689 --> 00:22:04,413 BUT THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THERE. 437 00:22:04,413 --> 00:22:10,448 ♪♪ 438 00:22:10,448 --> 00:22:13,241 WE ARE BACK FROM FORENSICS ABOUT TESSA'S CAR. 439 00:22:13,241 --> 00:22:15,000 FORENSIC TECHNICIANS 440 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,620 WENT THROUGH THE CAR TOP TO BOTTOM 441 00:22:16,620 --> 00:22:20,655 TO TRY TO FIND ANYTHING, BUT THE CAR DID NOT GIVE US 442 00:22:20,655 --> 00:22:23,862 ENOUGH LEADS TO FIND WHO HAD DONE THIS. 443 00:22:23,862 --> 00:22:28,000 IT WAS TERRIBLY FRUSTRATING AND WE FELT PRESSURE. 444 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,758 I THINK IT'S PROBABLY MORE PRESSURE 445 00:22:29,758 --> 00:22:31,482 THAT WE BROUGHT ON OURSELVES 446 00:22:31,482 --> 00:22:33,620 THAT WE NEED TO KNOW WHO KILLED THIS YOUNG MOTHER. 447 00:22:33,620 --> 00:22:39,689 ♪♪ 448 00:22:39,689 --> 00:22:44,448 THERE ARE OCCASIONS WHEN A MURDERER ISN'T SKILLFUL, 449 00:22:44,448 --> 00:22:46,172 ISN'T A CRIMINAL GENIUS. 450 00:22:46,172 --> 00:22:47,586 HE'S JUST LUCKY. 451 00:22:47,586 --> 00:22:49,275 NOBODY HEARS HIM, 452 00:22:49,275 --> 00:22:53,206 NOBODY SEES HIM, AND THEY CAN DISAPPEAR. 453 00:22:53,206 --> 00:22:55,793 THE WORLD IS A BIG PLACE. 454 00:22:55,793 --> 00:22:59,137 AND NOW FEAR IS DEEPENING. 455 00:22:59,137 --> 00:23:02,827 WHAT IF HE HAS HIS EYE ON SOMEONE ELSE ON THIS ISLAND? 456 00:23:02,827 --> 00:23:05,379 WAS THIS JUST THE START OF SOMETHING HORRIBLE? 457 00:23:05,379 --> 00:23:08,137 IF YOU'RE COLD BLOODED ENOUGH TO DO IT ONCE, 458 00:23:08,137 --> 00:23:10,068 WHAT STOPS YOU FROM DOING IT A SECOND TIME? 459 00:23:10,068 --> 00:23:13,310 ♪♪ 460 00:23:13,310 --> 00:23:16,517 THIS CASE REALLY, REALLY DID SCARE EVERYONE. 461 00:23:16,517 --> 00:23:20,827 ♪♪ 462 00:23:20,827 --> 00:23:22,931 ONCE UPON A TIME, WE LEFT OUR DOORS UNLOCKED 463 00:23:22,931 --> 00:23:25,379 AND I AT MY HOUSE STARTED LOCKING MY DOOR, 464 00:23:25,379 --> 00:23:27,275 WHICH WAS SOMETHING I NEVER DID. 465 00:23:27,275 --> 00:23:29,827 THAT'S JUST NOT WHAT THE ISLAND WAS. 466 00:23:29,827 --> 00:23:30,965 AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WAS. 467 00:23:30,965 --> 00:23:33,068 THERE WAS SOMEONE ON THIS ISLAND, 468 00:23:33,068 --> 00:23:37,689 WE BELIEVED, THAT HAD DONE THIS AND MAY HAVE BEEN WATCHING US 469 00:23:37,689 --> 00:23:41,206 THINKING, "THESE GUYS DON'T HAVE A CLUE." 470 00:23:41,206 --> 00:23:45,931 AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE DIDN'T IN A LOT OF WAYS. 471 00:23:45,931 --> 00:23:50,172 ♪♪ 472 00:23:50,172 --> 00:23:53,793 THEY WORKED THIS CASE EVERY DAY FOR MONTHS, 473 00:23:53,793 --> 00:23:56,137 AND THEY HAVE DEVELOPED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 474 00:23:56,137 --> 00:23:59,931 IN TERMS OF INFORMATION, NOTHING IN TERMS OF A SUSPECT. 475 00:23:59,931 --> 00:24:02,724 THE FAMILY WANTS ANSWERS. 476 00:24:02,724 --> 00:24:06,448 SITTING AND WAITING AND BITING YOUR NAILS A LOT 477 00:24:06,448 --> 00:24:09,758 AND CALLING UP TO THE POLICE STATION TRYING TO GET ANSWERS, 478 00:24:09,758 --> 00:24:11,482 BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE REALLY THE ANSWERS 479 00:24:11,482 --> 00:24:14,413 THAT I WANTED AT THE TIME. 480 00:24:14,413 --> 00:24:18,068 MM. 481 00:24:18,068 --> 00:24:21,275 HOW DO YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR LIFE 482 00:24:21,275 --> 00:24:22,724 WITHOUT HAVING ANY ANSWER 483 00:24:22,724 --> 00:24:26,517 AS TO WHY A HUGE PIECE OF YOUR HEART IS NO LONGER THERE? 484 00:24:26,517 --> 00:24:30,103 IT WAS ALWAYS IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD IF YOUR PHONE RANG, 485 00:24:30,103 --> 00:24:32,689 SOMEBODY KNOCKED ON YOUR DOOR, WAS THAT GONNA BE THE CALL, 486 00:24:32,689 --> 00:24:34,310 THE ANSWER? 487 00:24:34,310 --> 00:24:37,482 I GOT TWO LITTLE ONES AT HOME I'M TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF. 488 00:24:37,482 --> 00:24:39,586 I HAD TO STEP U, YOU KNOW, 489 00:24:39,586 --> 00:24:43,379 'CAUSE THEY WERE MY INSPIRATION TO KEEP ME GOING. 490 00:24:43,379 --> 00:24:48,068 ♪♪ 491 00:24:48,068 --> 00:24:51,310 Plo THE LEADS WERE STARTING TO DRY UP. 492 00:24:51,310 --> 00:24:55,103 AT FIRST, WE JUST CAME BACK DURING THE WEEK FOR A WHILE, 493 00:24:55,103 --> 00:24:58,413 THEN WE WOULD COME BACK EVERY OTHER WEEK. 494 00:24:58,413 --> 00:25:01,965 AND THEN FINALLY, THE CASE IS CLASSIFIED AS INACTIVE, 495 00:25:01,965 --> 00:25:04,862 PENDING FURTHER LEADS. 496 00:25:04,862 --> 00:25:06,758 I DON'T KNOW HOW BEST TO DESCRIBE IT. 497 00:25:06,758 --> 00:25:10,689 ♪♪ 498 00:25:10,689 --> 00:25:12,551 IT WAS DISAPPOINTING TO ALL OF US. 499 00:25:12,551 --> 00:25:18,793 ♪♪ 500 00:25:18,793 --> 00:25:21,034 AFTER A WHILE, I HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED 501 00:25:21,034 --> 00:25:24,034 TO THE FUGITIVE APPREHENSION UNIT. 502 00:25:24,034 --> 00:25:25,379 HEY, DANNY. 503 00:25:25,379 --> 00:25:26,931 JIM GRABBED ME ONE DAY IN THE OFFICE. 504 00:25:26,931 --> 00:25:28,310 HE WAS, LIKE, REALLY EXCITED. 505 00:25:28,310 --> 00:25:30,137 FINALLY HAVE SOMETHING. 506 00:25:30,137 --> 00:25:34,586 A PHONE CALL COMES IN THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING. 507 00:25:34,586 --> 00:25:38,241 HE SAID, "WE HAVE A LEAD ON TESSA'S MURDER." 508 00:25:38,241 --> 00:25:40,344 AND I SAID, "NO BLANK." 509 00:25:40,344 --> 00:25:41,793 ALL OF A SUDDEN, 510 00:25:41,793 --> 00:25:44,137 EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CASE IS BACK ON THE FRONT BURNER. 511 00:25:52,827 --> 00:25:54,413 Kenda: FOR TWO YEARS, 512 00:25:54,413 --> 00:25:56,724 THE MURDER OF 23-YEAR-OLD TESSA VANHART 513 00:25:56,724 --> 00:25:59,689 HAS GONE UNSOLVED. 514 00:25:59,689 --> 00:26:02,482 NOTHING HAS COME OF THIS CASE. 515 00:26:02,482 --> 00:26:07,137 NOW, A PHONE CALL BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO THIS INVESTIGATION. 516 00:26:07,137 --> 00:26:12,344 THE LEAD THAT CAME TO LIGHT WAS A MAN NAMED BRIAN CHERRIX. 517 00:26:12,344 --> 00:26:13,896 Kenda: THIS PERSON IS AN INMATE 518 00:26:13,896 --> 00:26:16,551 CURRENTLY CHARGED IN A NUMBER OF CRIMES. 519 00:26:16,551 --> 00:26:19,827 HE REVEALS A CONFESSION THAT WAS MADE TO HIM 520 00:26:19,827 --> 00:26:22,758 ABOUT THE MURDER OF TESSA VANHART. 521 00:26:22,758 --> 00:26:26,137 MR. CHERRIX WAS WILLING TO GIVE THIS INFORMATION 522 00:26:26,137 --> 00:26:28,689 IF THERE WOULD BE LENIENCY SHOWN IN THE CRIME 523 00:26:28,689 --> 00:26:30,068 HE WAS ACCUSED OF. 524 00:26:30,068 --> 00:26:33,275 THIS IS A COMMON THING THAT HAPPENS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT. 525 00:26:33,275 --> 00:26:36,793 YOU MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL WHERE SOME INMATE 526 00:26:36,793 --> 00:26:40,068 KNOWS ABOUT A CRIME, WANTS SOMETHING IN RETURN, 527 00:26:40,068 --> 00:26:43,275 KNOWING THEY CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH SOMETHING YOU WANT. 528 00:26:43,275 --> 00:26:45,172 UNFORTUNATELY, THE GREATER PERCENT 529 00:26:45,172 --> 00:26:47,310 OF THEM DON'T EVER PAN OUT. 530 00:26:47,310 --> 00:26:49,241 ♪♪ 531 00:26:49,241 --> 00:26:52,241 [ BUZZER ] 532 00:26:52,241 --> 00:27:00,206 ♪♪ 533 00:27:00,206 --> 00:27:05,310 MY UNDERSTANDING, YOU HAVE SOME INFORMATION FOR US. 534 00:27:05,310 --> 00:27:07,517 I HAD A STANDARD APPROACH IN DEALING WITH PEOPLE 535 00:27:07,517 --> 00:27:09,517 LIKE THAT, I WOULD TELL THEM THIS, 536 00:27:09,517 --> 00:27:12,310 SO YOU HAVE LESS THAN A MINUTE TO TELL ME SOMETHING 537 00:27:12,310 --> 00:27:13,517 I DON'T KNOW. 538 00:27:13,517 --> 00:27:15,931 AND IF YOU CAN'T TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW, 539 00:27:15,931 --> 00:27:17,172 YOU'RE OF NO USE TO ME 540 00:27:17,172 --> 00:27:20,620 AND YOU CAN ROT IN THIS PRISON UNTIL YOU DIE. 541 00:27:20,620 --> 00:27:23,551 IT WAS MY COUSIN RYAN BERGMAN. 542 00:27:23,551 --> 00:27:25,758 HOW EXACTLY YOU KNOW THAT? 543 00:27:25,758 --> 00:27:27,862 HE TOLD ME ALL ABOUT IT. 544 00:27:27,862 --> 00:27:29,896 THIS IS BLOOD TO MR. CHERRIX, 545 00:27:29,896 --> 00:27:32,344 NOT SOMEBODY HE RAN ACROSS IN A JAIL SOMEWHERE. 546 00:27:32,344 --> 00:27:35,137 THAT MAKES IT EVEN MORE PROMISING. 547 00:27:35,137 --> 00:27:36,620 YOU WANT A DEAL? 548 00:27:36,620 --> 00:27:38,068 WE'RE GONNA BE A LOT MORE THAN THAT. 549 00:27:38,068 --> 00:27:41,241 I KNOW DETAILS. I KNOW EVERYTHING. 550 00:27:41,241 --> 00:27:45,344 CHERRIX SAID HIS COUSIN TOLD HIM THAT HE HAD 551 00:27:45,344 --> 00:27:48,137 LURED HER TO DELIVER A PIZZA 552 00:27:48,137 --> 00:27:50,896 AND HAD GRABBED HER, SODOMIZED HER, 553 00:27:50,896 --> 00:27:54,448 AND THAT HE HAD SHOT HER WITH A .22 RIFLE. 554 00:27:54,448 --> 00:27:56,724 Kenda: THAT WAS NEVER RELEASED TO THE PRESS. 555 00:27:56,724 --> 00:27:59,172 SO MR. CHERRIX IS IN POSSESSION OF INFORMATION 556 00:27:59,172 --> 00:28:01,551 THAT MATCHES THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AT THE SCENE 557 00:28:01,551 --> 00:28:04,793 THAT NO ONE COULD POSSIBLY KNOW UNLESS THEY WERE AT THE SCENE. 558 00:28:04,793 --> 00:28:09,689 SO HE IS MORE THAN PROMISING. HE IS AMAZING AT THIS POINT. 559 00:28:09,689 --> 00:28:11,965 WELL, HE TOLD ME WHERE HE PUT THE GUN. 560 00:28:11,965 --> 00:28:16,310 CHERRIX SAID HIS COUSIN THROWS THAT RIFLE IN A BODY OF WATER 561 00:28:16,310 --> 00:28:19,034 THAT ONLY HE KNOWS WHERE IT IS. 562 00:28:19,034 --> 00:28:23,931 SO PLOTT SAYS TO HIM, "GREAT. WHERE CAN I FIND RYAN BERGMAN?" 563 00:28:23,931 --> 00:28:28,448 AND MR. CHERRIX SAYS SOMETHING THE PLOTT IS SHOCKED AT. 564 00:28:28,448 --> 00:28:31,034 THING IS... 565 00:28:31,034 --> 00:28:34,448 HE'S DEAD. -HE'S DEAD? 566 00:28:34,448 --> 00:28:37,896 HE SAYS HE WAS KILLED IN A CAR WRECK LAST YEAR. 567 00:28:37,896 --> 00:28:41,413 AS ELATED AS I WAS, IT WAS TAMPED DOWN BY THE FACT 568 00:28:41,413 --> 00:28:47,000 THAT THE MAN WHO CHERRIX SAID HAD KILLED TESSA WAS DECEASED. 569 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,241 BUT MAYBE THIS MAN MET HIS DEMISE 570 00:28:49,241 --> 00:28:52,758 BECAUSE HE DESERVED IT AFTER WHAT HE DID. 571 00:28:52,758 --> 00:28:54,793 Kenda: THEY DO DETERMINE BERGMAN WAS, IN FACT, 572 00:28:54,793 --> 00:28:57,758 KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT, AS CHERRIX SAID. 573 00:28:57,758 --> 00:28:59,724 BUT YOU CANNOT RELY ON THE STATEMENT. 574 00:28:59,724 --> 00:29:01,275 BERGMAN WAS THE PERPETRATOR. 575 00:29:01,275 --> 00:29:03,586 YOU NEED TO ESTABLISH WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S, IN FACT, TRUE. 576 00:29:03,586 --> 00:29:08,310 ♪♪ 577 00:29:08,310 --> 00:29:14,517 THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE HAVE A WORKING DIVE TEAM STATEWIDE. 578 00:29:14,517 --> 00:29:16,413 TWO DIVERS CAME TO CHINCOTEAGUE 579 00:29:16,413 --> 00:29:19,413 AND THE AREA WHERE THIS WEAPON HAD BEEN THROWN. 580 00:29:19,413 --> 00:29:24,379 ♪♪ 581 00:29:24,379 --> 00:29:27,620 Kenda: WATER DOES BAD THINGS TO METAL OBJECTS, SO IT MAY 582 00:29:27,620 --> 00:29:30,965 OR MAY NOT BE SURVIVABLE AFTER TWO YEARS SUBMERGED. 583 00:29:30,965 --> 00:29:34,620 ♪♪ 584 00:29:34,620 --> 00:29:36,379 BUT IT COULD BE. 585 00:29:36,379 --> 00:29:41,793 ♪♪ 586 00:29:41,793 --> 00:29:44,931 Plo THE DIVERS USUALLY DO A GRID SEARCH. 587 00:29:44,931 --> 00:29:52,620 ♪♪ 588 00:29:52,620 --> 00:29:53,896 THEY CAME OUT. 589 00:29:53,896 --> 00:29:59,206 ♪♪ 590 00:29:59,206 --> 00:30:00,689 AND THEY COULDN'T FIND THE WEAPON. 591 00:30:00,689 --> 00:30:06,620 ♪♪ 592 00:30:06,620 --> 00:30:09,689 WE SPECULATED THAT THE MAN WHO KILLED HER GO BACK 593 00:30:09,689 --> 00:30:12,931 AND GET THE WEAPON, DID HE PUT IT SOMEWHERE ELSE? 594 00:30:12,931 --> 00:30:15,517 AND SO, CHERRIX WAS INTERVIEWED AGAIN. 595 00:30:15,517 --> 00:30:18,586 WHY CAN'T WE FIND THE WEAPON? 596 00:30:18,586 --> 00:30:20,482 WELL, IT'S OUT THERE. 597 00:30:20,482 --> 00:30:21,862 I COULD GO OUT THERE WITH YOU 598 00:30:21,862 --> 00:30:24,137 AND SHOW YOU EXACTLY WHERE IT WAS THROWN. 599 00:30:24,137 --> 00:30:25,793 Kenda: NOW THAT'S INTERESTING. 600 00:30:25,793 --> 00:30:28,827 HOW EXACTLY WOULD YOU KNOW THAT? 601 00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:32,413 WE BEGAN TO THINK, WAS HE THERE DURING THE CRIME? 602 00:30:32,413 --> 00:30:38,793 ♪♪ 603 00:30:38,793 --> 00:30:41,310 SO WE TOOK HIM UP ON HIS OFFER, YOU KNOW, 604 00:30:41,310 --> 00:30:45,551 POINT US WHERE THIS IS. 605 00:30:45,551 --> 00:30:48,206 THIS IS SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE AREA 606 00:30:48,206 --> 00:30:50,413 HE DESCRIBED AS WHERE IT WAS THROWN INITIALLY. 607 00:30:50,413 --> 00:30:54,586 ♪♪ 608 00:30:54,586 --> 00:30:57,379 THE DIVE TEAM GOES IN THE NEW LOCATION... 609 00:30:57,379 --> 00:31:02,724 ♪♪ 610 00:31:02,724 --> 00:31:07,931 ♪♪ 611 00:31:07,931 --> 00:31:10,000 ...AND WITHIN A FEW MINUTES... 612 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:16,034 ♪♪ 613 00:31:16,034 --> 00:31:19,793 ...THEY COME OUT OF THE RIVER WITH A .22 CALIBER RIFLE. 614 00:31:19,793 --> 00:31:23,862 RIGHT WHERE I THOUGHT. 615 00:31:23,862 --> 00:31:28,000 ONCE THE RIFLE WAS RECOVERED, WE WERE ECSTATIC. 616 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,482 CAN WE TEST THE MURDER WEAPON FOR BALLISTICS, WHICH WE COULD. 617 00:31:32,482 --> 00:31:34,689 THE PEOPLE IN THE LABORATORY THAT HAVE THIS WEAPON 618 00:31:34,689 --> 00:31:37,620 TELL PLOTT THE SERIAL NUMBER CANNOT BE READ, 619 00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:40,586 BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO MATCH THE CASING TO THE EXTRACTOR 620 00:31:40,586 --> 00:31:42,241 AND EJECTOR ON THE WEAPON. 621 00:31:42,241 --> 00:31:44,137 THAT IS THE MURDER WEAPON. 622 00:31:44,137 --> 00:31:46,689 WE TRIED TO TRACK WHO OWNED THAT RIFLE 623 00:31:46,689 --> 00:31:51,448 AND WHERE THE RIFLE HAD BEEN AND WE WERE STILL TRYING TO TIE 624 00:31:51,448 --> 00:31:57,137 THE COUSIN THAT CHERRIX MENTIONS TO THE MURDER. 625 00:31:57,137 --> 00:31:59,551 Kenda: PLOTT LEARNS THAT CHERRIX'S EX-WIFE 626 00:31:59,551 --> 00:32:02,068 ALSO KNEW MR. BERGMAN. 627 00:32:02,068 --> 00:32:04,206 THANK YOU FOR MEETING WITH US. 628 00:32:04,206 --> 00:32:07,068 PLOTT EXPLAINS THAT HE IS INVESTIGATING MR. BERGMAN 629 00:32:07,068 --> 00:32:09,931 AS A PERSON POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRIME. 630 00:32:09,931 --> 00:32:12,068 I DON'T THINK HE WOULD EVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 631 00:32:12,068 --> 00:32:15,758 THE EX-WIFE OF MR. CHERRIX SAYS THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO WAY. 632 00:32:15,758 --> 00:32:19,724 BERGMAN IS A GENTLE SOUL. HE'S A NICE PERSON. 633 00:32:19,724 --> 00:32:21,448 BESIDES, HE WASN'T EVEN ON THE ISLAND 634 00:32:21,448 --> 00:32:22,896 WHEN THAT GIRL GOT KILLED. 635 00:32:22,896 --> 00:32:24,103 HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? 636 00:32:24,103 --> 00:32:25,758 I REMEMBER HIM TALKING TO RYAN 637 00:32:25,758 --> 00:32:28,827 ABOUT IT ON THE PHONE THE DAY AFTER IT HAPPENED. 638 00:32:28,827 --> 00:32:31,620 Plo IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT THE COUSIN 639 00:32:31,620 --> 00:32:34,068 COULD NOT HAVE COMMITTED THIS MURDER. 640 00:32:34,068 --> 00:32:35,931 THAT LEAVES US THINKING 641 00:32:35,931 --> 00:32:40,310 THAT BRIAN LEE CHERRIX KILLED TESSA VANHART. 642 00:32:40,310 --> 00:32:41,965 HOW ABOUT YOUR EX-HUSBAND? 643 00:32:41,965 --> 00:32:44,000 CAN YOU DESCRIBE HIS PERSONALITY FOR ME? 644 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,172 ♪♪ 645 00:32:47,172 --> 00:32:50,379 BRIAN LEE CHERRIX, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, 646 00:32:50,379 --> 00:32:54,068 NEVER CAME UP AS A SUSPECT TO START OUT. 647 00:32:54,068 --> 00:32:57,172 WITH HIS FAMILY WAS WELL-KNOWN AND RESPECTED 648 00:32:57,172 --> 00:32:59,379 ON THE ISLAND OF CHINCOTEAGUE. 649 00:32:59,379 --> 00:33:00,655 WE SEPARATED, BUT... 650 00:33:00,655 --> 00:33:03,034 SHE SAYS WE HAD CHILDREN TOGETHER 651 00:33:03,034 --> 00:33:06,241 AND HE'S NORMAL GUY AND HE WORKED. 652 00:33:06,241 --> 00:33:10,172 SO SHE PAINTS THE PICTURE OF A STANDARD AMERICAN MALE, 653 00:33:10,172 --> 00:33:13,344 NOT SOME WILD-EYED MONSTER. 654 00:33:13,344 --> 00:33:15,275 DID BRIAN OWN ANY WEAPONS? 655 00:33:15,275 --> 00:33:17,896 HE DID. HE OWNED A RIFLE. 656 00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:21,172 DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF RIFLE? 657 00:33:21,172 --> 00:33:26,344 I DON'T REALLY KNOW GUNS, BUT I THINK IT WAS A .22? 658 00:33:26,344 --> 00:33:28,551 Kenda: SO PLOTT PULLS A PICTURE OUT OF HIS NOTEBOOK 659 00:33:28,551 --> 00:33:30,655 AND HE SAYS THAT LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU? 660 00:33:30,655 --> 00:33:33,413 ♪♪ 661 00:33:33,413 --> 00:33:35,275 YEAH. 662 00:33:35,275 --> 00:33:39,551 -YOU'RE CERTAIN? -POSITIVE. 663 00:33:39,551 --> 00:33:43,862 Kenda: NOW, PLOTT KNOWS WITHOUT QUESTION. 664 00:33:43,862 --> 00:33:48,137 THE FRUSTRATION FLIES AWAY AND IT BECOMES EUPHORIC. 665 00:33:48,137 --> 00:33:53,000 THIS SHADOW HAS A NAME AND HIS NAME IS BRIAN CHERRIX. 666 00:33:59,448 --> 00:34:02,862 ♪♪ 667 00:34:02,862 --> 00:34:04,689 Kenda: DANNY PLOTT OF THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE, 668 00:34:04,689 --> 00:34:08,000 HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN A FRUSTRATING TWO-YEAR LONG 669 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:13,068 INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF 23-YEAR-OLD TESSA VANHART. 670 00:34:13,068 --> 00:34:17,034 AND HE HAS ARRIVED AT THE IDENTITY OF THE PERPETRATOR, 671 00:34:17,034 --> 00:34:18,344 BRIAN CHERRIX. 672 00:34:18,344 --> 00:34:20,689 WE HAVE THE MURDER WEAPON. 673 00:34:20,689 --> 00:34:23,379 BRIAN'S EX-WIFE IDENTIFIED 674 00:34:23,379 --> 00:34:26,965 THE .22 RIFLE AS BELONGING TO HIM. 675 00:34:26,965 --> 00:34:30,103 WE HAD THE MAN THAT KILLED TESSA VANHART. 676 00:34:30,103 --> 00:34:32,758 Kenda: NOW IT'S TIME TO GET A STATEMENT FROM HIM. 677 00:34:32,758 --> 00:34:35,413 IT'S A SOPHISTICATED GAME OF TAG. 678 00:34:35,413 --> 00:34:38,413 AND MR. CHERRIX IS IT. 679 00:34:38,413 --> 00:34:41,517 WE WENT BACK TO CHERRIX WITH ALL THIS INFORMATION 680 00:34:41,517 --> 00:34:43,310 THAT THE COUSIN COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT, 681 00:34:43,310 --> 00:34:44,896 THAT THAT WAS HIS RIFLE. 682 00:34:44,896 --> 00:34:47,137 I GAVE YOU THE TRUTH. 683 00:34:47,137 --> 00:34:50,241 BUT BRIAN LEE CHERRIX STUCK TO HIS STORY. 684 00:34:50,241 --> 00:34:53,724 BRIAN, I THINK IT'S TIME YOU START BEING HONEST WITH US. 685 00:34:53,724 --> 00:34:54,827 I ALREADY TOLD YOU WHAT HAPPENED. 686 00:34:54,827 --> 00:34:56,655 I ALREADY TOLD YOU I TOSSED IT. 687 00:34:56,655 --> 00:34:58,068 OOH. 688 00:34:58,068 --> 00:35:00,172 SO WHO ARE WE TALKING TO HERE? 689 00:35:00,172 --> 00:35:02,206 BRIAN, YOU HAVE TWO PERSONALITIES? 690 00:35:02,206 --> 00:35:04,241 ONE IS YOUR COUSIN'S AND ONE'S YOURS? 691 00:35:04,241 --> 00:35:06,965 IT WAS VERY TELLING THAT HE WOULD SLIP 692 00:35:06,965 --> 00:35:10,931 FROM SAYING HIS COUSIN'S NAME TO FIRST PERSON. 693 00:35:10,931 --> 00:35:14,344 HE'S UNRAVELING IN THE COURSE OF THIS INTERROGATION. 694 00:35:14,344 --> 00:35:16,620 YOU WANT THIS HANGING OVER YOUR HEAD? 695 00:35:16,620 --> 00:35:20,034 YOU OWE IT TO TESSA'S FAMILY, BRIAN. 696 00:35:20,034 --> 00:35:24,034 THAT'S WHEN BRIAN CHERRIX SUDDENLY HAS A CHANGE OF HEART. 697 00:35:24,034 --> 00:35:28,448 [BLEEP] IT. I DID THAT [BLEEP]. 698 00:35:28,448 --> 00:35:32,931 I BELIEVE HE KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE CHARGED 699 00:35:32,931 --> 00:35:35,137 AND IT'S STRICTLY MY OPINION, 700 00:35:35,137 --> 00:35:38,482 THAT BRIAN LEE CHERRIX WANTED THE CREDIT 701 00:35:38,482 --> 00:35:42,862 FOR GETTING AWAY WITH THIS MURDER FOR SO LONG, 702 00:35:42,862 --> 00:35:46,241 LIKE HE WANTED AN ACCOLADE FOR IT 703 00:35:46,241 --> 00:35:47,862 THAT HE WAS SMARTER THAN US. 704 00:35:47,862 --> 00:35:52,310 HE NOT ONLY CONFESSES, HE CONFESSES IN ENORMOUS DETAIL. 705 00:35:52,310 --> 00:35:55,275 HE WAS FASCINATED AND ATTRACTED TO TESSA VANHART. 706 00:35:55,275 --> 00:35:57,517 HE WOULD ORDER PIZZAS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE 707 00:35:57,517 --> 00:35:58,862 OF HAVING HER BRING THEM. 708 00:35:58,862 --> 00:36:02,448 ♪♪ 709 00:36:02,448 --> 00:36:05,068 THANK YOU. 710 00:36:05,068 --> 00:36:08,931 AND, UH, IT'S FOR YOU. 711 00:36:08,931 --> 00:36:11,482 OH, MY GOSH, NO, I CAN'T TAKE THAT. 712 00:36:11,482 --> 00:36:13,620 -IT'S TOO MUCH. -NO, NO, YOU CAN. 713 00:36:13,620 --> 00:36:15,448 YOU DESERVE IT. 714 00:36:15,448 --> 00:36:17,172 HE THOUGHT SHE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL 715 00:36:17,172 --> 00:36:19,482 THAT HE WOULD TIP HER $20. 716 00:36:19,482 --> 00:36:21,310 THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT'S REALLY SWEET OF YOU. 717 00:36:21,310 --> 00:36:23,896 YEAH. 718 00:36:23,896 --> 00:36:25,758 THERE YOU GO. 719 00:36:25,758 --> 00:36:27,241 YOU TAKE CARE. 720 00:36:27,241 --> 00:36:31,344 ♪♪ 721 00:36:31,344 --> 00:36:33,965 Kenda: HIS INFATUATION BECAME AN OBSESSION, 722 00:36:33,965 --> 00:36:35,689 AND WHEN IT BECOMES AN OBSESSION, 723 00:36:35,689 --> 00:36:39,379 THEN YOU WANT YOUR DREAM OF THIS EVENT TO LIVE. 724 00:36:39,379 --> 00:36:40,689 HE WANTED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN 725 00:36:40,689 --> 00:36:44,137 BY WHATEVER MEANS ARE NECESSARY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. 726 00:36:44,137 --> 00:36:47,068 ♪♪ 727 00:36:47,068 --> 00:36:51,689 SO BRIAN HAD CONCOCTED A PLAN. 728 00:36:51,689 --> 00:36:54,413 TO LURE TESSA OUT TO THIS ABANDONED HOME. 729 00:36:54,413 --> 00:36:58,551 ♪♪ 730 00:36:58,551 --> 00:37:01,517 SHE ARRIVES TO THIS HOUSE TO JUST DELIVER A PIZZA 731 00:37:01,517 --> 00:37:02,965 AND THERE'S BRIAN LEE CHERRIX 732 00:37:02,965 --> 00:37:05,241 WITH A RIFLE WAITING BEHIND A CHIMNEY. 733 00:37:05,241 --> 00:37:10,931 ♪♪ 734 00:37:10,931 --> 00:37:16,862 ♪♪ 735 00:37:16,862 --> 00:37:19,862 HE KNOWS TESSA IS THE ONLY ONE WHO DELIVERS LATE AT NIGHT 736 00:37:19,862 --> 00:37:21,344 BECAUSE THE OTHER EMPLOYEES HAVE GONE HOME. 737 00:37:21,344 --> 00:37:28,034 ♪♪ 738 00:37:28,034 --> 00:37:30,241 SHE IS DRIVING INTO A DEATH TRAP 739 00:37:30,241 --> 00:37:34,448 AND DOESN'T KNOW IT. 740 00:37:34,448 --> 00:37:36,862 SHE SEES A HOUSE WITH A LIGHT ON 741 00:37:36,862 --> 00:37:39,034 IN CLOSE PROXIMITY 742 00:37:39,034 --> 00:37:43,310 AND DECIDES TO WALK OVER THERE AND SEE IF THEY ORDERED A PIZZA. 743 00:37:43,310 --> 00:37:47,000 ♪♪ 744 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,034 THIS IS HIS OPPORTUNITY. 745 00:37:49,034 --> 00:37:53,413 ♪♪ 746 00:37:53,413 --> 00:37:56,965 HEY, TESSA. HEY, IT'S ME. 747 00:37:56,965 --> 00:37:58,965 OH, HI. 748 00:37:58,965 --> 00:38:01,344 WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? DID YOU ORDER A PIZZA? 749 00:38:01,344 --> 00:38:02,827 YEAH, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. 750 00:38:02,827 --> 00:38:04,103 I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING. 751 00:38:04,103 --> 00:38:06,620 -IT'S OKAY. -JUST WAIT -- WAIT. 752 00:38:06,620 --> 00:38:09,068 I JUST WANNA -- -AAH! 753 00:38:09,068 --> 00:38:13,551 [ BREATHING HEAVILY ] 754 00:38:13,551 --> 00:38:15,137 Kenda: HE ATTACKS HER IN THE GRASS, 755 00:38:15,137 --> 00:38:17,103 FORCES HER TO THE GROUND. 756 00:38:17,103 --> 00:38:19,344 OW! OW, PLEASE! 757 00:38:19,344 --> 00:38:21,551 SOMEONE! PLEASE! 758 00:38:21,551 --> 00:38:24,206 PLEASE DON'T HURT ME. I WON'T TELL ANYONE. 759 00:38:24,206 --> 00:38:25,517 DAMN RIGHT YOU WON'T. 760 00:38:25,517 --> 00:38:29,275 HE ASSAULTED HER, SODOMIZED HER THE WHOLE TIME, 761 00:38:29,275 --> 00:38:31,241 HER BEGGING FOR HER LIFE. 762 00:38:31,241 --> 00:38:34,275 [ BREATHING HEAVILY ] 763 00:38:34,275 --> 00:38:38,758 PLEASE, I DON'T CARE. [ PANTING ] 764 00:38:38,758 --> 00:38:41,068 Kenda: HE HAS HIS RIFLE WITH HIM. 765 00:38:41,068 --> 00:38:44,103 HE BROUGHT THAT WEAPON WITH HIM FOR A REASON. 766 00:38:44,103 --> 00:38:46,482 HE DIDN'T DECIDE THAT ON THE WAY THERE. 767 00:38:46,482 --> 00:38:49,137 THAT WAS PART OF HIS PLAN. 768 00:38:49,137 --> 00:38:51,448 AND THEN FOR WHATEVER REASON... 769 00:38:51,448 --> 00:38:53,344 [ GUNSHOT ] 770 00:38:53,344 --> 00:38:54,620 ...HE SHOT HER. 771 00:38:54,620 --> 00:38:56,862 SHE MOVED AFTER HE SHOT HER. 772 00:38:56,862 --> 00:39:00,965 SO TO BE SURE, HE SHOT HER AGAIN. 773 00:39:00,965 --> 00:39:03,241 HOW COLD BLOODED IS THAT? 774 00:39:03,241 --> 00:39:07,137 ♪♪ 775 00:39:07,137 --> 00:39:10,793 Kenda: HE THEN DECIDED HE NEEDED TO GET RID OF HER. 776 00:39:10,793 --> 00:39:13,827 HE DRAGS HER BACK TO HER CAR, 777 00:39:13,827 --> 00:39:17,000 PUTS HER IN THE BACK SEAT. 778 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:21,965 AND THEN HAS TO DRIVE SOMEWHERE AND ABANDON THE CAR. 779 00:39:21,965 --> 00:39:25,448 HE THEN THROWS HIS RIFLE INTO THE WATER, 780 00:39:25,448 --> 00:39:28,172 KNOWING THAT THAT LINKS HIM TO THIS CRIME 781 00:39:28,172 --> 00:39:31,448 AND GOES ON ABOUT HIS LIFE AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. 782 00:39:31,448 --> 00:39:39,172 ♪♪ 783 00:39:39,172 --> 00:39:40,965 -WHAT CAN I DO YOU FOR? -YEAH, A SLICE OF CHEESE? 784 00:39:40,965 --> 00:39:43,413 SURE. THAT'LL BE $2.50. 785 00:39:43,413 --> 00:39:46,551 ♪♪ 786 00:39:46,551 --> 00:39:48,655 EVERYONE ON THIS ISLAND IS TALKING ABOUT NOTHING ELSE 787 00:39:48,655 --> 00:39:50,275 BUT THIS CRIME, 788 00:39:50,275 --> 00:39:53,310 AND BRIAN CHERRIX IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL OF THEM. 789 00:39:53,310 --> 00:39:56,068 ♪♪ 790 00:39:56,068 --> 00:40:00,275 THANKS, MAN. 791 00:40:00,275 --> 00:40:02,758 AND HE'S THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. 792 00:40:02,758 --> 00:40:08,034 ♪♪ 793 00:40:08,034 --> 00:40:12,379 WHILE CONFESSING TO THE MURDER, NONE OF IT SEEMED TO BOTHER HIM. 794 00:40:12,379 --> 00:40:16,586 BRIAN CHERRIX DEMONSTRATES HIMSELF TO BE A TOTALLY COLD, 795 00:40:16,586 --> 00:40:19,724 EMOTIONLESS MONSTER. 796 00:40:19,724 --> 00:40:21,827 MR. CHERRIX WENT TO TRIAL. 797 00:40:21,827 --> 00:40:25,551 HE WAS FOUND TO BE RESPONSIBLE BY 12 OF HIS PEERS 798 00:40:25,551 --> 00:40:29,931 AND A JUDGE SENTENCED MR. CHERRIX TO DEATH. 799 00:40:29,931 --> 00:40:32,068 I WAS REALLY HAPPY OVER THAT ONE 800 00:40:32,068 --> 00:40:35,310 BECAUSE I WANTED JUSTICE SERVED. 801 00:40:35,310 --> 00:40:38,275 Plo IN 2004, BRIAN LEE CHERRIX 802 00:40:38,275 --> 00:40:41,551 WAS PUT TO DEATH BY LETHAL INJECTION. 803 00:40:41,551 --> 00:40:44,965 AS HIS DEATH SENTENCE DATE APPROACHED, 804 00:40:44,965 --> 00:40:48,034 BRIAN LEE CHERRIX ASKED THAT NO MORE APPEALS 805 00:40:48,034 --> 00:40:52,413 BE PUT FORWARD BY HIS ATTORNEYS. 806 00:40:52,413 --> 00:40:57,724 PERHAPS HE REALIZED HE NEEDED TO PAY FOR THIS HEINOUS CRIME. 807 00:40:57,724 --> 00:41:03,103 ♪♪ 808 00:41:03,103 --> 00:41:08,413 ♪♪ 809 00:41:08,413 --> 00:41:12,517 Holmes: PEOPLE STILL TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN CHINCOTEAGUE. 810 00:41:12,517 --> 00:41:16,758 THEY STILL TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO TESSA VANHART. 811 00:41:16,758 --> 00:41:20,241 THAT WAS MY SOULMATE AND I BELIEVE THAT TO THIS DAY 812 00:41:20,241 --> 00:41:22,448 AND I'LL BELIEVE THAT TO THE DAY I JOIN HER UP IN HEAVEN, 813 00:41:22,448 --> 00:41:25,827 YOU KNOW, THAT WAS MY SOULMATE. 814 00:41:25,827 --> 00:41:28,379 YEAH. 815 00:41:28,379 --> 00:41:31,000 SHE MADE TWO WONDERFUL KIDS 816 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,862 AND THEY GIVE ME A COUPLE OF GRANDKIDS. 817 00:41:33,862 --> 00:41:37,310 AND I THINK SHE'D BE REALLY PROUD OF BOTH OF THEM. 818 00:41:37,310 --> 00:41:38,758 AND MAYBE SHE'D BE A LITTLE PROUD OF ME. 819 00:41:38,758 --> 00:41:44,413 I WAS ABLE TO HELP MOLD THEM SOMEWHAT TO WHAT THEY ARE NOW. 820 00:41:44,413 --> 00:41:49,344 MY MOM, SHE DID HER BEST WITH THE LITTLE TIME THAT SHE HAD. 821 00:41:49,344 --> 00:41:52,344 [ SNIFFLES ] 822 00:41:52,344 --> 00:41:55,034 I TRY TO CARRY ON A LITTLE PIECE OF HER. 823 00:41:55,034 --> 00:41:58,344 I JUST WANT HER TO BE PROUD AND I HOPE I'M DOING THAT. 824 00:41:58,344 --> 00:42:02,482 ♪♪ 825 00:42:02,482 --> 00:42:06,482 FOR THE TWO TO THREE YEARS THAT IT TOOK TO BRING THE KILLER 826 00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:09,965 TO JUSTICE, IT NEVER LEFT MY MIND. 827 00:42:09,965 --> 00:42:11,586 NO ONE WAS MORE RELIEVED 828 00:42:11,586 --> 00:42:16,103 OR HAPPIER THAN I WAS THAT WE FINALLY FOUND THIS PERSON. 829 00:42:16,103 --> 00:42:18,275 THE VIRGINIA STATE POLICE AND A CHINCOTEAGUE 830 00:42:18,275 --> 00:42:22,517 POLICE DEPARTMENT NEVER FAILED TESSA VANHART. 831 00:42:22,517 --> 00:42:24,517 THEY DON'T GIVE UP. 832 00:42:24,517 --> 00:42:27,586 DETECTIVES RESOLVE THINGS 833 00:42:27,586 --> 00:42:29,379 TO THE BEST AS THEY CAN. 834 00:42:29,379 --> 00:42:31,310 THEY CAN'T ANSWER EVERY QUESTION, 835 00:42:31,310 --> 00:42:35,689 BUT THEY CAN CERTAINLY ANSWER WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW. 836 00:42:35,689 --> 00:42:38,793 THE WHY QUESTION IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT.