1 00:00:10,010 --> 00:00:11,850 [ominous music playing] 2 00:00:14,248 --> 00:00:18,048 She was attacked and sexually assaulted multiple times. 3 00:00:18,085 --> 00:00:19,555 [woman screaming] 4 00:00:19,586 --> 00:00:21,546 [DA J. Paul Newman] There is no other way to describe this murder 5 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:24,388 than to say that there is evil in this world. 6 00:00:25,726 --> 00:00:29,196 She had been accepted to major in psychology. 7 00:00:29,229 --> 00:00:33,499 She was a person who wanted to help people with their problems. 8 00:00:33,534 --> 00:00:37,004 If he was infatuated with her, he may become violent. 9 00:00:37,037 --> 00:00:40,707 Because he wants to enact the fantasy. 10 00:00:40,741 --> 00:00:44,041 [Newman] No one deserves to be raped or murdered 11 00:00:44,077 --> 00:00:46,047 because they have been drinking. 12 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:48,519 [Larry Flowers] She decides to file an order of protection 13 00:00:48,549 --> 00:00:51,249 because she feared for her life at that point. 14 00:00:51,285 --> 00:00:52,795 [ominous music playing] 15 00:00:52,819 --> 00:00:56,019 [Flowers] He was a clean-cut looking guy that you would never expect 16 00:00:56,056 --> 00:00:58,016 to turn into a vicious killer. 17 00:00:58,058 --> 00:01:01,028 Maybe he has just the makings of a serial killer 18 00:01:01,061 --> 00:01:02,961 and she just happened to be his first victim. 19 00:01:02,996 --> 00:01:04,496 [woman screaming] 20 00:01:04,531 --> 00:01:08,941 [narrator] Every day in North America, dozens of people are murdered. 21 00:01:08,969 --> 00:01:11,599 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides 22 00:01:11,638 --> 00:01:13,768 lies in the final 24 hours 23 00:01:13,807 --> 00:01:15,607 of the victim’s life. 24 00:01:15,642 --> 00:01:21,112 To crack the case, detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline, 25 00:01:21,148 --> 00:01:23,818 the minutes and hours containing evidence 26 00:01:23,850 --> 00:01:25,790 that can help unlock the mystery 27 00:01:25,819 --> 00:01:27,949 and catch the killer. 28 00:01:27,988 --> 00:01:28,818 [ominous percussion] 29 00:01:35,162 --> 00:01:36,102 [country music playing] 30 00:01:36,129 --> 00:01:38,059 Murfreesboro, Tennessee. 31 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:41,268 A vibrant college town on the edge of Nashville 32 00:01:41,301 --> 00:01:44,341 affectionately dubbed the Boro. 33 00:01:44,371 --> 00:01:48,011 [Newman] Murfreesboro is a very quiet, peaceful community 34 00:01:48,041 --> 00:01:52,851 located about 20 minutes driving down the interstate from Nashville, Tennessee. 35 00:01:53,814 --> 00:01:57,784 A lot of people actually work in Nashville 36 00:01:57,818 --> 00:02:04,158 and live in Murfreesboro because Murfreesboro is such a desirable community. 37 00:02:04,191 --> 00:02:07,491 [Det. Tommy Massey] It’s also home of Middle Tennessee State University. 38 00:02:07,527 --> 00:02:11,697 They have an enrollment of close to 30,000 students. 39 00:02:11,732 --> 00:02:16,142 And so, one of the things you are always gonna have with young college folks 40 00:02:16,169 --> 00:02:18,839 is, unfortunately, alcohol. 41 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,310 And lot of times, alcohol leads to bad decision making. 42 00:02:25,646 --> 00:02:28,046 But, you know, it is a nice city to live in. 43 00:02:30,817 --> 00:02:33,947 [narrator] As the summer semester winds down, 44 00:02:33,987 --> 00:02:36,517 a shocking crime rocks Murfreesboro. 45 00:02:37,591 --> 00:02:38,421 [ominous music playing] 46 00:02:44,998 --> 00:02:51,168 At approximately nine o’clock a. m. on August the 7th, 2015, 47 00:02:51,204 --> 00:02:55,344 the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office received a phone call. 48 00:02:55,375 --> 00:03:00,545 Audrey Bennett found the body of her friend and coworker, Heather Maples. 49 00:03:05,018 --> 00:03:08,718 [Massey] When I arrived on the scene, I entered into the apartment. 50 00:03:08,755 --> 00:03:10,755 It’s a very compact apartment. 51 00:03:12,459 --> 00:03:14,729 Immediately to the right, when you go through the door, 52 00:03:14,761 --> 00:03:16,801 you could see the mattress and box springs. 53 00:03:18,198 --> 00:03:23,198 I saw the body on the mattress. She was facedown. 54 00:03:23,236 --> 00:03:28,876 Her left arm was extended out and her right arm was kind of up by her head. 55 00:03:28,909 --> 00:03:31,949 She did appear to have some physical injuries to her head 56 00:03:31,978 --> 00:03:33,748 from some type of trauma. 57 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:38,379 There is no other way to describe this murder than 58 00:03:38,418 --> 00:03:41,248 to say that there is evil in this world. 59 00:03:43,090 --> 00:03:47,290 [narrator] The victim is identified as 22-year-old Heather Maples. 60 00:03:48,662 --> 00:03:52,472 [Massey] Heather was very outgoing, personable, full of life. 61 00:03:52,499 --> 00:03:54,729 She always had a smile on her face. 62 00:03:54,768 --> 00:03:57,568 She was very easy to get along with. 63 00:03:57,604 --> 00:04:00,614 Her family loved her very much. 64 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,710 And so did all of her friends. 65 00:04:02,743 --> 00:04:06,053 She was up for challenges. I mean, she moved from Texas to here, 66 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:11,419 knowing almost no one. So I think that tells you something about her mindset 67 00:04:11,451 --> 00:04:13,691 and determination to do what she wanted to do. 68 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:19,925 [Newman] That summer she had been accepted to attend MTSU 69 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,530 and to study and major in psychology. 70 00:04:24,131 --> 00:04:27,271 She was a person who cared about people 71 00:04:28,535 --> 00:04:31,175 and who wanted to help people with their problems. 72 00:04:31,972 --> 00:04:33,372 [ominous music playing] 73 00:04:33,406 --> 00:04:36,336 [narrator] Heading up the investigation into Heather Maples’ murder 74 00:04:36,376 --> 00:04:40,006 are veteran homicide detective Tommy Massey, 75 00:04:40,046 --> 00:04:44,046 and assistant District Attorney J. Paul Newman. 76 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:49,019 [Massey] There was quite a bit of blood to her head. 77 00:04:49,055 --> 00:04:51,985 And one of the things with bloodstains is, 78 00:04:52,025 --> 00:04:54,025 you know there has to be multiple strikes. 79 00:04:54,060 --> 00:04:57,560 Because the first strike brings the blood to the surface. 80 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:01,599 The second strike, you impact the blood. 81 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:06,615 As you come back for the third strike, you get the castoff from whatever object is used. 82 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,610 And that is what you see on the wall above where she was laying. 83 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:12,813 So we knew she had to have been hit multiple times with some object 84 00:05:12,846 --> 00:05:15,876 to produce the trauma to her head. 85 00:05:15,916 --> 00:05:19,686 [Newman] The police see bruising around the neck of Heather Maples. 86 00:05:19,719 --> 00:05:26,059 The bruising appears to be caused by some sort of ligature strangulation. 87 00:05:26,092 --> 00:05:31,402 She had definitely two fairly noticeable ligature marks to the sides of her neck, 88 00:05:31,431 --> 00:05:34,831 which gave you the indication that someone had to be behind her 89 00:05:34,868 --> 00:05:38,738 with some type of object applying enough force 90 00:05:38,772 --> 00:05:42,442 that that object is burrowing into the skin and creating these marks. 91 00:05:44,945 --> 00:05:48,555 The obvious thing to us would be, the killer comes in, 92 00:05:48,582 --> 00:05:51,752 he finds her on the bed and attacks her. 93 00:05:52,953 --> 00:05:53,793 [woman screaming] 94 00:05:55,355 --> 00:05:57,715 During the course of this attack, 95 00:05:57,757 --> 00:06:00,027 maybe he reaches for something on the nightstand 96 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:02,930 he uses to strike her on the head. Maybe there is an alarm clock 97 00:06:02,963 --> 00:06:05,403 that is heavy enough that he can strike her 98 00:06:05,432 --> 00:06:08,102 and cause the blunt force trauma to her skull 99 00:06:08,134 --> 00:06:11,604 that kind of renders her, you know, almost unconscious. 100 00:06:11,638 --> 00:06:15,638 That object is then used to strangle her to death. 101 00:06:17,777 --> 00:06:20,907 An electrical cord could certainly cause those type of marks 102 00:06:20,947 --> 00:06:23,047 and do that type of damage to her. 103 00:06:26,953 --> 00:06:30,623 Her left hand was almost drawn up in a fist. 104 00:06:30,657 --> 00:06:34,187 And one of her fingernails was broken which was an indication 105 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:36,227 that she was in quite a bit of pain. 106 00:06:37,597 --> 00:06:41,227 Heather had been spread-eagled out on the bed. 107 00:06:41,268 --> 00:06:45,908 It was apparent that she was probably the victim of a sexual assault. 108 00:06:45,939 --> 00:06:49,979 When you work these type of cases, you see the trauma these victims go through 109 00:06:50,010 --> 00:06:52,980 and the suffering in the final minutes of their life. 110 00:06:53,013 --> 00:06:55,283 That... is the things that stick with you. 111 00:06:57,083 --> 00:07:01,153 [Newman] It was hard to establish a clear motive for the rape. 112 00:07:01,187 --> 00:07:04,617 Obviously in rapes, it is a selfish act. 113 00:07:04,658 --> 00:07:09,558 It is an act of control. It is an act of viciousness. 114 00:07:09,596 --> 00:07:12,466 It is an act of power. 115 00:07:12,499 --> 00:07:18,839 Maybe the motive for murder was because he had raped Heather Nicole Maples. 116 00:07:18,872 --> 00:07:23,482 And if she lived, she would be a witness and can tell us who had raped her. 117 00:07:26,813 --> 00:07:28,653 [woman screaming] 118 00:07:28,682 --> 00:07:32,292 [narrator] To track down the person who sexually assaulted and murdered Heather Maples, 119 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:36,959 detectives will need to unravel the final 24 hours of her life. 120 00:07:36,990 --> 00:07:40,530 When the police further examined the blood from Heather, 121 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,100 it has not completely dried. 122 00:07:43,129 --> 00:07:49,499 This indicates that this crime occurred within a few hours of the body being discovered 123 00:07:49,536 --> 00:07:51,236 at nine o’clock a. m. 124 00:07:53,073 --> 00:07:56,983 [Massey] I noticed there was blood stains on the bed itself 125 00:07:57,010 --> 00:08:02,680 and to the right of Heather there was a fingerprint that was on the mattress itself 126 00:08:02,716 --> 00:08:05,276 that appeared to still be wet. 127 00:08:05,318 --> 00:08:07,518 It was a very good print. 128 00:08:07,554 --> 00:08:11,624 Matter of fact, one that I think if you rolled it in the police station, 129 00:08:11,658 --> 00:08:14,158 you would not have gotten a better print. 130 00:08:14,194 --> 00:08:17,804 And so, we were able to collect this. 131 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:22,471 [Newman] The police also found Heather’s cell phone. 132 00:08:22,502 --> 00:08:27,072 They deemed that to be an important piece of evidence. 133 00:08:27,107 --> 00:08:30,677 One of the things we initially discovered once we got Heather’s phone was 134 00:08:30,710 --> 00:08:34,250 she had sent a text message about 2:23 a. m. 135 00:08:36,116 --> 00:08:40,586 The time of the text message helped establish a timeline. 136 00:08:41,621 --> 00:08:44,921 Investigators now had a time of death. 137 00:08:44,958 --> 00:08:51,028 Between 2:23 a. m. and 9:00 a. m. when Heather’s body was discovered. 138 00:08:52,932 --> 00:08:55,672 [narrator] Having collected the evidence around the body, 139 00:08:55,702 --> 00:09:00,412 investigators continue searching the remainder of the apartment. 140 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,040 [Massey] The apartment didn’t appear to be in disarray. 141 00:09:02,075 --> 00:09:05,415 So it appeared that whatever crime had taken place 142 00:09:05,445 --> 00:09:09,125 had been right there to that area where she was at on the bed. 143 00:09:09,149 --> 00:09:13,749 [Newman] The police do not find any indication of forced entry. 144 00:09:13,787 --> 00:09:19,557 Was the door unlocked originally? Did someone gain entry with a key? 145 00:09:20,326 --> 00:09:21,886 Was someone let inside? 146 00:09:23,229 --> 00:09:24,059 [woman screaming] 147 00:09:25,832 --> 00:09:28,102 Did she know who her attacker was? 148 00:09:31,337 --> 00:09:35,067 [narrator] Investigators turn to Heather’s friend, Audrey Bennett, 149 00:09:35,108 --> 00:09:38,678 looking for information about who might have wanted to harm Heather. 150 00:09:41,314 --> 00:09:43,924 [Massey] Ms. Bennett brought to our attention that during the night 151 00:09:43,950 --> 00:09:49,920 Heather had posted on Snapchat that she had been with a gentleman, Marcus Wagner, 152 00:09:49,956 --> 00:09:53,586 and the Snapchat had gone out in the early morning hours. 153 00:09:53,626 --> 00:09:56,826 So she was of the belief that Mr. Wagner was probably the last person 154 00:09:56,863 --> 00:09:59,003 she was seen or with at the time. 155 00:09:59,032 --> 00:10:00,972 So that was a key piece of evidence for us. 156 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:05,465 [narrator] As investigators continue to question Audrey, 157 00:10:05,505 --> 00:10:08,575 a young man shows up at Heather’s apartment. 158 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:11,678 [Massey] David O’Donnell arrived at the scene. 159 00:10:11,711 --> 00:10:15,311 He had come back to the apartment because he had her keys, 160 00:10:15,348 --> 00:10:19,918 which offered us an explanation possibly as to why her door was unlocked. 161 00:10:19,953 --> 00:10:24,063 But one of the things that you see sometimes in a homicide case, 162 00:10:26,126 --> 00:10:28,026 the killer will return to the scene. 163 00:10:29,362 --> 00:10:30,302 [suspenseful music playing] 164 00:10:32,465 --> 00:10:33,565 [woman screaming] Help me! 165 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,770 So that obviously, you know, piqued our curiosity. 166 00:10:36,803 --> 00:10:40,443 Why would he have her keys? Why would he be bringing them back? 167 00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:41,643 Had he committed the crime? 168 00:10:43,176 --> 00:10:45,376 We were able to divulge from him 169 00:10:45,411 --> 00:10:46,811 that he is her friend, 170 00:10:46,846 --> 00:10:49,046 and dropped Heather off the night that she was murdered. 171 00:10:49,916 --> 00:10:51,376 They’d been out drinking. 172 00:10:51,417 --> 00:10:53,287 She was pretty intoxicated. 173 00:10:53,319 --> 00:10:55,889 Uh, he helped her get into bed. 174 00:10:55,922 --> 00:10:58,222 He’d only been there for very few short minutes, 175 00:10:58,258 --> 00:11:01,558 and after he dropped her off, he receded back to his residence. 176 00:11:03,096 --> 00:11:05,796 Said, "Hey, she wasn’t drugged, she left her keys in the car. 177 00:11:05,832 --> 00:11:08,102 So I was just merely bringing her keys back this morning." 178 00:11:09,335 --> 00:11:11,395 [Dr. Keira Stockdale] The whole idea of victim blaming 179 00:11:11,437 --> 00:11:13,337 is basically implying 180 00:11:13,373 --> 00:11:15,373 that the person who’s been assaulted 181 00:11:15,408 --> 00:11:18,508 or attacked has some responsibility for what happened to them. 182 00:11:19,579 --> 00:11:20,879 What are women wearing? 183 00:11:20,914 --> 00:11:23,854 Are you being too flirtatious? Or overly friendly? 184 00:11:23,883 --> 00:11:26,093 Or maybe you invited someone to your home? 185 00:11:26,119 --> 00:11:27,919 And so therefore, you’re responsible. 186 00:11:28,855 --> 00:11:30,825 Just because you invited them there, 187 00:11:30,857 --> 00:11:33,887 doesn’t mean also that you consented to sex. 188 00:11:33,927 --> 00:11:35,487 [woman screaming] 189 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:37,828 [Michael Arntfield] The fact that you’ve got David dropping Heather off 190 00:11:37,864 --> 00:11:39,104 late into the night 191 00:11:39,132 --> 00:11:41,002 and she’s then found dead the next morning, 192 00:11:41,034 --> 00:11:43,204 that leaves a very narrow window 193 00:11:43,236 --> 00:11:45,366 of opportunity for this crime to be committed. 194 00:11:45,405 --> 00:11:47,175 And naturally makes David 195 00:11:47,207 --> 00:11:48,537 an immediate person of interest. 196 00:11:49,209 --> 00:11:51,579 [woman screaming] 197 00:11:55,582 --> 00:11:57,452 [narrator] Investigators have their first suspect 198 00:11:57,483 --> 00:11:59,753 in the brutal sexual assault and murder 199 00:11:59,786 --> 00:12:01,446 of 22-year-old Heather Maples. 200 00:12:03,256 --> 00:12:05,286 The young man who brought her home from the bar, 201 00:12:05,959 --> 00:12:07,129 David O’Donnell. 202 00:12:09,529 --> 00:12:11,899 He tells the investigators 203 00:12:11,931 --> 00:12:16,801 that shortly before midnight, on August the 6th, 2015, 204 00:12:18,471 --> 00:12:20,841 Heather texts and says that 205 00:12:20,873 --> 00:12:23,513 someone is hitting on her at Gentleman Jim’s, 206 00:12:25,111 --> 00:12:28,181 which is a bar, restaurant combination type of thing. 207 00:12:29,716 --> 00:12:32,646 And she wants them to stop and she wants him to come there. 208 00:12:33,686 --> 00:12:35,646 Heather had been with, um... 209 00:12:35,688 --> 00:12:38,158 this gentleman, Marcus Wagner, 210 00:12:38,191 --> 00:12:39,361 that she knew. 211 00:12:39,392 --> 00:12:41,632 They had parted company somewhere around midnight. 212 00:12:42,829 --> 00:12:45,829 [Newman] David O’Donnell arrives at the bar 213 00:12:45,865 --> 00:12:47,365 at approximately midnight. 214 00:13:05,852 --> 00:13:08,992 [Newman] She decides that she needs something to eat. 215 00:13:09,022 --> 00:13:12,322 And she asked David to take her to the Handlebars restaurant. 216 00:13:13,893 --> 00:13:17,333 David and Heather arrive at approximately 12:25. 217 00:13:18,031 --> 00:13:19,731 They have breakfast there. 218 00:13:19,766 --> 00:13:22,896 And then Heather decides that she wants to go back 219 00:13:23,536 --> 00:13:25,166 to Gentleman Jim’s. 220 00:13:25,204 --> 00:13:28,314 Heather and David arrive back at Gentleman Jim’s 221 00:13:28,341 --> 00:13:29,711 at 1:30 a. m. 222 00:13:30,677 --> 00:13:32,377 David drops Heather off 223 00:13:32,412 --> 00:13:35,052 at approximately 2:15 a. m. at her apartment. 224 00:13:36,349 --> 00:13:37,819 [Massey] She couldn’t find her keys, 225 00:13:37,850 --> 00:13:40,520 he didn’t know where they were at. 226 00:13:40,553 --> 00:13:44,393 Therefore, he was not able to lock her door when he left. It was a dead bolt. 227 00:13:44,424 --> 00:13:46,394 And then he went straight home to his girlfriend 228 00:13:46,426 --> 00:13:48,026 waiting for him at his residence. 229 00:13:59,138 --> 00:14:01,338 [Arntfield] It’s easy for David to say that he dropped Heather off at home 230 00:14:01,374 --> 00:14:03,714 and then just went straight back to his own place. 231 00:14:03,743 --> 00:14:05,243 The problem is that there is no one with him 232 00:14:05,278 --> 00:14:07,548 who can independently corroborate that. 233 00:14:07,580 --> 00:14:10,420 All we’ve got to go on is his word. 234 00:14:10,450 --> 00:14:14,020 And no cop would ever just take somebody at their word. 235 00:14:14,053 --> 00:14:15,293 They need to dig deeper. 236 00:14:16,956 --> 00:14:18,886 [narrator] Police speak with David’s girlfriend 237 00:14:18,925 --> 00:14:20,595 to see if his alibi checks out. 238 00:14:21,594 --> 00:14:23,364 Through speaking to his girlfriend, 239 00:14:23,396 --> 00:14:26,926 we knew he had made it home shortly after he dropped Heather off 240 00:14:26,966 --> 00:14:29,396 somewhere in that 2:15 time frame. 241 00:14:31,571 --> 00:14:33,611 [woman screaming] 242 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:36,279 So, we believe we could exclude David at that point. 243 00:14:41,614 --> 00:14:43,324 [narrator] With David ruled out, 244 00:14:43,349 --> 00:14:45,649 police circle back to Marcus Wagner, 245 00:14:45,685 --> 00:14:47,825 the person from Heather’s Snapchat post. 246 00:14:49,522 --> 00:14:51,292 [Newman] Examining Heather’s phone, 247 00:14:51,324 --> 00:14:53,294 the police see a text 248 00:14:53,326 --> 00:14:55,656 sent at 2:23 a. m. 249 00:14:56,095 --> 00:14:57,755 to Marcus Wagner. 250 00:14:57,797 --> 00:14:59,397 The text says, 251 00:14:59,432 --> 00:15:01,002 "Come here." 252 00:15:01,033 --> 00:15:02,973 That raises the question 253 00:15:03,002 --> 00:15:05,912 as to whether or not Marcus Wagner 254 00:15:05,938 --> 00:15:09,168 came to Heather’s apartment in the early morning hours 255 00:15:09,208 --> 00:15:11,978 of August 7th, 2015. 256 00:15:12,011 --> 00:15:13,611 [woman screaming] 257 00:15:13,646 --> 00:15:14,846 [woman choking and gasping] 258 00:15:14,881 --> 00:15:17,651 [Flowers] Then Heather’s friend Audrey, 259 00:15:17,683 --> 00:15:20,953 as well as police, find this gruesome scene, so of course... 260 00:15:23,823 --> 00:15:25,123 He was the number one suspect. 261 00:15:27,226 --> 00:15:30,356 [narrator] With their sights now set on Marcus Wagner, 262 00:15:30,396 --> 00:15:32,766 investigators dig in to who he is 263 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:34,499 and his relationship to Heather. 264 00:15:36,035 --> 00:15:38,535 [Massey] Audrey was able to give us some initial information, 265 00:15:38,571 --> 00:15:40,511 that he was known to, uh... 266 00:15:40,540 --> 00:15:43,040 hang out with Heather on several occasions. 267 00:15:44,043 --> 00:15:45,843 He did have a fondness for her. 268 00:15:48,581 --> 00:15:50,981 If Marcus was infatuated with her, 269 00:15:51,017 --> 00:15:53,047 this turns into an obsession. 270 00:15:53,085 --> 00:15:54,515 You know, if Heather says, "no" 271 00:15:54,554 --> 00:15:56,194 and he’s not accepting of that, 272 00:15:56,222 --> 00:15:59,732 he may become violent because he wants to enact the fantasy. 273 00:16:01,327 --> 00:16:03,497 That actually may have led to... 274 00:16:03,529 --> 00:16:06,229 you know, a sexual assault, or in this case, murder. 275 00:16:08,234 --> 00:16:10,004 [narrator] Armed with this information, 276 00:16:10,036 --> 00:16:12,566 detectives bring Marcus Wagner in for questioning. 277 00:16:14,507 --> 00:16:17,007 [Massey] We confronted him about Heather being deceased. 278 00:16:18,845 --> 00:16:21,915 I could tell from his reaction that it was a complete shock to him. 279 00:16:23,616 --> 00:16:26,016 Marcus was very upset about it. 280 00:16:26,052 --> 00:16:28,152 [narrator] Once Marcus has gathered himself, 281 00:16:28,187 --> 00:16:30,587 detectives home in on his relationship with Heather. 282 00:16:31,624 --> 00:16:33,764 [Newman] Marcus tells the investigators 283 00:16:33,793 --> 00:16:35,193 that they are friends 284 00:16:35,228 --> 00:16:37,758 and would meet together, would have a drink, 285 00:16:37,797 --> 00:16:40,367 uh, would socialize. 286 00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:43,269 [Massey] At that point, we did turn the heat up on him a little bit 287 00:16:43,302 --> 00:16:45,442 to see if that might change his demeanor. 288 00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:54,550 Marcus said that there’d never been any kind of sexual, 289 00:16:54,580 --> 00:16:57,380 uh, interaction between the two of them. 290 00:16:57,416 --> 00:17:00,186 [Newman] Although he did say that on occasion, 291 00:17:00,219 --> 00:17:03,859 she did kiss him in a flirty type of situation. 292 00:17:03,890 --> 00:17:07,230 But he maintained that there was no romantic relationship 293 00:17:07,260 --> 00:17:09,600 between the two. 294 00:17:09,629 --> 00:17:13,529 [narrator] Investigators then turn their attention to Marcus’ timeline. 295 00:17:13,566 --> 00:17:15,566 During the window of Heather’s murder, 296 00:17:15,601 --> 00:17:18,101 from 2:23 a. m to 9:00 a. m, 297 00:17:19,672 --> 00:17:22,882 Marcus Wagner tells the police that 298 00:17:22,909 --> 00:17:25,509 he and Heather had gone to Heather’s apartment 299 00:17:26,679 --> 00:17:30,419 and they have a few drinks and socialize. 300 00:17:30,449 --> 00:17:34,119 [Flowers] Around ten ’o clock, they decided to go to Gentleman Jim’s, 301 00:17:35,454 --> 00:17:37,494 stayed there till about midnight. 302 00:17:39,191 --> 00:17:43,001 At that point, Marcus decided he was gonna go home with his girlfriend. 303 00:17:43,829 --> 00:17:45,329 So, they left, 304 00:17:45,364 --> 00:17:47,804 and Heather remained there at Gentleman Jim’s. 305 00:17:51,771 --> 00:17:54,171 [Massey] We questioned Marcus about the text message 306 00:17:54,206 --> 00:17:56,436 that Heather had sent him at 2:23. 307 00:18:10,022 --> 00:18:12,562 [Massey] He simply said, "I honestly didn’t know she texted me." 308 00:18:14,894 --> 00:18:17,104 [woman gasping] 309 00:18:17,129 --> 00:18:19,969 But his girlfriend was able to provide us 310 00:18:19,999 --> 00:18:23,339 a very airtight alibi for him with her being there with him. 311 00:18:26,205 --> 00:18:28,865 [narrator] With another suspect eliminated, 312 00:18:28,908 --> 00:18:31,278 investigators return to Heather’s cell phone 313 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:32,680 looking for new leads. 314 00:18:34,347 --> 00:18:36,447 She was communicating with a gentlemen 315 00:18:36,482 --> 00:18:37,952 by the name of Scottie Marks 316 00:18:37,984 --> 00:18:39,824 during the course of the night she was murdered. 317 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,320 They had been texting back and forth, 318 00:18:43,356 --> 00:18:45,516 so we knew there was communication there. 319 00:18:46,592 --> 00:18:50,962 Scottie was kind of Heather’s quasi-boyfriend. 320 00:18:50,997 --> 00:18:54,167 [narrator] As investigators dig into Scottie’s past, 321 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,440 they discover a significant red flag. 322 00:18:57,536 --> 00:18:59,336 Scottie was a sex offender 323 00:19:00,272 --> 00:19:02,112 here in Tennessee, registered. 324 00:19:03,442 --> 00:19:05,542 Heather had been sexually assaulted. 325 00:19:09,215 --> 00:19:10,555 So, Scottie Marks 326 00:19:10,583 --> 00:19:12,583 immediately became a person of interest. 327 00:19:12,618 --> 00:19:14,218 [woman screaming] 328 00:19:14,253 --> 00:19:16,263 [Arntfield] So, at the end of the day, you’ve got a registered sex offender 329 00:19:16,288 --> 00:19:17,518 in a relationship 330 00:19:17,556 --> 00:19:20,156 with a young woman ultimately found raped and murdered. 331 00:19:20,192 --> 00:19:22,032 [woman screaming] 332 00:19:22,061 --> 00:19:24,461 I’m not sure that you could get a bigger red flag than that. 333 00:19:31,303 --> 00:19:32,943 [narrator] In the vicious rape and murder 334 00:19:32,972 --> 00:19:35,842 of promising psychology student Heather Maples, 335 00:19:35,875 --> 00:19:38,315 police have a new suspect. 336 00:19:38,344 --> 00:19:40,714 Her boyfriend and registered sex offender, 337 00:19:40,746 --> 00:19:41,846 Scottie Marks. 338 00:19:43,249 --> 00:19:44,319 [woman gasping] 339 00:19:46,819 --> 00:19:49,149 [Newman] When the police locate Scottie Marks 340 00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:50,988 and interview him, 341 00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:52,523 he is very emotional. 342 00:19:52,558 --> 00:19:55,458 He is very upset concerning the death 343 00:19:55,494 --> 00:19:57,704 of Heather. 344 00:19:57,730 --> 00:20:02,230 Scottie described the relationship as a very good relationship 345 00:20:02,268 --> 00:20:05,468 and that he would never be responsible for harming 346 00:20:05,504 --> 00:20:06,744 or hurting Heather. 347 00:20:08,908 --> 00:20:11,538 [Massey] He said, "Heather liked to party." 348 00:20:11,577 --> 00:20:14,547 And she would drink and sometimes when she was drinking, 349 00:20:14,580 --> 00:20:16,110 she was high-strung. 350 00:20:16,148 --> 00:20:19,318 I think he was a little high-strung, so they had had some issues before, 351 00:20:19,351 --> 00:20:21,821 you know, as young kids do. 352 00:20:21,854 --> 00:20:24,194 Alcohol doesn’t always lead to the best decisions. 353 00:20:25,391 --> 00:20:27,891 [narrator] With their sight squarely set on Scottie, 354 00:20:27,927 --> 00:20:30,257 investigators focus on his timeline. 355 00:20:31,297 --> 00:20:33,727 [Massey] Because Scottie was a sex offender, 356 00:20:33,766 --> 00:20:35,896 he was actually on house arrest, for the most part. 357 00:20:35,935 --> 00:20:39,105 He couldn’t go out. It was some of the stipulations of his probation. 358 00:20:39,138 --> 00:20:40,868 He was wearing an ankle monitor. 359 00:20:40,906 --> 00:20:45,106 So he was able to say, "Hey, I was in Knoxville. 360 00:20:45,144 --> 00:20:46,554 I wasn’t even in town." 361 00:20:47,947 --> 00:20:51,247 The police contact the probation officer 362 00:20:51,283 --> 00:20:53,493 who is supervising Scottie Marks. 363 00:20:54,653 --> 00:20:57,193 The probation officer informs them 364 00:20:57,223 --> 00:20:59,963 that Scottie Marks’ ankle bracelet 365 00:20:59,992 --> 00:21:03,702 clearly placed him in Knoxville, Tennessee 366 00:21:03,729 --> 00:21:06,299 some three hours from the location 367 00:21:06,332 --> 00:21:08,432 where Heather Maples had been killed. 368 00:21:09,835 --> 00:21:11,795 [Massey] So we knew at that point that 369 00:21:11,837 --> 00:21:15,767 the GPS was probably as airtight alibi as you can possibly have. 370 00:21:16,308 --> 00:21:17,408 [woman screaming] 371 00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:19,143 [narrator] Having established Scottie didn’t have 372 00:21:19,178 --> 00:21:21,208 the opportunity to kill Heather, 373 00:21:21,247 --> 00:21:23,577 detectives eliminate him from the investigation. 374 00:21:26,085 --> 00:21:28,425 [Newman] Scottie Marks is asked if he knows of 375 00:21:28,454 --> 00:21:32,124 anyone who might possibly wanted to have harmed Heather. 376 00:21:33,826 --> 00:21:36,426 He says Heather’s former boyfriend, 377 00:21:37,029 --> 00:21:38,759 Edward Nixon. 378 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,270 [Massey] Edward Nixon and Heather had lived together for several months. 379 00:21:47,206 --> 00:21:49,806 They had had a pretty turbulent relationship. 380 00:21:51,544 --> 00:21:53,184 There was some domestic violence reports 381 00:21:53,212 --> 00:21:54,982 filed with the police department 382 00:21:55,014 --> 00:21:56,824 that he had assaulted Heather. 383 00:21:57,817 --> 00:22:00,247 March 26th, 2015. 384 00:22:00,286 --> 00:22:03,016 It was a terrifying night for Heather Maples. 385 00:22:03,055 --> 00:22:04,915 Edward became quite upset 386 00:22:04,957 --> 00:22:06,927 over a broken cable box. 387 00:22:06,959 --> 00:22:10,299 So upset to the point where he began throwing things, 388 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:13,169 spitting on Heather, becoming verbally abusive, 389 00:22:13,199 --> 00:22:14,499 physically abusive. 390 00:22:16,135 --> 00:22:19,375 She decides to file an order of protection, 391 00:22:19,405 --> 00:22:21,515 because she feared for her life at that point. 392 00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:26,876 [Massey] When you look at that kind of turbulent relationship, 393 00:22:29,048 --> 00:22:32,678 you think, "Okay, is this guy capable of doing something to her?" 394 00:22:35,054 --> 00:22:38,594 She had started dating Scottie not too long after leaving Edward. 395 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:43,399 Maybe he thinks, "Hey, she was cheating on me all along." 396 00:22:43,429 --> 00:22:46,029 And then he decides, "Hey, I’m gonna confront her about it." 397 00:22:46,065 --> 00:22:48,205 [gasps, screams] 398 00:22:48,234 --> 00:22:50,744 That was very much an alarm to us. 399 00:22:50,769 --> 00:22:52,899 [Roots Gadhia] Some men see women as property. 400 00:22:52,938 --> 00:22:57,238 But in believing that, you’re entitled to own her and possess her. 401 00:22:57,276 --> 00:22:59,176 The threat of someone else 402 00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:01,911 potentially being with her 403 00:23:01,947 --> 00:23:05,517 is a toxic combination of... 404 00:23:05,551 --> 00:23:09,551 fueled anger and possessive need. 405 00:23:09,588 --> 00:23:10,688 [gasping] 406 00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:13,993 It’s not surprising that somebody like that would 407 00:23:14,026 --> 00:23:17,026 choose to... kill 408 00:23:17,062 --> 00:23:20,072 rather than giving her the opportunity to be with somebody else. 409 00:23:22,134 --> 00:23:25,404 [narrator] Police track down Edward Nixon in Murfreesboro 410 00:23:25,437 --> 00:23:28,737 and confront him with what they’ve learned about his relationship with Heather. 411 00:23:31,377 --> 00:23:33,077 [Massey] He was not really putting himself 412 00:23:33,112 --> 00:23:34,682 as the bad guy in the relationship, 413 00:23:34,713 --> 00:23:36,783 which makes you pique your interest a little bit, 414 00:23:36,815 --> 00:23:38,675 because obviously the courts have seen fit 415 00:23:38,717 --> 00:23:40,387 to give her an order of protection against him. 416 00:23:44,823 --> 00:23:47,593 He vehemently denied doing the things that she alleged 417 00:23:47,626 --> 00:23:50,096 in the order of protection 418 00:23:50,129 --> 00:23:52,759 and that he really hadn’t had any contact with her 419 00:23:52,798 --> 00:23:54,668 since that had come into play. 420 00:23:57,436 --> 00:23:58,996 He’s like, "Hey, man, I’m done with her." 421 00:24:01,774 --> 00:24:04,644 But he did consent to giving us his DNA. 422 00:24:04,677 --> 00:24:08,907 If she was sexually assaulted, there would potentially be some DNA there 423 00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:10,518 that we could compare. 424 00:24:11,917 --> 00:24:14,087 But Edward had an airtight alibi. 425 00:24:15,287 --> 00:24:16,957 The night of Heather’s murder, 426 00:24:16,989 --> 00:24:19,559 he had a party with six or seven of his friends. 427 00:24:19,591 --> 00:24:24,301 Many of those friends decided to crash at his house. 428 00:24:24,330 --> 00:24:28,070 Those friends corroborated Edward Nixon’s version of events, 429 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:31,300 and said that he indeed did have a party 430 00:24:31,337 --> 00:24:33,237 on those particular days 431 00:24:33,272 --> 00:24:35,472 and was there the entire time. 432 00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:39,305 He was thus eliminated as a suspect. 433 00:24:42,047 --> 00:24:44,817 At this point in the investigation, we’ve talked to... 434 00:24:44,850 --> 00:24:48,120 the guy that we know has seen her last. 435 00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:51,563 We’ve talked to the guy that people thought she might have been with last. 436 00:24:52,691 --> 00:24:54,791 We’ve talked to the former boyfriend. 437 00:24:54,827 --> 00:24:56,697 We’ve talked to the current boyfriend. 438 00:24:56,729 --> 00:24:57,999 [woman screaming] 439 00:24:58,030 --> 00:25:01,270 [screams] Help me! 440 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:04,300 So, now the focus kind of comes back to the evidence at hand. 441 00:25:05,738 --> 00:25:08,008 By now, the autopsy’s come in 442 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,980 and she did have trauma to her skull. 443 00:25:13,712 --> 00:25:15,612 The hyoid bone had also been broken, 444 00:25:15,647 --> 00:25:17,977 so we knew at that point, that the manner of her death 445 00:25:18,017 --> 00:25:20,017 was strangulation. 446 00:25:20,052 --> 00:25:22,492 [Arntfield] His own hands, uh... a clock. 447 00:25:22,521 --> 00:25:24,421 These are weapons of opportunity. 448 00:25:25,758 --> 00:25:27,488 We have a very chaotic scene 449 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:30,396 and it suggests that we have what is known as a "disorganized offender." 450 00:25:30,429 --> 00:25:31,459 [crying] 451 00:25:31,497 --> 00:25:35,067 Somebody who has certain existing fantasies. 452 00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:38,000 Who arrived that night... expecting... 453 00:25:38,037 --> 00:25:39,667 to probably rape and murder Heather, 454 00:25:41,073 --> 00:25:43,383 but who didn’t really have a fully-formed plan. 455 00:25:44,943 --> 00:25:47,983 [Massey] The autopsy also was able to... 456 00:25:48,013 --> 00:25:50,653 conclude that she had been sexually assaulted. 457 00:25:50,682 --> 00:25:54,222 And, uh, that we did recover semen. 458 00:25:54,253 --> 00:25:56,723 So now we had DNA for comparison, 459 00:25:56,755 --> 00:26:00,585 that we could compare the DNA that had been collected to date 460 00:26:00,626 --> 00:26:03,126 with the people we had already conducted interviews of. 461 00:26:04,763 --> 00:26:06,773 [Newman] The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation 462 00:26:06,799 --> 00:26:08,929 compared that DNA sample 463 00:26:08,967 --> 00:26:11,037 to the known DNA samples 464 00:26:11,070 --> 00:26:13,610 that they had obtained from the several suspects. 465 00:26:15,474 --> 00:26:18,384 All of the suspects were eliminated. 466 00:26:22,081 --> 00:26:24,281 The officers quickly realize 467 00:26:24,316 --> 00:26:26,786 that they are now back to square one 468 00:26:26,819 --> 00:26:28,219 in the investigation. 469 00:26:29,721 --> 00:26:33,531 [Massey] I do think if you don’t have a connection to these victims, 470 00:26:33,559 --> 00:26:37,299 then you’re not gonna be successful working these kind of cases. 471 00:26:37,329 --> 00:26:40,369 Because you are trying to bring justice to this person 472 00:26:40,399 --> 00:26:42,629 that can no longer speak and tell their story. 473 00:26:42,668 --> 00:26:45,238 You have to be that voice for them. 474 00:26:45,270 --> 00:26:48,240 [narrator] With no suspects and a new school year looming, 475 00:26:48,273 --> 00:26:50,983 panic is growing in Murfreesboro. 476 00:26:51,009 --> 00:26:53,779 The anxiety particularly affected 477 00:26:53,812 --> 00:26:56,012 the women in the Murfreesboro community. 478 00:26:57,282 --> 00:27:00,552 The MTSU students became anxious 479 00:27:00,586 --> 00:27:03,556 because they knew that somewhere in their community, 480 00:27:03,589 --> 00:27:06,489 there was someone who was capable of murder... 481 00:27:06,925 --> 00:27:08,055 and rape. 482 00:27:08,093 --> 00:27:09,933 [woman screaming] 483 00:27:09,962 --> 00:27:11,502 [Flowers] They wanted to feel safe. 484 00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:13,730 [woman screaming] 485 00:27:13,765 --> 00:27:16,295 And knowing there was a killer on the loose, 486 00:27:16,335 --> 00:27:17,745 it was sort of hard to do. 487 00:27:17,769 --> 00:27:20,309 [woman screaming] 488 00:27:20,339 --> 00:27:23,139 Asking, "Why did it happen? Who’s responsible? 489 00:27:23,175 --> 00:27:24,385 Could this happen to me?" 490 00:27:24,810 --> 00:27:27,080 [gasping] 491 00:27:27,112 --> 00:27:29,182 [screaming] 492 00:27:37,122 --> 00:27:39,522 [narrator] Having eliminated all of their suspects 493 00:27:39,558 --> 00:27:41,558 in the rape and murder of Heather Maples, 494 00:27:42,861 --> 00:27:45,831 detectives shift their focus to the forensics, 495 00:27:45,864 --> 00:27:49,604 hoping the results will point them in the direction of the killer. 496 00:27:49,635 --> 00:27:52,245 Now the focus became the bloody fingerprint 497 00:27:52,271 --> 00:27:53,471 that was on the mattress. 498 00:27:55,307 --> 00:27:58,407 [Newman] The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation checked the fingerprint, 499 00:27:58,443 --> 00:28:00,613 first to see if it was Heather Maples’. 500 00:28:00,646 --> 00:28:01,646 It was not. 501 00:28:02,581 --> 00:28:04,781 They put the fingerprint 502 00:28:04,816 --> 00:28:06,846 in the AFIS system, 503 00:28:06,885 --> 00:28:09,115 a nationwide database of fingerprints. 504 00:28:11,323 --> 00:28:13,433 [Massey] Then I got a phone call 505 00:28:13,458 --> 00:28:15,088 that they’d actually gotten a hit 506 00:28:15,127 --> 00:28:17,227 on the fingerprint itself. 507 00:28:17,262 --> 00:28:19,632 Everything for me stopped at that time because 508 00:28:19,665 --> 00:28:21,405 it’s like hitting the lottery. 509 00:28:22,801 --> 00:28:25,071 We’ve got someone to look at for sure now. 510 00:28:26,338 --> 00:28:29,438 [narrator] The fingerprint belongs to a 22-year-old man 511 00:28:29,474 --> 00:28:30,844 named Brandon Bowling. 512 00:28:32,244 --> 00:28:35,314 Brandon submitted his fingerprints for a job application 513 00:28:35,347 --> 00:28:36,917 with a company at some point, 514 00:28:36,949 --> 00:28:40,049 and that company had done a background check on him 515 00:28:40,085 --> 00:28:42,745 and had submitted those fingerprints into the AFIS system. 516 00:28:46,959 --> 00:28:50,099 So, now we’ve got a person of interest. 517 00:28:52,331 --> 00:28:53,571 We gotta find out 518 00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:55,769 does Brandon Bowling live in Murfreesboro? Who is this guy? 519 00:28:57,469 --> 00:28:59,669 [woman screaming] 520 00:29:03,675 --> 00:29:04,975 What we’re able to discover is 521 00:29:05,010 --> 00:29:08,250 Brandon Bowling was originally from Memphis, Tennessee, 522 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,720 was actually a student here at Middle Tennessee State University. 523 00:29:12,951 --> 00:29:15,091 He did have a 2012 arrest 524 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,860 for public intoxication, trespassing, disorderly conduct. 525 00:29:19,625 --> 00:29:21,995 Uh, those charges were ultimately, 526 00:29:22,027 --> 00:29:24,157 uh, dismissed. 527 00:29:24,196 --> 00:29:27,696 It’s hard to think that a guy who got arrested for a public intox 528 00:29:27,733 --> 00:29:29,773 has now made the leap 529 00:29:29,801 --> 00:29:32,841 to raping someone, and ultimately murdering them. 530 00:29:32,871 --> 00:29:36,111 That’s a pretty huge leap right there. 531 00:29:36,141 --> 00:29:39,541 [narrator] While it’s hard to imagine a young man with no violent offenses 532 00:29:39,578 --> 00:29:41,708 committing such a brutal murder, 533 00:29:41,747 --> 00:29:44,047 investigators look into whether Brandon had 534 00:29:44,082 --> 00:29:45,822 any previous contact with Heather. 535 00:29:48,654 --> 00:29:50,694 [Newman] Heather and Brandon Bowling 536 00:29:50,722 --> 00:29:52,362 are Facebook friends 537 00:29:52,391 --> 00:29:54,531 and they have communicated before 538 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,430 at Gentleman Jim’s Bar. 539 00:29:58,830 --> 00:30:02,230 So we knew that they did have some type of connection at some point, 540 00:30:02,267 --> 00:30:05,497 and Brandon resides here at an apartment complex 541 00:30:05,537 --> 00:30:08,807 within a couple miles of where Heather lives. 542 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,840 But, you know, there was a lot of blanks to be filled in 543 00:30:11,877 --> 00:30:14,677 and the only person that could do that was Brandon Bowling himself. 544 00:30:16,515 --> 00:30:20,055 [narrator] Police track down Brandon and bring him to the station for questioning. 545 00:30:21,219 --> 00:30:22,689 [Massey] He seemed to be very calm. 546 00:30:22,721 --> 00:30:25,221 He was not loud or boisterous 547 00:30:25,257 --> 00:30:27,827 or threatening or intimidating in any way 548 00:30:27,859 --> 00:30:29,989 that you would think this guy was capable 549 00:30:30,028 --> 00:30:32,028 of raping and murdering somebody. 550 00:30:34,633 --> 00:30:36,603 He just was a quiet, mild-mannered... 551 00:30:36,635 --> 00:30:37,745 college kid. 552 00:30:40,305 --> 00:30:43,035 Even when I confronted him about, "Hey, this is what we’re here for. 553 00:30:43,075 --> 00:30:45,445 This is a murder investigation about Heather Maples." 554 00:30:46,445 --> 00:30:48,455 He said, "We’re kind of friends." 555 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,450 Him and his other buddy had gone to her apartment a couple of times 556 00:30:51,483 --> 00:30:52,723 and hung out with her. 557 00:30:52,751 --> 00:30:55,991 She’d been over to his apartment at least once before. 558 00:31:06,398 --> 00:31:09,568 [Massey] She had been intoxicated, he’d been intoxicated. 559 00:31:09,601 --> 00:31:13,401 And that they might have had sex on that occasion. 560 00:31:13,438 --> 00:31:16,638 So really aloof about the whole sexual encounter. 561 00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:20,785 But we asked him if he would give us his DNA, which he did consent to. 562 00:31:20,812 --> 00:31:23,352 We asked when was the last time he’d seen her. 563 00:31:24,683 --> 00:31:26,823 He said it’d been at least six weeks ago. 564 00:31:28,787 --> 00:31:30,517 [Newman] But the bloody fingerprint 565 00:31:31,123 --> 00:31:32,893 of Brandon Bowling 566 00:31:32,924 --> 00:31:34,464 was the fingerprint 567 00:31:35,026 --> 00:31:36,386 found on the bed 568 00:31:36,428 --> 00:31:37,498 of Heather Maples. 569 00:31:37,929 --> 00:31:40,399 [woman screaming] 570 00:31:40,432 --> 00:31:42,032 [Newman] So Brandon Bowling 571 00:31:42,501 --> 00:31:43,901 was there 572 00:31:43,935 --> 00:31:45,495 on August the 7th. 573 00:32:00,485 --> 00:32:01,785 [Massey] We knew we kind of had him 574 00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:04,660 because if hadn’t been to her apartment in six weeks, 575 00:32:04,689 --> 00:32:07,159 there’s no way that bloody fingerprint’s on that mattress. 576 00:32:17,202 --> 00:32:20,542 [narrator] Police drill down on where Brandon was the night of the murder. 577 00:32:22,841 --> 00:32:26,711 Brandon Bowling tells the police that on August the 6th, 578 00:32:26,745 --> 00:32:32,385 he and his friend Kyle Waters went to Gentleman Jim’s bar 579 00:32:32,417 --> 00:32:36,347 and stay there until about 2:30 a. m. 580 00:32:36,388 --> 00:32:39,488 The morning of August 7th, 581 00:32:39,524 --> 00:32:42,064 after they leave, he and Kyle Waters 582 00:32:42,093 --> 00:32:44,463 go to Handlebars restaurant 583 00:32:44,496 --> 00:32:47,226 at approximately 2:40 a. m. 584 00:32:47,265 --> 00:32:51,395 and stay there until approximately 5:30 a. m. 585 00:32:52,671 --> 00:32:56,311 Brandon drops Kyle Waters off at his apartment, 586 00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:59,081 then goes to his home and goes to bed 587 00:32:59,878 --> 00:33:02,748 and gets up to go to his class 588 00:33:02,781 --> 00:33:04,351 at nine o’clock a. m. 589 00:33:20,465 --> 00:33:23,095 [narrator] Investigators track down Kyle Waters 590 00:33:23,134 --> 00:33:25,604 to see if he can backup Brandon’s timeline. 591 00:33:27,138 --> 00:33:29,368 [Massey] Kyle seemed like a really nice kid. 592 00:33:29,407 --> 00:33:31,407 He was very meek, mild-mannered, 593 00:33:31,443 --> 00:33:34,083 very polite and very well spoken. 594 00:33:34,112 --> 00:33:36,012 He admitted he knew Heather as well. 595 00:33:36,047 --> 00:33:38,247 He had been to her apartment with Brandon, 596 00:33:38,283 --> 00:33:39,883 probably two or three months ago. 597 00:33:50,929 --> 00:33:53,559 [woman screaming] 598 00:33:53,598 --> 00:33:56,428 [Massey] So now Kyle’s statement becomes really important 599 00:33:56,468 --> 00:33:59,968 because maybe Kyle’s involved in this murder too. 600 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,310 We did ask him to submit his DNA as well, 601 00:34:04,342 --> 00:34:05,512 which he did agree to do. 602 00:34:06,945 --> 00:34:11,385 [Newman] Kyle Waters verifies that he was with Brandon Bowling 603 00:34:11,416 --> 00:34:13,716 the night of August 6th. 604 00:34:13,752 --> 00:34:17,592 He also establishes that they went to Handlebars restaurant. 605 00:34:18,456 --> 00:34:22,686 They leave Handlebars at 3:45 a. m. 606 00:34:23,628 --> 00:34:26,098 They go to the Kroger store. 607 00:34:26,131 --> 00:34:28,431 He says they leave the Kroger store 608 00:34:28,466 --> 00:34:30,996 sometime shortly after 4:00 a. m. 609 00:34:31,036 --> 00:34:34,866 And then Brandon drops Kyle off at Kyle’s apartment. 610 00:34:36,441 --> 00:34:39,611 And that is the last time that he saw Brandon Bowling. 611 00:34:41,179 --> 00:34:42,309 At this point, 612 00:34:42,347 --> 00:34:45,617 the police have two different versions of what happened 613 00:34:45,650 --> 00:34:49,320 August 7th concerning Brandon Bowling and Kyle Waters. 614 00:34:53,158 --> 00:34:56,258 One of the two is not telling the truth. 615 00:34:56,294 --> 00:34:59,204 Is it because one of them may be the murderer? 616 00:35:01,232 --> 00:35:03,302 [woman screaming] 617 00:35:03,335 --> 00:35:06,375 Or is it because both of them were involved 618 00:35:06,404 --> 00:35:08,214 in the murder of Heather Maples? 619 00:35:11,176 --> 00:35:12,306 [thudding] 620 00:35:13,478 --> 00:35:16,478 [woman screaming] 621 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,689 [narrator] Investigators are closing in on Heather Maples’ killer. 622 00:35:23,722 --> 00:35:27,562 But is it Brandon Bowling? Kyle Waters? 623 00:35:27,592 --> 00:35:29,532 Or did they commit the crime together? 624 00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:31,962 [woman screaming] 625 00:35:35,867 --> 00:35:38,897 [Massey] Kyle, he actually broke down in the interview. 626 00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:43,340 And then I thought, 627 00:35:43,375 --> 00:35:46,185 "Hey, man, we’ve broke this guy. He was there. 628 00:35:46,211 --> 00:35:49,581 He was involved because he’s fixing to give us a confession." 629 00:35:55,487 --> 00:35:57,517 Kyle got his composure back 630 00:35:57,555 --> 00:35:59,885 and was like, "Man, I can’t believe my friend would do that." 631 00:36:01,426 --> 00:36:03,186 We were able to go back now 632 00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:05,558 and recover these videos from Kroger. 633 00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:12,836 And we were able to see that Kyle and Brandon were in Kroger around 4:00 a. m. 634 00:36:16,808 --> 00:36:19,238 [Newman] At this juncture, the police have established 635 00:36:19,277 --> 00:36:20,977 that Brandon Bowling 636 00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:23,782 has not told the truth about his whereabouts 637 00:36:23,815 --> 00:36:25,685 during the crucial time period. 638 00:36:26,284 --> 00:36:28,824 Between 2:23 a. m. 639 00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:31,193 when Heather sends her last text 640 00:36:33,625 --> 00:36:36,765 and 9:00 a. m. when Heather’s body was discovered. 641 00:36:39,330 --> 00:36:41,900 However, police do have both the DNA 642 00:36:41,933 --> 00:36:44,043 of Kyle Waters and Brandon Bowling. 643 00:36:45,704 --> 00:36:48,074 When the DNA results come back, 644 00:36:48,106 --> 00:36:49,306 they verified 645 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:51,310 that Kyle Waters’ DNA 646 00:36:51,342 --> 00:36:54,152 was not the DNA found in the rape kit, 647 00:36:54,179 --> 00:36:56,609 but the DNA of Brandon Bowling 648 00:36:57,115 --> 00:36:58,755 is a match. 649 00:36:58,783 --> 00:37:01,453 [woman screaming] No! Help me! 650 00:37:01,486 --> 00:37:03,286 [Newman] We also know that it was 651 00:37:03,321 --> 00:37:05,921 Brandon Bowling’s bloody fingerprint 652 00:37:05,957 --> 00:37:09,657 that was found next to Heather’s shoulder. 653 00:37:09,694 --> 00:37:12,834 And that Brandon assaulted Heather. 654 00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:37,385 [Massey] He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy capable of doing that 655 00:37:37,422 --> 00:37:40,392 and then you actually sit in the room with him 656 00:37:40,425 --> 00:37:42,795 and see that he never breaks. 657 00:37:42,827 --> 00:37:45,927 I mean, he never shows any remorse whatsoever, that’s the thing. 658 00:37:46,731 --> 00:37:48,431 Which makes you realize 659 00:37:49,501 --> 00:37:51,871 that there are predators amongst us. 660 00:38:02,547 --> 00:38:06,847 [Flowers] He was a clean-cut looking guy that you would never expect, 661 00:38:06,885 --> 00:38:09,655 you know, to turn into a vicious killer. 662 00:38:09,687 --> 00:38:12,187 [Stockdale] We think that these monsters who are out there 663 00:38:12,223 --> 00:38:13,863 are always observable to us 664 00:38:13,892 --> 00:38:15,162 and look a certain way. 665 00:38:15,193 --> 00:38:17,433 They’re frightening or they have criminal records. 666 00:38:17,462 --> 00:38:20,362 But it can be the person next door. The person that you know. 667 00:38:21,466 --> 00:38:23,726 But, in fact, a third of men say 668 00:38:23,768 --> 00:38:25,168 that they would commit a rape 669 00:38:25,203 --> 00:38:27,843 if they weren’t going to get caught. 670 00:38:27,872 --> 00:38:29,342 From a psychological standpoint, 671 00:38:29,374 --> 00:38:32,844 it’s what allows some of those individuals 672 00:38:32,877 --> 00:38:35,007 with those fantasies to progress 673 00:38:35,046 --> 00:38:36,606 towards acting on them. 674 00:38:37,982 --> 00:38:39,082 [woman screaming] 675 00:38:39,117 --> 00:38:41,587 [narrator] Detectives can now piece together 676 00:38:41,619 --> 00:38:43,949 Heather Maples’ final 24 hours. 677 00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:49,628 [Newman] On August the 7th of 2015, 678 00:38:49,661 --> 00:38:52,731 David O’Donnell drives Heather home 679 00:38:52,764 --> 00:38:55,474 at approximately 2:15 a. m. 680 00:38:58,102 --> 00:39:02,572 Heather sent her last text at 2:23 a. m. 681 00:39:02,607 --> 00:39:04,137 and then falls asleep. 682 00:39:05,743 --> 00:39:11,453 Brandon drops Kyle off at his apartment and home at about 4:08. 683 00:39:11,482 --> 00:39:13,822 [Massey] And Brandon makes his way to Heather’s apartment. 684 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:17,720 The door was unlocked 685 00:39:17,755 --> 00:39:19,315 because she hadn’t been able to lock it because she didn’t have her keys. 686 00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:21,927 He’s able to make entry into her apartment 687 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,860 and discovers her on the bed, 688 00:39:25,163 --> 00:39:27,003 and then whatever 689 00:39:27,799 --> 00:39:30,269 perverse sickness that’s in with him 690 00:39:30,301 --> 00:39:32,501 takes over and then it just escalates. 691 00:39:32,537 --> 00:39:33,637 [woman screaming] 692 00:39:33,671 --> 00:39:35,271 [Newman] There was an altercation. 693 00:39:35,306 --> 00:39:38,636 He strikes her with an alarm clock 694 00:39:38,676 --> 00:39:40,876 and renders her semi-conscious. 695 00:39:44,849 --> 00:39:50,649 After the rape, Brandon Bowling strangles to death Heather Maples. 696 00:39:50,688 --> 00:39:53,158 [woman screaming] 697 00:39:57,996 --> 00:39:59,456 And then leaves the apartment. 698 00:40:01,833 --> 00:40:03,873 [Massey] The why always kind of plagues you 699 00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:07,272 because that’s the one thing, most of the time, you never really get a true answer to, 700 00:40:07,305 --> 00:40:08,675 is why did you do this? 701 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:13,481 [narrator] Brandon Bowling is charged with the aggravated rape 702 00:40:13,511 --> 00:40:16,011 and first-degree murder of Heather Maples. 703 00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:22,347 [Newman] As further proof, the police had sought a search warrant 704 00:40:22,387 --> 00:40:25,587 for the cell phone of Brandon Bowling 705 00:40:29,527 --> 00:40:31,227 and found a video 706 00:40:31,262 --> 00:40:33,702 that was taken on August the 7th, 707 00:40:34,232 --> 00:40:35,702 2015. 708 00:40:36,567 --> 00:40:39,497 The time was 5:27 a. m. 709 00:40:40,571 --> 00:40:43,071 On the video, you see Heather Maples. 710 00:40:44,208 --> 00:40:47,808 You can see Brandon is shooting the video. 711 00:40:47,845 --> 00:40:52,745 You then realize that you are watching the final minutes 712 00:40:52,784 --> 00:40:55,554 of the life of Heather Maples. 713 00:40:58,890 --> 00:41:01,730 [Stockdale] He is not only raping and assaulting Heather, 714 00:41:01,759 --> 00:41:05,499 he feels like he has the power to also rewatch this again 715 00:41:05,530 --> 00:41:08,830 for his own sexual satisfaction. 716 00:41:08,866 --> 00:41:11,596 This could be the case of sleeping beauty syndrome 717 00:41:11,636 --> 00:41:13,496 where the fantasy is that 718 00:41:13,538 --> 00:41:16,338 in the midst of... of committing a sexual offense, 719 00:41:16,374 --> 00:41:18,544 this person will wake up in fear 720 00:41:18,576 --> 00:41:22,046 and this may be something that they’d want for their own gratification. 721 00:41:23,748 --> 00:41:26,348 [Massey] Had we not caught Brandon Bowling, 722 00:41:26,384 --> 00:41:29,054 I... I think he would have continued on. 723 00:41:29,087 --> 00:41:31,117 And I believe somewhere in his past 724 00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:34,925 that he’s probably been a sexual predator before with women. 725 00:41:34,959 --> 00:41:36,759 [woman screaming] 726 00:41:36,794 --> 00:41:39,534 Maybe he has the makings of a serial killer 727 00:41:39,564 --> 00:41:41,434 and she just happened to be his first victim. 728 00:41:44,235 --> 00:41:47,965 [narrator] At trial, Brandon Bowling pleads guilty to second-degree murder 729 00:41:48,006 --> 00:41:50,106 and aggravated rape. 730 00:41:50,141 --> 00:41:52,911 He is sentenced to 40 years for the murder 731 00:41:52,944 --> 00:41:54,854 and 15 years for the rape. 732 00:41:56,614 --> 00:42:00,994 [Newman] Ultimately, no one deserves to be raped or murdered 733 00:42:01,019 --> 00:42:03,419 because they have been drinking. 734 00:42:03,454 --> 00:42:06,824 No one deserves to be raped or murdered 735 00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:10,658 because they have male friends or they socialize 736 00:42:10,695 --> 00:42:11,635 at a bar. 737 00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:17,101 And especially, Heather Nicole Maples 738 00:42:17,135 --> 00:42:20,075 did not deserve to be murdered 739 00:42:20,104 --> 00:42:22,714 and she did not deserve to be raped. 740 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:27,035 [Massey] I always want to remember Heather frozen in time 741 00:42:28,513 --> 00:42:31,853 as the carefree, loving person that she was, 742 00:42:31,883 --> 00:42:33,583 and loved by so many. 743 00:42:33,618 --> 00:42:34,818 She had tons of potential. 744 00:42:34,852 --> 00:42:36,952 And, you know, that’s the shame of it. 745 00:42:36,988 --> 00:42:40,018 But that won’t change how she lived, 746 00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:41,628 the time she was on this Earth.