here again is dennis murphy. s d. . >> >> reporter: it was may 5th, 2014. the car was at the head of the driveway. lights on and two county detectives arriving to try to figure out what had happened to the young woman dead in the drivers seat. detective mike ryan and captain steve welker in the first minutes of what would be a years long investigation. >> mike and i arrived at about the same time. >> did the scene explain itself to you? >> we could see the basics of what had happened. >> reporter: their victim brandy daniels had been shot three times at close range. crime scene techs would later recover three shell casings and a clip for a semi-automatic pistol. brandy's purse and phone were beside her. >> we eliminated robbery -- almost immediately. because there was an amount of money there that somebody woulda took if it would've been a robbery. >> reporter: as the csi's took their photos and estimated bullet trajectories, gathered blood, dna, brandy's mom, sister, and fiancee watched on in blank horror. >> what do you remember about the rest of that nig

here again is dennis murphy. >> reporter: it was may 5th, 2014. the car was at the head of the driveway. lights on and two county detectives arriving to try to figure out what had happened to the young woman dead in the drivers seat. detective mike ryan and captain steve welker in the first minutes of what would be a years long investigation. >> mike and i arrived at about the same time. >> did the scene explain itself to you? >> we could see the basics of what had happened. >> reporter: their victim brandy daniels had been shot three times at close range. crime scene techs would later recover three shell casings and a clip for a semi-automatic pistol. brandy's purse and phone were beside her. >> we eliminated robbery -- almost immediately. there was an amount of money there that somebody woulda took if it would've been a robbery. >> reporter: as the csi's took their photos and estimated bullet trajectories, gathered blood, dna, brandy's mom, sister, and fiancee watched on in blank horror. >> what do you remember about the rest of that night? >> s

once again, here's dennis murphy. >> imagine for a minute you're dalia dippolito. homicide detectives in a police interrogation room are accusing you of plotting your husband's murder. dalia didn't know it then, but her husband, michael dippolito, was still very much alive and was about to come face to face with his wife of six months, who seemed to want him dead. >> i'm thinking in my head, i'm lucky, i'm lucky, but i'm like i'm so screwed right now. the worst day in the world. >> before waking up that day, michael dippolito was clueless police thought his wife of six months had hired a hit man to kill him. instead he believed he and dalia had begun a loving new chapter together. they were about to start a family. she told him she was pregnant. dalia was at the gym when those tv cameras from the reality show "cops" captured the moment police knocked on mike's front door. >> police department. open your door. i'm with the boynton police department. can you talk to you? >> yes, for sure. >> we say, listen, this is what we're doing. >> he says, your wife is going to

once again, here is dennis murphy. >> reporter: imagine for a minute you're dalia dippolito. homicide detectives in a police interrogation room are accusing you of plotting your husband's murder. dalia didn't know it then, but her husband michael dippolito was still very much alive, and was about to come face to face with his wife of six months, who seemed to want him dead. >> i'm thinkin' in my head, "i'm lucky. i'm lucky." but i'm like, "i'm so screwed right now." the worst day in the world. >> reporter: before waking up that day, michael dippolito was clueless police thought his wife of six months had hired a hit man to kill him. instead, he believed he and dalia had begun a loving new chapter together. they were about to start a family. she told him she was pregnant. dalia was at the gym when those tv cameras from the reality show "cops" captured the moment police knocked on mike's front door. >> police department open your door! sorry, i'm srgt. sheridan from the boynton police department. >> yes, hi. >> can i talk to you? >> yes, for sure. >> we say, "hey, listen, this

here is dennis murphy with "unspeakable." >> reporter: the scented candles were lit. the jacuzzi jets turned on high. it was a belated anniversary evening, but not some big blow out. sandra and jaime really weren't that kind of couple. >> they were just always so kind to each other. and always very respectful. >> reporter: it was really the start of a life victory lap for the two. they'd raised a daughter, juggled all the usual things that families do, and now retirement for jaime was right around the corner. >> they sat there and they talked about the future, and what they were looking forward to. >> reporter: but the future for these two would last no longer than the flame on that candle. by the next afternoon, there would be blood, lots of it. somehow, someone had turned a cozy celebration into a monstrous crime scene. >> it was just -- it was horrible. >> what in the world had happened in that house? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: the story of the two begins as high school meet-cute. sandra, the new girl from laredo assigned a seat in her houston classroom just i

dennis murphy: the officer was direct with dalia. he said there'd been an intruder in the house, and several shots were fired. is your husband michael? ok, i'm sorry to tell you, ma'am. he's been killed. (crying) he's been killed, ma'am. no, dear god. listen. no. i want to see him. frank ranzie: i can't let you see him, ma'am. we have to do our job. dennis murphy: michael dippolito, her husband of six months, gunned down in their townhouse,

here's dennis murphy with "written in blood." >> reporter: if year-round water is on your thing, once the one-time model and flight attendant got sand in her shoes, she never looked back. >> she loved the beach, diving, boating, that life. >> her friend worked the counter at american airlines in tampa with karen. if you were a frazzled passenger. who isn't these days? karen was the antidote. exactly the right agent to bump into to get you on your way. >> karen was very pretty. she was smart. smiled all the time. funny. >> reporter: but when the always capable and reliable karen didn't show up for her saturday morning shift on october 11th, 2003, clearly, something was wrong. her boyfriend had tried calling her at home. >> when she wasn't at work or answering her calls, i began to get worried, but it was a couple hours before i really got panicky about it. >> reporter: the boyfriend drove over to karen's condo, the front door was unlocked. a bad sign. he said he stepped inside and looked to the right to the kitchen. >> i saw her body and i knew immediately there was no doubt in my mind

here again is dennis murphy with "the night hannah hill disappeared." >> the trial of denny ross for rape and murder had collapsed. years passed with the akron police department getting kicked in the teeth for losing the conviction with what so many people called sloppy police work. >> people remembered the case. it goes down as an akron pd fumble. >> unfortunately, that's probably the way it's remembered by most. but defending ourselves is not what we're concerned with. solving the case is what we're concerned with. >> with a team of detectives and prosecutors jerry hughes, now lieutenant hughes, toiled away in hopes of a second chance at convicting denny ross. >> the case went careening into years of appeals in the state, federal, and the ohio supreme court. >> finally the ohio supreme court overturned lower court decisions and ruled that denny ross could be retried for hannah's murder. 13 years after hannah's death the second trial began. hannah's mother was dreading it, said best friend tara. >> kim said, "i have to be here every day." and i know that was probably hard for her. b

here again is dennis murphy. >> reporter: it was may 5th, stwort. of the car was at the head of the driveway, lights on and two county detectives arriving to try to figure out what had had happened to the young woman dead in the driver's seat. detective mike ryan and captain steve welker in the first minutes of what would be a years long investigation. >> mike and i arrived at about the same time. >> reporter: did the scene explain itself to you? >> we could see the basics of what had happened. >> reporter: their victim, brandy daniels, had been shot three times at close range. crime scene techs would recover three shell casings and a clip for a semiautomatic pistol. brandy's pictures and phone were beside her. >> we eliminated robbery almost immediately because there was an amount of money there that somebody would have tuck. >> reporter: as the csis took photos, gathered blood, dna, brandy's mom, sister, and fiance watched on in blank horror. what do you remember about the rest of that night? >> sitting in the vehicle behind her car just watching

here is dennis murphy. >> reporter: such an awful crime. the wife. the little boy and girl. >> my kids are dead. >> reporter: shot at point blank range. >> i was just dumbfounded. i was shocked, what i saw. >> reporter: how to comprehend it? >> i said, "what?" "what are you, what are you talking about?" "what are you saying?" >> reporter: the husband had an alibi. >> could he have slipped away for, say, ten minutes? >> he could've done anything. but he didn't. >> reporter: 13 years. three trials, appeals, reversals. and changing stories. >> the big picture here, charles, for a lot of people is it sounds like a crock. it doesn't pass the sniff test. >> there's a lot of things about this case that doesn't make sense. >> reporter: it has been a long, winding pursuit of justice as one family sees it. >> it just gets more and more wrong. >> i kind of adopted this saying that when you enter into the courtroom, lies become truth and the truth becomes lies. >> reporter: but there is another side. another family. one which sees a terrible miscarriage of justi

here is dennis murphy with "family affair." ♪ >> if ever there was a little girl lost, it was maya bod. >> from when i was little, i was always in the way. >> she survived a mother/daughter relationship quite unlike any you've ever heard. >> my mother is like trying to hug a cactus. you will eventually get hurt. >> and if the intersection of blood and money intrigues you, pull up a chair and stay awhile because there's plenty of both just ahead in this story. >> it's really an amazing, unusual, frightening story. >> what ended so badly in a darkened hotel room with the en curtains drawn, has its beginnings really in the warm sands of south florida. not the south beach of today with its hot bodies and pulsating dance clubs. that's all a marketing reinvention of a much-older miami beach. no, we need to go back 50 years or more when caddies with tail fins were pulling into the newest, glitziest hotel on the east coast. the fontainebleau. >> miami should be a great city. >> a hotel wheeler dealer ben novack built it and they came. steven gaines wrote about it in his book "fool's paradise".

here again is dennis murphy. >> in early 2002, david camm was found guilty of murdering his wife and children. stacy ooliana and kitty lyle, the new lawyers handling his appeal, were optimistic. >> it wasn't long odds, in my mind. because it was way over the top. >> what was over the top, they argued, was allowing all those women to testify to the sex, the groping, the come-ons. >> i mean, it was weeks after weeks, woman after woman. >> how is that relevant to what happened on september 28th? >> "jurors, this is a bad guy we got here?" >> absolutely. >> he's a louse of a husband and we're gonna tell you more than that. >> that was intentional, too. >> and guess what? two-years after the guilty verdict, the appeals court agreed: the women should never have been permitted to testify. the conviction was overturned. but the victory was short lived. a new prosecutor announced there would be a second trial. >> after review of the previous evidence and review of some new evidence that has come to light, i've decided to pursue the charges against david camm for the murders of kimberly camm,

here's dennis murphy with "out there in the dark."veri >> reporter: it was a chillier t than usual monday night in may 2014, as brandy daniels drove home from her shift at kohl's. zanesville in eastern ohio is the kind of not-too-big, not-too-small, city where you can be off the downtown grid and into wooded rolling hills in just a few minutes. and out there in the dark, that's where this 25-year-old single mom was heading -- back home to her daughter waiting to be tucked in at brandy's mom's house out in the country where she'd been living lately. brandy had been through a rough few months, years really. but one of the big reasons things were finally turning around for her was that soothing voice on the cellphone this night, her fiance, talking her home.nd >> i'm just talkin' to her as she's driving home. trying to drive a stick shift, which she'd just learned, talkin' on the phone.in >> reporter: the fiancee was craig berry, her older boyfriend. >> i'm a hairstylist, have been for years.as >> reporter: one day, brandy walked into cr

dennis murphy: here they are, three people at the door. i just started sobbing.