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♪

narrator: In the dead of winter,
a young girl disappears

without a trace.

It's a parent's living hell.

We know our baby's out there.
We don't know where she is.

No one just vanishes
into thin air.

The farther we get,
the greater

the possibility that something
bad has happened.

Narrator: Investigators discover
chilling surveillance footage.

We knew this was
about to be terrible.

Look at that.

Narrator: But can it reveal what
happened to the missing girl?

♪

♪

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it's the day 14-year-old
alianna defreeze has been

waiting for --

the school
father-daughter dance.

Damon: She called me
and asked me, "daddy,

could you take me to
the father and daughter dance?"

so I just crushed inside,

and it was --
it was nice.

Wytonya: She picked out
a dress, and she said,

"I'm gonna be beautiful
for my dad

when he pick me up,
I'm gonna be a princess."

I said,
"you always a princess.

"it doesn't matter if
it's the father-daughter

dance or not,
you're always a princess."

damon: I was kind of nervous,
because this was something

new for me, and I thought,
"my baby's growing up."

my mind flashed back to
when I got the news

that she was born, and I saw her
for the first time.

She was 14,
but she was still a child.

Just like,
"daddy, my friends at school,

"they talk about me,
because I tell 'em I still

play with dolls," I said, "well
those aren't your friends."

you know, you stay a child long
as you want to stay a child.

Wytonya has been alianna's
stepmom since alianna

was three years old.

I am alianna's other mother
instead of stepmother.

Narrator: The three parents
are close and work

together to bring up
their daughter.

We would always be a family,
we would always be together.

You know, raising alianna
was our number one priority

and making her --
keeping her happy.

Narrator: Alianna splits her
time between both her families.

Wytonya:
We stay on the east side

and donnesha
and her mother stay

on the other side of town.

I would pick her up after school
on a Friday, and she would

stay all weekend, and we would
do all kind of things together.

It's just like
a big old party.

♪

narrator: Sunday evening,

as usual, wytonya drives
alianna back to her birth mom,

donnesha's house so she can get
ready to start the school week.

I told her I love her,
I told her --

and she told me
she loved me, too.

She gave me a kiss,
and she said,

"I'll see you next weekend."

four days later,

[ phone ringing ]

wytonya gets an unexpected
call from alianna's birth mom.

Hello.

Donnesha called me,
and she asked me,

did we pick alianna
up from school?

And she said, "because she
didn't come home from school."

and I said,
"what do you mean

she didn't come
home from school?"

what?

At that point,
I was worried.

Damon was worried.

Narrator: Donnesha hangs up
and calls 911.

[ phone ringing ]

♪

armelli:
A missing persons case,

especially when the missing
person is a juvenile,

time is always
of the essence.

You know,
in 10 hours, nowadays,

a person could be
500 miles away.

So it's -- it's imperative that
we get on this right away.

Narrator: A detective
calls alianna's school.

He confers with the principal
of the school to find out

what kind of a student alianna
was, who she hung around with,

if she was in with
a good crowd or bad crowd.

The detective learned from
the principal that alianna was

not the type of girl that would
cut school or be late.

She was usually very punctual,
and it was highly unusual

for her to be missing.

Like probably most kids
her age, she wanted to fit in,

and she might go along with
something just to be

with the crowd.

Be right over.

You're just hoping
that she played hookey

or something like that.

Narrator: But wytonya senses
something is very wrong.

♪

alianna loved school.

Even when she was sick,
she would go to school.

Damon:
She was a good child.

This was totally out of
character for her, so I...

Automatically knew
something was wrong.

♪

armelli: An officer starts
touring the neighborhood.

He's gonna check spots where
kids are known to hang out.

He might go to mcdonald's,
might go to all

the little nooks and crannies
where kids will hang out

or congregate, and you know,
this is his neighborhood,

so he knows
where those spots are.

Narrator: As daylight fades,
fear rises.

As time goes on,
there is a larger chance that

something's wrong,
that they were hurt

or injured
or kidnapped or worse.

So now, more police officers
are getting involved.

They're calling in officers to

assist in searching
for alianna.

And they're checking
abandoned houses.

They're checking storefronts,
they're checking any

place this girl
could possibly be.

[ suspenseful music ]

narrator: Meanwhile,
the weather is getting worse,

the temperature is dropping,
and snow starting to fall.

Unable to stand by and wait,

alianna's parents
join the search.

Wytonya: Me and damon made
phone calls to our family,

our friends,
anybody we could think of

to come help us search
for alianna,

and then we went out,

and we just started
putting up flyers everywhere.

[ suspenseful music ]

damon: The plan was
to scour the whole area.

We did everything
that we possibly could do.

You know,
our baby's out there.

We don't know where she is.

Narrator: It's now 7 p.M.

More than 12 hours have passed
since alianna was last seen.

Armelli:
The later it gets at night,

the harder the search becomes.

It's cold outside --
if she's out there,

she's hunkered down somewhere
to stay warm

at a friend's house or,
you know,

who knows where she's at.

It was hard going home at
night, knowing your child is

outside in January,
zero-degree weather.

Narrator: Back at the p.D.,
investigators try to trace

alianna's cellphone,

but it's been switched off
since yesterday.

They examine her phone records
and social media,

but there was
no suspicious activity.

I reviewed every little
contact she makes.

There was absolutely nothing
that would interest

the detectives.

There was nothing there
that would help 'em out.

Narrator: They call hospitals,
but no one matching

alianna's description
has been admitted.

When you're looking for
a missing person, and you don't

have any success
right off the bat,

you go back to square one.

We know that
the last place that

anybody saw alianna
was on an rta bus.

Most of the modern buses
have interior cameras,

exterior cameras.

We know alianna
took two buses to school,

so we're looking for video
from both of those buses.

♪

narrator:
The next morning,

there's still
no sign of alianna.

But police
get their first lead...

Look here.

...Footage from the first bus
is ready to view.

Armelli: The video from
the buses is gonna

be crucial, because it's where
we know alianna was.

So we know she's gonna be

on one of those bus
videotapes somewhere.

Narrator: If detectives can spot
alianna on the footage,

they might be able
to find out where she is

before it's too late.

[ music climbing ]

freeze it there.

Narrator:
It's more than 24 hours

since 14-year-
old alianna defreeze

was last seen at the bus stop
on her way to school.

No one has any idea
where she is.

[ suspenseful music ]

investigators watch
surveillance footage

from the bus,

hoping it can lead them to
the missing girl.

The buses have video inside,

so you can see what
the passenger's doing when

they're riding the bus.

It also has a video
that allows us to see

who gets on and off
the bus.

So it's very important
and very good video to have.

Narrator: They cue the footage
to 6:30 a.M.,

around the time alianna's
mom said she got the bus.

Armelli: The description
that alianna's mother

gave the detective
was that she left

the house wearing
a blue head scarf,

a black coat,
and a school uniform.

So we know
what we're looking for.

Narrator: Inside the bus,
the lights are off,

and the camera records
in black and white.

At 6:41 a.M.,

the bus slows down and stops.

A girl boards the bus,

but detectives
can't make an I.D.

We switched to a different
camera on the inside of

the bus.

The interior lights
come on for a moment.

She's got a blue head scarf on,
but they can't see her face.

Narrator:
Detectives watch closely.

♪

[ music building ]

[ music building ]

look at that.

♪

armelli: She looks
towards the camera for

a brief moment, and she gets
positively identified

as alianna.

Narrator:
Detectives keep watching.

Armelli: The initial video of
her standing there on the bus,

alianna doesn't appear
to be in danger,

so it seems like everything up
to this point is normal.

Narrator:
Then, at 6:46 a.M.

Armelli: The video clearly shows
now the bus is driving

down the road,
it pulls up to another stop,

the interior lights come on,
a young man gets on the bus.

He has a word with alianna.

They kind of smile
at each other.

They're standing
next to each other,

and they end up sitting
down together.

They're smiling.
They're laughing.

They seem like friends.

Alianna doesn't appear
to be in any danger.

Maybe she had a boyfriend
that the mother was unaware of.

Maybe they got
off the bus together

and played hookey
or something like that.

Narrator:
Minutes tick by.

Armelli: Now it's about 6:50
in the morning,

and the bus is
rolling down the road.

Alianna gets up,

she walks towards
the front of the bus.

Narrator:
Detectives switch tapes

to the camera
covering the door.

She gets off
at the next stop.

The boy stays on.

So it's clear now
when she gets off the bus,

she's by herself, and they
both go their separate ways.

Narrator:
The bus drives away,

and alianna
disappears from view.

Detectives know nothing
happened to alianna

while she was on the bus.

She's now just half a mile
away from her school.

Armelli: The farther we get from
the time that alianna was

reported missing and that
we know she was last seen,

the greater the possibility
that something bad has happened.

It's not
a criminal matter as of yet.

This is just a missing person,

but everybody's trying to get
one step ahead of the game.

Narrator:
Detectives load up footage

from the bus's exterior camera,

hoping that it can reveal
what happened next.

[ suspenseful music ]

♪

armelli: So we can see alianna
walking in the same direction

the bus was traveling,
and as the bus starts

to take off again,

you can see alianna
making her way down

the sidewalk and crossing
the street as the bus

pulls out of view.

Narrator:
As the bus drives past,

detectives catch a final
glimpse of alianna standing on

the street corner.

It's 93rd and kinsman,
where alianna would

normally take her second bus
to school.

Armelli: At this point,
there was quite a bit of alarm

that went up
with everybody.

Kinsman is kind of
a tough neighborhood

for a young girl
to travel through.

There's a high instance of

homicides in that
particular neighborhood.

Narrator: Detectives
play back the footage.

Armelli: They want to look
at this a second time,

a third time,
a fourth time.

They're trying to track
the movements

of everybody
who's on the sidewalk

when alianna gets off the bus
to see if anybody followed her,

anybody had any contact with
her, anybody said anything.

Anybody who looked
at her sideways,

they want to look into.

They do identify
a man in a white coat

who kind of looks like
he may be following her

as she crosses the street.

The detectives now focus on
this guy in the white jacket.

Narrator: Investigators
recognize the man.

He was on the same bus
as alianna.

[ music climbing ]

armelli: They go backwards,
and they see

what he was doing
on the bus, if he was

looking at alianna,
if he was sitting close to her,

if he was keeping an eye on what
she was doing, just to see if

there's anything they can pick
up on that might lead them to

believe that this guy might be
involved in her disappearance.

[ music climbing ]

he was actually sitting
right behind her.

That may be a person of
interest in this case.

Narrator: Now investigators
need to know if

alianna made it
to her second bus

and if the man
in the white coat followed.

♪

outside on the cold streets of
cleveland, the search continues.

We had a bunch of
volunteers and police officers

and a lot of people --
we grouped up,

and they were out there

shoulder to shoulder,
foot to foot with us

in these blizzards.

We weren't taking
no for an answer.

We were running through brick
walls trying to find ali.

We were doing
whatever we had to do.

Feels like you --
you let your child down,

you know, they look
for you to protect them,

to nurture them, to guide them,
to lead them.

It was cold, it was snowing,
and we needed to find her.

Narrator: Police appeal to
the public for help,

and local press
pick up the story

of alianna's
disappearance.

Police are saying that alianna
defreeze was last seen getting

off of a bus near 93rd and
kinsman Thursday morning,

but since then,
no signs of her.

Nyorkor: People were scared --
in that neighborhood, you know,

they knew of other crimes,

they knew of other women
who were murdered.

And so there was
a fear that, man, did --

did something happen
to alianna

that happened to
those other women?

No one just
vanishes into thin air.

♪

narrator:
Back at the p.D.,

footage from
the second bus has arrived.

Investigators cue it up,

desperate to know
what happened to alianna.

Now we have the video from
the second bus to review,

and we're watching
that video, and we see

and know that alianna did
get on the second bus that

she normally gets on
every morning.

♪

[ chord strikes ]

♪

the detectives
are trying to hone in on

this guy in the white jacket
from the first bus.

♪

the guy in the white coat,
he's not around anymore.

He wasn't on that bus,

so he probably has absolutely
nothing to do with this.

Narrator: They rule him out
as a suspect and keep watching,

anxious to see what
happens next.

[ music climbing ]

normally, the bus
would drop her off

almost right
in front of the school.

However, on this morning,
alianna gets off a stop or two

before the school, at the corner
of 93rd and bessemer.

Nyorkor: She got on that bus,
but she didn't get off

at her usual stop --
she got off too early.

Narrator:
Detectives need to know why.

Maybe alianna went
to meet somebody.

Narrator: They speak to
alianna's friends and family,

but no one has
any idea why she would

get off the bus early.

Detectives also
identify the boy

alianna was speaking with
on her first bus,

but he tells them she planned
to go to school as normal.

With no new leads,
detectives refocus their search.

Now that detectives know that
alianna got off the bus

at 93rd and bessemer,

we're gonna kind of focus
on that area there.

Narrator:
Officers swarm the area,

desperate for clues.

They search
street by street,

but no one has seen
the missing girl.

Two blocks from
where alianna going off

the bus is a row of
derelict buildings.

Two uniformed police
officers enter

an abandoned house
on fuller avenue.

Looking through
these abandoned houses,

you're always on alert,
because you never know

what you're gonna find.

It's kind of dangerous.

[ suspenseful music ]

it was boarded up,
it was dark.

There was no electricity.

It was pitch black.

They knew something
bad had happened.

You know, you just have this --
this sinking feeling

in your stomach.

[ music climbing ]

narrator: It's three days
since 14-year-old

alianna defreeze vanished
without a trace

on her way to school.

Investigators have
spotted the teen on

surveillance footage,

getting off the bus
two stops too soon.

Cleveland police officers
are searching the area.

They reach a row
of abandoned houses just

two blocks from where detectives
saw alianna on camera.

♪

armelli:
Two uniformed police officers

enter an abandoned house
on fuller avenue.

And as they're searching
through the house,

they saw what appears
to be a trail

of blood on floor
of one of the rooms.

They follow that trail
into another room.

They see some clothing
and some personal articles

in the room.

They also found
some tools that were in

the room there that had
blood on the tools.

As these police officers look

a little bit further
in the room there,

they discover the body
of a young girl.

There's a lot of blood.

There was several injuries
to her body.

The injuries on her body,
the amount of blood in the room,

the implements that were found
in the room along with the body,

it was very gruesome
and very disturbing,

even for experienced
police officers.

At this point, the body that
they found was unidentifiable.

The I.D. Was tentative,

but based on the articles of
clothing and personal items

that they found in the room,

they believed that
to be alianna.

Narrator: Until medical
examiners confirm

the identity of the body,

police are unable
to inform alianna's family.

But news of the discovery
starts to spread,

and volunteers assisting in
the search alert the family.

I started crying,
and I told damon

that I needed
to see for myself

if it was her.

I said, "I need to know if
that's my baby back there"

and damon tried
to get back there,

but they wouldn't
let him back there.

There was a whole lot of
police presence.

[ crying incoherently ]

I just started
hollering and screaming,

because I just knew
it was her.

[ crying ]

I said, "just let me see
something, I mean anything.

"if you let me see
if it's her book bag,

"her coat that I had just
bought her,

"her hat, her gloves.

"whatever, anything --
y'all don't need nobody to come

"to the coroner's office
to identify her,

because we can do it
right now if it's her."

[ crying ]

damon and not knew in
our heart it with her.

We knew it.

Narrator:
An autopsy confirms the body

is 14-year-old alianna.

Somebody killed my daughter.

I'm just telling
myself somebody

actually killed
my freakin' daughter.

♪

I was enraged.

I was enraged.

Our precious, beautiful
alianna was no more.

Narrator:
At the crime scene,

forensic investigators
get to work.

Armelli: Now that the body
has been found,

it's -- the officers' focus
and responsibility has to shift

from searching for this young
girl to finding who did this.

The forensic team
take photographs,

collect dna evidence, blood,
search for fingerprints,

they'll collect all the physical
evidence that's around

and document and package
everything so it can be

sent to the crime lab
and analyzed further.

Those things may lead us
to a suspect,

but we're not gonna wait for
those results to come back.

There's gonna be
police officers on the streets

immediately after
her body is recovered,

and they're gonna be looking
for whoever did this,

see if they can locate
this guy as fast as possible.

Narrator: Desperate to get
this killer off the streets,

investigators scour the area
for clues.

Armelli: There's signs
all over the place

that say "video surveillance"
in this neighborhood here.

Those cameras
could lead detectives

straight to the murderer.

Armelli: They locate a church
right on the corner of fuller

and 93rd that has some video
cameras on the outside

of the building.

Narrator: The cameras
point at fuller avenue,

where alianna's body
was discovered.

Hopefully,
at least one of those cameras

captured somebody
doing something.

Narrator: Detectives get
copies of the footage

and bring it straight back
to the p.D. To view.

They cue the video
to 6:53 a.M.,

the time alianna got off her
second bus at the wrong stop.

They need to know if alianna
planned to meet someone.

Armelli: As the detectives
are reviewing the video

from the church,
it's kind of grainy.

Narrator:
Minutes go by.

There is no one around.

Then, at 7:13 a.M. --

They do pick up
an image of a person

walking down the street that
they believe might be alianna.

Nyorkor: On one camera
on one side of the street,

you see a short figure.

Narrator: Detectives compare
the image to footage

of alianna on the bus.

It looks like a match.

Her backpack
has a distinctive,

reflective strip.

Nyorkor: It's not very clear,
but you can see it's

a young woman
with her backpack,

and she's walking
across the street.

Narrator: It starts snowing,
making it even harder to see.

[ music climbing ]

[ music climbing ]

armelli:
As she approaches the corner,

they pick up
an image of a male.

Alianna kind of
took a step back.

[ suspenseful music ]

I don't know if
he might have said something

to her or she just
sensed something was not right.

Narrator: It is clear this
isn't a planned meeting.

[ suspenseful music ]

nyorkor:
It is so chilling watching

that surveillance video,
because you knew, you're like,

oh, man,

you know, this -- this --
this is about to be terrible.

Narrator:
What happens next

will haunt
investigators forever.

Look at that.

Jeez.

Narrator:
Detectives investigating

the horrific murder
of schoolgirl

alianna defreeze have found

surveillance footage
of what they believe to be

her final moments.

Freeze it there.

Armelli: A male approaches,

and she sensed something
was not right.

She stepped back.

We kind of see her step back,

like pause and look up.

Narrator:
Detectives zoom in on the man,

but the snow is
getting heavier,

and it's impossible
to get a clear view.

Police thought it was kind of
suspicious that he and alianna

had some kind of interaction,

had some kind of conversation.

Narrator: Alianna walks on
and disappears out of frame.

[ suspenseful music ]

just seconds later,
the man follows.

[ suspenseful music ]

we need every angle on them.

Narrator: Detectives load up
the tape from the second camera.

The camera is focused on
the parking lot,

but at the top of frame,

detectives can make out
alianna's legs.

[ suspenseful music ]

nyorkor: You see alianna
walk that way.

[ suspenseful music ]

you see them meet
at that corner.

[ suspenseful music ]

♪

then, you know, they walk
out of frame, and they're gone.

Narrator:
Detectives keep watching.

At 7:19 a.M.,

[ music climbing ]

jeez.

Armelli: Again, it's very grainy
and very hard to make out

who's who,

but you can see the image
of two people walking

down fuller avenue towards
the abandoned house

where alianna found.

Of these two people,

one of them is smaller,
and it appears that

the larger one is kind of
shuttling the smaller one

down the street.

Nyorkor:
And then they walk off frame,

and that was it.

We didn't see
anything else after that.

They walked off frame.

Narrator: This is the last image
of alianna alive.

Detectives are convinced
they have just watched

her abduction and that this man
is her killer.

They need to find him now.

Armelli: After the detectives
review these two pieces of video

from the church,

they decide to go backwards
and start looking backwards

earlier in the day
from those same cameras.

Narrator:
Early that morning,

it's not snowing,
and the image is clear.

Just after 5 a.M.,

they spot something.

[ music climbing ]

nyorkor:
You see a man, bald head.

You see him just slowly
walking up and down the street.

He goes out of frame.

Then, a little bit later,
you see him come back.

What is he doing?

Why would you be
out that time of night

unless you were up
to no good?

Narrator: Then, minutes before
alianna walks down the street,

the man returns.

Armelli: It was highly
unusual -- he's going nowhere.

He's just walking back
and forth, up and down.

Is he, like, strolling
the neighborhood,

looking for a victim?

Narrator: Police are sure
they're watching

alianna's killer hunting
for a victim,

but they have no idea
who he is or where he is now.

Meanwhile, police receive
reports from other women

who were approached by
a male in the same area,

matching their
suspect's description.

People who commit
these kind of crimes,

they're usually
not one-time offenders.

Narrator: Police believe
they could have dealt

with this offender before.

Armelli: At this point,
the detectives start searching

through their files,

looking at repeat offenders,
identifying anybody who may

kind of matches
the description of

the guy that they saw
in the earlier video.

It's a time-consuming search,
but until

the dna results are in,
it's investigators' best hope.

Alianna's manner of death
was grotesque and violent.

Guys like that,
they just belong in prison,

and that's the only place
for them to keep

everybody else safe.

♪

narrator: As detectives hunt
for their suspect,

the local community gathers
in honor of alianna.

Wytonya: There was people
everywhere, people was crying.

Damon took me over there,
but it was really hard.

I just felt like
I couldn't breathe.

My legs was weak.

It was -- it was hard to be over
there at that house to know

that my baby
was found in that house,

you know,
and she wasn't alive.

Now it's accepting the fact
that my daughter is not here.

It's accepting the fact that

her room would be empty.

Her bedroom
would be empty.

We won't hear her laughing,
all that good stuff.

Narrator: Back at the p.D.,
detectives' work has paid off.

They have identified
a suspect matching

the description of the man
seen on surveillance footage.

Armelli: The detectives
identify a male named

christopher whitaker
as a potential suspect,

the detectives look into
christopher whitaker's record,

and they learn that he's also
a registered sex offender.

In 2005, he was convicted
and sent to prison for four

years for assaulting a woman
and stabbing her in the neck.

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and christopher whitaker
is a very dangerous man.

They come up with a picture
from a previous arrest,

and when they compare that
picture to the male that

they see in the church video,
it's the same person.

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narrator: Just then,
the dna results come in.

It's a match.

Now, with the video
and the dna,

everything kind of
comes together.

The detectives realize

that it's christopher whitaker
who they saw

pacing outside
the church.

Christopher whitaker
who approached alianna

on the street corner,
and christopher whitaker

who ushers her down
the street to the house

where her body was found.

Now that the detectives have
identified christopher whitaker

as a suspect, they hand
the case over to

the u.S. Marshals
task force, the northern

ohio violent
fugitive task force.

Their job is to go out
and hunt down the worst of

the worst, the most violent
criminals in northern ohio.

We go after homicide
suspects all the time,

but somebody that
did this much evil, um,

you're a little bit, you know --
you're on high alert,

a little anxious.

Narrator:
Ready for a confrontation,

the team gears up
to take down a killer.

I wanted
to personally see him

go to jail for
the horrendous acts

that he committed
on that girl.

Narrator:
Investigators need to find

christopher whitaker
before he kills again.

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narrator:
Detectives investigating

the murder of 14-year-old
alianna defreeze

have identified
their prime suspect,

44-year-old
christopher whitaker.

U.S. Marshals go straight
to his last known address.

Nolan:
When we approach a door,

we automatically
assume the worst.

But we knew the potential of
evil that stood

behind that door --

it amps it up tenfold,
a hundredfold.

My partner and I both
looked at each other like,

"oh my god, like,

he's gonna get spooked.
He's gonna be on the run."

it seemed like an eternity.

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once that door opened up,
and I just see

this mountain of a man.

There he was,
christopher whitaker.

♪

when I grabbed him, it was
like actually touching

pure evil, and just knowing
what he did,

and when we grabbed him,

I mean, his wrists
were, like, just massive.

And we cuffed him.

We could only get, like, two
or three clicks on the cuff.

That's how massive he was.

It sickens me to think of
how big of a man this guy was

and how little she was
and what he did to her.

Armelli: Christopher whitaker
is arrested,

and he's brought down
to the homicide unit

for questioning.

Nolan: He knew that
he had been defeated,

that it was over.

He initially denied
any involvement.

Narrator: Detectives confront
him with dna evidence

and surveillance footage.

Armelli: He slowly but surely
admitted to being there.

He admitted handling
some of the tools.

He is charged with
aggravated murder.

♪

whitaker pleads not guilty
to the murder of

alianna defreeze.

Prosecutors showed the jury
what happened

on January 26, 2017.

♪

at 6:41 a.M.,

alianna gets on the bus,

♪

she catches another bus
going towards her school.

But at 6:53 a.M.,

she gets off
two stops too soon.

Nyorkor: Police were trying
to retrace alianna's steps

to figure out
why she got off

her bus stop too early,
but there was no reason

for her to stop.

I think she was confused.
It's dark.

Narrator: It's a case of
wrong place, wrong time,

as a confused alianna
walks along the street

where a killer
is lying in wait.

Armelli: Abandoned houses are
terrible for a neighborhood.

It's a great place
to take somebody

if -- if you're gonna
try and kidnap them.

Narrator: Christopher
whitaker approaches her...

...Then leads her away.

Armelli: Christopher whitaker
is a pretty big guy --

very bulky, very heavy,
very burly.

And for him to approach
a young 14-year-old girl

like that would be
very, very intimidating.

Nyorkor: Christopher whitaker

took alianna to that abandoned
home and murdered her.

And her parents had to use her
dental records to identify her.

I mean, it's just cruel.

It was cruel and evil.

There was no other
word for it.

Narrator:
On February 13, 2018,

the jury convicts
christopher whitaker for

the kidnapping and murder
of alianna defreeze.

He is sentenced to death.

In my opinion, nobody
deserved the death sentence

more than christopher whitaker.

Narrator: Whitaker is appealing
his death sentence.

Damon: She's gonna be 14
in my mind forever.

I don't know what a 21-year-old
ali looks like.

I don't know what a married
alianna looks like,

but, uh...

She wouldn't want us
to be sad.

She wouldn't want us
to be sad.

♪

narrator: Alianna's family
has set up

a foundation in her memory.

Wytonya: The mission of
the foundation is

to get transportation vehicles
so that

the children that take rta
to school right now,

today, we will be able to
transport those children

onto the alianna defreeze
safe transportation.

Damon: With this foundation,
we're making change

to demolish
abandoned structures,

to address
domestic violence,

homelessness, and police
community relations,

to make sure
our children are safe.

Wytonya: Don't ever think that
it can't happen to you,

because it can.

You never know
who's watching.

Somebody can just
take them just that fast,

and you don't even know it.

You'll turn around,
and they'll be gone.