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It haunts me to think that there are people out there

that could just throw somebody away like that.

A brutal killing...

Her body was in a state of decomposition.

She had gone through cycles of freezing and then thawing.

It was either she stayed or she wasn't going at all.

A dark mystery with more questions than answers.

She was screaming and crying.

She was telling US that it wasn't true, that we were lying.

She said, "if I ever find out

you're messing around with my husband, I'll kill you."

There's no question of the husband

is going to be someone that's going to be looked at.

There's only one person that had the opportunity

to commit this murder.

The truth will be revealed.

When people are competing for love,

they're prepared to act like animals.

Every day in North America,

dozens of people are murdered.

The key to solving the toughest of these homicides

lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life.

To crack the case,

detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline,

the minutes and hours containing evidence

that can help unlock the mystery and catch the killer.

On the coast of northern new england

lies the picturesque city of Portland, Maine.

Portland's a small city.

I mean, it's only about 65,000, 70,000 people.

It's a very quaint place to be. It's extremely nice.

Murder is very uncommon in Portland.

Violent crime is very low.

Well, you have a large metropolitan area

having hundreds of murders per year.

Portland, you know, you might go three or four.

But on a gray and chilly January afternoon,

factory worker Cary Scott

receives a phone call about his missing SUV.

Cary Scott had attempted months prior

to report his car had been stolen.

He was told at the time that it was joint property

because he was married.

So no actual official stolen report was put out.

Fast forward two months,

and Cary's friend happened to be walking through

the motel parking lot and he saw the red SUV.

He looked, he said, "boy, that looks like Cary's vehicle."

And so he called Cary and said,

"hey, is your plate number...?" And gave the plate number.

Cary said, "that's my... that's my truck.

I'm gonna come out and get it."

Two months earlier, Cary's SUV had disappeared

after being borrowed by his estranged wife,

Margarita Scott.

So Cary gets to the motel and went around

to the driver's side,

then he decided... He opened up the back door.

And when he looked in, he saw it was,

in fact, his wife, Margarita.

He immediately backed away from the vehicle.

He didn't try to pull her out of the vehicle to see

if she was okay or anything like that.

It was clear that Margarita had been there for some time.

I can only imagine how terrifying that was for him

to see after all that time.

To discard somebody in the way Rita was found,

I mean, she was, you know,

shoved behind the seat of a vehicle and then left.

I mean, I can't think of anything

more degrading than that.

It haunts me to think that there are people out there

that have the ability to not only commit the crime,

but then to just throw somebody away like that.

The way Margarita Scott's body is found

provides few answers about what actually happened to her

and raises more questions about who she was

and what her life was like.

Margarita Scott...

She was a really sympathetic figure.

She was an immigrant to the country,

but she graduated from a local high school.

She was working hard to make a life for herself in america.

The people who loved her care very deeply for her.

Tasked with investigating Margarita Scott's murder

are veteran homicide detectives rich Vogel,

Karl rybeck, and Scott pelletier.

When we arrived, there was snow on the ground,

it was cold.

I noticed already that there were not a lot of people around,

which for me is a good thing.

I'm always thinking about, "okay, scene preservation."

And so we went up, opened the doors,

and looked at what we had.

Me, personally, I thought it was a sex crime had taken place.

It just looked like something gone really bad.

And then the whole story started developing.

Margarita's body was in a state of decomposition.

She had gone through cycles of freezing

and then thawing just due to the fluctuation in the temperatures

and being in the back of the car.

She had sustained a gunshot wound to her neck.

The gun probably was a .40 caliber high point.

There was no signs within the vehicle

that there was any type of struggle.

There was no ballistics.

We didn't find any gunpowder residue.

We did not find any bullet holes.

You know, minimal blood.

We know, though, that the gun fired,

and a bullet not in the body,

so the bullet's got to be somewhere.

We're now looking for a crime scene.

When you see a drive-and-dump or you see a victim in the woods

or you see, like in this case, a victim concealed in a car,

the question is, "where did this murder happen?"

Because that's where most of your evidence

will be left behind.

And until you find that, you're sort of behind the eight ball.

Detectives begin their investigation

into Margarita Scott's murder

by focusing on the last 24 hours of her life,

starting with her husband, Cary.

The person that knows Margarita the best, obviously,

would be her husband, so we were very interested

in speaking with him right off the bat

to get the initial story behind what would have led Margarita

to end up in the backseat of the car

found in a motel parking lot.

When brought in for questioning,

Cary Scott tells detectives that he last saw

his estranged wife two months earlier on November 10, 2012.

Cary and Margarita

had been together for at least eight years.

They met in Florida and eventually moved back to Maine

so Margarita could be closer to her family.

The marriage between Margarita Scott and Cary Scott

was, I think it's safe to say, a unique one.

They had both come from Kazakhstan.

At the time that she had gone missing,

they were split up.

They had sort of gone their separate ways.

She wanted to be out of the house doing things more fun.

Cary was a workaholic.

He worked for a factory here in Portland,

building components for cars.

He would work very odd hours,

go to work at 2:00 in the morning

and work till whenever.

And it was just hard.

They had different lives and different schedules going.

They were fighting more.

And she seemed to get tied up with some rough people.

He really loved her,

but I think things were just out of hand.

He didn't know how to fix it.

So she had kind of moved out,

and he had no idea where she had been going and staying.

Cary tells the detectives

that he still believed

he and Margarita might get back together.

The day that Cary last saw her,

she had stayed with him at their place in westbrook

over the course of a night or a couple of previous nights.

But Cary reveals that when he arrived home

from work on November 10th, Margarita wasn't alone.

Cary comes home, and this is

when he finds her with Anthony Pratt.

Cary explains that during their separation,

Margarita had started dating Anthony Pratt,

a young man from New York.

It seems as though Cary Scott

knew what was going on at the very least.

He seemed to understand that Margarita Scott

had a relationship with Anthony Pratt.

He, I guess, was willing to

get over it in the short term, because he maybe felt like

she would come back to him eventually.

Cary says Margarita told him

she wanted to come back home, this time for good.

At 2:00 P.M., Cary agrees to drive Margarita and Anthony

back to the apartment where they've been staying.

The plan was to drop Anthony off

and Margarita get her belongings

and come back with Cary.

Now, she wouldn't let Cary drive them

directly to the house because she did not want Cary

to know where she had been staying.

So they wanted to be dropped off at the cumberland farms,

and he was not to follow them.

He waited there for 30 to 45 minutes,

and Margarita never returned.

And he just assumed that she had left him,

that that was the final straw

and she had chosen Anthony over him.

There's a basic principle in criminology and psychology

that the avoidance of pain is a more powerful motivator

than the pursuit of pleasure.

So his tolerating this infidelity,

his preparing to be humiliated and drive his wife

and her paramour around

is actually a better tradeoff than being without her.

But in spite of all that support,

if you want to call it that, circumstances don't change.

She still ends up dead, and he's the prime suspect.

The detectives ask Cary how Margarita ended up

with their SUV on November 10th.

Sometime during the early evening on the 10th,

around 8:00,

she came back to the house in westbrook

and she had a spare key because they shared the vehicle.

She then took the vehicle

and went back to where she had been staying

in the cumberland farms neighborhood.

He received a message from Margarita.

Just said, "Cary, I apologize for taking the vehicle.

I know you have to go to work.

I'll bring the vehicle back at 2:00."

Cary was angry. He had to be to work.

So he began to call to try to get a hold of Margarita.

And she never responded.

He thought that she finally left him

and she went to New York with the boyfriend.

And so Cary turned around and went to the westbrook police

to report his vehicle missing.

It was determined the vehicle was registered to both of them,

so westbrook police said, "well, we can't take

a stolen report on the vehicle.

It's rightfully hers as much as it is yours."

To the detectives,

a number of elements of Cary's story just don't add up.

Any time you're going to have a homicide like that,

the husband is gonna be someone that's gonna be looked at.

Cary's whole demeanor through this whole thing

made US pause.

Here you're talking about this woman that you love

and all this other stuff

and the things that he allowed to happen,

it was just crazy to me.

I think one motive would have been jealousy right off the bat.

And, you know, he would have had opportunity

if she was at the house.

Jealousy is a hair-trigger response

justified by the fact

that someone else is trying to take from them something

that they value.

When people are competing for our resources,

which includes love,

we're prepared to act like animals.

Detectives have zeroed in

on their first suspect in Margarita Scott's murder...

Her husband, Cary.

He's the last one to see her.

She's missing.

The vehicle's missing.

In order to narrow down their timeline

and determine if Cary is their killer,

detectives need to establish

when the SUV first arrived in the motel parking lot.

Basically, what we did is we went back

and we looked at police calls for service

that happened at the motel.

So as officers would spin

through the lot when their cameras were on,

we would see the red SUV parked there.

The first time that we saw it was on November 11th

at 2:38 in the morning.

The detectives can now be certain

that the SUV with Margarita's body inside

appeared in the parking lot

just six hours after she borrowed the vehicle from Cary,

making her time of death between 8:00 P.M.

And 2:38 A.M.

How did the vehicle get there?

Obviously, we wanted to know that.

What happened to Margarita Scott

during those six hours?

Maybe he was totally mad about what she was doing

and he's had enough of it.

He gets into a quarrel with her out of the jealousy he has.

It gets violent and he kills her.

Jealousy can drive a person to kill, to hurt, to stalk.

It's basically an insecurity in that person.

And then when it gets really bad,

your relationship is pretty much done,

but they don't want it to end.

They'd rather lose that person than have anyone else

have that person in their life.

When detectives questioned Cary

about where he was at 2:30 A.M.

When the SUV carrying Margarita's dead body

was seen arriving at the motel,

he tells them he was at work from 2:00 A.M.

Until 2:00 P.M. on November 11th.

When we went back and did the forensics

on Cary's cell phone,

as well as the interviews of his employers,

his friends, his neighbors, we were able to show

that everything that Cary told US about where he was,

the time frames that he gave US,

they all matched up.

We were able to see through phone records

on Margarita's phone all the times that he was calling,

looking for her, leaving voicemail messages.

He noticed that the credit card was being used in New York,

so he had every indication that she was alive

and possibly living in New York.

With Cary placed solidly at work

from 2:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M.,

he couldn't have killed Margarita

and dropped the body at 2:38 A.M.

The detectives then turn their focus

to the new boyfriend, Anthony Pratt,

who Cary says Margarita was with on the day she disappeared.

Part of our investigation obviously identified

where Anthony Pratt and Margarita

had been spending time.

This was an apartment that was actually a home

that was rented by Chris and tunile Jennings.

Tunile and Christopher Jennings

are a married couple with two young children.

And Chris is a local drug dealer

who is well-known to Portland police.

Chris was also known by the street name of red.

Our investigation revealed that Chris had a history

of drug trafficking.

He's originally from New York.

He traveled here to Maine with his wife and two children.

They rented this home, and part of his job,

the only job that Chris had, was distributing crack cocaine

with Anthony Pratt.

Looking for answers, detectives set out

to locate Anthony Pratt and Christopher Jennings.

With the phone records, we were able to locate an address

that Christopher was living at Concord street in Portland.

We went to the apartment to check on these people,

and we looked in the house,

and it looked like nobody living on the first floor

where they supposedly were supposed to be.

And I contacted the landlord, and she told US

she bought the building and she told the Jennings

that they had to move, that she was going

to do renovations and redo the apartment.

The evidence technicians went there

and they started searching around,

and they went into the basement and found a huge red-brown stain

that was consistent with blood in the basement.

And they were able to track it and follow it along the piping.

Then they went upstairs

and they found more blood in the baseboard

and along the bottom of the door that went into the apartment.

A blood sample is sent to the lab for DNA testing,

and the results come back with a positive match

for Margarita Scott.

It now became a crime scene, as far as we were concerned, so.

But the problem was everything had been torn out,

so we didn't know what had happened.

The destruction of the Jennings' former apartment

presents a serious setback for the investigation.

Tampering in a crime scene is ultimately fatal

to the credibility

of any evidence recovered from those scenes.

In this case, we see not so much tampering,

as the destruction of the scene

to the point that anything found there later on is going to be

so substantially, dramatically different,

you lack, then, the probable cause to make an arrest,

and certainly, even if you make an arrest,

you've got major issues in terms of meeting

that reasonable doubt benchmark in court.

With evidence that Margarita

was killed at the Jennings' old apartment,

the detectives pursue an injunction

to halt the renovation.

Now, their number-one priority is to track down Chris

and his wife, tunile, and Anthony Pratt.

We found them through the landlord.

She gave US an address where she thought they had moved to

for any mail or whatever.

So we went and confronted them about Margarita,

and they were quite shocked.

And they actually thought that Margarita had gone to New York

and she was with Anthony.

The detectives want to know when the Jennings

last saw Anthony Pratt.

Chris tells US that on the morning of the 11th,

Anthony had to return back to New York right away.

He told Chris and tunile

that his grandfather was in dire need of him,

and so he had to return because of hurricane Sandy.

The detectives question the Jennings

about their whereabouts on November 10th,

the night Margarita Scott disappeared.

Both Chris and tunile remembered the date specifically,

and for US, as investigators, you know,

who remembers two months ago?

They both gave similar stories about what they did

and where their whereabouts were on November 10th.

As the Jennings continue to talk to the detectives,

a police search of their new home raises another red flag.

When they were checking the house,

they went in to the rooms

and they went into the bedroom and went into the closet

and they noticed a door in the ceiling

for the crawl space up above where they were.

So they popped up the door to look in the thing,

and when they did, they heard a thud hit.

And then they pushed the door up and they looked

and there was a handgun.

It was a high point, Smith & Wesson,

.40 caliber handgun.

Possibly the murder weapon.

With the discovery of a .40 caliber handgun,

the same caliber used to kill Margarita Scott,

suspicion shifts to drug dealer Chris Jennings

and his wife, tunile.

Chris might have been mad

because maybe Margarita owes him money for drugs.

Detectives haul Chris and tunile Jennings

down to the station for questioning.

Chris and tunile both stated that it was Chris' birthday,

and so they had gone out that night into the old port.

They were dropped off by Margarita

sometime around 11:00 at night.

They went to some clubs and bars.

Anthony and Margarita were supposed to be babysitting

the kids on the night of the party.

Margarita was set to come pick them up at 1:00

in the morning when the bars close.

Well, around 1:00 in the morning,

the bars were closed and they emptied out,

and Chris and his wife decided, since it's his birthday,

they wanted to know if there was some place they could go

until later hours.

They did not have their cellphone with them,

so tunile was able to ask somebody to borrow a phone.

She called Margarita and spoke to Margarita and said,

"don't bother to come get US.

We're going to take a cab over to one of the strip clubs

and hang out, and we'll get a ride there.

Where are you?" And she said, "I'm home with Anthony."

Tunile tells US that she makes another phone call

at around 2:00 A.M. from the club,

and when she calls the house, she speaks to Anthony

and asks, you know, "where's Margarita?"

And he said, "I don't know."

He says she left and she went to bring the truck back

and she's never come back.

Around 3:30 in the morning,

tunile and Christopher took a cab from the strip club

to their home, and when they arrived,

they found Anthony laying on the couch

with one of the children on his chest sleeping.

If Margarita's body was dropped at 2:38 A.M.,

about 40 minutes after the Jennings'

second phone call home,

the time line shows both of them had the opportunity to kill her

just after 2:00 A.M.

And before they returned home at 3:30 A.M.

So Chris and tunile went to bed.

Then the next morning,

Anthony Pratt woke up.

He said he's got to get back to New York.

Once Anthony left to go back to New York,

they might have had phone conversations,

but they never saw him again.

And they never saw Margarita either.

Detectives want to know about the .40 caliber gun

found in the Jennings' home,

the same caliber of weapon used to kill Margarita.

Initially, Chris and tunile lied about having a gun

or knowing anything about a gun,

and they were questioned hard about that.

And then finally, Chris Jennings admitted

that he and Anthony had purchased it.

Tunile didn't want the gun around the children,

so they hid it up in the attic space in the closet.

But under intense questioning,

Chris reveals a significant detail.

On the night Margarita disappeared,

there had been a conflict between her and tunile.

Tunile was very jealous of the whole relationship

between Christopher and Margarita.

Tunile had been cheated on by Christopher in the past,

so she was pretty antsy about the whole thing.

It's very dangerous to overlook a female as a suspect

just because you assume more times than not it's a male.

If you don't look at that female,

that's a person that's gonna get away with murder.

On the evening of the 10th,

before Chris and tunile went out,

I don't know if she noticed her husband and Margarita

were being over friendly with each other,

but she did make a comment to her.

"If I ever find out you're messing around with my husband,

I'll kill you."

Tunile, she could have discovered that,

in fact, something did happen,

and she was going to make good on what she said.

There was a gun there. It was in her apartment.

She had plenty of opportunity.

And so that was a possibility, and a possibility

we had to look at.

Is that a motive to kill?

It has been in the past.

The love triangle motive.

That's common because you have someone

who is full of so much emotion towards two people.

They may be upset at their lover or they may feel betrayed.

And then towards the other person,

they may feel an incredible amount of anger

and the desire for revenge.

During the Jennings' questioning,

new DNA results come back from the lab,

and the evidence is explosive.

Through a sex crimes kit, we found DNA,

but we didn't know that at the time of the autopsy.

A sex crimes kit will give US hopefully DNA of the last person

to be intimate with Margarita.

It was shown that Margarita had recent sex with Christopher.

The time line would be significant for that,

because the way Margarita was found,

it had to have been a recent sexual encounter,

probably on November 10th.

So we have to look at Chris again.

We confronted Chris Jennings with this,

and he finally said, "yes, he did have sex,"

and it was the days before his birthday.

There was something going on at the house,

a little disagreements,

so he took Margarita and asked

to give him a ride to the store.

And then they went up by the school,

which is nearby,

and in the parking lot and he had sex with Margarita.

Could tunile have found out about Chris

and Margarita's sexual encounter?

And if so, did she follow through on her threat

to kill Margarita?

Jealousy...

That would be the motive right there.

A motive for tunile to kill Margarita.

As the focus of the investigation

shifts to tunile Jennings,

detectives want to find out what she knew

about the relationship between Chris and Margarita.

Chris and tunile, all along, would tell lies,

and then we would question them about those lies

and we would have facts to back it up.

And they would then tell US the truth

after realizing that we knew what we were talking about.

Lying, obviously, is one of the fastest ways

to derail an investigation.

People may be lying because they have some involvement

or they're looking to cover up either the role of themselves

or somebody else in the crime,

and this may have an actual catastrophic effect

on the eventual investigation.

So tunile starts to explain that she didn't know

that Christopher and Margarita

had been intimate.

Tunile was screaming and crying.

She was telling US that it wasn't true, that we were lying.

Just did not take it well at all,

and it was a genuine reaction. She was upset.

If she knew anything about it,

that would be the time that she would say something,

if she was pissed off enough.

To confirm if tunile is telling the truth.

Detectives dig deeper into her alibi.

We were able to track down the woman

whose phone they borrowed in the old port,

and she was able to confirm that on that particular night,

she remembers someone asking to use her phone

and that they were asking

if there were any places that were open later.

And Chris and tunile were directed

to the strip club p.T.'S because it stayed open

until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.

And then when they got to the strip club,

they had a private dance,

and they were trying to make a hook up with the dancer.

So the dancer put Chris' phone number in her phone

and called it two times,

and those records were on Chris' phone at home.

So that placed them solidly at p.T.'S,

until that time of morning.

With the Jennings' alibis checking out,

that means they couldn't have killed Margarita

between 1:00 A.M., when they last spoke to her,

and 2:38 A.M., when the body was dropped.

Chris then points the finger directly at Anthony Pratt,

Margarita's boyfriend.

So he called Anthony on his cellphone

and he talked to Anthony,

and he told Anthony, "the police are here.

They found Margarita. She's dead."

And he confronted Anthony with all of this.

And Anthony's reply is, "well, what do you want me to do?

What do you want me to do?"

Chris says, "well, you know, you killed her."

"What do you want me to do?" That was his reply.

Anthony doesn't confess to Chris,

but he doesn't deny having killed Margarita either.

To the detectives, the phone call puts Anthony

in a whole new light.

So even with the fact

that Chris had sex with Margarita earlier

and that tunile had made a threat

that she would kill Margarita,

at the end of the day, when we looked at everything,

the forensics, the interviews,

the time line only shows there's only one person

that had the opportunity to commit this murder

and to do it in the location that it happened

was Anthony Pratt.

I see Anthony Pratt as a young man

who is under controlled batterer,

someone who engages in violence

to assert his superiority

and regain control of the relationship.

Sometimes people like this almost see women

as property... right?...

As something to be owned or ownership.

And so if you're not achieving those expectations

or you're behaving differently,

this angers these type of people,

and there's no good ways that they know to respond

other than to resort to violence.

With Anthony now the prime suspect

in Margarita's murder and at large in New York City,

detectives step up their search

by enlisting the help of the NYPD to track him down.

Finding someone in a city like New York who's gone awol

in an investigation is like a needle in a haystack.

We were already two months behind the eight ball

when this whole case started.

We needed to find Anthony Pratt

before there was greater opportunity for him to flee.

I don't think there's any doubt in his mind

that the police were now looking for him.

But then they catch a break,

and Anthony returns detective Vogel's numerous calls.

I kept it very light.

I just said that, you know, I wanted to talk to him,

I had heard that he was engaged to Margarita

and he had told me that he hadn't seen her,

but he was willing to help out any way he could.

And my thing was not to be

antagonistic or aggressive in any way.

I just wanted him to tell me his story.

And so he had agreed to come to Portland.

Face to face with Pratt for the very first time,

the detectives hope to finally get at the truth

of who killed Margarita Scott.

When we started to ask him about certain things

and he would lie about them...

He confirmed that Chris and tunile

had gone out that night, that it was Chris' birthday,

and that Margarita had dropped them off,

and then she never came back.

Anthony says that he left

first thing the next morning

to go to New York City,

just like Chris Jennings had said.

It was so bizarre in the entire time

from her disappearance

to when she was found,

Anthony Pratt never called. Never tried to call her.

The phone records show that she was using her phone

to call him 'cause most of the calls on her records,

on her phone were from her husband trying to find her

until the phone died.

The evidence against Anthony Pratt is compelling,

but entirely circumstantial.

Circumstantial cases are harder to prosecute

because it relies on a lot of inferences

from the evidence that is available.

And so where prosecutors will say it should lead you to there,

if the defense attorney can say, "actually it could lead you

to a, b, c,"

then that means it's reasonable doubt.

But if the prosecutor has physical evidence, DNA evidence,

anything that's hard evidence to connect the dots,

then the prosecutor is going to be more likely to get

to that reasonable doubt threshold.

In an effort to build a stronger case

against Anthony,

detectives return to the neighborhood

of the Jennings' former apartment,

where Margarita was last seen, to search for anyone

who may have seen or heard anything unusual

the night of the murder.

The canvass establishes

the players who are in the neighborhood

or in the area at the time of the crime.

It captures the world in which this crime occurred,

and these are very important people to come back to later

because while they may not have seen anything suspicious.

Investigators sometimes need to be asking them

about something not suspicious or something seemingly harmless

that they saw... that may actually be as important

as what they deem to be suspicious.

Just doing a canvass of the neighbors.

Nobody heard a gunshot, but there was a neighbor.

She had gotten home from work in the early morning hours.

She was watching a movie and she went out

on her front porch to have a cigarette,

and it was 2:00 in the morning.

She saw a black male with a hoodie

carrying what she thought in her mind looked like a body,

and then she convinced herself that she was seeing things.

It was wrapped in trash bags,

and the guy was having a difficult time carrying it.

And went to a red SUV

and opened up the back and discarded the item

in the back of the SUV.

There's no question Anthony Pratt is the one

that murdered Margarita.

Detectives have an eyewitness account

of a body being dragged

from the Jennings' former apartment

that fits perfectly within their time line.

We now know that Margarita Scott was killed

between 1:00 and 2:00 A.M. on November 11th.

Well, the time line is very important,

and I do it with all my major cases.

It tells a definite story. There's no question.

I mean, this is what happened.

Detectives place Anthony on the time line

and theorize that he killed Margarita

in the Jennings' former apartment.

But they need physical evidence,

and the apartment has been ripped apart.

The evidence technicians had this grueling process

of actually putting a Jigsaw puzzle back together.

The wooden paneling on the floor had to be picked up

and placed on the walls to put it back together.

As they did that, they lifted each piece,

inspected it,

and in one of the pieces of paneling,

they located, on the back side of the paneling,

what initially looked like maybe a piece of putty from somebody

maybe spackling or something.

And what it actually turned out to be was a piece of paper

and a piece of chewing gum.

Green chewing gum had been pushed through a hole and sealed

with the gum.

As they put the paneling back on the wall,

they got to a spot where, within the plaster,

they were able to cut that piece out.

And behind that, they were able to locate an actual bullet.

So if you didn't look at your walls closely

and didn't see it, you would have never known

this little piece of paper

covering the hole, stuck there with gum.

Evidence was sent to the state crime lab

for ballistics on the bullet,

as well as DNA for the chewing gum.

The bullet that was recovered could only have been fired

from a high point Smith & Wesson .40 caliber handgun.

Connecting the bullet to the same kind of weapon

that was used to kill Margarita Scott

is is a significant step forward.

But detectives still need physical evidence

to directly link Anthony Pratt to the weapon.

The cheek swab that was sent out for Anthony's DNA

came back positive that it was his DNA on the chewing gum

that was placed in the hole.

We know by that that he had to have been at that scene.

There's just no two ways around it.

The detectives are now able to piece together

Margarita Scott's final 24 hours.

Margarita would have stayed with Cary

on November 9th.

November 10th,

Cary took Anthony and Margarita

to Chris and tunile's house.

The plan was to drop Anthony off and Margarita

get her her belongings and come back with Cary.

She never did.

It was Chris Jennings' birthday,

Margarita did take them out around 11:00 at night.

Sometime after 1:00 A.M. on the 11th,

she got a call from tunile using a stranger's phone saying,

"don't bother picking US up, we're going to stay out."

I believe his anger toward the fact

that she still was returning home,

that was the last straw.

I think that she was ready to leave

and was going to return that truck to her husband

and probably stay at her own home

like she's been doing regularly,

and Anthony was going to have no part of that.

It was either she stayed or she wasn't going at all.

Based on all the evidence that we were able to obtain,

Anthony shot Margarita in the living room floor of that home.

He picked her up, took her outside,

dumped her in the back of that red truck,

drove the red truck.

It's less than two miles from the home

to the motel's parking lot.

On April 2, 2013, Anthony Pratt is arrested

for the murder of Margarita Scott.

He's found guilty and sentenced to 42 years in prison.

I think it was almost more for the family

that you don't want to let them down.

That's the most serious offense when someone's life is taken

and there is a lot of pressure from friends and family

to find out who did it.

I still wake up every morning

and I still think police work is an honorable job.

There are always going to be a faction of society

that does not play by the rules,

and somebody has to keep those people in check.

It was a difficult case from the very beginning,

but pieces fell together out of just hard work,

of old-fashioned police work, in some sense,

and just pounding the beat,

and justice was done.