anime florence was waiting for her
sister
and brother-in-law to pick her up
they were going to go for a day of
shopping lillian alonso went up to her
apartment
anna started screaming inside the
apartment
anime yells out to alonso to kick the
door in
as he's getting ready to kick it
this woman comes running out
she was covered in blood when she ran
from that apartment
lonzo had her he had her tight
but she just slipped out of his hands
alonzo chased after
and said that she was running away she
told me to get away from her
or she would shoot
alonzo came back
and they went in there and they found
her on the floor and she was bleeding
quite a bit
they found with a cord
around her neck
she was conscious
he asked her who was that she said she
didn't know
and then
she was gone
she's been stabbed she'd been beaten
she's been murdered
are they all the evidence that they
collected in that place the real
evidence was a single bloody prince
the fingerprint was gold in this case
the detectives cut out a portion of the
wall
that had one unidentified partial print
it made sense that this female inside
the apartment just had bumped her hand
along the wall enough to make the
fingerprint
dna wasn't around yet
fingerprints
interviews
and and that's all they had you did have
witnesses that saw a young female
dressed up really nice going door to
door asking for money one witness had
said back then it was for a funeral the
detectives interviewed several young
girls that lived in a neighborhood that
fit the description
they took fingerprints
hoping to get a match to the partial
print that they had got from the crime
scene at that point they all met with
negative results
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there was a tip called in
this tip had some valuable information
he had been at a party and he had heard
a female talking about her involvement
in the homicide
here you have somebody that calls in on
their own
anonymously
with information about a homicide case
when i heard her talking about it she
had patches on her hands and stuff you
know i guess when somebody had been
grabbing her and she had a couple
bruises on her arm
do you want to give us your name at this
time
no not really
he didn't want to give his name up
because he had promised would not say
anything to anybody the detectives tell
them you're not a suspect in this
okay my name is odell
odell
he provided his social security number
on his birthday
odell was a big lead i know the person
that did the crime
okay
do you know her name
yeah
odell said when the suspect was a female
by the name of
anita campbell
we wanted to obviously talk to odell in
person
will you consider
helping
by wearing a wire
yeah
he was gonna try to help in uh trapping
danita but then all of a sudden
he decided he didn't want to be involved
at that point
the detectives lost all contact with
odell they were interested in tracking
down danita a traffic stop was conducted
she was removed from the vehicle
her prints were taken right there on the
hood of her car
the detectives took the prints to the
fingerprint unit
and they compared those fingerprints to
that fingerprint on the wall
there was a smear of blood on the print
that was on the wall
so the quality of the fingerprint taken
wasn't that good
we found some tapes
there were six cassette tapes there was
a second interview of odell
we turn back to the key informant from
the original investigation
odell
maybe on these tapes he said something
else are there any other details that
you can recall from that conversation
she also delayed that so secure the
check
she didn't take the chance no she didn't
take him
we knew the welfare check
it was still in the purse
only the killer would know
that the victim had a welfare check in
her purse
and there's no way that that information
had been leaked out to the public the
only reason that odell would have known
about that check being in the victim's
purse is if he had been told by danita
if we could find a better fingerprint
i could put her inside that apartment at
that time just one print was noticed at
the scene
but it was a partial fingerprint
we couldn't match that print up with
danita there was a jar of mayonnaise
sitting on the chair by the front door
baby danita touched the mayonnaise jar
and then right where the rim is
there was a fingerprint
let's just compare danita's prints to
that fingerprint on the mayonnaise jar
the prince
did not match
we're back to square one
why
would odell
implicate
danita
either he was in on it or he knew he was
involved
we went out to talk to him armed with a
tape recorder and the tape and we said
odell we have to straighten this out
okay my name is odell
okay o-d-e-l-l uh-huh that is you on
that tape
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that's e-d-e-n-b-u-r-d
and he said yeah that's my address
that's my social security number
but that's not my voice
you know this is on tape here you know
they recorded you back then who else
would it be he said that's not me i'll
tell you why yeah that's my previous
address but the way that guy's uh
spelling edinburgh
i i couldn't spell that like that
because i can't read and i can't write
it kind of shocked me but it hit me with
uh he's telling the truth he can't read
and write
this case is really weird because the
informant had provided accurate
information
however the information about his own
personal identity and the identity of
the suspect was inaccurate
and he gets all emotional
tearing up
crying
and he gets scared because whoever's on
this tape is providing officers
with his name
his social security number so the next
question to him is who do you know
that knows that much about you
and he
listened to the tape several times
and said you know who that sounds like
my cousin chris
back in 87
odell used to apply for jobs at an
unemployment office
his cousin chris
would always go with him
and his cousin chris
would fill out his application
back in 1987 chris is the one who came
to headquarters
and saying he was odell
the original detectives didn't look at a
picture id
at this point we have identified our
informant and we have his real identity
so we hope to the residence
his mom answers the door
we finally are face to face with our
informant
he was getting nervous
explain to him we're trying to find out
who killed this woman he denied anything
about a tip he denied it
i'd have to say the turning point was
his mother
she told her son you telling detectives
what you know too much time's gone by
you be honest with them
there was some trampoline in his voice
he said that he did call in the tip
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he does admit to knowing danita he said
she's innocent somebody else did it
then he told us what some other girl had
told him
back in 1987 the day after the homicide
had taken place
he said we were just friends she came
over and sat on my porch and
she had to tell me something
she said that she owed a drug dealer
some money
and she was going door to door
asking for money anime had given her a
couple dollars
she saw there was more money in that
purse
that's what took over
this is all we need from you
we need a real name
and he says xena roberson
and he says i've held on to this for all
these years just because she was my
friend he had posed as odell because he
wanted somebody arrested for that
homicide he just didn't want xena
and he had heard that danita was
involved in some illegal activity
thought that okay she'll go to jail for
this and i'll feel a lot better you know
knowing i kept my secret with xena
xena was the last suspect that we had to
go on so her prints are on file i'm
looking at these fingerprints
and i said oh
god
we got her xena
this is the first new suspect in 26
years we got their own police department
so they took the picture of her put on
their facebook page
i don't think it was two minutes they
got a response
a person answered and said
this is a lady i see at the bus stop at
this intersection every morning
we get to her apartment and i've never
seen anything like it but every pore
on her body
opened up
and i mean it looked like a river
coming from the top of her head all the
way down nothing needed to be said it
was just body language you know she kind
of looked down she knew i know why you
guys are here and uh i said well you're
gonna have to you got to come with us
the real element we needed was her to
admit she had never been in that
apartment because we knew we had
evidence putting her there how about
this woman
you don't know here she is
we had her in the apartment
we have two separate fingerprints from
xena inside anime's apartment
she just wasn't somebody you just threw
away she was somebody to care about and
i did love her and i still love her and
she meant a lot to the family
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