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[music playing] narrator: when scott dunnarrived at his friends party, he brought along anew acquaintance. someone his friendshad never met before. scott was a ladies man. and while it wasn't unusualfor him to be seeing a number of women at the sametime, his date on this night raised more than a few eyebrows.-how're you doing? -cool, man.what's happening?

what's happening?scott: hey everybody. -whoah-ho-ho.-this is my lady friend shaina. -pretty cute, man. narrator: sometime duringthe party, scott became ill. so sick, he wasunable to drive home. a few days later we,scott dunn disappeared and was never seen again. 24 year old scott dunnwas a fun loving young man who enjoyed life to the fullest.

scott lived in lubbock,texas, settling there after serving inthe us military. he worked for mgm electronics,in a job he loved, installing customs sound systemsin automobiles. the last time friends sawscott was on may 13, 1991, at a party after work. scott was aprankster, and decided to add a little excitementto the festivities. his date that nightwasn't a she at all.

she was really a he. a transvestite. before the night wasthrough, scott's friends eventually found outand weren't amused. later, while still at theparty, scott became ill. he was so sick, hecouldn't drive home, and stayed overnighton the sofa. the next day, his live-ingirlfriend, leisha hamilton drove over to pick him up.-he looked like crap.

he couldn't hardlywalk-- um i mean, you could tell hebeen in bed all day. he wasn't showered. he wasn't clean. clothes on all awkwardly. couldn't get dressed by himself. narrator: after spendinganother full day in bed, scott told leshiahe finally felt well enough to return to work.

-i woke up that morning. he was in bed with me by then. i asked him how he felt. i asked him, did heneed a ride to work because he didn'thave his cars there. he said, no, his friendwas coming for him. and just asked me toget him a glass of water and some sinus medicine.which i did. brought it to himand then i left.

when i came home, he was gone. narrator: when scott's friendstopped by the apartment to pick him up,there was no answer. -no one there would answer, so--um, just never heard from him. narrator: two days later,leshia called scott's father in pennsylvania to see ifhe had heard from scott. -and it's a young woman'svoice, and-- uh, she goes into, i don't know if i'm talkingto-- who i'm talking to-- but i assume you're scott's fatherbecause i found the telephone

number on the telephone bill. and i said, well that'sright, i'm am scott's father. but who are you? she said, well i'vebeen living with scott for a couple of monthsnow, and for some time-- we've been togetherfor some time. and i said, well i don'tknow-- really know who you are. narrator: jim dunn fileda missing person's report with the lubbockpolice department.

-what was he wearinglast when you saw him? narrator: police wonderedwhether scott dunn's personal life held someclues to his disappearance. narrator: when scott dunndisappeared from lubbock, texas without a trace hisfriends told police, this was out the character. -the way scott was-- hewould've-- he would've called at least and said,hey guys, you know. look, i'm out here in mexico.hanging out.

partying.you know, something. narrator: scott's live-ingirlfriend, leisha hamilton, told police that whenshe returned from work, scott was gone. she also said that alarge piece of carpet was missing from under the sofa. when police searchedthe bedroom, they discovered that anotherpiece of carpet in the bedroom had also been removed, andreplaced with the carpet

from under the sofa. along the edge was somerust colored stains -the stain along theedge of that patch in the original carpet wasvery evident to anybody that has been doing thisfor any length of time. it was blood.[music playing] when the carpetpatch was lifted, police noticed it was heldtogether with duct tape. on the underpadding wasanother large stain,

which also appeared to be blood. in one spot, it had soakedthrough a hole in the padding to the cement floor underneath. and it looked as ifsomeone had washed blood from the baseboard. to find out, investigatorsused a chemical called luminol, which can detect areaswhere blood has been cleaned up withwater and detergents. the luminol revealed ascene of horrific violence.

-you can actuallysee the pattern. you can see whereblood had been. and my initial reactionwas that something had occurred in that apartment. -it was stark. somebody had very obviouslytried to clean the whole thing up, and had done afairly good job of it. -i just knew that he was dead. felt very confidentlythat he was-- was dead.

that was probably thelongest day of my life. and it was mostdevastating thing that had ever happened to me. narrator: but who wouldwant to kill scott dunn? and why? dunn had a previous arrestand conviction for possession of cocaine, but the theory thatthis was somehow drug-related was inconsistentwith the crime scene. -if it was a drughit, they probably

would have leftthe person there. wanting everybody inthe world to see, so that-- uh, nobodyelse would cross them. and this-- this crimescene was covered up. and the only reasonit was covered up was because it wastrying to be hidden. narrator: policealso discovered scott dunn was leading a secret life. while living withleisha hamilton,

he continued to datenumerous other women. -he was wild. he played the field. he had-- um, inmy opinion, he had a-- a history of using women. um, for his own purposes. in fact, he was engaged tobe married to a young lady in the metroplex, while he wasliving with leisha hamilton. narrator: leishahamilton learned

about scott's engagementjust one month earlier. -who's calling? his fiancee? yeah, i'll be sure totell him you called. -and i think at the pointwhere that telephone call came is where leisha realizedshe had been had by scott. and-- uh, leisha,herself was a user, and when it becameapparent to her that she, in this situationwas not the user,

but was in fact the'usee,' she became enraged. narrator: but wasthat sufficient motive for leisha hamiltonto murder scott dunn? and if so, where was the body? narrator: leishahamilton continued to call jim dunn fromtexas, keeping him informed of the investigation intoscott's disappearance. but she asked forsomething in return. she wanted scott'syellow sports car.

jim dunn taped thosetelephone conversations. jim dunn (on phone): youjust seem to want the car, and i have promised you thecar when this is all over. but you don't seemto want to wait. leisha hamilton (onphone): actually, i don't. i don't-- i don't need it. it is a want right now, okay? the only thing iwant is this car. that's the only thing ihave wanted from the start.

that's the onlything i want now. narrator: a backgroundcheck by lubbock police revealed thatleisha hamilton had a past arrest in newmexico for embezzlement. but if leisha was involvedin scott's disappearance, why had she helpedpolice by pointing out the missing carpetin their apartment? leisha told scott's fatherthat she thought a man named tim smith had something to dowith scott's disappearance.

-tim smith was a guy that livedin the apartment near leisha. he had been brought up in avery strict, very religious, environment. my theory was that thiswas the first real contact he'd ever had witha worldly woman. and that he becameenamored with her. and the way she made him feel. and just fell-- fell headover heels in love with her. narrator: police discovered thatsmith did not show up for work

on the day scottdunn disappeared. [knocking] -tim smith? -uh-huh. -lubbock police department. narrator: when policevisited tim smith's apartment to ask a few questions, theynoticed he was packing to move. -we're investigating thedisappearance of scott dunn. -uhh.

whatever i can do to help. - mind if we take a look around? -sure, go ahead. narrator: when they walkedback into the living room, they noticed thatsomething that had been sitting on thebookshelf disappeared. -where's the roll of tape?-what tape? -what tape?-the duct tape. it was there, on the shelf.

-i don't know whatyou're talking about. narrator: but behind somebooks on another shelf, police found whatthey were looking for. the duct tape thatwas on the shelf just a few minutes earlier. -that was a strokeof luck, but it's also good investigative work. i mean, how many timeswould you walk into a place where guys are moving andsee a roll of duct tape

and think nothing of it? narrator: the duct tape wassent to the forensic laboratory for analysis. the tape in smith's apartmentlooked very similar to the tape on the carpet patchin dunn's apartment. the samples were analyzedusing infra spectrophotometry, where infrared light ispassed through the duct tape. -and the detector will determinehow much wavelength of light is being absorbed atdifferent wavelengths.

narrator: the results arethen printed out in a chart. -in the case of rogerscott dunn, the duct tape, we separated outinto it's components. the fibers that run along inthe duct tape, the backing of the duct tape, and theadhesive of the duct tape. as you can see, theinfrared spectrum, from the roll of duct tapefound that the suspect's house, and the duct tapefound at the scene are consistent in the fibercomponent, the backing

component, and theadhesive component. narrator: and the role oftape held even more clues. on the side of the rollwere green nylon fibers trilobal, ortriangular in shape. they were the samesize and shape, and made of the same polymers,and dyed the same color as the carpet inscott dunn's bedroom. -i feel confident thatthe fibers on the side of the duct tape camefrom the apartment.

and that the duct tapeunderneath the carpet came from the roll of duct tape. narrator: but withouta body, authorities were hesitant toconclude homicide. -a lot of it had todo with the body. um, we had no body. and, uh-- the districtattorney's office at that time was very apprehensive to try totake something to trial, where you had no-- no, uh-- corpusdelicti, as what they say.

narrator: a full year passed. and jim dunn decided to takematters into his own hands. he heard about a group ofinternational forensic experts, who meet several timesa year in philadelphia to study unsolved murders. the group of 82 members iscalled the vidocq society, named after eugene francoisvidocq, an 18th century french detective,considered to be the father of moderncriminal investigation.

one of the co-founders of thevidocq society, richard walter, agreed to listen tomr. dunn's story. after about an hour and ahalf of me presenting, showing pictures and listening to sometape recordings and things i had, he looked me straightin the eye and said, uh-- jim, aren't you tiredof being the grieving father? -and he looked atme and he said, i thought i was supposed to be. and i said no, you aresupposed to be goddamn mad.

let's go after that bitch. narrator: richard walter wasconvinced that leisha hamilton held the key to scottdunn's disappearance. walter sent the crime scenephotos to dr. richard shepherd, a forensic pathologist atscotland yard in london. after reviewing theinformation, dr. shepherd concluded thatscott dunn had been murdered in thecorner of his bedroom. the result of multipleblunt trauma injuries.

but at the time, undertexas law, without a body, there was no homicide. armed with dr. shepherd'sforensic analysis, richard walker pleaded thecase to the district attorney, arguing that theyhad a body part. -he said, what partof the body is that? i said, blood is aconnective tissue. he said-- he looked--he gave me a long look and he said, all right,you got a murder.

narrator: prosecutors brought intheir own blood spatter expert, tom bevel to confirm thefindings of dr. shepherd. according to bevel, the bloodspatter pattern on the walls indicated three distinctlines of cast-off blood from a weapon. -for example, if we had threecast-off stains that were going in three directions,that would be, uh-- consistentwith three blows. plus the one to create theblood in the first place.

so in this case,we would say there was a minimum or fourblows that was delivered. narrator: to find out howmuch blood scott dunn lost during the assault,bevel conducted a blood saturation test. by pouring human blood ontoa test piece of carpet, bevel created the same sizestain found in the bedroom. in this case, 266 square inches. it took just under two unitsof blood to create the stain,

and soak through tothe padding underneath. -if you take that intoconsideration with all the other physical evidencethere, such as the blood clean up, cutting out ofcarpet, the blood spatter, the cast-off, this to thewall and also to the ceiling. uh, along withthat blood volume, uh, it certainlyis a high suspicion that uh, somebodyin fact is dead. narrator: authorities werenow convinced that scott dunn

had been murderedin his bedroom. lubbock police suspected thatboth leisha hamilton and tim smith were somehow involvedin scott dunn's murder. but they had no evidencelinking leisha to the crime, and the only link tosmith was the duct tape. until richard walterdiscovered something that was previously overlooked. walter learned that severalstrands of unidentified hair had been found on the ducttape in scott dunn's bedroom.

he suggested the hair besent for forensic analysis. at the fbi lab in washingtondc, the hair from the duct tape underneath the carpet wascompared to hair samples from leisha hamiltonand tim smith. -no scott dunn hairswere found on that tape, but both the hairs of leishahamilton and tim smith were found on that ducttape holding it in. which means that when thatduct tape was put down and that patch put inplace, they were there.

narrator: five and a halfyears after scott dunn's disappearance, leishahamilton and tim smith well arrested andcharged with murder. prosecutors believe thatleisha's motive was revenge. that she was angrywhen she learned that scott was engagedto another woman. -she's as hard as rocks. bright. aggressive.

uh, worked smart. um, but has this insatiableappetite for power, control, crushing people. she dismisses you. you don't dismiss her. -leisha hamilton was theabsolute instigator, ringleader and she was the wicked witchof the west, who contrived, developed, led and coveredup this whole thing. narrator: prosecutors believedthat scott dunn was murdered

in the early morninghours of may 16, 1991. he was asleep in the bedroom. and struck at least fourtimes with blunt object. about two units scott'sblood was lost in the attack. as scott's body wasremoved from the apartment, his blood was transferredonto the bedroom doorknob. the location of thebody is still unknown. the cover-up failed because thewater and detergents could not remove the hemoglobin componentsof the blood, which later

fluoresced when sprayedwith the chemical luminol. a piece of carpet from underthe sofa in the living room was used to patch the bloodstained carpet in the bedroom. the duct tape usedto patch the carpet together contained strandsof hair consistent with hair samples from both leishahamilton and tim smith. and the side of theduct tape picked up some stray carpet fibers. the roll was later foundin tim smith's apartment.

leisha hamilton and timsmith were tried separately, and both wereconvicted of murder. leisha hamilton wassentenced to 20 years. tim smith receiveda 10 year probation. -the jury, i think,believed that perhaps he had a great deal to dowith disposing of the body. but they didn'tbelieve he was actually there when themurder took place. and i think for that reason theyrecommended the judge impose

probation insteadof sentencing him to a term in the penitentiary,which would be carried out. narrator: althoughthe body of scott dunn has never been found,a headstone waits. and a father still mourns. -i'm just hopeful that at somepoint, uh, somebody will talk, and that we canrecover his remains, and still he can have a decentburial and a, a decent, uh, ceremony that wecould put him to rest.

and i'd feel totallyabsolved at that point that i've done everythingthat i could do. if i could everreach that point. i haven't quite reach thatyet and, uh, i still-- crosses my mind what elsei can do, but at this point i'm going to let it go, andhope that somebody who-- the good lord or somebody,will give us some direction. and i'll know what that actuallymeans in my life at some point.