At that point, trying to find Lisa with no evidence to go by, a lot of people ask me,

was that a needle in the haystack? And I say, no, a needle in the haystack is actually

easy. You burn the hay and then the needle is what's left. This is a needle and a stack

of needles. I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff. I'm Anisee

Gnickalazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation discoveries

of true conviction. And this is Anatomy of Murder. So today's case takes place in Miramar,

Florida, which is a small city west of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County. And it also

happens to be the county where my law enforcement career began. In fact, the detective you were

about to meet and I attended the same police academy, but we graduated years apart.

Our city is primarily islands. His name is Detective Danny Smith with the Miramar Police

Department and the agency sits in a very diverse area of South Florida. We have a very large

Haitian Jamaican, Trinny, Hispanic population. So people say melting pot all the time, but

just you name it, we've got it. You know, Florida sits so close to the other Caribbean

countries and very often those communities are represented within South Florida.

A large part of our city is a little cheaper to live than some of the surrounding areas.

So you've got guys that come in from outside the country and they'll find themselves

a little one bedroom or efficiency or something like that. So many times when you come into

areas that have different culture subsets really living in the same place, that culture

plays in to the way that the community operates because so many of them have family and friends

still back home. And that certainly is the same for the woman we're speaking about today,

Lisa Spence. Lisa had just recently moved to the Miramar area. She had lived in Trinnyd,

she had a large family. She was from there, her family was there, her friends, including

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