A brutal murder, lots of suspects and conflicting evidence, but the forensics were clear on

one thing that killer knew his victim, and that alone gave investigators a head start.

For many young women, the allure of the stage, theatre and the arts is difficult to ignore.

19-year-old Heather Stigliano thought she might have what it takes to succeed.

She liked a pose and model and beyond stage and she had a beautiful voice.

After high school Heather planned to pursue her dreams, but put them on hold for a year

as a favor to her mother.

I just gone through a divorce and she promised to stay with me for a year until I got my legs

and when that year was up she made her plans and she moved.

Her destination was Mertelbeats South Carolina, where she had some friends.

She wanted to be in the entertainment industry, I know she loved singing and I think that's one

of the reasons why she moved down to the Mertelbeats area because this area has a lot of entertainment.

Heather rented a small apartment in this house near the beach and took a job as a waitress.

But Heather found it difficult to get work as a singer and she told her mother she was discouraged.

She wanted me to come down, she was feeling homesick and things were not going as well as she wanted

to go down there.

It would be the last time Susan heard her daughter's voice.

A week later, friends found Heather's body in her apartment.

She had been beaten, stabbed and strangled to death with an electrical cord.

The crime was one of the most brutal crimes that I've seen as a prosecutor.

Next to Heather's body investigators found broken pieces of plastic.

Small black plastic pieces particles found some on her body, some scattered around the room and

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