This hands down was the hardest case I've ever worked.

I told Carlos about the story that the informant told me.

And Carlos immediately said, I never shot a man like that.

I told him, hey, we never said anything about a gun.

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

I'm Anna Sige-Nikolazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation

discoveries, true conviction.

And this is the anatomy of murder.

You know, today's case is unique to me because of the way it began.

Think of it as going backwards.

In most homicide cases we cover on the podcast, traditionally start with the victim,

the crime scene and then the investigation, and followed by the identity of the killer,

hopefully, but here the order of the investigation is completely in reverse.

You're going to hear about the who did it, even before you hear who the victim even was,

or if a crime was even committed at all.

And it's Detective Jim Spangenberg from Salt Lake City Police Department who is tasked

with unraveling this mystery.

There was just so unusual you go in these cases, you know, you get called in the middle of the night

to go out to a scene. Usually there's a body there and usually there's evidence there.

This wasn't reported as a homicide.

Every little step you make is absolutely crucial to the investigation.

You really have to be on your toes 24-7.

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