So this was my only opportunity for the jurors to see someone who was volatile, gets mad, gets sad, overreacts to statements.

And it's not a far jump to see how volatile he is to make the jump from how he acts to someone who could commit a murder like this. I'm Scott Weinberger, I'm Scott Weinberger,

I'm Scott Weinberger,

investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anaseika Lazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation discoveries true conviction.

And this is anatomy of murder.

Today we're talking about a single mother

in a rising theater star whose bright light was dimmed at the hands of a ruthless killer.

40 year old Passionetta Prince was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska.

Standing four feet 11 inches tall passionate

was a small but mighty presence in the local theater scene with starring roles

in productions of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Death of a Salesman.

On the last weekend of February 2006, Passionetta was rehearsing for her next big role.

It was going to be in August Wilson's seven guitars at Omaha's esteemed John Beasley Theater.

The play tells the story of a blues singer that was killed just as he was about to make it big.

The plays parallel with real life here proved to be eerie.

She was really well light. She was a local actress in Omaha, mother of one, stepmother of another child,

ran a daycare out of her home that was kind of like in a nutshell,

her life story.

That's Matthew Coosy, former deputy County Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Douglas County Attorney's Office in Omaha.

And the details of that February in 2006 and the investigation that would go on for the next two years are still etched in his memory.

As a single mother and a working actress, Passionate a Prince was used to staying busy.

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