There's a tremendous amount of pressure on investigators and specifically special victims

unit investigators and homicide investigators.

I don't know that the general public realizes just how precarious case law, statute, and policy

and procedure is in investigating the case of a murder. You gotta be so careful if you make a mistake, you could lose a case.

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

I'm Anasiga Nikolaazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation

discoveries true conviction.

And this is Anatomy of murder.

Today's episode takes us back to Scott's old stomping ground along the South Florida coast.

And as many of you may know, I was once a deputy sheriff from Broward County, which I've often described as a place of stark contrasts.

There are nice parts of towns complete with palm trees and frozen drinks, and then there's the not so nice. While I was in uniform, I handled calls on both sides.

I always describe this particular part of Florida as a jigsaw puzzle. And any different turn you make, you could find yourself in the

wrong part of town. You're a stone's throw away from the most beautiful beach and some of the

greatest restaurants and entertainment that you can get in South Florida. But you throw a stone

and you're in an area where you could buy any drug, could possibly get robbed, and or find yourself in a precarious situation.

Paul Creelman has been in law enforcement in some form or another since he was barely out of grade school.

At the age of 14, I became a police explorer, which was a kind of like Boy Scouts for police work.

And then as I became 16 years old in that same program, I began to ride along with the officers two or three times a week.

It made an impression upon me and the men that I got to know and began to really look up to and respect some of them like fathers.

I knew in my heart I had to become a cop.

Paul eventually worked his way up to detective and even spent 10 years as a detective in Brower County

before moving to the homicide unit at the West Palm Beach Police Department.

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