Beth Shelburne

He saw a copper-colored or light brown car with a vinyl top slowly back out of the parking spot and drive away with the headlights off.

And there was another witness in a different hotel room who also looked out his window after he heard the shots.

The night of the murder, Leon Colvin was staying in room 611 with his wife Annie.

The two of them were in bed.

He was watching TV and she was reading the newspaper.

They heard the first shot.

and Leon told Annie he thought it was a car backfiring.

After the second shot, Colvin went to the window to see what was going on.

Colvin's description of the car and what the car did as it left the parking lot matches the details given by Marshall Cummings.

Both Cummings and Colvin say the car was a four-door brown, gold, or copper sedan with a maroon top.

That's so specific.

They both say it was the only car leaving the parking lot right after shots were fired.

What these witnesses saw doesn't match the theory of the murder detectives go with.

What kind of car was that?

A Monte Carlo.

Ardregas describes his car to detectives the day he's arrested.

He was driving a two-door, black 1971 Monte Carlo.

And he had installed Flowmaster mufflers, so it made a loud, rumbling sound.

people could hear Ardragus' car coming from blocks away.

Taforist tells detectives that when they picked up LaTanya, they actually waited for her in an alley because they didn't want to wake up the entire house.