Josh Mankiewicz

So you have to understand that Chris Steele was frantic.

And so our conversation was very jumbled.

It would veer to the right, veer to the left.

She'd go down one tangent and then another.

Understandable.

She just looked exhausted.

Because of my background, she knew that I knew how to navigate the court system.

I'd done exclusively domestic violence, which included some stalking prosecution.

Our family is very private.

I'm a very private person too.

And so I understood that this was sensitive for Christil.

I passed the message that this was not something to be private about, that this was the time to tell literally everyone and to share his photo, to tell everybody that needed to know about this.

So Christille's oldest daughter was in two productions of The Nutcracker.

Because of what was going on and they didn't know where the stalker was, the artistic director and the company asked her to stay away from volunteering and also her daughter's performances.

She said, Christille's been killed.

And my first question was, was it the stalker?

Different police were assigning different individuals to kind of go look into various leads, including the location of the person that we believe to have been stalking her.

Yes.

I mean, at that time, our number one suspect was this person who's been stalking her.

It was physically impossible for him to have been there.