Paula Levine

How much did that cost you?

Shapiro used his status as a booster to get closer to Hurricanes players.

He said he hosted house parties for them at his South Beach home, and Brian was a regular at Shapiro's house.

One night, he had Brian and some other teammates over for a barbecue.

Brian was playing with Shapiro's puppy, Teddy.

But sometime later, Shapiro realized he'd lost track of Brian and the puppy.

Shapiro also took Brian and other players out on his yacht.

What was the yacht like?

When you would have these house parties or the parties on the yacht, would the guys bring their girlfriends?

Shapiro said he wasn't just cutting big checks to the university.

He also paid players individually.

When detectives spoke with Shapiro a few months after Brian's murder, he denied ever having given Brian money.

But that was before his conviction.

When we spoke to him, he told us a different story.

There were several people who told us that Brian referred to someone who was paying him as my guy or uncle.

Would that have been you?

If Shapiro was giving Brian only a couple hundred bucks, then it's unlikely he would have been the person Brian called my guy or unk who was bankrolling Brian's life.

Our big break in the search for Uncle came while we were looking into a different motive for Brian's murder.

It had to do with a fight he was involved in at a nightclub a few months before he was killed.

Nightlife in Miami Beach and Coconut Grove was one of the big draws for students at the University of Miami.