Shane Bishop

The defendant told police that Anna was a sturdy Serbian woman.

Those are his words.

Now it's up and running and all ready to go.

Hopefully it goes really good at auction and hopefully, you know, helps her out and pays some of her legal fees.

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It's kind of a strange story because the usual Dateline stories are in a murder case.

There's some big event like a 911 call when somebody finds a body, for instance, in a case.

And in this one, by the time this shooting took place, the strange goings-on had already been set in motion about three years before.

But when this 911 call came in about a shooting in a park, it finally helped lead police to unwinding the whole confusing thing.

So that's kind of why we decided to start right there.

Carrie was very close to her mother, and her relationship with her son, Max, was unusually close.

You know, a mother-son relationship can be that way, where if the mother is single and she has one child, a son is almost like they're one person in a way.

And she was sending them text messages and electronic communications for years that were hurtful and strange and an indication that some psychic break must have happened.

And they didn't know what it was.

They got the police to help them, and it didn't go anywhere.

They couldn't find her, and it just got worse and worse.

We've all been in enough interviews, and we've seen people freeze up or change once they get on camera.

Dave Krupa, he was just unvarnished Dave, and that's what I loved about him.

It turns out that the fact that Omaha is on the west side of the Missouri River, and that's where Carrie worked, and her hometown in Iowa is on the east side of the Missouri River in Iowa, played a big role in that.

I think that when you have several agencies across two states involved