Coerced Confessions
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Who was Stephanie Crowe and what happened to her?
Dozens of young people from all over San Diego came out to collect trash and clean up a canyon often used for drug-related activities. It gets you to not do stuff like watch TV all the time. It gets you out there.
19. 19. She would be in college as well. Already graduated high school.
It's been more than six years since Stephanie Crow was murdered, but her parents, Stephen and Cheryl, finally have hope that justice is on the horizon. We're back on the record in the Tewitt case. Today, this man, Richard Tewitt, a drifter, a felon, and a diagnosed schizophrenic, is going on trial for her murder.
People will show beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant murdered Stephanie Crow.
Just try to get justice for her. And if we could do that, there'll be a little bit off our shoulders. But it's been a long road, very long. So is there any doubt in your mind he killed her daughter? No. After her funeral, we went back to the cemetery to make sure everything was done right and everything. And who do we see walking a couple blocks away from the cemetery towards the cemetery but Richard Tuitt?
The Crows have never had a doubt that Richard Tuitt did it. Stabbed Stephanie nine times in her bed after sneaking into their house while the rest of the family slept. Do you think about that night?
Every day. I wish that we would have heard something. I'd give anything to be able to go back. That doesn't happen.
Stephanie's big brother, Michael, was 14 years old when it happened. He has grown up in the shadow of the murder and despises Richard Tewitt.
I can't stand looking at him. The whole reason all this happened is all because of him and his choices and the choices of his family and everyone who's just enabled him to just get by.
Michael Crowe may be convinced that Richard to it killed his sister, but the authorities haven't always been so certain. In fact, even today, after all these years, there are still those who believe others did it. Others who remarkably confessed to the crime. Yet to it is the one on trial now because there is also dramatic evidence against him. There is one thing no one disputes. Richard Tuitt was here in the hills of Escondido on that terrible night in 1998. The night Stephanie Crow was murdered.
911 emergency. We just had like a transient type walking on our door. He's got a red shirt on.
The night of the murder, police received numerous reports about a stranger in the Crow neighborhood.
I don't know what.
They say he appeared disoriented, knocking on doors, looking for a girl named Tracy.
He had those Charlie Manson eyes. You know, he looked really crazy. I said, he gave me the creeps.
Is this the man who knocked on your door? Yeah, that's him. The Crow's next-door neighbor at the time, Reverend Gary West, told us he saw Richard Tuitt that night. You go to the door, and he says what?
He says, I'm looking for the girl. And I said, well, there's no girl here. You have no business here. You just need to get out of here.
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