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up next a hairdresser is attacked in her own salon it's a male fist against a female face
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is it personal he had its person only one of them got out alive it was the most frustrating case i have ever dealt
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with there is forensic evidence but it doesn't match any of the suspects the
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fingerprint was never identified i really don't think that they're going to
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catch you the case goes cold until an auto mechanic comes forward with a secret there was something inside it said it
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still ain't right he's going to commit one of the most brutal murders in the history of
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spartanburg county for what reason why [Music] on a warm july night in 1995 a south carolina woman was waiting for
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her ride home and witnessed a bizarre incident she saw a man jump through the window of
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a hair salon and run away the witness immediately called police the deputy arrived thinking okay i'm
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going to investigate a burglary at this beauty salon goes in and it's completely dark he has a
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flashlight training the beam of the flashlight around walking looking seeing nothing but in the back
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room he found a woman on the floor murdered it had to be a very chilling discovery
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the killer had used a strap tied it around her neck and then hung her from a hot water heater
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robbery was not demoted her purse was left behind there was money still in the cash register
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her car was left behind it appeared that the motive probably was sexual related the victim was identified as 27 year old
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dana satterfield the owner of the hair salon she was the mother of two young children
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she had worked in the hair business for seven years i want to say she'd been in
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that shop three to four when i say shop it was a converted mobile home that was made into a beauty salon
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the murder happened sometime around 8 30 when the shop was still open although the log book indicated no one was
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scheduled for an appointment i think that she would usually try to get out of there before it get dark
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but it wasn't uncommon for her to work that late the witness diane harris described the
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man as white about five feet nine inches tall and wearing jeans and a gray t-shirt
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she was very good on height obviously race is important to rule out a large segment of the population based
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on the witness's facial description a police artist created a composite sketch
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which was distributed to the media another witness reported seeing a suspicious vehicle in the area he sees a
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blue and white ford bronco part at a business he notices this because he worked at this that this business
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himself the business was closed and he knew that vehicle probably shouldn't be there
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inside the salon police dusted for fingerprints and they concentrated on the water heater where
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the killer strapped dana's body it's a very smooth hard finish and powder it was bring them up real clear
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and you can lift them very easily off of a surface like that they found one print that was very clear
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there was a detective who said whoever this print belongs to is definitely the killer
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i'm thinking god definitely it's a strong word how do you know that and then this is
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the way the knot was todd you had to put your hand there to do it in a surprising development
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the print on the water heater matched dana's estranged husband mike satterfield
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the couple who had two young children were recently separated all indications from the crime scene
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would be that the assailant knew dana it was angry and personal and vicious and vindictive
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did dana's husband have an alibi [Music] based on the evidence investigators believe that the killer
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entered dana satterfield's hair salon shortly before closing locked the door turned out the lights
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dragged her into the utility room where he strangled her to death to have a mother of two
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killed in this way staged the way that her body was staged left in that degraded state
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the guys that i know that worked on the case come hell or high water they're going to
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solve it at the autopsy the medical examiner concluded the cause of death was strangulation
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and a rape test kit found evidence of sexual assault once they were able to generate a profile that's when everyone
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started looking for a possible suspect her body was the primary and best crime scene
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that we had followed by the bathroom itself investigators found a fingerprint on the
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water heater next to dana's body it belonged to dana's estranged husband
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mike we had actually had a few problems and she had actually been living a half a
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mile from here the kids were staying here and she was staying there when questioned by police mike claimed
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he was with his children at the time of the murder because we were with him that night of
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course when he got the phone call we talked to her and then he took us up there so i mean i knew there's no way
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that my dad did it or had anything to do with it and there was a perfectly logical
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explanation for mike's prince to be there he did all the repair work i just put that water heater in there i
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done all the maintenance up there i took care of everything there's zero nada not one
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scintilla of evidence that mike saterville had anything to do with this crime done
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and it was clear that mike satterfield did not fit the description of the man the eyewitness
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saw jumping through the salon window he's an enormous man with all due respect to him he couldn't get out that
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window there'd be a hole in the side of the mobile home if mike tried to get out
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the one and he'd tell you the same thing in a search for suspects investigators found other fingerprints
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at the crime scene one in dana's blood all were submitted to the statewide fingerprint database
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has all the fingerprints of all the prisoners that's been arrested in south carolina and we take a picture of the
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fingerprint bring it up on the computer screen investigators were certain the bloody
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fingerprint would provide a lead unfortunately there were no matches the fingerprint was never identified
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and and there was prob there's no telling how many they ran through how many people they checked on that
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investigators with strong backgrounds and working these type of crimes were brought in for this type case
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the search for the white and blue ford bronco turned up plenty of possibilities and it's incredibly distinctive saw
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blade rims blue and white ford bronco it's not unique but it's rare i would
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think that that was a pretty distinctive car but apparently there are more of those than i would have imagined
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police checked them all out but all were dead ends every single time me and my brother saw a bronco pass by
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we had to call it in we had to tell my dad daddy we saw bronco you need a call as leads dwindled
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the case gradually turned cold and the year went by with no new developments then police got a break
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a prison inmate told authorities that his cellmate 29 year old russell trevor quinn
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often spoke of dana satterfield it was something about how attractive dana was believe it or not lots of folks in
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prison try to swap information for a reduction in charges or less prison time um
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interestingly enough and his cellmate didn't keep that confidence he reported
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it to law enforcement quinn was incarcerated for a crime that bore a marked similarity to dana's
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murder he also was in prison for raping a woman and tying her and tying her to a
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tree quinn was free at the time of dana's murder and fit the eyewitness description of the killer
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the police got his mug shot put it in a photo lineup showed it to diane harris as you will remember was our lone
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eyewitness diane actually picked russell trevor quinn out of a photo lineup as being the
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person that she came in contact with one of dana's friends says i've seen
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this man in the shop before the police are able to put him in a car not dissimilar to the one seen near the
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scene but this turned out to be another dead end when his dna didn't match the
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biological evidence from the crime scene russell trevor quinn was a hopeful moment for the detectives i mean he he's
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what you're looking for in terms of of a suspect he just didn't do it and the case went cold for the next 10
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years until dana satterfield's daughter helped solve the case no statute of limitations on murder
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cases and they're never officially closed but with each passing year unsolved cases get more difficult to
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solve that was true of the dana satterfield murder it was the most frustrating case
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i have ever dealt with for 10 years detectives rick gregory and thomas smith continued to work the case
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following potential leads i think most english homicide investigators have a case that really sticks with them
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probably more than any other case there was two banker boxes full of leads so there was an excess of 400 leads
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and the satterfield family never gave up either no people come up to me actually
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if they called him yet or they heard anything and i'm like you know i just don't i know that they're still working
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on the case but i just i really don't think that they're going to catch him
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because i really didn't think they would ashley satterfield was eight years old
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when her mother was killed now she was 18 in college and trying to move on with her life
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one day ashley took her car in for repairs and those repairs changed the course of
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the investigation well this girl came in with a little red honda and she got her
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oil changed and i was like man she was just in here a couple weeks ago and they said yeah that's actually satterfield
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and you know dana setterfeld they got murdered in roebuck well that's her daughter i was like her daughter and
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yeah i said i didn't know she had kids this man who wanted to remain anonymous
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is an automobile mechanic he knew something about dana satterfield's murder or at least
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thought he did just by seeing ashley and her being her mother i had to give them some closure
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ten years earlier when the auto mechanic was in high school his friend jonathan vick gave him a ride home
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vic was driving a white ford bronco with blue trim like the one parked near the crime scene
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i'm gonna go get a haircut tonight a haircut he said he's gonna go get his
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hair cut and i was like where are you gonna get your haircut this time i'm gonna go he said dana's saying
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i never knew her last night it's so hot man i guess and vic said he was interested in more than a haircut
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he would talk about how pretty she was and what he would like to do as far as sexual wise and things like that
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i'm gonna ask her out you're gonna ask her on a date yeah so you serious
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yes when i laughed at him he got upset with me he said you well you don't think i have a chance i
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just laughed it's like man whatever later when he saw news reports about dana
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satterfield's murder he wondered if jonathan vick was involved if you ask him say he really didn't
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believe that he did it couldn't believe it wouldn't believe it here's a 17 year old with no record
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that you counted as one of your best friends and he's going to commit one of the most
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brutal murders in the history of spartanburg county for what reason why just after dana's murder
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this man claims he called police anonymously and told them about his conversation with jonathan vick
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he also told them vic was driving a white ford bronco at the time police questioned jonathan vick and his
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mother aggressively investigators questioned her on six different occasions about the vehicle
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you know where was it that night who was using it and the family was getting tired of people asking them
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was this your bronco here is this your your vehicle and they even went to the links of making a homemade sign that
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said this is not the vehicle and putting it on the bronco as it traveled down the road that's how
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that's how many people were calling about it police even tried to get a court order
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for jonathan vick's dna but the court refused on the grounds that driving a vehicle like the one seen near the crime
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scene was insufficient probable cause where's the probable cause on jonathan
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vick at this time it doesn't exist so police dropped their investigation of jonathan vick
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there was a time where i figured well maybe you know they have cleared him but there was something inside that said it
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still ain't right something it's just not right so now ten years later this man jonathan vick's friend called
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police again insisting that they investigate vic for dana satterfield's murder
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and just like before i didn't want to get my name but without his name police couldn't get a court order to
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obtain jonathan vick's dna sample so police were right back where they started and they had to wonder what was
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this man really hiding after waiting ten long years prosecutors now had a witness who
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claimed he knew what happened on the night of dana satterfield's murder the witness said
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seventeen-year-old jonathan vick offered him a ride home from school vic said he was going to dana salon for
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a haircut vic also admitted he fantasized about dana a woman 10 years his senior and
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said he planned to ask her out on a date vic entered dana's salon around 8 30 p.m
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it was almost closing time [Music] prosecutors believe vic made a sexual advance and dana refused perhaps she
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thought he was kidding [Music] that's when vic locked the door turned out the lights
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and attacked [Music] in addition to sexual assault he strangled her to death [Music]
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for reasons no one can understand he decided to leave through the window which caught the attention of the
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witness diane harris she got a good look at him the composite sketch from this brief
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encounter was remarkably accurate pretty close to exactly what jonathan vick looks like the hair there was some issue
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as to whether the hair was light or dark we had to go find some witnesses that said vic used to tip his hair back then
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as to why vick's prints weren't found in the salon investigators say it happens
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more often than people think just because someone touches something doesn't mean that that that you have
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left to print it it has a lot to do with the amount of oil on your skin at the time and the surface that you're
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touching eventually the anonymous informant explained why he had waited all these
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years to come forward he said vic threatened to kill him if he ever told police what he knew about the
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murder he didn't tell me what he did he said if you tell anybody i'll kill you he knew
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that i knew that he was going over there he also realized ten years later that he had a responsibility to the
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satterfield family so he gave police his name michael pace that does not keep me from being
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extraordinarily frustrated with him but to his credit he accepted responsibility he was a very very good
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witness and police got their court order for vick's dna sample michael pace is the
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probable cause that allowed us to get jonathan vick's dna clearly unequivocally
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michael pace is how we got his dna jonathan vick was still living in south carolina after serving two years in the
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marines all that matters he'd had well over 15 different jobs he was getting fired or asked to leave
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because of um his inability to get along with his co-workers or his supervisors vic also had some brushes
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with the law he had two arrests one was a domestic violence which was dismissed and there
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was a malicious injury which is basically a vandalism that was dismissed now a husband and father of an infant
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daughter vic denied any involvement in dana satterfield's murder at the time of
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the arrest he basically told us he never knew jonathan vick's dna matched the biological evidence from the
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rape test kit gathered at dana's autopsy a 900 million to one match i was relieved because that particular
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case had been sitting on my desk for 10 years i was relieved that there was a match
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every time you see a poster or see an article or watch tv or on the news or anything
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about the case it just it bothered me and now it's over with i feel a lot better
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investigators believe dana satterfield was vic's first victim but possibly not his last
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[Music] there was another acquaintance of jonathan vicks heather renee sellers who
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mysteriously disappeared she's been missing for several years ms sellers was actually engaged to him
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only weeks prior to her disappearance seller's car was found at the bottom of
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a river her case is still open in november of 2005 jonathan vick was convicted of dana
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satterfield's murder and sentenced to life in prison [Music] it was guilty guilty guilty all 12
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guilty i mean they all they all knew with you yeah i'll never forget the words that he chose because
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after all of this there was still such an arrogance almost or how can you accuse me
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this innocent man that i am how can they convict me of this dana's murderer is still free
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that i wasn't she she did not get done yesterday and then the judge said you're going to prison
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for the rest of your life i have no sympathy for him or his mother or his wife or anyone in his family i
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have no sympathy for none of them because they all thought that i still think that he's innocent and they know
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that he's guilty his mother knew that he was guilty she knew and she held back on that
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he's a pathological maniacal liar and i don't like him but he received a fair draw
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you