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Contents:

• WHERE IS SHN GAYLE NOW?
• SHN GAYLE EXCLIVE: PREGNANT GIRLIEND'S KILLG EXPOS OBSSIVE STALKER
• SHANE GAYLE
• MARNI YANG ATTORNEY SAYS WNS RELLS FORMER BEARS PLAYER SHN GAYLE SAYG ‘I DID ’ ON DAY GIRLIEND WAS KILLED
• FOUND 4 RULTS FOR SHANE GAYLE
• GAYLE AND MAC SHANN SAY 'S 'HAPPY DAYS' TWO S ON OM ATRALIAN STORY APPEARANCE
• SHANE GAYLE FOUND 16 PEOPLE NEW YORK, FLORIDA AND 7 OTHER STAT
• WOMAN WHO MURRED SHN GAYLE'S PREGNANT GIRLIEND BREAKS HER SILENCE TO PROTT HER NOCENCE
• SHANE GAYLE MT PLEASANT, AGE 50, MALE
• GAYLE SHANE
• 'WE DIDN'T PARTICULARLY GET ALONG THAT WELL': SHANE WATSON REVEALS HOW HE 'BROKE THE ICE' WH CHRIS GAYLE AT RCB

WHERE IS SHN GAYLE NOW?

4, 2007, began wh the stunng news that Rhoni Rter, the longtime pregnant girliend of former Chigo Bears player Shn Gayle, had been Rter’s nvicted killer hop she'll be granted a new trial and is speakg out about her se for the first time on televisn.

It was the first murr Deerfield had seen 30 years and Gayle had been a safety on the celebrated Chigo Bears team that won the 1985 Super Rter and former Chigo Bears player Shn Gayle are seen here this fay photo.

Courty Rter fayGayle had been datg Rter for 18 years while seeg a number of other women at var tim over the years as well, cludg Yang. Courty Rter fayAlthough Gayle and Rter were together for almost two s, they never lived fay say they were surprised when they learned of Gayle’s non-monogamo relatnship wh Rter. ”Rhoni Rter's brother and sister--law, Thad and Anna Rter, are seen here this prev "20/20" NewsOn the day Rhoni Rter’s body was disvered, Gayle lled Deerfield police, sayg a reporter had lled him askg if he knew anythg about beg named a spect a shootg there.

SHN GAYLE EXCLIVE: PREGNANT GIRLIEND'S KILLG EXPOS OBSSIVE STALKER

When the officer who took the ll nfirmed to Gayle that Rter was the victim, the former NFL player broke down hysteril sobs.

SHANE GAYLE

“Don’t go to her hoe, ” the officer told him, and asked him stead to e to the police Gayle arrived, Deerfield Deputy Chief Rick Wilk said the former NFL player was “visibly upset, ” but was “a ltle spic” to Wilk that Gayle had lled wh hours of the murr qutng, Lake County Major Crim Task Force Detective Stt Frost said Gayle beme strangely posed. "He … was very rerved, very lm., " Frost said he asked Gayle what he had done the last 24 hours, and that some of his tails on timg seemed to be off.

What he did the night before, what time did he go to bed, what time did he leave, " Frost the morng of the murr, Gayle told police he slept , worked out wh a traer and then got a haircut mid-morng at a barber about 10 mut away om Rter's said Gayle sisted he was nocent.

“You have several women that uld have been jealo of Rhoni, ” Wilk asked who he believed the killer might be, police said Gayle named Monika Kurowska, whom he had a relatnship wh a year prr and he said had end badly.

MARNI YANG ATTORNEY SAYS WNS RELLS FORMER BEARS PLAYER SHN GAYLE SAYG ‘I DID ’ ON DAY GIRLIEND WAS KILLED

Kurowska was a Polish fns mol and personal traer, whom Gayle said he had dated for several months said one night Kurowska me to his apartment plex and began rgg his neighbors’ buzzers. Gayle eventually obtaed a protective orr agast a statement to ABC News, Kurowska said she was upset when she got to Gayle's home and saw him wh another woman.

She said she cid to end the relatnship and that she never saw Gayle told police he believed Kurowska was sendg harassg letters to var people his life, cludg Rter, her mother and other women he had been seeg. The anonymo letters were wrten broken English and claimed Gayle was romancg a number of women at the same Rhoni Rter's mother received one of the letters, she lled Gayle. He assured her that her dghter was safe and that the letters were om “a crazed fan, ” acrdg to Thad Rhoni Rter's body was found, tectiv revered one of the letters si her beg qutned by vtigators, Kurowska nied sendg the letters and said she was at a trag ssn wh a client when Rhoni Rter was murred, which checked cleared Kurowska as a spect, and eventually cleared Gayle as well.

FOUND 4 RULTS FOR SHANE GAYLE

Soon, they began focg on another woman Gayle had been sually seeg: Marni myster lettersMarni Yang is seen here at Christmastime this fay photo.

Courty Marni YangYang, a divorced mother of three who worked multiple jobs, cludg as a real tate agent, said she met Gayle at a Bears nventn where she was workg secury. She said the two started seeg each other after he reached out to her about vtg real police first lled Yang for qutng regardg the Rter vtigatn two months after the murr, she told them she and Gayle had known each other for about six part of their vtigatn, the police obtaed a warrant to search his hoe, which clud seizg his gag accs to his email, vtigators told Gayle that they believed Yang had been accsg his email for years, but Yang ni this.

"Though police said other people they terviewed wh her circle told them Yang often bragged about beg Gayle’s girliend, she nied that was the se.

GAYLE AND MAC SHANN SAY 'S 'HAPPY DAYS' TWO S ON OM ATRALIAN STORY APPEARANCE

Courty Marni YangInvtigators spected that Yang was the one rponsible for sendg harassg letters to Rter, her mother and other women Gayle’s life. They believed she had disvered emails om Kurowska Gayle’s box and pied her pattern of broken English to make appear as if the letters had e om a search of Yang’s hoe, police said they disvered mailg labels wh the addrs of the women Gayle’s life -- the same on who had received the ni she had sent the letters and claims stead that she was one of the women who received such a disvered that she had owned a 9mm handgun, which ed bullets that matched the liber of the on found at the crime scene. "ABC NewsAt trial, Ey Yang ttified that her mother told her she had sent those harassg letters so that all the women Gayle was volved wh uld fd out about each other.

SHANE GAYLE FOUND 16 PEOPLE NEW YORK, FLORIDA AND 7 OTHER STAT

Shn Gayle is a retired profsnal Amerin football player who played rnerback and fense the NFL for a total of twelve seasons, first wh the Chigo Bears om 1984 to 1994, and then wh the San Diego Chargers 1995. Who is Shn Gayle?

WOMAN WHO MURRED SHN GAYLE'S PREGNANT GIRLIEND BREAKS HER SILENCE TO PROTT HER NOCENCE

Where is Shn Gayle Now?

Insi Rter's apartment, officers found pictur of Shn Gayle and immediately regnized him. Gayle was a member of the storied Chigo Bears team 1985 -- the year they won the Super Bowl. Gayle, who has never been terviewed sce Rter's ath, agreed to speak exclively to "20/20, " and talked about the first time he met Rter.

SHANE GAYLE MT PLEASANT, AGE 50, MALE

"Shn Gayle Says He Was a Spect at FirstAfter retirg om the Bears, Gayle beme a sports mentator, dabbled real tate and even wrote several children's books. After Rter beme pregnant, Gayle said he was exced at the prospect of havg a child of his own.

Although they dated for almost two s, Gayle and Rter never lived together. Gayle explaed that the uple had an unrstandg that their relatnship was not monogamo, which raised awkward qutns for Rter's fay.

GAYLE SHANE

When the officer told him to e to the statn, Gayle began sobbg. Acrdg to Deerfield Deputy Chief Rick Wilk, when Gayle arrived he was visibly shaken and upset. "But after observg how quickly Gayle posed himself, task force vtigator Stt Frost was no signs of robbery or forced entry, vtigators immediately spected Rter may have known her killer.

Gayle sisted that not only was he the "wrong man, " but he believed the killer was his former girliend who he said had been stalkg Kurowska was a strikg Polish fns mol turned massage therapist, who Gayle had been romantilly volved wh for around seven months 2006. After the breakup, Gayle said Kurowska would wa outsi his apartment for him, and even shattered one of his wdows the middle of the told police he was also nvced Kurowska had been sendg menacg letters to his iends and fay.

The anonymo letters were wrten broken English and claimed Gayle was romancg 18 different women at the same time. A Cyber-Stalker RevealedWhen Rhoni Rter received one of the letters, Gayle said she was vastated and he nied that the claims were te. She then stood by his si urt when he applied for a rtrag orr agast Rter's mother also received a siar nasty letter, she lled Gayle, who assured her Rhoni was safe and that was the work of a crazy fan.

'WE DIDN'T PARTICULARLY GET ALONG THAT WELL': SHANE WATSON REVEALS HOW HE 'BROKE THE ICE' WH CHRIS GAYLE AT RCB

Still not lg out Gayle or Kurowska as spects, police soon disvered that someone else had been watchg Gayle's every snng his puter, officers termed Gayle's emails had been tracked for years and the cyber-stalker was not Kurowska, but a new spect: Marni was a divorced mother of three and Gayle's real tate agent. When police told him was Yang, not Kurowska, who had been lurkg behd his every key stroke, Gayle was stunned. "They had a list of phone numbers and they tell me, 'Look at those numbers and see if you regnize the numbers, '" Gayle said.