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From the dumpster outside atlanta where hilton was recovered. a georgia cop on blood mountain had found the bayonet wrestled away from gary hilton. now investigators in florida had a theory. >> what was interesting about that knife is, before we knew of mr. hilton, before he had killed ms. emerson and been caught, our analyst in our lab showed us, this is the style -- this is what the knifes going to look like. >> cameras and memory cards were found inside the van. the techie detectives in the f...

Not yet. gotta take it slow. >> reporter: we try to look at it from a distance. you cant let your personal emotions get involved. >> reporter: yeah. >> you cant allow tunnel vision to take over. your job is to investigate. look at the evidence and then go where the evidence leads you. >> reporter: detectives were still canvassing fellow students, and teachers, school administrators. anybody who could help them nail down nathans movements on thursday morning, the time of the murder. and again, if...

And that laptop was never found during that first search warrant. >> reporter: so the prosecutors wrote a second search warrant. and voila. they found it. but maybe too late >> they discovered it in the bottom of a red tub that had a few inches of water in the bottom of it >> reporter: and you know how computers hate water but the waterlogged laptop wasnt all they found. >> the red tub ended up being a gold mine of evidence. >> reporter: like what >> they found ammunition that ended up being con...

Mr. hilton, before he had killed miss emerson and been caught, our analysts in our lab showed us, this is the style, this is what the knife is going to look like. >> cameras and memory cards were found inside the van. the techy detectives in the fdle computer lab were working overtime trying to unscramble deleted material from the evidence. and deep in their dna lab, more than 700 samples were being analyzed in an attempt to find some link between gary hilton and the late cheryl dunlap. had ga...

Emerson had wrestled away from gary hilton. now investigators in florida had a theory. >> what was interesting about that knife is, before we knew of mr. hilton, before he had killed ms. emerson and been caught, our analyst in our lab showed us, this is the style -- this is what the knifes going to look like. >> cameras and memory cards were found inside the van. the techie detectives in the fdle computer lab were working overtime trying to unscramble deleted material from the evidence. and deep...

He said he was doing homework in a computer lab at the time of the murder. but was he? >> and he was in school from what time to what time? >> i dont know. >> what time did you pick him up thursday? >> i picked hip up around 10:00. >> reporter: detective ellzey also asked daniel what he was doing on thursday morning. routine questioning. >> starbucks.

Trucked to the florida department of law enforcement crime lab. >> our crime scene analysts spent day and night literally, weeks. >> that van was a mess, right? >> she lived in that van for weeks. she dismantled that van. >> all that evidence from the van was added to items recovered from the dumpster outside atlanta where hilton was recovered. a georgia cop on blood mountain had found the bayonet wrestled away from gary hilton. now investigators in florida had a theory. >> what was interesting ...

Laptop off to the computer lab, hoping maybe the techs could find something on it. and surprise, surprise, they did. >> and off of that computer, we were able to find the work that david moffitt had done to create a fake i.d. in andy wegeners name. >> reporter: thats the one david presented to the school teacher, drew bahlmann. he also created a fake andy wegener e-mail address and stole that oil service receipt from andys car. all of which made it obvious, said the prosecutors, david moffitt pl...

>> reporter: yeah. >> you cant allow tunnel vision to take over. your job is to investigate. look at the evidence and then go where the evidence leads you. >> reporter: detectives were still canvassing fellow students, and teachers, school administrators. anybody who could help them nail down nathans movements on thursday morning, the time of the murder. and again, if anybody knew, it would be daniel. who, after all, watched over nathan, drove him around, looked after him. but it turned out nath...

Analyst in our lab showed us, this is the style -- this is what the knifes going to look like. >> cameras and memory cards were found inside the van. the techie detectives in the fdle computer lab were working overtime trying to unscramble deleted material from the evidence. and deep in their dna lab more than 700 samples were being analyzed in an attempt to find some link between gary hilton and the late sheryl dunlap. had gary hilton managed to outsmart them all? would florida be able to make ...