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killer in a mask. >> hes clearly a brilliant individual. a brilliantly scary individual. >> his target, a doting young mom. >> she was a gorgeous strawberry blond who loved her son more than anything in the whole world. >> she was so scared. >> he struck once. would he kill again and would she be next? >> we were just so shattered and hurting so bad. >> imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. >> i w...

>> imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. >> i was terrified. >> she will face down evil and come forward with a new revelation that will make your jaw drop. >> what i did is wrong. there are no words. i have everything to lose. hello and welcome to ♪ ♪ ♪ "dateline." it was a brutal crime and right away one woman said she knew what happened. the verdict was far from the end of this case. its ...

Those horror movies. hes like your worst nightmare. >> after his relieve he got a job and moved to suburban atlanta. he was a free man and enjoying life. here he is sky diving and loving it. dakers freedom galled homicide detective john doss. the karmen smith murder was now officially a cold case. to doss, daker was the one that got away. >> does a case like this haunt a police department? >> absolutely, because these cases go home with you in your mind. >> but for years, doss couldnt do anythin...

Her story, calling him a victim. >> you know what? i messed up really bad. despicable. >> lotties reversal was astonishing. in the years since karmen smiths murder, she was raising her young son in a new home. by recanting her testimony, she put all of that at risk. how worried are you right now that you could go to jail for perjury? >> im very worried. i know that im facing prison time and there will be severe penalty for what i do and i dont want to be ripped away from my little boy. i have ev...

Doing this because this is right. >> prosecutor jesse evans portrayed lottie as a unreliable person. evans next move was stunning. he presented evidence that he said explained lotties incredible reversal, letters confiscated from dakers prison cell. 4,000 pages of correspondance between the convicted murderer and the woman who testified against him. >> i sent him daily devotions and bible cards and a lot of information, case files. i actually feel like im his personal secretary in a way. >> it t...

Remember. >> there is no smoking gun or smoking blanket in this case? >> absolutely. i dont think there are any blanket and i dont think there is any evidence of that. >> on the stand, lottie not only recanted her testimony from two trials but described the incredible length she is willing to go to help set daker free. you believe so strongly in this you applied for a second mortgage to help in his defense and took out a life insurance policy naming waseem as the beneficiary? >> my daughter is t...

Again. >> no. >> major turn of events. >> yes, there has been. >> it all began with a bombshell. >> mr. daker and i had a consensual sexual relationship. >> yes, lottie now says in the mid90s she had an ongoing sexual relationship with waseem daker, that he wasnt really her stalker, he was her lover. it was something she had flat out denied for 17 years. >> if what youre saying is true, you lied to the district attorney, you lied in open court to the jury, you lied to me. >> uh-huh. there are no...

He didnt and was arrested again in september. this time, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. prosecutor jesse evans. >> hes got some severe issues with obsession. i dont think that he has the ability to feel compassion for other people. hes clearly a brilliant individual. hes also a brilliantly scary individual. >> while daker was hospitalized, lottie packed up and moved to the house in cobb county, about 20 minutes north of atlanta where carmen and nick lived downstairs. >> so...

A sexual relationship. >> there was no relationship so theres nothing, you know, more that i can say about that. >> did he ever try and do anything like kiss you -- >> no. >> since hes so in love with you. >> never once. never once tried to kiss me or anything. >> when daker finally turned to those hairs, he called on dr. greg hampekian. he challenged the states key evidence. the nuclear dna test matching daker to karmen smith that was done on the root tissue of a single hair. the problem, he sa...

Next request. do you think waseem daker is manipulating lottie from prison? >> there is no doubt by sending those letters to him, a convicted murder, a sociopath, she has opened the door and has allowed him an opportunity to get back in her life and we know he has a history of manipulating her. >> he is manipulating you right now into doing exactly what he wants? >> absolutely not. this is a repentive woman who is very remorseful and very sorry for what she has caused. >> but evans say the lette...