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he related to us how lou castro and the others had moved to a residence in columbia, tennessee. we were reluctant to talk to his girlfriend because, again, we did not want to tip off lou castro or anybody else. reporter: and daniel, their inside man, delivered the mother load. 4 they d bring me pictures, do you can you identify these people? they re out at the gate lookin , you know, surveilling, watching cars come and go. but you re able to put the picture together for them? correct. reporter: armed with daniel s email and his intel, goodwyn, snyder and sullivan got an official green light to pursue castro and try to take him out of business. and, castro, walking into a bank in tennessee, was about to make a big mistake. coming up, investigators finally get inside the doors of the commune.
look in and figure out where the puzzle lay. what d you feel about these stories? a lot of mixed emotions. i didn t know how to handle a lot of stuff at that time. because it was all very fresh, very new to me. and just stuck with her and decided, you know, let s try to make things right. reporter: and secretly, daniel decided to take action. you put together a remarkable letter for the f.b.i. yes. that took some guts to do it. i was just pretty much just tired of me carrying all that information myself. i found out enough that i believed that it should be in somebody else s hands that can do something with it. reporter: daniel laid out his suspicions, painting an alarming picture of the angels landing commune a series of mysterious deaths, a code of silence enforced with sickening threats, and a big clue as to where all the money might have come from. and at the center of it all the man who called himself lou
there s no way. reporter: emily might have gone to live with their father, but she remained with the commune. i wasn t going to leave what i considered my family. and your dad was part of another family back when but i mean i still visited my dad and i still loved my dad, but that s just not where i was going to live. reporter: so as the family and emily moved to a beautiful colonial home on acreage in columbia, tennessee, sara stood her ground in wichita. she could exhale at last. and one evening, she went out and met a guy. his name was daniel an expert marksman in the kansas national guard. and as they fell in love, she began to spill the buried secrets of her past. you d think nobody could have these dark stories that are part of your life. but you had just awful, awful things to tell? uh-huh. yes. reporter: sara was still in touch with the family commune, now living in tennessee. and daniel wanted to know more about this lou character sara was telling him
castro. even for this veteran of the wars in afghanistan and iraq, reporting to the authorities carried its risks. you worry about that? i did. but i decided, you know, this was something i have to do and the chips will fall where they fall. and turns out the authorities were very, very interested in what you had to say? yes. reporter: so in december 2009, nearly seven-years after the wichita investigation began, detectives goodwyn and snyder and the fbi agent sullivan got their first break the email from daniel. and in the email, he told us what he thought was happening. but the great thing about it was, for the first time, we had somebody from the inside that could confirm some of our suspicions. saying you guys really need to look at this guy, lou castro? yes. and i m guessing you get a holy cow phone call, huh? yes. we finally have a cooperating witness that will help us determine who lou castro is. reporter: in secret without sara knowing they brought d