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>> the opening line, i think, for the prosecutors was, "there are two people on the face of the earth who couldve done this." they said up front that its about these two -- these two men. >> reporter: nathan and daniel. a boyfriend incapable of murder, the prosecutor would say, and that boys roommate, driven by jealousy. >> we couldnt just go in and say, "heres the -- heres the physical evidence, and the circumstantial evidence, and you know he did it." we had to then show all the evidence that ...

Pause for an hour and something. he was asking her in those text messages if she wanted to go to lunch with him. >> he was hammer texting her. and it was one of those situations where i have no doubt in my mind, he was texting her to see whether or not she was gonna leave that classroom. she repeatedly told him no, that she was in class, that she wasnt interested. and the fact that he kept asking just showed that he really wanted to make sure he could get away with what he was about to do. and t...

Reporter: daniel willyam, as was his right, declined to testify when he went on trial for killing shelley nance. so he did not himself point at nathan and accuse him of committing the murder. but of course he didnt have to. his attorney did it for him. it was not a surprise to prosecutor dewey mitchell. >> they said it couldve been nathan, and it couldve been a random person, and that by the time the states done with its case, youre not gonna be able to know who did this crime. they just dont ha...

>> reporter: then the prosecutor presented his theory, a story of how it went down. shelley, a known night owl, had been up all wednesday night into thursday morning on her computer until 6:00 a.m., when she went to sleep. ashley left for school. then daniel entered the apartment, possibly with ashleys key, the one hed secretly copied when he borrowed her car and key ring a month before. once inside the apartment, he stabbed shelley to death. he cleaned up any evidence of his presence and got ou...

>> we talked to her and she said that there was no reason for him to have ever been there. he didnt contact her about coming in and doing any such project. and so then the other lie, though, was in that he then told the detectives about going straight home. and when the detectives started to look at the cell phone records of his location after we believe he committed the offense, he went to an entirely different location. >> reporter: didnt go home? >> he did not go home. he went 30 minutes nort...