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im craig melvin. >> and im natalie morales. and this is dateline. >> i just collapsed. shes dead because she was my friend. >> first melissa disappeared. >> wheres melissa? >> thats the million dollar question. >> i knew right then she absolutely never made it into her house. >> left behind in her garage signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist, then her boss went missing too. >> who is he afraid of am. >> he might have been afraid hes next. >> he left behind a bigger mess. >> we ...

0 hi alex. >> hi to you. yeah im cranking up about what you are just saying, because i was watching you with the amenable and wonderful role in martin and charles -- coming up. going like, shes never gonna end on time. roland is never gonna letter and on time. and if he is the listening there, he knows exactly what im talking about. but we love him, and his energy. and it was awesome. so hey, props to you for anchoring that. where you got him off on. time >> thank you, thank you very much. have ...

>> this is scott rothstein, november 16th, monday, 1:43 p.m. >> reporter: he wore a wire and helped convict 26 people involved in his ponzi scheme. and despite his cooperation, in 2010, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison. but one big question emerged, speculation about that woman in the firm whod been killed. >> whether melissa knew about the ponzi scheme is one of those great mysteries. >> reporter: scott had started his ponzi scheme three years before melissa was murdered. >> is it time to...

Years in prison. but one big question emerged, speculation about that woman in the firm whod been killed. >> whether melissa knew about the ponzi scheme is one of those great mysteries. >> reporter: scott had started his ponzi scheme three years before melissa was murdered. >> is it time to take a fresh look at the whole melissa lewis murder? is there something more sinister? >> reporter: detective brian kendall now had a whole new problem with his fairly straightforward case against tony, the j...

Is this woman, melissa, killed because she knew too much? >> after we think we had this solid, buttoned-up case, "we do have the whole scott rothstein ponzi scheme comes into play?" >> reporter: the fbi combed through the detectives files looking into a melissa-rothstein-ponzi link. >> they spent a week going through every inch of that case to find out if there was a connection to scott rothstein. >> reporter: with all these messy complications, tonys defense attorney, bruce fleisher, thought ab...

Speculation about that woman in the firm whod been killed. >> whether melissa knew about the ponzi scheme is one of those great mysteries. >> reporter: scott had started his ponzi scheme three years before melissa was murdered. >> is it time to take a fresh look at the whole melissa lewis murder? is there something more sinister? >> reporter: detective brian kendall now had a whole new problem with his fairly straightforward case against tony, the jealous train engineer. is this woman, melissa, ...

2010, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison. but one big question emerged, speculation about that woman in the firm whod been killed. >> whether melissa knew about the ponzi scheme is one of those great mysteries. >> reporter: scott had started his ponzi scheme three years before melissa was murdered. >> is it time to take a fresh look at the whole melissa lewis murder? is there something more sinister? >> reporter: detective brian kendall now had a whole new problem with his fairly straightfor...

Ponzi scheme comes into play?" >> reporter: the f.b.i. combed through the detectives files looking into a melissa-rothstein-ponzi link. >> they spent a week going through every inch of that case to find out if there was a connection to scott rothstein. >> reporter: with all these messy complications, tonys defense attorney, bruce fleisher, thought about two words, reasonable doubt. >> a lot of people thought that because of the rothstein ponzi scheme, that he had something to do with the murder ...