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Either. >> he texted her that morning after the bodys been found saying, are you okay or something to that effect. he knows shes never going to get the message because he threw her phone out the window. >> so you believe he was establishing some type of an alibi? >> he was trying to lay down an alibi at that point. >> reporter: detective kruse raised the heat again. >> it does not make a damn bit of sense. >> reporter: he tag teamed with other investigators to get isaiah to confess. >> were tryi...

Told herself, and yet, she was worried. she couldnt reach her eldest, halee, by phone. >> i called her friend ainsley and said, you know, hey, have you heard from halee. >> shes like i know you have her apartment key. can you drive over there and see what shes doing? >> reporter: when ansley did, she saw halees car parked outside the apartment, meaning halee must be inside. ansley put the key in the front door. >> i swung open the door. i was, like, halee. and i just started screaming her name. ...

Is. >> it certainly wasnt hers. at least thats what heather told herself, and yet, she was worried. she couldnt reach her eldest, halee, by phone. >> i called her friend ainsley and said, you know, hey, have you heard from halee. >> shes like i know you have her apartment key. can you drive over there and see what shes doing? >> when ansley did, she saw halees car parked outside the apartment, meaning halee must be inside. ansley put the key in the front door. >> i swung open the door. i was, li...

Happened. her boyfriend, a man named thadeus rice dropped the baby down the stairs after tripping over a diaper bag. >> jordan was crying and halee looked at me. i was like, what are we going to do? lets get jordan under control and halee put the mom skills into very good use and she is like, it will be okay. hell pull out of this. he is so strong and all this stuff. >> reporter: they did what they could to help. they got jordan some food and went to her apartment to get her some clean clothes. ...

Grade, isaiah hagan. halees ex. they asked jake what he and isaiah had been up to the night of halees death. police had recovered security camera video from the night halee died showing isaiah picking her up at her apartment a little after 10:30. an hour or so later he met up with jake. they played video games and then went to walmart where this camera captured them at about 2:00 am. there was no sign of halee. >> so were you thinking, they think i might be involved in halees murder? >> yeah. >>...

When that happened, cellphone data showed isaiah was miles away. >> at the time that her phone came back on and started traveling, it was nowhere near isaiah hagan. in fact, he was in a different county. so he could not have been pinging off the same tower that she was. >> which according to the defense meant someone else had to have halees cell phone. but the prosecution insisted isaiah had the phone all along. >> it looks like it powers back up at the soccer field, but weve since come to the t...

Like why? >> this was a small town who done it? >> we were afraid. >> what had happened that night? was the answer somewhere in her circle of friends? >> we are trying to find out why. >> i would never hurt halee. >> he is there. hes got a gun. how could it have not been him? >> then, a secret spills out in court. >> thats a bombshell. >> definitely was. >> i feel like i got my heart ripped out. >> for that mother to get on that stand was absolute silence. >> reporter: im miles from my family in...

>> reporter: and heather wasnt the only one pointing the finger at thaddeus. halees friends knew that shed gone to see the babys mom jordan the night she died. >> theres these messages the night she was murdered where she was messaging back and forth with jordan, hey, im going to go pick up my wallet from your house, late at night the night she was killed. so then that was the theory. she went, she told jordan, thaddeus killed her over it. >> reporter: investigators decided it was time to find o...

Right now. are you getting a sick feeling? >> oh, i was sick all morning. it was so much anxiety and i didnt know what to do, and i just kept thinking im wrong. >> reporter: she gave the detective halees full name and description, and he forwarded the information to the warrick county sheriffs office. investigators there immediately checked facebook, where they found halees profile and picture. >> and there was a tattoo visible. on facebook that matched. so, we were pretty certain at that point ...

>> reporter: detective paul kruse looked for answers with grim determination. halees murder was not the only tough case weighing on him that april morning. a few weeks before, he and his partner were assigned to look into the suspicious death of a 10-month-old baby named jaxson. when detectives spoke to heather after her daughters death she revealed something that stunned them. >> halee was the godmother of jaxson. >> reporter: so their jaws dropped? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: heather told poli...