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and i was like, "whats going on? " and hes like, "lisas been shot. " >> i held her hand and i just said, "my lisa. my lisa. " >> everyones like, "do you want justice? do you want revenge? -- i just want the truth. >> lisa techel, newly married, pregnant, starting the career of her dreams. >> she always put everybody before she put herself. >> then, one morning, a single shotgun blast rocked the newlywedshome. >> shes been shot. >> a young husband, out of his mind with grief. >> it was ...

>> no, i didnt. >> tate stuck to his alibi: home and asleep, after taking his medication. lead agent birmingham thought he was telling the truth and crossed brian tate off his suspect list. so you only had one suspect at this point. >> yeah, one suspect and only one suspect. >> that evening, lisas loved ones gathered at a funeral home for the visitation. the turnout was impressive and included many of todds friends in the sheriffs department. your fellow officers are there as they would be, you ...

>> deputy wonderlin and myself deputy phillips are pulling up here at the tate residence to re-interview mr. tate. >> this time, they asked him point blank about the murder of his neighbor. >> were just trying to figure this all out, you know. did you have anything to do with lisas death? >> no, i didnt. >> tate stuck to his alibi: home and asleep, after taking his medication. lead agent birmingham thought he was telling the truth and crossed brian tate off his suspect list. so you only had one ...

Story for a jury? >> probably the most important single piece of evidence was the shotgun. >> ballistics showed this mossberg 12-gauge was the murder weapon, a firearm that seth kept inside his house, and only he had access to it that morning, prosecutors argued. >> no murderer who wants to kill lisa techel comes to the murder scene without the murder weapon. >> we argued the impossibility of his story. some unknown assailant breaks into his house and kills the wife that he says hes gonna leave....

Big strategic shift. they would soften the focus on the boogeyman of the first two trials -- brian tate. >> our conclusion was after listening to the tapes of mr. tate, that he wasnt the deranged person that they tried to portray him as being. >> the way he was speaking to law enforcement that afternoon would not seem like the person that would have walked into a trailer home at 5:00 in the morning and murdered his neighbor. >> the defense attorneys made a tactical decision. since recordings of ...

Well. >> hes manic, hes up all the time. >> the defense offered the jury the same bogeyman as before. >> the defense went even harder at brian tate than they had the first time around. >> he could quickly become volatile and agitated. >> this time, the defense, over strenuous prosecution objections, got tates psychiatrist to testify. hed treated him near the end of his life in a hospital mental health unit. >> when you first saw him did you find him to be paranoid, paranoid delusional? >> yes, s...