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Fantasy that maybe one day the cops would arrest someone else completely and end up actually telling us, like you know what, your dad ended up not having anything to do with it. >> you wanted to be wrong. >> i wanted to be wrong on that. i really wanted to be wrong. >> have a seat over there for me, magdi. >> sure. >> im detective wilson. >> detective wilson brought magdi to the station and sat him down in the interview room. his tactic was an old one in small rooms like this -- play dumb and se...

Something we had to look at. why do we have one thats able to communicate with us a few hours later, sitting in an interview room, and we have one thats going to autopsy? our first thing was to talk to the friend, who provided us quite a bit of information from that evening. at least a decent timeline. we did phone forensics immediately. >> what did that tell you what happened after midnight? >> we know from their phones that this was a planned event. they had discussed it. they took pictures. >...

>> reporter: they searched her home, and later sat her down in an interview room and hooked her up to a polygraph machine. asked her questions like this one, among others. >> reporter: did you go to big lakes park that day? >> um, no. >> reporter: amy also denied that she shot liz. again and again. but she failed the polygraph. still, something didnt add up. when that local detective arrived at amys place right after the shooting, he felt the hood of her car. ice cold, hadnt been driven for a wh...

Picked tomes to interview seth. >> there was no doubt in my mind that he was the one to do the interview. >> we only get one shot and have to be prepared for information collecting or that this could be our suspect. >> only eight hours after his pregnant wife was murdered, the interview got underway. >> in the interview room, agent thomas was in white. it started routinely. seth had already given his account twice to deputies at the scene but this would be his first time on videotape. his story ...

Ricky spencer. >> weve got a guy who i believe is of interest. hes making a lot of calls to doug. he looks a lot like doug. he could pass for doug. >> reporter: on june 21, 2010, the detectives made an unannounced visit to this house, where ricky lived with his parents. >> we did not want him to know we were coming. >> reporter: just knock, knock, knock. >> correct. >> reporter: rickys sister and mother came to the door. >> explained to them we needed to talk to ricky. we thought he might have s...

>> reporter: the cops in the interview room asked him how he felt about his dad now. >> reporter: in the minutes before he was arrested, clayton wrote a bizarre apology to alex and the koguts. sorry to you, he wrote. nothing will ever fix or undo what i did. i became my father. claytons sister took the story.

And rachel winkler, dead in her babys bedroom. they found the couples three young children safe and sound across the street at a neighbors house. todd had dropped them off there before the police arrived. soon, todd himself was sitting in an interview room at the sheriffs department. where he admitted, yes, he killed rachel. but, he said, he had no choice. and then he told the police a harrowing story of rage and violence and self-defense. the trouble began the night before, sunday night, he sai...

>> you just smiled. >> no, i didnt. >> the detectives felt they had enough. they issued a warrant for steve shappell, who was still on the lam. and morgan? >> we handcuffed her inside of the interview room and told her that she was under arrest for the murder of kevin mengel jr. >> they sent a police officer to talk to kevins father. >> he said that we believe that your son has been murdered. it was not easy to sit and listen to. >> kevins three children were spending the day at his sister miche...

You nightmare that something had happened to kevin and that kevin was hurt, and i woke up crying hysterically in my bed. >> michelle hopkins, kevin mengels younger sister, was now in a waking nightmare. her brother kevin had been missing for a week, and the young man who appeared to be having an affair with her sister-in-law had just fled from police. >> why did he just steal her pickup truck and flee when i asked him to come back to the police station? >> the situation suddenly looked much wors...

>> later that way janet pruszynski looked down and saw a colorado number on her phone. it was sheriff tony spurlock. >> he said we want to tell you that we found the murderer and so i lost it, they were saying -- i really, really freaked out, the realization that after 40 years there would be justice served and it was just hard to comprehend. >> because its a relief but its also reliving? >> exactly. >> lieutenant tommy barrella began escorting clanton back to colorado, as they spoke, the detect...