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In realtime by gps ankle bracelets, how could they have committed the terrible crimes they were charged with? how could this happen? >> how can this happen? why were they not being monitored? but it was definitely a hard question to get from the mothers themselves as well. why wasnt it caught sooner? >> sure. jerrees mother jodie sued the department of rehabilitation claiming it failed to adequately monitor gordon and cano. the state denied the claims and the case was dismissed. jodie also sued ...

3? >> what do you mean? >> reporter: thats what kids say to parents, you let me do a bad thing, its your fault. >> i didnt say they let us do a bad thing. i said they let us sleep and hang out at the same spot. they did, beside what anybody believed. >> reporter: you will parse that argument? >> to the day i die, thats true. >> reporter: i want to know, thats on you, what was going on in your head to make you want to do it, to participate in whatever way you participated, to get whatever thrill?...

But julissa trapp does. >> cases dont always get solved in 48 hours. you know? >> reporter: surprise, surprise. >> they take time and they take work. >> reporter: and that little rosary helps you? >> it does. >> reporter: if she can solve this case, shed give that rosary to the dead womans family. but first she had to figure out who she was. from just one identifying mark on her neck, a tattoo. jodi. was that her name? reaching out, detective trapp pulled up the anaheim police departments databa...

>> reporter: eventually, she found the room where jerree had been staying, which with $700 in cash, mascara lipstick, contact lens solution, but nothing whatever to lead her to a suspect. not here, anyway. from the disposal companies, she got a list of the dumpsters the garbage trucks serviced that morning. then she and other officers went dumpster diving, hundreds of dumpsters. what would you be looking for? >> they were all given pictures of what the trash that looked like that was around her....

>> reporter: no, no, are you three? >> what do you mean? >> reporter: thats what kids say to parents, you let me do a bad thing, its your fault. >> i didnt say they let us do a bad thing. i said they let us sleep and hang out at the same spot. they did, beside what anybody believed. >> you will parce that argument? >> to the day i die, thats true. >> reporter: i want to know, thats on you, what was going on in your head to make you want to do it, to participate in whatever way you participated, ...

>> we literally went from each little motel to each little motel showing her picture and having the clerk run her name to see if she had stayed there. >> reporter: eventually, she found the room where jerree had been staying, which with $700 in cash, lipstick, constant lens solution, but nothing whatever to lead her to a suspect. not here, anyway. from the disposal companies, she got a list of the dumpsters the garbage trucks serviced that morning. she and other officers went dumpster diving, hu...

>> reporter: she asked where any of those here where jerree placed her last phone call or here where she wound up with a dumpster. you find the same locations, you are getting somewhere? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: she ran the search. what were the chances she got a hit in both locations? she called detective trapp. >> theres only one person. she says, i know him. i says, who? his name is frank canno, hes a sex offender. >> reporter: he pleaded guilty to committing a lewd act on a minor. now, did hi...

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Jerree estep, she was 21-years-old. >> she had been contacted a year prior in anaheim on beach boulevard. >> reporter: beach boulevard? suddenly detective trapps case took on a whole new connection. >> if you want to buy drugs, beach boulevard is where you come. if you are looking for a girl, beach boulevard is where you come. a lot of stable families they happen to run into the wrong guy who somehow got them into this job. these pimps are really good about breaking down the women and getting co...

Little motel to each little motel showing her picture and having the clerk run her name to see if she had stayed there. >> reporter: eventually, she found the room where jerree had been staying, which with $700 in cash, lipstick, constant lens solution, but nothing whatever to lead her to a suspect. not here, anyway. from the disposal companies, she got a list of the dumpsters the garbage trucks serviced that morning. she and other officers went dumpster diving, hundreds of dumpsters. what would...