tactical wear. they asked me to step out. they reach my gravel driveway. i said, i think you guys have the wrong person. >> i told him, you're under arrest for the murders of linda watson, raleigh cox and marilyn. >> now. i told you before. and into this. you know, i told him, i didn't do this stuff. i'm innocent. i told you. i said, you guys never think about me. you guys can check me out. you asked me questions. because it didn't think. i don't believe tampa. i'm always here. i've nothing to hide. >> linda watson's friend saw the news on tv. >> we arrested david dwayne watson for three counts of first degree murder. >> all the sudden, i just can't breathe. i said, oh my gosh, this is it. i started trying to call her aunt, patty. she said, this is it. i was like, are you sure? we sure? i just remember screaming and crying. she said, they just arrested
>> she is an adult, but the backdoor was found unliked. there is a broken cup of the entryway. >> detective anderson wasn't on the case back then, but remembers it well. >> there are not that many adult missing persons because, frankly, an adult can go anywhere that they want to. and they don't need permission. or to tell anybody. >> still, a deputy was dispatched to the house. >> doesn't see anything that would indicate foul place. >> nothing's been tossed in the house? >> no. he doesn't see any blood. any indication of violence, or a struggle. the only thing he notices is the broken coffee cup. and some property that linda has left behind, that maybe a little bit suspicious. >> linda's bible was on the counter-, her jeep in the driveway. and perhaps most telling, her pager was left behind. remember, this was the year 2000. >> when she didn't have her daughter, she would keep her pager so that if anything happened with her daughter, that was the way to communicate with her. >> it was important, that's a
>> how was linda as a mother? >> she love that little girl. that baby was her whole world. >> bobby and pat were linda's aunts. >> she's very attentive, that little girl. loved her to pieces. >> with jordan's arrival, dave and linda got another visitor to high. >> they came out to be the nanny because they both worked. >> marilyn was linda's mother. >> was that an sos that went out from linda marilyn? mom come. i need some help here. . >> yeah. exactly. >> not an unusual request from a new mother. but maryland's response was unusual. >> she sold her house, and drove her car, and headed out. >> she did all that for her girl and her grandkids? >> she did that for the family. yeah. >> where would living? >> dave built a little guesthouse out in the back. for, specifically for maryland. >> not every young husband likes to have the mother in law, round let's face it. >> it's funny that all the guys that work said that's a big mistake.
they said it's gonna end up in divorce. >> what would she like? >> very pleasant. polite. and as time went on? you live with someone for 24 hours at a time and you get to know more about them. and our relationship got strained. >> and soon that wasn't the only relationship suffering. linda's friend who was by then married and living in burnaby notice the change when she invited dave in linda of her visit. >> you are seeing the cracks right before your eyes? >> absolutely. >> coming apart was a hard reality for dave to accept. >> i plan on staying married forever, that was the deal, but it just didn't turn out that way. i was no longer in love but i still love her. she's the mother of my child. >> in 1998, dave and linda separated, sharing custody of jordan and that same year, dave met someone new. >> i saw him in his body and i
sometimes detective guys in bagel themselves into an investigation and make themselves part of the scheme. >> that can surely happen. >> detectives also have more concrete reasons to suspect jr. >> there was a domestic incident that they were involved in. shortly prior to this. >> just two days before linda disappeared, she had called the county sheriff's department. >> she made a report that jr had come to her house and was banging on the windows. and banging on the doors. >> jr said that he was trying to pick up some of his belongings. but, it prompted linda to call her attorney the weekend that she disappeared. >> hey david, it's linda. jr will not leave me alone. he was over here this morning, beating on my windows. calling me. and the tunnel, should i go down and put a restraining order on him? >> she wasn't the only one. rosemary and dave also had a restraining order against jr. it stems from an incident when
but as long as there's breath in me. i will do my best to try to find linda. and i will try to find who killed -- . >> pima sheriff's county detectives were working to do the same. for maryland's family, and for the family renee farnsworth of. >> renee is as much a victim as is anybody else. >> she was moral support? >> she was in the wrong place, at the wrong time. >> investigators compiled a preliminary evidence from eyewitness accounts. >> we know that as soon as they got out of the car, they are attacked, accosted by a lone gunman. six feet, to six to. slender, well built. something covering his face. probably a hoodie. >> it look like a targeted killing. >> there is no other murder of. there is no burglary, no sexual assault, no car theft. nothing. >> but there was potentially, valuable physical evidence. >> the bullet cases from the scene where i'm 9 mm. and when you combine the bullet casings with the bullets from the victims, it was consistent with a ruler 9 mm 85 semi
family tragedy like few others. >> did you understand what happened? >> i don't think i really understood it fully. but something that happened. >> it all started here, tucson arizona. the old pueblo. that's what they called. it nestled in the desert at the foot of the santa carolina mountains. dave watson spent 20 years here with the fire department. he fought fires, and was trained as an emt. eventually he made captain but he never forgot the camaraderie of his early days at the firehouse. >> going through a lot of journaling together? >> on occasion. yes. >> that was terror? >> pretty much. >> it seemed like everything he needed until in 1993, she came along. >> i was out with a friend, it was his birthday. and met her at an eastside nightclub. and so, i walked up to her and asked her to dance. >> her name was linda. >> she was spontaneous, spunky. cute.
>> and you never left your daughter or your other daughter? you just took care of them all day on all night? >> yeah. >> the detective also interviewed rosemary, dave's wife. >> i have a karaoke dj business. and sunday night, i was working. >> dave, she, said was home with the kids. >> so you got home about one or 1:30 and he was home? >> yes he was sound asleep. >> so both dave's wife and gianna's girlfriend said the two men were at their own homes the night that linda disappeared. and despite all that blood, there was still no conclusive proof that linda was even dead. >> we have no body, we have no evidence of anything outside of the entryway. and certainly the only two people that might be looked at the ex-husband in, the ex-boyfriend both had alibis. >> kind of clinical in terms of suspects that you can pick at this point? >> there would've been nothing to separate the strength of their alibis at the time and the reason to distrust the rosemary and no other evidence
>> dave and linda scraped together enough money to buy their first home. and take on that first mortgage. >> it was not in the best neighborhood, for sure. but very cute, it had a lot of character. >> somewhere between a dumping of fixer upper? >> yes somewhere there. >> linda and dave were up for the challenge. they worked to transform that rundown house into a loving home for themselves. and after two years of marriage, baby jordan came along. at first, dave wasn't so sure about having kids but. >> when linda gave birth to jordan? it was just, all that nervousness was gone. so yeah. it was nice. kids make a world of difference. >> jordan's grown-up now, but remembers fine details of that little house and the mom. >> we had a strawberry patch outside of the house. i remember i was picking strawberries one morning before breakfast, or cooking breakfast.
well i guess i would've gotten us xfinity... and we'd have a better view. do you need mulch? >> may 7th, 2003. what, we have a ton of mulch. linda and maryland's friend had just moved back to tucson. she made plans to catch up with maryland. who was elated, just having been afforded unsupervised visits with jordan. >> what were the plans with