what you would come to regard as the steel strength of maryland? >> absolutely. yeah. >> and even if she couldn't find linda, she would continue linda's fight for jordan. >> marilyn sought a lawsuit for grandparents visitation rights. >> marilyn filed a lawsuit seeking unsupervised visits with her granddaughter. she made her case in court, and in the media. >> i owed it to linda, and i ordered to jordan, and i ordered to myself. to do as much as i could. >> dave and rosemary fought back. for fear of what marilyn might say. or even do, to little jordan. >> she is flat out told me as soon as she finds linda, gets jordan. she's leaving this god forsaken place. >> amidst their legal dispute, dave and roseberry glued their family. in 2001, they had a little boy. and then, a year later, rosemary took a bold step and adopted jordan.
>> no. off the street. put it out in the paper. >> we ended up looking for that ad and we were never able to find any ad for a nine millimeter by gabe watson. >> but when they looked in dates gun safety, they found nine millimeter ammunition. why would he have that if the gun was long gone? they asked the big question. >> and to be point blank, did you kill whelan cox? >> no, i did not. >> did you have any reason to kill rene farnsworth? >> no. >> do you know where linda watson is? of what happened? or >> no. still don't. >> a from denial. and they had nothing at either crime scene. detectives talk with two whistle men who confirmed what she said. >> i didn't look, but it was shortly before jordan came home. there was either a 15 or a 20
that maybe linda's ex boyfriend was the culprit here. dna consistent with jr and not dave, was found on a trash bag that had linda's blood on it. although jr himself testified, nothing surprising about that. he said he had been helping linda fix of her house. and that he had nothing to hide. >> i have corroborated with the sheriff's department in their investigation 100 and 10%. >> and remember how linda went out drinking with her cousin a few days before she disappeared? the saloon isn't far from a rural part of town called green acres. a witness testified that she had heard someone in green acres talk about moving linda watson's body. >> she reports that that body was being moved to silver bell road. and that is within four miles of where this girl was found? >> so the geography matches. >> it fits it. >> so linda might have gotten into a pick up truck? >> right. >> they said --
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down that solves this case. >> wrong, said the defense. there wasn't an aha moment because dave did not do it. representing dave watson, husband and wife legal team, michael story and rich asha ray. much like their prosecution counterparts, not one to shy away from the challenge. >> this was the most monstrous undertaking that we've ever had in our careers together. >> according to the defense, there were any number of reasons why linda, marilyn, and renee died. reasons that had nothing to do with dave watson. >> as much as the state says, they want some dave watson. you're going to see it going in another avenue. of people, and circumstance. >> other avenues? such a suicide. whether linda's. >> with the drinking, the ex-boyfriend testifying against her, losing her job. >> or even rene's. the defense said that maryland's friend had once discuss suicide. and they suggested that she may have chosen an unusual method. >> we all know that insurance
behalf. >> so here's a strange thing. he now has your back in family court? >> not much mine. i'm sure he could give two shakes about me, but he cares about jordan. so he was doing it for her. not me. >> more pressure on linda. she had joined a toiled step program. but still, shortly before she disappeared, she went out drinking with her cousin. at a place away from the bright lights of tucson, at a bar called the circle as saloon. >> jay was over there, and she was needing to get around some family. because it was a little tougher. so he told her, come on out. >> linda tried to climb back on the right again. about 10 pm, the night she disappeared. she called her church sponsor and as to meet them the next morning. but she did not show up for the meeting and had not been seen sense. there seem to be every reason to believe that she was on another bender. except for one thing. something marilyn mentioned in that initial 9-1-1 call.
>> bam, bam, bam. i'm a front door. i thought they were gonna break in. and there's cops that there and tactical where. they asked me to step up. the 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 running. >> 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 twain 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.
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 to point to any other person or thing or reason. >> and you have a very distraught mother? >> a very distraught mother who all she knows is that her daughter is missing and stays missing for a long time. >> the investigation had stalled. and linda's case landed in the place that no victims family wants. >> it's the vault. >> and was? that >> our administration building, many years ago, before we occupied it was a bank. and on the second floor, there is an actual vault. and that is where we keep the cold cases. >> locked away, a tomb of sorts where mysteries lay buried. and forgotten.
i still kind of worry. >> to calm her nerves, dave make sure to tucker in every night. >> even if he's at work, he will still call. and say goodnight about in the same tie every night just in case. >> does he still do? that >> yes he does. >> last night you got a talking call from? him >> i did. >> in january of 2003, two and a half years after linda vanished. the court finally issued a ruling. marilyn sent linda's friend an email with the news. >> and in big bold letters, she wrote, i've got jordy. >> after a two-year legal battle. marilyn won the right to have supervised visits with jordan. >> i always thought that linda must be, must have given her a little bit of peace to know that jordan was with her mom. >> rosemary and dave were not happy. rosemary spoke to nbc affiliate, k v eight o tv about the
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 jordan? >> just a stop at the house and see her and see jordan. and then possibly, go with her to take jordynn home. >> but by the time martinelli made it over to the house on curtis road. >> i, drove into the driveway at seven. about 7:45. and it was dark. nobody was there. >> marnell must of just missed marilyn, who was supposed to have jordynn back at even rosemary's home back at 8:30. that's when marnell remembered something. a tv apartment. >> i thought, if i go now i can still catch the bachelor. >> just a short time after she