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killer in a mask. >> hes clearly a brilliant individual. a brilliantly scary individual. >> his target, a doting young mom. >> she was a gorgeous strawberry blond who loved her son more than anything in the whole world. >> she was so scared. >> he struck once. would he kill again and would she be next? >> we were just so shattered and hurting so bad. >> imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. >> i w...

The house in cobb county, about 20 minutes north of atlanta where carmen and nick lived downstairs. >> so you moved? >> yes. >> to try and escape him? >> yes. >> in october on friday the 13th waseem daker was released from the hospital. less than two weeks later carmen smith was dead and lottie spencer was overwhelmed with guilt. >> waseem is evil. hes pure evil. >> she said her stalker must have been the one behind the attack on carmen and nick. why? daker was obsessed with lottie. he had never...

Just so good. so very good. >> do you feel free? finally free? >> i feel like a lot of weight has been lifted and im going to close this chapter and just go on with my life in a positive way. >> that was lottie in 2012. she told us she had closed that chapter, but it turns out she didnt. not by a long shot. in fact, since that interview, she has turned this story completely upside down with astonishing revelations. we sat down with her again to hear her new version of things. >> so did not expec...

>> so lottie decided to come forward. she filed affidavits with the court and in 2013 judge mary staley granted daker a hearing for a new trial. but jesse evans wasnt buying lotties new story. thats because while he was preparing for dakers hearing, he believed he found that storys real source. >> somethings going on behind the scenes that we werent aware of. >> coming up -- >> i messed up really bad. its despicable. >> another revelation inside a prison cell, 4,000 pages of secrets. >> do you t...

Testimony, she put all of that at risk. how worried are you right now that you could go to jail for perjury? >> im very worried. i know that im facing prison time and there will be severe penalty for what i do and i dont want to be ripped away from my little boy. i have everything to lose. >> a year after dakers conviction, the hearing began on the motion for a new trial. daker again, representing himself called the doctor, the dna expert to the stand. >> if a man sleeps in a blanket, can his ha...

Was killed carmen smith told family and friends she had gotten a call from waseem daker, the man who had been arrested from stalking her neighbor. it was the strongest allegation yet. investigators tipped off by that call by lottie now closed in on daker. >> did you execute a search warrant on his house that night? >> we did. >> john doss was a homicide detective with the cobb county police department. >> in his room we found a piece of paper with the address where this crime occurred. we found ...

The worst part about the letter is, he gets to the end and he says, but im going to let you live. im going to get revenge on you but im going to let you live. >> to police and prosecutors, this wasnt just a rant, it looked like a blueprint for murder. now they tried to link daker to the crime scene. >> some of the important evidence we start with is the hair and fiber evidence that was recovered off of carmen smiths body. there was a broken knife blade. >> carmen had small puncture wounds on her...

To kiss me or anything. >> when daker finally turned to those hairs he called on dr. greg hampekian. he challenged the states key evidence. the nuclear dna test matching daker to carmen smith that was done on the root tissue of a single hair. the problem, he says, is none of the hairs recovered from crime scene had any roots. >> there were hairs taken from the body and they were all clearly indicated on the report as having no root. thats something you can do with the naked eye and of course the...

>> she didnt make all of these false allegations. she derailed their investigations by making all of these false allegations. >> for lottie, all of the fear and hurt from her darkest days came rushing back every time daker mentioned her name. >> he was enjoying it like he had control again and that made me feel like really weak. >> jesse evans asked the jurors not to focus on lottie and to think about another woman when they started their deliberations. >> carmen smiths body was laid to rest but...

In this you applied for a second mortgage to help in his defense and took out a life insurance policy naming waseem as the beneficiary? >> my daughter is the beneficiary and my son gets a third and she would gets a third and i get a third. >> despite lotties efforts, the fund-raising, the accordance with daker, the legal research, judge staley didnt buy her new story. she rejected dakers motion for a new trial. >> the right results were reached for the right reasons. i know that we have done thi...