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Still advising him. >> they had no case without those hairs. thats why they didnt go forward initially. they didnt have a case. and they knew it. >> their advice to daker, focus on those hairs and dont obsess about lottie. >> this case had to be defended by attacking the science of the states case. >> but daker couldnt seem to let go. his focus from the start was his relationship with the states star witness. >> ive been in her bed. ive been in her sofa. >> it was a romance, intimate in every wa...

>> this case is about obsession revenge and choice. >> he argued that he was a violence talker and that his obsession with one woman led to the murder of another. >> you cant get inside the mind of a psychopath and figure out why they would kill. >> evan said daker had left a trail of destruction and those critical hairs. >> the cold case solved by advances in dna technology proved positive that waseem daker is a killer. >> defending waseem daker was waseem daker. >> i want to point out three pr...

Detective john doss. the carmen smith murder was now officially a cold case. to doss, daker was the one that got away. >> does a case like this haunt a police department? >> absolutely, because these cases go home with you in your mind. >> but for years doss couldnt do anything about it, and then just by chance he was sent to a dna training seminar in 2008, a random assignment that would change everything. >> back in the mid90s very, very little at all could be done with the hair except to say t...

Analysis. >> the lab test kept coming back without the physical evidence that we needed, that linked him to the dead body of carmen smith. thats when we knew that it may always be a circumstantial case. >> and the circumstantial part of the case was too weak to make an arrest. prosecutors believe he was the only viable suspect. they didnt have the evidence to prove it. the investigation stalled. >> so waseem daker walked away from the murder. >> he walked away from the murder but not some accoun...

Evidence that he said explained lotties incredible reversal, letters confiscated from dakers prison cell. 4,000 pages of correspondence between the convicted murderer and the woman who testified against him. >> i sent him daily devotions and bible verses, encouraginc cards and a lot of information, case files. i actually feel like im his personal secretary in a way. >> reporter: it turned out lottie had actually been helping with dakers appeal. he gave her research assignments. she looked up cas...