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I knew she would never leave her kids in the middle of a hurricane. I always knew it was not going to be good. Crystal was gone and there were lots of reasons to worry. She had numerous lovers, men and women. She had a husband and boyfriend failing the polygraph. What the hell is going on. Hurricane harvey was moving in this direction. We were stuck in the house and we immediately went to social media. Someone knew where she was. Someone who liked to play games. He thought he was smarter than we...

License plate. Someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. He thought he was smarter than we were. Willing to trade one night of freedom. He said im ready to talk. Let me go home and tomorrow morning ill tell you everything. In exchange for the terrible truth. If he couldnt have her, nobody could. Crystal was a young mom and brought the search for crystal to a halt, but an investigatior brought a series of clues and as flood waters receded, he discovered the same deadly storm t...

That led to her death. the dna could have evidence of the type of kill, even though you would exclude traditional touch dna between the two. >> i mean, isnt it just such a twisted truth that, you know, a defense attorney could say, well, you know, they did have that fight. that was on tape, and you know that they did fight and they were scratching each other, and maybe thats how the dna got under her finger nails. its like because there was domestic violence in the past that could be used as an ...

When you get a case like this where you have the perpetrator who can convince even some members of law enforcement that he might have been the victim in all of this, then you worry about what the jurys going to think, you know. >> how do you straddle this thing? forgive the thought, but its like how do you not get seen as a hard-ass woman? >> i dont know. >> you could be judged. >> right, absolutely. and i think im seen like that with a lot of jurors. theres nothing i can do about it. i mean, if...

Why would conrad truman want to kill his wife? >> under the circumstances, id say the motive was just based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, thats where we got murder. >> reporter: at the same time johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the states own medical examiner couldnt say whether heidys death was a homicide. and johnson knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries, a medical e...

Kill his wife? >> under the circumstances, id say the motive was just based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, thats where we got murder. >> reporter: at the same time, johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the states own medical examiner couldnt say whether heidys death was a homicide. and johnson knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries, a medical examiner carries a lot of weight...

Say the motive was just based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, thats where we got murder. >> reporter: at the same time johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the states own medical examiner couldnt say whether heidys death was a homicide. and johnson knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries, a medical examiner carries a lot of weight. >> reporter: so johnson and wallace showed th...

Kill his wife? >> under the circumstances, id say the motive was just based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, thats where we got murder. >> at the same time johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the states own medical examiner couldnt say whether heidys death was a homicide. and johnson knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries, a medical examiner carries a lot of weight. >> so joh...

>> she would have fallen down. >> he shared his findings with assistant attorney general, conrad johnson. he agreed. >> why would he want to kill his wife? >> under the circumstances, id say the motive was based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, argument, fight, guns, thats where we got murder. >> at the same time johnson was reluctant to pass charges. >> they couldnt say whether heidis death was a homicide. he knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on...

>> under the circumstances, id say the motive was just based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, thats where we got murder. >> reporter: at the same time johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the states own medical examiner couldnt say whether heidys death was a homicide. and johnson knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries, a medical examiner carries a lot of weight. >> reporter: s...