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♪ welcome back to date line. suspicions about their mothers new husband, john meehan, had driven her daughters to become amateur detectives. so far, they uncovered a hornets nest of deception. not only had john lied about being a doctor, several women had restraining orders against him and he had served time for multiple crimes. yet deborah was still standing by her man. now, a woman from johns past was about to tell him even more disturbing tale. was deborah in danger? here is keith morrison ...

>> john was not a sender of care packages, he had been an inmate. then in march 2015, four months after john moved in with debra the sisters snooped around the balboa house -- and jackpot! they found a stash of paperwork john had left there. legal documents, police reports. >> reports that hes stalked other women and that other women had restraining orders on him. >> reporter: johns papers outlined a long criminal history. multiple arrests and incarcerations, drug convictions -- alarming stuff. ...

Restraining orders, theres documentation a picture and mcgahn let him have one of the most sensitive jobs in the white house. >> ive done vetting for two different administrations, there were two things you looked for. things that could be politically embarrassing. and two, things that suggested that someone didnt have the character to hold the public trust. and the latter was always fatal. the fact that it wasnt in this administration tells you what you need to know. >> thank you both. really a...

To whether a sitting president can be indicted. the constitution has to be construed that there is accountability. congress isnt going to do something that it would have to be in my mind indictment. we can be in a free fall to the point where, where is there a tipping point where republicans are going to start stepping up and doing investigations. there have been literally nothing done into the widespread abuses of this white house, and the various agencies that answer to this president. as comp...

A district attorney is going to have to convince themselves that they have evidence which might actually coincide with what i have. >> in fact, police and prosecutors were still doing everything they could to link those e-mails to michelle. >> we have a very skilled detective who is working on the case, and he was in constant communications with the district attorneys office and trying to piece it together to help prove a case and solidify it for court. >> the problem was -- >> it just wasnt com...

All of us, okay, to try to answer some questions. okay? >> but of course, it had to be jennifer. and it probably wasnt an accident. as that news sank in, paul began to think about who might have wanted to harm jennifer and came up with some potentially helpful information. two brothers, hisham and tony ghanma. theyd already threatened her, said paul. there had been a confrontation just weeks earlier. >> what happened is, he called me and said he was going to kill me. he spoke in arabic. i speak ...

And prosecutor chuck gillingham found himself sifting through the records of a two-year romance studded with restraining orders, bitter quarrels, scratches, bruises, 911 calls. >> these are two people who had makeups and breakups and she gave verbally as good as she got. >> after one of their flare-ups, paul was ordered to attend anger management classes. went to one the day of the fire, as a matter of fact. so why did people who fought so much stay together for so long. there was an audio recor...

According to forensic experts, she was dead before the fire started. the method? a particularly intimate form of killing. death by strangulation. >> strangling someone is a very personal killing. its a very angry killing. its not like shooting someone from a long way away, i dont imagine. youre touching the person and feeling their lifes blood ebb from them. >> who could have been so angry with jennifer? paul had told detectives that he and jennifer had taken out restraining orders against those...

Prosecutors were still doing everything they could to link those emails to michelle. >> we have a very skilled detective who is working on the case, and he was in constt attorns office and trying to t piece it together to help prove a case and solidify it for court. >> the problem was -- >> it just wasnt coming together. these electronic messages were coming from a different place. we couldnt verify it was coming from michelle hadleys device. >> it was a blow to the prosecutions case. but there ...

Found himself sifting through the records of a two-year romance studded with restraining orders, bitter quarrels, scratches, bruises, 911 calls. >> these are two people who had makeups and breakups and she gave verbally as good as she got. >> after one of their flare-ups, paul was ordered to attend anger management classes. went to one the day of the fire, as a matter of fact. so why did people who fought so much stay together for so long. there was an audio recording of jennifer herself. gillin...