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>> he was constantly trying to make her feel inanimate. >> and the class mates were eager to share a few stories. >> he was always bugging her, i guess you will, what are you doing? or can you do this? trying to keep her -- yeah. >> shannon said clay wouldnt leave her alone, some kind of control freak. their opinion went from bad to worse when shannon came to school visibly upset one day telling her clay sent a gift, a sex toy. >> it was in a gift bag, if you will, hanging on her door knob. with...

Waited for clay to collect himself. >> i asked him about simple things. tell me about her history. is she on medication? does she have any enemies? and what do you think happened? >> he asked me do you know anybody that wants to harm her? do you know who shes seeing? when did you see her last? >> clay recalled telling the detective he knew his wife had been dating again. in fact he was pretty sure shannon had a profile on a website that caters to mormon singles. >> last i knew there was an lds p...

Powered by our gig-speed network. because beyond technology... there is human ingenuity. every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. before chanin was murdered, she told her friends and familifamily that clay had been controlling. but still, it seems like a joke. >> i told her quit being so dramatic. shes kind of being a drama queen. and you know, thats ridiculous. that only happens in the movies or on "dateline....

But it couldnt have come from the youngest, marshall, who learned in the process that he was not clays biological son, was conceived during a relationship chanin had after their first divorce. murder, as we say, exposes all kinds of secrets. >> the evidence they have is trace dna. its like i go up to you and touch you on the hand. its that small. >> reporter: but there is starbuck dna. >> yeah. >> reporter: and there are some who have said, if its not him, was it one of you guys. >> theres starb...

She was beat badly. >> inconceivable. why her? when she was just starting over in life? after calling it quits with clay in 2010 she went back to school to be a dental assistant. >> she presented herself in a very modest, conservative family sortff oway. >> they looked at her as a cross between a den mother and an older sister. >> she was like the the epitome of a dental assistant. her beautiful teeth and that laugh. i can still hear her laugh. i love it. >> as busy as she was, said her school f...

It was not a 100% match, it was not a full inclusion nor could they exclude it. >> reporter: the starbuck dna found is actually a partial strand but can occur in nearly 1 in 300,000 males in the u.s. according to the states crime lab, not nearly as accurate as standard dna testing yet that evidence, said clay, was blown out of proportion by investigators on a mission. >> mishandling. really, i can state a lot of things. >> reporter: the case has been botched in your view? is botched a big word o...

>> reporter: jealous, resentful and on the morning of december 1st luring chanin out of her house with a phony story about a broken-down car. remember clay texted chanin, asked her to take the kids to school, then shut off his phone to avoid detection, or so said the prosecutor. laying a trap. >> taking the children out of the house, entering the house, waiting for ms. starbuck to return. >> reporter: they played that snippet of a 911 call that the prosecution said confirmed the time of the atta...

How would you define that? >> dire. >> reporter: do you know whether or not miss starbuck had been receiving any child support or spousal maintenance from mr. starbuck during that period? >> she had told me she did not. >> reporter: clay owed more than $9,000 in back child support. eliminate the ex and his financial obligations would die with her, thus a money motive said the prosecution. and then they brought it up -- sex. or rather chanins love life, not the sex life that the defense had in mi...

I have no way of knowing what chanin told them, but i would hope that they would follow the evidence. i would hope that they wouldnt chase somebody down over a comment made off the cuff. >> reporter: and those were secondhand stories about clay the jury never heard anyway. as for his alibi that morning in the surveillance video, it was nothing said clay. of course the camera didnt show him on that street, he never told the cops thats where he walked and they never asked. they didnt ask you where...

Evidence of that and besides, he said, he was in alaska on at least one of the strange disturbe disturbances happened. >> at first i was like i didnt do that and then the date hits me and i was like for sure i didnt do that. i wasnt here. shannon and i made things work. we would text or say hey, ill get the kids. i know next weekend is my weekend but can you take them that weekend? >> but now that shannon was dead, they had to rethink their suspicions as related to them by somer and she wasnt th...