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Believe it, but as time went on, it became more apparent that it seemed that way. >> why? maybe because the investigation of cassy farringtons murder had been going nowhere for so long, even while the family kept trying to tell the detective, sanchez, that a particular silver city cop killed cassy. but the detective hadnt done a thing about it. >> he never questioned him? >> huh-uh, and i asked him that. and he said he was trying to eliminate everyone else that could be possibly a suspect, and t...

About the sheriffs department. >> and complain he did. forcefully, said chief deputy district attorney george zsoka. >> people got a little hot under the collar, the sheriff, the undersheriff were there. and lieutenant tavizon was also there. >> he and the others had to admit that lead detective, jose sanchez, had made mistakes, many mistakes. >> i had no reason to doubt him, but i should have. i should have micromanaged him. >> so maybe the whispers about some blue code were understandable, sai...

Off the top. this isnt gonna necessarily go well. deputies did return to the house the next day, though, and discovered the carpet in her bedroom was gone. >> billy lee, the landlord, goes in and starts rippinthe carpet up. >> wait a minute. >> yeah. >> youve got a guy going in right after, and the first thing he does is rip the carpet out of the master bed -- >> well, its soaking wet. >> and that finally seemed to get the attention of the lead investigator, sergeant sanchez, who by then already...

>> his behavior the first few days after her death was very strange and peculiar to me. >> how so? >> i, myself, never really saw him shed a tear. but i was suspect of everyone that had any contact with her. i didnt trust anyone. >> at the funeral cassys casket was left open to tell the world what was done to her, said her siblings. >> her face was covered in bruises. her neck was a giant bruise and swollen. her hands were black. >> but who had done it? for months, all anyone could do was specul...

Not ask why billy remove the carpet. or, why he took off for alaska. but, he did ask the about the nature of his relationship with cassie. >> really? back at the crime scene, the day the murder, sanchez told a supervisor that billy claim to barely know cassie. now, they were pretty close. too close? billy told the detective that he had an alibi he, anybody were out on the country, working on his cabin. >> we were working on that roof, when i got the call. we had been out there for a couple of da...

Deputy? >> she drove me nuts trying to play crime scene investigator. but, it also helps me to push the cops. >> too hard maybe? >> detective sandra said im tired of them calling me. >> but, they kept pushing anyway. >> i asked, will did you get billy lee here from alaska, and who is polygraph? >> he said, yes. >> >> remember, billy lee lived on the same property and was married to her landlord. hours after the murder, he whipped out cassies bedroom carpet. then, left for alaska. the question wa...

>> i saw water on the ground on the north side that had been coming out of the trailer. it was still dripping, in fact. >> lieutenant ray tavizon was the supervising chief deputy. while his lead detective, jose sanchez, took charge of the scene and the investigation, tavizon had a look around. any sign of forced entry anywhere? >> no, no. >> no sort of footprints or tire marks or anything? >> no. the way the ground is, the gravel and stuff, there wasnt any. >> and inside the house? >> we saw tha...

And then went to alaska. the question was, why? months after he left, billy returned. >> my name is billy lee, or william actually. >> and sergeant sanchez had his chance to question him. >> how long did you know cassy? >> i knew her when she was a tech in the emergency room. >> curiously sanchez did not ask why billy removed the carpet or why he suddenly doing off for alaska but he did ask about the nature of billys relationship to cassy. >> we were real good friends. we didnt go to bars togeth...

>> they also found cassys glasses and a hair ribbon near the broken towel rack. no one had bothered to collect them as evidence. so they did. its so strange to have the family as a kind of csi group. >> yeah. we gathered up the hair with the bobby pin and the ribbon, her glasses. >> did it seem shocking -- >> we were gathering evidence. >> -- to you that you were gathering evidence and not -- >> that was -- >> -- the police? >> -- frustrating. >> yeah. >> kind of, like, a tell right off the top....

Close? billy told the detective he had an alibi. he and a buddy were out in the country working on his cabin. >> we were working on that roof and when i got the call, wed been out there for a couple of days. >> but, of course, as any detective could tell you people lie all the time about alibis. sanchez asked billy to take a polygraph. >> did you inflict any injuries to the victim on march 24th? >> no. >> the results were inconclusive? not so good for billy and that alibi? it just kind of sat th...