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Uniquely american experience. and their video, there is no sign of a springfield armory 9 millimeter. >> i lost stuff constantly. it was a bone of contention between christopher and i. >> reporter: while the prosecution scoffed at biancas lost gun story, her loft friends did not. >> if you knew sweet bianca, she accidentally threw her gorgeous wedding ring away. we had to dig it out of the garbage. i was standing there. she can be an absent-minded dingbat. >> reporter: but remember the day polic...

Was there shell casing or anything in that gun case? >> reporter: turns out the guns manufacturer includes a test-fired shell casing with each gun it sells. so the detective went to the evidence locker, he said, retrieved the gun case. >> looked inside and there was a casing. >> reporter: big moment. >> big moment. >> reporter: big moment because when ballistics tested that shell casing -- >> it was a match. that shell casing was fired from the same gun as the shell casings recovered at the scen...

Hours earlier david moffitts car went off the road and facts were piling up. moffitt had worked with justin, dated avr ed angie and wrecked just miles away. >> of course, that piqued our interest, moved david moffitt to the top of the list. >> prosecutors had been involved all along. >> we sent patrol officers to that location on highway 141 to see what else they could find in that area that might be of use an telling in the investigation. >> thats why locals saw all these police officers wander...

>> that grieving wife hysterical by the side of the road getting sick in front of the police was charged with her husbands murder. >> let me see your hands. now step out of the truck. >> as for jared long because of jessies admission because she and jared had planned to harm vince, police had enough to arrest him now too. they tracked him down again this time at his home in colorado. >> they did a felony stop, called him out, made him go prone on the ground and take him in cuffs. >> they had a w...

Then in the early hours of december 18th, 2013, with heathers roommate out of town, the prosecutor said the couple struck. it began here. the prosecutor shows the jerry surveillance video of sydney walking into a walmart and purchasing a pregnancy test for heather. >> as soon as they leave for walmart, that i go to call her. why? because they want to meet her. >> the prosecutions theory is sydney called to take the test and meet up later at the landing. they said what she didnt know was that tam...

The remington rifle ejects a shell casing between shots. at least one of those would have flown out, as the killer racked another round in the chamber to shoot shirley twice. >> it was never found. >> so somebody had the presence of mind to gather it up? >> thats correct. >> reporter: and since webb promised to look at every possibility, he examined bills movements the day of the killing. phone records show shirley making a call from the house phone at 8:45 a.m., after bill had dropped her off. ...

The doors open. it looks like a gun shot hole in the window, and theres a shell casing inside and the bedroom doors closed. >> who are you doing the welfare check on? >> jim knapp. >> reporter: jim knapp was dead. gunshot wound. the medical examiner ruled it a suicide. >> i was stunned. it was -- it was one of those moments where it just sort of took my breath away. and then when i found out there was no note and as i learned about the details of what the scene looked like, its still a baffling ...

Bringing in expert examiners from dallas, san antonio, el paso, from the neighboring field offices to assist the investigators there to process what theyre calling multiple crime scenes. as you mentioned, this was a span along a highway and popular theater area. and so when you have someone firing indiscriminately along that way, every shell casing has to be accounted for and all that collected. this is going to be a massive effort. thats what were going to see, authorities going through and doi...

Up and down the field looking for something. they were. they were. imagine what they found along the ditch in the highway. >> probably the most important thing they found a loaded magazine, the same type found in the crime scene. the shell casing at the crime scene found the ammunition found in the ditch on highway 141. >> right in the ditch where the car crashed. >> on the highway, a little further down, but within 500 yards of where the crash was occurred. they also located in that ditch some ...

Yet they found an empty gun case in chris and biancas apartment, but nothing to connect the case to the murder. and just about then -- >> the sergeant for the district attorneys office just happened to call me and ask, hey, did you ever look in that gun case? was there shell casing or anything in that gun case? >> reporter: turns out the guns manufacturer includes a test-fired shell casing with each gun it sells. so the detective went to the evidence locker, he said, retrieved the gun case. >> l...