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All along. >> staceys involved somehow. you have this third vehicle at the scene, you have overkill with the way richard died. so based on all of those things, a murder for hire starts crossing your mind. >> franklins idea was to compare the numbers from the tower dump to the phone numbers on staceys personal contact list. >> the best source of information i felt i had was staceys contact list. there was 258 contacts i think. >> if you could find any phone call coming from the crime scene that h...

Main water valve leak. >> but the story made sense? >> it made sense and she was always cooperative. >> a simple business transaction. detective franklin was right back where he started. >> yeah, it gets to a point where you are still, you know, looking for -- for ways to move forward. >> it was march by then, close to a month since the murder, and they seemed to be going nowhere. what to do now? how about grasp at straws? >> it was called a tower dump. >> a tower dump? >> it was a shot in the d...

From. >> which was great, except who was in it. no idea. detective franklin was still stuck. so he took a long shot. he asked for something called a tower dump, information dump that is from this cell tower on a farm near the crime scene. >> i subpoenaed all calls that generated from the tower that services belton bridge park for the night of the murder from about 7:00 p.m. until about 9:30. >> until 9:30 because thats when stacey arrived and found richard. why start looking at 7:00 p.m.? >> it ...

Im not suggesting we not spy. nobody would say that. you cant spy on 300 million americans to capture a half dozen. you have to limit it to target the individuals you want. the concept of them seizing all of our e-mails and texts and our phone calls will change the way we live. >> sure. i mean, when you think about gathering of evidence after someone has been accused of something, its being gathered beforehand. also, is this happening at the local level as well? >> unfortunately, it is. the loca...

Communications. jenna: jessica ridgeway was a little girl kidnapped and the police, local law enforcement in the area did a tower dump and apparently, they collected tens of thousands of data points from five different cell towers in the hope of trying to find this little girl. if i was in that area, im not connected to the case, what would they see of my personal data? >> they would see everything that you did on your phone in the local cell tower areas. they would see everybody you called duri...

Details are being released. today armed officers escorted workers into the courthouse for a second straight day. this all follows the unexplained killings of district attorney mike mclelland and his wife cynthia. a public memorial is planned for thursday. a just released search warrant reveals what detectives found inside the home including that mclelland was slot 20 times, while several task forces are working to find those responsible, officials are downplaying a possible connection to the ary...