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The world had happened in that house? >> i have no idea. im not sure who could have done something like that to him -- to them. >> reporter: first responders werent exactly sure what theyd been dispatched to either. >> they told us that theres possibly two victims, and thats all we knew when we got there. >> reporter: emt stephanie robertson was the first responder on the scene. she checked on jaime. he was clearly dead, huh? >> yeah, clearly dead. yeah. >> reporter: you know, gunshot wounds fro...

To prove a motive, the prosecutor offered one up for the jury anyway. there was no evidence of infidelity or typical marriage troubles -- still she suggested that sandra wanted out. but their religion made it impossible to split up the usual way -- >> jehovahs witnesses dont allow you to divorce. unless someones cheating, and its very clear that jaime was not that guy. >> if i get divorced, i get ostracized and i cant talk with my friends. but if i kill him, and nobody finds out, im not ostraciz...

So its huge because it points to a possible other suspect -- >> reporter: and the csis had photographed a bloody swipe on the handle of the closet safe -- just a short distance from jaimes body. the defense told the jury how detectives never ran it for a possible print, nor had it swabbed for dna. >> isnt that the kind of evidence youd wanna have available to consider? why wouldnt you at least test it? >> reporter: the defense ticked off more examples of what they regarded as inept detective wor...

>> reporter: august 2017. more than four-and-a-half years after jaime melgar was murdered in, what seemed at the time, a brutal home invasion. but now, sandra, his wife of 32-years, was on trial for jaimes murder. shed pleaded not guilty. it put daughter lizz in a painful, judicial paradox. >> the people versus are bringing you, the family, victim, justice in their mind. and yet, justice is putting your mother away. >> correct. ive lost my father and here i am, about to lose my mother. this is s...

>> reporter: the prosecutor set out to dismantle the theory that jaimes death resulted from a botched robbery. first responder, emt stephanie robertson, told the jury -- that to her -- the crime scene just looked off. >> it was a little -- disarrayed. the drawers were pulled out nothing was -- appeared to be missing. >> reporter: and the prosecutor used sandras own words against her. the jury heard that interview with the defendant -- the one where detectives found her so oddly indifferent. >> d...

Unspeakable. >> so imagine the family is waiting for an arrest to be made in this thing. >> yes. we were anxiously awaiting for that day to come. doesnt matter if its tomorrow or ten years from now. we would like some answers, but law enforcement wasnt exactly forthcoming with the family. might have been a reason. >> reporter: but law enforcement wasnt exactly forthcoming with the melgar family. might have been a reason, they doubted jaimes murderer was a burglar, or even someone else in sandra ...

That was once just the melgars modest home. jaime, they could see, had suffered multiple stab wounds to the torso -- by the looks of it, well over a dozen. the crime scene unit got to work inside collecting evidence -- things like a bloody chair near jaimes body, and a kitchen knife, fished out of the bottom of the jacuzzi. sandra, seemingly in shock from her ordeal, declined to go to the hospital. instead, she went to talk with investigators. >> lets start yesterday. >> reporter: sandra told in...

Of the house. but crime scene techs did not find any. when the rest of the forensics came back, the findings had limitations. >> although you have the murder weapon, its been washed in water for several hours. >> kitchen knife or something? >> a kitchen knife. a large kitchen knife. it was found in the bathtub. and so any dna that had -- couldve been on it from the murderer was gone. it was washed away. >> reporter: whats more, no blood was detected on sandra. in fact, no dna or fingerprints lin...