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A pawn of daniel's? >> i think they used each other. >> no question she was involved? >> not in our minds. >> reporter: four people were now charged with the attempted murder of vern holbrook. and then the case changed again. in january of 2014, eight months after he was attacked, vern holbrook died from his injuries. >> it was a sense of relief for him that he didn't have to suffer anymore. but it was really hard, really hard for the entire family to see him not with us anymore. >> it turned the attempted murder into a first degree murder. a premeditated murder. >> and it sorta raised the sta...

Anything to him like that. i mean, what would i be gaining from it? >> what would you gain? >> yeah. >> uh, if vern dies, daniel blizzard as your boyfriend, gets more than a million dollars. >> well, good for him. that has nothing to do with me. >> well presumably you might share in that, was the -- was the thinking. >> don't you think if i was going to attack somebody that i would go attack somebody worth it!? >> well, a million and a half dollars is a lot of motive. >> i don't care about money. i don't get it, why people are so shallow when it comes to money. >> reporter: jill's story? she d...

The premiums? >> that's correct. all of a sudden i saw that he was fearful of -- of his life. >> reporter: to detective perrault, this all added up to motive. 1.58 million reasons that daniel blizzard might want vern holbrook dead. but what was the link between daniel and adriana and luis? >> i'm guessing the 'holy grail' at this point in the investigation would be to find some like provable contact between daniel blizzard and adriana mendez? >> right. >> reporter: it turned out the holy grail was only a few blocks away. at the sunshine motel. >> i went to the motel and they told me that a big...

Helped jill out with a job, and more. that's the kind of man he was. >> he helps anybody out, it doesn't matter who they are. >> big heart? >> uh-huh. huge heart. >> reporter: and using that huge heart, to help family members or clients was what seemed to keep vern holbrook young. after andrew's mom died in 2007, vern eventually remarried and kept moving whether he was catching fish or closing deals. >> he was a machine. >> reporter: vern had tried to slow down even selling his company in 2008 to an ambitious young agent whom vern had trained and taken under his wing, daniel blizzard, who was ...

Lack of evidence. >> you will not hear of a single shred of forensic evidence of any kind linking this man or anybody else to that murder. >> reporter: after three weeks, the jury had the case. but it took less than a full day of deliberation to deliver a verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant, daniel blizzard, guilty of the crime of first degree murder. >> yes. y'know, what we wanted and what was right happened. >> it was a huge, huge relief that the jury found the truth. >> reporter: the judge sentenced daniel blizzard to more than 34 years in prison. a month later the trial of luis gome...