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I, will ask you to hold him responsible and find him guilty." >> reporter: district attorney marc bennett and assistant d.a. kim parker prosecuted this sprawling case. >> reporter: were you worried about even explaining this thing to a jury about what it was all about? >> sure. we had facts from across several states. facts that involved a multitude of victims and witnesses. >> reporter: this was like an imax movie. and you went with that epic version of the daniel perez story. why did you do that? >> you can't understand it otherwise. if you can't tell the whole story, the jury would be lost....

Assistant da, tim prosperity, admitted they didn't know who deliver the final blow. but that didn't stop them from saying all four defendants were responsible for craig rideout's death. you can charge them all with second degree murder even if not one of them provided the final blow to craig rideout? >> exactly. the >> example is up but the bank robbery, the writer is just as guilty as the one who goes in the bank. >> they told them about the purchase of the tarp, a city train cleaner and a shovel. when the jury learned about the garbage bag full of bloody clothes, they said that genes had the...

And he could not identify shannon as the driver. then they showed him a picture of shannon's burgundy ford explorer. >> he was very positive about the vehicle. he said, yep, that's the vehicle that i saw. >> and that wasn't the only thing the witness noticed, says assistant d.a. david sacks. >> he remembers a patch or something kind of on the shirt. >> a patch like on the uniform shannon wore as a 911 dispatcher. and there was more. investigators discovered shannon clocked in at about 10:00 a.m. some two hours after denita smith had been murdered. more than enough time for the 55-mile drive fr...

Assistant d.a. david saacks was a series of phone recordings that shannon crawley and her family insisted were jermeir stroud copping to the crime and trying to cover it up. >> i got away with it once. i'll get away with it again. just keep your [ bleep ] mouth shut. >> this is wrong. i didn't do anything. >> you know i'll find you. >> reporter: police were not present when shannon recorded the calls, but they were able to trace where they originated from, a payphone, so there was no way to confirm jermeir had made them. assistant d.a. david saacks listened carefully to the tapes and soon came...

Of murdering her daughter. >> shannon would look at me with this little smirky look on her face. she's very cocky, like she knew she was going to get off. no remorse. she didn't feel she had done anything. >> they had only been engaged for two months. >> reporter: assistant d.a. david saacks, an experienced, savvy prosecutor, would now square off against a younger court-appointed defense attorney named scott holmes. >> it's important, i think, to try to see the world, try to see the world from the eyes of shannon on the days that led up to and the day that this happened. >> the whole trial was...