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>> i know my dad didn't want art back in contact with her. but it's hard for a father because a father wants his daughter to be happy. >> of course. >> so on the one hand, he knew that she loved the guy once upon a time, and he's probably thinking, oh, you know, if this is what she wants, i want her to be happy, but on the other hand, you're always protective of your kids. >> sure. what should a father do? he certainly didn't like the guy, but christie was a grown-up. it wasn't really his business anymore, so he passed on the number, and she dialed it. >> i know she was very curious. like, wow...

List of maybe three or four that were good possible suspects. >> each was questioned, submitted saliva samples, and was given a polygraph test, and within a few days, all dropped off the list of suspects. christie's father, bud, who had taught his daughter to be so security conscious, tried to help solve what he could not prevent, by hanging posters all over town. >> if anybody out there knows anything at all, i'm begging them to please come forward. we sure need the help. >> she was his baby. he was never the same. he used to be such an outgoing, fun-loving person, and this just totally chang...

This is our guy. there's no question about it. >> and just like that, a dead, old case was fully reborn. now the man steve davis had been chasing all these years could finally be arrested. >> you're a free man. you think you got away with it, and then all of a sudden, they drop the hammer on you. >> it was davis who called christie's sister, rhonda, and her father, bud. >> i mean, i just can't even describe to you what a feeling that was for both of us that that had happened. in fact, the very day the detective called me and said, "we just picked him up. he's under arrest for murder," unbeliev...

Without answers. >> you have to tell yourself that god will take care of it. at some point, this person will pay for what they did. it's really the only way to be able to accept it. >> christie and rhonda's father, bud fleming, took it very hard. life didn't seem to be worth much to him anymore. >> he was under the care of a psychiatrist for the rest of his life and never recovered from it. he really -- he really aged. it really took its toll physically, mentally. >> really only about one thing kept him alive. persistently and politely, bud and rhonda nudged detective davis. >> rhonda, i remem...

Their movements and alibis checked, and then one by one, they were cleared. but christie's father, bud fleming, remembered something. there had been a young man years earlier when christie was a teenager, but he had forgotten all about the kid, wouldn't have thought of him at all except a few months before christie was murdered. >> he gets a phone call one day. "hi, this is a voice from your past." bud's, like, "well, i don't have time for this. who is this?" he's like "it's me, it's art." >> art? who was art? he was arturo gutierrez, christie's high school sweetheart. >> they had a relationsh...