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Melissa's fault? >> he -- he believed that she had a part in it. yes. >> did he tell you that he was mad at melissa about this? >> yeah. he was mad about the whole situation. >> reporter: oh, and there was one more thing. remember melissa's jacket, the one found in her suv? tests showed tony's dna on the jacket. prosecutors believe tony wiped his nose with it after being pepper sprayed. >> odds of finding an unrelated individual with that profile are rarer than one in 30 billion. >> reporter: you couldn't have had better evidence if you had a movie of him killing her. >> right. >> reporter: th...

In miami gardens. >> from midnight till about 5:00 am, the phone's in one location. >> reporter: thursday morning, the phone went northeast to fort lauderdale then went further north to pompano beach. shortly afterwards, it turned back towards fort lauderdale. but somewhere along the way, the signal was lost. either the battery died or the killer dumped the phone. all told by thursday, the day after the murder, the phone or whoever had it travelled a distance of about 60 miles. >> so obviously, who's with that cell phone, was most likely the last person that was with -- with melissa. >> report...

Signal was lost. either the battery died or the killer dumped the phone. all told by thursday, the day after the murder, the phone or whoever had it travelled a distance of about 60 miles. >> so obviously, who's with that cell phone, was most likely the last person that was with -- with melissa. >> reporter: detectives also focused on those five hours the phone was stationary in miami gardens. was the killer home in bed? >> we have to identify if melissa knows somebody that lives in this area. >> reporter: does anything come up at that point? >> no. we have no reason to believe anybody she's d...

He was charged with first-degree murder. >> he denied involvement in this. >> reporter: tony's attorney is bruce fleisher. >> they sought the death penalty. >> reporter: police and prosecutors were confident they had a solid case against tony villegas, but something happened that threw the whole investigation into freefall. that's because new crimes were about to be realed. and new questions were about to be raised about who really killed melissa. and in the midst of it all, scott rothstein, like melissa, would disappear. >> coming up -- were melissa and scott rothstein's disappearances connec...

The case. >> $251,000 sg. >> ironically, he never got the award. the collapse of the ponzi scheme put an end to that. as to it will prosecution's theory of motive, it was as thin as it was nonsensical. >> you would think if you were so enraged at your wife for doing this, you want to harm her and not someone else. >> as for debra, defense attorney surprised everyone when he he didn't ask her a single question. he did go after the son, challenging him as to why he sat for so long on this story about his father bad mouthing melissa. >> you didn't tell your mother about that when you first heard ...