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He needed a new plan to save his client. when court reconvened, he called donna hagan back to the stand. his goal, to show the jury that she couldn't be believed. >> on cross-examination, she admitted that she believed that if the jury heard that isaiah said it was an accident, then they couldn't convict him of murder. >> so you think that perhaps his mother had said these things so that her son could get perhaps a lesser sentence. >> well, yes. >> the problem is the genie's out of the bottle. >> yes. >> the jury cannot unhear what she said about her own son. how do you now overcome that. >> w...

As each day of trial passed, hegger collins became less hopeful. there was no direct evidence tying isaiah hagan to her daughter's murder, no gun, no dna, no eye witnesses, nothing to prove isaiah was a killer. >> i was at the point where i was prepared for him to be walking the streets. >> prosecutor michael perry urged patience. >> we knew that we did not have enough evidence to convict at that point. but that's why you go to the end. >> there was one person in particular he wanted the jury to hear from, dona hagan, isaiah's mom. the prosecutor had no idea what she would say on the stand but...

Those same arguments to the jury. but the damage was done. it only took the jury four hours to find isaiah hagan guilty on all four counts against him, including murder. >> that was the most relief i felt since it all happened. i felt like it was huge weight was lifted off me. because all i wanted forever was just to get justice for her. i just wanted her to know that we were doing our best to give her some peace and the fact that we finally did it felt really good. and i just remember crying and i couldn't stop crying. it was a lot of happy tears. >> but the hagans were angry. they didn't bel...

>> and the prosecution presented perhaps the most explosive piece of evidence they had, what investigators found when they searched the home of wandel and donna hagan. >> we were able to locate a towel from that home that was actually the same make, the same model of the towel that was located at the soccer field. >> and there was something else investigators discovered. wandel owned several guns, but one of them was missing. >> did you think that maybe isaiah took it? >> it wouldn't be something that we would suspect because he -- >> he didn't like guns. >> -- didn't like guns, was not comfor...

>> reporter: though there was one thing that was plain to see isaiah's lies. right there in the interrogation video. the prosecution played the entire nine and half hours of it to the jury. >> i think anytime somebody says something that the state contends isn't true, you have to try to understand the dynamic of where it was said. >> reporter: phillips noted that detectives questioned isaiah aggressively for hours. they used profanity, invaded his space, intimidated him. >> i'm supposed to believe a stack of [ bleep ] -- >> reporter: maybe, he theorized, isaiah simply lied to make them go away...