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A witness later saw cara walking towards his car. and chillingly police heard about another time that he picked up cara to skip school, basically a dry run for the crime. police brought him in for questioning. >> initially, i thought that cara ran away. she was a really headstrong person. i didn't think anything. he was my dad, you know. when they started pointing fingers, it wasn't my dad. he couldn't have done it. >> with witness accounts and some suspicious scratches he couldn't explain, they thought they had their man. they lacked anything beyond the circumstantial. >> finding her body was...

State penitentiary in walla walla. i asked him to tell me about his final victim, cara rudd. >> i knew cara for a while. we played cards together and stuff. >> how would you describe her? as a kid. >> she was very energetic. but she was very defiant, too, when she believed in things, you know. got to admire that in anybody. that morning when i woke up, i knew what i was going to do. i was completely aware of what i wanted to do. i drove to the school and i pulled into the parking lot. cara jumped in my car. >> what's the exchange between you and her and -- >> wasn't much of an exchange. i was ...

First husband grew up together. joe was kind of a friend of the family. my daughter's uncle joe. >> kondro was facing the death penalty in cara's case, but prosecutors were willing to give him a deal if he admitted to the unsolved rima. kondro confessed to the two murders, and the prosecutors spared his life, but got him 55 years in prison. before any interview, my process is always the same. i study the case files and try to get to know what kind of killer i'm dealing with. from kondro's file, i know he is fairly typical of the rapist/murder. his sick, sexual fantasies lie just beneath the su...

To be the remains of a human body on top mt. solo. >> i believe the crime scene can tell me everything that i need to i.d. the offender. the evidence shows we are dealing with what we call a disorganized killer. he didn't plan on killing her. he saw an opportunity and gave in to his vicious desire. once he had a body to deal with, he just stashed it as quickly as he could, which indicates he was probably under the influence of drugs or alcohol. >> but investigators already had their guy. joseph kondro. he denied his guilt until investigators retrieved his dna from cara's body. as prosecutors s...

Joe was kind of a friend of the family. my daughter's uncle joe. >> kondro was facing the death penalty in cara's case, but prosecutors were willing to give him a deal if he admitted to the unsolved killing of rima. kondro confessed and the deal with prosecutors spared his life but got him 55 years in prison. before any interview, my process is always the same. i study the case files and try to get to know what kind of killer i'm dealing with. from kondro's file, i know he is fairly typical of the rapist/murder. sick sexual fantasies lie beneath the surface. what's unusual is he liked to kill ...