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It's a funny thing about secrets. they can only stay hidden for so long. especially in a little place like moundville. and it didn't take very long for sheriff ellis and corporal boyd to stumble onto a secret scott had been keeping. >> while we was out at the crime scene, scott had had a young lady to come pick up the boys. >> it was only later when the fog of grief had lifted that one of teresa's relatives wondered to police, who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died? ellis and boyd tracked her down, and what they discovered? well, that changed everything, or seemed to. the person...

>> you must have been aware of the fact that there were people suspicious of him. >> it bottered me hearing the bad things that people had to say about him. and i knew that my dad was never capable of doing something like that. you know, i was going to have his back regardless. >> but, to investigators, scott's affair and the fact that he'd lied about it to police was certainly suspicious. ellis and boyd asked the girlfriend to help them out by recording her conversations with scott. maybe he'd let something slip. [ phone ringing ] >> hey. >> hey. >> are you okay? >> yes, i'm okay. they just l...

>> corporal boyd chatted with scott for three long hours and during the whole time he was cooperative and helpful. >> you know, the standard questions that we would ask is, you know, is anyone having an affair? are you having an affair? no. was she having an affair? no. >> good marriage, happy marriage? christian marriage? >> yes. i asked him did they argue. he said no. >> scott answered all of their questions about what teresa was supposed to be doing that morning. he said he phoned her from a job on the farm, a wake up call. then about two hours later she called him but the call faded out. h...

>> no, he did not. >> corporal boyd chatted with scott for three long hours. during the whole time, he was cooperative and helpful. >> you know, the standard questions that we would ask is, is anyone having an affair? are you having an affair? no. >> was she having an affair? no. >> good marriage, happy marriage, christian marriage? >> right. i asked them did they argue? no. >> scott answered all their questions about what teresa was supposed to be doing that morning. he phoned teresa from his morning job on the farm, and then two hours later she called him. but the call faded out. he couldn't...

>> the corporal and the sheriff were only too happy to explain how one clue led to another and eventually an inescapable conclusion. but prosecutor evans had questions, pointed ones. >> you could tell it was going to be difficult. >> where was the smoking gun? where was the murder weapon? where was one single fingerprint tying dawn to the crime? >> as far as physical evidence, we really didn't have any. it was truly circumstantial because we didn't really know anything about what had happened. >> as far as evidence could see, the case was a maybe at best. she had no reason to kill teresa. >> s...