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>> right. >> the objective was simple. get dawn talking, wrangle from her something that at least sounded like a confession. ellis and boyd outfitted dawn's cell mate with a digital recorder no bigger than a matchbox. on a friday afternoon as an unsuspecting dawn reviewed her case file, her cell mate walked in and waited for some incriminating tidbit. what she got instead was the whole sickening story. >> here's what dawn said about the morning teresa was killed. around 7:00 a.m. dawn called teresa with a lie to set the plan in motion. >> [ bleep ]. >> no more vacation days. i told her my car ...

We find out what happened to miss teresa. >> in fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff, along with the corporal, were facing down their first honest to god lead in, what, over a year? didn't seem like much at first, just an overheard story from a guy in a bar something about they ran into someone with a gun. not terribly uncommon around here. except it happened around the same time and not far from where the murder occurred. so ellis and boyd tracked the kid down and he repeated the story to them. >> they were on a dirt road and they came up on a snake, a rattlesnake and they was trying to kill i...

>> not that corporal boyd and sheriff ellis thought for a second that they were wrong. they believed dawn was the killer. they told the prosecutor not only that dawn murdered teresa but that they were convinced she tried and failed to kill her with a xanax overdose at the casino. >> the sheriff's department thought that was an attempt on her life, but we had nothing to really support that. >> if tim evans was to get a conviction, he needed more evidence, some concrete proof that dawn had pulled that trigger. you can bet dawn wasn't about to tell them anything. but that doesn't mean she wasn't ...

That was? >> teresa's daughter kelsey has spent a sleepless night waiting in vain for her mother to come home. >> how did you find out? >> my dad came and told my brothers and i. it was awful realizing that your worst nightmare had come true. for a brief second, i thought she had committed suicide, just because i knew how stressed out she was. but then i also knew how much she loved her family. >> everybody who knew teresa knew that. even sheriff kenneth ellis, who drove out to the crime scene, if that's what it was. corporal mark boyd, bureau of investigation, met him there. >> this case was ...

>> when sheriff ellis walked up to the podium, he looked at teresa's mother reba and vowed he'd get justice yet. >> miss reba, i won't quit until we find out what happened to miss teresa. >> in fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff, along with the corporal, were chasing down their first honest to god lead in, what, over a year? didn't seem like much at first, just an overheard story from a guy in a bar something about they ran into someone with a gun. no so terribly uncommon around here, mind you. except it happened around the same time and not far from where the murder occurred. so ellis and bo...