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And she wanted us to try to help her. you know, we can put a word into the da or put a word into the judge. >> that was enough to get cooperation from her? >> 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. and, 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 told her cel...

>> how did she get them? >> i believe dawn gave them to her. >> remember how teresa was stressed out those last weeks of her life? the night of the casino trip, teresa told kelsey dawn gave her xanax, the anti-anxiety medication to calm her down, dawn told her. it certainly did that. out like a light calm for two whole days. >> i looked at her, i said teresa, you need to stay away from that woman, she is no friend of yours. >> how did teresa respond to that? >> she said, i've learned my lesson. >> or maybe she didn't. because the morning of the murder teresa arranged to run errands with dawn, ...

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

Clue the killer left behind. >> we noticed that the only window down was the driver's window. so we figured that she had to have known the person because she had let down her window. we had to ask ourselves, who could get her to this location and why was she murdered? >> someone in moundville had to know something. >> from there the investigation went where? >> investigating her inner circle, trying to find a motive. >> usually, so i'm told, in cases like this, the husband has got to be a person of interest. >> yes. >> so as the family gathered to mourn the loss of their beloved teresa, scott ...

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 on a secret scott had been keeping. >> while we was at the crime scene, scott had a young lady to come pick up the boys. >> it was only later when the fog of grief 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 they were talki...