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Long. especially in a little place like moundville. and it didn't take very long for sheriff ellis and corporal boyd to stumble on the secret scott had been keeping. >> while we was out at the crime scene, scott had had a young lady pick up the boys. >> reporter: 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 they were talking to was scott's mistress. >> she was under the i...

>> she was kind of in a jam herseland she wanted us to try to help her. you know, we can put a word in to the d.a. and to the jury. >> reporter: that was enough to get cooperation from her? >> right. >> reporter: the objective was simple, get dawn talking, wran gel from her something that at least sounded like a confession. ellis and boyd fitted the cell mate with a digital recorder no bigger than a matchbox. and on a friday afternoon, as an unsuspecting dawn was looking over her case file, her cellmate walked in looking for an incriminating tid bit. what she got instead was the whole sickenin...

She was the one who had got them to practice on time, ball games on time. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: and, in fact, even as he spoke, the sheriff along with the corporal were chasing down their first honest to god lead in over a year. didn't seem like much, really, not at first, just an overheard story from a guy in the bar, he had a friend run into someone with a gun. not too terribly uncommon around here, except...

Happened. she just knew that she had taken some pills, i believe. >> how did she get them? >> i believe dawn gave them to her. >> reporter: remember how teresa was stressed out the last few weeks of her life, the night of the casino trip dawn gave her z xanax just to calm her down and it certainly did that. out like a light calm for two whole days. >> i looked at her and i said, teresa, you need to stay away from that woman. she is no friend of yours. >> reporter: and how did teresa respond to that? >> she said, i've learned my lesson. >> reporter: or maybe she didn't. because the morning of t...

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