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But that doesn't mean she wasn't talking. >> we had another young lady that was getting out of jail and she came to us and said that dawn had been talking about the murder. >> but that could have been just gossip, mind you. from a jailhouse snitch who couldn't back it up. but dawn did have a cellmate. >> she was kind of in a jam herself. she wanted us to try to help her. we can put a word into the d.a. or put a word into the jail. >> that was enough to get some cooperation from her. >> right. >> the objective was simple. get dawn talking, wrangle from her something that at least sounded like a...

Grabbed her and i said, "mama, she's gone. she's gone." do you have any idea how hard that was? >> teresa's daughter kelsey had 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 just 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 ...

Once again, here's keith morrison. on june 11, 2010, almost three years to the day teresa mayfield was killed, sheriff ellis and corporal boyd drove to the wire factory where dawn lavender worked. she was halfway through her day shift and they told her she was under arrest for the murder of her friend, teresa mayfield. >> she first wanted to know why we was arresting her, and then when she got to the jail she said this was wrong, that we made a mistake. >> the corporal and the sheriff were only too happy to explain to assistant d.a. tim evans how one clue led to another and eventually an ine...

Because we didn't really know anything about what had happened. >> as far as evans could see, the case was a maybe at best. because she had no reason to kill teresa. so, you know, to bring a case against her would be pretty tough, i would think. >> the case with dawn is puzzling. when you're working with a circumstantial case, every piece of evidence is definitely important. >> not that corporal boyd and sheriff ellis thought for a second 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 fa...

She had no reason to kill teresa. >> so to bring a case against her would be pretty tough, i would think. >> the case with dawn is puzzling. when you're working with a circumstantial case, every piece of evidence is definitely important. >> how could corporal boyd and sheriff ellis thought they were wrong. they believed dawn was the killer. they told the prosecutor not only that dawn murdered teresa but 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 suppo...