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Reporter: it was at the trial when sam and cynthia nance finally came face to face with the man accused of killing their youngest daughter. or, more accurately, their eyes boring a stare into the back of daniel willyam's head. it was november, 2011. >> i wanted him to look at me and he wouldn't do it. so that -- that told me right there he had to have done it 'cause he's too ashamed to even look at me in the face. >> reporter: chris phillips saw daniel in court, too, when chris testified for the state. >> i'm very cool under pressure,

Tell me how you treat a girl like that. tell me how you do that. >> i didn't do that, sir. >> reporter: however, by then, detectives had heard that daniel was not fond of shelley because he felt she was a bad influence on nathan's studies. which wasn't true, by the way. but that's what daniel claimed. and then his friends suggested what might be the real reason -- daniel disliked shelley because he was jealous. didn't like nathan spending time with a girl. detective ellzey turned up the heat even more. >> how can you despise a human being that bad? she didn't do nothing to you. how did you hat...

And then something odd happened. daniel changed his own story a little. remember the story of where he was day of the murder? this time, he added something. 10:15 to 10:20 you were at starbucks. where did you go? >> to white rock lake. >> okay, specifically at white rock lake, where? >> well, i went to walmart first, and then to white rock lake. >> okay. you can't leave that out. so you go straight from starbucks to walmart. >> uh-huh. >> you how long, what did you do at walmart? >> i got hair dye, soap and gloves to color my hair. >> reporter: wait, walmart? he did not reveal any stop at walm...

Eventually came out to me. i had essentially just started to figure he was anyways. and, you know, it's -- i was absolutely cool with it. i had no problem. >> reporter: but did he, like, make a request? did he want to have the a romantic relationship with you? >> no, he never -- he never made any kind of request like that towards me. >> reporter: shelley's mother cynthia had heard a thing or two about daniel as well. from shelley, who told her some stories about what happened when she started dating nathan. >> trying to corner her in the hallways at school. texting her on the phone. trying to ...

>> he had like a bad mood or something. >> for what? did he tell you? >> no. right before i went to sleep, i heard him crying in his room. >> what was he crying for? do you know? did you approach him about that? >> i knocked on his door, he -- i asked him if, like, "are you okay?" and he said, "yeah, why?" "'cause i heard you crying." and he was like, "no." but his face was red because like, you know when people cry and their faces are red -- >> he didn't tell you why he was crying? >> i didn't know if he was or not -- because he said he is not crying -- >> in any case he was upset - you lived...