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Hope came back that possibly she was still alive somewhere. >> meanwhile investigators were able to trace the source of the threatening e-mails darlene received shortly before her disappearance. >> when we did receive the e-mails that darlene had received from wendy smith, that gave us the ability to send a subpoena to yahoo! to find out who may have created that yahoo! account. >> the e-mails came from this home in downtown sioux falls. the occupant was a deaf woman named daphne wright. >> daphne said that she had met darlene several times at the deaf apartments, met her at the deaf club. >> ...

Tied both victim and suspect together. >> 25 miles away, across the border in minnesota, a highway worker found darlene's torso and her severed head encased in plastic. the medical examiner found darlene suffered blunt force trauma to her head. >> it had been tied, cinched around her throat with a piece of cord that was matched by one of our forensic people in pier to a spool of cord hanging on the garage wall in the house that was occupied by daphne wright. >> the medical examiner had two theories as to how darlene was murdered. >> cause of death was either this blunt force trauma, the 7-inch...

Wright after this incident. >> she said, oh, mom, we're friends now, we're all made up, and we're comfortable with each other, it's all okay now. >> but when daphne wright was questioned about darlene's disappearance, the jealousy was still apparent. >> we've had a lot of problems, sally and i. >> did you think sally was cheating on you with darlene? >> yes. i thought so. and sometimes she lied. >> who lied? >> sally. >> okay. >> was darlene the victim of a love triangle gone wrong? daphne's whereabouts on the night darlene disappeared could provide the answer. after sending threatening oh n...

>> prosecutors say daphne was convinced darlene was trying to steal her ex-girlfriend and wanted to prevent it. she asked darlene to meet her at the pizza restaurant. but once there, she changed her mind and asked darlene to come to her house instead. once there, daphne hit darlene with a heavy object. pushed her down the stairs. then tied a thick plastic bag around her head with cord from her home. she later bought a chainsaw to dismember darlene's body. she left behind the sales receipt, store witnesses, and plenty of forensic evidence. daphne disposed of the body parts in nearby dumpsters a...

Daphne wright as just a cold-blooded murder. to be able to do dismember a human body with a chainsaw takes a lot of gall. takes a lot of spite. in my opinion you really have to dislike somebody to do that to them. >> daphne wright was convicted, but the jury spared her life. instead, she'll spend the rest of her life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> one thing that kept coming back was what do we get out of sentencing her to the death penalty. what does she get out of it, what does society get out of it, what do we get out of it? really, we didn't see anything good that came from it....