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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 and in a ditch 25 miles away. later, she tried to hide the

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. q.

>> it was a sweatshirt that had graphics on it of sign language. we knew right there there was a tie to the deaf community. >> testing proved it was darlene's blood on the sweatshirt, but someone else's dna was found inside the sweatshirt. >> i took cuttings from the inside of the sweatshirt hoping that one of them had transferred enough dna or skin cells inside. to get a full profile. i was fortunate and did get a profile and that matched daphne wright. >> by being able to put daphne wright inside a sweatshirt that had car len's blood and tissue on the front of it was extremely important. >> ...

>> yeah, yeah, i did that. >> did you create the name wendy smith? >> yeah, i did. >> a background check revealed daphne wright has been involved in a public altercation with darlene vandergiesen just five days before she disappeared. darlene was having dinner with sally forward who was daphne wright's former lover. >> they had had an argument that the police had to be called to and she had be the escorted off the property. >> daphne wright told the police that she was jealous. she told police that she thought darlene was destroying her relationship with her lover. >> but by all accounts darle...

>> 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. >> 42-year-old daphne wright hat no criminal record. during police questions, wright denied any involvement. >> i didn't send any e-mails. it could have been a hacker. >> i don't believe the hacker ...