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>> 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...

The wooden walls of the coal storage room. >> we were able to see small pieces of bone and tissue. >> they compared those samples to the dna they obtained from darlene's tooth and hair brushes. that that day we were met by a couple of detectives and we were escorted upstairs, and when we opened the room -- when they introduce you to the chaplain and the chief of police and all the detectives are in the room and ask you to sit down, you know the news you're going to receive is not good, and it wasn't. >> darlene's dna matched the blood and tissue found in daphne's basement. >> she felt that dar...

Cuts in the concrete floor. >> detectives also made the comment it looks like chainsaw marks. >> law enforcement began the investigation by going to the ace hardware stores in town. >> once there the investigators showed the store owner the lineup including daphne's picture. >> one of the clerks was able to say, yes, i sold the chainsaw to a woman and she was deaf. that matches the description of daphne wright to a tee. >> she came in a note that said tree-cutting machine and he took her to the wrong section at first because he misunderstood, and then he took her to the chainsaw section. she w...

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 skull fracture, or suffocation from this bag being placed over her head, or a combination of the t...

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. >> this is a completely senseless murder. it did not have to happen. darl...