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told the detective he was uneasy about dennis. he said dennis wanted to rent another townhouse benny owned a few blocks down from the murder scene. >> don stuff is over there. i set it up. >> did he tell you why he wanted to do that? >> for sienna. for don's little daughter. >> benny said he did not rent to dennis after a background check revealed dennis had a criminal record for assaulting criminal conduct. kaplan already knew about dennis' record but more importantly -- >> i wondered why he had suddenly taken a massive interest in don fluitt's affairs with the condo in siena. >> when we spoke to dennis, we wondered that, too. >> coming up, the brother, the landlord, the stepfather. three possible suspects. >> these are names i could not eliminate.

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albuquerque police detective matthew kaplan led the police investigation. >> everything was in pristine order. the only thing out of order was don fluitt in the garage. >> don's cell phone was on the couch, his wallet on the kitchen counter. police located all the kitchen knives and sent them off to the crime lab. they also gathered other forensic evidence including don's fingernail clippings. >> there was blood in the immediate vicinity, on the walls, underneath him, on the truck, that looked like handprints. >> but, the detective thought it did not seem like enough blood, given the injuries don had sustained. >> that is when we noticed an empty bottle of bleach on the washer and dryer and tells that smelled like bleach in the dryer. his team did a test with a substance like liminal.

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>> what's he doing at walmart? >> i want to stop and get a new sweatshirt for me for work because my wife bought me one for christmas. i said i'm not going to wear that when so i went and bought this one. >> kaplan asked terry about dennis. he never met the guy, he said, but had heard about his troubled relationship with don and that dennis had moved into don's home. >> now he's back and he's trying to protect sienna from whatever and he's making people feel kind of off. >> terry willingly gave a dna sample and kaplan sent him on his way. two days later, the detective went back to dennis. >> attacked his dna and his fingerprints. >> dennis, too, was cooperative. he told detectives he worried about siena and felt bad for christine. >> she's a mess. i talked to her for half an hour on the phone this morning and this probably four or five times she started crying. >> he was still very vocal with his suspicions about benny ruiz. >> how do we note benny didn't just go over there and i let him and then it went bad. >> kaplan did not think dennis

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landlord benny ruiz and obtained a sample of his dna. he also took another look at sienna's stepdad, terry white. remember, terry initially told the detective that on the night of don's murder, he stayed with his sister until 9:00 p.m. then drove to work and took a nap in the parking lot, but when detective kaplan checked security cam video -- >> you can see terry pullen and immediately get out of his truck and walked to the front door so now there is a discrepancy in his story. >> again, thank you for coming down. >> detective kaplan asked terry to stop by the station and go over his timeline one more time . >> his story changed. he did not pull into the parking lot as originally expressed. he went around the corner to a dark area and fell asleep there and then he pulled into the parking lot. >> that was not the only discrepancy. remember, in his first interview, terry said he had only stopped at wendy's on his way to work but now -- >> i stopped at walmart.

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>> at this point, said kaplan, you could see the light from the garage diminishing as the garage door closed. >> inexplicably, the garage shoots back up and you see a series of flashes. >> and the hooded figure outside. we went to the scene of the crime to understand how this could happen. it's as easy as that. so, where is don? he's in the house now? >> i believe there -- he is in the house now. >> and there is the flashing light. >> kaplan believed the hooded figure tripped the sensor and snack into don's garage. >> did you think that surveillance camera had taken a picture of your killer? >> i did. >> did you see the figure depart? >> no, never. the garage closes and don is found dead the next morning. >> even as he puzzled over the hooded figures identity, the detective started here about someone else. don's brother, dennis. just days after the murder, dennis got the keys to don's

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>> i just started screaming no over and over again. my dad was obviously a mess. >> the news soon made its way to oklahoma, where don's older children lived. >> i was just like no, this isn't real. this stuff don't happen. you just see the stuff on tv. >> this is an intimate, hands- on murder. >> up close and very violent and personal, yeah. >> who would put a target on your brother, of all people, mr. sunday night spaghetti? >> my first thought was terry. i even told the detective that. >> terry white, don's wife.

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>> kaplan asked about the night of the murder. terry said he spent the evening visiting his sister. he said he left about 9:00, stopped at a wendy's for dinner, then drove to work and slept in his car until his shift began. >> so you're in the parking lot at work? >> terry's sister confirmed his story. so did his boss who said she had security cam video that would show terry at work that night, but by then, kaplan had received an unexpected phone call from don's neighbor. >> she had become curious about her on surveillance video. she had looked at it and made a discovery and said hey, detective, you need to look at 7:41 p.m. >> a mysterious figure captured on camera. who was that lurking outside don's house? coming up. >> there someone in a hoodie and the individual walks off camera toward where don fluitt's door would be. >> did you think that surveillance camera had taken a picture of your killer? >> i did. >> when dateline continues. id

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>> so it would be i'm terry white, i'm going to go down for this, they got me but i can do you and the little girl a final bit of good by killing myself. >> and having you collect $250,000. >> rod told the detective that terry suicide attempt in arizona was his third and according to rod, christine was not thrilled when terry survived. >> when he called her, she picked up the phone and said what the -- why have you not killed yourself? >> the cellmates tail got even stranger. he said after he was released from jail, he met up with christine and made up a story. he told her he would smuggle some pills into the jail so terry could make good on his suicide promise. >> and i'm like i need to buy the pills. i just don't have money. >> rod said he never bought the

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sienna and christine left the room. kaplan asked terry a about his relationship with don. >> you know, in the beginning i would say it was rocky. >> terry told kaplan that when they went to court over custody of sienna, don sometimes seemed to want a confrontation. >> he could get me, in any kind of way to yell or scream at him, it would make him look good then he would ultimately get his daughter so i just wouldn't bite for that. >> terry said to the detective that he mostly avoided don, and had not had any contact with him in a while. >> they were not going to find any dna or fingerprints and has house on his vehicle are in that area. >> no, i would just not get in the guys life. it wasn't worth it because i love that little girl. i don't want to make her hate me because she loves her dad.

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police interboro room giving her version of the abduction. police believe brian was not going to kill just himself. especially after denise told them he brought along a tarpon bleach along with the gun. >> denise, he was going to kill you. he brought that to cover his tracks. >> for years police believe brian and denise were the -- and now with the kidnapping, they believe brian was taking no chances in getting rid of the one person who might know what he had done. >> i'm sure at one point he told you something. i'm telling you. he killed mike. >> the detective pressed her asking denise if she knew the man she married.

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