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their cell phones. >> and they are going straight to this location. >> what happens to the cell phones once they are here? >> her cell phone goes dark and remains dark. his stays on and we see his cell phone leave here and go back to evansville. >> i see a didn't miss a beat when he was confronted with that information. >> he insisted he left halee alive and well with her wallet and phone at the soccer field. investigators question that too. their analysis shows her phone had been in the same location as isaiah's phone hours later when he was long gone from the soccer field. the detective pressed isaiah to explain, moving his chair closer. isaiah's explanations kept changing.
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.
>> 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
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.
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.
a woman found dead that morning. >> that's when people started sending me the article. >> oh, my gosh. >> at the time, i said i know you're tried to be helpful, but that's not her. i didn't feel i was in denial. i knew that was not my sister. >> the sheriffs detective paul was just pulling up to the soccer field to begin his investigation. officers had already roped off the scene. when you pull up, what do you see? >> a body laying here with a terrible wound to the head. >> this is a desolate area. when people are playing soccer, it's active, but in the middle of the night? >> it's pitch black in the middle of the night. the nearest neighbor is probably half a mile, straight- line away separated by trees. >> the detective could tell the woman had been murdered. left to die in agony.
halee's murder was not the only tough case weighing on him that april morning. a few weeks before, he and his partner were assigned to look in a suspicious death of a 10- month-old baby. when detective spoke to heather after her daughter's death, she revealed something that stunned them. >> halee was a godmother of jackson. >> their jaws drop. she said baby jackson was the son of halee's old school make , jordan. >> she got the baby to play with without having a baby. >> a terrible accident. jackson had fallen downstairs. halee rushed to the hospital were jordan explained what happened. her boyfriend, a man at drop the baby down the stairs after tripping over a diaper bag. >> jordan was crying and we gave her a hug. i looked at halee and she was looking at me . what are we going to do?
to help identify her. >> the mystery would be solved soon enough. heather in a panic, called a friend for help. >> i contacted a detective i knew. >> i and getting chills already. >> i was sick so morning. there was so much anxiety and i did not know what to do. >> she gave the detective halee's name nt forwarded the information to the sheriff's office. investigators there immediately checked facebook or they found transfer 13 profiling picture. >> there was a tattoo visible that matched. we were pretty certain at that point who the victim was. >> investigators called heather and asked to speak with her in person. she walked into the meeting, dreading what they might say. >> they said there is a body found. we have identified her as
and there was a critical piece of evidence that might link that weapon to dwight. that bit of dna on a shell casing recovered from the scene of steve pitt's murder. dna tests can take weeks or months. that was time police didn't have. >> we had some family members of mr. jones that were in northern arizona, with the help of the phoenix police department air unit, we flew a detective up there. >> at the same time, other investigators were on the hunt for dwight. >> we had a vehicle description for mr. jones. it was a 2001 gold mercedes e320. >> cops started pulling security video from the multiple crime scenes, looking for that gold mercedes. >> some surveillance video near the scene of dr. pitt's office, picked up that vehicle. sort of acting strangely in and around the time of the shooting. >> and pictures from the following day showed what looked like the same car near the law firm just minutes
narrator: that question landed right in the laps of local police because mary's death didn't look like suicide or an accident. phelps: what does that leave you? that leaves you with homicide. that leaves you with somebody deliberately put colchicine in something that mary ate or drank that day to kill her. narrator: but who and why? in november of 2015, the sheriff's office opened a criminal investigation. groah: a detective came to my door, and he told me that he was investigating a murder. and i'm like, "whose murder?" ♪ and he said, "mary yoder." and i said, "she wasn't murdered. she just di--" he said, "no. we believe she was murdered." narrator: by this time, four months had passed since mary's death, and detectives soon learn that a lot of unexpected things had happened with the yoder family in those four months.