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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

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Forensic Files II

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.

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>> i observed kitchen cabinets open, and some kitchen drawers on the floor. in my experience as a police officer and investigator, when a burglary occurs, the kitchen is not a common place that a burglar would look for items. a burglary, also, items are scattered about. drawers drum -- dumped on the floor. i felt it was not ordinary and i expressed that to my partner. >> while he found that out for a burglary, it was nathan's behavior that struck him more. >> describe his demeanor. >> as i am speaking to him, he never showed emotion or asked questions as to what was going on. >> prosecutors said nathan showed no emotion during his police interview. even when a detective told him denise was dead. >> you can't tell me things about her.

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investigators hoped he might confess and sent veteran detective a. p. merillat to interview him. merillat thought a trip to the crime scenes might provoke something in daniel corwin. merillat: i brought him to the car wash. i pulled into the bay that he described as being the one he drove into. and it was really odd to me that he appeared to go into, like, a trancelike state, or -- at first, i thought he was faking, but he continued to do this every time we met. so i think it was real. but he started reliving the events of that night when mary risinger was killed. ♪ narrator: even corwin admitted he got into a trancelike state during these attacks, and this might explain one other commonality with all his crimes. all of them were spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment attacks in public places with plenty of potential witnesses. they're obviouy high-risk cres from the standpoint

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narrator: sherry's story wasn't much different than tim's. she said that timmy was a very dear friend of hers, that they spent time together, but they strictly had a friendship, and that was it. narrator: now detectives confronted sherry with the evidence from her cellphone. this interview ended, but it apparently had quite an effect on sherry engel. later that day, she came back to the police station and told detectives it was time to come clean. detective: okay. okay. a rattled sherry now confessed to the affair with tim rogers.

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before the two paralegals were murdered. it had been 14 hours since rick tipped off investigators to dwight. as the investigation continued, police found evidence dwight and his gold mercedes were in a suburb called fountain hills. just 30 minutes outside scottsdale. a few hours later, cops found dwight and assigned teams to watch his every move. >> while they were surveilling dwight jones on sunday, they watched him dispose of something in a trash can. officers later went back to that trash can and what they found was a gun inside. >> however, that gun was a .22 caliber. not a 40. >> that gun was not a match for any of the four homicides. >> it was not. >> meaning if it is dwight jones, he still has that gun with him. >> and they don't necessarily have enough yet to link dwight jones to these four murders. >> there was still the dna. a detective who flew late sunday night to get dna samples from dwight's family. now rushed those swabs back to

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where julie is? >> yes. >> that has to be a brutal conversation with your parents? >> my mom is breaking down and hyperventilating just by me saying we need to cancel the wedding and dan and noah are in jail. >> what happened with your brother? >> noah said they questioned him for a while. and the main detective said get this guy out of here, he doesn't know anything. >> reporter: turns out, he really didn't. noah was released and never charged. rachel notified dan's parents and describes a reaction she did not expect. >> it was just his dad. his mom was at work. i complained what was going on with him. he has the opposite reaction. he was completely so mellow. he didn't even hear me. i remember one of the phrases that he used was something like

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female on the bed, and she is in a position where it appears she was sexually assaulted. >> police quickly identified the victim -- sam's tutor and friend, julie. before long, two detectives paid a visit to julie's mom. >> one detective told me, please can you sit down? and then i know that he said, like -- okay. your daughter was found in sam's apartment. and i think he said your daughter's body was found, or something like that. and then -- i just -- i think i was screaming like, no, no, that's not my daughter. it's not my daughter. >> julie had been shot twice in the head. her pants were down to her knees, and someone had written on her sweatshirt the words, all yours, f you.

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for him? >> because we needed the money. >> no, we never need money. we needed good people and just have each other. >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: rachel revealed that she had new information for the detectives. my mom is canceling the wedding plans now. and i need to make a phone call to detectives now. >> why? >> because tim is involved. i need to contact the detective first because i need to call him and let him no before they catch me on this recording device because it looks like i'm not trying to tell him right away. tim said that he has evidence or he knew where he was or something. >> reporter: with that information, dan's mood

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mary also grew frustrated with his frequent absences. >> i was not happy about it at all so i started digging into his background a bit to find out more about him. >> mary in her private detective mode traced him to an address and after she peeked over the fence into the yard of the house, she's all children stories and confronted him >> he sat down and said i something to tell you. explained to me that he was working for the cia of the uk. >> the house with toys in the yard he explained was actually a safe house for agents but only stage it to look like a family lived there. a female agent on site would sometimes pose as is why. as time passed will jordan gave all the news that she needed to believe him. she spoke with other agents on the phone and when he was called away she would receive his dispatches from the war on terror. >> i cannot really complain because it would be like complaining about superman not coming home for dinner. >> she kept a stiff upper lip

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