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Twist. >> reporter: day by day, inch by inch, kristene chapa walked a steady, if uneven, road to recovery. >> i couldn't move my left side. i couldn't move my hand or my arm, my leg. i had to relearn to swallow. >> you don't give up, do you? >> i don't. i try to stay motivated. >> reporter: so did detective roland chavez. he, too, was making progress. the cigarette butts and drink can, collected from the crime scene, had just given him his first major break in the case. >> what did the dna show? >> the dna showed that it returned to dylan spellman. >> reporter: who was dylan spellman? police l...

This man would turn out to be the investigation's third, and final, person of interest. coming up, a suspect, not acting at all like you might expect. >> he was enjoying this interview. >> maybe police have the wrong guy again because this one doesn't seem to ring any bells for kristene. >> she wasn't able to point at him saying this is the guy that did it. first came dylan spellman, t thing you want to think about. but it's important to know about. the first question people usually have is: "why do i even need it? i never figured on leaving an inheritance; i'm just trying not to leave a b...

Would be able to attach dylan spellman to them. >> does any of that lead anywhere? >> no, unfortunately it didn't. >> reporter: two years passed. the case grew so cold that chavez's chief decided to give it to a new detective, hoping he might have better luck finding the missing pieces. detective aaron veuleman had been working the case. and now he took the lead. >> what we first wanted to do was expand the scope of the crime scene search because we -- there was one crucial piece of evidence that we didn't have at that point, which was a murder weapon. >> reporter: veulman hoped the murder wea...

>> this is small town texas. there's any number of places that this kind of information could have come from. >> reporter: but what about the lab reports showing strickland's gun matching the shell casings found at the scene? >> we had our expert who said that it's inconclusive. i mean, there's no way that you can say for sure. >> reporter: police, they said, should never have taken their sights off the real shooter. >> they had the right guy. >> dylan spellman, you think that's the killer? >> he's a better match than my boy. >> he had just failed a polygraph exam and then started trying to pl...

Welcome back. a mysterious letter had identified chris melcho as the man who shot mollie and her girlfriend. after police spoke with melchor, they turned their tensi to his former root maim, david strickland. police wan heated to what he had to say, and they were not the only ones. here's josh mankiewicz with the conclusion of "a texas twist." first came dylan spellman, cleared by police and by his height. then chris melchor, also cleared of suspicion by geography. now detective vueleman was on the trail of another man, david strickland. detective learned strickland was a hometown boy. his d...