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Having him arrested. as for the confidential details in the letter. >> this is small town texas, there's any number of places this information could have come from. >> what about the lab report showing strickland's gun matching the shell casings found at the scene. >> we had our expert that said it is inconclusive. i mean there's no way that you can say for sure. >> police, they said, should never have taken their sights off the real shooting. >> well, 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 e...

>> 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 legs. i had to relearn to swallow. >> you don't give up, do you? >> i don't. i try to stay motivated. >> 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. >> who was dylan spellman? police learned he lived just three blocks from...

You're involved in the crime? >> sure. so i mean, that definitely raised more suspicion. >> chavez then told spellman police found his dna just 30 feet from where the girls were shot. that's when he says spellman's demeanor changed. >> he asked me, you know, what are the consequences? and i said, well in texas, you know, this is a death penalty kind of case. >> and then dylan spellman asked about a deal. >> normally, any person that's innocent isn't going to ask for a deal. you're going to profess your innocence. and he wasn't. now i'm thinking, this is my guy. >> so, chavez asked spellman to ...

Dylan spellman. all of it was a twist as big as texas. texas. coming up -- the mysterious letter. could this be the smoking gun police had been looking for? >> immediately, i knew this was something very big and very important. >> when "dateline" continues. th dupixent i can du more... yardwork... teamwork... long walks.... that's how you du more, with dupixent, which helps prevent asthma attacks. dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems. it's an add-on-treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. ...

Point out their client had no history of violence at all. >> david strickland did not do this. >> it was sam smith who had the last word. dylan spellman, he told the jury, might have been under suspicion but ultimately had nothing to do with this crime. david strickland, he said, was the man holding the gun. >> shooting both of these girls for no identifiable reason at all, he's certainly a psycho path. >> prosecutor smith never offered the jury a possible motive. kristene says she is should have it is about her sexual orientation. >> what is the reason for thinking it is a hate crime? >> the ...