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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 take a polygraph, and spellman agreed. >> and how does he do? >> h...

>> remember, kristene had said the shooter referred to her and mollie as girl one and girl two. >> he used numbers in that other crime? >> yes. they referred to each other by number in that particular crime. >> the similarities between the two crimes didn't end there. >> in the nevada home invasion, where the victims bound? >> yes, they were. >> he's got to be number one on the list at this point. >> he definitely jumped to the top. >> by that time, dylan spellman had had already returned to nevada to begin serving his three-year sentence, so chavez hopped a plane to las vegas, hoping to hear ...

>> some quick computer searches revealed spellman had a criminal past. >> dylan spellman had just been convicted of a violent crime. >> yes. >> an armed robbery in nevada. >> yeah. >> that nevada armed robbery occurred in 2010, a year and a half before the shootings. spellman and some accomplices broke into a home in a las vegas suburb and held a family hostage before robbing them and taking off. >> anybody get killed? >> no. >> and at the time of the shootings in 2012, dylan spellman was in the corpus christi area awaiting sentencing for the nevada armed robbery. >> he'd been sent here to sta...

While detective aaron volaman continued trying to strengthen his case against dylan spellman, investigators in neighboring sinton, texas, received a mysterious letter addressed to kristene chapa's dad. >> immediately i knew this was something very, very big and very important. >> the letter-writer described himself as a hit man hired by the person who shot mollie and kristene. he wrote, the gunman had sought his services to finish the job and make the only witness to mollie's murder disappear. >> what he's saying is, i was hired to kill kristene, but i'm not going to do it. instead, i'm warnin...

Cigarette butts, a monster can, and suspicion. >> it didn't help that chavez's one eyewitness to the shootings could not identify spellman from a photo lineup. >> it was very hard because the suspects all looked the same. >> and then there was the matter of mr. spellman's height. >> he's big. >> he's what, 6'8"? >> 6'8". >> remember, kristene said the shooter was quite a bit shorter than that, 5'8", maybe 5'9". >> for me, it was always the difficulty of getting over the size. >> so chavez and his team regrouped. >> we begin getting cell phone records for him, getting hair samples or anything o...