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Is but it's a question of kind of putting the evidence together. so circumstantial cases where you have high motive but you're looking at lots of little facts and seeing, okay, what can you turn this into? >> reporter: it would to three years for the case against erwin howard to come to trial. cameras were not present in the courtroom that day when trial began in the fall of 2008. john lewin laid out his case in a devastating thorough two and a half hour long power point presentation to the jury room. >> opening statements are like a check. i'm writing a check, jury hears it, and if i do my jo...

>> reporter: a few days later, it was clear julie was right. the very night her mom went missing, julie got another phone call, this time from erwin. >> i got on the phone and he is like, joule, what is your mom thinking? erwin, i don't want to talk about this. i feel like this is between you and my mom and he is like, well, you just need to pray for her soul. and i remember thinking it was a little odd but then you know what? given his, you know, his grasp on the english language, sometimes he would say some funny things or, you know, get something wrong but i just remember thinking that was ...

>> howa-o-w-a-r-d howard. >> reporter: oh, my gosh, we are going to healer the truth finally and erwin is going to confess. >> reporter: he guided erwin through the sequence of events beginning with why he went over to dee dee's house on the night of july 8th, 2004. >> indiana wanted to talk to h >> what did you want to talk to her about? >> to apologize for my act on june the 30th. >> reporter: june 30th, 2004 when, after discovering she was dating another man, erwin stormed into dee dee's house and confronted her in the shower, tossed emails in her face, and slapped her. on that final night,...

Looked closely at the way dee dee's body had been placed in that car. >> someone took great care to place her in that car and that indicated to us that someone cared deeply about her. >> reporter: so part of this is professional and part of this is somebody who knew her? >> exactly correct. >> reporter: the suspicions that said professional soon fell away in favor of those that said someone who nup hknew her. not her children but someone who re-enter dee dee's life the months before her death. her ex-husband erwin howard. >> reporter: do you ever think of him as violent or dangerous? right. no...

Bolivia even though he was clearly the prime suspect and the case against erwin was not without its problems. it's one thing to stalk someone. quite another to kill them. there was no physical evidence tying erwin howard to the crime and there were those key card records showing him clocking into his job at american airlines the night of the murder. still, detective gates took the information he had gathered to the l.a. county district attorney's office and asked for a warrant. >> they declined to file charges. >> reporter: they won't file? >> they won't file. >> reporter: did jimmy gates have...