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Was to help and assist her so he helped kind of nurse her back to health and take care of the dogs and the house and her. >> reporter: and in taking a hard look at erwin howard, the detective found he had a rock solid alibi. on the night of dee dee's disappearance july 8thth, erwin had clocked into his job as work at the american airlines hangar at lax at 8:30. he had to use an electronic key card to get into the hangar. that is a pretty good alibi. that's not something generally the employee can influence. >> that is correct. absolutely correct. >> reporter: that left the last person to admit...

She felt that by erwin. he treated her like a queen. >> reporter: when he popped the question, dee dee said yes. at dee dee's bridal shower in march of 1998, erwin dutifully delivered his fiancee to the surprise party but the smiles didn't last after the engagement was over and the marriage began. >> it wasn't within six months appear they were married she just blurted out that she had married him on the rebound. >> reporter: and was having second thoughts? >> apparently so. >> it was very hard for her to think about ending it bauls of what it was going to to him because she knew he loved her....

Successful himself and didn't have a lot of enemies. >> reporter: and then even as investigators looked at suspects, came the news that all who knew dee dee had, at once, hoped for and feared, dee dee's car had been found. not at lax two and a half hours down interstate 5 in san diego. that silver mercedes-benz had been parked on this downtown street in san diego for days and earning it several parking tickets. when the local pd ran the plate it came up alonging to a missing person and when the trunk was finally opened there was a body wrapped in sheets covered by a blanket which was, itself, ...

Finally been found, dead in the trunk of her silver mercedes. the car had been the subject of a massive search ever since dee dee had been discovered missing a week earlier from her home two hours north in l.a. homicide detective jimmy gates, who had always thought finding the car would be the key for finding dee dee. now gave the mercedes a thorough going over. fingerprints or dna in the car? >> there wasn't one fingerprint either on or in that car or was there any partial print. nothing. >> reporter: dee dee's or anybody else? >> nobody. >> reporter: so what does that say professional? >> we...

Because had he were starting to think at that point how long could this go on? >> hardest days of my lirve and one of the hardest days for my children and all of her friends and her family. >> reporter: dee dee keller was dead at age 54. an autopsy showed she had been asphyxiated and the clues that were or were not left in her car were about to take this case back in a familiar direction. >> coming up. just days before she was murdered, dee dee had a visit from a stalker. >> she said that she was in the shower, kind of pulled her out of shower and she had this huge altercation. he was calling ...