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As easy to still a car as movies depict? >> certainly not 1999 mercedes. it's hard to hot wire or steal it. you almost need a key to gain access to it. >> reporter: if your car doesn't have a key, the next stop is a car dealership to have a new one made. but, first, gates and his crew searched the house looking for dee dee's spare mercedes key, without success. and gates quickly became convinced of one thing. you thought finding dee dee's car was going to be the key to this? >> reporter: that was going to be extremely important. >> reporter: dee dee's friends and family printed up posters and ...

Please listen to me. at some point i guess i raised my voice and little dog rossy started growling. >> reporter: erwin said he threw a pillow at the dog and that angered dee dee. >> she told me, how dare you hurt my dog and she slapped me. i reached towards her, i grab her hand, she start punching with her hand on my chest. i put her hand down. i crowd her and pulled her towards me. we struggled. >> reporter: erwin said he put dee dee in a sort of a bear hug. >> i just kept holding her and telling her, please, listen to me, please i don't want to lose you. i love you. i don't want to lose you....

Is in san jose and julie is in a resort and sometimes my experience that people dissipate stress after a crime is committed. some people drink and take drugs or leave the area just to dissipate stress. >> reporter: there was strangely one more person who just happened to have been traveling near the time of dee dee's disappearance 36 her ex-husband erwin howard had just flown to his home country of bolivia. and erwin was a mechanic who worked for american airlines in l.a. the common thread in all of these trips? nearby lax airport. what a better place to dump a car? >> lax is a big place and a...

That he was calling her every name under the sun. >> reporter: dee dee told the same story to her friend linda. >> i said do you realize that erwin's behavior is escalating, dee dee? and she said yes. >> reporter: you said call the police? >> no. i said have you changed your locks? she said, no, i'll do it on the way home and, of course, she never did. >> reporter: investigators soon learned that in those conversations with her friends, dee dee had left something out. a detail she mentioned only to her daughter julie that during that argument, erwin howard had also slapped her. >> i said, mom,...

Evidence, everything pointed directly at erwin. >> reporter: there was one more key piece of evidence. the day after the murder, a witness saw a mercedes on the street in the area and she thought it belonged to a friend so she sped up to catch her. >> she sees it's not her friend and he is she sees a male hispanic driving the car and she remembers that license plate. >> reporter: the license plate belonged to the mercedes owned by dee dee keller. the man driving? the witness helped the police artist draw this sketch. who does it look like? >> it looks like erwin. >> reporter: the witness was t...