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>> yoshan's parents were aware she had substance abuse problems. >> her parents notified the police, called all of her friends and went to all her known hangouts. >> towards the end. evening it was frustrating because we had no more leads. we couldn't think of any other places or any other people to talk to. >> the next morning, electricians working for the power company spotted a woman's body off the side of the road outside of tampa, florida. the body was identified as yoshan ashbrook. >> you could see that her throat was cut, blunt trauma to her face, her head. there were cut, defensive wou...

I'm never going to see my daughter get married or have babies. i'm never going to hold her first child, and i'm never going to see her make her dreams come true. >> investigators found a single hair in a defensive wound on joshawn's thumb. >> it appeared that this might be the hair from her attacker like she went to grab him and when she was fighting him, she grabbed him and it got embedded. >> the hair had the root in tact. about 30 feet from the body were fresh tire tracks. >> it was obvious that whoever was driving that vehicle backed into the area. and then dragged her body into the woods....

That did this. he was seeking answers. >> the problem was, parton would make a call and then drive away. so it was impossible to pin down his location. one call came from across the country in washington state. >> this was just another way of mr. parton taunting the detectives. >> finally, the phone calls stopped completely. but then two months after joshawn's murder, police found an abandoned red pickup truck in a walmart parking lot, 50 miles away from where

>> within 24 hours of finding joshawn's body, investigators went to his trailer to question him, but he was gone. >> we talked to the park manager and some of the neighbors, and they said they hadn't seen him in a day or two. >> a background check revealed a day laborer had no history of violence. >> a 60 year old man having teenagers visit the house and hang around, i think does lead to suspicion as to what is going on. >> while police search for hansen, they measure the tire impressions found near joshawn's' body. they were entered into a database of 20,000 different tires manufactured aroun...

>> they started searching and on the wall they found a speck of blood. it looked like it might have been a cast off, a little teardrop. >> the blood on the wall and underneath the carpet yielded a genetic profile, and it matched joshawn's dna. >> we can say that joshawn was killed in that bedroom. >> parton's roommate insisted he had nothing to do with joshawn's murder, but wouldn't cooperate further. >> i did not want to cooperate with investigators. very belligerent. just hated authority. despised us. >> meanwhile, the search for phillip parton wasn't going well, even though he was in consta...