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All of our friends were so short and always like she stuck out and didn't care. she wore heels and wedges and whatever and would go places and tower over us which made the mom thing more funny and huddle over the kids. people always -- like she was the first one they noticed. >> the world was like her catwalk? >> pretty much. >> beautiful girl? >> yeah. i love when i get told i look like her. >> that is really sweet. but halee's beauty was more than skin deep. tattoos testify to the strong faith. >> i said prayers with the girls every night. at the end of the prayer most important line is thos...

Like, is everything okay. she's said, yeah, everything's fine. >> reporter: what isaiah didn't know was that more than a dozen investigators were watching his interview remotely from the next room. and they had proof he was lying. they'd checked the park's security cameras, and there was no trace of isaiah and halee. cellphone data showed where they had really gone, to the soccer field where halee's body had been found. >> we saw him leave her apartment complex on surveillance video. the cell phones are traveling, hers and his cell phones are traveling together. >> okay. so they're -- they're ...

That moment, i had no idea how to address it. >> what are you thinking when this happens? >> shocked. it was huge. it was huge. no one saw it coming. no one. i had no idea she was going to say that. i wanted to hug her. i wanted to thank her. the whole family did. it was probably the first time everyone in the room cried. it was an amazing gift. >> the judge called for a recess and cleared the courtroom. all sides left to absorb the enormity of what had just happened. heather drove to the soccer field to reflect. she honors haylee by wearing the same tattoo her daughter once had. the prosecuto...

Grief-stricken, halee agonized over whether she should tell the police over her suspicions. >> she said what if they want to talk to me? i'm like, you talk. you know? >> the more she thought about it, the more she thought about halee. thaddeus had a bad reputation around town. >> halee could be poking a hornet's nest. >> she absolutely could have. >> if she starts making accusations. >> now, halee was dead, and heather wondered if thaddeus killed halee to shut her up. >> i felt like he was looking at serious charges. if i had to look for people who had reasons to hurt her, that would have been...

Understand because there was testimony by the coroner that he could not determine a time of death. >> halee's friend carley, who attended every day of the trial, watched with growing uneasiness as the defense poked holes in the prosecution's case again and again. >> every day my dad texted me and would ask how the trial went every single day. i was like, yeah, we're not going to get this conviction. >> it was that bad? >> it was that bad. >> and then a bombshell. >> that's putting it mildly. coming up -- what are you thinking when this happens? >> shocked. it was huge. no one saw it coming. ...