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Grief stricken, halee agonized to tell police over the suspicions. >> she said what if they want to talk to me? i'm like, you talk. you know? >> reporter: the more she thought about it the more she thought about halee. thaddeus had a bad reputation around town. she could be poking a hornet's nest? 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 number one. >> reporter: the day after halee was murdered someone sent h...

Halee's friends knew that she'd gone to see the baby's mom jordan the night she died. >> there's these messages the night she was murdered where she was messaging back and forth with jordan, hey, i'm going to go pick up my wallet from your house, late at night the night she was killed. so then that was the theory. she went. she told jordan. thaddeus killed her over it. >> investigators decided it was time to find out what thaddeus and jordan knew. thaddious refused to talk to them. but jordan did. >> we did interview thaddeus's girlfriend. she was -- she said they were home together all night ...

Like, i just remember just -- i didn't want to exist anymore. >> reporter: the family was horrified to learn that halee, just 20 years old, had been murdered with a shot to the back of the head. >> that was the most shocking part. never in a million years would i have thought that someone would shoot my child. like, why? >> as you're processing the most horrific news you've ever had in your life, that your daughter is gone, do you immediately ask these detectives who did this? >> they asked me. >> they asked you? >> who do you think? you know? >> reporter: one name sprang to mind immediately. ...

As each day of trial passed, hegger collins became less hopeful. there was no direct evidence tying isaiah hagan to her daughter's murder, no gun, no dna, no eye witnesses, nothing to prove isaiah was a killer. >> i was at the point where i was prepared for him to be walking the streets. >> prosecutor michael perry urged patience. >> we knew that we did not have enough evidence to convict at that point. but that's why you go to the end. >> there was one person in particular he wanted the jury to hear from, dona hagan, isaiah's mom. the prosecutor had no idea what she would say on the stand but...

Understand because there was testimony by the coroner that he could not determine a time of death. >> reporter: 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, 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...