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>> he said if she interveered any longer, he would kill her. >> she left the house they rented making statements like, i'm not going to put up with with this and i don't know why you're putting up with this either, to her daughter. >> ackley's brand of cigarettes was another interesting coincidence. >> when he bought cigarettes, he bought the cheapest cigarettes he could get his hands on. those were basic, b-a-s-i-c, brand cigarettes. that was the kind of cigarette butts located in the toilet of arlene jensen's house. and there was a box of basic brand dumped where arlen jensen's body was foun...

Killed her mother. so after his conviction, she cemented their common-law relationship by formally marrying him in a prison ceremony. >> i don't know. i've tried to understand that before and all i can make of it is domestic violence in its severest form. the brainwashing, the abuse that just makes that person just not even think for themselves because it's so plain to see. you know. >> two murders, seemingly unrelated, but unmistakably connected by a series of microscopic clues. >> detectives all over this country are solving murder cases that are 20 or 30 or 40 years old based on science tha...

Then he hid the blood-stained sheets with the comforter. the trace evidence shows he put arlene's body into the back seat of his car, creating the fiber cross-transfer. ackley dumped her body a mile away in a field near the railroad tracks unaware he left more metal shavings there. he also left another calling card. an empty pack of his favorite brand of cigarettes, the same brand he left in his mother-in-law's bathroom. but what was the motive for stephanie dittrick's murder? >> by all accounts gary ackley had a big mouth. >> prosecutors think in a moment of weakness, ackley told stephanie th...

>> while they didn't know his last name, they knew his name was gary. they knew that he bragged about being a drummer in a rock band. >> stephanie's family identified the man as her oldest and dearest friend, gary ackley. when interviewed by police, ackley recalled he was at the party but wasn't there specifically to be with stephanie. >> one of the things he told us was he had gone there to locate somebody else, had seen stephanie, so stopped to talk. the witnesses said it seemed a little bit more than that. >> then police did a background check on 29-year-old gary ackley and discovered some ...

Prosecutors believe ackley killed his childhood friend in order to silence her, burying her body in a shallow grave. again, leaving the tell-tale metal fragments behind. when he disposed of stephanie's personal items, he left his fingerprint on the shopping bag. >> i don't think there's anything i could say that would bother him because someone that can kill their girlfriend's mom and their kids' grandma is untouchable emotionally. so i wouldn't even try. >> a year after the crimes, gary ackley was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. d...