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>> the offensive thing about stereotypes, i think most people would agree, is that they're oftentimes true. but i will say that one stereotype that i think gary ackley is a perfect example of is a domestically violent woman-abusing killer. >> prosecutors believe ackley had access to arlene's apartment key and used it to enter her home late one night after she was in bed. the autopsy results aren't clear about how he killed arlene, but the evidence suggests she was killed while in bed. metal fragments dropped from ackley's clothes onto the sheets, fragments he couldn't see. he stayed in arlene'...

Time she was seen alive. they said stephanie spent most of her time talking to a man they did not know. >> 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 b...

Saw ackley and stephanie camping stth -- together on the 4th of july weekend. 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 c...

Law mother-in-law and was devastated by her murder. but family members said that was a lie. >> well, he didn't like her. and it was no secret she didn't like him. but no one in the family did like him. >> their relationship can best be described as being acrimonious. arlene jensen was concerned about the welfare of her daughter whom she believed was at least verbally and psychologically being abused by gary ackley. >> arlene also didn't like the way ackley treated her grandchildren. >> when she would express those concerns, particularly in the presence of gary ackley, it became quite apparent ...

Yeah, there wasn't a whole lot of movement with the jacket. if you're sitting in the rear seat of a car and you never move, that's where the transfer would be. >> finally, in the national park near where stephanie dittrick's body was found, investigators discovered remnants of a campfire. some of stephanie's personal items were strewn in the grass along with a plastic shopping bag. >> there was a shopping bag from a local grocery store and once it was submitted to the washington state patrol crime laboratory, what we found was a very clear latent fingerprint left by none other than gary ackley...