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Believed was her meddling in the way he raised her grandchildren. and the way he treated her daughter. >> 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 f...

Prosecutors found a witness who saw ackley and stephanie camping together on the fourth 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 telltale 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 ack...

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 bit more than that. >> the...

Both stephanie dittrick's body as well as arlene jensen's. with a search warrant, investigators found metal shavings on ackley's jeans, in his car and in his workplace. when tested with energy dispersive x-ray spectronomy, scientists discovered that the shavings from gary ackley were the same as those found on both murder victims. but ackley's lawyer said this proved nothing. they claimed it shouldn't be surprising the metal shavings were the same because ackley knew both victims and could have transferred those particles weeks earlier. so investigators turned to the beige fibers found on the ...

Son-in-law's car. >> she didn't move a lot. 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 fin...