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and i was like, "what's going on? " and he's like, "lisa's been shot. " >> i held her hand and i just said, "my lisa. my lisa. " >> everyone's like, "do you want justice? do you want revenge? -- i just want the truth. >> lisa techel, newly married, pregnant, starting the career of her dreams. >> she always put everybody before she put herself. >> then, one morning, a single shotgun blast rocked the newlyweds'home. >> she's been shot. >> a young husband, out of his mind with grief. >> it was a tragedy. but for lisa's dad, a sheriff's deputy, it was no mystery. he was sure he knew who ...

>> no, i didn't. >> tate stuck to his alibi: home and asleep, after taking his medication. lead agent birmingham thought he was telling the truth and crossed brian tate off his suspect list. so you only had one suspect at this point. >> yeah, one suspect and only one suspect. >> that evening, lisa's loved ones gathered at a funeral home for the visitation. the turnout was impressive and included many of todd's friends in the sheriff's department. your fellow officers are there as they would be, you know, they want to show respect. >> right. >> the mood inside was somber and uneasy. the caldwel...

>> deputy wonderlin and myself deputy phillips are pulling up here at the tate residence to re-interview mr. tate. >> this time, they asked him point blank about the murder of his neighbor. >> we're just trying to figure this all out, you know. did you have anything to do with lisa's death? >> no, i didn't. >> tate stuck to his alibi: home and asleep, after taking his medication. lead agent birmingham thought he was telling the truth and crossed brian tate off his suspect list. so you only had one suspect at this point. >> yeah, one suspect and only one suspect. >> that evening, lisa's loved o...

Story for a jury? >> probably the most important single piece of evidence was the shotgun. >> ballistics showed this mossberg 12-gauge was the murder weapon, a firearm that seth kept inside his house, and only he had access to it that morning, prosecutors argued. >> no murderer who wants to kill lisa techel comes to the murder scene without the murder weapon. >> we argued the impossibility of his story. some unknown assailant breaks into his house and kills the wife that he says he's gonna leave. >> tyler batterson is our next witness. >> prosecutors called one of seth's young friends to show ...

Big strategic shift. they would soften the focus on the boogeyman of the first two trials -- brian tate. >> our conclusion was after listening to the tapes of mr. tate, that he wasn't the deranged person that they tried to portray him as being. >> the way he was speaking to law enforcement that afternoon would not seem like the person that would have walked into a trailer home at 5:00 in the morning and murdered his neighbor. >> the defense attorneys made a tactical decision. since recordings of tate didn't make him look like a dangerous killer, they would not show tapes of him to the jury. an...