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you threatened to kill her. >> i did not threaten to kill robin. >> evidence showed that she was lying, it was the same evidence that tripped up j.d., the text messages. >> she is very, very upset with j.d. and very upset with robin. >> james ferret was the district attorney for more than 20 years. >> she is just hammering j.d. with messages about i know you are lying. i know you're having an affair with robin. >> not just one or two tech's, the prosecutor found that in just four days leading to the murder, katie send j.d. 336 tech, messages like this one. >> if robin breaks any of my [bleep] when you bring her home, i'll break her nasty face. >> and this one, a day later. i'll hurt every single one of you on my day out. on the day robin was killed, katie unleashed a texts storm.
of murdering robbyn spielbauer. not everyone in amarillo was sharing in the love. including robbyn's parents jackie and steve. >> when we got the call it was like what? you are releasing her why? >> what was your reaction? >> disbelief. at first. >> and anger? >> quite a bit. >> i mean, you understand it fits intellectually but there is a father in there who is watching the woman accused of killing his daughter being let out of lock out, she was angry, i'm guessing you are pretty angry. >> i wasn't happy by any means. >> robin's friend erin had a different reaction, not as much rage as resolve. >> at that moment i shifted and i knew we had to get j.d.. i knew that if she was innocent, he was 100 percent guilty. >> dea james ferrell admitted
the dea prepared for trial and also prepared to gamble. that the biggest mistake of his career would also become his best argument in court. are you confident you are going to be able to convict j.d.? >> yes. >> you have a stronger case than you did against katy? >> yes, because, the case we had against katy the defense was going to be obvious. jury, you have just as much reason to believe j.d. did it as you do katie. >> that is also going to be jt's defense? >> they won't work, scientific data proves katie could not have done it she was never on helium road. she left savannah home and eight minutes later she arrived on manhattan street, he admits he was on helium road, if that gun kills robin, only two people could have done it, either katie or j.d.. and i can prove it wasn't katie. >> but, not according to j.d.
marriage, robin divorced jd and eventually moved in with her parents. it wasn't long before robin had more news to share about j. d. and katie. >> she called me and said he married her. >> for a lot of couples, that bit of betrayal might be the last time they acknowledge either their ex, or the other woman. but not robin. it was pretty clear that she was still stuck on j. d.. who was now helping katie raise her two kids. over time, robin found a new man, name jarred. who worked several jobs. >> she was giggling, she was like a young person in love. or in the infatuation stage. mom, i really like this guy. i have a crush on him kind of deal. >> after all the growing pains, it seemed that a white picket fence was maybe, at last, in robin's future. >> she was becoming the robin that i had met, back in 2001. that was friendly, and happy,
jail. >> ultimately farren had come to a humiliating conclusion, he had been played, by j.d. spielbauer. >> what went wrong was that we had an individual who had decided to frame his wife for the murder of his ex-wife. >> and he was pretty good at it? >> a lot better at it than i thought at first, i didn't see j.d. as a particularly bright, clever person early in this investigation. i now believe that he is much more clever than i thought he was. >> there were several guns found in j.d. and katie's home, the dea believe that he had set up his wife by intentionally choosing the pink gun to shoot robin. >> he had multiple fire arms at his disposal, he chose six hour 22 pistol that had a history of
shifting stories must have looked. >> please forgive me if i ended up misleading anybody. i was hoping that this wasn't true. seriously. i still love katie with everything i got. >> now, j. d. was done. filing for divorce, and never once went to see katie in jail. which was a place, it seemed, she would be for a long time. unless, there was something to prove she was innocent. >> did you kill robin? >> no, i did not kill robin. >> katie wanted a lie detector test, so they gave her one. and then, another.
>> there is some nicks in the glass, and there's also a hot pink paint polymer transferred to the grass. >> something that hit something that was? pick something that was classic? >> yes. >> at the time, the investigator had no way of knowing how significant that pink on the window might be. and he was trying to figure out who might wanted to kill robin. he went to see robin's boyfriend jarrett who worked at a bar. >> his story was basically that he goes to the bar. until 9:30. goes home, plays xbox until 11:00 or midnight. and goes to sleep. >> not the perfect alibi? >> no. >> the investigator are so questioned jd at his home. >> he has a story where he came home, had a couple of bears, passed out. >> and he was nowhere near helium road? >> that's what he says. >> and that's when j. d. told him about another man in robbyn 's life. another name the investigator had not heard before. chris. >> who's chris? well he tells the story that they used to date. he thinks there into drugs. he thinks there into violence, he thinks that he is a bad guy.
>> a few moments later, we hear a tap in on the glass. something harder than a fist. >> something like a pink gun? >> i end up opening the door, and see katie there. which took me by surprise. they're bickering back at each other. i'm trying to stop the bickering, i just put my foot down and say, this isn't what it looks like, we're talking about the girls, that's it. she says something along the lines of, you know -- i don't give a -- turn to katie, i tell her let's get in the car, let's go home, put the foot down, this is dumb. i shut her door, i go walking back to my truck. >> j. d. said, he thought katie would follow him, in her car. but when he got home, no katie. which is why, j. d. said, he sent katie, and robin, those texts, asking if everyone is okay. remember, katie said yes. robbyn never responded. j. d. seemed aware of how his
>> you're hearing this from j. d.? >> yes. >> and the wife -- story. >> she tells the same thing. >> so you go see chris? >> we go see chris. same things. when was the last time you saw? robin what was illiberal each and? he said i'm with my mom. he had an alibi. >> so he's on the bottom of the list? >> yes. he's at the bottom. >> jared soon moved to the bottom too. but jd was about to move up the investigators list. because his story was about to change. coming up! >> this dreadful trying to figure out everything. >> an ex husband caught an ally. >> did you have any plans to meet robin that evening? >> no. >> how do you explain these text messages? let me read this to you. >> when dateline continues! [ tires screeching ] jordana, easy on the gas.
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