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Where they are, is there anything unusual or specific about a case that would give someone a cause to have a grudge. >> reporter: four weeks in to the investigation, a tip came in to the county crime stoppers anonymous tip line that looked like a big break. >> the tipster said they have been in a bar in a small town in kaufmann, and overheard two white males talking about the killing and taking responsibility for it. >> reporter: the tip lacked the kind of detail that investigators needed to follow-up. and using the crime stoppers system, the tipster remained anonymous. if this was going to be...

>> my husband. i mean, he stayed up all night with a gun in his hand. >> i know that i start carrying a gun. sleep with a gun under my pillow. >> reporter: even shannon, who wouldn't carry a gun before, now slept with protection nearby. >> we had big ol' shotgun sitting on our dresser, just way -- ready to go, in case. >> reporter: the killer's threat to unleash more violence in kaufman county kept the task force working around the clock. a special team scoured the surveillance video collected near the mcclelland crime scene, hoping for a new lead. >> so many people now have surveillance camer...

>> reporter: prosecutor bill wirskeye thought if he could prove eric williams had killed cynthia, that would obviously show he killed mike. >> you'll hear the story of a massive law enforcement investigation -- state, local federal agencies working together to build an air tight case. >> reporter: one of the first witnesses called -- cj tomlinson, dallas police officer and friend of the mclellands. cj told the jury how he and his parents found the mclellands. >> i took a couple more steps inside the residence, i was hollerin' for mike. "mike, mike!" >> reporter: for three days, prosecutors bro...

>> reporter: investigators didn't have the murder weapon, but they had something else, a bullet they found inside a bag taken from williams' storage unit. >> you know this is what you and your team recovered. >> yes. >> reporter: a ballistics examiner compared that single unfired bullet to the shell casings found at the murder scene and came up with a match. >> that live round was ejected from the same weapon that killed the mclelland's. so, that was a big moment for us. >> reporter: and prosecutors thought this security video outside the storage unit nailed the case down. they said it traced ...

County, where county district attorney mike mclelland and his wife cynthia have been found shot to death. >> reporter: the news touched off a firestorm of public concern. tips started flooding into the re-opened kaufman county sheriff's command post. some tips still cited the aryan brotherhood of texas. >> with the added media attention after the mclellands were murdered, we got hundreds of tips a day. >> it was like drinkin' out of a fire hose durin' this whole thing. >> reporter: lt. jolie stewart of the sheriff's department was right in the middle of it. hundreds of investigators from multi...