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District attorney mike, made it easier for everyone to get concealed handgun licenses. >> we can take -- for free. and we could have our license if we needed it. >> did you get a gun? >> no. >> did you think about? it >> yeah. >> it's the kind of thing people do when they're scared and panicked. the justice system under attack. the murder brought an all-star army of law enforcement to the case. the sheriff's training center was turned into a command post. it was soon buzzing with local police, texas rangers, and federal agents from the atf and the fbi. >> it was interesting about this case. be...

Where life is leisurely, and no one's a stranger. >> oh my god, someone just shot someone in there on the ground. >> i was just bam, bam, bam. >> this time it's where the story begins. >> a story that quickly got too big for this texas town. like a prairie fire, spread across the nation. >> we had some new information this morning on the man hunt for a killer, who gunned down -- >> in the brazen murder -- this tale, the hunters became the hunted. >> that's what's so scary. it's not just me anymore. my husband, my family. >> my wife had two guns out. unless it's me coming through the, door be r...

>> sheriff burns, legendary guy, former texas ranger. he was visibly shaken up. and if he's shaken up, that scare the hell out of me. and all of enforcement is out there. they were quiet. and they were dealing with something they've never seen before. >> apart from the obvious to people a dead, what else was shaking them up so badly? >> the big question was, who is next? because everybody's assumption of who is standing out at the crime scene said it could've been one of us. >> cynthia's murder escalated the danger. not just for law enforcement, but now for their families. >> this man had cros...

But it was slow going. >> how do you sift out, well, it couldn't be this person. maybe this person. >> first of all, you see if they're still locked up. you see where they are. their whereabouts. you see if there's anything unusual or specific about a case that would give someone cause to have a grudge. >> four weeks into the investigation, a tip came into the county crime stoppers tip line that look like a big break. >> a tipster said they had been in a bar, in a small town in kaufman. and overheard two white males talking about the hasse killing. in taking responsibility for it. >> the tip l...

A sheriff's deputy recognized the user i.d. for the county crimestoppers' anonymous tip line. the first number corresponded to a tip from early in the hasse case. the tipster claimed to have overheard two men in a bar saying they'd killed mark hasse. that meant the tip came from williams' computer. a follow-up computer search also revealed williams had searched several how-to websites. >> one of the websites was how to throw the police off an investigation by sending in fake tips. >> the second number on that scrap of paper was even more important because it turned out to be the real thing. it...