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And i think we were comfortable putting him aside, and we didn't have anything that would lead us to believe that he would know where she was that day and that he was in that area on the date that those crimes occurred. >> reporter: the composite sketch generated leads and exactly zero suspects. >> there wasn't anything that you could correlate to the actual perpetrator or the crime scene that day. >> reporter: as for tom hunter's online gaming contacts, detectives deciphered the ip addresses and anonymous screen names and tracked down those people. and as far as you knew, he never met any of ...

Facebook and google turned over. but they all complained that that data was really incomplete. they didn't get as much as they needed to give an even more comprehensive explanation of what happened. they are frustrated, and so are the lawmakers. >> you said it seems like the russians weren't trying very hard to cover their tracks when it comes to some of this, like those facebook ads. and that they are probably more advanced, even now. how concerning is this? >> well, if you're concerned about the way in which our democracy functions and the way in which we all get news and information, i thin...

Each provided something different. with twitter, we had probably the most complete picture. they had metadata, information about the account. so using that metadata, we can see that russian trolls registered twitter handles that pretended to be american, even having american news property names like baltimore news, to russian ip addresses with russian device ids. you could see using that metadata, information that's not typically public, how the companies identified what accounts were russian and what weren't. with some of the social platforms like facebook and instagram. we had information ab...

You ha >> you have to learn a whole bunch of jargon. >> i know ip address. >> it identifies a network or individual device. mike had copies of all the incriminating e-mails from the evidence file with that restraining order. he started going through them with software that traces ip addresses. this investigative software that you used to become your own detective, is that something you have to go to cal tech to get a copy of? is this nsa material? >> oh, gosh no. it's the 15-year-old kid material. >> as mike got results, suzanne would organize them. >> he would printout on yellow pads of leg...

>> in fact, police and prosecutors were still doing everything they could to link those e-mails to michelle. >> we have a very skilled dee terkti -- detective working on the case. he was in constant communication with the district attorney's office to piece it together and prove a case and solidify it for court. >> problem was? >> it wasn't coming together. these electronic messages were coming from a different place. we couldn't verify that it was coming from michelle hadley's device. >> it was a blow to the prosecution's case. but there was more evidence than just ip addresses. there was the...