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>> no. >> but she says even though they were in a relationship she still feared him and until recently genuinely believed he was a murder. >> i was terrified of him. that was no lie. those emotions were real. i have had the nightmares. i lived in that fear. she said that drove her to lie but the euphoria after the verdict started to sour. she couldn't stop thinking about something that the prosecutor said after the trial. >> i learned during the closing arguments that carmen's lifeless body was wrapped up in five layers of bedding and i was shocked and i started to get pretty scared at that mo...

Prosecutor jesse evans was there for the state. he argued that his obsession with one murder lead to another. some people are just mean. >> evans said taker had left a trail of destruction and those critical hairs. >> cold case solved. >> defending him was wasee waseem daker. >> there's three principles of law that i want to give you. >> before he took over his own case he had been represented by an experienced father and son team. >> they had no case without tho those hairs. that's why they didn't go

>> she acknowledged having a sexual relationship with daker and then lottie's old list of daker's abuses startle to topple like dominos. >> >> never. >> did i ever physically threaten you, to kill or harm you? >> never. >> did i ever steal your bras, panties or hang them on your doorkn doorknob? >> no. >> there are going to be people that think you're lying now and you were telling the truth before? >> what reason do i have? i have everything to lose. i'm doing it because this is right. >> in a bristling cross-examination, prosecutor jesse evans portrayed lottie as a troubled unreliable woman?...

Very sorry for what she's caused. >> evans says the letters tell another story. he says lottie knew about the bedding and hair evidence before the murder trial started and never said a word about giving any of blankets to carmen. >> it wasn't until after she started secretly communicating with the defendant that she then made this broad assertion, i had given some blankets to carmen. the problem with this is, i challenged her on it. describe the blankets. tell me which ones they were. she couldn't remember. >> there's no smoking gun or smoking blanket in this case? >> absolutely. i don't think...

I mean, this looks like a father and son grabbing breakfast. it doesn't look like a child killer waiting to carry out his crime. >> i would say completely to the contrary. i looked at the video, and when i first saw it and i thought it seemed very out of the ordinary. in particular, the way that he was introducing cooper to some of the workers there. and how they eventually described it to us as being almost like he was putting on a show, almost like he was going out of his way to do that. >> reporter: but maybe more interesting, prosecutor jesse evans says, was what the video showed about coo...