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Someone plagued by unanswered questions. >> i was looking for jane does area and texas. it might be much to one of these missing girls. >> and that's how we came across hundreds of pages of online forms, about a mystery woman nicknamed "lavender doe". could she be one of the missing woman he was trying to locate? >> and so, given called the great county sheriff's department. and found himself on the phone with a lead detective, lieutenant eddie hope. >> i was glad people cared. because we live in a world where a lot of people are just worried about themselves and not others. >> and he was evid...

Murder, even though it was all over the news. it seemed hard to believe. police saw motive and opportunity. and while there was no witness placing russell at the crime scene, there was no one to back up his alibi. angie's friend, sheila, met with the lead detective who laid out for her the theory. >> russell snapped is the word he used. and then he grabbed a knife, took her into the room and proceeded to rape her. this is probably the one and only murder he will do, that it was just a passionate moment, and he snapped and he's going to be back to his old calm self. >> investigators asked sheil...

>> but they met with you to talk about the case. >> no, no. >> they gave you the evidence. >> no, no. >> they gave you regular updates? >> no, no, no, no, no. none of it. >> doesn't sound like it helped to be a private eye. >> it did not. so i started making phone calls to them. the first 50 phone calls went to the lead detective, who had been moved to traffic. got nowhere with him. and finally one day, six months into it, i talked to a receptionist who said he's in retirement, he's not working traffic. >> you left 50 messages in one month? >> yes. i'm a little obsessive. >> she eventually was...

>> i saw water on the ground on the north side that had been coming out of the trailer. it was still dripping, in fact. >> lieutenant ray tavizon was the supervising chief deputy. while his lead detective, jose sanchez, took charge of the scene and the investigation, tavizon had a look around. any sign of forced entry anywhere? >> no, no. >> no sort of footprints or tire marks or anything? >> no. the way the ground is, the gravel and stuff, there wasn't any. >> and inside the house? >> we saw that there had been what looked like maybe a scuffle in that bathroom. >> what told you that? >> well,...

>> i called the d. a.'s office, asked for a meeting to complain about the sheriff's department. >> and complain he did. forcefully, said chief deputy district attorney george zsoka. >> people got a little hot under the collar, the sheriff, the undersheriff were there. and lieutenant tavizon was also there. >> he and the others had to admit that lead detective, jose sanchez, had made mistakes, many mistakes. >> i had no reason to doubt him, but i should have. i should have micromanaged him. >> so maybe the whispers about some blue code were understandable, said deputy tavizon, just not true. >>...