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Picture of this artist drawing, and the author of this article makes a comment, it's as plain as the nose on your face. the lead detective is the killer. >> there were 40,000 tips and that was the problem. there were hundreds, even thousands of suspects. >> i was amazed at the number of people that matched the profile that was given to us. so i was always shocked and surprised that my wife and my two daughters, you go from point a to point b during the day and not run into one of these guys. because they looked like to me they're all over the place. >> most were eventually crossed off the list...

They've come out in the first press release and gave the name of the shooter. now law enforcement -- i know when i was a detective i never told the press nothing. nothing. i said "call dcpi, you're not getting nothing from me." when i was a lead detective. so it might be possible this police department doesn't want to release any information at all and wait until they -- and also they weren't even 100% sure they had the right guy yet. so they're tracking this guy's information through his cell phone to find out it's him. that's probably why it's taking so long. so i think right now they're pro...

With the crime scene video. >> we approached it much, much differently. we embraced the video and didn't run from it. >> we decided that we were going to make the video our ally. we had a giant board with a picture of the intruder and put it next to him and said this is not our guy. >> our defense was it's a mistaken identity, you definitely have the wrong person. we also laid out how law enforcement manipulated and tricked and pressured people. >> defense also presented documents. the only person who called seth by that jam was john klamesco. but klamesco and police had both denied payment of...

Because the other huge case, the d.c. mansion murder, where even though a judge ruled there is another evidence to hold the suspect in the death of the couples and son and housekeeper, detective testified that wint could not have acted alone. so this drew attention to jordan wallace who worked as an assistant and driver to the victim. what do you make of this case? >> well, i can tell you that a lot more has yet to be found out about wint and jordan wallace. i know the lead detective, jeffrey owens. he's top notch that i worked with for many years here in d.c. and i can tell you that jeffrey i...

You should not be looking at this video to solve who is on it. also, there's no dna for seth in the house. there's no dna of any of the victims in the car or his clothing. all the places it should have been. >> and, while researching the case behind bars, he becomes aware of a piece of evidence never presented in the prior trials. >> so, 2012, we got 50,000 pages of documents we had never seen. in those documents and to seth credit, he had to time to piece, page by page, go through 50,000 pages found a reward was paid to a witness in this case and the police and the witness said they never pai...