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To a possible other suspect -- >> reporter: and the csis had photographed a bloody swipe on the handle of the closet safe, just a short distance from jaime's body. the defense told the jury how detectives never ran it for a possible print, nor had it swabbed for dna. >> isn't that the kind of evidence you'd wanna have available to consider? why wouldn't you at least test it? >> reporter: the defense ticked off more examples of what they regarded as inept detective work, they never brought lizz's ex-husband in for questioning. or that neighbor with a history of petty burglaries, the one fresh o...

>> reporter: who could have done this, she wondered? she recalled for the detectives a scary moment on their way home. >> i think when we left cvs there was a -- a car following us because when we came in our neighborhood, it was still behind us and he was really close. >> reporter: something for the detectives to check out. after sandra was done talking, her cousin diana -- who'd rushed into town to help -- met her at a friend's house. >> she looked like she had aged ten years overnight. she couldn't stop shaking. and so i -- i didn't wanna ask her too many questions. >> reporter: lizz, remar...

Somehow, someone had turned a cozy celebration into a monstrous crime scene. >> it was just -- it was horrible. >> what in the world had happened in that house? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: the story of the two begins as high school meet-cute. sandra, the new girl from laredo assigned a seat in her houston classroom just in front of jaime melgar. their daughter lizz doesn't know how many times she heard that story. >> he used to pull on her hair. >> oh, you're kidding. >> in the middle of class. >> "who's this guy behind me, pulling on my hair?" >> yeah. apparently, one time he invited her ...

Scene. >> absolutely. it's the one place you're supposed to be safe. and it's just been, i don't know. it's been tainted. >> reporter: she went through the house, room by room, cataloging what she thought was missing. a tv set, jewelry, cash and medication. last stop, the garage. >> the garage was full of things that could easily be stolen and pawned. >> yeah. >> reporter: there lizz spied something, to her eyes, oddly out of place. her middle school backpack. sticking out of it, an xbox console. could this have been the killer's loot, dropped in a panic as he ran from the scene? lizz called i...

And move on. >> reporter: but as the investigation dragged into july of 2014, their worst fears were realized, lizz and her mom found out in a most unusual way. >> i went to the mailbox and it had been absolutely filled with fliers from lawyers trying to get our business for our pending case. >> did you know what that was about? >> i had no idea what that was about. >> and so i got onto the harris county website and i entered my mom's name. and i saw that she had been charged with my father's murder. >> so now you're in the full nightmare? >> yeah. >> reporter: a few days earlier, a grand jury...