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So we appreciate you being here with us. we wish you a good weekend unless you have other plans. and as always on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. i just walked in like i normally would. i notice kim lying at the base of the bed, facedown. then i saw zip ties tied around her ankles and her feet. i still can't wrap my head around it. >> she was always helping others. now she needed help. >> i don't know what happened. please send an ambulance fast. >> his beautiful wife dead in their bedroom. >> something very violent had occurred here. >> you could see the...

As detectives interviewed derrick dorsey downtown -- >> did you text her yesterday? >> reporter: -- their colleagues were searching for clues across town. a man's castle was now a crime scene and a confusing one at that. assistant state attorney london kite. this was a real puzzle?

That derrick, a seasoned firefighter, had done the unthinkable at a crime scene. >> now was she covered up when you got there? >> no, she was buck naked on the floor. i put the -- after rescue came, pronounced her dead, i was like, jesus, guys, guys. so i covered her. >> so you pulled that on top of her. >> yeah. they saw me do it. >> okay. that's important to us. >> the thing that he did that was, kind of, uncharacteristic of someone who is a first responder that goes to scenes like this is that he covered her body with the bedding. you know, you wouldn't want that to happen in the crime scen...

High. >> reporter: and republican, ted olsen, who went to work, immediately, to keep the count frozen. >> i found, literally, a broom closet on the floor beneath where everybody was working, where i could close the door and think and write. >> reporter: after just 36 hours to prep, olson and boise climbed the marble steps, each ascending into a legal stratosphere no one could have scripted. >> the time pressures, the fact that this was a political battle, a media battle, and a legal battle, all, taking place, so-called perfect storm. all, taking place in a very short period of time. >> reporte...

Quote you were kind enough to bring up was that the lab rheib movement mushroomed and we put out, almost contemporaneous to the timeline offered last hour in mid april, a conflict threat advisory because we were seeing this kind of rhetoric mushroom and especially on facebook. that served as a place where people with all kinds of grievances could get together. final thing, though, when the president made those stapts that you just put up on your screen after charlottesville, those six days after the statement are when hate crimes peaked for that worst, the third worst month in a decade. we hav...