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Automobile james bought for sarah, then left in the garage with flattened tires. >> you can't make it up. >> it's weird. it's so strange. >> bentley. >> yeah. as you can see, he was the one who wanted the car and the name and the show. >> tex hall, as you might imagine was not pleased about any of that. he banished james from the reservation. but there was something neither tex nor sarah knew just then. not just that the spokane cops were investigating sarah's wayward husband. out on the north dakota prairie, another lawman had been poking around for more than a year. homeland security agent d...

Did she hire somebody? did she get one of the children to do it? these are all my concerns. >> besides, says burbridge, he's seen many people caught by sudden violence and grief, and elberta was agitated, certainly, but to his practiced eye, her emotional reaction was somehow flat as if practiced. it bothered him. >> how long had you been home? >> it happened instantly. when we got home, it was like somebody ambushed him. >> the way she told her story about a masked man killing her husband of 42 years. >> it almost seemed like it was rehearsed or like she thought about this and what could i sa...

Career criminal, gang member, and sometimes a police informant. he'd serve in prison on drug and weapons charges. >> i researched and i knew he had a very significant criminal history. i was concerned, was he my hit man or what was his involvement >> he knew doug carlile. he also new james henrikson. why was he here? to tell the cops just in case they were wondering, that he didn't have anything to do with the murder. >> did you drive somebody up there? >> no, no, no, i had nothing to do with it, nothing. >> but burbridge had seen a thing or two. he pushed. >> we're going to start talking abou...

Motivated by burglary, robbery. the house was locked up tight. windows, doors. >> he still had his wallet and cell phone. walking throughout the house, everything was still in place. it hadn't been ransacked. nothing was missing that we could find. >> it was elberta, doug's wife, who called 911 in what sounded like a state of abject terror. arriving first responders found her hiding in an upstairs closet. they took her downtown to talk to burbridge. >> elberta, my name is mark. >> i want to see my husband. they wouldn't let me see him. >> the detective was ready to sympathize, of course, but h...

Police detectives brian sesnick and mark burbridge were pulled into the strangest case of their careers. >> it was the most unique homicide i'd investigated, and i knew that from the first moments of my involvement. >> really? just you knew? >> yes. >> it was sesnick who drove over first to the address at south hill. the sort of place a homicide detective can go a whole career without visiting a single time. >> the house is in a very upper-class neighborhood. >> and the south hill, that's where you want to be in town. >> right. the street that it's on, i'd never been to before. >> why would yo...