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>> but was this the beginning of the story? or the end? that was the evening spokane 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 like where you want t...

>> bentley. >> yeah. as you can see, he was the one who wanted the car and the name and the show. >> chief tex h 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 ki around for more than a year. homeland security agent derrick truedell had heard from a colleague about the missing casey clark and the ripoff report and other possible crimes. >> he told me the story, and it sounded unbelievable is what it did. >> er...

Henrikson. describe him. >> he comes across as just -- >> you're at a loss for words. >> he comes across as a used car salesman, but that's not fair to used car sales men. the guy is just, he's a scumbag. >> he had been on james' trail for more than a year, looking for possible illegal drug imports and the mysterious disappearance of casey clark. it began to look like henrikson was behaving like some latter day wild west outlaw. >> he's a sociopath and a coward. and he didn't get his hands dirty in any of it. ik truedell already suspected then doug carlile was murdered in washington and he beg...

Involved in what happened. >> the thing was, the killer saw elberta. she came right out and said so. they stared at each other, soul to soul. so why would a hit man leave an eyewitness alive? unless she was in on it. >> i'm worried whether she had a motive. money, jealousy, boyfriend, girlfriend. did she kill him herself? 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...

Didn't appear to be motivated by burglary, robbery. the whole entire house was locked up tight. windows, doors. >> he still had his wallet and cell phone. everything was in place. nothing was ransacked 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. >> i want to see my husband. >> the detective was ready to sympathize, of course, but his training, his instinct, his eye told him not yet. something looked a little off her...