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>> this is a secure building. if you need to go somewhere, knock on the door, okay? >> i'm in jail? >> the victim's wife, elberta carlile, told a crazy story about a man in black bursting into the house killing her husband, looking her square in the eye but leaving her alive. so, burbridge wondered, did she hire him? >> in my world, wives kill husbands. so the relationship is a probability. >> but then up at the house they heard a curious story from a neighborhood that very evening a couple of hours before the shooting. mysterious white van was parked just across the street from the carliles' ...

Doug carlile and 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 about some things honestly. and i'm going to have a heart to heart with you. >> okay. that's fine, that's fine. >> people tell me you are the shooter. >> i say hell no. you know that night i was in wofford city, north dakota. >> you went after him pretty hard, accused him...

Burbridge would need all the help he could get. and now every available investigator, nearly 20 of them, chased the scattered clues. did you actually need them all? >> yes, i kept them busy. one investigator, his whole job was to try to identify the white van. >> remember that white van the neighbors saw? >> it was unique enough. it was an after-factory extended van that they make for specific professions. once we were able to identify the make and model we had washington provide us with all the vans registered in spokane county, and there were 75 of them. >> which possibly fit that descriptio...

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>> 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 wondering 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 flat as if practiced. it...