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Coasttocoast. Before leading investigators back home. My thoughts its someone we know. Reporter was he living a double life . I think he was. Reporter you are making him sound like hanibal lector. Its just wild. Reporter the courthouse. The moral center of every American City and town. The place we go to settle differences. Resolve disputes, find justice. Its the place where the store usually ends. But not this time. Not in rural kaufmann, texas, where life is leisurely and no one is a stranger. Oh, my god, Somebody Just shot somebody, they are laying on the ground. It was bam, bam, bam. Repor...

District attorney mike, made it easier for everyone to get concealed handgun licenses. >> we can take -- for free. and we could have our license if we needed it. >> did you get a gun? >> no. >> did you think about? it >> yeah. >> it's the kind of thing people do when they're scared and panicked. the justice system under attack. the murder brought an all-star army of law enforcement to the case. the sheriff's training center was turned into a command post. it was soon buzzing with local police, texas rangers, and federal agents from the atf and the fbi. >> it was interesting about this case. be...

Be the magic phone call. >> there was something that might lead them to the killer. the way mark had been murdered. the killer had been lying in wait. mark was shot at point blank range. execution style. all of this lead investigators to think that this could be an organized crime hit. >> rumors are sweeping the town! top of mexican drug cartels, and prison games. >> we're open to every avenue. >> nbc's channel five in dallas covered the case from the beginning. and reporter, ken, was there for it all. >> mexican drug cartels were suspected immediately because of the fact that has he had been ...

He would run out in about 12 minutes. >> mark's longtime friend, marcus busch, also memorialized him. >> this world is a better place because of mark. and so are we. the world lost a good man. someone who was resolute, always near the difference between right and wrong, and would fight for that. >> now, special prosecutors toby and bill, along with a multi agency task force were fighting for mark. searching for his killer, but not coming up with easy answers. because he was so close to his friend, an employee, da mark had to bow out of the investigation. he and his coworkers were doing what th...

And it still is, obviously, that it is so difficult. >> because she had not been able to reach her parents, christina decided to drive to the house as well. her mom's friend leah, met her with the news that she was dreading. >> i just had the feeling that they were done. and i said both of them? and she said yes. >> and then it occurred to me, oh my god this is gonna hit the news! and my grandmother watches the news every day. and somebody needs to stop her before she turns on the tv! >> mark's high profile! >> he was. and i did not want someone else to tell her that this had happened. >> look...