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The killer. >> i didn't know which thing made me more angry, being accused of the murder or being called a pimp. >> andrea admitted performing a private dance for mcrae in his home and said pat attempted to assault her. >> she said pat mcrae pinned her to the couch and wouldn't let her up and was kissing her and she was trying to push him away. and he wouldn't get up. next thing she knows, mars davis is in the house over them and he's the one that starts stabbing pat mcrae. that was her story. >> but there was no blood all over the floor and only one set of foot impressions from a pair of size...

Motel, took showers and got some sleep. several hours later, andrea panicked when she realized she left her wallet in pat mcrae's home. she insisted mars drive her back to des moines so she could retrieve her wallet. >> everything in her wallet was coated with blood. i mean, it was like, you know, it had been sitting in it, you know? it was -- >> but how could police determine if mars was telling the truth? >> mars davis gave us a ton of information that would not have been known to anybody other than who was at that house. >> but how did they know he wasn't involved in the actual murder? for ...

Charge. >> i felt tremendously guilty for a long time. i didn't want to think about it anymore. it bothered me every time i closed my eyes. >> unfortunately, davis didn't know the name of the victim. he did, however, remember the neighborhood where he lived. >> he only knows that he lives at a house someplace off of harding road. he knows it's by a convenience store. he knows there's a couple car washes nearby, knows the guy works for a tv station, knows that he went to the outer limits and knows that he's killed in his house. >> mars davis was describing pat mcrae's murder, and the details he...

With a 24-year-old stripper named andrea morris. andrea was working at the outer limits club in des moines. one night around closing time, mars picked up andrea after work and she said she'd promised to give a bar patron a private dance at his house. >> it wasn't entirely out of the ordinary, but it wasn't exactly something that happened all the time, but yeah. and money was pretty tight, so i was -- and she didn't ask me, you know? she just said, this is what's happening. and i said okay. and how do we get there? >> davis said he dropped andrea off and then went to get his truck washed. >> ma...

For five years, the murder of pat mcrae went unsolved. investigators had the dna profile of the killer and boot impressions from the scene. what they didn't have was a viable suspect. >> i just kind of gave up worrying about whether or not it would get solved. i mean, i didn't like that it wouldn't, but i had that feeling that there was probably nothing we could do. >> then detective judy stanley got a call from her counterpart in lincoln, nebraska, 200 miles away. lincoln police had just arrested a man named mars davis on a drug possession charge, and davis offered them a deal. he said he was...