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Right off the bat as we need to go talk to michael beard again. >> he denied any type of involvement. he even denied receiving the phone call. they never talked. >> did that seem odd? >> it did can seem odd. he denied having any type of conversation. he said he didn't even remember receiving it and he wouldn't have answered a call that wasn't -- that he didn't know the number. >> and when investigators looked at beard's phone, there was no sign of a call from linda miller's cell. >> it had been erased. he explained it away that he the night before had to recycle his minutes on his phone. it wa...

>> i'd never been in such a 2015, that was a first. >> how long has she been down. >> i don't know, i don't know. tense, anxious atmosphere. i just got home. the courtroom was typically tense throughout the entire >> we received a dispatch from trial, but as far as anxiety was our 911 center, unknown possible medical situation. concerned, i had never been in a i responded. room that was filled with so much anxiety. to be honest with you, in route i felt there w >> why? >> reporter: the only one who didn't seem tense to the >> just cop intuition i guess is reporter was the defendant what it was...

>> more than a little suspicious, the millers kept digging. they went online to check linda's phone records and there it was, the number tom dialed about an hour before the murder, a number they didn't recognize. investigator donnie lewis took it from there. >> so what i did was i got the number and put it into actually facebook on my phone, and as soon as i put that number in the profile that pops up is michael beard. >> michael beard, the ex employee who had been some cooperative with investigators. suddenly he didn't seem so innocent. now police had to reconsider their theory of the crime. ...

Courtroom, the reporter noticed >> from what i could see, the attack started in the main bedroom, went out into the a change in tom clayton. hallway. >> that was really the first looks like a fight ensued. there were pictures knocked off the door and there was a time that i saw in his face that landing. you got the sense that this guy finally knew that oh, god, i could go to prison for life. the stairs go straight down and depending on what they're about there's a left-turn landing and to say. >> reporter: and then they said there was a big hole in the wall it. like a body part of some kind ha...

Not-so-promising michael beard tip, sheriff's investigators had tom at the station. detective donnie lewis said they still had questions. >> for the most part it looks pretty good for tom. >> correct. >> this alibi is pretty strong? >> absolutely. the witnesses that see him at the poker game, we know where he was all night. >> that's not the end of the story though? >> that is not the end of the story. >> not the end of the story because there was something investigators just couldn't get around, the daughter's story, her description of the killer. it was powerful evidence they couldn't ignore...