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Right back to liz golyar. meanwhile, detectives doty and avis busied themselves with good old fashioned earth-bound evidence. remember that one unidentified fingerprint found in a mint container in cari's otherwise spotless s.u.v.? >> we asked our -- crime scene tech, "hey, can you compare that fingerprint to the known prints of liz. see what you come up with." >> reporter: it was a match. >> this lady who should have had very little interaction with cari should -- had no reason to ever be in her vehicle. it -- >> only met her in passing one time. >> reporter: yeah? >> but now, her fingerprint...

Driving home from his shop -- >> i'm coming through the parking lot and i notice the truck there, because it still had all the snow on it. and when i got up close i'm like, "oh, it's an explorer. oh, it's the right color. hmm." so i called the sheriff and said, "i'm pretty sure i found her truck." >> reporter: he was right. it was cari's suv, still half buried in the snow. >> they impounded it. we had a crime scene tech process it. and it was really clean. >> they did a thorough investigation. >> yeah, they -- they dusted it for prints. and they found a fingerprint inside. and recovered that. ...

That would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. >> reporter: liz waived her right to a jury trial. a judge would hear the evidence. the prosecutors laid it out methodically; cari's blood in the car, liz's fingerprint on the mint container in the car, the emails that read like confessions, the vast trove of digital forensics. they even tracked down a purchase on cari's bank card made after she vanished, a walmart receipt. >> one of the items was a shower curtain. >> reporter: yeah. >> and that shower curtain looked familiar to us, because in one of her -- that phone dump that we did in 2013 ...