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Out. >> we got a phone call from the two detectives that went up to atlanta, they said hey, we have got him here in the afternoon. he couldn't have done it. >> but that didn't mean the detectives thought serrano's hands were clean of the crime. >> we thought that nelson was in atlanta and that he had hired someone for a contract killing. >> for all the red flags flapping around them, detectives never could get enough to arrest nelson serrano. years went by, the twins had other birthdays. nicoletta dosso dressed only in black, a perpetual state of mourning for her murdered son and daughter. you...

>> i'll challenge anybody to show me -- i'll pay them a million dollars if they can do it. >> if they can do it in the time allotted. >> 28 minutes. can't happen, didn't happen. >> the biggest hurdle for the defense is just ahead. starting with the testimony given by the nephew that he had arranged a car rental at the orlando airport for his uncle on the qt. the defense grilled the nephew. portraying him as somebody who was just interested in saving his own skin. >> you weren't someone they just wanted to question as a witness but they had you pegged as a suspect in a quadruple homicide, isn't...

>> then six months later came another 911 call from erie manufacturing. four dead, shot execution style. given serrano's stormy relationship with his partners, homicide detectives asked him to give a taped statement the day after the killings. >> i have no idea where it happened, when it happened, how it happened. >> serrano talked to police willingly. sharing details of a business partnership gone awry. >> we never had any problems until we started making serious money. >> even speculating on how the murders went down. >> there were many people involved, i mean there are four people in there....

>> i did. just the simple fact that there was no evidence, no witness to put him in polk county, none of those things, and keeping in mind he was still innocent. >> jurors also weighed whether serrano's nephew was a possible suspect as the defense suggested. after all, the nephew had not only rented the car, he also admitted to lying to investigators early on. do you think he was in on it at all, the nephew? >> no, i don't. >> none of you do? >> nelson serrano hung him out to dry. >> and jurors had to evaluate probably the most important evidence in the case, that fingerprint on the parking lo...

>> and in that day of travel, the defense argued that there just wasn't enough time for serrano to have pulled off the crime he was charged with. leaving the orlando airport garage at 3:49 p.m., the time coded parking record indicated. detective tommy ray testified it had taken him an hour and 15 minutes to drive from the airport to erie manufacturing. leaving him only 15 minutes to kill four people. your important part of the timeline is, look when the last victim is killed, it has to be 5:20? >> you'd be stretching your imagination to believe that you could drive that distance in the traffic...