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Was killed carmen smith told family and friends she had gotten a call from waseem daker, the man who had been arrested from stalking her neighbor. it was the strongest allegation yet. investigators tipped off by that call by lottie now closed in on daker. >> did you execute a search warrant on his house that night? >> we did. >> john doss was a homicide detective with the cobb county police department. >> in his room we found a piece of paper with the address where this crime occurred. we found a torn up letter that was his words to lottie spencer. daker's torn up letter to lottie was hateful ...

The worst part about the letter is, he gets to the end and he says, but i'm going to let you live. i'm going to get revenge on you but i'm going to let you live. >> to police and prosecutors, this wasn't just a rant, it looked like a blueprint for murder. now they tried to link daker to the crime scene. >> some of the important evidence we start with is the hair and fiber evidence that was recovered off of carmen smith's body. there was a broken knife blade. >> carmen had small puncture wounds on her back and terrible bruising suggesting a ferocious struggle. >> she had been not only tortured ...

To kiss me or anything. >> when daker finally turned to those hairs he called on dr. greg hampekian. he challenged the state's key evidence. the nuclear dna test matching daker to carmen smith that was done on the root tissue of a single hair. the problem, he says, is none of the hairs recovered from crime scene had any roots. >> there were hairs taken from the body and they were all clearly indicated on the report as having no root. that's something you can do with the naked eye and of course the experts at the time used a microscope. >> are you 100% sure they had no root. >> the records all ...

>> she didn't make all of these false allegations. she derailed their investigations by making all of these false allegations. >> for lottie, all of the fear and hurt from her darkest days came rushing back every time daker mentioned her name. >> he was enjoying it like he had control again and that made me feel like really weak. >> jesse evans asked the jurors not to focus on lottie and to think about another woman when they started their deliberations. >> carmen smith's body was laid to rest but i assure you it was not in peace. >> after he took his seat he was anxious with what the jury wou...

In this you applied for a second mortgage to help in his defense and took out a life insurance policy naming waseem as the beneficiary? >> my daughter is the beneficiary and my son gets a third and she would gets a third and i get a third. >> despite lottie's efforts, the fund-raising, the accordance with daker, the legal research, judge staley didn't buy her new story. she rejected daker's motion for a new trial. >> the right results were reached for the right reasons. i know that we have done things the right way and i feel confident in the defendant's guilt. >> the ruling included a harsh r...