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Happened as any sort of crutch or let it get in the way. i did the best i could to -- if she was still here, i think she'd be proud. >> the judge then delivered daker's sentence, life in prison plus 47 years, but a defiant daker refused to sign the documents for his sentence. >> it's typical of the coward that you would act the way you're acting and that's what you are, a coward. >> case closed. justice for carmen and nick smith and the victory lottie had wanted so badly, but the story was far from over. something happened at the end of the trial that would come to haunt lottie, something that...

Manipulating her. >> he is manipulating you right now into doing exactly what he wants? >> absolutely not. this is a repentive woman who is very remorseful and very sorry for what she has caused. >> but evans say the letters tell another story. he says lottie knew about the bedding and hair evidence long before daker's trial started and never said a word about giving any blankets to carmen. >> it wasn't until after she started secretly communicating with the defendant that she made this broad assertion i had given some blankets to carmen. the problem with that is that i challenged her on it, d...

Daker? >> no, i never was in love with mr. daker. >> and you're not today? >> no. >> but lottie says even though she and daker were in a relationship, she still feared him and until recently genuinely believed he was a murderer. >> i was terrified of him. that was no lie. i've had the nightmares. i've lived in that fear. >> she says that fear drove her to lie to put daker behind bars, but the euphoria she felt after the verdict started to sour. she couldn't stop thinking about something prosecutor jesse evans said during the trial. >> i learned during the closing arguments that carmen's lifele...

Possible. >> and during the next ten years nick's life did finally return to normal. but in 2006 daker was released and moved nearby. all the terrifying memories of the masked man wielding a knife came rushing back. police decided to provide security to keep nick safe. >> we would have the cops sit outside of our house at night and we had cameras installed in my house and on the outside just as a precaution. >> lottie said she was also looking over her shoulder. >> tell us about the day that he got out, that he was a free man again. >> not a good time. >> were you waiting every day for the pho...

>> somebody needs to stand up and say, wait a minute, justice was not served in this case! >> on that point, lottie is not alone. daker's shadow attorney agrees. >> what more pivotal evidence could there be with the hair on the blanket? i believe the man deserves a new trial. >> how can you believe anything lottie says, though, now? >> i think when you have a man's liberty and life at stake, you have to believe what she says. how can you at least not allow 12 different people to hear her version now and let them decide if it's true or not? >> reporter: you you ever going to give up on waseem? ...