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It on the still photo, and they put it on fliers, just -- and passed it around to different law enforcement agencies. >> but there was little movement in the case until two weeks later. >> there's a home invasion robbery in dade county. three men come in, tie the people up, they ask them for drugs, money, same type of m.o. very violent. >> this time one of the victims managed to call police who arrived at the crime still in progress. >> the police corral the place and grab the three of them. >> the three men were alberto rincon, 24, alex hernandez, 20, and pablo aybar, 22. >> dade county polic...

The two took a te k-9 gun from the house and later returned driving a new black car. to get a second i.d., connects went to an ex-girlfriend, melissa monroe. >> they tell her they're there about seth. eventually they take her back to the police station. they show her the two same pictures. they're saying to her, who is this? >> the left photograph is pablo aybar. and the right photograph is seth. >> melissa monroe had also seen seth and pablo together at casey's bar on the night of the murders. >> i saw them at casey's on the sunday, well, saturday night, sunday morning. i talked to them when ...

To the house, they lifted the washing machine, human follow tested it, you know, for any type of dna. and they came and testified in our trial and said, if this story was true, what she said, it would have been there, i would have found it. >> after months of testimony, the case went to the jury. but after three days of deliberations, the jury was deadlocked. >> what they didn't have is they didn't have any physical evidence. they didn't have any dna, they didn't have any fingerprints. they didn't have any of that thing that juries want. >> witness stories had also changed since the murders. f...

Veteran death penalty defense attorneys hilliard moldaff and pat rapstater were appointed to defend them. >> the general consensus is here's a triple murder on video. there's your guy. the case is closed. we're just going through the motions. >> in the video the guy looks like seth. it was an uphill battle the whole way. >> aybar and penalver were tried together beginning on june 23rd, 1997. prosecutors played the entire 22-minute video for the jury. >> when they finally play that video for the first time, it may as well be watching the nuclear bomb go off in hiroshima. your guts are wrenching...

Butch casey's burned-out mercedes. the tracks were left by a getaway car, which the state said matched seth penalver's oldsmobile. >> you know, it was damning evidence. and it was evidence that on top of everything else, it probably hurt us. >> finally, the prosecution called their witnesses against seth, including kimberly sam, one of seth's former roommates. >> kim sam, she and seth were living together at a house in sunrise, florida. she said seth had come to the house with pablo aybar, a black mercedes, came in, had blood all over his clothes. he and pablo took their clothes off, washed th...