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Because it really scared her. and about six months later he came back and was very insistent on going in to see her house. and she told him no, she was not going to allow him to come in. so she called the police. >> reporter: nothing happened then. the reaction she got was like those other women. the police could hardly arrest some guy for just seeming creepy. but this woman did something different. she wrote down the name and phone number the man gave her, but more important, his license plate number. stuck it on her fridge. instinct? luck? maybe both. >> she didn't know if he would come back...

>> reporter: and most unsettling when she noticed something all too familiar. >> now i'm glaring at russo, and what does he do? he starts that tick in his neck, starts that popping. and i raised my hand up and said, there he goes, he's doing it right now. >> reporter: the state called his victims from earlier years including donna, the young apartment manager he attacked in lake jackson, texas. >> this phone call out of the blue after all of that time. >> reporter: she was not only surprised, she was angry. very angry. >> why did that have to happen? why does someone have to be killed before t...

>> reporter: patrick russo? could he be the guy who creeped out all those women? could he also be the killer? his last known address was in a rural area outside austin. so before dawn, unannounced, they paid a visit. it was a pretty drive. but at 4:00 a.m., the detectives weren't exactly taking in the view as they drove to his home. hoping that this could shed light on diane's murder. but remember, all they had was a creepy guy looking for houses for sale. was patrick russo that guy? maybe. maybe not. dawn was hours away when they knocked at his door. the man who woke up to answer it looked li...

Mixture that was consistent with a combination of diane holik and russo. >> reporter: was it enough to say for sure, though -- >> no. >> reporter: because dna -- >> no, we can't exclude him. it's consistent with him. but it's not the kind of dna that you can eliminate the rest of the world. >> reporter: right. just really increased suspicion is all. >> yes. it was helpful. it was not dispositive. >> reporter: and the hairs found on that wet towel left on diane's couch? >> we sent the hair off to a lab, and they did a mitochondrial dna test on the hair, and again we could not exclude mr. russo....

Definitively eliminated them as suspects. >> we could not eliminate mr. russo. >> reporter: finally six months after diane's death, tony russo was charged with murder. a risk? maybe. they'd only get one shot. and the evidence they were going to take to court did not absolutely link him to the murder of diane holik. then when the trial was almost upon them, they found something. something almost beyond belief. >> in my wildest dreams, i never imagined that a website like this could even exist. coming up -- the dark side of the web, and tony russo. >> you certainly had your motive. >> yes, we ...