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>> enter him. >> enter richard england. >> connie hired rick, the private investigator, to do surveillance on dwight and to assess how much of a threat he posed. rick and his team tailed dwight, took photos and vitd of him and combed threw his clutter debris filled room in the family home and found some books with seriously disturbing titles. >> how to get even with people. how to injure people in street fighting. it starts to put a makeup of somebody who is trying to plan something. >> he made sure she and her son always had eyes on them. >> i had people full time on the school where the son ...

Sometimes, particularly in real life, the bad guys win. but maybe connie and rick are the best living proof that some beauty can blossom from even the darkest of situations. >> a friend of mine told me that he really likes you. and i said, "no, he doesn't. he is my friend." when i started paying >> when i started paying attention to it, and i was like, oh, i think he does. >> what did you like about her? >> it turned out at my age, what was important to me is not only that she's beautiful, but she's intelligent. >> reporter: somehow, out of fear, danger, and the need for protection -- grew lov...

Ex-husband in court, but she and rick remained hyper-vigilant, especially about her son. >> you don't get to just say, let's go to the movies. you've got to scan the parking lot. >> in early june, when rick saw the news about the shootings of steve pitt and the two paralegals at elizabeth feldman's law firm. he came to an undeniable conclusion. >> i was certain who it was. it's dwight jones. >> his first thought was he had to find connie. >> i immediately start to text her to call me, start calling her phone, i'm getting no response. >> then rick heard about the murder in therapist karen kolbe...

Now, thanks to a tip from rick anglin, they were getting closer. >> i'm convinced that we're dealing with dwight jones at this point. >> rick recognized that all the crime scenes related back to dwight and connie's divorce and custody battles from nearly a decade earlier. plus, forensic analysis had already told police all four victims had probably been killed with the same weapon. and there was a critical piece of evidence that might link the weapon to dwight. that bit of dna on a shell casing recovered from the scene of steve pitt's murder. dna tests can take weeks or months. that was time p...

Of the hotel. >> police described what happened next. >> he began firing at them. somewhere between seven and eight rounds were fired. all officers were safe and okay, and eventually in this action, they found that mr. jones had killed himself. self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> your ex-husband's dead now. >> yes. >> do you feel safe finally? >> yes. >> with a tremendous amount of courage and with rick's help, connie jones and her son had lived to see her personal terrorist's last i do this earth. >> but other people were killed, innocent people, good people, productive people, that is a