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This saturday that i'm not gonna take off with him, that i will not elope." that was wednesday. and then saturday she never came home. >> reporter: sam's admitted jealousy, cathy's doting on albert, a rejected proposal. all of it seemed to add up to motive. but motives don't prove murder. there was still no physical evidence tying sam to the crime. all the blood on the car had been tested, and it was all cathy's. but then, while combing the case file, detective daron wyatt learned something shocking. there were blood and hair samples that had never been sent to the crime lab. and when those sa...

Tina montelongo, sam's then-wife and javier's friend, wasn't buying it. can you conceive of javier going through with a murder or being involved in it because of his loyalty to sam? >> no. i don't see that. if sam did it, would javi help him just because they're close family? i don't see that. >> reporter: neither did the d.a. who decided there was not enough evidence to file charges. how do you tell mary bennett, "we had javier, but we had to let him go"? >> it was extremely difficult. there was a lot of crying on both sides. >> reporter: daron knew exactly what releasing javier really meant....

>> reporter: in 2013, whitaker ran in the republican primary for u.s. senate but came in fourth and one year later, he was named chairman of sam's unsuccessful bid for iowa state treasurer. clovis was a top trump campaign aide and has reportedly testified before mueller's grand jury. whitaker will be assuming oversight of the russia probe, taking over that duty from rod rosenstein, but kate, democrats like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, they've called for whitaker to recuse himself, but remember, it was jeff sessions' recusal from overseeing that probe that sparked president trump's fury and ...

Can they start winning in middle america again? can they find the sams that can start winning in middle america again? i think they can and i think you have some house candidates that are start to go break through there that can become senate candidates. >> and steve kornacki, you're amazing. it's incredible what you have, the knowledge of this and sort of like joe with useless information. coming up, where turnout was insane. plus, the races that emerged as bellwethers for the rest of the nation. "morning joe" is back in a moment. - meet the ninja foodi, the pressure cooker that crisps,

>> i did. >> reporter: what did you say to him? >> i made him a promise that the people responsible for his murder would pay for it. >> reporter: the news of sam's passing hit dianne mcknight hard. >> in my mind i'm still thinking maybe there's still some hope that he can survive this, but when i heard that, i knew that i was never going to see him again. >> reporter: sam's great-niece, aubrey cake, didn't make to it the hospital in time, but she made sure to be at sam's funeral. >> the bagpipes, i still remember to this day. >> reporter: did it make you really proud in that moment? >> yeah. i...