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Believe it, but as time went on, it became more apparent that it seemed that way. >> why? maybe because the investigation of cassy farrington's murder had been going nowhere for so long, even while the family kept trying to tell the detective, sanchez, that a particular silver city cop killed cassy. but the detective hadn't done a thing about it. >> he never questioned him? >> huh-uh, and i asked him that. and he said he was trying to eliminate everyone else that could be possibly a suspect, and then he was gonna talk to him. >> but sanchez's supervisor, lieutenant tavizon had already confirme...

About the sheriff's department. >> and complain he did. forcefully, said chief deputy district attorney george zsoka. >> people got a little hot under the collar, the sheriff, the undersheriff were there. and lieutenant tavizon was also there. >> he and the others had to admit that lead detective, jose sanchez, had made mistakes, many mistakes. >> i had no reason to doubt him, but i should have. i should have micromanaged him. >> so maybe the whispers about some blue code were understandable, said deputy tavizon, just not true. >> we do not protect officers if an officer makes a mistake or com...

Off the top. this isn't gonna necessarily go well. deputies did return to the house the next day, though, and discovered the carpet in her bedroom was gone. >> billy lee, the landlord, goes in and starts rippin'the carpet up. >> wait a minute. >> yeah. >> you've got a guy going in right after, and the first thing he does is rip the carpet out of the master bed -- >> well, it's soaking wet. >> and that finally seemed to get the attention of the lead investigator, sergeant sanchez, who by then already had a few reservations about mr. lee. why would he remove the carpet? to get rid of evidence? a...

>> his behavior the first few days after her death was very strange and peculiar to me. >> how so? >> i, myself, never really saw him shed a tear. but i was suspect of everyone that had any contact with her. i didn't trust anyone. >> at the funeral cassy's casket was left open to tell the world what was done to her, said her siblings. >> her face was covered in bruises. her neck was a giant bruise and swollen. her hands were black. >> but who had done it? for months, all anyone could do was speculate. >> i thought it was over. i thought she was just dead and that was it and nothing was ever go...

Not ask why billy remove the carpet. or, why he took off for alaska. but, he did ask the about the nature of his relationship with cassie. >> really? back at the crime scene, the day the murder, sanchez told a supervisor that billy claim to barely know cassie. now, they were pretty close. too close? billy told the detective that he had an alibi he, anybody were out on the country, working on his cabin. >> we were working on that roof, when i got the call. we had been out there for a couple of days. >> but, of course as, any detective could tell you, people all the time about alibis. sanchez as...