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Deputy? >> she drove me nuts trying to play crime scene investigator. but, it also helps me to push the cops. >> too hard maybe? >> detective sandra said i'm tired of them calling me. >> but, they kept pushing anyway. >> i asked, will did you get billy lee here from alaska, and who is polygraph? >> he said, yes. >> >> remember, billy lee lived on the same property and was married to her landlord. hours after the murder, he whipped out cassie's bedroom carpet. then, left for alaska. the question was, why. >> months after he left, billy returned. >> and, sergeant sanchez had the chance to questi...

>> i saw water on the ground on the north side that had been coming out of the trailer. it was still dripping, in fact. >> lieutenant ray tavizon was the supervising chief deputy. while his lead detective, jose sanchez, took charge of the scene and the investigation, tavizon had a look around. any sign of forced entry anywhere? >> no, no. >> no sort of footprints or tire marks or anything? >> no. the way the ground is, the gravel and stuff, there wasn't any. >> and inside the house? >> we saw that there had been what looked like maybe a scuffle in that bathroom. >> what told you that? >> well,...

And then went to alaska. the question was, why? months after he left, billy returned. >> my name is billy lee, or william actually. >> and sergeant sanchez had his chance to question him. >> how long did you know cassy? >> i knew her when she was a tech in the emergency room. >> curiously sanchez did not ask why billy removed the carpet or why he suddenly doing off for alaska but he did ask about the nature of billy's relationship to cassy. >> we were real good friends. we didn't go to bars together and we didn't go fishing together. we didn't do that kind of stuff but we had a working relatio...

>> they also found cassy's glasses and a hair ribbon near the broken towel rack. no one had bothered to collect them as evidence. so they did. it's so strange to have the family as a kind of csi group. >> yeah. we gathered up the hair with the bobby pin and the ribbon, her glasses. >> did it seem shocking -- >> we were gathering evidence. >> -- to you that you were gathering evidence and not -- >> that was -- >> -- the police? >> -- frustrating. >> yeah. >> kind of, like, a tell right off the top. this isn't gonna necessarily go well. deputies did return to the house the next day, though, and ...

Close? billy told the detective he had an alibi. he and a buddy were out in the country working on his cabin. >> we were working on that roof and when i got the call, we'd been out there for a couple of days. >> but, of course, as any detective could tell you people lie all the time about alibis. sanchez asked billy to take a polygraph. >> did you inflict any injuries to the victim on march 24th? >> no. >> the results were inconclusive? not so good for billy and that alibi? it just kind of sat there unchecked. until finally a year later lieutenant tavizon did some checking and confirmed his al...