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>> i called the d. a.'s office, asked for a meeting to complain 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. >>...

With cassy's murder. but with no physical evidence tying him to the crime scene, could prosecutors prove it? here is keith morrison with the conclusion of "suspicion in silver city. " >> it was the day the brooks family feared they'd never see, brad farrington on trial for murdering cassy. >> i never thought we would get this far. >> too far? the prosecutor's opening argument was a warning to the jury -- we don't have a lot. >> no one saw the defendant enter cassy farrington's home. no one saw the defendant strangle her. >> no. and there was absolutely no evidence from the crime scene to help ...

Blue code, they called it. >> at first i didn't wanna 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...

Sanchez was off the case. and this ranch owner and veteran detective stepped in. >> i came in one day and i was told, "hey, we're going to assign you to the -- to the cassy farrington case. " >> sergeant jess watkins. see what you can find, they told him. >> first thing i did was i sit down, read through all the interviews, read through all the reports. >> and then he listened as cassy's family told him about the city police officer who had never even been questioned about the murder. >> i knew it was farrington that did it. >> brad farrington, cassy's estranged husband. when cassy died, the t...

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 gonna be done about it. >> at the sheriff's office, investigative supervisor tavizon questioned his deputy, sanchez. why hadn't he even dusted for fingerprints? >> he said, no, he said, "it's too clean. " to him it wasn't anything that would've been helpful to the investigation. >> kind of an assumption there, huh? >> well, i guess i would -- that's what you could call it. >> what's the old expression? to assume makes an ass of you -- >> it makes both -- >> -- a...