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>> that's the hardest part. i can't help him. >> i'm a mother, i fixed stuff. a skinned knee, a hurt feeling. i cannot fix this. i can't bring him back. >> is on the ground in front of his vehicle. >> it was devastating when they found him. the single dad so passionate about helping others. >> he was a selfless person. he just wanted to do for everybody. >> dedicated to his bright young daughter, sienna. >> she loved being with her dad. >> she just was every single

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where sienna found a new bicycle and a christmas tree. but, before she could write it, don needed to drop her off with her mom, christine. the next day, sienna, who spoke to her dad every day, didn't hear from him. she called her dad's coworker, valerie torres. >> she says i can't get a hold of my dad and i says you know what honey let me call your dad. he's fine. >> valerie and the coworker went to don's home. >> i knocked on the door and the door gave a little bit. i was able to walk in the house. >> valerie called out don's name, no response. >> i told my friend the only way we are going to know if he is here or not is if his truck is here so i opened the garage door and when i opened the garage door, i found my friend. >> coming up, what had happened in the garage? a clue from the neighbor. >> she has two cameras in her house and she sees don fluitt's

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firefighter. dennis joked and told him he was too old but it didn't stop don. >> was it the adrenaline, do you think? >> maybe. i just think he cared for people and wanted to do his part to save as many lives as he could. >> in, don met dennis' neighbor, a woman named christine. >> she was kind of quirky and silly like he was so i think they got along real well. >> it was not long before don and christine married, and just a little over a year later, they had a baby girl together. they named her sienna. don's son, josh, says sienna seem to complete john's life. >> he was above the world knowing that we were so far away that at least he could have his own child right there with him every step of the way, every second of the day. >> as you can see in this home video christine took, a couple doted on their little girl.

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told the detective he was uneasy about dennis. he said dennis wanted to rent another townhouse benny owned a few blocks down from the murder scene. >> don stuff is over there. i set it up. >> did he tell you why he wanted to do that? >> for sienna. for don's little daughter. >> benny said he did not rent to dennis after a background check revealed dennis had a criminal record for assaulting criminal conduct. kaplan already knew about dennis' record but more importantly -- >> i wondered why he had suddenly taken a massive interest in don fluitt's affairs with the condo in siena. >> when we spoke to dennis, we wondered that, too. >> coming up, the brother, the landlord, the stepfather. three possible suspects. >> these are names i could not eliminate.

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with the figure in the garage. >> to say don fluid -- fluitt love the christmas season is to put it mildly. >> he was obsessed. there was lights, music. it was everywhere. >> don's family was still grappling with the fact that he would never see another christmas, no one more distraught than his daughter, sienna. >> she said she just was praying about it. she would cry. >> meanwhile, detective kaplan was looking very closely at the apparent bad blood between don fluitt and his brother, dennis. >> they kept talking about it and estrangement between the two of you. you know what they are talking about? oh, yeah. when my dad passed we had an agreement on his belongings.

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>> what's he doing at walmart? >> i want to stop and get a new sweatshirt for me for work because my wife bought me one for christmas. i said i'm not going to wear that when so i went and bought this one. >> kaplan asked terry about dennis. he never met the guy, he said, but had heard about his troubled relationship with don and that dennis had moved into don's home. >> now he's back and he's trying to protect sienna from whatever and he's making people feel kind of off. >> terry willingly gave a dna sample and kaplan sent him on his way. two days later, the detective went back to dennis. >> attacked his dna and his fingerprints. >> dennis, too, was cooperative. he told detectives he worried about siena and felt bad for christine. >> she's a mess. i talked to her for half an hour on the phone this morning and this probably four or five times she started crying. >> he was still very vocal with his suspicions about benny ruiz. >> how do we note benny didn't just go over there and i let him and then it went bad. >> kaplan did not think dennis

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landlord benny ruiz and obtained a sample of his dna. he also took another look at sienna's stepdad, terry white. remember, terry initially told the detective that on the night of don's murder, he stayed with his sister until 9:00 p.m. then drove to work and took a nap in the parking lot, but when detective kaplan checked security cam video -- >> you can see terry pullen and immediately get out of his truck and walked to the front door so now there is a discrepancy in his story. >> again, thank you for coming down. >> detective kaplan asked terry to stop by the station and go over his timeline one more time . >> his story changed. he did not pull into the parking lot as originally expressed. he went around the corner to a dark area and fell asleep there and then he pulled into the parking lot. >> that was not the only discrepancy. remember, in his first interview, terry said he had only stopped at wendy's on his way to work but now -- >> i stopped at walmart.

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absolutely, so we had a glass of wine and put the picture boards together. >> sienna helped, too. >> she lost her best friend and she wanted to be a part of it. >> sienna picked out most of the music and readings for the service. it was held at the church she attended with her dad. meanwhile, the murder investigation continued. detective kaplan spoke to don's neighbor, who said she had found something on her home security video. >> i start looking at the clip she's talking about, and believe it or not, there is a figure. there is someone in a hoodie walking to don fluitt's trash can. they lay the trash can down on its side, and the individual walks off camera toward where don fluitt's door would be. don fluitt returns, pulls into the garage. you see him walk out of the garage. he walks to his trash can, picks it up, then walks into his garage again.

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sienna and christine left the room. kaplan asked terry a about his relationship with don. >> you know, in the beginning i would say it was rocky. >> terry told kaplan that when they went to court over custody of sienna, don sometimes seemed to want a confrontation. >> he could get me, in any kind of way to yell or scream at him, it would make him look good then he would ultimately get his daughter so i just wouldn't bite for that. >> terry said to the detective that he mostly avoided don, and had not had any contact with him in a while. >> they were not going to find any dna or fingerprints and has house on his vehicle are in that area. >> no, i would just not get in the guys life. it wasn't worth it because i love that little girl. i don't want to make her hate me because she loves her dad.

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