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Night she was murdered, where she was messaging back and forth with jordan, "hey, i'm gonna go pick up my wallet from your house" late at night the night she was killed. so then that was the theory, she wept, she told jordan, thaddeus killed her over it. >> investigators decided it was time to find out what thaddeus and jordan knew. thaddeus refused to talk to them. but jordan did. >> we did interview thaddeus'girlfriend. she was -- she said they were home together all night at thaddeus'brother's house. we checked out the surveillance video from that neighborhood. we were able to see halee com...

Boyfriend a man named thaddeus rice had dropped the baby down the stairs after tripping over a diaper bag. >> jordan was crying and we, like, gave her a hug. and i looked at halee. and halee like looked at me and i was, like, "what are we gonna do? " >> they did what they could to help. they got jordan some food and went to her apartment to get her some clean clothes. >> we walked in and halee's, like, "do you know what's weird? " and i was, like, "what? " she goes, "the diaper bag is sitting right there. " like, as soon as you walked into the door, the diaper bag was sitting right by the couc...

Halee if she spoke out. thaddeus had a bad reputation around town. halee could be poking a hornet's nest. >> she absolutely could have. >> if she starts making accusations. now halee was dead. and heather wondered if her fears had come true had thaddeus killed halee to shut her up? >> i just felt like you know, he was looking at some pretty serious charges if i had to think of people who had reasons to hurt her, that would have been number one. >> the day after halee was murdered someone sent heather this snapchat video. it was thaddeus brandishing a gun. you got that video, so that must have ...

>> phillips noted that detectives questioned isaiah aggressively for hours, they used profanity, invaded his space, intimidated him. >> i'm supposed to believe a stack of -- >> maybe, he theorized, isaiah simply lied to make them go away. were you worried though the jury is going to hear lies, and that's just gonna trump everything else? "this guy's lying. why should i believe him that he didn't kill her? " >> that's a hard one to overcome. but we had no confession, first and foremost. isaiah never said anything like, "i killed halee rathgeber. " >> so if isaiah didn't kill halee, who did? the...

Have been postponed. the south american nation has been experiencing an increase in covid-19 cases since the beginning of the year. now back to dateline. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "dateline. " i'm natalie morales. detectives wondered if halee rathgeber's murder was tied to another recent death. her god son reportedly died in a horrible accident, but halee suspected the mother's boyfriend, thaddeus rice, may have harmed the baby on purpose. did thad kill halee to silence her? to find out, police planned to retrace halee's final footsteps, a trail that would lead in a surprising directio...