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Happened. her boyfriend, a man named thaddeus rice, had dropped the baby down the stairs after tripping over a diaper bag. >> jordan was crying and halee looked at me. i was like, what are we going to do? let's get jordan under control, let's calm her down. and halee put the mom skills into very good use and she is like, it will be okay. he'll pull out of this. he is so strong and all this stuff. >> 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 is, do you know what's weird? what? the diaper bag is ...

Was there to get her wallet, and we never saw halee and thad leave. >> it seemed like thaddeus had a good alibi. heather worried that investigators seemed no closer to making an arrest. >> i think that the fear was overwhelming. i kept saying, i hope that they make an arrest before her funeral. i don't know how i can stand there and wonder who's hugging me and who's coming through this line. you know, did they hurt her? >> but as heather prepared for her daughter's funeral, investigators were already talking to someone who'd surely be standing in that line of mourners, someone very close to ha...

Halee's friends knew that she'd gone to see the baby's mom jordan the night she died. >> there's these messages the night she was murdered where she was messaging back and forth with jordan, hey, i'm going to go pick up my wallet from your house, late at night the night she was killed. so then that was the theory. she went. she told jordan. thaddeus killed her over it. >> investigators decided it was time to find out what thaddeus and jordan knew. thaddious refused to talk to them. but jordan did. >> we did interview thaddeus's girlfriend. she was -- she said they were home together all night ...

Grief-stricken, halee agonized over whether she should tell the police over her suspicions. >> she said what if they want to talk to me? i'm like, you talk. you know? >> the more she thought about it, the more she thought about halee. 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 thaddeus killed halee to shut her up. >> i felt like he was looking at serious charges. if i had to look for people who had reasons to hurt her, that would have been...

The defense pointed to thaddeus rice, the man investigators had now charged with the murder of 10-month-old jaxson. he was found guilty of reckless homicide. at the time of halee's murder he was roaming free. had he been worried halee had evidence against him? >> she knew information about the suspicious circumstances of jaxson wheeler's death. he and jordan were the last two people to see halee, other than isaiah, we believe based on the information that we were provided in discovery. and it just seemed curious to us that for some reason they weren't pursued. >> and according to the defense, ...