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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 direction. here again is andrea canning with "on the outskirts of town." >> the young people who had worked with halee at the texas roadhouse were reeling. the shock of her murder. the fear. waiter jake allen ...

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 come into the neighborhood when she was there to get her wal...

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 really heightened -- >> oh, the video was -- >> -- your suspicion. >> huge. i was positive at that point. >> he did it. and heather wasn't the only one pointing...

>> detective paul kruse looked for answers with grim determination. halee's murder was not the only tough case weighing on him that april morning. a few weeks before, he and his partner were assigned to look into the suspicious death of a 10 month old baby named jaxon. when detectives spoke to heather after her daughter's death she revealed something that stunned them. >> halee was the godmother of jaxon. >> so their jaws dropped? >> yeah. yeah. >> heather told police baby jaxon was the son of halee's old school mate, jordan. >> she got a baby to play with without having to have a baby so. >> ...

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 defense pointed to thaddeus rice the man investigators had now charged with the murder of 10-month-old jackson. thaddeus pleased not guilty, had he been worried halee had evidence against him? >> she knew information about the suspicious circumstances of jackson wheeler's death. he and jordan ...