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Started it up small, basically, running an ad out of a newspaper. getting a small office and it just expanded from there. it ballooned. >> what kind of money were you pulling down per week? >> i was grossing 6 to $7,000 a day. >> a day. >> you're how old? >> at that time 20. why am i even going to school when i'm making this kind of money. >> why go straight? >> and ended up in a gun fight. >> yes, sir. >> tim says he was worried he would be painted as a bad guy right away because of his sorted past. so he promised to cooperate in every way possible. the cops took him up. >> i allowed them to ...

Be can karen. got past the super official aspect of him and realized what he was like, wanted out of that relationship. thought he could outsmart the cops by playing the bereaved boyfriend. the prosecutor says he got thrown off his script when he called the best friend soon after making that 911 calls. >> katherine, it's tim. i'm at karen's parent. she's lays on the floor. there's blood everywhere and she's been stabbed. >> he tellser hn the phone, according . >> she has been stabbed. >> we didn't know that at that point in time. >> he knew something he

Know both cakaren and roc. >> karen had nicknames for her boyfriends. car guy. that was tim. another one she referred to as dr. pilot. >> dr. pilot, a british airways captain had been sending karen romantic texts but he was aboard a flight over the middle east when karen was killed. so he was ruled out as were most of karen's known male friends. all could prove they were nowhere near her house that night. every boyfriend except for car guy, the one that reported finding karen's body. >> is she conscious? >> no. >> is she breathing? >> i don't know. >> tim was inconsolable during the 911 call a...

Shouldn't have noun. >> becau >>. >> prosecutor sized up the case. rejected lover with a violent history. man the evidence showed was at the scene of the skpriem lied abo and lied about it. decided to seek the death penalty. weeks before the trial was scheduled to start. tim's friend is sleepover all by witness recanted story. >> tells me whole new story that he admitted he killed karen. that night. >> blurted out a confession. >> when he got up there. >> that's a holy you moment for you. >> death penalty cases can sometimes take a tort torturous path. prosecutors did not have a pl d murder we...

Because she had to work the next day. she had to go to work early. >> after saying good-bye he ended up spending the night with friends about an hour to the north. >> is he saying anything at this point? i want to talk to a lawyer? >> he's being more than cooperative. >> while tim says he was off with his friend, there appeared to have been a struggle at karen's house. >> she put up a heck of a struggle. >> what are you looking at? >> she had defensive wounds. the way her body was contorted and i just remember thinking she put up a heck of a struggle. >> do you suck in your breath and say oh m...