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Holbrook says his suspect knew the cherade was over. >> he put his face in his hands and covered his face for two or three minutes. tim ultimately looked up at us and the car salesman guy completely left the room. what did you think in his case? >> first thing i thought is satan just walked into the room. >> coming up. >> i knew i was innocent. >> was he? >> juries like to see forensics. dna, blood samples, and they didn't have it. >> that was the biggest concern for me. >> the trial and the verdict, when dateline continues. the ve when dateline continues. with uncontrolled moderate-to-severe ...

Began a relationship like that. >> the relationship began with tim trying to sell karen a new car, but police learned he also told her a bill of goods about himself saying he had been a navy s.e.a.l. involved in top secret missions. never mentioning the sorted truth about his painful past. >> karen told me that he explained his cars as he got injured on a mission. >> that would have been his impression of himself. >> why are you lying to her? >> there's no excuse for it. other than if you're an inmate or convicted felon, no matter how good you do, no matter what you do, there's always going to...

That person. >> in order to buy the state's case, you have to make assumption upon assumption. >> that's not what our system is about. >> how did i do it? how on earth did not one single drop of blood get on my clothing or anything like that. >> or your car. >> right. that's why i agreed to let them look. get what you want because i knew i was innocent. >> the defense also tore into the credibility of the state star witness, george solomon. saying it was ridiculous to think he would get an invitation to spend the night with him after blurting out a murder confession. >> hey, i killed somebody ...

Why. and relied on the police to do what they had to do. >> they knocked on doors and tried to figure out who their victim was. the detectives began with the man that made that 911 call. >> the first thing a lead investigator will do is talk to the people closest to her. in this case we had timothy finding his girlfriend. we took him back to the office and talked to him extensively. >> tim, a car salesman gave the detectives a rundown of where he had been in the hours leading up to the terrible discovery. he said he popped in briefly on karen the night before to drop off a gift. a photo calend...

Collect himself in the backseat of an air conditioned patrol car. that's where he placed a call to karen's friend with the unimaginable news. >> catherine, it's tim, i'm at karen's department, there's blood everywhere and she has been stabbed. >> stabbed? >> it's a horrible way, it's a horrible way to die. >> karen, the baby of the family with five older brothers, suddenly gone. she had been especially close to her oldest brother mike. >> my brother called me. i was at the airport and said, you better sit down. and he said karen's been murdered. >> any theories about what had happened? >> i do...