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All along. >> stacey's involved somehow. you have this third vehicle at the scene, you have overkill with the way richard died. so based on all of those things, a murder for hire starts crossing your mind. >> franklin's idea was to compare the numbers from the tower dump to the phone numbers on stacey's personal contact list. >> the best source of information i felt i had was stacey's contact list. there was 258 contacts i think. >> if you could find any phone call coming from the crime scene that happened to be on her contact list, that would give you a big -- >> yes, that would give me some ...

Main water valve leak. >> but the story made sense? >> it made sense and she was always cooperative. >> a simple business transaction. detective franklin was right back where he started. >> yeah, it gets to a point where you are still, you know, looking for -- for ways to move forward. >> it was march by then, close to a month since the murder, and they seemed to be going nowhere. what to do now? how about grasp at straws? >> it was called a tower dump. >> a tower dump? >> it was a shot in the dark, but i took it coming up, a killer with a gun and a cellphone, about to make a big mistake. >>...

From. >> which was great, except who was in it. no idea. detective franklin was still stuck. so he took a long shot. he asked for something called a tower dump, information dump that is from this cell tower on a farm near the crime scene. >> i subpoenaed all calls that generated from the tower that services belton bridge park for the night of the murder from about 7:00 p.m. until about 9:30. >> until 9:30 because that's when stacey arrived and found richard. why start looking at 7:00 p.m.? >> it was apparent to me that the gunman lay in wait for richard, and so my way of thinking was if he's s...

I'm not suggesting we not spy. nobody would say that. you can't spy on 300 million americans to capture a half dozen. you have to limit it to target the individuals you want. the concept of them seizing all of our e-mails and texts and our phone calls will change the way we live. >> sure. i mean, when you think about gathering of evidence after someone has been accused of something, it's being gathered beforehand. also, is this happening at the local level as well? >> unfortunately, it is. the local are imitating feds. local have gone to telecoms saying we want a tower dump. provide us all the...

Communications. jenna: jessica ridgeway was a little girl kidnapped and the police, local law enforcement in the area did a tower dump and apparently, they collected tens of thousands of data points from five different cell towers in the hope of trying to find this little girl. if i was in that area, i'm not connected to the case, what would they see of my personal data? >> they would see everything that you did on your phone in the local cell tower areas. they would see everybody you called during those specific periods of time, time stamped data, the time you made the calls, possibly s.m.s. ...