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The world had happened in that house? >> i have no idea. i'm not sure who could have done something like that to him -- to them. >> reporter: first responders weren't exactly sure what they'd been dispatched to either. >> they told us that there's possibly two victims, and that's all we knew when we got there. >> reporter: emt stephanie robertson was the first responder on the scene. she checked on jaime. he was clearly dead, huh? >> yeah, clearly dead. yeah. >> reporter: you know, gunshot wounds from knife wounds. >> you couldn't really tell, there was so much dry blood. i did notice the gash...

To prove a motive, the prosecutor offered one up for the jury anyway. there was no evidence of infidelity or typical marriage troubles -- still she suggested that sandra wanted out. but their religion made it impossible to split up the usual way -- >> jehovah's witnesses don't allow you to divorce. unless someone's cheating, and it's very clear that jaime was not that guy. >> if i get divorced, i get ostracized and i can't talk with my friends. but if i kill him, and nobody finds out, i'm not ostracized. >> reporter: but wasn't sandra too frail to commit such a violent, close- quarters, crime?...

So it's huge because it points to a possible other suspect -- >> reporter: and the csis had photographed a bloody swipe on the handle of the closet safe -- just a short distance from jaime's body. the defense told the jury how detectives never ran it for a possible print, nor had it swabbed for dna. >> isn't that the kind of evidence you'd wanna have available to consider? why wouldn't you at least test it? >> reporter: the defense ticked off more examples of what they regarded as inept detective work, they never brought lizz's ex-husband in for questioning. or that neighbor with a history of ...

>> reporter: august 2017. more than four-and-a-half years after jaime melgar was murdered in, what seemed at the time, a brutal home invasion. but now, sandra, his wife of 32-years, was on trial for jaime's murder. she'd pleaded not guilty. it put daughter lizz in a painful, judicial paradox. >> the people versus are bringing you, the family, victim, justice in their mind. and yet, justice is putting your mother away. >> correct. i've lost my father and here i am, about to lose my mother. this is supposed to be s -- the justice system that -- it's just completely broken. >> reporter: prosecuto...