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>> ballpark, $1-1.5 billion. >> reporter: and then, halloween eve, 2009. more than a year had passed since melissa's murder with tony villegas still sitting in jail awaiting trial, and another twist to the story. >> scott rothstein has disappeared. >> reporter: unlike melissa, scott was not a murder victim. but he was a fugitive, a bernie madoff figure on the run. he had left the country in a private jet for morocco with $16 million in cash and his collections of watches and jewelry, fleeing after learning unhappy investors had gone to the fbi. one month later, he was back in florida, but not ...

All told by thursday, the day after the murder, the phone or whoever had it travelled a distance of about 60 miles. >> so obviously, who's with that cell phone, was most likely the last person that was with -- with melissa. >> reporter: detectives also focused on those five hours the phone was stationary in miami gardens. was the killer home in bed? >> we have to identify if melissa knows somebody that lives in this area. >> reporter: does anything come up at that point? >> no. we have no reason to believe -- anybody she's dating, anybody she knows lives there. >> reporter: melissa's family co...

Said, detectives thought the crude comment had a broader meaning, speaking to the bff relationship of debra and melissa. does he feel like he's been tossed out of the house because melissa has taken his place? >> i think he definitely believes that melissa was a catalyst to enable debbie to go forward with the divorce. he kills melissa lewis to get back at debra for divorcing him. >> reporter: but if you're lethally angry about an impending divorce, why not kill the wife? >> if he kills melissa and he's caught, debbie's still there to raise their kids. >> reporter: although tony would later de...

>> did he tell you that it was melissa's fault. >> he believed that she had a part in it, yes. >> did he tell you that he was mad at melissa about this? >> yeah, he was mad about the whole situation. >> oh, and there was one more thing. remember melissa's jacket the one found in her suv, tests showed tony's dna on the jacket. prosecutors believed tony wiped his nose with it after being peoplered sprayed. >> the odds of finding an unrelated individual with that profile are 1 in 30 billion. >> the defense had been dealt a poor hand to play but the attorney chipped away at each state witness star...

Of all investigations went unanswered -- who and why? >> coming up, a person of interest, very close to home. >> i said, no, he better not have done anything to her. >> a missing cell phone of great interest to police. >> who is with that cell phone was most likely the last person that was with melissa. >> when "dateline" continues. liked to style my dog as a kid... loved motherhood, rain or shine... and were pumped to open my own salon. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and she prescribed lyrica. nerve damage from diabetes causes diabetic nerve pa...