it was amazing that they could put those pieces of pixy glitter together and show it was at all those different places and it was consistent amongst each other. least part of the story. >> when i saw the video, i started feeling very confident that we were focusing on the right guy. >> all they had to do now was to find him. ♪ i want to love someone and stand by my side ♪ 16 year old oshawn had dreams of star dom. >> they wrote one song called

wanna. >> i wanna love you, but could you love me too? >> and oshawn sang this song and they wanted to get it recorded and do something nice with it and she didn't get to finish that. >> and if a singing career didn't work out, she had a back up plan. >> she wanted to be an entertainment lawyer if she could make deals and maybe everybody happy. >> like many teenagers, she had conflicts with her parents. but they were usually resolved. >> normally she would run away, spend the night someplace else and come back the following day or maybe two days later. >> but after an argument with her parents about smoking marijuana she left, this time for good.

>> yoshan's parents were aware she had substance abuse problems. >> her parents notified the police, called all of her friends and went to all her known hangouts. >> towards the end. evening it was frustrating because we had no more leads. we couldn't think of any other places or any other people to talk to. >> the next morning, electricians working for the power company spotted a woman's body off the side of the road outside of tampa, florida. the body was identified as yoshan ashbrook. >> you could see that her throat was cut, blunt trauma to her face, her head. there were cut, defensive wound the on her hands. >> joshawn's pants weren't found at the scene. >> looking at her body, you can't help but think maybe she was sexually assaulted. >> gosh, i doesn't know how to describe that feeling.

i'm never going to see my daughter get married or have babies. i'm never going to hold her first child, and i'm never going to see her make her dreams come true. >> investigators found a single hair in a defensive wound on joshawn's thumb. >> it appeared that this might be the hair from her attacker like she went to grab him and when she was fighting him, she grabbed him and it got embedded. >> the hair had the root in tact. about 30 feet from the body were fresh tire tracks. >> it was obvious that whoever was driving that vehicle backed into the area. and then dragged her body into the woods. >> the tire tracks were in the sand, a surface ideal for making plaster casts. >> these were so clear, i could say that there was not any rain or had occurred or any damage in the environment at that time.

because they were such nice, clear, quality impressions. >> no one knew of anyone who wanted to harm joshawn. but for investigators, these clues were a very good start.

as police search for joshawn ashbrook's killer, the medical examiner learned that the knife wound to her throat was not the cause of death. >> the medical examiner explained that the suspect may have put her in some type of wrestling move, a half nelson and turned to put extreme pressure on her, which dislocated, which broke her neck. >> an autopsy found no evidence of sexual assault. in a search for suspects, joshawn's family suggested police interview john hansen, a family friend who lived nearby. >> john was an older gentleman. he hung out at the house with us. but in my opinion, he seemed to get too close to the children. he always wanted to be their friend more so than friends of an adult.

>> within 24 hours of finding joshawn's body, investigators went to his trailer to question him, but he was gone. >> we talked to the park manager and some of the neighbors, and they said they hadn't seen him in a day or two. >> a background check revealed a day laborer had no history of violence. >> a 60 year old man having teenagers visit the house and hang around, i think does lead to suspicion as to what is going on. >> while police search for hansen, they measure the tire impressions found near joshawn's' body. they were entered into a database of 20,000 different tires manufactured around the world. >> there were then seven different tire models that could have made that impression. different manufacturers sometimes sell their mold to other manufacturers.

so therefore would you have the same mold but under different manufacturer model names. >> all seven of these tire models were for larger vehicles, which meant joshawn's killer was driving a truck or a suv. then police got an important lead from a woman who saw joshawn's the day she ran away. >> she receive add phone call from joshawn about 8:30 in the morning on july 31st. joshawn asked if she could come by and drop off a letter. win minutes a red pickup stops and she runs out and delivers a letter. it was hi, i love you, i miss you, i'll call you later that type of thing. she just appeared to be in a hurry and wanted to leave. >> the woman said the driver was

a middle aged white male, but she didn't get a good look at his face. she did, however provide a valuable piece of information. >> max's mother provided us with the cell phone number that was on her caller id. >> when investigators called the number, a man answered the phone. >> we were able to get a person on the phone. he said his name was phillip thompson. and he was asked if he knew anybody by the name of joshawn ashbrook and if he had picked up anybody or knew this female. >> phillip thompson confirmed he and his daughter had picked up joshawn when she was hitchhiking. took her to her boyfriend's house to leave the note and then they dropped her off at the local walmart. >> that's the last he had seen of her. >> phillip thompson agreed to meet police later that day, but he failed to show up for his appointment. >> investigators looked at that as possibly, you know, a

telltale sign of, you know, someone who is running away from something. >> but police received some troubling news. the cell phone wasn't registered to phillip thompson. it was registered to phillip parton, a convicted killer. >> he was convicted of a murder that he committed in 1987 in which he strangled a man with a phone cord or some kind of cord. >> short version was that phillip parton was what they call a hustler, a male prostitute. he had picked up this gay math teacher at a local club. they went back to the teacher's place. something happened. parton beat him, strangled him to death with a telephone cord. once he killed him, he took his money, wallet, credit cards, got into the guy's car and trove off. >> parton cass convicted of second degree murder, served six years in prison and was released in 1995.

police believed that it was parton they'd been speaking to about joshawn. parton said he and his daughter dropped joshawn off at this walmart the morning she disappeared. but that's not what store surveillance tape showed. >> the walmart surveillance footage shows them pulling in at around 8:48. you see the suspect. you see joshawn. and you see the suspect's little girl. they spend five, ten minute, purchase a couple fishing items. and then they leave, get back in the vehicle and drive off. >> the videotape left no doubt. joshawn was with parton, a convicted murderer, just hours before her body was found. >> when i saw the video, i started feeling very confident that we were focusing on the right guy. >> there was only one problem. where was he?

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police searched nationwide for philip parton, a convicted killer who had already admitted to police during a phone call that he'd picked up joshawn ashbrook while she was hitchhiking. investigators learned that

parton and his daughter were living in new port ritchey, florida with a friend. the friend reported he hadn't seen parton on his daughter lately and he'd never seen joshawn either. >> police investigated the room they'd been staying in and initially found nothing suspicious. >> we lifted up a throw rug between the two bids. and when we pulled the throw rug back there was a huge discolored stain. >> the stain was about four feet long and smelled of bleach. it looked like someone had recently tried to clean it. so criminalists lifted the carpet and found traces of blood which they tested for dna. they also went over every inch of the room.

>> they started searching and on the wall they found a speck of blood. it looked like it might have been a cast off, a little teardrop. >> the blood on the wall and underneath the carpet yielded a genetic profile, and it matched joshawn's dna. >> we can say that joshawn was killed in that bedroom. >> parton's roommate insisted he had nothing to do with joshawn's murder, but wouldn't cooperate further. >> i did not want to cooperate with investigators. very belligerent. just hated authority. despised us. >> meanwhile, the search for phillip parton wasn't going well, even though he was in constant contact with police via his cell phone. >> phillip liked to talk. he would question detectives as to what do you have on me. why do you think i'm the one

that did this. he was seeking answers. >> the problem was, parton would make a call and then drive away. so it was impossible to pin down his location. one call came from across the country in washington state. >> this was just another way of mr. parton taunting the detectives. >> finally, the phone calls stopped completely. but then two months after joshawn's murder, police found an abandoned red pickup truck in a walmart parking lot, 50 miles away from where

but on the truck were four bald tires. that didn't match the tire impressions at the crime scene. was partin trying to show he wasn't the killer by using decoy tires? >> he's got to know we're going to take tire casts and we're going to know what kind of vehicle he was driving. he's pretty smart. >> but if that were the case, partin made a colossal mistake. in the glove compartment, investigators found three rolls of film. when developed, one picture showed his truck with different tires. one of them was a wild country brand tire. >> i was able to determine that the tire impressions made at the crime scene was made by one of seven. and one of them being the cooper wild country tire. >> this became a crucial piece of evidence for us in this case. >> with the help of an informant, police found partin's 7-year-old daughter. partin had dropped her off at a friend's home after the murder and never came back. >> partin tells her, you don't know where i'm at, you don't know where i'm going, and don't tell anybody.

take care of my child. i'll get back to you later on. he is never seen again. >> partin's daughter confirmed joshan's whereabouts on the night of the murder and said joshan never left the bedroom. >> she remembered that they went back to the house where they lived. went into the bedroom, and that she and joshan played the video games and watched tv. >> partin's daughter said she was asleep in the living room while her father and joshan were in the bedroom. when she awoke, joshan was gone. >> we asked her what time did joshan leave, and she didn't remember, probably after she went to bed. she had no knowledge of when they left. >> and she couldn't tell investigators where her father was hiding. >> this guy is pissing me off.

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all the evidence in the joshan ashbrook murder pointed to one man. phillup partin, he was the last known person to see joshan alive. his truck once had the same brand of tires that left tracks just feet from her body. his own daughter put him with the victim the night of the murder.

and perhaps, most tellingly of all, when police went to question him, he went on the run. but he couldn't control his curiosity about the case and called detectives from all over the country. >> he ultimately thought he could beat the system. well, in doing that, we were able to trace his phone calls. >> with a warrant, investigators tapped his roommate's phone, just to see if partin would eventually call him. and that's what he did. when partin called his roommate, the police were listening in. they traced the call to a pay phone in fayetteville, north carolina. >> we knew that mr. partin was involved in the air conditioning business. we had a general area where the phone call came from. so we concentrated the search in that area. >> and that is exactly where they found him. >> mr. partin was quite shocked

to see detectives. he was taken into custody on a warrant. upon questioning by detectives, he refused most of the questions. he didn't confess. >> but dna finally told the tale. partin's dna matched dna on the hair found on joshan's body. >> this dna just sealed the deal. >> to see whether partin's roommate was involved, investigators searched his suv, and on the front seat found a blood stain. but a test on the blood stain didn't match joshan ashbrook. it was dna from the man's son. the roommate also claimed he was at work in tampa on the night joshan was murdered. an alibi corroborated by his employer. prosecutors believed partin picked up joshan while she was hitchhiking. >> hey, there.

>> partin gained joshas trust by having his daughter with him. and by helping her with her errands. the security tapes show the three of them went shopping later that morning, bought some fishing gear, and according to partin's daughter, went fishing later that afternoon. partin's daughter said they returned to their rented room sometime late in the day. after dark, partin's daughter fell asleep on the sofa. partin may have made a sexual advance towards joshan, which she rebuffed. there was a fight. joshan grabbed some of his hair. and partin used a knife to cut her throat. blood spatter got onto the wall. but it was a broken neck that caused joshan's death. partin took joshan's body to the woods 15 miles from her home. she had in her hand his dna.

partin left his tire impression in the sand. later, partin attempted unsuccessfully to clean the blood from the bedroom. >> phillup partin is an opportunist who preys on young victims and vulnerable victims. i would consider him a sick individual. >> phillup partin went on trial for first-degree murder. he was found guilty and sentenced to death. >> the forensics evidence was the case. it was the case. her dna in the bedroom, and his dna, his hair found in her finger. that's the case. everything else was circumstantial. >> mr. partin had a tattoo on his body that said "live free or

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