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souix falls south dakota. a routine day for a company that makes trophies for sports teams. routine except one of their most dependable employees didn't report to work for a second straight day. >> on friday when she did not show up for work, her boss called her parents. darlene's parents immediately drove to her apartment since they had their own key. >> we went to her apartment and we saw her cell phone. we knew something was wrong because she never travelled anywhere, never did anything without having that cell phone so people could get ahold of her if they needed to. >> darlene's cell phone was especially important to her since she was deaf. deaf people rely heavily on cell phones and text messaging, instant messaging, that's their lifeline with the hearing world. >> darlene's cell phone records

indicated she hadn't used her phone for the past two days. police found nothing inside the apartment to indicate foul play. >> there was no sign of a forced entry. there was no sign of a struggle. there was no eveoverturned furniture or broken items in her apartment. >> later that day a restaurant employee called police reporting an abandoned truck in their parking lot. the truck was darlene's. >> the police were hope egg that would be a clue as to who was with darlene on the night. no one in the pizza hut score remembered seeing darlene. >> darlene's parents told police they were concerned they had been using the internet to meet men. >> my reaction to her was be so careful. there are so many excuse the expression, wierdos out there. >> investigators took darlene's computer to the forensic lab where they used a piece of software called end case.

using end case we can run a different type of search. we can run an internet search for instant messaging search. e-mail search. question look at internet history to see what pages were visited and when. >> the search revealed several troubling e-mails darlene had received ten days before her disappearance. >> the e-mails were threatening but it was almost in a childish way. very poor english. >> they were from a woman identified online as wendy smith. >> hello darlene. you are trouble maker. you are ugly and stupid pitch. i hate you. according to darlene's friends, she didn't know anyone by the name of wend oi smith. >> we kind of assume they are possibly written by a deaf person. we understanding that deaf people don't necessarily speak conversational english like hearing people do. they speak more in blocky

unstructured sentences just to get subject across. >> having a deaf acquaintance wouldn't have been unusual since darlene too, was hearing-impaired. >> we then sent a subpoena to yahoo asking for any and all information regarding that account that was created. >> the computer analysis also revealed darlene met a local man online jeff flynn and the two had been dating. >> he worked as a field hand on a harm about an hour away. >> when police got to his apartment he was missing. >> the most recent anyone had seen him was thursday but no one knew where he went. his friends down there were saying that was unusual for him to leave town for any extended period of time. >> unusual indeed. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain. little things, anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence.

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off for a week end with this gentleman, i insisted over and over this is not darlene. it didn't ring true with her personality. >> four days later jeff returned. he said he was visiting friends out of town. >> he was nervous. most people are nervous when they speak to the police. he was nervous and concerned. concerned for darlene. >> inside the trunk of jeff's car. evidence technicians found what looked like dry blood. >> law enforcement's antenna went up when they saw the blood in the trunk. forensic testing quickly proved the blood was not darlene's, it was deer blood. >> when they found out that the blood was deer blood, huge relief. a huge relief then the hope came back that possibly she was still alive somewhere. meanwhile investigators were able to trace the source of the threatening e-mails darlene

received shortly before her disappearance. >> when we did receive the e-mails that darlene had received interest wendy smith, that gave us the ability to send a subpoena to yahoo to find out who may have created that yahoo account. the e-mails came from this home in downtown suiix falls. the occupant was daphne right. >> 42-year-old daphne wright had no criminal record. >> during police questioning wright involved any involvement. >> i don't believe the hacker story. i think you sent the e-mails to her. >> you created an account with a different name and sent her the e-mails on those days telling her to stay away from the deaf

apartments. >> yeah, yeah, i did that. you created the same wendy smith? >> yes. i did that. >> a background check revealed daphne wright had been involved in a public altercation with darlene just five days before she disappeared. >> darlene was having dinner with sally forward who was daphne wright's former lover. >> they had an argument that the police had to be called to and she had to be escorted off the property. >> daphne wright told the police that she was jealous. she told the police that she thought darlene was destroying her relationship with her lover. but by all accounts darlene and sally ford were nothing more than causal friends. >> darlene and had woman did not have a lesbian relationship and in fact darlene was not a lesbian.

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after sending threatening e-mails to darlene, daphne wright became the prime suspect in her disappearance. police not a search warrant for daphne's house and what they found inside was troubling. >> i remember the smell of paint and the smell of cleaning products. especially when we got down towards the basement. >> they look in the kitchen garbage and there's a half full

bottle of chain saw oil and i look a little further there's a receipt for ace hardware for a chain saw purchase just a few days ago. >> this was a time in year in south dakota where chain saws are not in huge demand. >> but there was no chain saw in daphne's house or anywhere on her property. >> down stairs, the basement had been painted with blue paint. >> there would be a spot painted here and then a spot painted there. there would be different sizes and things like that. parts of the wall, not the whole wall, a three or four foot section of the floor but not the whole floor. parts the steps but not all the steps. >> a few feet away was a small room that had once been used to store coal. >> the floor was completely reprar repainted in this blue paint that was tacky and soft to the touch indicating it had been

freshly painted. >> police also noticed several simetical cuts in the floor. >> some of us made comments that they almost seemed like chain saw marks. >> so law enforcement began their investigation by going to the ace hardwares in towns, once there investigators showed a photo line-up that included daphne's picture. >> one of the clerks said yes, i sold a chain saw to a woman and she was deaf. that matches the description of daphne wright to a t. she came in with a note that said tree cutting machine. he took her to the wrong section at first because he misunderstood and then he took her to the chain saw section. she was very worried about the price and she picked out the cheapest chain saw available at the star. >> ones scientists got into daphne wright's basement, they had no difficult finding even more incriminating evidence on

the wooden walls of the coal storage room. >> we were able to see on the walls there were some very tasml pieces of boin and what appeared to be tissue. >> investigators collected the bone and tissue samples for analysis and compared those to the dna they obtained from darlene's hair brushes. >> that day we were met by a couple of detects and escorted upstairs. and when they open the door, when they introduce you to the chaplain and the chief of police and all the detectives are in the room and ask you to sit down, you know the news you're going to receive is not good and it wasn't. >> darlene's dna matched the blood and tissue found in daphne's basement. >> she felt that darlene was

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she wanted to bring that little morsel of joy into your life. >> three weeks after darlene went missing, her friends, family, and the deaf community gathered for a memorial service even though investigators hadn't yet found her body. >> we knew we were going to have a challenge ahead of us to locate her body. >> after five days of searching at the landfill, investigators got a break. >> they found the legs and lower torso of an adult female. they also found bloody pieces of

carpet and a blood stained sweatshirt. >> it was a sweatshirt that had some graphics of it of sign language. >> testing proved it was darlene's blood on the sweatshirt but someone else's dna was found inside the sweatshirt. >> i took cuttings from the inside of the sweatshirt hoping one of them had transferred enough dna or skin celled inside to do a full profile. i was fortunate and did do a profile and that matched daphne wright. >> by being able to put dove knee wright in a sweatshirt that had darlene's blood and tissue on it was extremely important. >> it was one of the few pieces that tied both victim and suspect together. >> 25 miles away, across the

border in minnesota, a highway worker found darlene's torso add her severed head in cased in plastic. the medical examiner found darlene suffered blunt force trauma to her head. it had been tied and sinked around her throat with a piece of cord that had been matched by one of our florensic people to spool owned by daphne wright. >> the medical examiner had two theories as to how darlene was murdered. >> the cause of death was either this blunt forced trauma with a seven inch skull fracture or suffocation from this bag being placed over her head or a combination of the two. >> the prosecutors say daphne

was convinced darlene was trying to steal her ex-girlfriend and wanted to prevent it. she asked darlene to pizza rest there she changed her mind and asked darlene to come to her house instead. >> once there daphne hit darlene with a heavy object, pushed her down the stairs, then tied a thick plastic bag around her head with cord from her home. she later bought a chain saw to dismember darlene's body. she left behind the sales receipt, store witnesses, and plenty of forensic evidence. daphne disposed of the body parts in near by dumpsters and in a ditch 25 miles away.

later she tried to hide the evidence with paint but it wasn't nearly enough. >> there was this virtual mountain of evidence of the defendant's guilt. >> those e-mails and what the e-mails showed us pointed us right to daphne wright. >> daphne's motivation was one that has been throughout the ages in a homicide is jealousy. >> the tragedy is that darlene had no romantic interest in darlene's ex-girlfriend. >> darlene was not interested in that. darlene was not a lesbian person. darlene and sally did into the have that kind of relationship. >> daphne wright was charged with first degree murder and became the first woman in south dakota history to face a possible death sentence. >> i would have to describe daphne wright as just a cold-blooded murderer to be able

to dismember a human body with a chain saw takes a lot of gall. it takes a lot of spite. my opinion you really have to dislike somebody to do that to them. >> daphne wright was convicted but the jury spared her life. instead, she'll spend the rest of her life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> one thing that just kept coming back is what do we get out of sentencencing her to death penalty. what does society get out of it what do we get out of it. >> we really didn't see anything good that came from it. >> this was a completely senseless murder. it didn't have to happen. darlene was never a threat to the relationship between sally and daphndaphne. >> it taught me a lesson not to assume anything you're talking about.

the person you're sitting across from is possibly capable of doing anything even if the evidence doesn't show anything up front. >> there was no smoking gun in this case. it was all the little bits of forensic evidence that connected the dots. it all led detectives in one direction. that was up next, a music teacher is found dead. was it an accident or murder? >> there were forensic teams going in and out of the house for days on end. >> luminol provides the answers. >> it just lit up like a christmas tree. it was phenomenal. >> it was thought to be an intruder case. >> but sometimes, friends are more dangerous than enemies. >> secrets kept for years finally caused the whole thing to explode. music played