the hardest part, i can't help him. i'm a mother. i fix stuff. a skinned knee. i cannot fix this. i can't bring him back. >> on the ground in front of the vehicle. >> it was devastating when they found him. the single dad so passionate about helping others. >> he was a selfless person. he just wanted tad for

everybody. >> so dedicated to his bright young daughter. >> they were two peas in a pod. >> she loved being with her dad. >> she was just every single thing to him. every single thing. >> for police, a puzzle. >> such an unusual murder with a victim who seemed to have no end ms. >> then the chilling on camera view. >> there is a figure. you see someone wearing a hoodie, come out in the dark. >> you're hook at the killer. >> you get the goose bumps, the hairs on the back of the head. >> a father dead in the garage. who was higd it. >> what? >> lies, delusion, betrayal. you just don't want to believe that people can be that evil. >> look closely. top left of the screen. a hooded figure walks away from the camera. who is it? what are they doing? why are they there?

minutes later, a truck pulls in. a different person walks out. his name we know. don fluitt. it appears his trash can was timed over. he pulls it back up. >> you look at him and he's fine. he's happy and healthy and picking that his trash can. and then the garage closes. >> that's the end of don fluitt's life, basically. >> the neighbor's security camera captured these images and left a mystery. >> that was one of those moments where you get the chills and think, i think we know when it happened. now we just have to figure out who. >> and why. >> there is nobody that i could think of that would want to hurt him. >> albuquerque, new mexico. thousands of people come here every fall to watch the colorful

hot-air balloons sail through the desert sky. for others, it is just a pit stop as they continue their trip on to san jose. for some, it is a place for new beginnings. >> would you throw a dart at the map? >> pretty much. >> this is dennis fluitt, donnell's younger brofl less than aier apart in age. they grew up in california. they were close. the two of them and two sisters. >> we had to rely on each other. when my parents divorced, it was just my mom so there was a lot of time at home. >> like most siblings, they were competitive. >> they had on outdo each other constantly. what one did, the next one did. >> the brothers fluitt led a hard partying lifestyle until dennis headed each at age 20. dennis, mature, thought his brother could do the same. he urged don to join him in new mexico. >> he was on a dead-end trail. he was not doing anything productive. with drugs and alcohol, if you

win the that lifestyle, it will end badly. i called him. convinced him to come out here. aid two bedroom apartment and a car and stuff. i told him, whatever you need. just come out here. >> did you see your brother change? >> oh, yeah. you saw a complete change. >> don turned his life around. at 26, he got married, had two kids. the marriage didn't last. his kids moved to oklahoma with mom. but he never stopped being a loving father. >> so he had to go out of his way to be with you two, too. >> kirg kirk is a far piece away. >> he always made the drive though. >> do you have a favorite memory? >> we would take an annual camping trip every year. we would wake up and go fishing. one of the best things i can remember. it was awesome. >> when don was in his late 30s, he decided to pursue a childhood dream to back firefighter. >> do you have any idea where

that itch started? >> the man next door was a fireman. he got don to help him put out a fire. they were up on the roof. it scared me to death. he was a boy and this was a man who wanted to teach him and that was don's dream. that someday i'll be a fireman. >> he joked with him and told him he was too old. >> was it the a adrenaline? >> i just think he cared for people and he wanted to do his part to save as many lives as he could. >> soon, don met dennys' neighbor. a woman named christine. >> she made him happy. she was silly and quirky like he was. >> she was like literally the girl next door. >> literally. >> wasn't long before don and christine married. a little over a year later, they had a baby girl together. they named her sienna. don's son josh said sienna seemed to complete his life.

>> they were so far away, at least he could have his own child with him every step of the way, every second of the day. >> sienna was an amazing child. she was bright, brilliant, she could even the herself music a little toy piano. she writes songs and sings them. she was talented and funny. >> as you can see in this home video that christine took, they doted on their little girl. >> they loved him. they were always doing goofy things. >> they were two peas in a pod. >> she loved her daddy. loved her daddy. >> life was great until don, after eight years as a firefighter, lost his job. according to a close friend, christine who was an x-ray they can to shoulder most of the bills. the financial strain proved to be too much. when sienna was only 4 years old, christine filed or two

divorce. the couple shared custody of sienna. don made sure his life still revolved around his little girl. >> he would braid her hair before school. he would design it. for all the plays she was in, he would make her costume, dress her, dor her make-up. he was an amazing father. >> he wanted to make the best life possible for sienna and be the best man he coble could. >> this is amber. she said don taught sienna to help others. >> they would go to church every sunday and have spaghetti on sundays. one day they just made too much spaghetti. they decided to find somebody and give them dinner. >> they start calling it, spaghetti sunday. don and sienna would hit the streets of albuquerque and feed the homeless. >> she's not dragging her feet with all of this. >> no, no. not at all. >> from spaghetti sundays to silly home made music videos.

>> he wouldn't do anything unless he could do it with her. >> just a few weeks before christmas, 2016, don's oldest sister died of cancer. his mother sharon was devastated. don and sienna, then 11 years old, took road trip to california to spend christmas with her. when the festivities were over -- >> i didn't want him to go. >> don who was now working at an agency that served the developmentally disaged, told his mom he had a meeting he couldn't miss. >> so i went outside with him. hugged and kissed and got everything in the car. >> after an 11-hour drive, they arrived home in albuquerque. when where sienna found a new bicycle under the tree. but don needed to drop her off with her mom. she didn't hear from him. she call her dad's co-worker. >> she said i can't get ahold of

my dad. and i said, you know, honey, let me try your dad. don't worry. he's fine. >> valerie called, text, no answer. she and a co-worker went to his home. >> i think i was starting to get anxious. a part of me knew something really wasn't right. we parked in his driveway. >> what did you do? >> we got out. when i knocked on the door, the door gave a little bit. >> so the front door wasn't locked. >> no. and i was able to walk in the house. >> valerie called out don's name. no response. >> i told my friend, the only way we'll know whether he's here or not is if his truck is here so i opened the garage door. and when i opened the garage door, i found him. >> coming up, what had happened in that garage? >> he's on the ground in front of his vehicle. something is very wrong. >> a clue from the neighbor. >> she has two cameras in the house. she sees donnell fluitt's truck

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it was december 29th, 2016. even as the rio grande, the great but gentle river ran through this town of kirg kirk, valerie torres made a grisly discovery inside don fluitt's garage. her friend called 911. >> he's on the ground in front of the vehicle. something is very wrong. >> don had been bludgeoned. his throat stabbed. >> i knew he was gone.

i knew there was nothing that could i do to help him. >> then she thought about sienna who was at her mother's house. >> i remember my heart breaking. literally. i've never felt my heart hurt like that. >> within minutes, an officer from the albuquerque pd arrived on the scene. valerie and her friend were still in tears. his body camera rolled as he walked past sienna's new bicycle, still next to the christmas tree. then into the garage where don's body lay. as night fell, the yellow tape went up. albuquerque police detective mike capland ran the investigation. >> everything was in pristine order. the only thing out of order was don fluitt in the garage. >> there was no sign of forced entry. his wallet was on the kitchen counter. police located all the kitchen knives and sent them to the crime lab. they also gathered other forensic evidence including

don's fingernail clippings. >> there was immediate blood on the walls, under him, on the truck that looked like hand print. >> but the detective said it didn't seem like enough blood given the injuries don sustained. >> that's when we noticed an empty bottle of bleach and towels that smelled of bleach in the washer. >> so there was some effort to clean up. >> yes. >> his team did a test with luminol. >> what you see is a combination of what we think the blood with a very dull glowing and a very bright glowing, which is typical for bleach. so it looked like either hands or the murder weapon was washed off in the sink. >> the floor also lit up. the same with the door. kaplan and his team had started going door to door and met don's next door neighbor. >> she tell us there are two cameras. >> that's interesting. >> she told them she had been

home the night before when -- >> she hears the garage come up shelf looks in her camera and she sees don fluitt's truck backing out and leaving. >> the time, 7:37. he had the first time line. he gathered more when he talked on ex-wife christine. she confirmed he dropped sienna off at 7:15. and she reynold something. he thought someone had been in his house while he was away. >> he said it's weird. there was like cat hair in my dryer. and someone used a pan in my house. >> christine also told the detective that don sometimes suffered road rage. >> he yelled at some individual. the individual followed don for a while. christine said it scared her. >> could this be the kind of narration that ends up as a

murder? >> it's possible. >> so maybe an angry motorist followed don's hole after an argument or maybe it was someone he knew, someone with access to the house. kaplan spoke to lenny ruiz. he said don was a kind hearted man and wondered if his murder had anything to do with his work with homeless people. >> he opens himself to everybody. he opens his home. >> don's mom sharon in california got a call in the middle of the night. the detective was on the line. >> and he said, ma'am, i'll sorry, your son is dead. and i think i started screaming. >> just 19 days before she lost her eldest daughter to cancer. 19 years before that, her youngest daughter had also died. and now don. >> i couldn't get my head around it. it didn't seem real. >> denial it is called amber to let her know about her uncle

don. >> i just start screaming no, over and over again. moy dad was obviously a mess. >> and the news soon made its way to oklahoma where don's older children lived. >> my mom called me. and it was probably midnight. and told me the news. and he just, at first, i was like, no, this isn't real. this stuff don't happen. you just see this on tv. >> but he was gone. >> he was gone. it was horrible. >> this is an intimate murder. a hands-on murder. >> yeah. very personal, violent. >> who would put a target on your brother of all people? mr. sunday night spaghetti? >> my first thought was terry. i even told the detective that. >> terry white, christine's husband, sienna's stepfather. >> don told me a lot about him. i knew there were altercations in the past. >> the detective went to see

terry the next day. a truck driver, he was back from his shift and back home with sienna and christine. sienna and christine left the room. kaplan asked terry about his relationship with don. >> you know, in the beginning, i would say it was rocky. >> terry told kaplan, when they went to court over custody of sienna, don sometimes seemed to want a confrontation. >> if he can get me in any kind of way, violent or scream at him, that would make him look good and he would ultimately, he would get his daughter. >> terry said to the detective that he mostly avoided don and hadn't had any contact with him in a while. >> we won't find any finger prints of yours anywhere in his house or anywhere in the area? >> no. i just would not get in the guy's life. it wasn't worth it. i loved that little girl.

i don't want to make her hate me. >> kaplan asked about the night of the murder. terry said he spent the evening visiting his sister. he said he left about 9:00, stopped at a wendy's for dinner, then drove to work and elementary school in his car until his shift began. >> so you were in the parking lot at work? >> takery's sister confirmed his story. so did his boss who said she had security cam video that would show terry at work that night. by then, kaplan had received an unexpected pho call from the neighbor. >> she had her own surveillance video. she made a discovery and said, hey, you need to look at 7:41 p.m. >> coming up, a mysterious figure captured on camera. >> there is someone in a hoodie. and the individual walks off camera toward where don lewis' door would be. >> did you think that

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january 2017. instead of celebrating the start of a knew year, don fluitt's family was making funeral arrangements. his niece amber made photos of don. his he can wife pitched in. >> she brought pictures over that she had that i could add to the boards. she said can i help you? absolutely. let's do this. so we had a glass of wine and put the picture boards together. >> sienna helped, too. >> she lost her best friend. and she wanted to be a part of it. >> sienna picked out most of the music and readings for the service. it was held at the church she attended with her dad. >> any memories of what was sung? >> we did play one of his favorite songs. i can only imagine by mercy me. >> he was a devout christian, was not he? >> he was, he was. there were tons of picture that's we put together from everybody. a slide show.

a huge gathering for him. he was very loved. >> meanwhile the murder investigation continued. detective kaplan spoke to don's neighbor who said she found something on her home security video. >> i started looking at the clip she's talking about. and believe it or not, there is a figure. >> a figure. >> a figure. someone in a hoodie walking to don fluitt's trash can. they lay the trash can down on its side. the individual walks off camera toward where don fluitt's door would be. he returns. pulls into the garage. you see him walk out of garage. he walks to his trash can and picks it up. and then walks into his garage again. >> at this point, em, you could see the light from the garage diminishing as the garage door closed. >> and inexplicably, the garage shoots back up. you see a series of flashes. >> i'm the hooded figure outside. >> we went to the season of the crime to understand how this could happen.

>> it is as easy as that, huh? so somewhere don? in the house? >> i believe he's in the house night. >> and there is the series of flashes that you see on the surveillance video. hooded figure tripped the sensor. the door closing behind him. >> did you think the surveillance camera had taken a picture of your killer? >> i did. >> a tantalizing image but no face. >> the garage closes and don fluitt is found dead the next morning. >> even as he puzzled over the hooded figure's identity, the detective started to hear about someone else. don's brother, dennis. just days after the murder, dennis got the keys to the house. don's children wondered what he was up to. >> they felt it was odd that dennis was there and sort of taking control. >> taking over his brother's life. >> yes. that was a concern to them. >> kaplan also learned that denial it is and don had had a

falling out a year before will dennis had moved away to arizona for a while. he moved back to albuquerque a couple months before the murder. >> it kind of puts up a red flag for me. you're in the process of reconnecting. you had a falling out before. and now don has inextricably been murdered. can you rule out violence within the family? >> absolutely not. >> brother on brother. >> absolutely not. domestic violence is a huge catalyst for violence, murder, money, love, relationships. >> it sounds as though the brother you talk about is making your nose twitch a little bit. >> tiffany and josh had the same feeling. >> did you think maybe your uncle, his brother, had something to do with this? >> there was talk of it. just because of the strained relationship and what had happened. you're hurt. you're grieving. you don't know what to think. >> kaplan interviewed denial it is who said it all started after

their father died. >> i got a little angry about it. he took my dad's stuff. there were disagreements just like i'm starting to see with my brother's death. >> kaplan learned his dad had lost his job as a frist because of a drug test. he asked about that. >> i guarantee my brother hasn't touched heavy drugs in 30 years. >> then denial it is came up with a name. someone else they should be looking at. >> it makes me mad. i'm no investigator. i'm no cop. but this guy spends two hours in my brother's house -- >> you're talking about the landlord, benny? >> benny. the landlord. he said just days after the murder, he found benny in his hole. >> he claimed, i don't know if he's messing with the crime scene. >> dennis that he had heard that he was upset with benny over a hole in the ceiling that had not

been taken care of. they asked for finger prints. he said he was uneasy about dennis. benny said dennis wanted to rent another townhouse don owned. >> emhe would move all of don's stuff over there and set it up. >> did he tell you why? >> for sienna. he wanted to set it up for don's little father, which is weird. >> benny said he didn't rent to dennis. not after a fwroun check revealed that he had assault. more importantly -- >> i wondered why he had suddenly taken a massive interest in don fluitt's affairs with the condo. >> when we spoke to dennis, we wondered that, too. >> coming up -- >> they kept talking about an estrangement between the two of you. >> the brother, the landlord, the step father.

three possible suspects. >> these were names i couldn't eliminate. >> and one of them is about to change his story. when the figure in the garage continues. figure in the garage continues. of petsworth vetworld. business was steady, but then an influx of new four-legged friends changed everything. dr. petsworth welcomed these new patients. the only problem? more appointments meant he needed more space. that's when dr. petsworth turned to his american express business card, the tower is being brought down as we speak. you are looking live at surfside, florida, in north eastern miami-dade county in south florida. this is a live demolition of the rest of this partially collapsed condo building after engineers declared the structure unstable. what you're looking at right now is what's called an energetic felling. they drilled explosives into

parts of the building strategically so it could basically fall down in place. this is a very well known demolition technique. it was used not too long ago to demolish a bridge in new york city for construction because it is considered to be a much more contained way to bring down a structure that needs to come down. this is one of the crucial efforts of the rescue process happening in surfside. >> can you tell us what's happening on the ground? >> we saw what i think you saw. the remainder of champlain collapsing in an instant. we heard the booms start just before 10:30. i looked at what was left of that condominium fell to the ground. it is fourth of july. this is a night usually of joy, of fireworks. instead of all of that, people have gathered nearby to watch this building collapse. there were no cheers or any

sounds of joy. this is not a joyous moment. this is an incredibly sad, difficult moment. the people who live nearby have been told to shelter in place, keep the windows closed because of the dust that will inevitably come because of the collapse of the building. officials say this is necessary. but necessarily doesn't necessarily mean easy. they say it is necessary for two key reasons. one, what was left of this structure was not structurally sound. and given the weather that could be coming here from tropical storm elsa, it was important that they take this down in a controlled manner. they also said by demolishing what is left of this building, would it and fanld area where rescue workers could continue searching for people. but again, this is a very difficult moment for the families closest to this. a very emotional one weapon different emotions for the families of those who have lost their lives. who are still unaccounted for. there is concern, worry about what would happen if maybe this

went wrong for the people who could perhaps still be under that rubble. families, there are many of them, still hoping for a last-minute miracle. 121 people are still unaccounted for. presumably, many of them, underneath that rubble. the goal of this explosion, you talked about it. electric felling is that it will fall in the exact foot print that has been laid out and will not disrupt other search efforts. officials say by doing this, they'll be able to expand the search efforts for rescuers and hopefully recover maybe someone who might still be alive under that rubble or at least bring closure to families how are waiting for news. this is also a sad moment. we can see the dust coming this way. now you can smell it. this is why they've asked people who live here to stay at home and to shelter in place. this is an unavoidable by product of that collapse. you have to imagine this is a really difficult moment for families, or for individuals who survived this initial collapse. because they were not able to

get back into their homes. what remained of their homes recalling their possessions, their memories, family photos. they'll never be able to get access to those. at this point we know as soon as structural engineers give the go-ahead for rescuers, they're standing by, not ready to get back on that mound and to keep searching and to try to recover some of the 121 people still unaccounted for. and again, as you speak to some of the families who are among those missing, despite the days ticking by, many are still praying and believing in a meerg. this building, while it is difficult to watch it come down according to officials, was something that had to happen for search efforts to continue and get underway. and to avoid a bigger problem, a bigger disruption of those fefrts this building were to be pushed over by winds that could come from tropical storm elsa. joshua? >> yeah. as we're looking at these pictures, if you need to move because of the dust, let us know

and we can come back here. but one of the things i was about to mention, tropical storm elsa. parts of southern florida, though not this part of south florida, are currently under a variety of warnings because tropical storm elsa is its way northwest to the keys on the way to the gulf of mexico and then heading northeast across the state of florida and up into the atlantic. currently, it doesn't look like elsa will get to surfside, florida, or any of south florida, except for monroe county. who knows what elsa will do, if it will make an unexpected turn and then make the scene there in surfside, florida, even more complicated. we just witnessed the demolition of the condo building in surfside, florida, that partially collapsed not long ago. rescue crews had been hoping to have better access to the structure, and to have a more stable environment in which to work to rescue operation.

with tropical storm elsa coming, official decided it was too dangerous to be left to chance. so they are using energetic felling, a method designed to demolish a building straight down. they put just enough explosives in just the right places so when it detonates, it will essentially collapse straight down instead of breaking into multiple pieces. who knows what the winds could have done from tropical storm elsa to that sflk if you're still with us, talk about the time line for what happens now that the building is down. i imagine they have to wait for a little bit? literally for the dust to settle and to assess the scene before they're able to go back in and make sure the detonation went the way they thought it would go. >> yeah. when we had spoken to members of miami-dade urban search and rescue prior to this happening, they had explained to us best they could, the process that would happen when this demolition occurred. i spoke to members of the

florida task force two earlier today. they said they're the shift that went from 12:00 this afternoon until 12:00 this evening. they said as soon as they get the go-ahead from structural engineers that it is safe to go back on the mound, they will. it will take at least a few minutes for people to make sure when it is safe, there are no fires as a result of this demolition that need to be put out. and then literally, just blocks from here you have firefighters, search and rescuers, ready to go with their equipment and get back out. it will take a while with the equipment we've seen in the last few days. in the immediate aftermath, as soon as they have the cleerms, they can get back on the mound and start working hand tools and just have people on the ground. what i've been told again and again is that's the plan. as soon as it is determined that it is safe, that there are no fires that need to be put out, that rescuers can go back out, they are standing by.

they are ready to do their job. i cannot tell you how badly these rescuers want to be on that mound. i spoke to someone the other day who said they have literally had to pull rescuers off the mound when their shift ends because they do not want to leave. i can't say it enough. you have 121 people still unaccounted for. 120 something loved ones, family members, looking for answers. these rescuers, they want with every fiber of their being to save lives if possible but to give these families closure. they know many of them, a lot of these rescuers, these are their loved ones, too. assuming everything went according to plan with this demolition, there are no fires, anything like that, those rescuers could be back on that mound searching at belief hand tools really within kind of a half-hour give or take. >> thank you. that's ellison barber joining us from surfside, florida. not far from miami.

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one murder, three potential suspects. something had to break the tie. then about 12 weeks into the investigation, the crime lab called with some major news. the foreign dna under don fluitt's finger nails belonged to none other than terry white. >> that's a bingo moment. >> yes. >> it all started lining up. terry's strained relationship with don. his sudden need for a new hoodie. >> the fact that he's amended his second story to include buying a hoodie, what does that tell you? >> in hindsight, a lot.

it tells me there was probably a lot of blood on him. that he needed something to wear when he went to work. >> and above all, terry's dna where it simply does not belong. >> we won't find any dap or finger prints of yours anywhere >> so if we did, it would be weird. >> yeah. i would weird. >> at this point, i'm 100% sure that terry is our guy. >> kaplan spoke to don's mom sharon and his brother dennis. >> we do have a suspect in this case and we do have an arrest warrant. terry white. >> the case seemed to be solved. but there was a problem. before kaplan could find terry, he got a call from christine. she said terry was missing. >> you put the noose around his neck but you're also finding he doesn't seal to be around

anymore. >> kaplan asked christine to stop by the station. he thought she might have information with her husband. >> and you're having a contentious relationship with christine. >> right. and i think at that point her willingness to cooperate with me was gone. >> kaplan got a search warrant for her car and phone hoping to get clues that might lead her to terry. >> interestingly enough, we final her cell phone in the glove come sxarmt there is a last will and testament right next to it. >> yes. it's terry white's. i found that to be extraordinarily unusual. >> how old again was it? the document? >> three days after we took his dna. >> kaplan started to wonder if terry would be gone permanently. a few days later, he caught a break. a sheriff's deputy happened on a pick-up drop at an arizona rest stop more than 200 miles away. >> there is a hose and the deputy thinks, oh, no.

it looks like someone is trying to commit suicide. >> in the cab of the truck, the missing suspect. >> terry white is red faced, probably from the carbon monoxide. he looks out of it. the deputy runs his name and realizes, he has a warmth for a homicide. >> the detective and his partner made a bee line to arizona to see if terry would talk. >> do you want to talk to me today? you guys will think of something. so i have to protect myself. >> so terry didn't feel like talking. not to the police anyway. once he was transferred back to albuquerque, he did talk to someone. dennis received a facebook message from a woman. >> she's like, you don't know me. my boyfriend is in jail with a guy by the name of terry white. you can imagine. i'm thinking, what? i got a little nervous. is somebody trying to set me up? what's going on here. i called her to find out if i'm

being duped, or not. she was sincere and she told me all this stuff. some the boyfriend's name, roderick white. no relation, have been. they shared the same last name, the same birthday, and for three days in april 17, the same jail cell. soon, terry's former cell mate was in the room with the detective. >> you want to talk about this. >> yes. >> according to him, terry made a full confession. >> he tells him everything. he tells him how he snuck in. >> the trick, the garage door -- he ended up getting underneath guy's truck. >> terry told rob that he was a smoker whose routine it was to smoke in the garage. so he waited for don to come out. >> i got up. i was waiting right there by the door. >> he said terry then described in gruesome detail what took place inside the garage, away from the neighbor's security

cam. >> he said as soon as he came out, he hit him as hard as i could. i hit him so hard, the tire split in three pieces. >> he said how it matched the evidence at the crime scene. >> he explains that he hits dwon this tire thumper. don continues to fight. it continues in here. we know this because there's a coat rack that would have been right here. blood on the jacket that belonged to sienna. and we find -- >> what? the action moves back out here? >> yes. this is a very narrow space. the bump he -- >> he has a big old truck and it would have used about every inch. >> we do know there are bloody hand prints on the hood. truck. there's hand prints and blood swipes on the wall. so we know he had fallen on his back this way. >> he even described don got terry's dna on him.

>> and emi know exactly when it happened. when i was -- he reached up and his [ bleep ] finger caught. >> then he continued that terry hit him so hard, don finally went down. >> i'll give him this. >> then according to rob, terry finished the job. >> he said i went inside the house and i got a steak knife. he said something about, sitting at the side of the stove. >> if the knife didn't work, he said he had a back-up plan. >> he said i had plan b. there was an axe on the wall of the garage. >> which you can clearly see in the crime season photos. there is no way you would know that it's unless you were there. >> were any of those details that you just listed, were they online? in the newspapernewspapers? >> no. so this cell mate is giving you evidence that exactly matches up. >> yes. and it is filling in the gaps.

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informant rob white gave detectives a virtual play by play of how terry white murdered don fluitt, one revelation after another. but just when they thought they had heard everything, rod had one more revelation to offer. a big one.

>> reporter: according to rod, the "she" in question was terry's wife, don's ex, the mother of his darling sienna, christine. , christine. >> reporter: the cellmate said that christine and terry called don "the black cloud" and with him out of the way, they would have sienna all to themselves. but any dreams of a happily ever after had gone belly up once police zeroed in on terry. >> he has an unusual insurance policy. he took it off, it has a suicide clause in it -- >> a what? >> a suicide clause. you hold on with it, even with a suicide, it pays out. >> i, terry white, i'm going to

go down for this, they got me. but i can do you, christine, and the little girl a bit of good by killing myself and the insurance will be paid off to you? >> having you collect $250,000. >> an interesting world, isn't it? >> it's an interesting world. and in some twisted and horrible way, i would say terry loves christine, and i would say in a twisted way, he loves sienna. but he -- the fact of the matter is, he murdered sienna's father. >> reporter: rod said terry's suicide attempt in arizona was his third. and according to rod, christine was not exactly thrilled when terry survived. >> reporter: the cellmate's tale got even stranger. he said after he was released from jail, he met up with christine and made up a story. he told her he would smuggle some pills into the jail so terry could make good on his suicide promise.

>> reporter: rod said he never bought the pills or completed the scheme. >> reporter: but he said he had a vivid memory of the last time he saw christine. >> reporter: detectives had heard enough. a few days after the interview -- >> we arrested her. >> how did the arrest go down? >> it's complicated. she's with sienna, so we had to make several arrangements to make sure sienna had somewhere to go, make sure she was safe and taken care of. so we had to wait until she was away. >> reporter: christine was charged with first degree murder and conspiracy. >> she was upset but resigned to what was happening. >> reporter: but the case against christine was flimsy. it rested on the word of a

felon. >> it wasn't strong enough to move forward with her. >> reporter: the charges against christine were dismissed. in june 2018, terry white went on trial. the sole defendant. the prosecution's star witness was terry's cellmate, rod. he told the jury everything how terry killed don. but even this career criminal couldn't seem to understand why. >> why did you kill him? i said was he touching the little girl. he was like no, no. he wasn't touching her. i said okay, well, was he beating her? he said no, he wasn't. i said, well, why did you kill him? he said, the [ bleep ] just wouldn't go away. >> reporter: as a result of his testimony, rod, who is a meth addict, avoided prison time and enrolled in a drug rehab program. he insisted he didn't come forward in hopes of a deal. but rather because he believed don's murder was wrong.

>> they killed him because he was a good father. that's why they killed this guy, because he was a good dad. >> reporter: it took the jury a little over six hours to reach a verdict. >> guilty of first degree murder. >> guilty. just instant relief. >> that this man couldn't just walk freely ever, that he wasn't going to take my dad's life and have his own still. >> i never took my eyes off of him from the time the jury handed the papers. i watched him the whole time. and i want to see something. a tear of remorse, a smile, something. nothing. >> reporter: in august 2018, terry white was sentenced to 42 years in prison. but for don's family, it's not over. >> the puppeteer is still pulling the springs, though. >> who's the puppeteer? >> christine, and the puppet is terry. >> think about it. she manipulated that man into killing himself. think about that for a second.

that's one thing to talk somebody into murdering somebody for you. but then to talk that same person into killing themselves if they got caught, how do you do that? >> reporter: christine white did not attend the trial. she declined our request for an interview, but wrote us a letter saying she had don had no custody battle in december 2016, only different ideas in school choices, tuition. regarding don's murder, she wrote -- >> reporter: prosecutors natalie and david say the investigation into christine is still open. but they don't know when, or if she might be charged. >> we would have to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she intended all along for terry white to do this, and more than that, that she did something concrete to aid and

abet, to help the cite be committed. >> natalie, can you get there? >> i'm hopeful. i would like to say yes, but if the evidence isn't there, we can't charge her for something we can't prove. >> reporter: anyone who knew him will tell you. don fluitt enjoyed helping people. he loved being a firefighter, feeding the homeless, and helping people with disabilities find work. but what he loved most was being sienna's dad. a bond so tight, people stood in awe of it. >> she loved being with her dad. she loved that man. you know, to this day, i think about that void that's in her life. >> terrible loss certainly, that the primary victim here in a way seems to be sienna. >> i would say so. tiffany and josh and myself, we got to live our childhood with him. we got to go to him for advice

and to share those milestones in life with him. what about sienna? my dad is still here, you know, and hers is not. ♪♪ i texted him. he wasn't answering. i arrived at the office. i could see that something was really, really wrong. i called somebody that steve worked with and he said, "steve's been shot." and i said, "did he survive?" and he said, "no." >> reporter: steve pitt was unforgettable. >> i think he's one of a kind. he just completely broke the mold. >> reporter: he was the first to die that week. hunted down by a man with a gun and a grudge.