here's josh mankiewicz with "final curtain. " >> hello? >> hi, baby. >> hey, what's going on, what do you want me to do? >> i don't know. leave me. >> the woman on the phone was just hours away from walking down the aisle, to marry the man on the other end of this call, to pledge her love, until death did them part. >> i'm going to go do something right now, and you're not going to see me for the rest of your life. >> instead, she found herself in the middle of a twisted murder plot that would change her life forever. >> what did you do? >> i think you know what i did. >> she knew. or did she? her name is rachel buffett. you may remember her from a story we first reported in 2016, about her then fiance, dan wozniak. and about two families in search of the truth. >> i know a lot of answers now. a lot more than i had the last time we met. >> now, the final curtain. >> i believe with all my heart they were trying to get me back and kill me. >> new information. >> there's things that people need to know. there's things that need to be said. >>

here is josh mankiewicz, with the "the mansion on ocean boulevard". >> some places feel secluded, insulated. secure. >> i can remember saying that and feeling that and saying nothing bad could ever happen here. >> here is coronado, california. just over a bridge from san diego. a town of beautiful beaches, people and homes. like this one, on ocean boulevard. except that in the summer of 2011, this mansion became ground zero for a mystery. >> this is a very bizarre death. there is no doubt about it. >> well actually there's been plenty of doubt and plenty of theories. >> my sister was dead. and did a lot of things go through my mind? yes. >> secrets, both suspected and imagined. >> is it possible that other people know more than they're saying? yes. >> it's certainly possible. beyond that, it's hard to say for sure. especially when it seems everyone has a story to tell. and those stories lead to accusations, often with zero proof. >> people are gonna believe what they wanna believe with no evidence. >> paradise valley arizona was home for the shacknai family, but the summers they spent in co

here is josh mankiewicz with "broken bonds". ♪ ♪ ♪ >> what would you do for your family?uld you walk through fire? could you ever accuse them of something terrible, to save yourself? this is a story about two very different families. it is about loyalty, terror, deception and love. and for one of the families, it begins with a late night phone call. >> i was about to not answer it, then something told me to pick up the phone. >> christina's mother was on the line. >> to just hear these sirens, she just kept saying, you have to come here, they broke into the house, he is dead. they killed him. >> he was joseph morrissey who have been married to christina 's mother, kay, for 12 years. there are suburban florida home, documented by police video was now a crime scene. >> there was so much chaos going on. the whole street was blocked off, tons of police cars. there were sirens, you could smell the smoke and i remember running down the street, and the police officers were trying to stop me. and i just kept going, and she was just standing there, in the middle of the street. she

here's josh mankiewicz with "along came jodi. " >> mr. alexander was stabbed.ould acknowledge that, right? >> yes. >> it would be you that did it, correct? >> yes. >> the jodi arias trial never played as a murder mystery. jodi, after all, had admitted to 12 jurors in open court, and a few million viewers on tv, that she was the one who shot, stabbed, and then stabbed some more her former boyfriend and secret sex partner. >> as to count one, first degree murder, guilty. >> why, then, did so many millions of trial followers stick around for the final act? [applause] and why did so many leave home and work to gather on the courthouse steps to await the final verdict? we'll take an in-depth look at the case, into why jodi arias became so obsessed with travis alexander, and why so many of you became obsessed with this trial. >> hello. >> we start with this home video, played for the jury. it shows travis holding court amid a circle of friends. look a little closer and you'll see a blond tenderly nestled in his lap. that's jodi, in much happier times, when she and tr

here's josh mankiewicz with "betrayal of trust." >> southern california's south bay. a singularly stunning strand of shoreline with familiar names like hermosa, redondo and manhattan. >> we call it the sandbox. no one thinks that this part of los angeles exists, but it does. >> this seaside playground is lined with beach front properties worth millions. and nestled among these small beach towns is an oasis called, el segundo. >> its main street, usa. >> it's a great place to raise kids. >> and in 2003, one of the rainmakers in the real estate business, selling those beautiful homes in el segundo and the south bay was a woman named julia keller, known as "deede". >> she really just embraced everyone that came into her path. >> deede's best friends, mortgage executive cindy ertman and real estate saleswoman linda dondero. she was good at her job? >> i love working with deede. everybody did. >> she was just so easy to like and wanted the best for everybody. and her clients were very loyal over the years. >> deede was loyal, too. not only to our clients but as a divorce m

once again, here's josh mankiewicz " a sister's search. " >> no one seemed to know where lesley herring. her husband lyle had been seen but wasn't returning anyone's calls. not even those from the lapd. had lesley simply left her husband without a word to anyone? it seemed unlikely but then her sister aasha was still in the process of learning about lesley's marriage. how bad it really was. how unhappy lesley was. things lesley was apparently telling only their mother. >> the thing about my sister, i think she wanted people to believe she had it all together. she wouldn't tell us about the problems she was having with lyle. >> she had always taken care of you. you're on tv. and doing great and maybe she thought, you know what? i'm not going to break aasha's concentration for a minute. >> definitely. yeah. out of protection. a little bit of pride. >> so perhaps lesley was still alive somewhere and just keeping her head down. it is what vivian was hoping. >> i believed that lesley would come home. i went to sleep every night and imagined i could hear the doorbell ring. i could imagine tha