and as this case went on we realized that dorothy lee had that discipline. >> reporter: quick discovered that lee had inquired about a job in australia or south africa and that her mom owned a home in the central american country of belize. so he put tabs on flights to those countries. >> they turned up nothing. >> reporter: did you assume that maybe she had changed her identity? >> yes. like a new license, maybe a new passport. >> reporter: lee seemed to have vanished without a trace. but out of the blue, a message appeared. >> savanna and i belong together. and nobody besides god has the right to destroy that. >> we had found out five days or so after the kidnapping, relatives the and associates received a letter and a videotape from dorothy lee. concern, i recently lost custody to my beautiful 9 1/2-month-old nursing baby. this happened because of a truly evil person, b. harris todd, and a totally corrupt family court system." knew this child abduction was not a spur of the moment decision. lee had a well thought-out plan. >> i promise and swear on my life that i will continue to take

dorothy's neighbor james holloway told police that edward lee elmore, a 23-year-old handyman worked for dorothy from time to time. although elmore had never been convicted of a felony, police matched his fingerprints from other misdemeanor arrests and issued a warrant to bring him in, accusing him of murder and rape, among lesser charges. greenwood police went looking for elmore 36 hours after dorothy's body was found. >> i was working second shift with the detective division and the call came in saying the suspect was at his girlfriend mary's apartment. i went up and knocked on the door. >> the encounter was not what detective vanleberghe expected. >> i told them that we had a warrant for his arrest. and i told him it was for murder. his demeanor at that time was so nonchalant. oh, okay. which is totally out of context for anybody i've ever dealt with before in a situation like that. no outburst or violent behavior. just like oh, well. >> police took hair and blood samples and placed them in the county jailhouse. even elmore's public defender had doubts about his innocence. >> many peo