♪ when was giselle esteban went on trial for the murder maxlength=32> in october 2012, when giselle wentth and nail that she did no do it, because she does no want her family and her kids t know that he was responsible for that >> reporter: so, in his openin statement, ford laid out a devastating case, all pointing to premeditated first degree murder murder tons of it esteban's life wa in shambles, said forward. she lost custody of he daughter, her boyfriend left her. she blamed it all on her successful, to beautiful frien michelle and said set about methodicall to kill one of the few peopl who tried to be her friend why did she sneak into the school to find michelle's new address and maybe kill her there why did she send those tex from the apple store in chuc e. cheese? to cover-up or crime but she could not hide from th cameras. so the prosecutor but -- her own electronic trail and the dna in the car confirmed it the evidence was overwhelming. just know refuting it, sai forward. and so the defense did not eve try. instead, they did somethin wholly unexpected, a big surprise giselle adm