i was not at helium road. ok, but i was not at helium road.wicz (voiceover): she stuck to her story, even if that story wasn't getting her anywhere. why would i confess to something that i didn't do? a month goes by. nothing happens. two months. katie spielbauer: nothing. - six months. - it keeps going. there has to be a point where you're sort of losing hope here. well, i mean, i've already talked to my lawyer. what do we do? his response is we wait. we wait and see. he said, katie, the evidence is going to come back, and the evidence isn't going to lie. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): james farren had been putting criminals away for longer than katie had been alive. he knew his evidence against katie was not definitive. cell phone pings the night robin was killed showed katie was in range of a cell tower that would have been on her route home from helium road. but from katie's best friend's house, the location of her alibi, katie would also have been in that cell tower's range. and then, serendipitously, came a break. katie had been in jail mor

and he wasn't anywhere near helium road. that's what he says.iewicz (voiceover): that's when jd told mongold about another man in robin's life, a name the investigator hadn't heard before, chris. who's chris? well, he tells us a story. they used to date, and i think he's into drugs, and i think there was some violence. i think he's kind of a bad guy. you're hearing this from jd. from jd. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): and jd's new wife katie backed up her husband's story. tells the same story, names the same guy. so off you go to chris. allan mongold: yeah, off we go to chris. same questions, when's the last time you saw robin, what's y'all's relationship, who doesn't like her, the same questions. i was here, mom's in the house, i live with my mom, talk to her. he had an alibi. he had an alibi. so chris is off the list. nobody gets off the list that early, but yeah, he's at the bottom. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): jared soon moved to the bottom, too, but jd was about to move up the investigators list because his story was about to change. coming u