. >> reporter: kathy carpenter was that teller. and one day seven years ago, out of the blue, nancy asked her to lunch. kathy accepted. and learned first hand another of nancy's hallmark traits. >> she was sometimes brutally honest. >> reporter: no edit button? >> no edit button. i like that, yes. no edit button. she actually, when i first met her, told me that i was very fat. >> reporter: what a thing to say to somebody when you first meet them though. hi, be my friend. you're fat. >> yeah. well, you're fat. you know, you're beautiful. but you're fat." >> reporter: so she was blunt, undiplomatic, but irresistable. by the time lunch was over nancy and kathy were fast friends. just how nancy was. like when she made plans to leave town for the winter she decided to rent her house to a retired doctor and his heart cult horticulturalist wife. total strangers whom she befriended in a heartbeat actually invited them to move in a month early. and so she, dr. trey styler, and his wife who also happened to be named nancy, they all lived toge

is kathy carpenter completely off the hook?s still an investigation going. so, no, miss carpenter, at this point is, is not completely off the hook. >> reporter: and still i think they're a little suspicious of you, you know? >> i've heard that there's still some questions in people's minds. >> reporter: she knows, all too personally, what it's like to lose the trust of her community. she has also lost her job, her home. and she's lost her very best friend she said. and she told us she feels guilty. >> that's why i say i wish that i could have helped, her and have been there to help. what could i have done differently? talked her into staying there not coming home. >> reporter: nobody can know the future. >> right. but i do blame myself. you know, that's something that i'll have to work through, but -- whom nancy has not spoken since whom catty has not spoken since all this happened is nancy pfister's daughter juliana. what would you want to say to juliana? >> that i just hope that she knows the truth. i had nothing to do with