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keith morrison: and there was this.yed the fearful phone messages paige's then eight-year-old daughter jess left on her mother cell phone. and here was just today. senior in high school, but still able to give a child's perspective of a very loving mother. she was pretty much typical soccer mom. she-- we did everything with her. we all slept in the same bed with her and we always went shopping together and she took us to all of our soccer games in the school and she provided us with everything that we needed, whatever that may have been. keith morrison: a procession of witnesses that lasted for weeks. and the defense team's response? that this was all so much show to distract from a shoddy investigation that focused on jones from the start despite the lack of any physical evidence. do you solemnly swear-- keith morrison: and they drove that theory home by boldly calling former lead investigator beverly gerald. remember her? she was in charge of the investigation and all those detectives from the beginning. good afternoo

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keith morrison: but was it true?arters, his addictions. wild turkey 101? and [inaudible] yes. a [inaudible] whatever i can get my hands on. you drink it every day? every day. just one, or two? i drink until there ain't no more, until i don't have anymore money, i drink. keith morrison: yes, and he smoked weed, he admitted, and did speed. but it got worse. do you hear voices? yes. do you remember saying to that person that they sounded like monsters? yes. keith morrison: hallucinations, too. what kind of hallucinations? i see shadows sometimes. robert langford: sometimes? yes. robert langford: do you see other people? sometimes. well, i think everybody agreed that noel stevens is crazy as an outhouse rat. keith morrison: how could you believe a man as crazy as that? you are outside of reality at that point. keith morrison: so a man who hears voices? that got the jury's attention. one juror even submitted a question, read by the judge. did the voices you said you would hear from time to time ever tell you to kill shaun

keith morrison: yeah. and we had a pretty good feeling there was going to be some kind of dna on there. so he did give us a dna sample. keith morrison: so they sent it off to the lab and waited. penny heard the news, and still distressed by a sense of failed responsibility, felt some force pulling her to the place the poison ivy costume was found. penny watkins: very eerie place. there is a train track just on the other side of it. and i don't know-- i just envisioned being tortured in there, and the trains going by, and the clinking, and the echoes-- but i just had to see for myself, i suppose. maybe i'd find something that someone else missed. i don't know. keith morrison: or maybe someone else would. it was spring, remember. time to get outside, clear the land, find things. [music playing] i'm priya mann, live in carlton where we have breaking developments in the search for chelsea bruck. take a look behind me. just hours ago a body was discovered about a quarter mile away from where-- keith morrison: a

keith morrison: chelsea was out to scare up some halloween fun. she looked beautiful in her costume.

keith morrison: and then there was the day planner, when the sweet mundane details of paige's life and those of her children were made real once more. the family nights, soccer games, the dance recitals and birthday parties and library visits. they were all there. the precious chaotic rhythms of a family that once was. proof that there was a time when all was as it should be. proof also that time is gone forever. on a lonely road in texas. we figured that she had been sexually assaulted and dumped here. craig melvin: tough questions for her boyfriend. where was i the night before? what had i been doing? when had i last seen her? i really thought he could be our killer. craig melvin: but while police tried to prove it, another attack. he has got me by the throat, and he's shaking me, and he's yelling at me, telling me not to say a word. you're a prisoner in this apartment now. yes. jeff capps: her body had kind of been propped up onto the bed. even law enforcement, they felt, what do we have on our hands here? craig melvin: there's growing danger because police are looking in the wrong