it was registered to phillup partin, a convicted killer. >> phillup partin was convicted of a murder committed in 1987 in which he strangled a man with a phone cord or some kind of cord. >> short version was that phillup partin was what they call a hustler, a male prostitute. he had picked up this gay math teacher at a local club. they went back to the teacher's place. something happened. partin beat him, strangled him to death with the telephone cord. once he killed him, he took his his wallet, money, credit cards, and got into the guy's car and drove off. >> partin was convicted of second degree murder, served six years in prison and was released in 1995. police believed that it was partin they had been speaking to about joshan. partin said he and his daughter dropped joshan off at this walmart the morning she disappeared. but that's not what store surveillance tapes showed. >> the walmart surveillance video shows them pulling in at around 8:48. you see the suspect, you see joshan, and you see the suspect's little girl. they spend five, ten minutes, purchase a couple of fishing ite