months after he left, billy returned. >> my name is billy lee, or william actually. >> reporter: and sergeant had his chance to question him. >> how long did you know cassy? >> i knew her when she was a tech in the emergency room. >> reporter: curiously sanchez did not ask why billy removed the carpet or why he suddenly doing off for alaska but he did ask about the nature of billy's relationship to cassy. >> we were real good friends. we didn't go to bars together and we didn't go fishing together. we didn't do that kind of stuff but we had a working relationship that was pretty close. >> reporter: really? back at the crime scene day of the murder, he claimed he barely knew her. now they were pretty close. too close? billy told the detective he had an alibi. he and a buddy were out in the country working on his cabin. >> we were working on that roof and when i got the call, we'd been out there for a couple of days. >> reporter: but, of course, as any detective could tell you people lie all the time about alibis. sanchez asked billy to take a polygraph. >> did you inflict any injuries to the v