yeah she saw a woman's wallet, and sonya ivanoff's i.d. to 1. >> reporter: you have to go find charlotte, and get her to repeat it on the stand. >> ultimately yes. >> reporter: they were old family friends of owens, worried that charlotte would just deny everything, so he obtained a warrant. >> well charlotte, i may have opened my mouth and spoken out of turn -- >> reporter: which allowed him to recorded a phone call from nearly -- to charlotte. the conversation that i >> you are concerned that you had seen, along with matt's other stuff you had seen sonya's i.d.. my recollection is i'm going to go tell the lawyers today. >> reporter: charlotte says she never told anyone but nearly, because she thought she had seen in the paper that the cops already had the i.d.. >> i don't think any more about it than. >> reporter: here is what is crucial, she did not deny seeing the i.d.. the prosecution asked the judge to put charlotte on the witness stand, and the judge agreed. except, just as burrows hide feared, when charlotte testified -- >> did you