1 00:00:07,340 --> 00:00:11,011 - I'm Kate Snow and this is Dateline: Secrets Uncovered. 2 00:00:11,878 --> 00:00:14,314 - It was the strangest call of my life. 3 00:00:14,347 --> 00:00:17,283 She just said, "Is Linda with you? 4 00:00:17,317 --> 00:00:18,451 "She's missing. We can't find her." 5 00:00:18,485 --> 00:00:19,886 That's all she kept saying. 6 00:00:19,919 --> 00:00:22,188 Everything changed from there on out, 7 00:00:22,222 --> 00:00:24,791 and just got uglier and uglier. 8 00:00:24,824 --> 00:00:28,261 - A loving mother one day just disappears. 9 00:00:28,294 --> 00:00:30,463 - Her car was there and she wasn't home. 10 00:00:30,497 --> 00:00:31,664 - The blood was Linda's. 11 00:00:31,698 --> 00:00:32,599 - We all knew 12 00:00:32,632 --> 00:00:34,434 there's something very wrong here. 13 00:00:34,467 --> 00:00:36,803 - But with no body, no evidence, 14 00:00:36,836 --> 00:00:39,739 and no suspects, no arrest. 15 00:00:39,773 --> 00:00:41,675 - The ex-husband and the ex-boyfriend 16 00:00:41,708 --> 00:00:43,543 both had alibis. 17 00:00:43,576 --> 00:00:46,413 - Then lightning strikes again. 18 00:00:46,446 --> 00:00:48,515 - I drove into the driveway-- 19 00:00:49,849 --> 00:00:52,085 - How often are a mother and daughter 20 00:00:52,118 --> 00:00:54,454 killed at the same house? 21 00:00:54,487 --> 00:00:57,757 - Who would steal so much from one family? 22 00:00:57,791 --> 00:01:00,193 - Was she afraid of him? - She was afraid of him. 23 00:01:00,226 --> 00:01:02,295 - I just found out they're investigating me again. 24 00:01:02,328 --> 00:01:05,165 - Motive outweighed everything in this case. 25 00:01:05,198 --> 00:01:07,634 - Miles away, buried in the sand, 26 00:01:07,667 --> 00:01:09,669 lay one piece of the puzzle. 27 00:01:12,505 --> 00:01:13,940 - The rest of the mystery 28 00:01:13,973 --> 00:01:16,576 hiding away in a woman's heart. 29 00:01:16,609 --> 00:01:18,912 - She couldn't keep it inside anymore. 30 00:01:18,945 --> 00:01:21,481 - The killer thought his secret was safe. 31 00:01:21,514 --> 00:01:22,682 He was wrong. 32 00:01:22,716 --> 00:01:24,351 - This is as they say, a game changer. 33 00:01:24,384 --> 00:01:27,253 - Our prime suspect no longer has an alibi. 34 00:01:27,287 --> 00:01:35,428 ** 35 00:01:35,462 --> 00:01:38,565 - Hello, and welcome to Dateline: Secrets Uncovered. 36 00:01:38,598 --> 00:01:40,233 It defied the odds. 37 00:01:40,266 --> 00:01:41,568 Three women gone, 38 00:01:41,601 --> 00:01:44,671 all from the same Tucson, Arizona home. 39 00:01:44,704 --> 00:01:47,440 Though the tragedies took place years apart. 40 00:01:47,474 --> 00:01:51,144 Police believed the disturbing events were connected. 41 00:01:51,177 --> 00:01:54,447 To expose the dreadful secret behind this mystery, 42 00:01:54,481 --> 00:01:57,183 one person would have to come clean. 43 00:01:57,217 --> 00:01:59,853 But would they have the courage to do it? 44 00:01:59,886 --> 00:02:02,889 Here's Dennis Murphy, with "Secrets of the Desert." 45 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:09,062 - It's a timeless Old West beauty 46 00:02:09,062 --> 00:02:12,065 as the setting sun grazes the mountains, 47 00:02:12,065 --> 00:02:15,435 and the vast Sonoran Desert fades to dark, 48 00:02:15,468 --> 00:02:20,073 covering secrets and old bones for another night. 49 00:02:20,073 --> 00:02:21,841 It's as unchanging out here, 50 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:24,844 as the heartaches all those people in the valley below 51 00:02:24,878 --> 00:02:28,314 sometimes seem to make for themselves. 52 00:02:28,348 --> 00:02:30,483 With their jealousies, their rages. 53 00:02:35,088 --> 00:02:36,990 When daily routine without warning 54 00:02:37,090 --> 00:02:38,992 gives way to stark terror. 55 00:02:43,663 --> 00:02:45,465 A young woman vanished. 56 00:02:50,103 --> 00:02:51,705 That was the start of it all. 57 00:02:51,738 --> 00:02:53,973 An anguished mother's cry for help 58 00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:57,410 in a case that would take 15 years to untangle. 59 00:02:57,444 --> 00:02:58,745 You didn't have a weapon. You didn't have a witness. 60 00:02:58,778 --> 00:03:00,146 - That's correct. 61 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:03,483 - Before it was done, there'd be multiple murders. 62 00:03:03,516 --> 00:03:06,686 - They pushed someone who doesn't like to be pushed. 63 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,888 - And maddeningly for law enforcement, 64 00:03:08,922 --> 00:03:11,524 suspects who just didn't quite fit. 65 00:03:11,558 --> 00:03:14,861 - The two key people had alibis. 66 00:03:14,894 --> 00:03:17,430 - A daughter, ensnared in a family tragedy 67 00:03:17,464 --> 00:03:19,099 like few others. 68 00:03:19,132 --> 00:03:20,567 - Did you understand what had happened? 69 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,502 - I don't think I really understood it like fully, 70 00:03:22,535 --> 00:03:27,207 but something bad happened. 71 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,343 - It all started here... Tucson, Arizona. 72 00:03:30,377 --> 00:03:32,479 The Old Pueblo, they call it. 73 00:03:32,512 --> 00:03:33,880 Nestled in the desert at the foot 74 00:03:33,913 --> 00:03:36,516 of the Santa Catalina Mountains, 75 00:03:36,549 --> 00:03:38,752 Dave Watson spent nearly 20 years here 76 00:03:38,785 --> 00:03:41,087 with the Tucson Fire Department. 77 00:03:41,087 --> 00:03:44,357 He fought fires, and was trained as an EMT. 78 00:03:44,391 --> 00:03:46,960 Eventually he made captain, but he never forgot 79 00:03:46,993 --> 00:03:50,296 the camaraderie of his early days at the firehouse. 80 00:03:50,330 --> 00:03:52,198 - Burning through a lot of adrenaline together, huh. 81 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:53,500 - On occasion, yes. 82 00:03:53,533 --> 00:03:55,001 - Hours of boredom, moments of terror. 83 00:03:55,101 --> 00:03:56,736 - Yeah, pretty much. 84 00:03:56,770 --> 00:03:58,972 - Seemed like everything he needed, 85 00:03:59,005 --> 00:04:02,509 until in 1993, she came along. 86 00:04:02,542 --> 00:04:05,045 - I was out with a friend, it was his birthday, 87 00:04:05,078 --> 00:04:09,549 and met her at an Eastside nightclub. 88 00:04:09,582 --> 00:04:13,620 And so I walked up to her and asked her to dance. 89 00:04:13,653 --> 00:04:15,488 Her name was Linda. 90 00:04:15,522 --> 00:04:18,692 - She was spontaneous, spunky, cute, 91 00:04:18,725 --> 00:04:20,160 and we just seemed to hit it off. 92 00:04:20,193 --> 00:04:22,962 - She was very funny, and just very sweet. 93 00:04:23,063 --> 00:04:25,331 That's always the word I think to describe her. 94 00:04:25,365 --> 00:04:28,301 - Marnel Camp was one of Linda's best friends. 95 00:04:28,335 --> 00:04:29,569 Dave's too. 96 00:04:29,602 --> 00:04:32,372 She was also dating Dave's best friend. 97 00:04:32,405 --> 00:04:36,076 The two couples soon made a young, fun-loving, foursome. 98 00:04:36,076 --> 00:04:38,545 - But we didn't have kids yet. We didn't even have a house. 99 00:04:38,578 --> 00:04:41,081 Neither one of us even had a mortgage yet or anything. 100 00:04:41,081 --> 00:04:44,684 So it was pretty carefree, looking back. 101 00:04:44,718 --> 00:04:47,354 - Lots of barbecuing, swimming, 102 00:04:47,387 --> 00:04:50,323 and yes, a fair amount of drinking too. 103 00:04:50,357 --> 00:04:52,559 This was a hard partying crowd. 104 00:04:52,592 --> 00:04:56,429 But there was no denying that Dave and Linda were in love. 105 00:04:56,463 --> 00:04:58,365 - They were the ones that were well-liked. 106 00:04:58,398 --> 00:05:00,300 A cute couple. 107 00:05:00,333 --> 00:05:02,869 - Mike Bratton was another close friend of Dave's. 108 00:05:02,902 --> 00:05:04,204 - The kids on the float at high school? 109 00:05:04,237 --> 00:05:06,406 - Yeah, exactly. 110 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:09,442 - So it wasn't a surprise when in 1994, 111 00:05:09,476 --> 00:05:11,044 Dave and Linda married. 112 00:05:11,077 --> 00:05:12,645 - Good bash? - Yeah, oh, yeah. 113 00:05:12,679 --> 00:05:15,248 It was a party. It was a party. 114 00:05:15,281 --> 00:05:16,316 - Bartender was busy that night? 115 00:05:16,349 --> 00:05:18,351 Oh, yes. Uh-huh. Yes. 116 00:05:18,385 --> 00:05:20,453 - Dave and Linda scraped together enough money 117 00:05:20,487 --> 00:05:22,222 to buy their first home, 118 00:05:22,255 --> 00:05:24,557 and take on that first mortgage. 119 00:05:24,591 --> 00:05:27,927 - It was not in the best neighborhood, for sure, 120 00:05:27,961 --> 00:05:32,098 um, but very cute. It had a lot of character. 121 00:05:32,132 --> 00:05:33,867 - Somewhere between a dump and a fixer upper? 122 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:35,502 - Yeah, somewhere there. 123 00:05:35,535 --> 00:05:38,538 - Linda and Dave were up for the challenge. 124 00:05:38,571 --> 00:05:41,508 They worked to transform that rundown house 125 00:05:41,541 --> 00:05:43,977 into a loving home for themselves. 126 00:05:44,077 --> 00:05:45,812 And after two years of marriage, 127 00:05:45,845 --> 00:05:48,114 baby Jordynn came along. 128 00:05:48,148 --> 00:05:51,985 At first Dave wasn't so sure about having kids, but... 129 00:05:52,085 --> 00:05:55,755 - When Linda gave birth to Jordynn, it was just-- 130 00:05:55,789 --> 00:05:57,624 all that nervousness was gone. 131 00:05:57,657 --> 00:06:00,093 So, yeah, it was nice. 132 00:06:00,126 --> 00:06:03,063 You know, kids make a world of difference. 133 00:06:03,096 --> 00:06:04,764 - Jordynn's grown up now, 134 00:06:04,798 --> 00:06:07,467 but remembers fine details of that little house, 135 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:09,035 and her mom. 136 00:06:09,035 --> 00:06:12,405 - We had a strawberry patch kind of outside of the house. 137 00:06:12,439 --> 00:06:14,607 I remember us picking strawberries one morning 138 00:06:14,641 --> 00:06:17,811 before breakfast, her cooking breakfast. 139 00:06:17,844 --> 00:06:20,046 - How was Linda, as a mother? 140 00:06:20,046 --> 00:06:22,048 - Oh, she loved that little girl. 141 00:06:22,082 --> 00:06:24,718 That baby was her whole world. 142 00:06:24,751 --> 00:06:28,355 Bobbie Kutasy and Pat Hinkle were Linda's aunts. 143 00:06:28,388 --> 00:06:30,657 - She's very attentive that little girl. 144 00:06:30,690 --> 00:06:32,959 Loved her to pieces. 145 00:06:33,059 --> 00:06:34,361 - With Jordynn's arrival, 146 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:37,097 Dave and Linda got another visitor too. 147 00:06:37,130 --> 00:06:39,532 - Marilyn came out to be the nanny, 148 00:06:39,566 --> 00:06:41,301 because they both worked. 149 00:06:41,334 --> 00:06:43,169 - Marilyn was Linda's mother. 150 00:06:43,203 --> 00:06:46,473 - Was that an SOS that went out from Linda to Marilyn? 151 00:06:46,506 --> 00:06:48,174 - Yes. - To come-- mom come, 152 00:06:48,208 --> 00:06:51,077 I need some help here. - Yeah. Yeah, exactly. 153 00:06:51,077 --> 00:06:53,780 - Not an unusual request from a new mother, 154 00:06:53,813 --> 00:06:56,649 but Marilyn's response was unusual. 155 00:06:56,683 --> 00:06:57,951 - She sold her house, 156 00:06:57,984 --> 00:06:59,753 and drove her car and headed out. 157 00:06:59,786 --> 00:07:01,054 - She did all that for her girl and her grand-daughter. 158 00:07:01,087 --> 00:07:03,123 - She did all that for the family, yeah. 159 00:07:03,156 --> 00:07:04,557 - And where was she living? 160 00:07:04,591 --> 00:07:08,762 - Dave actually built a little guesthouse out back 161 00:07:08,795 --> 00:07:10,663 specifically for Marilyn. 162 00:07:10,697 --> 00:07:11,564 - Not every young husband 163 00:07:11,598 --> 00:07:12,832 likes to have the mother-in-law around, 164 00:07:12,866 --> 00:07:13,867 let's face it. 165 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:15,635 - It's funny that all the guys at work said 166 00:07:15,669 --> 00:07:18,905 that that's a big mistake. 167 00:07:18,938 --> 00:07:20,507 They said it was going to end up in divorce. 168 00:07:20,540 --> 00:07:23,410 - What was she like? - Very pleasant, polite. 169 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:27,380 And, uh, but as time went on, 170 00:07:27,414 --> 00:07:30,517 you know, you live with somebody for 24 hours at a time, 171 00:07:30,550 --> 00:07:33,853 you get to know more about them, 172 00:07:33,887 --> 00:07:37,123 and our relationship got strained. 173 00:07:37,157 --> 00:07:40,927 - And soon, that wasn't the only relationship suffering. 174 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,530 Linda's friend, Marnel, who by then was married 175 00:07:43,563 --> 00:07:45,965 and living in Oregon, noticed the change 176 00:07:46,066 --> 00:07:48,935 when she invited Dave and Linda up for a visit. 177 00:07:48,968 --> 00:07:50,403 - You were seeing the cracks right before your eyes. 178 00:07:50,437 --> 00:07:52,272 - Absolutely. Yeah. 179 00:07:52,305 --> 00:07:56,076 - Coming apart was a hard reality for Dave to accept. 180 00:07:56,076 --> 00:07:58,678 - I planned on staying married forever, you know. 181 00:07:58,712 --> 00:07:59,612 That was the deal, 182 00:07:59,646 --> 00:08:01,247 but just didn't turn out that way. 183 00:08:01,281 --> 00:08:03,416 You know, I was no more or longer in love, 184 00:08:03,450 --> 00:08:05,018 but I still loved her. 185 00:08:05,051 --> 00:08:08,021 And she's the mother of my child. 186 00:08:08,021 --> 00:08:11,224 In 1998, Dave and Linda separated, 187 00:08:11,257 --> 00:08:13,293 sharing custody of Jordynn. 188 00:08:13,326 --> 00:08:16,262 That same year, Dave met someone new. 189 00:08:16,296 --> 00:08:18,098 - I saw him and his buddy. 190 00:08:18,131 --> 00:08:19,165 I nudged my friend 191 00:08:19,199 --> 00:08:20,667 and I said I'm going to go ask him to dance, 192 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:22,602 and I made a beeline. 193 00:08:22,635 --> 00:08:24,437 Her name was Rosemary, 194 00:08:24,471 --> 00:08:27,674 and she ran a successful karaoke business in town. 195 00:08:27,707 --> 00:08:30,043 And she's quite an entertainer I guess, huh, Rosemary? 196 00:08:30,076 --> 00:08:32,045 - Yeah, she is. She says if you want to be successful 197 00:08:32,078 --> 00:08:35,181 in this business, you've got to sell it. 198 00:08:35,215 --> 00:08:38,385 - They fell for each other hard and fast. 199 00:08:38,418 --> 00:08:41,855 Their shared love of music, the outdoors, 200 00:08:41,888 --> 00:08:43,456 and little Jordynn. 201 00:08:43,490 --> 00:08:45,759 - He loves Jordynn very much. 202 00:08:45,792 --> 00:08:48,161 I knew when I met him he definitely had, 203 00:08:48,194 --> 00:08:51,064 you know, parenting time with her, 204 00:08:51,064 --> 00:08:54,868 and it would go back and forth between Linda and Dave. 205 00:08:54,901 --> 00:08:58,538 - Rosemary also had a daughter from another relationship, 206 00:08:58,571 --> 00:09:00,340 and in June 2000, 207 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:02,308 she and Dave took the big step 208 00:09:02,342 --> 00:09:04,044 of blending their families. 209 00:09:04,077 --> 00:09:05,879 - I have my daughters by my side, 210 00:09:05,912 --> 00:09:08,014 he had his two good buddies, 211 00:09:08,014 --> 00:09:10,750 and we took our vows 212 00:09:10,784 --> 00:09:13,353 and celebrated with everybody around us. 213 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:15,422 - Linda also seemed to find happiness 214 00:09:15,455 --> 00:09:17,624 in a new relationship. 215 00:09:17,657 --> 00:09:20,193 His name was Carl Barton Junior, 216 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:22,929 though most people knew him as JR. 217 00:09:23,029 --> 00:09:24,597 He was a firefighter too 218 00:09:24,631 --> 00:09:27,300 for the Air National Guard in Tucson. 219 00:09:27,334 --> 00:09:29,102 - What did you think? - He seemed nice. 220 00:09:29,135 --> 00:09:30,637 You know, I met him a handful of times, 221 00:09:30,670 --> 00:09:33,506 but more than a skin deep, 222 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:36,109 I didn't know much about him ever. 223 00:09:36,142 --> 00:09:39,646 - Linda called Marnel and gushed about her new flame. 224 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:40,513 - He was older, 225 00:09:40,547 --> 00:09:44,384 and I remember her commenting 226 00:09:44,417 --> 00:09:48,188 about how he was sexy or something like that. 227 00:09:48,221 --> 00:09:51,191 - Marnel, busy juggling family and career, 228 00:09:51,224 --> 00:09:53,393 really didn't pay close attention. 229 00:09:53,426 --> 00:09:56,129 If her friend was happy, then so was she, 230 00:09:56,162 --> 00:10:00,133 until the phone rang one morning in August 2000. 231 00:10:00,166 --> 00:10:02,068 - This phone call I think was one of the lines in the sand 232 00:10:02,102 --> 00:10:04,304 where your life was different thereafter. 233 00:10:04,337 --> 00:10:06,439 - Absolutely. Changed there. 234 00:10:06,473 --> 00:10:08,341 Everything changed from there on out, 235 00:10:08,375 --> 00:10:10,677 and just got uglier and uglier. 236 00:10:14,481 --> 00:10:17,450 - On the phone, Linda's mother with a question. 237 00:10:17,484 --> 00:10:19,753 - She said, "Marnel, it's Marilyn, 238 00:10:19,786 --> 00:10:21,254 "and is Linda with you?" 239 00:10:21,287 --> 00:10:22,822 - With you? Why would she be with you? 240 00:10:22,856 --> 00:10:25,191 - It was the strangest call of my life. 241 00:10:25,225 --> 00:10:27,627 - But things would get much stranger. 242 00:10:27,660 --> 00:10:29,763 - The back door was found unlocked, 243 00:10:29,796 --> 00:10:31,631 there's a broken cup at the entryway. 244 00:10:31,664 --> 00:10:33,233 - We got there. Her car was there, 245 00:10:33,266 --> 00:10:34,934 and she wasn't home. 246 00:10:41,074 --> 00:10:45,278 ** 247 00:10:46,446 --> 00:10:51,084 - The week of August 21, 2000 started out like any other, 248 00:10:51,117 --> 00:10:54,254 until Marnel Camp's phone rang. 249 00:10:54,287 --> 00:10:56,756 It was Marilyn, her friend Linda's mom. 250 00:10:56,790 --> 00:11:00,527 - She called and said, "Marnel, it's Marilyn, 251 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:02,095 and is Linda with you?" 252 00:11:02,128 --> 00:11:03,596 - With you? Why would she be with you? 253 00:11:03,630 --> 00:11:05,699 - It was the strangest call of my life. 254 00:11:05,732 --> 00:11:08,068 - Marilyn said she and Linda had gone to church 255 00:11:08,068 --> 00:11:09,269 Sunday evening. 256 00:11:09,302 --> 00:11:11,738 The next morning, Marilyn couldn't find her. 257 00:11:11,771 --> 00:11:14,474 How'd she sound, Marilyn? - She said-- Very stressed. 258 00:11:14,507 --> 00:11:16,343 Very stressed. 259 00:11:16,376 --> 00:11:18,812 - Marilyn also called the Pima County Sheriff. 260 00:11:24,351 --> 00:11:27,620 Detective Kelly Anderson wasn't on the case back then, 261 00:11:27,654 --> 00:11:29,089 but remembers it well. 262 00:11:29,089 --> 00:11:31,358 - There are not that many adult missing persons 263 00:11:31,391 --> 00:11:32,926 because frankly, 264 00:11:32,959 --> 00:11:34,661 an adult can go wherever they want to 265 00:11:34,694 --> 00:11:35,729 and they don't need permission 266 00:11:35,762 --> 00:11:37,430 or they don't have to tell anybody. 267 00:11:37,464 --> 00:11:40,633 - Still, a deputy was dispatched to Linda's house. 268 00:11:40,667 --> 00:11:44,904 - He doesn't see anything that would indicate foul play. 269 00:11:44,938 --> 00:11:46,373 - Nothing's been tossed in the house? 270 00:11:46,406 --> 00:11:49,476 - No, he doesn't see any blood, he doesn't see any indication 271 00:11:49,509 --> 00:11:51,911 of violence or a struggle. 272 00:11:51,945 --> 00:11:55,415 The only thing he notices is the broken coffee cup, 273 00:11:55,448 --> 00:11:58,585 and some property that Linda has left behind 274 00:11:58,618 --> 00:12:00,587 that may be a little suspicious. 275 00:12:00,620 --> 00:12:02,689 - Linda's Bible was on the counter, 276 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:05,825 her Jeep in the driveway, and perhaps most telling, 277 00:12:05,859 --> 00:12:07,927 she left her pager behind. 278 00:12:07,961 --> 00:12:10,930 Remember, this was the year 2000. 279 00:12:10,964 --> 00:12:12,065 - When she didn't have her daughter, 280 00:12:12,098 --> 00:12:13,166 she would keep her pager, 281 00:12:13,199 --> 00:12:15,402 so that if anything happened with her daughter 282 00:12:15,435 --> 00:12:16,836 that was the way to communicate with her. 283 00:12:16,870 --> 00:12:18,538 - So this is important. That's a link to the daughter. 284 00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:19,773 - That's a link to the daughter. 285 00:12:19,806 --> 00:12:21,574 - It doesn't mean anything's happened here yet though. 286 00:12:21,608 --> 00:12:23,109 - Not yet. 287 00:12:23,143 --> 00:12:24,711 Her purse is gone, 288 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:29,916 so the deputy tells Ms. Cox let's just wait. 289 00:12:29,949 --> 00:12:31,918 - Marilyn didn't want to wait. 290 00:12:31,951 --> 00:12:34,220 She called her younger sister, Pat. 291 00:12:34,254 --> 00:12:37,691 - She tells me, "Pat, Linda's missing." 292 00:12:37,724 --> 00:12:40,927 Of course, this don't happen to your family. 293 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,662 It happens to other people. 294 00:12:42,696 --> 00:12:45,699 - Marilyn also called Linda's ex-husband, Dave. 295 00:12:45,732 --> 00:12:46,733 - Marilyn says that 296 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:48,301 Linda's not home, she's missing. 297 00:12:48,335 --> 00:12:51,137 She sounded panicked and was like, 298 00:12:51,171 --> 00:12:53,373 give us some time. It's Monday morning. 299 00:12:53,406 --> 00:12:55,108 Maybe she went somewhere. 300 00:12:55,108 --> 00:12:56,576 - Three days passed. 301 00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:59,245 It was Linda's turn to take Jordynn. 302 00:12:59,279 --> 00:13:01,281 Dave and then four-year-old Jordynn 303 00:13:01,314 --> 00:13:03,083 drove to Linda's house. 304 00:13:03,116 --> 00:13:05,051 - We got there. Her car was there, 305 00:13:05,085 --> 00:13:07,654 and she wasn't home, and so he was like, 306 00:13:07,687 --> 00:13:08,822 "Oh, that's weird. 307 00:13:08,855 --> 00:13:11,624 "She's probably just out with a friend or something." 308 00:13:11,658 --> 00:13:13,660 - It didn't sound that far-fetched to many people 309 00:13:13,693 --> 00:13:16,596 who knew Linda. - She always liked to party. 310 00:13:16,629 --> 00:13:19,799 Supposedly, she had a couple of relationships 311 00:13:19,833 --> 00:13:21,167 with some crazy people. 312 00:13:21,201 --> 00:13:22,802 - Popping the wrong truck after a night of drinking? 313 00:13:22,836 --> 00:13:23,770 - Maybe. 314 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:26,873 Yeah, that was the assumption at the time. 315 00:13:26,906 --> 00:13:30,410 - Investigators continued to poke around anyway. 316 00:13:30,443 --> 00:13:33,346 They wanted to talk to Linda's boyfriend, JR. 317 00:13:33,380 --> 00:13:34,481 Marilyn brought him up 318 00:13:34,514 --> 00:13:36,149 when she reported Linda missing. 319 00:13:40,487 --> 00:13:43,156 Silverbell Road, a two lane blacktop 320 00:13:43,189 --> 00:13:46,726 that meanders from Tucson out into the vast desert. 321 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,262 A detective went to JR's home. 322 00:13:49,295 --> 00:13:53,099 - He cooperated in every way that was asked of him. 323 00:13:53,099 --> 00:13:55,602 - JR told the same story others did, 324 00:13:55,635 --> 00:13:58,271 that Linda was a heavy drinker. 325 00:14:09,082 --> 00:14:11,217 The drinking was why JR said 326 00:14:11,251 --> 00:14:13,286 he recently broke up with Linda. 327 00:14:19,325 --> 00:14:22,662 He said too much alcohol cost Linda her job. 328 00:14:22,696 --> 00:14:26,599 And JR said Linda faced an even bigger loss. 329 00:14:29,069 --> 00:14:31,938 Turns out Linda and Dave hadn't yet come to terms 330 00:14:31,971 --> 00:14:34,074 on custody of Jordynn, 331 00:14:34,074 --> 00:14:36,843 and they had an important court hearing coming up. 332 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:38,345 Are you going for full custody? 333 00:14:38,378 --> 00:14:40,714 - I didn't want to take all the rights away from Linda 334 00:14:40,747 --> 00:14:44,084 by no means because every child needs both parents. 335 00:14:44,117 --> 00:14:45,885 - But after his break up with Linda, 336 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:48,221 JR did something unexpected. 337 00:14:48,254 --> 00:14:51,191 He volunteered to testify at the custody hearing 338 00:14:51,224 --> 00:14:53,126 on Dave's behalf. 339 00:14:53,159 --> 00:14:54,361 So here's the strange thing. 340 00:14:54,394 --> 00:14:56,596 He now has your back in family court. 341 00:14:56,629 --> 00:14:57,931 - Not so much mine. 342 00:14:57,964 --> 00:15:00,233 I'm sure he could give two shakes about me, 343 00:15:00,266 --> 00:15:02,035 but he cared about Jordynn. 344 00:15:02,035 --> 00:15:05,405 So he was doing it for her, not me. 345 00:15:05,438 --> 00:15:07,040 - More pressure on Linda. 346 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,409 She had joined a 12-step program. 347 00:15:09,442 --> 00:15:11,778 Still shortly before she disappeared, 348 00:15:11,811 --> 00:15:15,448 she went out drinking with her cousin Jay, Pat's son, 349 00:15:15,482 --> 00:15:18,118 at a place away from the bright lights of Tucson 350 00:15:18,151 --> 00:15:21,454 at a bar called the Circle S Saloon. 351 00:15:21,488 --> 00:15:25,525 - Jay was over there and she was needing to get around 352 00:15:25,558 --> 00:15:28,661 some family because things was a little tough for her. 353 00:15:28,695 --> 00:15:32,165 So he told her, well, come on out. 354 00:15:32,198 --> 00:15:35,068 - Linda tried to climb back on the wagon. 355 00:15:35,068 --> 00:15:37,537 About 10:00 PM, the night she disappeared, 356 00:15:37,570 --> 00:15:39,272 she called her church sponsor 357 00:15:39,305 --> 00:15:41,341 and asked to meet the next morning, 358 00:15:41,374 --> 00:15:43,243 but she didn't show up for the meeting, 359 00:15:43,276 --> 00:15:45,311 and hadn't been seen since. 360 00:15:45,345 --> 00:15:47,247 There seemed to be every reason to believe 361 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,251 she was on another bender, except for one thing, 362 00:15:51,284 --> 00:15:54,721 something Marilyn mentioned in that initial 911 call. 363 00:15:58,491 --> 00:16:01,261 - Who had been threatening Linda and her mother? 364 00:16:01,294 --> 00:16:03,563 Police discover a cry for help. 365 00:16:03,596 --> 00:16:05,598 But did it come too late? 366 00:16:13,807 --> 00:16:16,576 - And someone else felt threatened too. 367 00:16:16,609 --> 00:16:19,713 - It made me nervous enough to protect myself 368 00:16:19,746 --> 00:16:21,915 and the kids and everybody involved. 369 00:16:28,254 --> 00:16:33,159 ** 370 00:16:33,693 --> 00:16:35,195 - Before she disappeared, 371 00:16:35,228 --> 00:16:37,397 investigators learned Linda Watson 372 00:16:37,430 --> 00:16:40,233 was facing the most trying time of her life. 373 00:16:40,266 --> 00:16:41,568 - She was broken up. 374 00:16:41,601 --> 00:16:43,103 She was upset at JR, 375 00:16:43,136 --> 00:16:46,573 She was going through a custody battle. 376 00:16:46,606 --> 00:16:49,175 - JR told detectives the custody issue 377 00:16:49,209 --> 00:16:50,977 was weighing heavily on Linda. 378 00:16:58,151 --> 00:16:59,652 - So JR said, 379 00:16:59,686 --> 00:17:02,655 Linda's mom shared her doubts with her sister, Pat. 380 00:17:02,689 --> 00:17:05,492 What did Marilyn think about this guy, JR? 381 00:17:05,525 --> 00:17:07,193 The boyfriend is in and out of the picture. 382 00:17:07,227 --> 00:17:08,395 - She didn't like him. 383 00:17:08,428 --> 00:17:11,131 She said that he's very controlling. 384 00:17:11,164 --> 00:17:13,733 - Which is why when Marilyn couldn't find Linda, 385 00:17:13,767 --> 00:17:16,736 her mind immediately jumped to JR. 386 00:17:16,770 --> 00:17:19,539 That very first day, she told her suspicions 387 00:17:19,572 --> 00:17:21,441 to the 911 operator. 388 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:30,250 - Investigators learned that after Marilyn called JR 389 00:17:30,283 --> 00:17:31,851 to ask about Linda, 390 00:17:31,885 --> 00:17:35,221 JR called Linda's attorney from her custody case 391 00:17:35,255 --> 00:17:36,890 and left this message. 392 00:17:48,935 --> 00:17:50,904 - He phoned someone else as well. 393 00:17:50,937 --> 00:17:54,074 - He called me up and told me that Marilyn had called him, 394 00:17:54,074 --> 00:17:55,542 accused him, blamed him, 395 00:17:55,575 --> 00:17:58,078 and asking, you know, where's my daughter? 396 00:17:58,078 --> 00:18:00,747 - Was JR protesting too much? 397 00:18:00,780 --> 00:18:03,216 Detectives learned while he was dating Linda, 398 00:18:03,249 --> 00:18:07,120 JR sometimes went with her to pick up or drop off Jordynn. 399 00:18:07,153 --> 00:18:08,722 That's how he knew Dave. 400 00:18:08,755 --> 00:18:10,457 - He was also a firefighter. 401 00:18:10,490 --> 00:18:13,293 He had met Dave, not through firefighting, 402 00:18:13,326 --> 00:18:14,928 but while he was with Linda 403 00:18:15,028 --> 00:18:17,230 doing child custody exchanges of Jordynn, 404 00:18:17,263 --> 00:18:21,201 he had met David and Rosemary Watson at that point. 405 00:18:21,234 --> 00:18:24,304 - Rosemary, Dave's new wife of two months. 406 00:18:24,337 --> 00:18:25,739 Keep your eye on that name. 407 00:18:25,772 --> 00:18:27,407 - Keep your eye on that name, yes. 408 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:28,675 - What is JR's alibi for the night 409 00:18:28,708 --> 00:18:30,143 that Linda goes missing? 410 00:18:30,176 --> 00:18:31,544 - On the night that Linda went missing, 411 00:18:31,578 --> 00:18:33,947 JR was with his girlfriend. 412 00:18:34,047 --> 00:18:35,415 - His new girlfriend. 413 00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:38,618 JR was already moving on, he said. 414 00:18:38,651 --> 00:18:41,287 But he still seemed concerned about Linda. 415 00:18:41,321 --> 00:18:45,225 JR was very helpful offering different ideas 416 00:18:45,258 --> 00:18:46,693 or people to talk to. 417 00:18:46,726 --> 00:18:48,228 - But I think cynically sometimes detective, 418 00:18:48,261 --> 00:18:51,064 guys inveigle themselves into an investigation 419 00:18:51,064 --> 00:18:53,066 when, in fact, they're part of the scheme. 420 00:18:53,066 --> 00:18:55,068 - Sure, that could certainly happen. 421 00:18:55,068 --> 00:18:59,673 - Detectives also had more concrete reasons to suspect JR. 422 00:18:59,706 --> 00:19:02,075 - There was a domestic incident 423 00:19:02,108 --> 00:19:06,746 that they were involved in shortly prior to this. 424 00:19:06,780 --> 00:19:09,249 - Just two days before Linda disappeared, 425 00:19:09,282 --> 00:19:12,285 she had called the Pima County Sheriff's Department. 426 00:19:12,318 --> 00:19:17,090 - She made a report that JR had come to her house on Curtis 427 00:19:17,123 --> 00:19:21,361 and was banging on the windows and banging on the doors. 428 00:19:21,394 --> 00:19:23,296 - JR Said he was just trying to pick up 429 00:19:23,329 --> 00:19:25,265 some of his belongings, 430 00:19:25,298 --> 00:19:28,068 but it prompted Linda to call her attorney 431 00:19:28,101 --> 00:19:29,869 the weekend she disappeared. 432 00:19:40,580 --> 00:19:42,082 She wasn't the only one. 433 00:19:42,115 --> 00:19:44,751 Rosemary and Dave also had a restraining order 434 00:19:44,784 --> 00:19:46,553 against JR. 435 00:19:46,586 --> 00:19:49,489 It stemmed from an incident when he was still dating Linda 436 00:19:49,522 --> 00:19:51,858 and came to pick up Jordynn at their home. 437 00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:54,094 - I was home alone with the kids, 438 00:19:54,127 --> 00:19:57,964 and just banging on the door, the big heavy-- 439 00:19:58,064 --> 00:20:00,233 not just a knock-knock, it was kind of a boom. 440 00:20:00,266 --> 00:20:02,702 And it was more his tone at the time. 441 00:20:02,736 --> 00:20:05,872 It made me nervous enough to protect myself 442 00:20:05,905 --> 00:20:08,108 and the kids and everybody involved. 443 00:20:08,141 --> 00:20:11,177 - Of course, after JR and Linda broke up, 444 00:20:11,211 --> 00:20:12,712 things changed. 445 00:20:12,746 --> 00:20:18,651 - JR came to us and said that he had concerns for Linda 446 00:20:18,685 --> 00:20:19,853 and her drinking, 447 00:20:19,886 --> 00:20:25,025 and he said that he would testify about her drinking 448 00:20:25,058 --> 00:20:27,027 in order to protect Jordynn. 449 00:20:27,060 --> 00:20:29,162 - The hearing happened right on schedule, 450 00:20:29,195 --> 00:20:31,831 just four days after Linda disappeared. 451 00:20:31,865 --> 00:20:35,702 Dave and Rosemary were there, of course, JR, too. 452 00:20:35,735 --> 00:20:38,171 Linda was still nowhere to be found. 453 00:20:38,204 --> 00:20:41,007 But her mom arrived, spoiling for a fight. 454 00:20:41,041 --> 00:20:42,909 - JR was in the courtroom, 455 00:20:42,942 --> 00:20:47,113 and she accused JR of harming her daughter. 456 00:20:47,147 --> 00:20:48,348 - She thinks this is foul play. 457 00:20:48,381 --> 00:20:49,849 - Yes, she does. 458 00:20:49,883 --> 00:20:53,153 - With Linda a no-show, the judge awarded temporary 459 00:20:53,186 --> 00:20:55,355 full custody of Jordynn to Dave. 460 00:20:55,388 --> 00:20:57,223 - Were you happy with that? 461 00:20:57,257 --> 00:21:00,694 - Oh, I was definitely happy with Jordynn in my life, yes. 462 00:21:00,727 --> 00:21:03,263 - Marilyn went back to Linda's house dejected, 463 00:21:03,296 --> 00:21:04,964 but not defeated, 464 00:21:05,065 --> 00:21:07,067 and that's when she made a discovery 465 00:21:07,067 --> 00:21:08,968 that changed everything. 466 00:21:11,338 --> 00:21:13,206 - Marilyn calls us and said that she found blood 467 00:21:13,239 --> 00:21:15,575 in the entryway to Linda's house. 468 00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:18,178 - Did all these little fragments of observations 469 00:21:18,211 --> 00:21:19,679 suggest a narration detected? 470 00:21:19,713 --> 00:21:22,716 - Something violent happened in this area 471 00:21:22,749 --> 00:21:24,351 that someone had cleaned up. 472 00:21:24,384 --> 00:21:26,086 Now we have a theory of foul play. 473 00:21:26,086 --> 00:21:29,289 - But what police didn't have was a suspect. 474 00:21:29,322 --> 00:21:31,624 - The only two people that might be looked at, 475 00:21:31,658 --> 00:21:33,326 both had alibis. 476 00:21:39,099 --> 00:21:43,536 ** 477 00:21:44,270 --> 00:21:47,707 - Linda Watson had just vanished. 478 00:21:47,741 --> 00:21:49,943 She didn't even show up to a custody hearing 479 00:21:49,976 --> 00:21:52,679 involving her four-year-old daughter, Jordynn. 480 00:21:52,712 --> 00:21:55,448 Did you feel abandoned, Jordynn? 481 00:21:55,482 --> 00:21:57,283 - No, not really. 482 00:21:57,317 --> 00:22:01,688 My dad was always right there if I needed anything. 483 00:22:01,721 --> 00:22:04,691 - Linda's mother, Marilyn, however, was very worried, 484 00:22:04,724 --> 00:22:07,193 especially when she returned to Linda's house 485 00:22:07,227 --> 00:22:09,062 after the custody hearing. 486 00:22:09,062 --> 00:22:10,230 - Marilyn calls us and said 487 00:22:10,263 --> 00:22:12,198 that she found blood in the entryway 488 00:22:12,232 --> 00:22:14,367 to Linda's house. 489 00:22:14,401 --> 00:22:17,470 - The blood was under a trash bag hidden from view. 490 00:22:17,504 --> 00:22:20,373 The deputy who responded to Marilyn's 911 call 491 00:22:20,407 --> 00:22:21,741 hadn't seen it. 492 00:22:21,775 --> 00:22:25,845 Now investigators came back and did a luminol test. 493 00:22:25,879 --> 00:22:28,548 - It lit up blue and turned out to be positive 494 00:22:28,581 --> 00:22:30,717 for not only human blood, 495 00:22:30,750 --> 00:22:34,921 but matching DNA to Linda Watson. 496 00:22:34,954 --> 00:22:37,090 - Now that they were looking for blood, 497 00:22:37,090 --> 00:22:40,593 they found more on the vacuum cleaner cord. 498 00:22:40,627 --> 00:22:42,495 - It was apparent from the blood pattern 499 00:22:42,529 --> 00:22:45,098 that it wasn't dripped, it wasn't smeared, 500 00:22:45,098 --> 00:22:46,666 it wasn't wiped. 501 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:50,370 The cord had been laying in a pool of blood 502 00:22:50,403 --> 00:22:53,373 to get that pattern, and then dried. 503 00:22:53,406 --> 00:22:56,009 - Did all these little fragments of observations 504 00:22:56,109 --> 00:22:57,877 suggest a narration, detective? 505 00:22:57,911 --> 00:23:00,313 - Something violent happened in this area 506 00:23:00,347 --> 00:23:02,549 that someone had cleaned up. 507 00:23:02,582 --> 00:23:04,117 - So now you have a theory of foul play 508 00:23:04,150 --> 00:23:05,218 to explain her disappearance. 509 00:23:05,251 --> 00:23:06,786 - Now we have a theory of foul play. 510 00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:09,723 - Were investigators looking at JR as a potential suspect? 511 00:23:09,756 --> 00:23:12,292 - He was certainly looked at as a person of interest 512 00:23:12,325 --> 00:23:17,197 mostly because Marylin said this guy could have done it. 513 00:23:17,230 --> 00:23:22,569 - But JR also had a defender, Linda's ex-husband, Dave. 514 00:23:35,782 --> 00:23:37,984 - Of course, investigators had to wonder. 515 00:23:38,084 --> 00:23:40,286 After all, JR had backed Dave 516 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,589 in the custody dispute with Linda. 517 00:23:42,622 --> 00:23:45,725 Could Dave be covering for him now? 518 00:23:45,759 --> 00:23:49,095 For that matter where was Dave the night Linda disappeared? 519 00:24:00,340 --> 00:24:02,208 - The detective also interviewed Rosemary, 520 00:24:02,242 --> 00:24:03,109 Dave's wife. 521 00:24:07,681 --> 00:24:10,250 - Dave, she said, was home with the kids. 522 00:24:15,288 --> 00:24:17,891 - So both Dave's wife and JR's girlfriend said 523 00:24:17,924 --> 00:24:20,193 the two men were at their own homes 524 00:24:20,226 --> 00:24:22,195 the night Linda disappeared. 525 00:24:22,228 --> 00:24:24,064 And despite all that blood, 526 00:24:24,097 --> 00:24:26,166 there was still no conclusive proof 527 00:24:26,199 --> 00:24:28,201 Linda was even dead. 528 00:24:28,234 --> 00:24:30,603 - We have no body. 529 00:24:30,637 --> 00:24:33,973 We have no evidence of anything 530 00:24:34,074 --> 00:24:36,543 outside of the entryway, 531 00:24:36,576 --> 00:24:38,945 and certainly the only two people 532 00:24:38,978 --> 00:24:40,380 that might be looked at, 533 00:24:40,413 --> 00:24:41,881 the ex-husband and the ex-boyfriend, 534 00:24:41,915 --> 00:24:43,883 both had alibis. 535 00:24:43,917 --> 00:24:47,153 - The investigation had stalled, and Linda's case 536 00:24:47,187 --> 00:24:50,490 landed in the place no victim's family wants. 537 00:24:50,523 --> 00:24:52,726 - It's the vault. - And what is that? 538 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:54,127 - Our administration building, 539 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,364 many years ago before we occupied it, was a bank 540 00:24:57,397 --> 00:25:00,100 and on the second floor there is an actual vault, 541 00:25:00,133 --> 00:25:04,137 and that is where we keep the cold cases. 542 00:25:04,170 --> 00:25:07,173 - Locked away, a tomb of sorts, 543 00:25:07,207 --> 00:25:10,610 where mysteries lay buried and forgotten. 544 00:25:10,643 --> 00:25:12,445 But Linda's mom would not forget, 545 00:25:12,479 --> 00:25:15,482 would not give up. - I want to find her. 546 00:25:15,515 --> 00:25:17,617 If nothing else, I want to take her home. 547 00:25:17,650 --> 00:25:18,918 I don't want her in this desert. 548 00:25:18,952 --> 00:25:21,421 I want her to go home. 549 00:25:21,454 --> 00:25:24,491 - That sprawling Sonoran Desert, 550 00:25:24,524 --> 00:25:26,960 what secrets could it be hiding? 551 00:25:27,060 --> 00:25:30,597 Marylin paid for billboards, raised reward money, 552 00:25:30,630 --> 00:25:33,066 organized vigils. 553 00:25:33,099 --> 00:25:35,068 This was the start, I think, of what you would come to regard 554 00:25:35,068 --> 00:25:38,138 as the steel strength of Marilyn. 555 00:25:38,171 --> 00:25:40,173 - Absolutely. Yeah. 556 00:25:40,206 --> 00:25:42,108 - And even if she couldn't find Linda, 557 00:25:42,142 --> 00:25:45,245 she would continue Linda's fight for Jordynn. 558 00:25:45,278 --> 00:25:49,549 - Marilyn sought a lawsuit for grandparents' visitation rights. 559 00:25:49,582 --> 00:25:53,119 - Marilyn filed a lawsuit seeking unsupervised visits 560 00:25:53,153 --> 00:25:54,554 with her granddaughter. 561 00:25:54,587 --> 00:25:57,557 She made her case in court, and in the media. 562 00:25:57,590 --> 00:25:59,492 - I owed it to Linda I owed it to Jordynn 563 00:25:59,526 --> 00:26:03,296 and I owed it to myself to do as much as I could. 564 00:26:05,198 --> 00:26:07,167 - Dave and Rosemary fought back 565 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,202 for fear of what Marilyn might say 566 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:11,638 or even do to little Jordynn. 567 00:26:11,671 --> 00:26:14,341 - She's flat out told me as soon as she gets finds Linda, 568 00:26:14,374 --> 00:26:17,377 gets Jordynn, she's leaving this God forsaken place. 569 00:26:18,411 --> 00:26:20,447 - Amidst their legal dispute, 570 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,083 Dave and Rosemary grew their family. 571 00:26:23,116 --> 00:26:26,152 In 2001 they had a little boy, Caden. 572 00:26:26,186 --> 00:26:27,821 And then a year later, 573 00:26:27,854 --> 00:26:31,358 Rosemary took a bold step and adopted Jordynn. 574 00:26:31,391 --> 00:26:34,894 - I sent out birth announcements? 575 00:26:34,928 --> 00:26:39,966 - Did you? - It's a girl, 3'2", 576 00:26:40,066 --> 00:26:43,370 whatever, 68 pounds, kind of thing. 577 00:26:43,403 --> 00:26:44,904 I was ecstatic. 578 00:26:44,938 --> 00:26:47,741 - For Jordynn, the feeling was much more muted. 579 00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:51,644 - It seemed like what my father wanted to happen. 580 00:26:51,678 --> 00:26:53,480 I didn't want to displease anybody, 581 00:26:53,513 --> 00:26:55,982 so I just said yes. 582 00:26:56,082 --> 00:26:59,252 - With three kids, the court battle and work, 583 00:26:59,285 --> 00:27:01,488 the Watsons had their hands full, 584 00:27:01,521 --> 00:27:04,858 but Dave always made it a point to check in with Jordynn. 585 00:27:04,891 --> 00:27:10,030 - When I was little, and even now when he goes to work, 586 00:27:10,063 --> 00:27:12,732 still I kind of worry. 587 00:27:12,766 --> 00:27:14,367 - To calm her nerves, 588 00:27:14,401 --> 00:27:17,404 Dave made sure to tuck her in every night. 589 00:27:17,437 --> 00:27:19,572 - Even if he's at work, he'll still call 590 00:27:19,606 --> 00:27:21,775 and say goodnight around the same time 591 00:27:21,808 --> 00:27:23,243 every night, just in case. 592 00:27:23,276 --> 00:27:25,045 - Does he still do that? - Yes, he does. 593 00:27:25,045 --> 00:27:26,613 - Last night you got a tuck and call from him? 594 00:27:26,646 --> 00:27:28,314 - Mm-hmm, I did. 595 00:27:28,348 --> 00:27:31,351 - In January 2003, two and a half years 596 00:27:31,384 --> 00:27:32,819 after Linda vanished, 597 00:27:32,852 --> 00:27:35,355 the court finally issued a ruling. 598 00:27:35,388 --> 00:27:39,125 Marilyn sent Linda's friend Marnel an email with the news. 599 00:27:39,159 --> 00:27:43,563 - In big, bold letters she wrote, 600 00:27:43,596 --> 00:27:45,632 "I've got Jordy." 601 00:27:45,665 --> 00:27:48,635 - After a two-year legal battle, Marilyn won the right 602 00:27:48,668 --> 00:27:51,271 to have unsupervised visits with Jordynn. 603 00:27:51,304 --> 00:27:55,875 - I always thought that Linda must be-- 604 00:27:55,909 --> 00:27:57,610 must have given her a little bit of peace 605 00:27:57,644 --> 00:28:00,580 to know that Jordynn was with her mom. 606 00:28:00,613 --> 00:28:03,283 - Rosemary and Dave were not happy. 607 00:28:03,316 --> 00:28:07,587 Rosemary spoke to NBC affiliate KVOA TV 608 00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:09,022 after the ruling. 609 00:28:09,055 --> 00:28:13,526 - Not the state's place to decide where my children stay. 610 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,595 They're turning parents into babysitters. 611 00:28:15,628 --> 00:28:18,365 - At first, Marilyn said the Watsons resisted 612 00:28:18,398 --> 00:28:19,566 the judge's order. 613 00:28:19,599 --> 00:28:23,603 - She attempted to have her visitation, 614 00:28:23,636 --> 00:28:27,073 but Dave Watson made it difficult 615 00:28:27,107 --> 00:28:29,709 by not answering the phone, by not being available. 616 00:28:29,743 --> 00:28:32,946 - Marilyn took them back to court for contempt, 617 00:28:33,046 --> 00:28:35,448 and once again, she won. 618 00:28:35,482 --> 00:28:38,885 On May 7th 2003, Marilyn was due to have 619 00:28:38,918 --> 00:28:42,255 her first unsupervised visit with now seven-year-old Jordynn 620 00:28:42,288 --> 00:28:44,057 since the contempt hearing. 621 00:28:44,090 --> 00:28:45,625 - You remember seeing Jordynn off that day? 622 00:28:45,658 --> 00:28:47,794 Were you off shift? - Oh, yeah. I was off shift. 623 00:28:47,827 --> 00:28:49,896 Yeah, yeah, booted her out the door. 624 00:28:49,929 --> 00:28:51,064 - Have fun, huh? - Yeah. 625 00:28:51,064 --> 00:28:53,833 - Marilyn and Jordynn spent the day together. 626 00:28:53,867 --> 00:28:55,769 Remember what you all did that day? 627 00:28:55,802 --> 00:28:57,937 - I don't. I don't remember that day. 628 00:28:57,971 --> 00:29:01,074 - Maybe the movies. Maybe some shopping. 629 00:29:01,107 --> 00:29:03,009 - Maybe something like that, 630 00:29:03,043 --> 00:29:05,745 but I don't remember it. 631 00:29:05,779 --> 00:29:06,746 - Maybe not, 632 00:29:06,780 --> 00:29:10,083 but what happened next was unforgettable. 633 00:29:10,884 --> 00:29:12,218 - Coming up. 634 00:29:12,252 --> 00:29:14,254 - I said, "Is that my sister?" 635 00:29:14,287 --> 00:29:16,423 And he said, "Yeah." 636 00:29:16,456 --> 00:29:18,725 And I said, "Is she dead?" 637 00:29:18,758 --> 00:29:22,629 He said, "Yeah." - Lightning strikes twice. 638 00:29:22,662 --> 00:29:23,430 - How quickly, detective, 639 00:29:23,463 --> 00:29:25,198 do you start to connect the dots? 640 00:29:25,231 --> 00:29:26,232 - Immediately. 641 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:39,045 ** 642 00:29:39,379 --> 00:29:41,281 - May 7th, 2003, 643 00:29:41,314 --> 00:29:43,717 Linda and Marilyn's friend Marnel Camp 644 00:29:43,750 --> 00:29:45,452 had just moved back to Tucson. 645 00:29:45,485 --> 00:29:47,687 She'd made plans to catch up with Marilyn, 646 00:29:47,721 --> 00:29:50,290 who was elated at just having been awarded 647 00:29:50,323 --> 00:29:52,559 unsupervised visits with Jordynn. 648 00:29:52,592 --> 00:29:54,461 - What were the plans with Jordynn? 649 00:29:54,494 --> 00:29:57,497 - Just to stop at the house and see her and see Jordynn, 650 00:29:57,530 --> 00:30:02,268 and then possibly go with her to take Jordynn home. 651 00:30:02,302 --> 00:30:05,105 - But by the time Marnel made it over to the little house 652 00:30:05,138 --> 00:30:06,973 on Curtis road-- 653 00:30:07,007 --> 00:30:09,242 - I drove into the driveway 654 00:30:09,275 --> 00:30:14,647 at 7 about 7:45, um, and it was dark. 655 00:30:14,681 --> 00:30:16,316 Nobody was there. 656 00:30:16,349 --> 00:30:18,551 - Marnel must have just missed Marylin, 657 00:30:18,585 --> 00:30:20,020 who was supposed to have Jordynn 658 00:30:20,053 --> 00:30:23,356 back at Dave and Rosemary's home by 8:30. 659 00:30:23,390 --> 00:30:25,692 That's when Marnel remembered something. 660 00:30:25,725 --> 00:30:27,127 A TV appointment. 661 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,462 - I thought, "Oh, if I leave now, 662 00:30:29,496 --> 00:30:31,431 "I can still catch 'The Bachelor.'" 663 00:30:31,464 --> 00:30:33,299 - Just a short while after she left, 664 00:30:33,333 --> 00:30:36,770 calls started pouring into Pima County Sheriff's dispatch. 665 00:30:46,012 --> 00:30:48,715 - Marilyn's sister Pat was just getting ready to turn in 666 00:30:48,748 --> 00:30:50,917 when the TV caught her attention. 667 00:30:50,950 --> 00:30:52,552 - It was 10:00 news, 668 00:30:52,585 --> 00:30:55,955 and right at how they roll something across there. 669 00:30:55,989 --> 00:31:01,728 It said two ladies shot on Curtis Road. 670 00:31:01,761 --> 00:31:03,730 - Marilyn's street. 671 00:31:03,763 --> 00:31:07,233 Pat rushed over and found an active crime scene. 672 00:31:07,267 --> 00:31:09,703 She saw an officer she knew. 673 00:31:09,736 --> 00:31:13,873 - I said, "Is that my sister?" 674 00:31:13,907 --> 00:31:15,975 And he said, "Yeah." 675 00:31:16,076 --> 00:31:18,178 And I said, "Is she dead?" 676 00:31:18,211 --> 00:31:20,880 He said, "Yeah." 677 00:31:20,914 --> 00:31:23,149 And I asked him, "Would you please let me go to her?" 678 00:31:23,183 --> 00:31:26,419 He says, "No, I can't let you do that." 679 00:31:26,453 --> 00:31:29,255 So I just what of-- what can I do? 680 00:31:29,289 --> 00:31:31,291 I just lost it there. 681 00:31:31,324 --> 00:31:33,360 - It was nearly incomprehensible. 682 00:31:33,393 --> 00:31:35,929 Two tragedies in the same family. 683 00:31:35,962 --> 00:31:37,731 First, Linda disappeared. 684 00:31:37,764 --> 00:31:39,699 Now, Marilyn, having just returned home 685 00:31:39,733 --> 00:31:42,569 from dropping Jordynn off, murdered. 686 00:31:42,602 --> 00:31:44,004 - And Renee also. 687 00:31:44,104 --> 00:31:46,740 Renee was an innocent little neighbor lady. 688 00:31:46,773 --> 00:31:49,242 You know, she was just doing Marilyn a favor. 689 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:52,345 - Renee Farnsworth, the second victim. 690 00:31:52,379 --> 00:31:54,280 Marilyn's friend and neighbor who had gone with her 691 00:31:54,314 --> 00:31:56,149 to drop Jordynn off. 692 00:31:56,182 --> 00:32:00,286 Someone had ambushed the two women in the driveway. 693 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,690 Renee had been shot once, Marilyn twice. 694 00:32:03,723 --> 00:32:06,593 The second shot at close range to the head. 695 00:32:06,626 --> 00:32:12,599 - This is incredibly rare to have a random act of violence 696 00:32:12,632 --> 00:32:15,201 to two women who have done nothing to anybody. 697 00:32:15,235 --> 00:32:17,704 How quickly, detective, do you start to connect the dots 698 00:32:17,737 --> 00:32:21,808 and say this is the mother in the same house 699 00:32:21,841 --> 00:32:23,176 of the missing Linda Watson? 700 00:32:23,209 --> 00:32:25,278 - Immediately. 701 00:32:25,311 --> 00:32:26,513 Immediately. 702 00:32:26,546 --> 00:32:27,447 - Several hours later, 703 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,215 Pima County Sheriff's investigators 704 00:32:29,249 --> 00:32:32,619 went to the last place the two women had visited. 705 00:32:32,652 --> 00:32:35,822 - Two detectives came over, and had told us 706 00:32:35,855 --> 00:32:38,892 that they were there to do a well check on Jordynn, 707 00:32:38,925 --> 00:32:41,361 and they started talking to us. 708 00:32:41,394 --> 00:32:43,630 - Investigators told them there had been a shooting 709 00:32:43,663 --> 00:32:45,298 at Marilyn's home. 710 00:32:45,331 --> 00:32:47,500 They wanted to know where the Watsons had been. 711 00:33:02,916 --> 00:33:05,185 - The investigator asked if they had any contact 712 00:33:05,218 --> 00:33:06,419 with Marilyn. 713 00:33:12,859 --> 00:33:15,895 - So Dave said Rosemary came to the door. 714 00:33:15,929 --> 00:33:17,564 What did she make of what's going on? 715 00:33:17,597 --> 00:33:18,932 - Same as me, 716 00:33:18,965 --> 00:33:21,568 just kind of speechless, not-- 717 00:33:21,601 --> 00:33:25,071 just kind of taking it all in, trying to process it all. 718 00:33:25,071 --> 00:33:27,741 - The investigators never told Dave and Rosemary 719 00:33:27,774 --> 00:33:29,943 exactly what happened that night. 720 00:33:29,976 --> 00:33:32,145 Dave said it wasn't until the next day 721 00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:34,881 that he saw the news and learned that Marilyn 722 00:33:34,914 --> 00:33:36,216 had been murdered. 723 00:33:36,249 --> 00:33:37,584 Did you feel bad about Marilyn? 724 00:33:37,617 --> 00:33:38,918 - Oh, heck yeah. I mean, yeah. 725 00:33:38,952 --> 00:33:40,820 I mean, how could I not? 726 00:33:40,854 --> 00:33:43,189 This is Jordynn's grandmother. 727 00:33:43,223 --> 00:33:46,593 - There was someone else detectives needed to talk to. 728 00:33:46,626 --> 00:33:50,230 JR, Linda's ex-boyfriend who Marilyn had accused 729 00:33:50,263 --> 00:33:51,965 of murdering Linda. 730 00:34:01,741 --> 00:34:04,177 - JR told investigators he spent the evening 731 00:34:04,210 --> 00:34:07,313 with his fiancee and his kids, and for some reason, 732 00:34:07,347 --> 00:34:10,383 he felt the need to tell Marilyn's family too. 733 00:34:10,417 --> 00:34:13,753 - I got a call the next morning from JR telling me 734 00:34:13,787 --> 00:34:15,055 he had an alibi. 735 00:34:15,055 --> 00:34:16,189 - It's kind of a strange thing. 736 00:34:16,222 --> 00:34:17,691 - I never cared for the man. 737 00:34:17,724 --> 00:34:18,858 I told him, I just said, 738 00:34:18,892 --> 00:34:23,229 "What do you need an alibi for, JR?" 739 00:34:23,263 --> 00:34:24,330 "Well, I just wanted you to know." 740 00:34:24,364 --> 00:34:26,266 And I said, "Okay, bye." I just hung up. 741 00:34:26,299 --> 00:34:30,203 - The dawn had risen on the longest day of their lives. 742 00:34:30,236 --> 00:34:33,206 Marilyn, the matriarch of their family, the one 743 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:37,344 who fiercely fought to keep Linda's case alive was gone. 744 00:34:37,377 --> 00:34:41,314 For family friend, Marnel, the heartbreak was twofold. 745 00:34:41,348 --> 00:34:43,149 - I didn't realize until then 746 00:34:43,183 --> 00:34:47,987 that I never truly let go of the idea 747 00:34:48,088 --> 00:34:50,623 of Linda coming back until Marilyn was killed, 748 00:34:50,657 --> 00:34:52,092 and that's when I realized, oh, she's gone. 749 00:34:52,125 --> 00:34:53,526 That-- she's dead. 750 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:54,761 - So this is a double nightmare. 751 00:34:54,794 --> 00:34:56,096 - Yeah. 752 00:34:56,096 --> 00:34:59,432 - Had you agreed to take Jordy home for the drop off, 753 00:34:59,466 --> 00:35:01,534 you really would have been in this. 754 00:35:01,568 --> 00:35:03,036 - Most likely, yeah. 755 00:35:03,069 --> 00:35:05,038 - Three years after Linda's disappearance, 756 00:35:05,038 --> 00:35:08,808 investigators had a whole new deadly mystery. 757 00:35:08,842 --> 00:35:12,512 And the key to unlocking it just might be a voice 758 00:35:12,545 --> 00:35:14,447 from the grave. 759 00:35:16,249 --> 00:35:18,818 - Did Marilyn know what was coming? 760 00:35:18,852 --> 00:35:20,720 - She said, and that's a gun laying right there. 761 00:35:20,754 --> 00:35:23,456 I won't be as easily taken as Linda was. 762 00:35:30,263 --> 00:35:34,401 ** 763 00:35:34,801 --> 00:35:35,835 - Welcome back. 764 00:35:35,869 --> 00:35:38,171 Marilyn Cox and her friend, Renee Farnsworth, 765 00:35:38,204 --> 00:35:41,307 were dead, ambushed in Maryland's driveway 766 00:35:41,341 --> 00:35:42,876 under the cover of night. 767 00:35:42,909 --> 00:35:46,112 As loved ones grieved, detectives zeroed in 768 00:35:46,146 --> 00:35:50,316 on two men questioned when Marilyn's daughter Linda 769 00:35:50,350 --> 00:35:52,252 went missing three years earlier. 770 00:35:52,285 --> 00:35:54,587 Linda's ex-husband, Dave Watson, 771 00:35:54,621 --> 00:35:58,792 and ex-boyfriend, JR Barton, both had alibis. 772 00:35:58,825 --> 00:36:01,061 But a secret letter to police was about to 773 00:36:01,094 --> 00:36:04,030 raise new questions about one of them. 774 00:36:04,030 --> 00:36:08,568 Back to Dennis Murphy with "Secrets of the Desert." 775 00:36:09,035 --> 00:36:11,705 - For years, Marilyn Cox had been an advocate 776 00:36:11,738 --> 00:36:13,540 for her missing daughter, Linda. 777 00:36:13,573 --> 00:36:14,941 With Marilyn's murder, 778 00:36:15,041 --> 00:36:17,610 that role fell to her sister, Pat. 779 00:36:17,644 --> 00:36:22,315 - I felt like literally she handed me the baton. 780 00:36:22,349 --> 00:36:23,183 I told her, you know, 781 00:36:23,216 --> 00:36:26,152 I might not do as good a job as you, 782 00:36:26,186 --> 00:36:28,254 but as long as there's breath in me, 783 00:36:28,288 --> 00:36:31,658 I will do my best to try to find Linda, 784 00:36:31,691 --> 00:36:34,561 and I will try to find who killed you. 785 00:36:34,594 --> 00:36:36,663 - Pima County Sheriff's detectives were working 786 00:36:36,696 --> 00:36:39,065 to do the same, for Marilyn's family, 787 00:36:39,099 --> 00:36:42,602 and for the family of Renee Farnsworth. 788 00:36:42,635 --> 00:36:45,238 - Renee is as much a victim as anybody else. 789 00:36:45,271 --> 00:36:46,773 - She was moral support for her-- 790 00:36:46,806 --> 00:36:49,442 - She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. 791 00:36:49,476 --> 00:36:51,811 - Investigators compiled the preliminary evidence 792 00:36:51,845 --> 00:36:53,813 from eyewitness accounts. 793 00:36:53,847 --> 00:36:57,083 - We know as soon as they got out of the car, 794 00:36:57,083 --> 00:37:02,088 they are attacked, accosted by a lone gunman, 795 00:37:02,122 --> 00:37:07,193 6' to 6'2", slender, well-built, 796 00:37:07,227 --> 00:37:10,363 something covering his face, probably a hoodie. 797 00:37:10,397 --> 00:37:12,465 - It looked like a targeted killing. 798 00:37:12,499 --> 00:37:14,267 There's no other motive. There's no burglary. 799 00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:15,835 There's no sexual assault. There's no car theft. 800 00:37:15,869 --> 00:37:17,871 There's nothing. 801 00:37:17,904 --> 00:37:21,174 - But there was potentially valuable physical evidence. 802 00:37:21,207 --> 00:37:22,542 - The bullet casings from the scene 803 00:37:22,575 --> 00:37:26,746 were a, uh, 9 millimeter, and when you combine 804 00:37:26,780 --> 00:37:29,115 the bullet casings with the bullets 805 00:37:29,149 --> 00:37:31,251 from the victims, it was consistent 806 00:37:31,284 --> 00:37:35,355 with a Ruger 9 millimeter P85 semiautomatic handgun. 807 00:37:35,388 --> 00:37:38,058 - Hanging over everything was the question, 808 00:37:38,058 --> 00:37:40,960 who would have wanted Marylin dead? 809 00:37:41,061 --> 00:37:43,596 Detectives knew from the moment Linda disappeared, 810 00:37:43,630 --> 00:37:46,533 Marilyn had accused Linda's ex-boyfriend, JR, 811 00:37:46,566 --> 00:37:48,068 of harming Linda. 812 00:37:48,068 --> 00:37:50,537 It became a nasty feud. 813 00:37:50,570 --> 00:37:52,539 They even tried to get restraining orders 814 00:37:52,572 --> 00:37:53,573 against one another, 815 00:37:53,606 --> 00:37:56,142 but a judge denied their requests, 816 00:37:56,176 --> 00:37:58,978 which is when Marilyn's attention seemed to shift. 817 00:37:59,079 --> 00:38:02,282 - After about January of 2001, 818 00:38:02,315 --> 00:38:05,719 when JR and her had no more contact with each other, 819 00:38:05,752 --> 00:38:09,155 and she totally focused on Dave. 820 00:38:09,189 --> 00:38:11,291 - Detectives knew, the whole town knew, 821 00:38:11,324 --> 00:38:13,626 that she'd been feuding with Dave and Rosemary 822 00:38:13,660 --> 00:38:15,862 over visitation with Jordynn. 823 00:38:15,895 --> 00:38:18,431 Pat said the reason Marilyn asked her friend Renee 824 00:38:18,465 --> 00:38:20,266 to go with her to drop Jordynn off 825 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:23,203 was that she feared a confrontation with Dave. 826 00:38:23,236 --> 00:38:25,638 - She thought there was safety in numbers. 827 00:38:25,672 --> 00:38:27,774 - Pat recalled an earlier incident, 828 00:38:27,807 --> 00:38:30,377 she said, when she was on the phone with Marilyn, 829 00:38:30,410 --> 00:38:33,413 and Dave showed up unannounced at Marilyn's house. 830 00:38:33,446 --> 00:38:36,516 - She let him in the house which just blew me away. 831 00:38:36,549 --> 00:38:39,152 But she wanted him to feel better 832 00:38:39,185 --> 00:38:42,689 at having Jordynn over there so he could see that it's nice, 833 00:38:42,722 --> 00:38:45,725 it's not dangerous and I'm not planning on taking off. 834 00:38:45,759 --> 00:38:48,328 - But Pat said the visit turned tense. 835 00:38:48,361 --> 00:38:50,563 - So she showed him through the house 836 00:38:50,597 --> 00:38:52,732 and took him towards the little bedroom, 837 00:38:52,766 --> 00:38:54,567 and it was just off to the left there and she said, 838 00:38:54,601 --> 00:38:56,469 "And that's the gun laying right there. 839 00:38:56,503 --> 00:39:00,440 "I won't be as easily taken as Linda was." 840 00:39:00,473 --> 00:39:02,342 - Marilyn warned everyone around her 841 00:39:02,375 --> 00:39:04,244 that if anything happened to her, 842 00:39:04,277 --> 00:39:06,780 there was one person they should look at. 843 00:39:06,813 --> 00:39:08,882 This is a letter she wrote to the Sheriff's Department 844 00:39:08,915 --> 00:39:13,186 in February 2003, shortly after she won the visitation case 845 00:39:13,219 --> 00:39:16,122 and just months before she was murdered. 846 00:39:31,071 --> 00:39:33,773 - She was nervous and she was scared of David Watson. 847 00:39:33,807 --> 00:39:35,742 - Now Marilyn was dead. 848 00:39:35,775 --> 00:39:38,278 Detectives couldn't dismiss the strange coincidence 849 00:39:38,311 --> 00:39:40,714 of two tragedies happening at the same place 850 00:39:40,747 --> 00:39:42,515 to the same family. 851 00:39:42,549 --> 00:39:46,086 How often are a mother and daughter 852 00:39:46,119 --> 00:39:50,056 killed at the same house, three years apart? 853 00:39:50,090 --> 00:39:53,560 That doesn't happen. 854 00:39:53,593 --> 00:39:56,062 - When Linda went missing, two men were blips 855 00:39:56,062 --> 00:39:58,064 on the investigators radar. 856 00:39:58,098 --> 00:40:00,467 First, was her ex-boyfriend JR 857 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:03,136 with whom she'd had a tumultuous relationship. 858 00:40:03,169 --> 00:40:06,006 JR insisted he was at his house 859 00:40:06,039 --> 00:40:08,408 the night of Marilyn and Renee's murders, 860 00:40:08,441 --> 00:40:10,276 and his alibi checked out, 861 00:40:10,310 --> 00:40:12,312 plus, said Detective Kelly Anderson-- 862 00:40:12,345 --> 00:40:15,382 - There's nothing evidentiary at the scene 863 00:40:15,415 --> 00:40:18,518 that would indicate JR had any involvement. 864 00:40:18,551 --> 00:40:21,421 And he doesn't even match the physical description 865 00:40:21,454 --> 00:40:25,025 of the person the eyewitness saw 866 00:40:25,058 --> 00:40:27,794 at the scene running away. 867 00:40:27,827 --> 00:40:29,996 - But then there was Linda's ex-husband, David. 868 00:40:30,030 --> 00:40:32,465 He too, of course, had an alibi. 869 00:40:32,499 --> 00:40:34,567 He said he was home the night of the murders, 870 00:40:34,601 --> 00:40:36,703 and his wife, Rosemary, backed him up. 871 00:40:36,736 --> 00:40:39,039 Rosemary had an alibi too. 872 00:40:39,072 --> 00:40:40,740 She had been at home with the kids 873 00:40:40,774 --> 00:40:43,410 when Marilyn dropped Jordynn off. 874 00:40:43,443 --> 00:40:46,146 - Ever looked at Rosemary as a co-conspirator here, 875 00:40:46,179 --> 00:40:47,380 possibly? 876 00:40:47,414 --> 00:40:49,916 She had interest in retaining custody of the child too. 877 00:40:49,949 --> 00:40:51,251 They've been in on it together. 878 00:40:51,284 --> 00:40:52,852 - Sure. 879 00:40:52,886 --> 00:40:54,020 You don't ignore the wife. 880 00:40:54,054 --> 00:40:56,756 Just because she's who she is doesn't mean 881 00:40:56,790 --> 00:40:59,559 that she's excluded as being looked at. 882 00:40:59,592 --> 00:41:01,761 Obviously, she's not a man running from the scene. 883 00:41:01,795 --> 00:41:04,798 We know that, but could she be involved in it? 884 00:41:04,831 --> 00:41:07,200 And could she be planning it with him? 885 00:41:07,233 --> 00:41:09,803 - Detectives had already talked to Rosemary, of course, 886 00:41:09,836 --> 00:41:13,406 but there was another potential witness at that house. 887 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,442 What did she know. 888 00:41:21,114 --> 00:41:23,483 - Dave's daughter Jordynn sat down for an interview 889 00:41:23,516 --> 00:41:25,819 the day after her grandmother was killed. 890 00:41:25,852 --> 00:41:28,521 She told the detective that her adoptive mom, 891 00:41:28,555 --> 00:41:30,256 Rosemary, greeted her at the door 892 00:41:30,290 --> 00:41:32,258 when Marilyn dropped her off at home. 893 00:41:43,136 --> 00:41:45,105 - A curious response from the little girl 894 00:41:45,105 --> 00:41:48,174 that dad told her he'd been outside. 895 00:41:51,444 --> 00:41:54,114 - The detective prodded further. 896 00:42:15,635 --> 00:42:19,139 - She does not know where dad was at 8:30. 897 00:42:19,172 --> 00:42:22,409 - Detectives wanted to speak with Dave Watson again. 898 00:42:25,779 --> 00:42:28,615 - Police have tough questions for Dave. 899 00:42:35,088 --> 00:42:37,123 - And a disturbing discovery. 900 00:42:37,157 --> 00:42:38,458 - A reflection caught my eye. 901 00:42:38,491 --> 00:42:39,926 I said, "Look at this, look what I found," 902 00:42:39,959 --> 00:42:42,662 and I picked it up, and it said DDW. 903 00:42:42,696 --> 00:42:45,799 - When "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered" continues. 904 00:42:53,773 --> 00:42:56,676 - Welcome back to Dateline: Secrets Uncovered. 905 00:42:56,710 --> 00:42:57,944 I'm Kate Snow. 906 00:42:57,977 --> 00:43:01,047 First, young mother, Linda Watson disappeared. 907 00:43:01,081 --> 00:43:03,483 Then three years later, her mother, 908 00:43:03,516 --> 00:43:05,452 Marilyn Cox, was murdered. 909 00:43:05,485 --> 00:43:08,288 Detectives questioned Marilyn's ex son-in-law, 910 00:43:08,321 --> 00:43:10,090 Dave Watson, about the shooting, 911 00:43:10,123 --> 00:43:13,326 but he had an alibi, or did he? 912 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,528 Turns out Dave's seven-year-old daughter, 913 00:43:15,562 --> 00:43:18,765 Jordynn, had a different memory of her dad's whereabouts 914 00:43:18,798 --> 00:43:20,066 that night. 915 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:23,236 Now, police wanted to know what really happened. 916 00:43:23,269 --> 00:43:27,674 Back to Dennis Murphy with "Secrets of the Desert." 917 00:43:27,707 --> 00:43:29,075 - Police were back at the Watson house 918 00:43:29,109 --> 00:43:31,778 with another round of questions for Dave. 919 00:43:31,811 --> 00:43:32,846 - You think I'm in trouble here. 920 00:43:32,879 --> 00:43:34,481 These guys are looking for me for this thing? 921 00:43:34,514 --> 00:43:35,949 - No. No. 922 00:43:35,982 --> 00:43:38,451 I just figured it was just a checkmark on her list 923 00:43:38,485 --> 00:43:40,920 of people to go talk to. 924 00:43:40,954 --> 00:43:42,655 - Once again, Dave told the detective 925 00:43:42,689 --> 00:43:44,591 he was home from his fire department meeting 926 00:43:44,624 --> 00:43:47,193 by the time Jordynn arrived at 8:30. 927 00:43:47,227 --> 00:43:49,162 Remember though the night of the murders, 928 00:43:49,195 --> 00:43:50,997 he said he was in the bathroom 929 00:43:51,097 --> 00:43:52,565 when Jordynn was dropped off. 930 00:43:52,599 --> 00:43:55,935 Now his story was a little different. 931 00:43:58,805 --> 00:44:00,707 - Small inconsistencies. 932 00:44:00,740 --> 00:44:03,243 But detectives also wanted to ask about 933 00:44:03,276 --> 00:44:05,679 their strongest piece of evidence, bullets 934 00:44:05,712 --> 00:44:09,816 and shell casings consistent with a millimeter Ruger handgun. 935 00:44:09,849 --> 00:44:27,067 Did Dave own that type of gun? 936 00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:29,069 - Well, we ended up looking for that ad, 937 00:44:29,069 --> 00:44:32,205 and we were never able to find any ad 938 00:44:32,238 --> 00:44:36,409 for a 9mm by Dave Watson. 939 00:44:36,443 --> 00:44:38,845 - But when they looked in Dave's gun safe, 940 00:44:38,878 --> 00:44:41,581 they did find 9mm ammunition. 941 00:44:41,614 --> 00:44:45,251 Why would he have that if the gun was long gone? 942 00:44:45,285 --> 00:44:46,920 They asked the big question. 943 00:45:01,234 --> 00:45:03,670 - A firm denial, and they had nothing 944 00:45:03,703 --> 00:45:06,039 that placed Dave at either crime scene. 945 00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:08,508 And detectives talked to Rosemary again, 946 00:45:08,541 --> 00:45:11,044 who confirmed what she'd said initially. 947 00:45:21,454 --> 00:45:24,557 - Which meant Dave could not have been the shooter. 948 00:45:24,591 --> 00:45:27,060 But then a few weeks after Marilyn's death, 949 00:45:27,093 --> 00:45:29,396 her sister Bobbi Cortese noticed something 950 00:45:29,429 --> 00:45:30,964 in Marilyn's backyard. 951 00:45:31,064 --> 00:45:34,668 - As I'm coming back toward the gate, 952 00:45:34,701 --> 00:45:36,870 a reflection caught my eye. 953 00:45:36,903 --> 00:45:38,471 I said, look at this. Look what I found. 954 00:45:38,505 --> 00:45:40,907 And I picked it up and it still-- 955 00:45:40,940 --> 00:45:42,909 I think I said somebody lost their money clip 956 00:45:42,942 --> 00:45:44,477 and it said DDW. 957 00:45:44,511 --> 00:45:46,346 - Anybody you know is a DDW? 958 00:45:46,379 --> 00:45:50,650 - Well, we know Dave Watson, and his middle name is Dwayne. 959 00:45:50,684 --> 00:45:52,952 - There was no proof it was Dave's. 960 00:45:52,986 --> 00:45:54,954 No fingerprints or DNA. 961 00:45:54,988 --> 00:45:56,556 And even if it were Dave's, 962 00:45:56,589 --> 00:45:59,325 it didn't necessarily mean anything sinister. 963 00:45:59,359 --> 00:46:02,495 After all, he'd once lived in that home, except-- 964 00:46:02,529 --> 00:46:04,497 - After Linda's disappearance, 965 00:46:04,531 --> 00:46:07,801 Marilyn got rid of everything that remained of Dave's, 966 00:46:07,834 --> 00:46:09,536 and by every account, 967 00:46:09,569 --> 00:46:13,640 anything that belonged to Dave was long gone. 968 00:46:13,673 --> 00:46:15,442 - So what do you make of the initial money clip? 969 00:46:15,475 --> 00:46:18,511 Is it evidence, just something may be interesting, or what? 970 00:46:18,545 --> 00:46:19,813 - No, it's beyond interesting. 971 00:46:19,846 --> 00:46:21,147 That's certainly evidence. 972 00:46:21,181 --> 00:46:24,050 "DDW" goes beyond coincidence. 973 00:46:24,084 --> 00:46:27,287 - And there was something else, an unusual comment 974 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,889 Dave's friend, Mike, overheard. 975 00:46:29,923 --> 00:46:31,725 Dave allegedly says 976 00:46:31,758 --> 00:46:35,628 somebody brings up Marilyn's murder in the driveway, 977 00:46:35,662 --> 00:46:37,364 and he says, "well, I don't know what happened 978 00:46:37,397 --> 00:46:38,765 but she probably deserved it." 979 00:46:38,798 --> 00:46:40,100 - I did hear him say that. 980 00:46:40,133 --> 00:46:43,303 I don't think that was a good comment either. 981 00:46:43,336 --> 00:46:46,172 I mean, I don't have an answer to that. 982 00:46:46,206 --> 00:46:48,308 Don't like to hear something like that about anybody, 983 00:46:48,341 --> 00:46:51,177 but that was him saying it. 984 00:46:51,211 --> 00:46:54,881 - Bad blood, contradictory statements, 985 00:46:54,914 --> 00:46:57,717 shell casings, and a money clip. 986 00:46:57,751 --> 00:47:01,788 - I imagine in your war room in the homicide offices, 987 00:47:01,821 --> 00:47:03,690 you're batting ideas back and forth that 988 00:47:03,723 --> 00:47:06,659 you're looking at Dave Watson for this thing. 989 00:47:06,693 --> 00:47:08,061 - Absolutely. 990 00:47:08,094 --> 00:47:09,863 - This is a guy who kills when the issue 991 00:47:09,896 --> 00:47:11,664 of his child custody is challenged. 992 00:47:11,698 --> 00:47:14,234 - Those similarities became glaring. 993 00:47:14,267 --> 00:47:16,569 - But it doesn't seem to go anywhere, investigatively. 994 00:47:16,603 --> 00:47:18,104 - It does not. 995 00:47:18,138 --> 00:47:22,042 There is a lack of physical evidence in this case, 996 00:47:22,075 --> 00:47:26,880 and the suspect has an alibi for both nights. 997 00:47:26,913 --> 00:47:28,515 - Three women gone, 998 00:47:28,548 --> 00:47:31,217 and no answers on the desert horizon. 999 00:47:31,251 --> 00:47:33,553 - And now all three investigations 1000 00:47:33,586 --> 00:47:34,521 are in the vault. 1001 00:47:34,554 --> 00:47:37,424 - All three go cold. 1002 00:47:37,457 --> 00:47:39,192 - But for those still grieving, 1003 00:47:39,225 --> 00:47:41,895 this case would never go cold. 1004 00:47:43,363 --> 00:47:44,831 - I just couldn't believe 1005 00:47:44,864 --> 00:47:47,100 that these innocent women were murdered, 1006 00:47:47,133 --> 00:47:49,069 and no one was talking about it. 1007 00:47:49,102 --> 00:47:51,237 - Apparently, somebody was. 1008 00:48:00,113 --> 00:48:05,385 ** 1009 00:48:06,019 --> 00:48:08,421 - By the spring of 2003, 1010 00:48:08,455 --> 00:48:10,357 three women in Dave Watson's orbit 1011 00:48:10,390 --> 00:48:12,726 were either missing or dead. 1012 00:48:12,759 --> 00:48:15,028 Detectives had their suspicions, 1013 00:48:15,028 --> 00:48:18,198 but no hard evidence Dave had committed any crime, 1014 00:48:18,231 --> 00:48:21,668 and so the cases of Linda, Marilyn, and Renee 1015 00:48:21,701 --> 00:48:25,238 sat quietly, collecting dust in the cold case vault 1016 00:48:25,271 --> 00:48:27,073 of the Sheriff's Department. 1017 00:48:27,107 --> 00:48:29,776 - We keep waiting and listening and hoping 1018 00:48:29,809 --> 00:48:31,277 that something will come up 1019 00:48:31,311 --> 00:48:35,081 they'll find something that proves that Dave did this. 1020 00:48:35,115 --> 00:48:37,283 - And all the while, Dave continued 1021 00:48:37,317 --> 00:48:40,220 to climb the ranks at the Tucson Fire Department, 1022 00:48:40,253 --> 00:48:41,955 even if he couldn't quite shake 1023 00:48:42,055 --> 00:48:44,224 the shroud of suspicion that surrounded him. 1024 00:48:44,257 --> 00:48:46,926 I mean, this is tongues are wagging in Tucson. 1025 00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,061 - Oh, absolutely. 1026 00:48:48,094 --> 00:48:50,597 - Mat McDonald, Courtney Corcoran, 1027 00:48:50,630 --> 00:48:53,600 and Richard Johnson all rode horses with Dave, 1028 00:48:53,633 --> 00:48:56,436 and worked with him at the Tucson Fire Department. 1029 00:48:56,469 --> 00:48:59,472 - I mean, I went in to a station and-- 1030 00:48:59,506 --> 00:49:02,308 where Dave was working and the phone rang. 1031 00:49:02,342 --> 00:49:04,444 And one of the guys picked up the phone 1032 00:49:04,477 --> 00:49:07,380 and they go, "hey, killer, phone's for you." 1033 00:49:07,414 --> 00:49:09,516 Yeah, I mean- - You guys are tough 1034 00:49:09,549 --> 00:49:11,317 on one another. - Yeah, tough on one another. 1035 00:49:11,351 --> 00:49:12,318 - Somebody called him "cold case," 1036 00:49:12,352 --> 00:49:14,220 is that true? - Yeah, I-I-- 1037 00:49:14,254 --> 00:49:16,189 - You did that? - I did. 1038 00:49:16,222 --> 00:49:17,590 - One day, his friend Matt 1039 00:49:17,624 --> 00:49:19,426 decided to ask Dave point blank 1040 00:49:19,459 --> 00:49:22,228 if he had anything to do with the murders. 1041 00:49:22,262 --> 00:49:24,664 - He was very candid with me, and we spoke 1042 00:49:24,698 --> 00:49:26,366 for probably four hours that morning. 1043 00:49:26,399 --> 00:49:28,101 - You had questions, Matt. Did he answer them? 1044 00:49:28,134 --> 00:49:30,337 Did he persuade you? - He did answer them. 1045 00:49:30,370 --> 00:49:33,907 His buddies were convinced. Dave had done nothing wrong. 1046 00:49:33,940 --> 00:49:36,509 - I never had any doubt that he was innocent. 1047 00:49:36,543 --> 00:49:37,911 - You don't see him as the guy in the hoodie? 1048 00:49:37,944 --> 00:49:40,847 - No, I do not. Not at all. 1049 00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,950 - I never called him on it, because I never suspected Dave. 1050 00:49:44,050 --> 00:49:46,052 - Despite the whispers around town, 1051 00:49:46,086 --> 00:49:47,454 Dave never left, 1052 00:49:47,487 --> 00:49:50,924 and Jordynn says he remained focused on his kids. 1053 00:49:50,957 --> 00:49:53,093 - My dad really tried to make everything normal, 1054 00:49:53,126 --> 00:49:56,830 so we could have a normal childhood. 1055 00:49:56,863 --> 00:49:58,598 - But the ongoing investigation 1056 00:49:58,631 --> 00:50:01,668 took its toll on Dave and Rosemary's marriage. 1057 00:50:01,701 --> 00:50:03,536 - I said, "I can't do this anymore," 1058 00:50:03,570 --> 00:50:05,071 and he said "OK." 1059 00:50:05,105 --> 00:50:07,674 He asked if there was anything that he could do, 1060 00:50:07,707 --> 00:50:09,809 and I said, "I don't think so." 1061 00:50:09,843 --> 00:50:14,214 - By 2007, they'd divorced and moved on. 1062 00:50:14,247 --> 00:50:16,316 Rosemary worked as a radio disk jockey 1063 00:50:16,349 --> 00:50:17,751 supporting her family, 1064 00:50:17,784 --> 00:50:19,919 including her adoptive daughter Jordynn, 1065 00:50:19,953 --> 00:50:21,755 who lived primarily with her. 1066 00:50:21,788 --> 00:50:24,491 Dave was promoted to fire department captain. 1067 00:50:24,524 --> 00:50:25,525 - He earned it. 1068 00:50:25,558 --> 00:50:27,994 It was not given to him. He earned it. 1069 00:50:28,028 --> 00:50:31,898 - Time, as it tends to do, kept moving on. 1070 00:50:31,931 --> 00:50:33,933 But here in the cold case vault 1071 00:50:33,967 --> 00:50:35,602 sat those three cases. 1072 00:50:35,635 --> 00:50:39,139 Linda, who was officially declared dead in 2006, 1073 00:50:39,172 --> 00:50:41,341 Marilyn, and Renee. 1074 00:50:41,374 --> 00:50:43,309 - I think my biggest concern 1075 00:50:43,343 --> 00:50:46,913 was always them being forgotten. 1076 00:50:46,946 --> 00:50:48,782 - Linda's friend, Marnel, did what she could 1077 00:50:48,815 --> 00:50:50,250 to keep that from happening. 1078 00:50:50,283 --> 00:50:54,854 - For years, I sent letters to all the media 1079 00:50:54,888 --> 00:50:56,756 just saying, here's the story. 1080 00:50:56,790 --> 00:50:58,391 I was always just shocked 1081 00:50:58,425 --> 00:51:01,061 that there wasn't outrage in the community. 1082 00:51:01,061 --> 00:51:02,529 I just couldn't believe 1083 00:51:02,562 --> 00:51:05,365 that these innocent women were murdered, 1084 00:51:05,398 --> 00:51:07,367 and no one was talking about it. 1085 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,936 - But by December 2007, 1086 00:51:09,969 --> 00:51:11,237 it seemed as though there had been 1087 00:51:11,271 --> 00:51:13,073 a huge break in the case. 1088 00:51:13,106 --> 00:51:14,774 The local papers reported that 1089 00:51:14,808 --> 00:51:17,243 the Sheriff's Department had new evidence. 1090 00:51:17,277 --> 00:51:19,879 "Information in this case is snowballing 1091 00:51:19,913 --> 00:51:22,716 and we have to pursue that." Said an investigator. 1092 00:51:22,749 --> 00:51:26,820 In reality it was all a bluff, the cops planting a story, 1093 00:51:26,853 --> 00:51:28,855 hoping to pressure Dave. 1094 00:51:28,888 --> 00:51:31,624 They tapped his phone too and recorded this call 1095 00:51:31,658 --> 00:51:33,426 he made to Rosemary. 1096 00:51:48,742 --> 00:51:51,244 - Dave seemed to suspect someone close to him 1097 00:51:51,277 --> 00:51:53,113 was talking to the cops. 1098 00:51:57,817 --> 00:51:59,119 - Detectives interviewed 1099 00:51:59,119 --> 00:52:01,388 a friend of Dave's named Luis, 1100 00:52:01,421 --> 00:52:03,256 who told investigators about something 1101 00:52:03,289 --> 00:52:05,258 Dave said at a party one night. 1102 00:52:17,370 --> 00:52:19,839 - "Not so," said Dave's best friend's wife, 1103 00:52:19,873 --> 00:52:21,408 who was at the same party. 1104 00:52:21,441 --> 00:52:25,145 She said Dave was talking about a missing dog, not Linda. 1105 00:52:25,178 --> 00:52:28,415 Hard to tell if it was just an innocent misunderstanding 1106 00:52:28,448 --> 00:52:32,585 or a slip of Dave's tongue that indicated something sinister. 1107 00:52:32,619 --> 00:52:35,088 The mystery of Lynda's disappearance 1108 00:52:35,088 --> 00:52:39,559 and Marilyn and Renee's murders no closer to being solved. 1109 00:52:39,592 --> 00:52:42,829 No way of knowing that out there in the desert, 1110 00:52:42,862 --> 00:52:45,165 an answer had already been found. 1111 00:52:47,534 --> 00:52:51,171 - Someone took a horse ride out to the middle of nowhere. 1112 00:52:51,204 --> 00:52:53,273 What was he looking for? 1113 00:52:53,306 --> 00:52:56,676 - It seems very coincidental that you would ride it there 1114 00:52:56,710 --> 00:52:59,813 when at that point in time, nobody else knew. 1115 00:52:59,846 --> 00:53:03,383 - When "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered" continues. 1116 00:53:13,526 --> 00:53:16,529 - Linda Watson had been declared legally dead, 1117 00:53:16,563 --> 00:53:19,065 but no body had ever been found. 1118 00:53:19,099 --> 00:53:21,334 So there was no proof of a crime, 1119 00:53:21,368 --> 00:53:22,635 and no case to make 1120 00:53:22,669 --> 00:53:25,105 against her ex-husband, Dave Watson. 1121 00:53:25,138 --> 00:53:26,473 Not for Linda's disappearance 1122 00:53:26,506 --> 00:53:30,143 or for the subsequent murder of her mother and a friend. 1123 00:53:30,176 --> 00:53:33,380 All that changed because of a random discovery 1124 00:53:33,413 --> 00:53:36,182 and a long delayed lab result. 1125 00:53:36,216 --> 00:53:39,319 - So where are we, Detective? Why here? 1126 00:53:39,352 --> 00:53:43,356 - We are outside the Silverbell Mine area, 1127 00:53:43,390 --> 00:53:45,091 that being the Silverbell Mine. 1128 00:53:45,091 --> 00:53:48,661 - Oh, yeah. - Very remote area, 1129 00:53:48,695 --> 00:53:53,099 the Northwest side of Tucson and Pima County. 1130 00:53:53,099 --> 00:53:56,569 - Remember, JR had lived off of Silverbell Road. 1131 00:53:56,603 --> 00:53:59,239 Silverbell Mine was near the same road, 1132 00:53:59,272 --> 00:54:01,875 but 20 miles from where JR lived. 1133 00:54:01,908 --> 00:54:04,611 Way back in October of 2003, 1134 00:54:04,644 --> 00:54:07,414 not long after Marilyn and Renee were killed, 1135 00:54:07,447 --> 00:54:10,817 hunters found a partial human skull here. 1136 00:54:10,850 --> 00:54:13,420 - This is a high trafficked area 1137 00:54:13,453 --> 00:54:15,355 for undocumented border crossers 1138 00:54:15,388 --> 00:54:18,391 and unfortunately, many in the summertime, 1139 00:54:18,425 --> 00:54:21,861 in the hot summers of Arizona do not make it 1140 00:54:21,895 --> 00:54:23,763 and perish in this area. 1141 00:54:23,797 --> 00:54:26,332 - The Medical Examiner's Office in Tucson 1142 00:54:26,366 --> 00:54:29,869 runs a unique program to identify such remains, 1143 00:54:29,903 --> 00:54:31,638 but it takes time. 1144 00:54:31,671 --> 00:54:34,574 So a small portion of the cranium was removed 1145 00:54:34,607 --> 00:54:36,876 for DNA testing at a later date. 1146 00:54:36,910 --> 00:54:38,178 Much later. 1147 00:54:38,211 --> 00:54:43,083 - Eight years later in February of 2011, 1148 00:54:43,116 --> 00:54:45,819 we finally get a DNA match back 1149 00:54:45,852 --> 00:54:48,521 from that skull that was found in 2003, 1150 00:54:48,555 --> 00:54:50,857 and it is a positive match for Linda Watson. 1151 00:54:50,890 --> 00:54:54,094 - Suddenly, the skull was a big priority. 1152 00:54:54,127 --> 00:54:57,630 There was no sign of trauma, no evidence of how she died. 1153 00:54:57,664 --> 00:55:01,167 Still 11 years after Linda Watson disappeared, 1154 00:55:01,201 --> 00:55:05,472 at last here was proof she was no longer alive. 1155 00:55:05,505 --> 00:55:08,141 That's when you have a case. - That's when I have a case. 1156 00:55:08,174 --> 00:55:10,343 - Indeed, he did have a case. 1157 00:55:10,377 --> 00:55:11,845 Three of them, in fact. 1158 00:55:11,878 --> 00:55:14,481 Detective Anderson took over as lead detective 1159 00:55:14,514 --> 00:55:16,883 after Linda's skull was identified. 1160 00:55:16,916 --> 00:55:19,285 - By the time I got the case in 2011, 1161 00:55:19,319 --> 00:55:21,054 it was 11 years old, 1162 00:55:21,054 --> 00:55:23,490 and there was 11 years of investigative work 1163 00:55:23,523 --> 00:55:24,691 that had been done, 1164 00:55:24,724 --> 00:55:27,961 and I had to start piecing it together. 1165 00:55:28,061 --> 00:55:31,231 - It took him a year just to read through it all. 1166 00:55:31,264 --> 00:55:33,733 There were so many things that stood out. 1167 00:55:33,767 --> 00:55:35,969 But one in particular caught his eye. 1168 00:55:36,069 --> 00:55:39,506 It happened years before Linda's remains were identified. 1169 00:55:39,539 --> 00:55:41,675 - It was an "a-ha" moment for me. 1170 00:55:41,708 --> 00:55:45,345 - Back in 2007 when detectives planted that news story 1171 00:55:45,378 --> 00:55:46,813 about the case heating up, 1172 00:55:46,846 --> 00:55:50,250 they also put a GPS tracker on Dave's vehicle. 1173 00:55:50,283 --> 00:55:52,819 - I discovered GPS coordinates 1174 00:55:52,852 --> 00:55:56,923 that indicated on December 31, 2007, 1175 00:55:56,956 --> 00:56:00,093 he drove his truck and his horse trailer 1176 00:56:00,126 --> 00:56:04,464 and rode a horse within hundreds of yards, 1177 00:56:04,497 --> 00:56:08,468 at least no further than 1.1 mile 1178 00:56:08,501 --> 00:56:13,373 of where Linda Watson's skull was found back in 2003. 1179 00:56:13,406 --> 00:56:14,908 - Speculate, what do you think was going on? 1180 00:56:14,941 --> 00:56:16,676 - I think he was going back to the scene 1181 00:56:16,710 --> 00:56:19,379 to see if he saw anything, if we were there, 1182 00:56:19,412 --> 00:56:23,750 if we'd been poking around, if nothing had changed. 1183 00:56:23,783 --> 00:56:26,186 - After studying every detail of the case, 1184 00:56:26,219 --> 00:56:29,155 Detective Anderson found it convincing. 1185 00:56:29,189 --> 00:56:31,224 - It was obvious to me 1186 00:56:31,257 --> 00:56:34,527 and everybody I presented this case to that 1187 00:56:34,561 --> 00:56:37,130 only one person committed these three murders, 1188 00:56:37,163 --> 00:56:39,065 and that one person was David Watson. 1189 00:56:39,065 --> 00:56:40,367 - And he had a theory 1190 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,303 about how Linda's murder went down at her house. 1191 00:56:43,336 --> 00:56:44,537 Manner of death, do you see it? 1192 00:56:44,571 --> 00:56:45,605 - I have no idea. 1193 00:56:45,638 --> 00:56:49,142 Something that creates a great amount of blood. 1194 00:56:49,175 --> 00:56:51,678 And I think that he takes Linda 1195 00:56:51,711 --> 00:56:53,546 in the very early morning hours 1196 00:56:53,580 --> 00:56:55,648 out towards the Silverbell Mine 1197 00:56:55,682 --> 00:56:59,786 and buries her in a shallow grave in the wash. 1198 00:56:59,819 --> 00:57:01,454 - And as far as Detective Anderson 1199 00:57:01,488 --> 00:57:02,722 was concerned, 1200 00:57:02,756 --> 00:57:04,290 Dave was the only person 1201 00:57:04,324 --> 00:57:06,659 who had motive to kill Marilyn, too. 1202 00:57:06,693 --> 00:57:09,796 - Motive outweighed everything in this case. 1203 00:57:09,829 --> 00:57:14,200 We have two women who took him to court over his daughter. 1204 00:57:14,234 --> 00:57:18,405 He got what he wanted as a result of these homicides. 1205 00:57:18,438 --> 00:57:21,107 - Enough to go forward? Maybe. 1206 00:57:21,141 --> 00:57:24,344 But this wasn't the only high profile cold case 1207 00:57:24,377 --> 00:57:26,813 being rescued from the vault at the time. 1208 00:57:26,846 --> 00:57:29,749 "Dateline" covered the case of Gary Triano, 1209 00:57:29,783 --> 00:57:32,585 who was killed when his car exploded in the parking lot 1210 00:57:32,619 --> 00:57:36,556 of an upscale Tucson country club in 1996. 1211 00:57:36,589 --> 00:57:39,859 - They had new leads on that one, 1212 00:57:39,893 --> 00:57:42,629 things to follow and do right now. 1213 00:57:42,662 --> 00:57:45,165 - Another four years passed. 1214 00:57:45,198 --> 00:57:46,966 That other case was solved. 1215 00:57:47,067 --> 00:57:49,636 And then in 2015... 1216 00:57:49,669 --> 00:57:51,671 - Bam bam bam on my front door. 1217 00:57:51,705 --> 00:57:54,207 Thought the thing was going to break in. 1218 00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:58,311 And there's cops out there in tactical ware. 1219 00:57:58,345 --> 00:57:59,679 They asked me to step out. 1220 00:57:59,713 --> 00:58:01,815 Four guys threw me into my gravel driveway, 1221 00:58:01,848 --> 00:58:05,185 and I said, "I think you guys got the wrong person." 1222 00:58:05,218 --> 00:58:06,486 - I told him that "you're under arrest 1223 00:58:06,519 --> 00:58:08,855 "for the murders of Linda Watson, 1224 00:58:08,888 --> 00:58:10,857 Marilyn Cox, and Renee Farnsworth." 1225 00:58:10,890 --> 00:58:13,793 - And I'm like, "no, I told you before 1226 00:58:13,827 --> 00:58:15,028 I didn't do any of this." 1227 00:58:15,061 --> 00:58:17,697 And I told them, "I didn't do this stuff. 1228 00:58:17,731 --> 00:58:20,433 I'm innocent. I told you." 1229 00:58:20,467 --> 00:58:23,603 - Linda Watson's friend, Marnel, saw the news on TV. 1230 00:58:23,636 --> 00:58:26,639 - We arrested David Dwayne Watson 1231 00:58:26,673 --> 00:58:29,075 for three counts of first degree murder. 1232 00:58:29,109 --> 00:58:30,810 - All of a sudden, I just couldn't breathe, 1233 00:58:30,844 --> 00:58:32,145 and I said, "Oh, my God. This is it." 1234 00:58:32,178 --> 00:58:36,049 And I started trying to call her aunt, Pat, 1235 00:58:36,049 --> 00:58:37,851 and she just said, this is it. 1236 00:58:37,884 --> 00:58:40,453 And I was like, "Are you sure? Are you sure?" 1237 00:58:40,487 --> 00:58:42,222 I just remember screaming and crying, 1238 00:58:42,255 --> 00:58:45,058 and she said they just arrested him. 1239 00:58:45,058 --> 00:58:46,926 - I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it. 1240 00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:48,828 - This is 15 years after Linda's gone missing. 1241 00:58:48,862 --> 00:58:50,830 - Yeah, I just could not. 1242 00:58:50,864 --> 00:58:53,166 And I still have to pinch myself. 1243 00:58:53,199 --> 00:58:54,834 - Dave's daughter, Jordynn, 1244 00:58:54,868 --> 00:58:57,170 couldn't believe this day had come either, 1245 00:58:57,203 --> 00:58:59,072 but for a very different reason. 1246 00:58:59,072 --> 00:59:01,307 She fully supported her father, 1247 00:59:01,341 --> 00:59:04,244 believed there was no way he killed three women. 1248 00:59:04,277 --> 00:59:07,847 - All they really had was 1249 00:59:07,881 --> 00:59:09,783 that he was in a custody battle, 1250 00:59:09,816 --> 00:59:13,019 and it seemed like a vicious custody battle. 1251 00:59:13,019 --> 00:59:15,655 - And when it came to a climax, somebody died. 1252 00:59:15,689 --> 00:59:17,490 - Yes, and that's all they had. 1253 00:59:17,524 --> 00:59:20,627 There's no hard evidence putting him somewhere. 1254 00:59:20,660 --> 00:59:25,632 No murder weapon in his hand, nothing like that. 1255 00:59:25,665 --> 00:59:27,233 They never found anything. 1256 00:59:27,267 --> 00:59:29,803 His DNA isn't anywhere that they were. 1257 00:59:29,836 --> 00:59:33,139 - And remember, Dave had a solid alibi. 1258 00:59:33,173 --> 00:59:35,175 His wife at the time, Rosemary, 1259 00:59:35,208 --> 00:59:37,744 told detectives she was with him at home 1260 00:59:37,777 --> 00:59:39,846 when all three women were killed. 1261 00:59:39,879 --> 00:59:41,815 He pleaded not guilty 1262 00:59:41,848 --> 00:59:43,683 and in a recorded call from jail 1263 00:59:43,717 --> 00:59:45,418 told his friend, Mike Bratton, 1264 00:59:45,452 --> 00:59:46,886 he was counting on his daughter 1265 00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:48,755 and his ex-wife to defend him. 1266 00:59:48,788 --> 00:59:51,725 - I want Jordynn to be a witness on my behalf, 1267 00:59:51,758 --> 00:59:53,326 and I need Rosemary. 1268 00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:55,362 I really need Rosemary to be my witness too. 1269 00:59:55,395 --> 00:59:59,866 Otherwise, we were a team once, 1270 00:59:59,899 --> 01:00:01,768 we need to be a team again. 1271 01:00:01,801 --> 01:00:06,239 - Dave had a big surprise coming. Did he ever. 1272 01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,910 - Rosemary's dark and dangerous secret. 1273 01:00:10,944 --> 01:00:13,046 - How do I look my daughter in the eye 1274 01:00:13,079 --> 01:00:16,449 and live the rest of my life knowing what I know? 1275 01:00:23,123 --> 01:00:27,527 ** 1276 01:00:27,927 --> 01:00:28,862 - Welcome back. 1277 01:00:28,895 --> 01:00:31,164 Dave Watson was charged with the murders 1278 01:00:31,197 --> 01:00:35,201 of Linda Watson, Marilyn Cox, and Renee Farnsworth. 1279 01:00:35,235 --> 01:00:38,071 Police believed he killed ex-wife, Linda, 1280 01:00:38,104 --> 01:00:40,040 then buried her in the desert. 1281 01:00:40,073 --> 01:00:42,475 And that he was the only person 1282 01:00:42,509 --> 01:00:44,878 with a motive to kill Linda's mother. 1283 01:00:44,911 --> 01:00:46,613 To prove his innocence, 1284 01:00:46,646 --> 01:00:49,783 Dave would need the help of his longtime supporters. 1285 01:00:49,816 --> 01:00:54,154 But one of them was hiding the biggest secret of all. 1286 01:00:54,187 --> 01:00:57,657 Back to Dennis Murphy with Secrets of the Desert. 1287 01:01:01,161 --> 01:01:02,662 - I had told nobody. 1288 01:01:02,696 --> 01:01:04,164 And when you have a deep, dark secret, 1289 01:01:04,197 --> 01:01:05,465 you don't tell people. 1290 01:01:05,498 --> 01:01:08,601 - For seven years, Rosemary Watson carried 1291 01:01:08,635 --> 01:01:11,071 the knowledge buried down deep. 1292 01:01:11,104 --> 01:01:13,373 It festered, eat away at her. 1293 01:01:13,406 --> 01:01:16,376 - If I never said a word to anybody, 1294 01:01:16,409 --> 01:01:19,779 how do I look my daughter in the eye 1295 01:01:19,813 --> 01:01:22,782 and live the rest of my life 1296 01:01:22,816 --> 01:01:26,119 knowing what I know and keeping that? 1297 01:01:26,152 --> 01:01:29,756 - Rosemary said the seeds of this dark secret 1298 01:01:29,789 --> 01:01:34,294 first took root in August 2000, the night Linda disappeared. 1299 01:01:34,327 --> 01:01:36,896 She, of course, had been her husband's alibi, 1300 01:01:36,930 --> 01:01:40,400 told investigators he was home with her all night. 1301 01:01:40,433 --> 01:01:43,803 But she told us that wasn't entirely true. 1302 01:01:43,837 --> 01:01:47,107 In the middle of the night, she said, she actually woke up. 1303 01:01:47,107 --> 01:01:49,676 - And Dave wasn't in bed, 1304 01:01:49,709 --> 01:01:51,978 and I got up and I kind of walked through the house, 1305 01:01:52,012 --> 01:01:56,182 and I didn't see him, and I went and I laid back down. 1306 01:01:56,216 --> 01:01:58,685 I fell back asleep. 1307 01:01:58,718 --> 01:02:01,588 - Sometime later, she said, she woke up again. 1308 01:02:01,621 --> 01:02:04,858 - And he was not in bed with me again. 1309 01:02:04,891 --> 01:02:07,560 And I was looking for him and through the house 1310 01:02:07,594 --> 01:02:10,296 kind of peeking out into the backyard. 1311 01:02:10,330 --> 01:02:11,431 And then I saw him. 1312 01:02:11,464 --> 01:02:12,399 - Where was he? 1313 01:02:12,432 --> 01:02:14,934 - He was standing at the back of his Jeep. 1314 01:02:14,968 --> 01:02:17,203 I could see him through our kitchen window. 1315 01:02:17,237 --> 01:02:19,339 He appeared to be-- he looked as though he was 1316 01:02:19,372 --> 01:02:22,175 just kind of cleaning out the back of his Jeep. 1317 01:02:22,208 --> 01:02:23,376 - And then he comes in. 1318 01:02:23,410 --> 01:02:25,945 - He does come in, and he said, "I went for a walk." 1319 01:02:25,979 --> 01:02:29,149 And I asked him if he was OK, and he said, yeah, 1320 01:02:29,182 --> 01:02:30,717 he just needed to clear his head. 1321 01:02:30,750 --> 01:02:31,751 - That makes sense to you? 1322 01:02:31,785 --> 01:02:33,386 - It did make sense to me. 1323 01:02:33,420 --> 01:02:36,589 I had no reason to doubt him at all. None. 1324 01:02:36,623 --> 01:02:40,160 - And then Rosemary said Dave handed her something. 1325 01:02:40,193 --> 01:02:44,230 - He actually handed me a box of latex gloves 1326 01:02:44,264 --> 01:02:46,099 and said, "put these away," 1327 01:02:46,099 --> 01:02:49,769 which I didn't think anything of it at the moment. 1328 01:02:49,803 --> 01:02:51,705 - This is your new husband you're in love with. 1329 01:02:51,738 --> 01:02:52,672 - Absolutely. 1330 01:02:52,706 --> 01:02:53,773 - You don't know all his habits? 1331 01:02:53,807 --> 01:02:55,375 - Nope, still learning. 1332 01:02:55,408 --> 01:02:56,876 - He might get up and talk to the birds, 1333 01:02:56,910 --> 01:02:58,111 you don't know, right? 1334 01:02:58,111 --> 01:02:59,779 - He was an early riser. 1335 01:02:59,813 --> 01:03:02,349 - And so when investigators showed up 1336 01:03:02,382 --> 01:03:05,452 and asked where Dave had been the night Linda disappeared... 1337 01:03:05,485 --> 01:03:07,754 - I didn't mean to lie. 1338 01:03:07,787 --> 01:03:09,322 That wasn't my intent 1339 01:03:09,356 --> 01:03:13,927 was to lie to law enforcement. 1340 01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:15,261 - Did you say, "Dave is in a jam here. 1341 01:03:15,295 --> 01:03:16,429 I got a cover for him?" 1342 01:03:16,463 --> 01:03:18,298 - I said, I love my husband. 1343 01:03:18,331 --> 01:03:20,166 He went for a walk. 1344 01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:22,402 It looks really bad and very suspicious 1345 01:03:22,435 --> 01:03:23,737 that he went for a walk, 1346 01:03:23,770 --> 01:03:26,639 now suddenly all this is happening. 1347 01:03:26,673 --> 01:03:30,910 He said, "I'm home," and I'm like, "he's home." 1348 01:03:30,944 --> 01:03:33,713 - So no walk. He was home all night. 1349 01:03:33,747 --> 01:03:36,116 That was her story and she stuck with it, 1350 01:03:36,149 --> 01:03:38,785 although privately, she said, she couldn't help 1351 01:03:38,818 --> 01:03:41,421 but turn things over in her mind, 1352 01:03:41,454 --> 01:03:44,124 and at one point even confronted her husband. 1353 01:03:44,157 --> 01:03:45,792 - What I said was, please tell me 1354 01:03:45,825 --> 01:03:48,895 that you're not involved, 1355 01:03:48,928 --> 01:03:51,331 that this has nothing to do with you. 1356 01:03:51,364 --> 01:03:53,533 - What did he say? - "I didn't do anything." 1357 01:03:53,566 --> 01:03:57,103 And that was enough for me. And I said OK. 1358 01:03:57,137 --> 01:03:59,939 - And so three years passed. 1359 01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:03,209 Rosemary gave birth to her son, adopted Jordynn, 1360 01:04:03,243 --> 01:04:06,680 and battled over visitation rights with Marilyn. 1361 01:04:06,713 --> 01:04:09,115 And then on May 8, 2003, 1362 01:04:09,149 --> 01:04:12,152 the investigators were at the door again. 1363 01:04:12,185 --> 01:04:14,587 Marilyn and Renee had been shot. 1364 01:04:14,621 --> 01:04:16,489 Where, they asked, had Dave been 1365 01:04:16,523 --> 01:04:18,258 around 8:30 that night? 1366 01:04:18,291 --> 01:04:21,594 Dave and Rosemary, as we know, said he'd been at home. 1367 01:04:21,628 --> 01:04:23,697 But the truth... 1368 01:04:23,730 --> 01:04:26,366 At that moment, Rosemary, was Dave home? 1369 01:04:26,399 --> 01:04:27,834 - Dave was not home. 1370 01:04:27,867 --> 01:04:30,570 - According to Rosemary, Dave did not get home 1371 01:04:30,603 --> 01:04:33,406 until after Jordynn was already tucked into bed, 1372 01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:35,742 sometime after 9:00 PM. 1373 01:04:35,775 --> 01:04:39,312 - And he walked in, and I saw his face, 1374 01:04:39,346 --> 01:04:40,413 and it's something 1375 01:04:40,447 --> 01:04:42,349 that nobody will ever, ever take away from me. 1376 01:04:42,382 --> 01:04:43,717 - Tell me. 1377 01:04:43,750 --> 01:04:46,219 - Panicked. Which panicked me. 1378 01:04:46,252 --> 01:04:48,988 White as a ghost, sweating. 1379 01:04:49,089 --> 01:04:52,158 I mean, his eyes were huge, 1380 01:04:52,192 --> 01:04:55,362 and it just instantly scared me 1381 01:04:55,395 --> 01:04:57,764 to where the first thing-- the very first thing 1382 01:04:57,797 --> 01:05:00,433 I said to him was, "what's wrong?" 1383 01:05:00,467 --> 01:05:02,369 And he didn't say anything. 1384 01:05:02,402 --> 01:05:05,071 And I said, "Dave, what is wrong?" 1385 01:05:05,105 --> 01:05:06,639 And he didn't say anything. 1386 01:05:06,673 --> 01:05:09,743 And he leans down, kissed Jordynn, 1387 01:05:09,776 --> 01:05:11,945 and he shut off the light. 1388 01:05:12,045 --> 01:05:14,647 And he kind of pulled me around the corner, 1389 01:05:14,681 --> 01:05:15,582 and I kept asking him, 1390 01:05:15,615 --> 01:05:17,150 "what is wrong? What's going on?" 1391 01:05:17,183 --> 01:05:20,153 There were a lot of "what the hell is happening?" 1392 01:05:20,186 --> 01:05:25,191 He started to take off his clothes 1393 01:05:25,225 --> 01:05:28,094 in the kitchen and quickly, 1394 01:05:28,128 --> 01:05:31,731 and he said, "Wash those. I'm getting in the shower." 1395 01:05:31,765 --> 01:05:34,067 And he made a beeline for the shower. 1396 01:05:34,100 --> 01:05:35,502 - And then when the investigators 1397 01:05:35,535 --> 01:05:36,703 showed up at the door... 1398 01:05:36,736 --> 01:05:39,773 - He clearly stated, "been home." 1399 01:05:39,806 --> 01:05:42,308 - And they asked you directly, "was Dave here?" 1400 01:05:42,342 --> 01:05:44,244 - Yes. - You told them a lie. 1401 01:05:44,277 --> 01:05:47,313 - I absolutely did. I followed Dave's lead. 1402 01:05:47,347 --> 01:05:50,750 - But Rosemary says her insides churned. 1403 01:05:50,784 --> 01:05:52,318 - I mean, it really took a toll on me 1404 01:05:52,352 --> 01:05:53,687 physically and mentally. 1405 01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:58,291 Just everything terrified me. 1406 01:05:58,324 --> 01:05:59,926 Dave terrified me. 1407 01:06:00,026 --> 01:06:02,262 He handed me knowledge that I didn't want to know. 1408 01:06:02,295 --> 01:06:04,330 I didn't ask for it. I didn't want it, 1409 01:06:04,364 --> 01:06:06,866 and he left me there holding it. 1410 01:06:06,900 --> 01:06:11,171 And it became a very, very heavy burden. 1411 01:06:11,204 --> 01:06:13,807 - Is that when your marriage becomes unraveled with Dave? 1412 01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:15,775 - It definitely starts there. 1413 01:06:15,809 --> 01:06:18,044 It never was the same after that. 1414 01:06:18,044 --> 01:06:20,680 It never was the same. 1415 01:06:20,714 --> 01:06:24,217 - The dominoes, said Rosemary, quickly began to fall. 1416 01:06:24,250 --> 01:06:28,254 Dave's behavior changed, and he had an affair. 1417 01:06:28,288 --> 01:06:30,190 Months after Marilyn's murder, 1418 01:06:30,223 --> 01:06:32,525 Rosemary confronted him again. 1419 01:06:32,559 --> 01:06:34,361 - I said, "I think you killed three women." 1420 01:06:34,394 --> 01:06:39,065 And his response to me was, are you afraid of me? 1421 01:06:39,099 --> 01:06:41,434 - Dave, she said, blamed her for the suspicion 1422 01:06:41,468 --> 01:06:43,370 that had fallen upon him. 1423 01:06:43,403 --> 01:06:46,840 - He had made statements, you know, saying 1424 01:06:46,873 --> 01:06:49,676 people are saying that you're telling this town 1425 01:06:49,709 --> 01:06:51,211 that I did it. 1426 01:06:51,244 --> 01:06:53,813 And what he told me was you need to shut your mouth. 1427 01:06:53,847 --> 01:06:56,449 And what I said was, I'm your ----ing alibi. 1428 01:06:56,483 --> 01:07:01,588 That was a quote. And it-- 1429 01:07:01,621 --> 01:07:04,124 And it was kind of left at that. 1430 01:07:04,157 --> 01:07:07,861 - A few years later, Rosemary and Dave were divorced. 1431 01:07:07,894 --> 01:07:09,629 And it was in the midst of an argument 1432 01:07:09,662 --> 01:07:12,165 over child care arrangements that Rosemary 1433 01:07:12,198 --> 01:07:15,035 said everything came to the surface. 1434 01:07:15,068 --> 01:07:17,570 - The moment it hit me, it was just when I said, 1435 01:07:17,604 --> 01:07:20,507 please don't make me take you back to court. 1436 01:07:20,540 --> 01:07:22,342 And when I said that, he took off his sunglasses 1437 01:07:22,375 --> 01:07:24,611 and he said don't (BLEEP) with me, Rosemary. 1438 01:07:24,644 --> 01:07:26,212 And it did, it scared me. 1439 01:07:26,246 --> 01:07:29,115 - Did you fear for your life at that point? 1440 01:07:29,149 --> 01:07:31,384 - I... - Linda, Marilyn, Renee, 1441 01:07:31,418 --> 01:07:32,752 I might be next here. 1442 01:07:32,786 --> 01:07:34,187 I might be the subject of this, 1443 01:07:34,220 --> 01:07:35,955 whatever is going on with this guy. 1444 01:07:36,056 --> 01:07:39,225 - There is a moment, yes, that I did. 1445 01:07:39,259 --> 01:07:40,927 - After this confrontation, 1446 01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,663 Rosemary confided in her best friend, 1447 01:07:43,697 --> 01:07:46,533 who urged her to call the Sheriff's Department. 1448 01:07:46,566 --> 01:07:48,468 She met with an investigator. 1449 01:07:48,501 --> 01:07:49,903 - And I told him straight out. 1450 01:07:49,936 --> 01:07:52,539 I said I lied both times. 1451 01:07:54,307 --> 01:07:56,476 And I think as we went through conversation, you know, 1452 01:07:56,509 --> 01:07:58,812 it kind of ended with, I never believed you anyway. 1453 01:07:58,845 --> 01:08:02,082 [chuckling] Um... 1454 01:08:02,115 --> 01:08:05,185 - But the alibi had gone up in smoke. 1455 01:08:05,218 --> 01:08:08,555 - Yes, and there was no turning back. 1456 01:08:08,588 --> 01:08:10,657 It was-it was the truth. 1457 01:08:10,690 --> 01:08:13,293 - Detectives kept Rosemary's confession secret, 1458 01:08:13,326 --> 01:08:16,629 as they slowly built their case against Dave. 1459 01:08:16,663 --> 01:08:17,897 When he went on trial, 1460 01:08:17,931 --> 01:08:20,533 she would be the star witness. 1461 01:08:20,567 --> 01:08:24,871 But by her own admission, Rosemary had lied for years. 1462 01:08:24,904 --> 01:08:28,241 Why would a jury believe her now? 1463 01:08:28,274 --> 01:08:29,576 - Coming up... 1464 01:08:29,609 --> 01:08:31,244 - Did any of that get to you, Jordynn? 1465 01:08:31,277 --> 01:08:32,412 Did she plant a seed? 1466 01:08:32,445 --> 01:08:35,248 - No, knowing my father, I really don't feel could go 1467 01:08:35,281 --> 01:08:37,784 as far as to kill a woman. 1468 01:08:37,817 --> 01:08:39,853 - A daughter defends her father, 1469 01:08:39,886 --> 01:08:41,454 and explains herself. 1470 01:08:41,488 --> 01:08:44,657 - Being a seven-year-old, I probably wasn't very clear. 1471 01:08:57,604 --> 01:08:59,072 - Pima County prosecutor, Jonathan Mosher, 1472 01:08:59,806 --> 01:09:01,875 spends his weekends about as far away 1473 01:09:01,908 --> 01:09:04,778 from a courtroom as one can get. 1474 01:09:04,811 --> 01:09:06,746 - I need a way to get it out of my head. 1475 01:09:06,780 --> 01:09:08,214 Rock climbing, you have to be 1476 01:09:08,248 --> 01:09:10,016 completely focused in the moment, 1477 01:09:10,016 --> 01:09:13,119 not worried about you, yourself, your life, or anything. 1478 01:09:13,153 --> 01:09:14,354 - All the chatter in your head stops. 1479 01:09:14,387 --> 01:09:15,555 - And it's liberating. 1480 01:09:15,588 --> 01:09:17,824 It just scratches an itch that I need to be able 1481 01:09:17,857 --> 01:09:19,926 to go back and do the next case. 1482 01:09:20,026 --> 01:09:21,928 - And there were few cases as daunting 1483 01:09:22,028 --> 01:09:25,031 as the one he took on in 2014. 1484 01:09:25,031 --> 01:09:28,335 The defendant, Tucson Fire Captain David Watson, 1485 01:09:28,368 --> 01:09:31,271 accused of killing three women. 1486 01:09:31,304 --> 01:09:32,906 - This is the pinnacle for a prosecutor 1487 01:09:32,939 --> 01:09:34,341 to take a challenge, 1488 01:09:34,374 --> 01:09:37,377 make the challenge almost insurmountable, 1489 01:09:37,410 --> 01:09:39,713 make it big, and overcome it. 1490 01:09:39,746 --> 01:09:42,048 Mosher and his co-counsel, Nicole Green 1491 01:09:42,048 --> 01:09:44,050 felt they were up to the challenge. 1492 01:09:44,050 --> 01:09:46,586 - We had no doubt. 1493 01:09:46,619 --> 01:09:49,522 No doubt that David Watson killed these three women. 1494 01:09:49,556 --> 01:09:52,225 We just wanted a chance to put it in front of a jury. 1495 01:09:52,258 --> 01:09:54,060 - We will start with the State. 1496 01:09:54,060 --> 01:09:57,197 - That chance came in October 2016. 1497 01:09:57,230 --> 01:10:01,167 - Two women battled David Dwayne Watson 1498 01:10:01,201 --> 01:10:05,271 for control and custody of Jordynn Watson. 1499 01:10:05,305 --> 01:10:07,807 Two women who are both dead. 1500 01:10:07,841 --> 01:10:09,576 - The prosecution called Jordynn, 1501 01:10:09,609 --> 01:10:11,611 who still believed her dad was innocent, 1502 01:10:11,644 --> 01:10:13,546 to testify about that interview 1503 01:10:13,580 --> 01:10:15,215 she gave at age seven. 1504 01:10:21,187 --> 01:10:23,757 - That is number one corroboration 1505 01:10:23,790 --> 01:10:26,693 for when Rosemary comes forward later 1506 01:10:26,726 --> 01:10:29,629 and says that David Watson was not home. 1507 01:10:29,662 --> 01:10:30,697 - Being a seven-year-old, 1508 01:10:30,730 --> 01:10:34,267 I probably wasn't very clear, of course, 1509 01:10:34,300 --> 01:10:38,438 but yeah, I have no memory of that at all. 1510 01:10:38,471 --> 01:10:41,307 - And she told us her relationship with Rosemary 1511 01:10:41,341 --> 01:10:43,543 was never the same after Rosemary 1512 01:10:43,576 --> 01:10:46,546 started expressing doubts about Dave. 1513 01:10:46,579 --> 01:10:48,248 Did any of that get to you, Jordynn? 1514 01:10:48,281 --> 01:10:50,150 Did you start to turn these ideas around in your head, 1515 01:10:50,183 --> 01:10:53,720 did she plant a seed, well, is there something to this? 1516 01:10:53,753 --> 01:10:55,922 - She really tried. I'll give her that. 1517 01:10:55,955 --> 01:10:58,258 Um, but no, 1518 01:10:58,291 --> 01:11:00,727 knowing my father I really don't feel 1519 01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:04,597 could go as far as to kill a woman. 1520 01:11:04,631 --> 01:11:07,300 - Don't let the helpful fire captain image fool you, 1521 01:11:07,334 --> 01:11:08,868 said the prosecution. 1522 01:11:08,902 --> 01:11:11,504 Dave's training, they said, is exactly why 1523 01:11:11,538 --> 01:11:13,940 he was capable of killing three women. 1524 01:11:13,973 --> 01:11:15,442 - What does a paramedic do? 1525 01:11:15,475 --> 01:11:17,177 Responds to bloody scenes. 1526 01:11:17,210 --> 01:11:19,412 They remain calm in such circumstances. 1527 01:11:19,446 --> 01:11:22,615 And this was David Watson's, uh, key attribute. 1528 01:11:22,649 --> 01:11:24,384 - That, along with a mountain of 1529 01:11:24,417 --> 01:11:26,753 other circumstantial evidence, 1530 01:11:26,786 --> 01:11:30,123 the money clip, the .9mm shell casings, 1531 01:11:30,156 --> 01:11:32,292 Dave's statements to his friends, 1532 01:11:32,325 --> 01:11:35,829 the horse ride near Silverbell mine in 2007, 1533 01:11:35,862 --> 01:11:39,399 all pointed to a guilty man according to the State. 1534 01:11:39,432 --> 01:11:41,768 - You prove this case by 1,000 cuts, 1535 01:11:41,801 --> 01:11:43,670 1,000 little cuts. 1536 01:11:43,703 --> 01:11:46,139 And there's not going to be the one aha moment 1537 01:11:46,172 --> 01:11:48,975 that comes down from on high and solves this case. 1538 01:11:49,009 --> 01:11:50,710 - Wrong, said the defense. 1539 01:11:50,744 --> 01:11:54,414 There wasn't an aha moment because Dave didn't do it. 1540 01:11:54,447 --> 01:11:55,915 Representing Dave Watson, 1541 01:11:55,949 --> 01:11:59,619 husband and wife legal team Michael Story and Natasha Ray, 1542 01:11:59,652 --> 01:12:02,088 and much like their prosecution counterparts, 1543 01:12:02,122 --> 01:12:04,591 not ones to shy away from a challenge. 1544 01:12:04,624 --> 01:12:07,360 - This is the most monstrous undertaking we've ever had 1545 01:12:07,394 --> 01:12:09,229 in our careers together. 1546 01:12:09,262 --> 01:12:11,564 - According to the defense, there were any number 1547 01:12:11,598 --> 01:12:15,435 of reasons why Linda, Renee, and Marilyn died, 1548 01:12:15,468 --> 01:12:18,838 reasons that had nothing to do with Dave Watson. 1549 01:12:18,872 --> 01:12:20,473 - As much as the State says, 1550 01:12:20,507 --> 01:12:22,876 Dave Watson, Dave Watson, Dave Watson, 1551 01:12:22,909 --> 01:12:26,546 you're going to see it going in other avenues 1552 01:12:26,579 --> 01:12:29,215 of people and circumstance. 1553 01:12:29,249 --> 01:12:33,219 - Other avenues such as suicide, whether Linda's-- 1554 01:12:33,253 --> 01:12:34,621 - With the drinking, 1555 01:12:34,654 --> 01:12:36,456 the ex-boyfriend testifying against her, 1556 01:12:36,489 --> 01:12:37,757 losing her job-- 1557 01:12:37,791 --> 01:12:39,626 - Or even Renee's. 1558 01:12:39,659 --> 01:12:41,127 The defense said Marilyn's friend 1559 01:12:41,161 --> 01:12:43,163 had once discussed suicide, 1560 01:12:43,196 --> 01:12:45,265 and they suggested she may have chosen 1561 01:12:45,298 --> 01:12:46,933 an unusual method. 1562 01:12:46,966 --> 01:12:49,803 - We all know insurance won't pay 1563 01:12:49,836 --> 01:12:51,404 if you commit suicide. 1564 01:12:51,438 --> 01:12:53,306 - Is your theory, or at least you're willing 1565 01:12:53,340 --> 01:12:55,275 to consider it that Renee, the friend 1566 01:12:55,308 --> 01:12:58,011 has somehow commissioned her own murder? 1567 01:12:58,111 --> 01:12:59,679 - That was something that we had thrown out 1568 01:12:59,713 --> 01:13:00,613 during other theory. - I mean, Natasha, really, 1569 01:13:00,647 --> 01:13:01,715 what movie are you seeing? 1570 01:13:01,748 --> 01:13:03,483 - There's some crazy people out there. 1571 01:13:03,516 --> 01:13:05,118 - Then there was the idea that maybe 1572 01:13:05,151 --> 01:13:08,421 Linda's ex-boyfriend, JR, was the culprit here. 1573 01:13:08,455 --> 01:13:12,125 DNA consistent with JR and not Dave was found 1574 01:13:12,158 --> 01:13:15,161 on a trash bag that had Linda's blood on it. 1575 01:13:15,195 --> 01:13:17,163 Although JR himself testified, 1576 01:13:17,197 --> 01:13:19,299 nothing surprising about that. 1577 01:13:19,332 --> 01:13:22,068 He said he'd been helping Linda fix up her house, 1578 01:13:22,068 --> 01:13:24,337 and that he had nothing to hide. 1579 01:13:24,371 --> 01:13:28,108 - I have cooperated with the Sheriff's Department 1580 01:13:28,141 --> 01:13:31,745 in their investigation 110%. 1581 01:13:31,778 --> 01:13:34,080 - And remember how Linda went out drinking with her cousin 1582 01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:36,683 a few days before she disappeared. 1583 01:13:36,716 --> 01:13:38,651 The Circle S Saloon isn't far from 1584 01:13:38,685 --> 01:13:41,688 a rural part of town called Green Acres. 1585 01:13:41,721 --> 01:13:44,791 A witness testified she had heard someone in Green Acres 1586 01:13:44,824 --> 01:13:47,694 talking about moving Linda Watson's body. 1587 01:13:47,727 --> 01:13:50,230 - She reports that that body was being moved 1588 01:13:50,263 --> 01:13:52,732 to Silverbell Road, 1589 01:13:52,766 --> 01:13:55,702 and that is within four miles of 1590 01:13:55,735 --> 01:13:57,604 where the skull was found. - So the geography matches. 1591 01:13:57,637 --> 01:13:58,638 - She had it. 1592 01:13:58,672 --> 01:14:00,607 - And this would fit the theory that Linda 1593 01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:01,808 got into the wrong pickup truck, 1594 01:14:01,841 --> 01:14:03,143 as I think of it. - Right. 1595 01:14:03,176 --> 01:14:05,478 - The defense said Dave, an avid rider, 1596 01:14:05,512 --> 01:14:08,581 had ridden out near the Silverbell mine before, 1597 01:14:08,615 --> 01:14:12,318 but as for that specific trip on New Year's Eve, 2007... 1598 01:14:12,352 --> 01:14:13,920 - I don't think that happens. 1599 01:14:13,953 --> 01:14:15,188 - You don't believe he went for the ride? 1600 01:14:15,221 --> 01:14:16,356 - Uh-uh. 1601 01:14:16,389 --> 01:14:17,390 - The defense highlighted 1602 01:14:17,424 --> 01:14:19,426 that while Pima County Sheriff's investigators 1603 01:14:19,459 --> 01:14:22,362 provided a printout of the GPS coordinates, 1604 01:14:22,395 --> 01:14:24,497 they never saved the raw data. 1605 01:14:24,531 --> 01:14:28,468 And what about that money clip with the initials DDW? 1606 01:14:28,501 --> 01:14:32,605 The defense theorized maybe Marilyn's family planted it. 1607 01:14:32,639 --> 01:14:35,975 - We have our theories that this family 1608 01:14:36,076 --> 01:14:38,745 was looking for a scapegoat 1609 01:14:38,778 --> 01:14:40,647 and they believe Dave did it, 1610 01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:42,582 and so they planted the money clip. 1611 01:14:42,615 --> 01:14:44,818 - Ludicrous, said Marilyn sisters. 1612 01:14:44,851 --> 01:14:46,319 - We may be old, but we ain't senile. 1613 01:14:46,353 --> 01:14:47,387 - No. 1614 01:14:47,420 --> 01:14:50,357 - If I was going to do something that stupid, 1615 01:14:50,390 --> 01:14:52,826 I woulda took it up front where the crime scene was. 1616 01:14:52,859 --> 01:14:54,994 Why would I put it clear in the back? 1617 01:14:55,095 --> 01:14:56,930 - The defense also pointed out that there was 1618 01:14:56,963 --> 01:15:00,266 no provable link between the Ruger Dave once owned, 1619 01:15:00,300 --> 01:15:03,103 and the gun that killed Marilyn and Renee. 1620 01:15:03,136 --> 01:15:05,271 - It's not conclusive that it was a Ruger. 1621 01:15:05,305 --> 01:15:06,673 - But at the end of the day, 1622 01:15:06,706 --> 01:15:09,542 both prosecution and defense agree. 1623 01:15:09,576 --> 01:15:11,878 The case hinged on the believability of 1624 01:15:11,911 --> 01:15:14,481 one witness, Rosemary Watson. 1625 01:15:14,514 --> 01:15:15,849 - If you do not believe Rosemary, 1626 01:15:15,882 --> 01:15:17,250 we don't have a case. 1627 01:15:17,283 --> 01:15:19,252 - It just chilled me to the bone, and everything-- 1628 01:15:19,285 --> 01:15:21,654 - Rosemary explained to the jury why she decided 1629 01:15:21,688 --> 01:15:23,890 to come forward in 2007. 1630 01:15:23,923 --> 01:15:27,861 - And I knew that I could not... 1631 01:15:27,894 --> 01:15:30,897 hold this in any longer because... 1632 01:15:33,867 --> 01:15:37,203 three women lost their lives and their lives matter. 1633 01:15:37,237 --> 01:15:39,673 - And then there was a critical detail. 1634 01:15:39,706 --> 01:15:43,076 Rosemary testified that on the same day Linda disappeared, 1635 01:15:43,076 --> 01:15:45,545 Dave found out his own mother was planning 1636 01:15:45,578 --> 01:15:47,647 to testify on Linda's behalf 1637 01:15:47,681 --> 01:15:50,083 at the upcoming custody hearing. 1638 01:15:50,116 --> 01:15:53,219 - He begged her not to. 1639 01:15:53,253 --> 01:15:55,955 - Did he succeed? 1640 01:15:55,989 --> 01:15:57,824 - Um, no. 1641 01:15:57,857 --> 01:16:02,128 She was very adamant about testifying for Linda. 1642 01:16:02,162 --> 01:16:04,431 - The prosecution said everything was coming 1643 01:16:04,464 --> 01:16:06,066 to a head that night. 1644 01:16:06,099 --> 01:16:07,834 - It's about control, 1645 01:16:07,867 --> 01:16:10,437 and that's a man who's seething inside 1646 01:16:10,470 --> 01:16:13,707 the night that he finds out he can't get his mother 1647 01:16:13,740 --> 01:16:15,241 not to testify against him. 1648 01:16:15,275 --> 01:16:16,843 His own mother. 1649 01:16:16,876 --> 01:16:18,745 And that's how vicious it had become. 1650 01:16:18,778 --> 01:16:20,947 - So you see the fuse being lit here. 1651 01:16:21,047 --> 01:16:22,315 - Yeah, I mean, I, you know, 1652 01:16:22,349 --> 01:16:24,050 I don't know when the fuse was lit, 1653 01:16:24,050 --> 01:16:26,319 but it was getting down close to the explosives 1654 01:16:26,353 --> 01:16:27,921 at that night. 1655 01:16:27,954 --> 01:16:29,589 - But according to the defense, 1656 01:16:29,622 --> 01:16:32,459 Rosemary Watson was just not credible. 1657 01:16:32,492 --> 01:16:34,861 - She's either lying back when she gave the alibis, 1658 01:16:34,894 --> 01:16:36,663 or she's lying when she recants the alibi. 1659 01:16:36,696 --> 01:16:37,831 - Jurors pick it. 1660 01:16:37,864 --> 01:16:38,865 - Oh, they shouldn't pick it. 1661 01:16:38,898 --> 01:16:39,833 They should take it and say, 1662 01:16:39,866 --> 01:16:40,867 I can't believe anything she says 1663 01:16:40,900 --> 01:16:42,602 because I don't know what to believe. 1664 01:16:42,635 --> 01:16:47,307 - So for a seven year span, you have this story 1665 01:16:47,340 --> 01:16:49,743 you're calling a lie now, right? 1666 01:16:49,776 --> 01:16:51,211 - It is a lie. 1667 01:16:51,244 --> 01:16:55,949 - And then the last seven years is the truth, right? 1668 01:16:55,982 --> 01:16:58,418 - I came forward and told the truth. 1669 01:16:58,451 --> 01:17:00,754 - I understand. 1670 01:17:00,787 --> 01:17:04,357 They're completely different versions of those nights, yes? 1671 01:17:04,391 --> 01:17:05,291 - They are. 1672 01:17:05,325 --> 01:17:07,160 - One of them is a complete lie, yes? 1673 01:17:07,193 --> 01:17:08,895 - Correct. - That's all I have. 1674 01:17:08,928 --> 01:17:11,031 - The defense in a nutshell, 1675 01:17:11,031 --> 01:17:14,234 hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. 1676 01:17:14,267 --> 01:17:15,902 So she's lying to stick it to her ex, 1677 01:17:15,935 --> 01:17:17,070 that's your theory. 1678 01:17:17,103 --> 01:17:18,271 - Exactly right. 1679 01:17:18,304 --> 01:17:21,374 - A point the defense drove home in closing arguments. 1680 01:17:21,408 --> 01:17:23,043 - She's a liar. 1681 01:17:23,043 --> 01:17:26,813 And when you have a blatant bald faced liar like that, 1682 01:17:26,846 --> 01:17:29,349 you cannot consider their testimony. 1683 01:17:29,382 --> 01:17:30,917 You have to throw it out. 1684 01:17:30,950 --> 01:17:32,218 - The prosecution argued 1685 01:17:32,252 --> 01:17:34,287 the jury should believe Rosemary, 1686 01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:37,490 and not the wild theories floated by the defense. 1687 01:17:37,524 --> 01:17:41,227 - The truth is, folks, 1688 01:17:41,261 --> 01:17:43,596 in August of 2000, 1689 01:17:43,630 --> 01:17:48,068 that man killed Linda Watson. 1690 01:17:48,101 --> 01:17:52,639 2003, that man killed Marilyn Cox 1691 01:17:52,672 --> 01:17:55,608 and killed Renee Farnsworth. 1692 01:17:55,642 --> 01:18:00,714 There is no other... 1693 01:18:00,747 --> 01:18:03,116 evidence based in reason 1694 01:18:03,149 --> 01:18:06,286 to any other answer than that. 1695 01:18:06,319 --> 01:18:09,522 - And now it was in the hands of 12 jurors. 1696 01:18:09,556 --> 01:18:13,026 And right before Thanksgiving, they'd surprise everyone. 1697 01:18:14,127 --> 01:18:15,495 - Coming up... 1698 01:18:15,528 --> 01:18:19,866 After so many years and one last twist, a verdict. 1699 01:18:19,899 --> 01:18:22,035 - We were all pretty positive that, you know, 1700 01:18:22,035 --> 01:18:23,903 this is going to be over. He's going to come home. 1701 01:18:23,937 --> 01:18:25,038 - My hands were sweating. 1702 01:18:25,038 --> 01:18:29,242 I was nervous because I know the victims' families 1703 01:18:29,275 --> 01:18:30,844 are behind me, 1704 01:18:30,877 --> 01:18:33,346 and this is everything to them. 1705 01:18:46,393 --> 01:18:48,895 - Jordynn Watson firmly believed her father was innocent, 1706 01:18:49,829 --> 01:18:52,766 and expected to have him home for Thanksgiving. 1707 01:18:52,799 --> 01:18:55,135 - You know, we were all pretty positive 1708 01:18:55,168 --> 01:18:56,670 that, you know, this is going to be over. 1709 01:18:56,703 --> 01:18:58,071 He's going to come home. 1710 01:18:58,104 --> 01:19:00,807 - Then, three days after deliberations began, 1711 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:02,575 the jury came back. 1712 01:19:02,609 --> 01:19:05,011 But it wasn't what anyone expected. 1713 01:19:05,011 --> 01:19:08,815 - Was there any possibility that the jury would want 1714 01:19:08,848 --> 01:19:12,552 to consider further discussions? 1715 01:19:12,585 --> 01:19:16,022 - Not at this time. Or not-- No, no, sir. 1716 01:19:16,022 --> 01:19:18,158 - The jury was hung. 1717 01:19:18,191 --> 01:19:21,394 Dave Watson soon learned he'd been just a few votes shy 1718 01:19:21,428 --> 01:19:24,297 of walking out of jail a free man. 1719 01:19:24,330 --> 01:19:26,733 It was 10 to 2 acquittal in the case of Linda, 1720 01:19:26,766 --> 01:19:28,735 and 8 to 4 for acquittal 1721 01:19:28,768 --> 01:19:31,037 in the case of Marilyn and Renee. 1722 01:19:31,071 --> 01:19:34,941 - Yeah, it-it-it brought tears to my eyes 1723 01:19:35,041 --> 01:19:37,444 that it was even a hung jury. 1724 01:19:37,477 --> 01:19:39,446 - The defense contained their excitement 1725 01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:41,381 and braced themselves. 1726 01:19:41,414 --> 01:19:43,717 - Anything short of conviction is a win, 1727 01:19:43,750 --> 01:19:46,486 um, but it's a hollow win in that the State 1728 01:19:46,519 --> 01:19:49,222 can come right back and charge it again. 1729 01:19:49,255 --> 01:19:51,257 - Which is exactly what happened. 1730 01:19:51,291 --> 01:19:55,362 The retrial began on January 25th, 2017. 1731 01:19:55,395 --> 01:19:58,465 The prosecution led with its star witness. 1732 01:19:58,498 --> 01:20:00,834 - The State calls Rosemary Watson. 1733 01:20:00,867 --> 01:20:03,670 - But this time, they retooled their case a bit. 1734 01:20:03,703 --> 01:20:06,206 - I read the transcripts from the first trial, 1735 01:20:06,239 --> 01:20:10,043 and one thing I saw too much of was me speaking. 1736 01:20:10,076 --> 01:20:12,145 And so I doubled down on the idea 1737 01:20:12,178 --> 01:20:14,481 that the jury needed to hear from Rosemary, 1738 01:20:14,514 --> 01:20:16,116 and so I got out of the way. 1739 01:20:16,149 --> 01:20:18,018 I asked shorter questions. 1740 01:20:18,051 --> 01:20:20,253 Did anything unusual happen that night? 1741 01:20:20,286 --> 01:20:22,222 - Yes, I woke up in the middle of the night, 1742 01:20:22,255 --> 01:20:24,691 a couple of times, and Dave was not there. 1743 01:20:24,724 --> 01:20:27,961 - The second time around was different for Rosemary too. 1744 01:20:27,994 --> 01:20:29,295 - Now I'm a little mad. 1745 01:20:29,329 --> 01:20:31,664 Not only is he lying, 1746 01:20:31,698 --> 01:20:35,935 he's making me out to be just a boldfaced liar. 1747 01:20:35,969 --> 01:20:37,937 - She testified about how she had lied 1748 01:20:37,971 --> 01:20:39,639 to protect her family, 1749 01:20:39,673 --> 01:20:42,776 and about what coming forward with the truth had cost her. 1750 01:20:45,845 --> 01:20:48,314 - Jordynn doesn't speak to me very often anymore. 1751 01:20:51,184 --> 01:20:52,452 - Correct. 1752 01:20:52,485 --> 01:20:54,454 - The prosecution called Jordynn next, 1753 01:20:54,487 --> 01:20:57,957 so the jury could hear how her interview at age seven 1754 01:20:57,991 --> 01:21:01,861 backed up Rosemary's claim that Dave wasn't home. 1755 01:21:01,895 --> 01:21:03,863 Not so fast, said the defense. 1756 01:21:03,897 --> 01:21:05,965 - I can only imagine if my seven-year-old 1757 01:21:06,066 --> 01:21:07,834 was interviewed about a key fact that's going 1758 01:21:07,867 --> 01:21:10,170 to decide a guy's life, it would be scary. 1759 01:21:10,203 --> 01:21:13,340 The defense maintained Dave was home the nights in question. 1760 01:21:13,373 --> 01:21:15,508 He didn't kill anyone, they said. 1761 01:21:15,542 --> 01:21:18,411 They once again presented multiple other scenarios 1762 01:21:18,445 --> 01:21:20,447 of what could have happened to Linda. 1763 01:21:20,480 --> 01:21:21,948 She died by suicide. 1764 01:21:21,981 --> 01:21:23,983 She was murdered by a mysterious killer 1765 01:21:24,084 --> 01:21:25,418 from Green Acres. 1766 01:21:25,452 --> 01:21:28,822 Or by the one suspect who stood out for the defense. 1767 01:21:28,855 --> 01:21:31,091 - If not Dave Watson, then who? 1768 01:21:31,124 --> 01:21:32,492 - It would be Carl. 1769 01:21:32,525 --> 01:21:35,095 - Carl Barton, junior, JR. 1770 01:21:35,128 --> 01:21:37,230 Nonsense, said the prosecution. 1771 01:21:37,263 --> 01:21:40,734 - There is no evidence linking JR 1772 01:21:40,767 --> 01:21:43,303 to any of these three murders, none. 1773 01:21:43,336 --> 01:21:45,338 After seven weeks of testimony, 1774 01:21:45,372 --> 01:21:48,875 Dave's fate was once again in the hands of a jury. 1775 01:21:48,908 --> 01:21:50,744 - We were getting indications from questions 1776 01:21:50,777 --> 01:21:51,811 out of the jury 1777 01:21:51,845 --> 01:21:54,014 that they might actually go into the next week. 1778 01:21:54,114 --> 01:21:57,183 I was thinking they're-they're pretty hung. 1779 01:21:57,217 --> 01:22:00,053 - But then after a day and a half of deliberations, 1780 01:22:00,053 --> 01:22:02,555 the jury buzzed with a verdict. 1781 01:22:02,589 --> 01:22:04,357 It was St Patrick's Day. 1782 01:22:04,391 --> 01:22:05,792 Detective Kelly Anderson 1783 01:22:05,825 --> 01:22:07,560 hoped luck would be on his side. 1784 01:22:07,594 --> 01:22:09,963 - My hands were sweating. I was nervous. 1785 01:22:10,063 --> 01:22:11,531 I'm nervous over every verdict, 1786 01:22:11,564 --> 01:22:13,366 but I'm more nervous now 1787 01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,903 and it's because I know the victims' families 1788 01:22:16,936 --> 01:22:18,505 are behind me 1789 01:22:18,538 --> 01:22:20,774 and this is everything to them. 1790 01:22:20,807 --> 01:22:23,610 - The stakes were high for him personally too. 1791 01:22:23,643 --> 01:22:25,078 He was retiring, 1792 01:22:25,078 --> 01:22:27,714 and this was his last homicide case. 1793 01:22:27,747 --> 01:22:29,983 The moment of truth, the one that had taken 1794 01:22:30,083 --> 01:22:33,319 17 years to arrive, was finally upon them. 1795 01:22:34,487 --> 01:22:36,556 - We, the jury, do find the defendant, 1796 01:22:36,589 --> 01:22:39,092 David Dwayne Watson, guilty of the offense 1797 01:22:39,092 --> 01:22:41,327 of second degree murder of Linda Watson. 1798 01:22:41,361 --> 01:22:43,630 - Oh, when she said Linda, I didn't even have 1799 01:22:43,663 --> 01:22:44,798 to listen to the rest of it 1800 01:22:44,831 --> 01:22:46,866 because we knew if we'd got him for Linda, 1801 01:22:46,900 --> 01:22:48,234 the other two was just an automatic. 1802 01:22:48,268 --> 01:22:49,736 - Slam dunk, yeah. 1803 01:22:49,769 --> 01:22:53,106 - David Watson, father, friend, and fire captain, 1804 01:22:53,139 --> 01:22:55,775 was also convicted for the first degree murders 1805 01:22:55,809 --> 01:22:57,644 of Marilyn and Renee, 1806 01:22:57,677 --> 01:23:00,714 the loyal friend who didn't even play a lead role 1807 01:23:00,747 --> 01:23:03,049 in her own murder case. 1808 01:23:03,049 --> 01:23:04,784 - So she was forgotten a lot, 1809 01:23:04,818 --> 01:23:07,787 but my mom was kind of the meek, mild, 1810 01:23:07,821 --> 01:23:09,422 quiet person in the back, 1811 01:23:09,456 --> 01:23:11,057 and just kind of went with the flow 1812 01:23:11,057 --> 01:23:15,061 and she was always there for anybody that needed anything. 1813 01:23:16,296 --> 01:23:18,498 - Jordynn was heartbroken. 1814 01:23:18,531 --> 01:23:21,101 Dave says he could not believe it. 1815 01:23:21,134 --> 01:23:23,770 I would have never imagined that in a million years. 1816 01:23:23,803 --> 01:23:26,072 From what was being presented in court, 1817 01:23:26,106 --> 01:23:28,341 I thought there was no way, 1818 01:23:28,375 --> 01:23:30,410 no way beyond a reasonable doubt 1819 01:23:30,443 --> 01:23:32,212 you could think I would have done any of this. 1820 01:23:32,245 --> 01:23:33,747 - Did you go over to Linda's house, 1821 01:23:33,780 --> 01:23:35,482 abduct her, kill her? - No. 1822 01:23:35,515 --> 01:23:37,350 - Drop her in the wash up by Silverbell? 1823 01:23:37,384 --> 01:23:39,252 - No, not at all. - Did-- 1824 01:23:39,285 --> 01:23:42,522 Did you get a .9mm, your Ruger, 1825 01:23:42,555 --> 01:23:45,291 did you put on a hoodie and go kill Marilyn and her friend 1826 01:23:45,325 --> 01:23:46,593 in the driveway of their house? 1827 01:23:46,626 --> 01:23:47,761 - Sure did not. - Point blank range? 1828 01:23:47,794 --> 01:23:48,828 - Nope. 1829 01:23:48,862 --> 01:23:50,864 - But the jury believed otherwise. 1830 01:23:50,897 --> 01:23:53,667 And the man who made a career out of saving lives, 1831 01:23:53,700 --> 01:23:55,935 is now doing time for taking them. 1832 01:23:55,969 --> 01:23:58,638 Dave Watson was sentenced to life in prison. 1833 01:23:58,672 --> 01:24:00,874 Is it a kind of nice, sentimental ending 1834 01:24:00,907 --> 01:24:03,043 for your career as a homicide detective? 1835 01:24:03,076 --> 01:24:04,744 - It's kind of bittersweet. 1836 01:24:04,778 --> 01:24:07,247 There's a little bit 1837 01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:10,116 that makes me want to do it again. 1838 01:24:10,150 --> 01:24:13,053 - The vault is three cases lighter now, 1839 01:24:13,053 --> 01:24:15,755 and the families of Linda, Marilyn and Renee 1840 01:24:15,789 --> 01:24:17,624 have some measure of closure, 1841 01:24:17,657 --> 01:24:20,360 thanks to an enemy-turned-ally. 1842 01:24:20,393 --> 01:24:22,829 - One of the ironies here is that you ended up 1843 01:24:22,862 --> 01:24:25,065 delivering for women 1844 01:24:25,098 --> 01:24:27,600 that you had been fighting earlier in your life. 1845 01:24:27,634 --> 01:24:28,802 You delivered for Linda. 1846 01:24:28,835 --> 01:24:30,837 You delivered for Marilyn and her friend, Renee. 1847 01:24:30,870 --> 01:24:33,373 - Ultimately, I did. Didn't I? 1848 01:24:33,406 --> 01:24:35,108 - She hopes Jordynn will one day 1849 01:24:35,141 --> 01:24:37,477 come to understand that. 1850 01:24:37,510 --> 01:24:39,312 Speak to her directly now. 1851 01:24:39,346 --> 01:24:43,216 - Everything that I didn't want for her 1852 01:24:43,249 --> 01:24:45,118 has happened. 1853 01:24:45,151 --> 01:24:46,252 And so speaking to her, 1854 01:24:46,286 --> 01:24:49,723 I guess the only thing that I can say is that 1855 01:24:49,756 --> 01:24:53,960 I'm sorry, but I am always here for her. 1856 01:24:53,993 --> 01:24:56,763 - You're sorry, but you say you also did the right thing. 1857 01:24:56,796 --> 01:24:58,398 - I did do the right thing. 1858 01:24:58,431 --> 01:25:02,335 If this was me, and I died fighting, 1859 01:25:02,369 --> 01:25:04,804 you know, for justice for my daughter, 1860 01:25:04,838 --> 01:25:07,874 I would hope that everybody would just tell the truth. 1861 01:25:07,907 --> 01:25:11,745 - But the truth sometimes is murky and hard to see 1862 01:25:11,778 --> 01:25:14,581 as the desert with night closing in. 1863 01:25:14,614 --> 01:25:17,083 What with all those secrets and old bones 1864 01:25:17,117 --> 01:25:20,320 scattered about unchanging. 1865 01:25:22,555 --> 01:25:26,059 - That's all for this edition of "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered". 1866 01:25:26,092 --> 01:25:28,628 I'm Kate Snow. 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