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( theme music playing )

( camera flash pops )

( siren wailing )

( keyboard keys clicking )

man: dear dr. baden:

why did my sister die at the age of 23?

- my husband went into... - i believe my son was poisoned.

( overlapping dialogue )

hi.

hi.

female narrator: kevin butler was a 48-year-old bachelor

who lived in pleasant grove, texas.

smile for the camera. mmm, mmm, mmm!

narrator: kevin's friends knew him as an animal lover

who took in stray cats and dogs.

this is the star here.

narrator: kevin loved all his animals,

but his favorite pet was a cockatoo he called bird,

after the famous basketball player larry bird.

( whistles )

( kissing sounds )

that's a good-- yes.

look at the camera. see?

you see you're getting your picture taken? see that?

- your picture taken right there. - ( squawks )

narrator: bird was very possessive of kevin,

and didn't like anyone who interfered

with their special relationship.

( squawks )

( chatter over police radio )

then, on christmas eve, 2001,

a 911 call brought police to kevin's home.

when they entered the living room,

they found his body in the middle of the floor.

george west: you could see blood that was beginning

to come out from his neck; that he had been slashed

from one end of his ear to the middle of his throat

and slightly around the other side.

there were puncture wounds that went through kevin's clothes

in which blood had begun to seep across the floor.

everything in the room had been turned upside down

like a tornado had come through.

the couch was turned over. the table was turned over.

you could see blood splatters on the wall.

and in the kitchen, as you walk through the front kitchen door,

there's a bird cage, a large bird cage,

but the bird cage was empty.

as they looked over to the left,

down on the floor was a bird,

a cockatoo, a white cockatoo.

he was laying there with one leg up

and another leg missing,

and beside him was the missing leg.

narrator: the bodies of kevin butler and his beloved cockatoo

were taken to the morgue to be autopsied,

and police began their investigation.

they learned of a heated argument

that butler had had with a man named daniel torres,

and they brought torres in for questioning.

narrator: torres denied having anything to do with butler's death,

but he couldn't explain how he had gotten

the deep scratches on his face.

when the medical examiner completed the autopsy on the cockatoo,

he found that there was human blood

on the bird's claws and on his beak.

but whose blood was it?

police brought torres back for further questioning.

they asked for permission to get what they call a buccal swab.

and what that is, is you have a long q-tip,

a stick with a cotton at the end,

and you wipe the inside of the individual's mouth,

and you'll get some cells off the side of their mouth.

and you can take it and run dna on that.

narrator: the blood on the cockatoo's claws

was too contaminated for a match,

but when they tested a smudge of blood found at the crime scene,

they found they had a perfect match

with torres's dna.

when confronted with the dna evidence,

torres told police what happened the night of the murder.

west: the cockatoo had seen daniel torres

start beating over and over again

the victim.

you gotta figure the bird knows

that his master, his loved one,

is being killed.

so, what this cockatoo had done

is latched onto the face of mr. torres

and then began to peck him and pull hair out of the top of his head.

he's fighting an individual

100 times his weight.

and the bird is struck, he's hit,

but the bird still comes back.

and, eventually, what mr. torres does is grabs a fork,

and when the bird comes back one more time,

he stabs the bird in the back of the neck.

hey, this bird fought

harder than many spouses would have fought for their spouse.

he took on all odds.

dr. baden: the cockatoo died trying to save a life,

but he was going to have the last word.

torres made the mistake of rubbing the top of his head

where the bird had pecked him

and then reaching for the light switch.

thanks to the cockatoo and the dna evidence,

there was no doubt

that torres had been at that crime scene.

narrator: torres is now serving a life sentence

for the murder of kevin butler.

it doesn't help his attitude

that the other prisoners have given him a nickname.

torres is going to be called "the birdman"

for the rest of his life.

( whistling )

( squawking )

( keyboard keys clicking )

tammy dobbs: i figured, from what i had seen,

that my brother was murdered.

i couldn't get anybody to help me.

i had contacted the police,

state attorney general's office-- you name it, i called 'em.

narrator: tammy's brother jaime

was only 37 when he died.

just a few months before

he'd been in perfect health,

enjoying life with his wife brigitte

and his four beautiful children.

( children singing )

how big? this big, or this big?

look. show daddy.

jaime: ooh!

you'd better hurry. your mother's eating all the cake.

narrator: jaime and his wife had been happily married for 16 years,

and life was good for both of them.

they had married very young,

but they continued to be happy together.

jaime was successful,

and they could afford to live well.

( ominous music playing )

then, suddenly, he fell critically sick

with a mysterious illness.

dobbs: he all of a sudden was having fainting spells.

he would get lethargic, kind of like comatose.

he was slurring his speech.

he wouldn't have a clue what was going on.

you know, you could talk to him, and he was just spaced out.

time after time, the ambulance was having to pick him up.

i think in the end he had two or three different doctors

that were working, trying to figure out what it was,

but i think they were just stabbing in the dark.

narrator: the doctors came up with several diagnoses.

at first, they thought he had a reaction

to his medication for high-blood pressure,

then legionnaire's disease.

they also noted that he was disoriented,

and they tested him for drugs,

but only traces of valium

and other prescription drugs were found.

finally, on the morning of july 31st, 2001,

doctors felt he was improving

and talked about releasing him from the hospital.

he was so much better,

that they took him out of the icu

and they put him in his own room.

so, we knew that was the beginning of jaime coming home.

( sniffles )

as soon as i got off work, about 6:00 that night,

i ran home and called.

and, um...

he was on the phone, he was talking to me.

and up until that point, you know,

he had a lot of hoses and different things

down his throat and nose,

so it was hard for him to communicate.

so, when i heard his voice on the phone,

that was wonderful.

he told me that he was doing much better. he had eaten;

he had been up exercising, walking around.

and i told him

that i'd see him saturday.

narrator: but just a few hours later,

tammy got a midnight call from the hospital.

dobbs: they just told me he was gone,

and it didn't register to me that...

( sighs ) gone meant dead.

and so, when i realized it,

um... it hit home.

i just... i threw the phone and went to screaming.

i knew that that wasn't right.

how could he be dead?

narrator: the death certificate stated

that jaime had died of natural causes,

but tammy didn't believe it.

then she found out that jaime's wife brigitte

did not want an autopsy.

dobbs: my first thought was, "i want an autopsy,"

and i was told that she had already said there wouldn't be one.

and that kind of hit me like a ton of bricks.

that was another clue to me.

narrator: the family insisted,

and brigitte finally consented to the autopsy.

it was performed by the hospital's pathologist.

he also concluded that jaime had died of natural causes.

dobbs: now i felt in my heart

that jaime was murdered,

and i didn't know what to do. i didn't know who to go to.

i had finally gotten the state attorney general's office.

i had written a letter, 13 pages, to him,

explaining to him what had happened.

i read the file, and immediately after that,

tammy dobbs began to call me

and would almost call me every day,

and sometimes more than once a day.

she was very adamant

about the fact that brigitte killed her brother.

her reasoning was:

every time that jaime is alone with brigitte...

he gets lethargic,

he doesn't know where he is,

he has trouble standing up.

there seemed to be something there.

i had a question about a cause of death.

i had to tell her, "for this case to be prosecuted,

i had to have a death certificate that said

the manner of death was a homicide."

dobbs: we'd gotten so far on the case,

and then they said that until the death certificate

was changed from "natural causes"

that their hands were tied.

you can't charge somebody with murder

with a death certificate saying that he died of natural causes.

and then, that's when-- you know,

i had talked to everybody that would listen--

and a good friend had said, "do you watch hbo?

i think there's a place on the internet

that you can go and look for dr. baden

and you can get help maybe."

so that's what i did.

i e-mailed day after day,

and they said they were interested.

so, then, i knew i had help.

the first things i asked for

were the autopsy and toxicology reports

and the microscopic slides

from jaime lynchard's lungs.

the slides caught my attention.

under the microscope,

the lungs showed tiny particles

that were trapped in blood vessels.

i had seen lungs like this before.

i asked tammy dobbs to come to new york

because i wanted to discuss with her

what i thought had happened to her brother.

- hi, tammy. how are you? michael baden. - it's nice to meet you.

thanks for contacting us,

because i think that we could be helpful.

i had a chance to review

the material you forwarded to hbo.

- yes. - it shows that your brother was pretty healthy,

except he had developed lung disease,

an odd kind of lung disease.

- did he smoke? - no, sir.

- did not smoke? - no, sir.

did he ever inject any medicines into himself?

- no, jaime wouldn't do that. - any drugs or things?

- you looked at the death certificate? - yes, sir.

death certificate says-- i'm sorry, do you want a tissue?

i'm sorry, dear. this is kind of... tough,

but i know you've been concerned. that's why you contacted us.

and, um...

uh, the, um...

the person who initially made out the death certificate,

he thought that the cause

of the lung disease was a blood clot to the lung.

but even though that's what's on the death certificate,

and that's a natural reason for death,

it's wrong.

your brother didn't have a blood clot.

we have been able to reconstruct

what happened to your brother.

he developed a very serious kind of lung disease

that we see a lot of in new york city

among drug addicts

who grind up pills and inject them.

when we have pills or capsules

with any medicines in them,

a little bit of that pill is the medicine,

and the rest of it is filler materials

that can make it into a certain shape

and large enough to be able to be handled easily.

and when we swallow that pill,

the stomach fluids and all, and enzymes,

break it apart

and absorb the medicine,

and the rest of it just goes through the body

and isn't absorbed.

if someone takes that pill or capsule

grinds it down a little bit,

dissolves it in water

and then injects it into an individual,

it leaves behind this telltale marker

of the debris, the stuff that can't dissolve,

that gets trapped in the lungs.

so, each little microscopic fragment

becomes encased in a large scar.

and all these scars

gradually eat up the normal lung tissue,

and it's really a kind of suffocation.

in my opinion,

all of the damage that he developed in his lungs

was caused by whatever was injected

into his veins.

and if he didn't do it, then somebody else did it.

and the cause of death, therefore, in my opinion,

is homicide...

because this certainly shortened your brother's life.

did he suffer?

you know,

usually, we try

to make, you know, family members feel

that their loved one didn't suffer, and if there's any way we can say that.

in this instance,

this is a more painful kind of death

than usual

because, as you probably saw,

he would get increasingly short of breath

from these lesions.

i'm sorry, dear.

this is kind of tough to go through.

but i know you've been concerned about this,

and that's why you contacted us,

and, you know, what we want to do

is try to answer any questions that you have.

if you think of questions later,

'cause this is too much to be given at one time,

um...

i'm always available by telephone.

i'll be talking to the district attorney.

and, um...

there's nothing that'll bring your brother back,

but at least you might be able to get some closure

on what happened to him.

that's why i called you, or got in contact with you,

so i can get justice for jaime.

- i sure appreciate it. - thank you, dear.

- good luck. - thank you.

miles: when i got dr. baden's letter,

that was key in getting the coroner's attention

because the coroner's skeptical,

like, "why am i going to change that death certificate after three years?

because some family member says it's a murder?

what do you have?"

i said, "do you know who michael baden is?"

narrator: the death certificate was changed,

but greg miles faced one last challenge.

as a prosecutor, you have to look and see,

"what's the defense going to be?

what are they going to tell this jury?"

they're going to say

that james was either injecting himself,

or they're going to say that brigitte injected him

with her drugs, with his knowledge and with his permission.

and, in fact, that's what the defense

came to me and said-- "well, he knew what was going on."

i said, "well, have you seen the note?"

he said, "no, i hadn't seen the note."

i said, "you might need to look at this note."

dobbs: it was right after christmas. it wasn't long.

the kids were going through a mourning period,

and supposedly she was too.

but i got a phone call

that the house had burned down--

not totally, but the majority of it.

in my eyes, i felt like she was destroying evidence.

narrator: brigitte's behavior had become

more and more erratic.

five months after jaime died,

brigitte had set fire to their house to collect insurance.

several weeks later, she set three more fires.

she was caught in the act

and convicted of arson.

tammy got permission from the fire marshal

to go through the burnt-out house to retrieve

any mementos she could find of her brother.

what she found turned out to be much more than keepsakes.

quite by accident,

she found a critical piece of evidence.

miles: tammy went and found in a burned-up piece of furniture--

she found this note.

james had written on it,

"what is valium and some other drug

doing in my blood?"

and he wrote it to brigitte lynchard, the person who killed him.

here is the key.

here is the physical evidence

that indicates that james didn't know

that those drugs were being injected into his system.

that note was presented to brigitte

by the attorney general's office investigators,

and brigitte authenticated the note.

narrator: dr. baden's conclusions

and the note found in the fire

were enough to indict brigitte for murder.

faced with the evidence,

she confessed she had killed her husband.

miles: brigitte had some experience as a phlebotomist.

according to her confession,

she was the only one in the room with him.

she injected him.

the needle actually went into the drip bag,

or it went directly into him.

and then she went into the restroom,

and she heard the nurses come in,

and then they called a code.

and brigitte came out of the restroom,

and they were working on james.

the defense attorney comes back to me and says,

"well, where is your motive?"

well, james had a policy

with the company where he worked, which is a substantial amount,

and then he had a personal life insurance policy.

so, in all, brigitte lynchard

received over $230,000

in life insurance proceeds from her husband's death.

pretty good motive.

it took somebody like tammy

just being persistent.

if tammy was not involved,

this crime would have not been reported.

it wouldn't have been a crime.

she was the only one blowing a whistle.

she didn't want

somebody getting away with killing her brother.

dobbs: there was a few things that brigitte did over the years

that let me know she wasn't totally on the up-and-up.

but i never-- up until this actually happened,

i never actually thought positively for sure

she could actually murder somebody.

narrator: on july 21st, 2005,

at the jackson, mississippi, courthouse,

brigitte lynchard pled guilty to manslaughter.

miles: the judge, judge yerger, asked brigitte,

"do you have anything to say?"

and then she said, "well, i've asked god to forgive me.

i've asked my children to forgive me,

and i'm trying to work on a relationship with them.

and now i ask the court to forgive me."

and really, that's the only thing i heard her say.

that's the only thing i've ever heard her say.

narrator: brigitte lynchard is serving

a 25-year sentence.

she will be 60 years old

when she is finally released from prison.

( keyboard keys clicking )

- child: now it's miss katie's turn. - someone else's turn.

mom's had enough.

man: but you're beautiful.

and i'm exceptionally attractive when i do the dishes, right?

- man: you bet. - ( singing )

narrator: in 1994,

june aurelio, age 39,

was living with her husband and three children

in a small house in stillwell, kansas,

surrounded by farmland.

( girl continues singing)

man: sing. sing.

( laughs, singing )

narrator: june was seemingly without a care in the world,

but all that would change when she decided to leave her home

and take a walk on a beautiful early spring afternoon.

june: we lived in a rural area.

behind our development were just farms.

i had been trapped in the house all day with the girls,

and when my husband came home that night

i said, "i'm going to go for a walk."

i remember getting

maybe a half mile away from the house,

and then i don't remember anything after that.

( brakes screeching )

( crashes )

( siren wails )

narrator: within minutes, the e.m.s. and police arrived

and rushed june to the hospital.

now she was fighting for her life.

doctors told her husband that she had a spinal injury

and that, even if she survived,

she would probably never walk again.

june: i remember the first time

i saw the word "quadriplegic"

on a, you know, piece of paper

and was horrified.

i don't think your brain even allows you

to accept something of that magnitude.

dr. baden: police questioned june,

but, like many people who have suffered a severe head trauma,

she had no memory of what had happened.

the police had nothing to go on.

a hit-and-run driver struck her from behind

and left her to die on the side of the road.

in the hope of finding some clue,

the police brought the clothing

that june wore at the time of the accident

to the kansas city crime lab.

the clothing, when i got it--

the request was simply to look for anything

that might be there

that might help locate a particular vehicle.

narrator: one article of june's clothing

caught dr. chapin's eye--

her black stretch-pants.

on the back of the left leg,

he saw what appeared to be a pattern

or kind of impression.

he couldn't make out what it was,

so he turned the pants inside out.

on the inside was

a much better-defined image

of what i saw on the outside.

there were some roughly parallel lines

that came across the calf.

there was definite curvature where they came down.

the imprint was actually from about three different things.

first of all, it was just abraded skin cells

from the calf of the leg.

there was also some talcum powder.

apparently, she had used body powder.

we really couldn't define, initially,

what had created this pattern.

we finally decided that it very likely was

a license plate.

narrator: dr. chapin soon realized that the images he saw

could not have been made by a kansas license plate,

but must have been made by a plate

from the nearby state of missouri.

dr. chapin: there was a pretty strong indication

that there was enough dirt on the outside of the license plate

that it actually, when it hit,

the dirt filtered through the pants

and was part of that imprint on the inside.

i had never seen it before, and i've never seen it since.

narrator: when dr. chapin realized what had caused the images,

he thought the two letters he saw on the upper left

were an "a" and a "p,"

and that the letters stood for

the license's expiration month of april.

dr. chapin: by taking that information,

we were able to look at these two larger,

more indistinct images.

and, in all likelihood, they were

the first two numerals in the license plate...

what officers did next was they contacted

the missouri division of vehicles in their investigative division,

and they wanted to find out

who had tags

that expired in april, that started with an "f" and a "5."

that yielded 28 potential suspects.

narrator: one of the names turned up in the computer search

was a jack t morgan.

when the investigators arrived at morgan's home,

they found a car with a license

that began with an "f" and a "5"

and had an april expiration date,

but they needed more evidence.

police impounded morgan's car,

and dr. chapin examined the license plate.

morrison: we found that the license tag

contained numerous fibers,

many many teeny tiny fibers

that were compressed

in the very very microscopic cracks

inside that tag.

when you put those together in a stereo microscope,

those fibers were indistinguishable

from the fibers in june aurelio's pants.

narrator: with the evidence from the license plate,

there was no doubt that the car driven by jack t morgan

was the same car that struck june aurelio.

jack morgan went on trial

and was found guilty of aggravated battery

with serious or permanent injury.

since morgan was on parole at the time

for second-degree murder,

he ended up being sentenced to 50 years in prison.

june aurelio gradually regained her health

and ability to walk again.

june: 10 years later, after what happened to me,

i feel incredibly blessed to be here at all.

and i have gotten to see my girls grow up.

at the time, there were plenty of days

when i thought-- you know, i wished

he had just gone ahead and killed me.

but in retrospect, you know, i'm glad i'm still here.

( bell tolling )

( choir singing in latin )

( chatter over police radio )

narrator: on october 28th, 1999,

a 48-year-old woman named susan fassett

was found fatally shot,

curled up next to her car

in the parking lot of the pleasant valley church.

she had just come from choir practice

when she was attacked.

( camera shutter clicking )

members of the choir found her

and called the police.

( siren wails )

when i got here, she was laying on the ground,

and the windows in the car had been shot out.

thomas martin: it was hard to determine a specific motive.

but because this was such a brazen crime--

it was out in the open, it was in front of people,

it was in an area where you could be very easily detected--

it tends to indicate that there's some type

of a passion behind it.

everybody was confident that this wasn't just some random act.

i mean, this wasn't a robbery.

it wasn't a carjacking.

i mean, this was an outright murder.

dr. baden: because this was not an attempted robbery,

and because of the number of shots that were fired,

the police immediately considered

that susan fassett was a specific target.

statistically, this kind of crime

is committed by family members or a loved one.

narrator: investigators turned to the most likely suspect.

they brought susan's husband in for questioning.

he was cooperative

and had an airtight alibi for the night susan was murdered.

police soon dismissed him as a possible suspect.

who would want to kill susan fassett?

she had been married for 24 years,

mother of two, an active member of her church

and the popular head of personnel for the town.

female reporter: susan fassett worked here at the town hall,

and now her coworkers and friends are trying to figure out

just why susan fassett had to die.

her colleagues say it's tough to stay focused on work,

because susan is always on their mind.

yeah, people are struggling with it. there's no question about it.

nobody deserves to die in that kind of manner,

but especially susan.

narrator: everyone who knew her

said she had no enemies.

but police began to look deeper into the life of susan

and found that there were rumors

of another man in her life.

investigators turned their attention to the other man.

his name was fred andros,

who was well-known in town as the city's water superintendent.

andros did not look like a lady's man.

he was over 60 years old and anything but handsome.

but despite his mundane appearance,

he seemed to have a remarkable attraction for women.

he was now married to his fourth wife

and had many mistresses,

among them susan fassett.

boyko: when we got down to the nuts and bolts,

we were trying to figure out

the true and accurate relationship he'd had with her.

he had said he had sexual intercourse with her

on one occasion,

and it was approximately a year

to a year and a half prior to the murder;

and that they hadn't had sex,

he was sexually dysfunctional

because of certain medical issues.

he had diabetes and some other things that rendered him impotent.

he had said they broke up

approximately a month before the murder.

he was very distraught,

very emotional and very upset

over the discussion of susan and how she was murdered.

narrator: andros also had a perfect alibi.

he had spent the evening with an old friend

who was also a 26-year veteran

of the local police force.

nevertheless, investigators felt

there was something about andros that didn't seem right,

and they brought him in to question him more closely.

edward t. mcloughlin: he came up with

some kind of strange, bizarre scenarios at first.

but, ultimately, he said

that "the person you want to talk to

is a person named dawn silvernail."

narrator: dawn silvernail was a 50-year-old woman

who lived with her husband and son.

for years, she had worked with mentally handicapped people

and was presently employed as a job advisor

for disabled adults.

police thought she was not the kind of person

to be involved in a brutal murder,

but they did note that she was on the list of those

who owned a .45-caliber semi-automatic ruger,

the same kind of gun used to kill susan.

we did at that point obtain a search warrant.

and, i think, on december 23rd,

we went to her home in rural greene county and knocked on the door.

i explained that we were investigating a homicide

that had occurred in this township some distance away,

and that we had been "led to believe by fred andros--

do you know fred andros?

--that maybe you could help us in this investigation."

there was no real response from her at that point.

she was very cool

and just waiting for more information.

i told her that fred had said

that she had actually committed this murder,

that she had been involved in a sexual relationship,

an intimate sexual relationship with this woman,

that, um... she had been spurned

and that fred said that, dawn,

you, in fact, had murdered her.

narrator: detectives relentlessly pressed dawn

about her relationship with susan.

after several hours of questioning,

dawn began to tell police

a very wild story.

( dawn speaking )

narrator: it took a week of intense questioning

before she finally confessed

to actually shooting susan.

she looked up, and then just began to sob.

and she dropped her head, and she was sobbing,

her shoulders were shaking,

and she just said three times,

"i shot that poor woman. i shot that poor woman.

i shot that poor woman."

woman: and i think--

truly, i feel that susan--

whatever she did, whether it was...

a desire for sex, or whatever it was--

she didn't deserve to be shot.

there's more than meets the eye.

female reporter: the case has played out like some kind of soap opera.

sex, lies, a corruption scandal, murder,

and even a bisexual love triangle.

a former town official is accused of ordering his lover

to kill another of his lovers.

fred andros says he had nothing to do

with the 1999 murder of susan fassett.

dawn silvernail said he had everything to do with it.

silvernail told the court...

this was a typical case of he-said/she-said.

andros said that dawn had shot susan

because they were having a lesbian affair,

and they had started to break up.

"dawn was just a spurned lover," he said.

dawn said she had committed murder

because andros had threatened to kill her and her family

if she didn't follow his orders.

which one was telling the truth

and how to prove it became the real question.

we started to subpoena phone records

which ended up being incredibly instrumental

in figuring out not only what happened

but the connections between these three people.

we were faced with thousands and thousands of communications records.

we knew that these records were essential

to trying to show any type of a connection

between fred andros, dawn silvernail and our victim.

a new forensic tool

developed by the airforce

called webtas was brought into the case.

narrator: the hard evidence was electronic,

buried in thousands of records of cell phone calls,

pager communications, pay phones,

fax phone numbers and computer lines

among the three people.

4,000 records were selected and fed into the system.

it took over six months to enter all this information.

using the webtas timeline,

they were able to back up dawn's story

and prove fred andros was lying.

boyko: he said early on he didn't have any cell phones.

we found out he had two cell phones.

( man speaking )

( dawn speaking )

narrator: they verified that there were multiple calls

between dawn and andros.

they were even able to track andros by his e-zpass

to confirm that he was meeting dawn

and communicating with her on a cell phone.

( dawn speaking )

narrator: the timeline put him the new york state thruway,

traveling at a specific start and stop time

which matched dawn's story exactly.

16 timelines were provided to the prosecutor

with icons representing andros,

susan and dawn.

each icon told investigators

each time one of the three

had communicated with each other.

andros said that he knew susan only slightly,

and that dawn and susan

were having an obsessive relationship.

the timeline showed just the opposite.

it was andros who was obsessed with susan.

there were 700 calls

that linked susan to andros.

there was no contact whatever between the two women.

most significantly,

there were 70 phone calls between andros and dawn

shortly before the murder.

the timeline also confirmed

what dawn had told police--

that she had paged andros

a few minutes after she had killed susan.

( man speaking )

( dawn speaking )

narrator: detectives went to andros's house

to arrest him.

boyko: we were very guarded, very cautious

when going into the house.

i can remember just being under the impression that he's--

i could just feel his presence in the house.

i remember seeing his wallet there.

i remember seeing his pager there.

these were indications to me that fred andros was in the house.

after we cleared the first floor,

we went up to the second floor.

there was a attic door opened just a crack.

i opened it slightly, and there was a window

that was coming in--

the sun was coming up, and i could tell that somebody was in there,

the way there was dust moving around.

i said, "fred, here i come. i'm coming up the steps."

as we turned around the corner,

we saw fred face down on the carpet.

a gun was right next to him, and he was bleeding.

he put the gun under his chin,

right here, pulled the trigger.

the bullet traveled up through his mouth,

exited here between his eyes,

and actually was embedded in the wall

directly at the top of the staircase where i was going up.

narrator: miraculously, andros survived

the suicide attempt,

even though the lower part of his face was shot away.

when he recovered,

he and dawn were brought to trial,

and the critical timeline evidence

was presented to the jury.

they were both found guilty

and sentenced to life in prison.

andros only survived for a year and a half

when he died of a heart attack.

boyko: fred had some mystique about him, apparently,

that was appealing to other people.

he was able to have relationships with women.

he was able to motivate dawn silvernail

to do this murder.

he was likeable on the surface,

but, deep down, probably one

of the most evil i've seen.

narrator: until the day he died,

fred andros never admitted he had anything to do

with the murder of susan fassett.

( theme music playing )

whether death occurred yesterday

or hundreds of years ago,

the dead's long-silent voices

return to answer the questions put to them

by the forensic pathologist.

he is their interpreter

and understands their language.

for him, death is not the end of the story,

but just the beginning.