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[theme music playing]

[Rocky] I'm looking at it right now, the bullet.

We found it. It's all documented.

And it's in good shape.

[girl exclaims]

[girl] My God!

[Pooneh] My dad was telling the truth.

All those years ago, he was telling the truth.

[theme music playing]

And I'm not a bullet person,

but they don't look the same.

This is a game changer.

[camera shutter clicking]

[Renee] We finally have this bullet

after 35 years,

so now I got a shot.

Okay, yeah.

[Douglas] They found a bullet,

but Mike could still have done it.

They didn't have anything

that made you think

they definitely got the wrong guy here.

Seventy-six percent of women murdered

are killed by someone they know.

It sure looks like...

the police got it right.

[theme music playing]

When you ask Pooneh that, you kinda got

what sorta sounded like conspiracy theories.

That's possible, but it's hard to believe.

Fine, I'm getting used to it.

[device whirs]

[Pooneh] I believe my dad didn't do it.

I just need to be able to prove it.

[woman laughs]

[birds chirping]

[tense theme playing]

[Pooneh] I think the Clark County Sheriff's Office,

they're hiding something.

They didn't go looking for that bullet.

So what else did they miss?

What else did they fail to investigate?

I'm beyond frustrated

because my mom was murdered

and the police should have worked

to solve her homicide,

but that's not what happened,

so I have to do it.

They had a conclusion, which was my dad,

and they worked backwards from that

to make this story fit.

[Renee] It's been our experience on this case

that the Clark County Sheriff has been reluctant

to give Pooneh access to anything.

It has been literally like pulling teeth.

Pooneh spent over 30 years

trying to get access

to the homicide bullet.

She was stopped at every attempt.

I think they have things to hide.

I don't know how bad, but they have things to hide.

Only recently, and it's been over 30 years,

did they agree to have the homicide bullet looked at.

So now we're gonna do whatever it takes

to find the truth.

[Pooneh] So, I hired a ballistic expert

to reexamine the ballistic evidence.

I was a special agent with the United States Army

Criminal Investigation Division, and investigated homicides,

sex crimes, narcotics.

Best way that I can summarize Pooneh

is that she's very driven.

She wants answers,

and she is trying everything in the world she can

to get those answers.

Pooneh asked me to see if Mike's revolver

could've fired the bullet found at the crime scene.

But what piqued my interest in the case was the fact that

the bullet recovered at the crime scene was damaged.

And it struck me as odd, is there's like a deep gouge there

that went right through the full length of the bullet.

There's no gouge in the crawl space bullet.

And so the question that we had was what caused

all this damage to the surface of the bullet?

[theme music playing]

So, right now we're doing phase one.

We have a Charter Arms Off Duty.

This revolver here is similar to what was used in the homicide.

[gunshot]

What we've been able to determine,

based on using ballistic gel heads,

the bullet going into the skull, exiting out,

it's not creating any deep gouges.

I shoot these in a water tank.

[water tank lid whirring]

The moment the bullet's fired through the barrel,

it has characteristics that can be used to identify

the bullet back to that particular firearm.

It's a mechanical fingerprint.

This is test firing one of the Charter Arms revolver.

[gunshot]

This is test fire number two.

[gunshot]

Test fire number three, Charter Arms.

[gunshot]

Okay, so these were the three test fires

that we just fired through the Charter Arms.

It's not creating any deep gouges.

In my experience, gouges to a bullet like this

usually come from a gun that is damaged.

My dad's gun was fairly new.

He'd had it for only seven or eight months.

He only fired it twice.

[Rocky] His revolver did not have

any damage on the muzzle end.

We're trying to show that the groove

going down the bullet that was recovered

from the homicide scene

was created by the muzzle of the gun

before it entered to Effie's head.

[theme music playing]

What we've done is we've damaged the crown

to see if that was what was causing the gouge

that was going down through the bullet.

This is test fire number one

after we've damaged the muzzle end of the barrel.

[gunshot]

This is test fire number two.

[gunshot]

Test fire number three.

[gunshots]

All clear.

We'll put this under the microscope and look.

So, here's what we have. We have...

See all the land and grooves here.

But when we get to the area that was dinged

on the muzzle end...

You're gonna see how deep this actual mark is.

And this is the mark that it created, which is consistent

with what we're seeing in the murder bullet.

[suspenseful theme playing]

So, it's not Mike's gun that was used in that homicide.

[Pooneh] It didn't match.

[slide projector clicks]

It wasn't my dad's gun that killed my mom.

I've always wondered

how the state expert, Larry Hiebert,

back in '89, came in and said

the bullet-- with certainty--

came from my dad's gun.

They have no circumstantial evidence

that have anything else other than this bullet.

He has not examined every firearm out there.

We don't say absolute certainty.

That's an issue in this case is that he's presenting to the jury

absolute certainty, which he really can't do.

[Pooneh] His testimony convicted my father.

You have a state expert that's telling the jury

it's a hundred percent match.

What are they supposed to believe?

And in the '80s,

people tended to believe the police and their experts.

[theme music playing]

So, I hired an expert

by the name of Rod Englert

to reexamine the crime scene.

[Rod] I'm a crime scene reconstructionist.

I try to establish, in a reconstruction,

who, when, what, where, and how.

In crimes of violence, blood is often shed,

and that bloodshed creates patterns.

[light switch clicks]

They tell you a lot about this case.

The weapon was held

by her left ear.

And what happens when the weapon is fired,

the gasses go in

to the entrance wound.

So, you have back spatter

going back towards the shooter.

Blood comes back in a cone-type shape.

There was a pool of blood

and then there was different stains

of different types of patterns

on her clothing.

Now, she was wearing a sweater,

and there were specks all over this garment

and down her left arm.

In a situation like that, there was so much

on her sweater, and on the purse strap

that there should've been some on the shooter.

That's the first thing that we ask about

when we take a case is, "Do you have the suspect's clothing?"

We got Mike Entezari's clothing

given to us

by the Clark County Sheriff's Office.

We looked at it microscopically.

We looked at every piece of it.

There was no blood on his clothing.

There was none of it on the gun.

So, if you put that all together,

it tells a story...

that it somewhat eliminates him as being the shooter.

[Pooneh] Larry Hiebert should have reviewed

not just the bullet.

Had he had reviewed

the crime scene photos,

had he had reviewed my mom's sweater,

he would've said, "We have a problem."

My father's gun had no blood.

There was no gunpowder found

on his clothes or his hands.

My dad didn't drive a yellow Toyota

that was seen taking off from the crime scene...

which makes no sense to me.

But then I uncovered something, and realized what was going on.

When the sheriff's office finally released the evidence

and all the information on those ballistics,

within those documents, showed up a two-page letter...

from the lead detectives in my mom's homicide.

To Larry Hiebert, who's the ballistic guy

for the state of Washington, prior to his examination

of the bullets.

Nobody knew this letter existed.

It says, "I guess I need to make sure

you understand our urgent need

to process everything as quickly as possible.

The evidence at this time is going to be

our strongest evidence.

We are needing the results in order to charge the suspect."

They're essentially saying to Larry Hiebert,

"If you don't tell us the gun matches,

we're not gonna be able to arrest this guy."

When I work cases, I don't wanna know the circumstances,

what kind of evidence, or anything.

I don't want to know the particulars

because it can create a bias.

[Pooneh] This, to me, is a huge problem.

He's instructing the lab guy

to move quickly,

and telling him what they need from him

to get the conviction.

Now we have a problem.

Larry Hiebert says it's a hundred percent match,

but we know that's not the gun that killed my mom.

So, I needed to bring in another expert

to help me figure out what had gone on back in '89.

My name is Glenn Garrels,

I worked in the Major Crime Unit

for 14 years in the New Jersey State Police.

The plaintiff, Pooneh, contacted me.

They wanted me to determine if the sheriff's department

in 1989 conducted a complete and thorough investigation.

After looking at all the facts of the case,

they didn't look at other people that may have been involved.

They basically had tunnel vision right from the get-go.

It's not how it's supposed to be done.

Anytime you have a homicide investigation,

you conduct a victimology,

which is basically talking to all their friends,

obtaining bank records,

obtaining potential phone records,

and going to their place of employment.

There were phone numbers at her business

and inside her residence

of people that knew her that they didn't talk to.

You talk to as many people as you possibly can to find out

as much information as you can about the victim's life.

And they did not do that.

That's vital information,

especially on a homicide case like this.

[voice guidance] Use the right lane

to keep right toward Vancouver Mall.

[somber theme playing]

[Pooneh] I have to figure out,

if it wasn't my dad who killed my mom,

then who did?

I'm doing the victimology

that the detectives should've done in '89...

talking to everyone

who was involved in her life.

My mom kept a list of kids

that attended her daycare center.

I'm going through

and interviewing all the parents,

with the hopes that

someone might have some information

that could help out with the case.

-Hi, Don. -Hi.

-How are you? -Pretty good.

-Do you remember me? -Absolutely. Glad to see you.

-Yeah? -[both laugh]

-It's been a long time. -Yes.

[Pooneh] So, I understand that

you had a son that went to my mom's daycare?

Yeah, Joshua.

He was here every day, five days a week.

-Yeah, okay. -Every week.

I was here every day, five days a week with him.

I helped her watch the kids, we took 'em on field trips.

She gave my son daycare in exchange for my help.

So, I was glad to do that for her.

One day, I stopped on a Saturday,

your mom being there that day, it was suspicious to me.

When I pulled up to the daycare center and parked,

there was another small yellow compact car next to hers...

[male voice echoes] Yellow car.

So I walked down to see how she was doing,

and if I could help her in any way,

and I saw these two guys standing there.

They were one on each side of her.

I saw a bruise on the left side of her cheek.

-[Pooneh] You had noticed that? -[Don] Yeah.

[Pooneh] When I saw my mom

at the funeral home after the homicide,

I noticed she had a bruise on her eye as well.

Don, do you have any idea who these mean were?

No. I've never met 'em before, I've never seen 'em before.

I have no idea who they are.

-Nothing? -Nope, nope.

-[Pooneh] Were they American? -[Don] Middle Eastern.

-They were Middle Eastern? -Yeah.

They were very nervous, the fact that I came in

and interrupted what was going on.

I left a couple of minutes later.

They immediately followed me out the door and also left,

which was kind of suspicious in itself.

They got into the yellow car?

They got into the little yellow car next to mine,

right next to mine.

You could see the fear on her face.

I knew she was in trouble, but I didn't know what to do.

The reason they were here...

was a precursor to her death.

I'm sure of that.

[Pooneh] What Don says confirms

what I've been thinking for some time,

that my mom was scared and something was going on...

just two days before her homicide.

I mean, I'd like to show him some photos

and have him see if he can identify the men,

but I wonder if...

the men were here

to kill her that day.

-[Pooneh] Brielle! -[dog whimpering and howling]

[Pooneh laughs]

-Brielle! -[whimpering and howling]

[laughs] Brielle!

-[howling] -He's saying, "Come down."

[Brielle and Pooneh laugh]

[Pooneh] I want to show you something.

Don't you think that looks like you?

That's my mom. I mean, you guys look a lot alike.

-Yeah. -The same facial feature.

I think I probably look more like her than maybe you.

But what was she like?

Well, I think you would've liked her.

I mean, she would've been a fun grandma.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Well, she worked at a daycare, so she clearly liked kids.

Yeah. My mom was like easygoing

and not too many things bothered her,

and she laughed all the time.

-Yeah. -And I think I kinda got that.

-Yeah. -But she, um...

kinda looked at everything with colored glasses on.

Like, she didn't realize that there was danger around her.

Really? Like, she trusted like the world?

-She trusted everybody. -Oh, yeah.

She didn't think that anybody would ever harm her

or take advantage.

You don't think anybody's gonna harm you.

My mom was definitely more overprotective

when I was younger.

All of my friends would be able to walk to the park,

do things without their parents-- my mom, no way.

I think just because anything can happen when you're alone.

Exactly what happened to her mom.

Her mom was alone when the thing happened.

When was the last time you saw her in person before she passed?

When I went to go see her a week before she was killed,

she was standing in the window waiting for me...

and I said to her, "Did you miss me or something?

That was a nice greeting."

'Cause she was at the window.

And she's like, "I was making sure you weren't followed."

-Really? -Yeah.

It was just a really bizarre statement.

And then, she told me,

talking about the people she's hanging out with,

that they're very bad people.

Think your mom knew what was coming?

Yeah.

I think my mom knew there was a problem.

I'm gonna get the people that killed my mom.

-I mean, one way or another... -Yeah.

...it's gonna end with...

an arrest.

What animates Pooneh's ambition here

is she believes that there is someone out there

who did kill her mother,

who's gotten away with it for 30 years,

and she cannot live with that.

And she wants that person

to be brought to justice.

I suspected it was a group of people

that my mom was hanging out with,

but I didn't know exactly why.

I just knew I had a bad feeling.

[birds chirping]

So, I contacted Chris Peterson,

and I said, "I need your help."

[Chris] Hey, Thor.

I retired in 1997

from the sheriff's office after 26 years.

When Pooneh hired myself as a private investigator,

I thought to myself, "Pooneh, don't waste your time,"

but Pooneh believes that the most unlikely lead

should be followed,

so I agreed to help her.

You got a heavy box here.

Heh. Okay, so I think we've got a lot to go through.

So, we had asked for documents

that the Clark County Sheriff's Office

took from my mom's house,

and I found a bunch of her business records

from her daycare center.

She had told the landlord

that she's just gonna close

her daycare center at the end of May.

But while I was going through her paperwork,

I found some really interesting things.

She took out a Yellow Page ad.

Why is she taking a Yellow Page ad

if she's closing down her business?

-Makes no sense. -It makes no sense.

So, I went to Archives at the Columbia newspaper

and looked up the ads.

She's taking out ads for another daycare center.

-Aim? -Not hers, but another daycare.

With other people.

I gotta show you something else that I found.

So, when I went through her ledger,

she's buying supplies...

from Ace Hardware...

continuously, for about a five-month period,

constantly purchasing supplies.

And these are large supplies, like sheet rock,

roofing material, trusses.

[Chris] It's very clear that your mom was buying material

for her new daycare center.

That nobody seems to know about,

and the police weren't aware of.

Very obviously.

I believe that she did a handshake deal.

Because my mom didn't want anyone knowing

about this business, and having it entangled

in the divorce,

she had maintained everything

under the name of her business partner.

[ominous theme playing]

[camera shutter clicks]

[Chris] The Iranian community

was not big in the Portland metropolitan area

in that period of time, so it was a very close-knit

group of Iranians.

The Entezari family was sort of the personification

of this American success story, this American dream.

They had money, they had opportunity, they had skills.

[chuckles] Thank you.

[Mike speaking Farsi]

[Patrick Clawson] There was a widespread expectation

in the Iranian-American community

that those Iranian-Americans who were doing well

had an obligation to help other Iranians.

[playing discordant notes]

[speaking Farsi]

[woman speaking Farsi]

[Patrick] There were a fair number of people involved

in the Iranian-American community

who were, um, engaged in not very savory activity

in order to get money out of other Iranians.

[Glenn] Your goal is to gather facts and to get to the truth.

The police didn't do the victimology.

That's how you identify potential suspects.

[Renee] The people Effie got involved with,

once she was separated from Mike,

I believe were like parasites.

They glob onto Effie Entezari,

take all her money,

take her life,

and end up with the wealth themselves.

I noticed something else interesting

while going through her checkbook

that wasn't making sense.

She's doing cash withdrawls every month...

of $500.

Were you ever able to establish where that cash was going?

My mom had a bank account

that she kept secret,

and I found out

that by 1988, August of 1988,

she had saved up $23,000.

From what I reviewed, you could buy a house

for about 30, 35 thousand dollars.

That same house now is what, $500,000?

So we're talking about a lot of money.

So, she pulls it out and she deposits it

in November of 1988,

and the money disappears.

And when you say "disappears," in all your work,

you've never been able to determine where that cash went?

No, and the bank doesn't have the records

because I got to it too late.

I believe he suckered my mom and her money.

I think he manipulated her, conned her,

because on May 1, 1989,

when the documents for the business

were supposed to be signed...

she was murdered that morning.

And guess who keeps the business,

and doesn't say anything about it to the police,

to me, to anybody?

[Pooneh] If that's not a motive to kill somebody,

then I don't know what is.

So, they had taken it on as a lease,

and there was balloon payment due that day.

So, when my mom died, her business partner was able

to use the money that my mom had given

as down payment

to sign for the business and take over.

Because of the divorce, he had the perfect opportunity

to frame my father.

The timing couldn't have been any better.

I'm shocked, as a guy that's been doing this for a long time,

that the sheriff's office never followed up

on that particular obvious lead.

It's very discouraging to think

that people that I spent a lifetime working with

could've handled an investigation

as poorly as this was.

[Chris] Effie's business partner had a clear motive.

There was potential for financial gain

when Effie passed away.

But the next step is proving

that they were involved in the crime.

That is a challenge.

[clicks]

[Pooneh on recording] Go back to the Saturday before

Effie was murdered.

I would now like you to look at exhibit three.

It's a picture of just a single man with a mustache.

-[Don] I see it. -[Pooneh] Okay...

...and do you remember that man being one of the men

who was at the daycare center

the Saturday before Effie's murder?

[Don] Yes, it was.

[dramatic theme playing]

[Pooneh] Based on what Don said he saw

the Saturday prior to my mom's homicide,

solidifies my theory

that my mom's business partner was involved in her death.

But I need evidence,

so I spoke to Rod again

and asked if he could help place him at the crime scene.

[Rod] Well, I looked at the crime scene photos,

and I looked at the position of Effie Entezari's body

as it was laying between two vehicles,

which were about three feet apart--

it was in an unusual position.

It just jumped right out at me in the photographs.

She was shot in the left ear,

and it exited the right side of her temple,

and that's an incapacitating shot.

What does that mean? It means boom,

she goes down immediately.

[police radio chatter]

But the position that Effie Entezari was laying in

was inconsistent with an incapacitating shot,

where she would've gone directly down

and not over to the side.

We asked for a lot of the state-of-the-art technology.

We asked Rod to put together the animation

of how Effie was killed,

using evidence from the crime scene and accurate physics.

[Rod] It appeared that she had been laid down,

purposely laid down.

Effie had been grabbed by her left arm...

because of the way her sleeve was positioned--

sticking up-- in the crime scene.

Now, if grabbed by someone on my arm...

they leave traces of themselves,

and that's where we looked and said,

"There's gotta be DNA there."

[suspenseful theme playing]

Eventually, after years of negotiating,

we got access to the sweater that she was wearing,

and sent them to the lab.

And that sweater had DNA on it.

[Pooneh] But the DNA they collected

wasn't of any value...

because it wasn't just getting the DNA,

but it was also the ability to separate the DNA,

because the DNA would also contain my mom's DNA.

Nothing we could do, because it was mixed,

two donors, you couldn't separate--

couldn't create a profile.

The work to identify the remains of the 911 victims

actually has helped advance the field of forensic biology,

because of the techniques developed here in New York

are used around the world now to identify missing people.

[Renee] That technology eventually caught up

to more recently--

we were able to pull apart who the donors were.

[Pooneh] Then the lab is like,

"Oh, we need your mom's blood sample,

'cause we gotta remove your mom's DNA

off of the mixture.

We contacted the Clark County Sheriff's Office

and asked for a sample of the blood to be sent to the lab.

And they came back and said

that the blood had been left out,

so we can't test it.

Who left out my mom's blood

and allowed it to decay?

I'm disappointed,

really disappointed.

[Renee] We've had so many red flags

in connection with the Clark County Sheriff's Office.

We've had evidence that's been destroyed,

we have evidence that has gone missing,

there is evidence that we know existed around the time

that never made it into police reports,

and then we have police reports

that appear to have been altered.

So, it runs the gamut.

[Rod] We make mistakes

and we learn from those mistakes,

but these appear to be beyond mistakes.

[Pooneh] I wasn't going to quit.

Then I remembered reading that

the detectives had gone to the funeral home

and collected hair samples from my mom,

and those hair samples should have follicles on them

that would be able to produce my mom's DNA.

We contacted the Clark County Sheriff's Office and said,

"Do still have the hair?" And they did.

[theme music playing]

We sent it into the lab.

[Renee] We were able identify

two distinct donors.

One of them was Effie, no surprise,

but the other one we couldn't identify,

other than we were able to eliminate

Mike Entezari as a source.

It was a breakthrough in the case.

[tearful laugh]

The DNA wasn't sufficient to be able to run through

the DNA databases

to figure out whose it was.

They got the Y chromosomes

that indicates there was a male,

but they couldn't go any further than that.

The only way that they were going to be able to tell me

whose DNA that belonged to

is if I had a suspect's DNA.

But how do you get his DNA?

[dramatic theme playing]

[Jon Iguchi] Pooneh wanted DNA samples

from Effie Entezari's associate

to determine if it is a match

to the DNA left at the crime scene of Effie's murder.

I've been a private investigator for 23 years.

[producer] When you see people doing surveillance

in movies, is that what it's like?

Not-- It is not like the movies at all.

I could tell you horrible stories.

[laughter in the room]

-[producer] Really? -I've shit in a Ziplock bag.

-[producer] Oh, right. -Sorry, heh.

[Jon] When I'm on a surveillance job,

I typically try and find a good place to post up

where I can see, are they gonna leave?

Are they perform any activity?

Depends on what I need to get.

Working this case,

we're trying to build a picture of, where did he like to visit?

Looking for where he was gonna leave DNA behind.

[camera beeps on]

[suspenseful theme playing]

If we get caught following them,

we don't know what he's capable of doing.

We attempted to get water bottles that he would discard.

We tried to get touch DNA off of door handles

of the vehicles that he used.

We were in restaurants obtaining his straws.

But a lot of those things were cross-contaminated

with other individuals, so they were useless.

Eventually, we had to chase him like three hours

while he was drinking coffee until he discarded it,

and he discarded it in such a way that we barely got it.

[Pooneh] So, we got his DNA.

I was very excited.

I'm like, "We got him! This is it!

We're gonna get my mom's killer!"

[tense theme playing]

The lab came back and said it wasn't him.

And I thought, "What? I mean, how could it not be him?"

There's been bad days on this case,

and that was one of them.

It really was.

[ominous theme playing]

[Pooneh] I was out of suspects.

I mean, I didn't have anybody else.

[Douglas] Of course, Pooneh couldn't believe it.

Her father couldn't do this.

And she's come up with theories...

making jumps to try to fill in the blanks.

There certainly may have been shortcuts taken

once detectives thought they had the right suspect,

but it's a hard thing to prove.

[Pooneh] When we started working together,

Chirs Peterson, the private investigator,

had made an attempt of calling people that

used to live in the apartment complex back in 1989,

but he was really struggling to get calls back

and to reach people, so I figured, now we're out of suspects,

we should try and reach those people we might have missed.

So, he started making calls,

and he made contact with a guy by the name of David.

David was a maintenance guy

that was living across the street

from my mom's apartment.

I'm excited to meet him because it sounds like

he's got information that could help us, but...

I also have been disappointed before.

I hope it's another piece

that helps us move-- move her case forward.

-[Pooneh] Hi, David. -[David] Hi.

-Thanks for meeting me. -You're welcome.

[Pooneh] I mean, you remember 1989, right?

-[David] A little bit. -You remember my mom, Effie...

-[David] Effie. -...used to live out here.

And I understand that you lived in the neighborhood as well?

In this, yes, this side of the buildings.

I took care of this property

and then the next property over there.

Okay, so you were the maintenance guy?

Yeah, one of the maintenance.

Your apartment was right across the street?

-Yes. -Hear anything that morning?

I did not hear anything that morning.

Okay. Can you tell me what you remember about that day?

Uh, getting a phone call from my manager,

and telling me the police are in the parking lot.

[ominous theme playing]

[Pooneh] What did you do as a maintenance guy?

In the mornings, I usually picked up the grounds.

Picking up...?

-Debris. -Debris. Okay.

[Pooneh] I've always found it weird

that the police didn't find the bullets

the day of the homicide, which they should've.

[police radio chatter]

I've been through the crime scene video

and tons of detectives, people, standing around that area.

Any one of them should've been able to see

a metal object on the ground.

Okay, so I'm trying to understand

how come it took 'em so long to find this bullet?

And what I hear you saying is that you walked this entire...

-Area. -...area every day?

-Every day. -So, did you see something?

The next day, I was picking up ground

and found a bullet on the ground.

Okay.

Okay.

[Pooneh] What David is saying is really significant,

because the police say they located the bullet...

And it would be in this area,

'cause I remember the fire hydrant being there.

[Pooneh] Okay, okay.

That's not where the police say they found the bullet,

and it's not the time where they found the bullet.

David found the bullet

the morning of May 2nd, 1989.

The police say that they found the bullet

at 2:30 in the afternoon

on May 2nd of 1989.

Are you certain that you found it in this area?

-Yes. -Okay.

David Chavez, he doesn't have a dog in this fight.

He doesn't know any of the parties involved,

and it's anybody's wild speculation

where that other slug came from.

[David] I think my manager actually called

the sheriff's and they told us to go get a cup

and put a cup over and then spray that.

And then pick the bullet up and put it in the cup.

And then we took it back to the office,

and that was the last time I seen it.

Okay, so somebody showed up to pick it up.

Somebody did.

-Police ever interview you? -No.

-Never, ever. -Okay.

They never ever called. Never.

[Pooneh] What concerns me

is the police wrote no report

on the bullet that they picked up in the morning.

The police were quick to decide

that it was my dad.

As early as 6:30 in the morning,

they're labeling it a domestic violence issue,

and they know nothing.

I didn't immediately agree with what David said.

I went back to the crime scene photos and the videos.

[police radio chatter]

And the morning of my mom's homicide,

one of the detectives was videotaping the parking lot,

and as he was doing that, he was zooming in and out

of licenses.

So, if what David said is accurate,

and the location of where he found the bullet is accurate,

then I would expect to see it in the video.

[police siren blaring in distance]

[police radio chatter]

And I did.

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There is an object

where David Chavez says he found the bullet.

And it looks like a bullet.

[Chris] There's something wrong in this case.

There's two slugs at the crime scene,

and as far as we know, there was one shot fired.

[Pooneh] The bullet David found

never got entered into evidence,

and I'm not sure we'll ever find it.

[Chris] As a police officer, the most significant thing

in a homicide investigation involving a firearm

is what killed the victim?

To think that someone might've decided to ignore

that crucial piece of evidence,

it defies all protocol

for the way police should conduct

any kind of an investigation.

The fact that this was not turned in as evidence...

is a crime in itself.

[Pooneh] So, my dad, when he was arrested...

was adamant that he was being set up,

that he maintained that throughout his incarceration.

This is a note that he wrote about his theory

on the bullet that the police located.

His theories were, "The bullet was taken by the cops

to be discarded,

if not similar to my gun."

So, what my father is saying is the cops actually found

the real homicide bullet,

and then they waited until after

they got their hands on my dad's gun.

It's significant because Mr. Chavez's testimony

fits right into my dad's theory,

that they had the bullet that actually killed my mom,

and ignored it.

You would expect that

if a witness found a bullet,

that there would be some evidence of it--

a phone call, police reports--

something to indicate that this guy found the bullet.

There is nothing,

and I think that's very suspicious.

So, if they won't figure out who killed my mom...

then I will.

I'm going back to ground zero...

trying to figure out what we've missed,

who we've missed.

Who else could it be?

There is a yellow car

that's seen leaving the crime scene.

The yellow car leaving the scene is big.

Police didn't have much interest in finding that yellow car.

The yellow car, why wasn't that investigated?

You know, get off your butt

and start asking questions.

[Pooneh] Find the yellow car,

you find the killer.

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