were acting nervous, that you were acting like you had something to hide >> they interpreted all these things as signs of my guilt . rather than a distraught boyfriend. at the time i had long hair and this was a cowboy town. that was considered to be weird and unusual. >> as for those "bad things" he told the detective he'd done-- he explained to us he was referring to a petty argument they'd had just days before jamie's murder and the guilt he felt from not being with her the night she died. >> reporter: do you remember what you were arguing about? >> a loaf of bread the grocery sacker had put a cantaloupe on a loaf of bread. and she was upset that the sacker had squished the bread. and i told her it wasn't that big of a deal. and we had picked our sides and we argued about something as stupid as a loaf of bread.