they retrieved something josh thought he'd deleted. >> a voicemail that was left on josh daniels' cell phone from this california area code. >> hey, what's up, man? it's me. hey, hit me up on this phone right here whenever you need to talk about something. hear me? holla at me later. bye. >> reporter: detective hittle's ears perked right up when he heard it. >> i listened it to and now i know that phone, 310, is sirius underwood's. that is his voice. >> reporter: the detectives wanted another, technically deeper dive into sirius' i-phone, which they'd returned to him. sirius came downtown again, as requested, but while the cops were preoccupied chasing down a search warrant for his device, he outfoxed them. sirius found a computer and remotely wiped his phone clean. >> when i reached in i got sirius' phone, i could see that it had been reset, factory restored from the icloud. >> so whatever story he was gonna-- tell, you weren't gonna hear it? >> there was nothing left on that phone. >> pretty clever. >> we knew at that time we had a