that d.a.'s office says go arrest this guy, so cops can knock on the d.a.'s door every day and say we have the perpetrator, he's going to run, if you don't let us arrest him, he's going to run. >> the next thing we hear about thayne smika is a few years later, we get a call from the denver d.a.'s office. what we learned was that mr. smika eventually made his way to denver, that he had gone to work for a construction company as a bookkeeper. he had written unauthorized checks to himself and that missing money had been discovered and the denver d.a.'s office was able to get an arrest warrant for mr. smika. >> shortly after that arrest warrant was issued, that's pretty much the last we've heard of thayne smika. >> it's three years after the murder. smika has disappeared but dave