he also had his arm in a sling when law enforcement came to talk to him and his excuse was he had frozen shoulder, and wasn t able to use his right arm. reporter: he even took a gunshot residue test at his house and passed. and after the mclelland murders, investigators checked whether he owned a ford crown victoria, the car captured on video lurking near the mclelland murder scene. records showed he did not. the case was still stalled. but soon, the task force would get one of those lucky breaks they d always hoped for. it came out of the blue and gave the investigation some much-needed juice. coming up a special prosecutor goes on high alert. i go on the phone with my wife and tell to make she r. sure she knew where the kids were. a stranger calls with a stunning revelation. i could tell when i listened to his voice, this is it. this is the real thing. s is it. this is the real thing. (sneezing)
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where they are, is there anything unusual or specific about a case that would give someone a cause to have a grudge. reporter: four weeks in to the investigation, a tip came in to the county crime stoppers anonymous tip line that looked like a big break. the tipster said they have been in a bar in a small town in kaufmann, and overheard two white males talking about the killing and taking responsibility for it. reporter: the tip lacked the kind of detail that investigators needed to follow-up. and using the crime stoppers system, the tipster remained anonymous. if this was going to be the game changer, investigators would need lots more information. or a little more luck. you are still hoping for the big break and a lucky traffic stop or somebody is going to, that knows about the murder is going to pick up the phone and call in and that will be the magic phone call. reporter: there was something that might lead them to the killer. the way mark had been murdered. the killer ha
three months before mark s murder, they announced that 34 gang members had been indicted for racketerring and thanked the kaufmann county d.a. office for their role in the investigation. people were trying to put two and two together with the arian brotherhood. reporter: it s one thing if it s one individual that went after mark and it s another thing if it s the arian brotherhood. oh, yeah, prosecutors across the state were terrified. hey, if this is the arian brotherhood, we are all targets. reporter: and then seven weeks later, another assault on law enforcement. it looked like it was open season on the criminal justice system. the colorado head of the department of corrections was shot here at his front door on tuesday night. reporter: the man s name was tom clements. the highly regarded head of colorado s prison system. and like mark hassie, a public servant. with more than 20,000 inmates in the colorado prison system, he may have had a lot of
this is cell phone video of thursday s shootout. reporter: what grabbed the attention of investigators in the mark hassie murder is this, wise county is 100 miles from kaufmann, could he have killed another public servant in texas? seven weeks earlier? the fbi is now investigating this case, they want to see if ebol is connect to mark hassie s murder. reporter: two public officials gunned down in two states. somebody seemed to be targeting law enforcement at point blank range. coming up: as the investigation grows more urgent, sudden concerns about d.a. mike mcclell mcclelland and cynthia. i tried them and didn t get an answer. i said, i will go over. and then concern becomes alarm. at that point, something is really wrong. when dateline continues. suffer if there is optionsmebodo
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