welcome back. i m craig melvin. with very little evidence found at the scene of brook morris s murder, data from her cell phone showed she had been in contact with two men the day she was killed. could one of them be responsible for brooke s murder, or was this another dead end? here again is andrea canning. the brutality of brooke morris s murder fueled the search for her killer. we really hate that they came into our community and committed such a crime. reporter: roane county investigators had cleared brooke s ex-husband, clayton. but they had two other men to look at, two men whose names and numbers were right there in brooke s phone. who was brooke communicating with that day that seemed to be of potential importance? daniel hawkins. this is a man she used to date? this is a person that we believe that she had a relationship with, yes. i think they were talking, nothing too extreme. maybe a couple of dates. reporter: albert knew daniel
the restaurant, and drove with friends to the concert. she spent the night at dina s house. i called it hotel dina like everyone just stayed. yeah. left it unlocked for everyone, you know. reporter: the next day, saturday, was the tennessee-lsu football game and everyone was looking forward to tailgating. but the fun day turned sour. brooke borrowed something out of dina s closet and the girlfriends had an argument about it. and i had found out she had wore it without asking. reporter: it was a silly fight, but it stuck with brooke. she didn t tailgate for long. she had been calling all these people to pick her up to take her to her car because she wanted to change her outfit for the night, for that night. reporter: brooke s friend albert dotson had been tailgating with her earlier in the day. so we would, like, break off, and i was with some other friends of ours at that time. so i m not really sure where she was. reporter: neither dina nor albert ever saw brooke a
spent the night at dina s house. i called it hotel dina like everyone just stayed. yeah. left it unlocked for everyone, you know. reporter: the next day, saturday, was the tennessee lsu football game and everyone was looking forward to tailgating. but the fun day turned sour. brooke borrowed something out of dina s closet, the girlfriends had an argument about it. and i had found out she had wore it without asking. reporter: it was a silly fight, but it stuck with brooke. she didn t tailgate for long. she had been calling all these people to pick her up to take her to her car because she wanted to change her outfit for the night, for that night. reporter: brooke s friend albert dotson had been tailgating with her earlier in the day. so we would, like, break off, and i was with some other friends of ours at that time. so i m not really sure where she was. reporter: neither dina nor albert ever saw brooke again. and with more than a hundred thousand football fans floo
reporter: albert knew daniel through mutual friends. we would just hang out with daniel, you know. i would text him, and be, like, hey, man, are you coming out? and he d meet up with us. reporter: but albert hadn t spoken to daniel that weekend. and didn t know daniel and brooke had been texting each other, making plans to meet up. investigators say they called the number listed for daniel on brooke s phone. he didn t answer. you couldn t find him? couldn t find him. reporter: investigators learned daniel lived in colorado. he d just been in knoxville for the weekend. were you worried that you couldn t get a hold of him and he was out there? yeah, it makes you wonder, you know, what s going on? are they intentionally trying to avoid you? reporter: daniel had flown back to colorado by the time he got on the phone with a sheriff s investigator. basically interviewed him and got his whereabouts. where was he? from what i understand, he was at the ball game. r
reporter: the brutality of brooke morris murder fueled the reporter: the brutality of brooke morris murder fueled the search for her killer. we really hate that that, you know, they came into our community and committed such a crime. reporter: roane county investigators had cleared brooke s ex-husband, clayton. but they had two other men to look at, two men whose names and numbers were right there in brooke s phone. who was brooke communicating with that day that seemed to be of potential importance? daniel hawkins. this is a man she used to date? this is a person that that we believe that she had a relationship with, yes. i think they were talking, nothing too extreme. maybe a couple of dates. reporter: albert knew daniel