it looked. all the manuals that we had recovered months earlier on that yacht. reporter: here it was, the device they searched for on the boat and couldn t find. and he said, you need to look at the data that s in this gps. reporter: amazing thing. the gps preserved in its memory, in almost infinite detail, its very last trip. which was as follows may 4th, 2006 around 2 p.m., the gps headed out toward catalina island. went to the back side, where it seemed to putter around aimlessly in the middle of the night. then returned back to the dock 6:00 a.m. may 5th. that little device seemed to pinpoint the place and time of steven s murder. but how could detectives be sure the gps belonged to harvey and was on his boat? and then, what do you know. luck again. when harvey bought the gps, he took a friend. i was with him in the car
reporter: but there wasn t. no blood, no gun, no significant fingerprints. what they needed, couldn t find, was something that put the two men together on the far side of catalina island where that current would have caught the body, carried it round to the spot where boaters saw it floating face down in the water. they hunted everywhere for harvey s gps, but they never found it. months went by. harvey sitting in jail. no luck for the investigation now. and then? a phone call. it was the commandant of harvey s yacht club. he says, i found a handheld gps in the library of our club. reporter: the commandant told them someone in the club had found the gps, wrapped in a napkin and hidden in the back of a club library cabinet. and he says, that cabinet is in a position where harvey morrow always sits and reads all the time. and he showed us a garmin c60 which exactly matched in the way
started telling detectives about a young girl she had seen a week prior. the cops thought some of what she said sounded eerily similar to annie s case. so they called draper pd, and detective derek johnson and his colleague came over to hear what joanna had to say. tell me what you know about this girl. it was the second time i ve seen her over there. reporter: there at the home where a man named daniel ferry used to live. danny ferry is a guy known to law enforcement? yes. reporter: as maybe a drug dealer? drug dealer. he was a member of a gang called vario loco town. and law enforcement has dealt with danny quite a few times, yeah. reporter: ferry had a long rap sheet. in fact, derek had served a search warrant on his home a year earlier. and now here was joanna telling derek that she saw a girl who sounded a lot like annie at daniel ferry s home on the night annie was killed. joanna also said the girl showed up with someone police had been searching for but couldn t fi
the manuals we recovered months earlier on that yacht. reporter: here it was, the device they searched for on the boat and couldn t find. said, you need to look at the data in this gps. reporter: amazing thing. the gps preserved in its memory in infinite detail, it s very last trip, it was as follows. may 4th, 2006, at 2:00 p.m., they headed to catalina island, went to the backside where it puttered around aimlessly in the middle of the night, and then returned back to the dock, 6:00 a.m., may 5th. that device pinpointed the place and time of steven s murder. but how could detectives be sure the gps belonged to harvey and was on his boat? and then what do you know? luck again. when harvey bought the gps, he took a friend.
in a position where harvey morrow always sits and reads all the time and he showed us a garmin c 60, all the manuals we had recovered months earlier on that yacht. reporter: here it was, the device they searched for on the boat and couldn t find. and he said you need to look at the data that s in this gps. reporter: amazing thing, the gps preserved in its memory almost infinite detail, its very last trick, which was as follows, may 4th, 2006 around 2:00 p.m., the gps headed out towards catalina island. went to the backside where it seemed to putter around aimlessly in the middle of the night. then returned back to the dock. 6:00 a.m., may 5th, that little device seemed to pinpoint the place and time of steven s murder, but how could detectives be sure the gps belonged to harvey and was on his boat? and then what do you know luck again when harvey bought the gps