you hit the jackpot with stepdads? 100 percent. 100 percent. the 1976 cobra was long gone by the time talk was killed. but not his love for cars. but then, he drove a souped up 2011 lasting. he loved cars. he was like, he would always call us when he was a little bit from the house. can you hear my exhaust? was it, i rubbed? telling everyone, the whole neighborhood. this was your dad s fourth child? yeah. todd babied his car. had a lot of fun with that car. detective brewer thought maybe somebody else wanted to have fun with it. are you thinking that someone want to tell his car? it was a nice car. yes. it was my first thought that he had gone someplace, maybe stop for gas for food in the morning, on his way to pick his dad up, and headman carjacked. that was the number one theory
anyone out, until we have the absolute suspects. and we could not rule carry out. reporter: detective brewer, after years are not talking, in may of 2012, carry, now a dental assistant and single mom, connected with taught on social media. as the detective looked through their exchanges, she he noticed that they started things off innocently enough, and then something caught his attention from april 2013. todd asked carrie, want to play? she responded, no way married man. but remember, carrie abbott sent those racy photos that the texas found on pots phone. you kind of run through what a possible motive would be for someone like that? absolutely, if there is some type of affair going on between carey and todd, why carry would kill him? reporter: detective bureau at the top to carry, as his investigation continued, he called janai to the sheriff s department with some news. and the police ask you to
it took detective brewer only 15 minutes to get their. i get a phone call from our communications center that they found a body, a dead body, located in a field. actually, never fall for my health. i was worried that he might be someone we know. wow. that probably doesn t happen very often. no, it don t. does it happen very often at all that you would find a body in a moment grove lake that? and our county, yes. far too often. far too often. there are a lot of open groves in the county known for agriculture. almonds are one of the biggest crops. the groves crisscrossed with dirt roads are a perfect place for a killer to hide a body. charles body was right here. his sunglasses were right up here. chip brewer, it wasn t clear at first how todd died. there were close. he had not been dead long. we could all see that.
yellow, round lid visible through the white plastic bag that she is carrying. reporter: detective brewer believes that was a canister of disinfectant wife s. if you are leaving a crime scene, i know what you did with those, you re wiping the crime scene behind you. reporter: coming up i was not the kind of wife that went through my husband s phone. i was never looking for anything like that. i was scared for my relationship. reporter: todd s mystery woman revealed he really fell for her, i think, hotter than i thought he did. reporter: and that woman on camera, what is she up to now? whoever it is, has had this murder planned and very well planned. reporter: when dateline continues. continues. up to 50% of people with graves could develop a different condition called thyroid eye disease,
how long did it take to identify who this person was? we identified him very quickly because his wallet was still in his pocket with his drivers license. nearly as fast as they found talks i.d., they found his cell phone. detective brewer thought that seemed odd. so folks are typically taken and used or discarded away from the body or left. it was odd that it was 20 or 30 feet away. there was a bullet hole in todd s hand. apparently, a defensive wound. once todd s shirt was off, brewer could see he had been shot twice in the chest. don t let at the seat. none of the bullets were recovered at the same. and, it is dusty placed, the souls of tickets sneakers were clean. what we thought was odd, because of this very powdery dirt that s very common out here, we notice that the bottom of todd chances tennis shoes