her mother s innocence, she says she doesn t anymore. did part of you worry or think, maybe this could be my mom? i mean, your mind goes there, but when you look at it, it s not her. everything that transpired from everything there s no way. no way. all three of her daughters told her that the person in the video was not her mom and despite what detective bureau says, maybe not even a woman. there s no way to know. especially the last one. when the guy is running across the street. it looks like up mail. you also said your mom she never round. or jay walked. or ever jay whacked. she would walk forever just to go on across walk. as for the backpack? do you recognize the backpack? yeah, growing up there is a red backpack around. i haven t seen it in years prior to that. jenea kindly please still thought she killed her husband. i m an elementary school
ambition was, to be a cop or whatever, get that all decided, that he had to move in with her. they were pretty serious. did you like karen? not after us. mothers are, nobody is good enough for their boys or daughters, whatever. she grew on her. yeah. reporter: todd and carrie were together for five years, and then in 1995, it was over. by 96, janai and todd or getting married. we ll see, hear knowledge, having communication with this woman? no, it was just a named i had known for many years before. what did he tell you about? are we would only talk about her at the beginning of the relationship, talking about past relationships, that it was someone that he was involved with, that they broke up. reporter: but now, police told dna, based on their investigation, todd had recently been in touch of carey, and it was not just a, hey, how are you? it was rated r.
i was not the kind of life that went through my cousins phone. in my mind, i was thinking, he could have done stuff without me, because i was never paying attention. i was never looking for that stuff, because i was so secure in my relationship. reporter: with that, janai said she started to wonder. if you believe know that there was a chance he was living a double life? i was contemplating it, but it s terrible, because i was thinking, why do i know all of this? do i want to wake up with a memory that i had on the 25th, that morning, you know? reporter: maybe, she did not know her husband as well as she thought. coming up did you think that maybe this other woman might have had something to do with a murder? absolutely, some kind of affair going on, why carry would kill him? at this point, i am thinking, oh, my gosh, she did it. reporter: when dateline continues. ne continues. o prevent lower
that means we re working on it. they were consistent, we re working on it, we ll let you know. that is all i could get. reporter: it s not unusual for detectives to play their cards close to the vice, all the while, they were uncovering more information, like the identity of the woman who had sent the receipt photos to todd s phone. old girlfriend, a woman named carrie, who he met in the early 90s, while cruising in the 76 cobra. she is his first big love. he really fell for her, i think, harder than i thought he did, because, the first thing i realized was that they were going to get an apartment together. i said, okay, but it was not okay. reporter: you did not want to leave yet. no, i did not want him to leave. he had to finish college, and i wanted him to get his degree there, and put whatever s
it s like telling you your son s dead, you don t want to believe that. and then they tell you that his wife is the one that did it, you don t want to believe that either. it s kind of like a nightmare. you keep wanting someone to slap you and wake you up. while her analysts suspected her, jenea still wondered about todd s ex, carrie. but detectives had already gotten past her. carrie and todd had stopped communicating months before his murder. they never had an affair or met in person. that mystery woman in the video, brewers, at didn t look like carey. there are some things about carry, the way she walked, carrying, when her physical features, that told me that this is not the same woman on the videos. most importantly, she was with her daughter and some friends several hours away and the mission capistrano todd was killed. you combine that with her car getting a parking ticket, because she park somewhere she shouldn t, were also able to confirm the parking ticket with