the one-time police chief, was deeply curious about how the swoop-down interview was going. were you surprised to hear that he talked to them and that he hadn t lawyered up or said i m getting on the phone to my attorney right now? very surprised. i really think he was so shocked by the fact that we re still looking at him. so shocked that he didn t know what to do. that s why we didn t call him. that s why we didn t give him a heads-up. as the interview continued, michael george as he hadn t in 1990, now owned up to his philandering. describe for me your marriage at the time of her death. it was rocky. because we had all the pressures. i d just quit my job, opened up that store. you know, we would have our fights. we would have our arguments. and people have fights and arguments like that. what was the cause of most of them? extramarital affair? yeah. yeah. on her side or your side? my side. late in the 90-minute interview the conversation circled back to that earl
find out. reporter: finally, at daybreak, mark twitchell let clark know he d had enough. am i being charged? not yet. am i free to go? yep. then i will. okay. and then as bill clark escorted mark twitchell out of the building and into the early morning dark, he upped the ante a little. told twitchell he was seizing his car. and then it s like whoa. almost stopped. reporter: yeah. kind of pulled back. he goes, well, i need to get something out of it. i says, you re getting nothing. i m taking that car. reporter: and it was then as clark approached twitchell s car to take it to the impound yard, that he noticed mark s unusual license plate personalized. dark jedi.
was okay. she had to tell her mother, do dori about randy s death. it wasn t easy. dori and randy had divorced years before but she still loved him. i could tell she d been crying. i said betty what s wrong, and she goes dad s gone. and i said no, no. she goes, mom, they found him this morning. but i said, betty something s wrong. something s wrong. something s wrong. the thing is back at the house that morning, officer medhurst was thinking the very same thing, especially after kelly told him the pontiac was missing along with his keys and wall wallet. he had dinged his car so maybe he had taken it in for repairs. i asked kelly if there was a mechanic that randy used and she named the local mechanic, and i called them, and i said is this car there? and they said, no, it wasn t there. so where was it? had he driven it home? did he have it when he bought
when they moved it into reyna s storage locker where months later the detective noticed one detail that survived the attempted cover-up. i was looking at the license plate, i see it s not there. should be a california license plate. you kind of think. it s gone. you also see that there s one screw missing and one screw screwed back in halfway and that screw came back positive dna to john creech. bingo, the unassailable link to pull together all that evidence. phone records, chandy s testimony, the friends, the dna and it all condemned john creech. but a surprise was coming. for everyone. raise your right hand. coming up. i was scared for my life. a dramatic tale from the stand. he punched me, pulled me in by my sweater. put his hand up on my throat, choking me on my throat. who attacked who?