in realtime by gps ankle bracelets, how could they have committed the terrible crimes they were charged with? how could this happen? how can this happen? why were they not being monitored? but it was definitely a hard question to get from the mothers themselves as well. why wasn t it caught sooner? sure. jerree s mother jodie sued the department of rehabilitation claiming it failed to adequately monitor gordon and cano. the state denied the claims and the case was dismissed. jodie also sued the u.s. government and agents of u.s. probation. that case was dismissed as well. and the administration office of the u.s. court published a report that said federal probation officers followed policies and procedures. as for detective trapp, there was one last mystery to solve. because when she first talked to
3? what do you mean? reporter: that s what kids say to parents, you let me do a bad thing, it s your fault. i didn t say they let us do a bad thing. i said they let us sleep and hang out at the same spot. they did, beside what anybody believed. reporter: you will parse that argument? to the day i die, that s true. reporter: i want to know, that s on you, what was going on in your head to make you want to do it, to participate in whatever way you participated, to get whatever thrill? what was the thrill? what was it? i don t think there was a thrill. reporter: if there is no thrill, why did you do it? there is no thrill in watching women die like that. but i m going to go back to it again and again, it was my anger issues that i have from everything that happened while we were on parole and probation. reporter: we may never know exactly why jerree was killed or martha or josephine or quinna. but there is one more mystery
but julissa trapp does. cases don t always get solved in 48 hours. you know? reporter: surprise, surprise. they take time and they take work. reporter: and that little rosary helps you? it does. reporter: if she can solve this case, she d give that rosary to the dead woman s family. but first she had to figure out who she was. from just one identifying mark on her neck, a tattoo. jodi. was that her name? reaching out, detective trapp pulled up the anaheim police department s database of tattooses. yes, they have one. descriptions of tattoos collected from anyone they encounter. and what do you know? there was a match. but her name was not jodi. it was jerree. jerree estep, she was 21-years-old. she had been contacted a year prior in anaheim on beach boulevard. reporter: beach boulevard?
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reporter: eventually, she found the room where jerree had been staying, which with $700 in cash, mascara lipstick, contact lens solution, but nothing whatever to lead her to a suspect. not here, anyway. from the disposal companies, she got a list of the dumpsters the garbage trucks serviced that morning. then she and other officers went dumpster diving, hundreds of dumpsters. what would you be looking for? they were all given pictures of what the trash that looked like that was around her. if it looks similar, take pictures of what s inside. reporter: no luck. a waste of time. then back on the conveyer belt, an odd thing turned up in the trash collected near jerree s body. we got a print hit. reporter: you are talking about a fingerprint here? yeah. reporter: it was on a caulking tube. it matched someone, a window installer who worked for a