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and there was a team that looked at all of the victims and what they may have in common. reporter: they believed the killing of d.a. mike mclelland was linked with the shooting of prosecutor mark hasse back in january. but it was all one big collective hunch, until a tip came through that would confirm the connection. through the crime stoppers web-based tip line, we get a tip that claims credit for the mark hasse murders. reporter: the electronic message came in easter sunday night. it began, do we have your full attention now? we suggests more than one person. did you think maybe it s a group? in my thought i thought is it how big is this group? what is this group? is this some sort of anti-government militia group? is this white supremist? i i had no idea what we were dealing with. reporter: law enforcement wrote back, you have our attention. and we wanted him to tell us what he wanted. reporter: while they waited anxiously for an answer, computer experts t
daughter, christina. this all started over three computer monitors. and now we re talking about three murders. yeah. i mean, you know, normal people don t do that. god bless the united states and the great state of texas. reporter: eric williams went on trial for murder in december. williams wasn t on trial for the murder of mark hasse or mike mclelland. in a surprise tactic, this trial was only for the murder of cynthia mclelland. not guilty, your honor. reporter: why not just try the murders at the same time? what if something went wrong in the first trial? we wanted to have the ability to be able to try him twice and make sure he got justice. reporter: christina sat in court and had to relive the deaths of her parents. what gave you the strength to go to court every day? i showed up every day for the three people who gave their lives for something good. they stood up. and they did what they were supposed to. and they died for it. this is my chance to tell you story
abare was getting updates on mark. i don t know how many minutes passed by when another prosecutor came in the courtroom saying how bad it was. reporter: about an hour earlier, shannon had walked from the parking lot to the courthouse. that s the same root her friend and colleague mark cassie was walking when he was shot. now, too afraid to go anywhere, she stayed inside, praying for him. we are now just waiting to hear if he is going to live. reporter: but bad news traveled fast. it did not take long for his trial partner to walk in to the courtroom shaking her head and crying. and i think at that point we knew he was gone. reporter: i can only imagine how horrible a moment like that is. it s horrible. it will be in my brain forever. like i will never, ever forget that. there s not a day that goes by that i do not go by her and think back to that day and exactly what happened and exactly what i saw. reporter: mark cassie was dead at 57. gunned down on his way to work
their extended family, united in grief, bid them an emotional farewell. i carry a lot of things from them with me. they taught me very well. they helped a lot of people before they left this world. they really did. they made a large impact on a lotta people. reporter: a beefed-up multi-agency task force vowed to catch whoever killed the mclellands and mark hasse. investigators had seen that ford crown victoria on video roaming near the mclelland home and thought it might be a police car. the terrible possibility it might be one of their own had to be ruled in or out immediately. we checked with every law enforcement agency in the area and identified where every police car was in the area. and none of them were even close to where this image was captured. reporter: next, they looked for anyone, who for any reason, had issues or disputes involving both prosecutors.