2006 interview, in which she was asked about her passion for teaching. such a gift to feel like you get to give seeds to this first row here and then they turn around and give it to rows behind them. reporter: and in fact she shared those passions with the man who was her husband for 25 years. love of her life, really, steve democker. they were crazy for each other. reporter: sharon democker is steve s sister. carol was really easy to love. she was kind of a natural fit in the family. she was just immediately a sister to all of us. reporter: all of us being the democker family. high achievers, all of them. sharon is a doctor. it s an accomplished bunch. one of my friends said, there s not a weak link in this group. reporter: carol and steve got married in his parents backyard overlooking lake ontario, near rochester, new york. an outdoor wedding for a couple who loved adventure. steve was the one that kind
reporter: sharon democker is steve s sister. carol was really easy to love. she was kind of a natural fit in the family. she was just immediately a sister to all of us. reporter: all of us being the democker family. high achievers, all of them. sharon is a doctor. it s an accomplished bunch. one of my friends said, there s not a weak link in this group. reporter: carol and steve got married in his parent s backyard overlooking lake ontario, near rochester, new york. an outdoor wedding for a couple who loved adventure. steve was the one that kind of w started the adventuring side of things. so first there was hiking, and then skiing, and mountain climbing, and kayaking. reporter: they moved around a bit, as people do, and wound up eventually prescott. which proved to be the perfect place to raise their two bright, attractive, daughters, katie and charlotte. they re amazing. i think that it s really a testimony to the kinda parents that steve and carol were. the gir
reporter: before she became a close friend, katherine morris was carol s student at prescott carol s friend. she was very well-respected and admired, her classes were always full, very difficult to get into. what was she like? she was magnetic. and she was always sort of searching for the truth. and you just were gravitated to her. charisma that kinda pulled her students in, especially maybe you. uh-huh, uh-huh. she was soft and inviting. i m carol kennedy. i live in prescott, arizona. reporter: you get a sense of her personality in this 2006 interview, in which she was asked about her passion for teaching. it s such a gift to feel like you get to give seeds to this first row here and then they turn around and give it to rows behind them. reporter: and in fact she shared those passions with the man who was her husband for 25 years. love of her life, really, steve democker. they were crazy for each other.
did mr. democker flee or not? that s a yes or no question. no, he did not flee. reporter: and steve s sister sharon had a simple explanation for those coincidences, the night of the murder. the circumstantial evidence. like his dead cell phone battery. i think most of us with cell phones can appreciate that later in the day it s not uncommon for the battery to go. but their ears perked up when he drew the route and part of it came within a mile of the house on bridle path. well, he lived out there. for many years. so that was a favored trail. they also made a great deal of the tracks that they found in the property. the shoe prints that must ve been his, the tire tracks that must ve been his. nobody knows whose those are. he did buy a pair at one point. but he doesn t know if he kept them. he said, i never keep any shoes for more than six months. he ran all the time. no shoes lasted more than six months. and he bought them a couple years earlier, is that right. yeah
mr. democker. reporter: steve began dating renee when he was separated from carol. they were together during that tumultuous time, steve s divorce, carol s murder, his arrest. renee had always stood by steve and his family but sechez had a feeling. we were pretty convinced that she knew more than she was telling us. reporter: sechez knew something else too. during the trial renee broke up with steve. so on the eve of her testimony sechez interviewed renee again about that anonymous e-mail. what he discovered? explosive is not too big a word. where did that mysterious message come from? steve was terrified. the e-mail trail. the money trail. a winding trail of surprises was about to change this case. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure?