in 2002, i met tom margan. but to lay out his case piece by piece that tom morgan should be a prime suspect in the murder of his sister. what we call the butch interview, tom begins to talk about where he was at the time of his sister s homicide. reporter: all along something tom told pat had made him very suspicious. tom said he had been living in michigan when jennifer was murdered when, in fact, a few weeks before she died, tom moved to charlotte, north carolina. and charlotte was just a 2 1/2 hour drive from the scene of the crime. if tom lied about where he lived on the day of the crime, was he lying about his actions that day, too? i remember that day, i was at a friend s house in charlotte. i flew into charlotte and then i drove on the way to my parents house reporter: here pat seems to have caught thomas he tries not to reveal that he s been lying about his moving date from michigan. pat was very suspicious of that fudging.
a decade trying to get police to investigate his sister s 1994 killing. had even made his own movie pointing at a particular suspect. and we had for years been asking some, well, difficult questions. this, just after he failed that polygraph. this is really hard and it comes through in your eyes. i can see it is. is part of the reason it s hard for you because you actually did it? no. you killed your sister? some terrible accident but you killed her? no, i did not kill my sister. reporter: now, suddenly, 13 years after the murder, tom was very publicly accused. he didn t seem thrilled to be in front of our camera again. in your circumstances, this new wrinkle has entered the scene. what is it your mom said? about your 15 minutes?
have been somebody she knew. scott s sister dina knew someone, a fraternity boy named chris. dina remembers jennifer complaining that chris would come over and stay for hours even when she begged him to leave. he was one of those guys that wanted to really date her and thought that that was someone that he could really spend the rest of his life with, but she did not feel that way towards him at all. his name was chris woodson, a science major jennifer met at her college campus. scott had met him too, in fact. it was the last night scott saw jennifer at her trailer when chris showed up. it was two nights before she died. i was there for five, maybe ten minutes. and i could see it on him that he was jealous but what do you mean you could see it on him? i mean i could just see he s like, what are you doing here and he s just jealous, doesn t like another guy over at his girlfriend s house. he looked territorial sort of? yeah.
the end of it? a certificate. reporter: but if pat wasn t a exactly trained psychologist, he was and is an experienced policeman. he s been on the force for 18 years. so what about that milky white substance he says the sheriff told him was found in jennifer s body, which was at the heart of pat s suggestion that jennifer s death could have been caused by some inappropriate sexual event involving tom? how does he know? by coincidence, he writes this script where he s bringing ice cream to the murder scene. and lo and behold, the detective has this milky white substance in the vagina. reporter: but aren t you taking two and two and coming up with five? no, i don t think so. reporter: he s fictionally writing about him being there with ice cream. and you think it s a coincidence that he shows up in his script, that he places himself at the murder scene minutes before his sister s murder and he s bringing a substance that after fire could be melted down and be a milky white
pat ferreted out tom morgan s fudging about his movements around the time his sister was killed? now in his film, pat used that uncertainty to offer his own set of speculations. that tom lingered at his parents house in myrtle beach for several days after a family reunion ended. and then on his drive home to charlotte, stopped off to kill his sister. driving from myrtle beach to charlotte puts him on a route that takes him through the university where his sister was going to school at the time of her homicide. reporter: but pat offers no evidence that this actually happened. no receipts, no eyewitnesses along the way that could place tom anywhere on this route. in fact, in that hidden camera interview, tom tells pat he was at work in north carolina, 170 miles away, on the day of the fire. i was in winston-salem.