needle road. >> heavily wooded. >> ranger, would you have ever gone down a road? >> no, that place was four to five foot under water two weeks earlier. >> at a seemingly random spot, mcdowell said stop, this is the place. jeter and holland set off on foot. >> within a short period of time we found what we believed to be the remains of crystal mcdowell. there wasn't much left of her. she was pretty much decomposed. >> steven mcdowell had not only confessed but given up the body. case closed, right? not in texas because a murder defendant can claim sudden passion that the victim somehow played a role in their own death by provoking the killer. and mcdowell wanted to make that argument before a jury hoping he could drastically reduce his sentence. >> i can tell a jury look, if you find this story of sudden passion, then the only thing, the maximum you can give him is