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They knew what i bought. reporter: and detectives wanted to know more about who peggy might have had contact with in the hours before her murder. so they made this list of numbers they found on peggy s home phone. and as they looked at them, one stood out. it was a call from an odd area code, and it came in at 1:17 in the morning. that was from what turned out to be a tracfone. they re commonly referred to as burner phones or throwaway phones. reporter: these are the phones used by drug dealers, killers, cheating spouses? exactly. reporter: a few minutes after that tracfone call, the alarm at peggy s front door was tripped. and at 1:23 a.m., the alarm company called. hello? this is the monitoring center with bullet security. this is peggy nadell. the code word is max, i m sorry. that s okay, ma am. everything s fine. ....