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Information now, and we think we have another suspect. reporter: another suspect. a new name altogether. based on information from an eyewitness who may have seen annie kasprzak the night she was killed and knew who killed her. coming up is this how annie was murdered? and is this the man who murdered her? what if i told you she s dead? i didn t do it. place, the xfinity xfi gateway. ....
But in the course of their investigation of ferry, detectives learned something interesting. and you had another l.j. in that crowd, didn t you? yeah. reporter: daniel ferry? yeah. reporter: what was his nickname? he used two. one was joker and the other was little joe. reporter: little joe? l.j.? yeah. reporter: maybe their witness was confused or deliberately hiding the fact that ferry and l.j. were one and the same. either way ferry seemed like their man. but the d.a. wanted more evidence before filing charges. derek johnson and chad carpenter thought the blood samples taken from daniel ferry s home would push the case over the finish line. you and derek have to think you re done there, you got it? a lot of our investigators thought that we had it nailed. reporter: while they waited for the blood results to come back from the lab, they went searching for the carpet that had been ripped out from the ferry home, the carpet joanna had said the girl had bled on. we ....
Started telling detectives about a young girl she had seen a week prior. the cops thought some of what she said sounded eerily similar to annie s case. so they called draper pd, and detective derek johnson and his colleague came over to hear what joanna had to say. tell me what you know about this girl. it was the second time i ve seen her over there. reporter: there at the home where a man named daniel ferry used to live. danny ferry is a guy known to law enforcement? yes. reporter: as maybe a drug dealer? drug dealer. he was a member of a gang called vario loco town. and law enforcement has dealt with danny quite a few times, yeah. reporter: ferry had a long rap sheet. in fact, derek had served a search warrant on his home a year earlier. and now here was joanna telling derek that she saw a girl who sounded a lot like annie at daniel ferry s home on the night annie was killed. joanna also said the girl showed up with someone police had been searching for but couldn t fi ....
reporter: and no matter how much derek and the other investigators leaned on him, daniel ferry didn t budge. he s saying all along, it s not me? remember, while under suspicion for annie s murder, ferry was arrested for an unrelated kidnapping in a different town. the charge stuck. ferry eventually pleaded guilty and was sent to prison. draper police came to believe it was this kidnapping that star witness joanna had recounted to them. she had seen a totally different crime. not annie s murder. what s more, it happened on the same night annie was killed. no way daniel ferry could have committed both crimes. so now, rookie detective jaclyn moore went back to the boxes and binders piled high on her desk. i felt lost. i decided i need to start from the beginning and see what information derek had when he first got the case. reporter: and so began the education of a detective. she started reading through pages and pages of annie s notes and journal entries. who does annie turn out to ....
reporter: the only bright spot, daniel ferry wasn t getting out of jail. he was also being investigated for an unrelated kidnapping and assault case in a neighboring town. so he s on ice while you guys can develop your theories about his involvement in this thing? yeah. reporter: they continued to investigate ferry. months went by. lead detective derek johnson was promoted to sergeant. which meant former hairdresser jaclyn moore s dream of making detective finally came true. maybe a case of beware what you wish for. one of her first assignments was the annie kasprzak murder. how did you feel about it? that this was now going to be your case? i cried for two hours. reporter: really? you closed the door and reporter: jaclyn decided she needed to start again from the beginning, following the chain of evidence that led her colleagues to daniel ferry. she thought she might link ferry to annie through his phone calls. but when she checked all of his cell phone records showe ....