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okay. all right. this morning. okay, what time did you get up? about 7:30. 7:45. okay and then what happened then? and then we talked and i went back to sleep. when i woke up he wasn t there. okay. reporter: he d heard enough. i know that s a lie. no, it s no, it s not. do you know why i know it s a lie? why do you know it s a lie? because i saw you come out of your apartment and get in the passenger seat of that car and i saw him drive out of there. that s why i know it s a lie. reporter: cedillo was tough. but carter cervantez wasn t giving an inch. coming up there s an actual human grave that s been dug. fresh grave. fresh grave. when dateline continues. cty month with heartgard plus, the #1 choice of dogs. digestive and neurological side effects have rarely been reported. ask your vet for heartgard plus. ....
Got even more harrowing. they took off my sweat pants, pulled them down to my ankles, and then they raped me. reporter: raped twice, she said sobbing, by two different men. were you in pain? yes. i was screaming. reporter: prosecutors kevin rousseau and ashlea deener seemed as taken aback as the rest of the courtroom. i know what i think. this is not true. reporter: and they needed to regroup, fast. this is the biggest lie she s ever told. we know that. but you never know what the jury s thinking. reporter: carter had an explanation for just about everything. even that moment during her interrogation when she wiped the bottle. she wasn t wiping off her dna, no. she said the smell from the bottle reminded her of being raped. i was telling myself, it s just water. it s just water, it s not them. but i could still smell it. ....
somebody dressed in dark clothes with their face wrapped walk right up to the store and try to get in with keys. reporter: that, he said, was carter trying to pull off another, bigger burglary. police just knew one day after killing ashlea and taking her keys, carter was trying to break into american eagle where this time, tens of thousands of dollars the black friday profits were in the safe. but the key didn t fit, because after ashlea was murdered, chris cravey changed the locks. i wasn t gonna take any chance on whether it be a deposit or them harming somebody else in the store. we needed to lock them out. reporter: the detectives pulled the surveillance video, and look at this carter, slipping away from the mall, having already changed from her sweat clothes into pink scrubs. had to be trying to fool potential trackers, they thought. this was after she would have spotted police talking to david in the parking lot. ....
Kill me. reporter: this is where carter s defense truly began. she told the jury she was a woman enslaved by her sadistic lover. he was tellin me what to drink, what to eat, um, and he made me have sex with him in the movie theater. reporter: and he had that gun, the glock, she said. used it like a threat and it scared her. did not feel comfortable with that weapon. reporter: she told the jury she was asleep at home when ashlea was being murdered. she didn t know where david had gone but somehow he wound up with a set of american eagle keys. gave me some gloves, told me to put them on, and then handed me a pair a set of american eagle keys. and he said go in and open the gate and bring me that fat ass deposit. reporter: and then she said he pulled out the glock. and he just pointed it at me. ....