there failed to come up with anything, not so much as a fingerprint or a fiber to connect ed ates to the crime. >> you're going to see a lot of what i call hum. well, that's interesting. what about that? but not one of those makes up beyond a reasonable doubt. >> wouldn't you think he would have asked that an eyewitness would have remembered a strange 300-pound man lumbering away in broad daylight? the attorney did point out something a young neighbor had seen. >> a mystery woman inside a green van park behind the victim's home. >> and there was a green van driven by a woman that the children saw there for over an hour and they never found it. i don't know if they looked for it. but it certainly had nothing to do with ed ates. >> was that a red herring to you or interesting to you? >> it was very interesting. that probably was the murderer. that probably had something to do with it. driven by a woman and yet, every woman ed ates knows was