cope with it. >> reporter: it's been 30 plus years, toby. you still miss her? >> tremendously. she was the love of my life. she was the love of my life. >> reporter: it was painful for both father and daughter to read the coroner's report when it finally came. three long months after dana's exhumation, the coroner changed the manner of dana's death to homicide. >> i was ecstatic, i was sad, you know, it's just the mixed emotions because it was like everything i had dreamt or thought or said or anything, it was like, i was right. >> reporter: now that the case was officially declared a homicide, investigators were working it hard. and their focus wasn't toby. it was the bouncer. investigator kinder had always thought there was something "off" about adkins' statement to detective bratton. >> one of the things that he said was, "we weren't even fighting or anything." i've talked to a lot of people