didn't listen to the family, those two things are not evidence of a cover up. >> it was not that they didn't close the case. they didn't do anything to create a case. >> he said that in 1986, the detectives were protecting stephanie lazarus. >> they actively covered up the identity of the person who committed the crime. >> the rasmussen's lawsuit alleging a cover up was dismittdismitt -- was dismissed in 2011. >> i can accept somebody that is unable to solve a crime that is solvable. i cannot accept somebody be that covers up a crime or covers up an individual that committed a crime and i have no indication that that happened here. >> there's nothing to suggest that they deliberated looked away from stephanie or that was a road they didn't want to go down. >> i think it was lack of ability not an intentional act to exclude stephanie. >> stephanie lazarus --