>> the boyfriend's story is there's a guy right on her bumper. but that image doesn't show up anywhere, huh? >> no. >> reporter: when the lab results came back: disappointment. no useful figerprints or dna. and the long slog of getting search warrants to recover data from the cellphone and the towers the signals bounce off of, had only just begun. a few days after the murder brandy's husband josh returned to zanesville from alaska. they met him downtown at his lawyer's office. he was fully cooperative. the detectives asked for his cell phone. >> he and his attorney -- voluntarily turned it over. >> now you can look him in the eye, and you can check out his demeanor. what are you seeing? >> josh was -- very cool and collected. he looked very confident. >> reporter: with the data from his phone on the way to the lab, josh returned to alaska with his eight-year-old daughter. molly and her family had buried their brandy but no one was coming to terms with the magnitude of this crime. >> did the officers tell you anything about how the case would go? >> they figured that it'd be summed up within a couple days.