what s your strategy in dealing with him? i just wanted to go slow and easy. i wanted to go over his story. do you still want to talk to me about what what happened that night? yeah, this this needs to be figured out. this is just stupid, you know. reporter: adkins story started out the same as it always had. the chick fell out of my car. i mean, absolutely fell out of my car. i don t know if she grabbed the door handle, or i still don t know how. it still bugs to me this very day how she got out of that door. reporter: and once again, adkins had a ready explanation for why he d initially lied to the cops. you originally told them, russ, that you were just driving by and saw her laying in the grass. well yeah, cause i was scared. well what were you so scared of? just being involved with the police, period. reporter: but as hard as he said it was to remember that night, adkins offered the investigator a brand new detail when confronted with evidence in the c
reporter: the investigator was convinced russell adkins was the man responsible for dana s death. his next step was to track down the bouncer and get him to talk. what would his story be now? what would his story be now? brittany stork didn t buy it. stupid, you know.
nexgard. the vet s #1 choice. reporter: brittany stork s world was spinning. the 13-year-old believed all the adults in her life were lying to her. had been lying to her for years. i was just so mad at everybody. it was just, leave me alone. and you can t tell me what to do. you know, you lied to me. reporter: a tragic car accident. that s what brittany had been told about her mom s death, but the newspaper articles she d unearthed hinted at something far more suspicious. brittany made a copy of them and confronted her dad, toby. he d been in an on-again, off-again relationship with her mom, dana, at the time of her death. and i can t remember what i wrote on it, but i know that it wasn t a very nice message. what s up with this basically? yeah, i think i actually told him i hated him. did he say, okay, you re old enough now, i can tell you unh-uh. a more complete story ? unh-uh.
courthouse. she d spent so much of her life trying to find out what had happened to her mother and now the moment of truth had arrived. the defendant russell adkins did purposely cause the death of dana rosendale. reporter: the prosecution s opening statement was simple common sense and science would prove russell adkins was a liar and a killer who had created a story about a tragic car accident to cover his tracks. deb, are you familiar with dana rosendale? i am. reporter: dana s sister deb took the stand to talk about her little sister forever 19 years old. she loved life, she loved people, she loved her family, she loved her little girl. reporter: deb told the jury it was obvious to her that dana had not been injured in a car accident. she didn t have one road burn, she had nothing except for the swollen side of her face,
give them a lift. is he a friend of roxy s or a friend of dana s or how s that go together? roxy has always maintained she just knew him socially from being a regular at the club. not intimate. that is correct. reporter: roxy said she got dropped off first. and watched the bouncer and dana speed away. so, when roxy closes that car door and says, goodnight, now we re into the mystery of what happens next, huh? correct. reporter: but here s the thing. the name of the bouncer was one police had heard before. it was none other than russell adkins, the young man who said he d spotted dana a stranger in trouble lying in the road. he d gone looking for help. knocking on doors. knocking on late in the night. please, somebody call 911. correct. reporter: but it looked as though a crucial part of that story had been a complete lie. dana was far from a stranger to russell adkins. she d been a passenger in his car. he admitted as much to the original detective i