doctors described her brain as jell-o. there was severe hemorrhaging, lots of blood. doctors immediately suspected shaken baby syndrome. but when police questioned veech, seen here in this interrogation video, he denied harming the toddler. veech told police cassie was in her highchair eating cheerios when he turned his back to answer the phone he said he heard a thud. just two thumps on the first oneky only assume was the kitchen table. reporter: veech said cassie fell out of her highchair but cassie s highchair was just 30 inches from the ground. just 2 1/2 feet. it just didn t make sense that she would fall and from that short fall that she would be in such critical condition. reporter: doctors couldn t save her. 15 days after she was rushed to the hospital, the little girl with the sparkling blue eyes and blond pigtails was dead.
her highchair eating cheerios when he turned his back to answer the phone he said he heard a thud. just two thumps on the first oneky only assume was the kitchen table. reporter: veech said cassie fell out of her highchair but cassie s highchair was just 30 inches from the ground. just 2 1/2 feet. it just didn t make sense that she would fall and from that short fall that she would be in such critical condition. reporter: doctors couldn t save her. 15 days after she was rushed to the hospital, the little girl with the sparkling blue eyes and blond pigtails was dead. the medical examiner ruled cassie had died of blunt force head injuries but couldn t say for sure how it happened or if a crime had been committed. so prosecutors in yuma county, arizona, chose not to charge veech because of lack of evidence. the file on cassie was officially closed in 2003. veech was a free man. fast forward a few years to
veach, seen here in this interrogation video, he denied harming the toddler. veach told police cassie was in her highchair eating cheerios when he turned his back to answer the phone he said he heard a thud. just two thumps on the first one i can only assume was the kitchen table. reporter: veach said cassie fell out of her highchair but cassie s highchair was just 30 inches from the ground. just 2 1/2 feet. it just didn t make sense that she would fall and from that short fall that she would be in such critical condition. reporter: doctors couldn t save her. 15 days after she was rushed to the hospital, the little girl with the sparkling blue eyes and blond pigtails was dead. the medical examiner ruled cassie had died of blunt force head injuries but couldn t say for sure how it happened or if a crime had been committed. so prosecutors in yuma county,
harming the toddler. veach told police cassie was in her highchair eating cheerios when he turned his back to answer the phone he said he heard a thud. just two thumps on the first one i can only assume was the kitchen table. reporter: veach said cassie fell out of her highchair but cassie s highchair was just 30 inches from the ground. just 2 1/2 feet. it just didn t make sense that she would fall and from that short fall that she would be in such critical condition. reporter: doctors couldn t save her. 15 days after she was rushed to the hospital, the little girl with the sparkling blue eyes and blond pigtails was dead. the medical examiner ruled cassie had died of blunt force head injuries but couldn t say for sure how it happened or if a crime had been committed. so prosecutors in yuma county, arizona, chose not to charge veach because of lack of evidence. the file on cassie was
answer the phone he said he heard a thud. just two thumps on the first one, i can only assume was the kitchen table. reporter: veach said cassie fell out of her highchair but cassie s highchair was just 30 inches from the ground. just 2 1/2 feet. it just didn t make sense that she would fall and from that short fall that she would be in such critical condition. reporter: doctors couldn t save her. 15 days after she was rushed to the hospital, the little girl with the sparkling blue eyes and blond pigtails was dead. the medical examiner ruled cassie had died of blunt force head injuries but couldn t say for sure how it happened or if a crime had been committed. so prosecutors in yuma county, arizona, chose not to charge veach because of lack of evidence. the file on cassie was officially closed in 2003. veach was a free man. fast forward a few years to february 2006 when cassie s case