they wanted a statement from us as to everything that we had done from the very beginning. not just what we had done that day. the whole, long story? that s basically what they were asking for. and in fact, they had been given the story along and along as it occurred. hours later the ex-detectives were finally released. but not bill capps car. didn t get that back until they filed motion papers for an injunction. even now the memory still rankles all of them. 34 years in the police department. to sit in the back of a police car and have some guy question you, get you to take a statement. that s right. like a criminal. that s what we were sitting in the back of a car like a criminal. let s call it like we see it. still, this was it. the news traveled to the house on the battery. the warings fell from their anxiety and into grief. mixed emotions. relief that she s been found,
and he thought some of the unsolved cases in town needed a new look and called upon the retired detective mike gandy. and these two, who had been detectives up north before they, too, retired and moved to punta gorda, mike vogel and kurt mehl. i moved to florida and came down here to hunt and fish and play golf and go boating and go to the beach and just relax. and that lasted a couple months. i got very bored. reporter: and so three bored ex-detectives put on badges again to form the sheriff s very first official cold case unit and decided early on they d work on tara s case. prosecutor feinberg was finally optimistic, sort of. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. if it had a new set of eyes, it had somebody that could put the case together, connect all of
and showed them where it was. that s correct. they wanted a statement from us as to everything that we had done from the very beginning, not just what we had done that day. keith morrison: the whole long story? that s basically what they were asking for. and in fact, they had been given the story along and along as it occurred. keith morrison (voiceover): hours later, the ex-detectives were finally released, but not bill capps car. didn t get that back till they filed motion papers for an injunction. and even now years later, the memory still rankles all of them. 34 years in the police department, to sit in the back of a police car and have some guy question you, get you to take a statement. that s right, like a criminal. we were sitting there in the back of a car like a criminal. and let s call it like we see it. keith morrison (voiceover): still, this was it. the news traveled to the house on the battery. the warings fell from their anxiety and into grief. mixed emotions. relief tha