without prejudice. meaning? meaning that the state could bring it back up if they choose to. how much of a worry was that to you? you always have this nagging thing in the back of your mind as a defense attorney when something is dismissed without prejudice. you know that something could happen. in the future. agent ken thompson could ve simply filed it away as one laugh cause a tough case they did not work out. i mean, you talk about a case where it seemed like everything was stacked against you. and this is that case. but he did not let it go. just could not. there were new assignments, and lots of other cases. years went by. but? i kept, you know, those ten binders. i move them from one office to another office to a third office. it was always on the bookcase in my office always on your
struggle. the other one was found on bryan s left foot. and then investigator thompson saw the blood drops. out on the doorstep. we knew that that is where the shooting had occurred. blood had dropped straight down. so it was just outside do you find some bullets around there? they found two bullets lodged in the kitchen cupboard. so the two shots that went through the arm, went through the arm and through that wall and came out into caption cabinets on the other side. thompson and his partner used the string to simulate the path of the bullets they even tried to act out what might have happened. and before long, they came to some conclusions. how far away was the shooter? played a close range. so, a struggle when the gun went off. it would be? some type of conversation went on and a struggle ensued. two shots went off. and then the third shot into his chest. i think that brian struggled to
they had found the gun beside him. and, i said well where is the gun case? the gun case was missing. it was a grand gun case that ryan had made. and so, the gun was always in the gun? case the gun was either in it or beside it. a perimeter search of the property was organized. and lo and behold the gun holster, a leather case inscribed with brian s initials was found lying in tall grass. 84 feet from doctor ryan store. how did they get way out there? as he s thought about it, the whole seem seemed to gel in killed thompson s mind. the way it happened that is. the killer must have stolen brown s own gun in his case, while he was away at the conference. then brought it back that night expressly to kill brian. discarding the holster on the way out the door. if it hadn t been for that holster out there, it could ve been someone came at the door, brian came to the door with a
hands and boom, boom. it could ve been, absolutely. but that holster being out there, there s just no other reason why that holster would be out there. reporter: that was agent thompson s theory anyway. was tom jaraczeski capable of such a thing? well, he already admitted he sneaked into ann s house when it was empty. and so, thought agent thompson, he must have been perfectly capable of walking into dr. rein s place too and stealing that gun. he had plenty of opportunity to get the gun. i mean, the trailer was never locked. reporter: but why would he get bryan s gun? he could get a gun anywhere. it s montana, for god s sake, everybody s got a gun. he certainly had the ability to go over there undetected and walk into that trailer. ample time to look around, to grab the gun. reporter: so that became the leading theory. larry hagenbuch, the doctor s troubled friend, if that s truly what he was, remained a person of interest, but the primary