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starting with veech s interrogation video. watching his video i got the sense that those were crocodile tears. those were not for cassie, those were for him. reporter: the biggest problem with the case was the early diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. from day one she said that threw the case off course. her own investigation found cassie hadn t been shaken at all. she d been slammed. i think william lost control and in a moment of rage he killed cassie. he struck her with some very hard object, or took her and used her as some kind of a weapon and struck her into a very hard object like the corner of my desk here or a wall, something very, very hard. because it bashed the left side of her brain in. reporter: hainy had the x-rays and autopsy slides re-examined at the armed forces of pathology in washington, d.c., where military pathologists caught something doctors missed all those years ago. the trauma was limited to the right side of her head.
hard work and afterwards his arms were pretty tired. he scores 30 points a game and he s tired from that? that thing is like a tooth pick. that baton you can barely see it in his hands. he did have some fun, though, he really played to the audience. seemed he was having a good time. quite the renaissance man. a former marine is in prison for the long ago for the death of a child because of an intrepid investigator who brought fresh eye to this case. when i first read this case i had a strong feeling that he was responsible for killing cassie. the question was exactly what did he do. and to this day we don t know exactly what he did. amazing report there. also ahead, how the results of the midterm election shaped this year coming to an end. we ll look back at the major stories of 2010.
february 2006 when cassie s case landed on the desk of julie hainy, a cold case investigator for ncis, the naval criminal investigative service. because veech was a marine, a case file had been created years earlier. common sense and 24 years of doing this told me it didn t add up. reporter: hainy started to piece together what happened. for inspiration, she posted this picture at her desk. it just reminds me of what why i m here. what who i m working for. reporter: julie hainy turned the case file inside out, starting with veech s interrogation video. watching his video i got the sense that those were crocodile tears. those were not for cassie, those were for him. reporter: the biggest problem with the case was the early diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. from day one she said that threw the case off course. her own investigation found cassie hadn t been shaken at
in crime and punishment tonight, justice for a toddler. i want to show you her picture. this is cassie, it will be ten years next month since she died. i imagine it s a tough time of year for her family. cassie s mom left her with someone she trusted. while she was gone, cassie suffered a severe head injury. i can tell you as a doctor, but more importantly as a father of three young girls, this story really got to me. how cassie got those fatal head injuries remained a mystery for years. but to some in cassie s family, the facts didn t add up. turns out they were right. here s randi kaye. reporter: in the morning of january 18th, 2001, the only person at home with cassie was her mother s boyfriend, former marine, william veech. just before 10:00 a.m., veech called 911. by the time paramedics arrived, cassie, just 17 months, was unconscious.