brittany says she began calling the prosecutor s investigator every week like clockwork. and amazingly he started showing some interest in the case. and he d say, you know, nothin new, or you re looking for a killer? right. is he looking for a killer or just trying to find out what happened? i think at that point at first he was just trying to put the pieces together. reporter: it wasn t going to be easy. what brittany didn t know was that detective bratton had done a fair bit back in the day, chasing down leads, trying to make sense of it all, but interview tapes, crime scene photos, evidence most of that was missing. not to beat people up, but what happened to all those boxes, the interviews, the pictures, the measurements it seems like it disappeared, just vanished. to the average person that s probably unnexcusable and why did it happen? it is possible somebody looked at that, looked at the date and thought moldy oldie, huh? we can get rid of that.
it is possible somebody looked at that, looked at the date and thought moldy oldie, huh? we can get rid of that. reporter: investigators reported back to this man, wood county prosecutor paul dobson telling him what they had to work with and what they didn t. somewhere along the line, you had to greenlight this and commit budget money to it. you had to roll the dice a little. we had to find out whether there was justice to be done. reporter: the prosecutor s investigator teamed up with the northwood police department to rebuild what had been lost. to track down people and interview them again. that included paramedic ron billings. she was laying on her right side in the semi-fetal position. reporter: billings had been one of the first on the scene that night. what he found has haunted him, he says, for thirty years. i see her laying on the side of the road in between the pavement and the sidewalk. i put my hands behind her head and we roll her over and my han
moldy oldie, huh? we can get rid of that. reporter: investigators reported back to this man, wood county prosecutor paul dobson telling him what they had to work with and what they didn t. somewhere along the line, you had to greenlight this and commit budget money to it. you had to roll the dice a little. we had to find out whether there was justice to be done. reporter: the prosecutor s investigator teamed up with the northwood police department to rebuild what had been lost. to track down people and interview them again. that included paramedic ron billings. she was laying on her right side in the semi-fetal position. reporter: billings had been one of the first on the scene that night. what he found has haunted him, he says, for thirty years. i see her laying on the side of the road in between the pavement and the sidewalk. i put my hands behind her head and we roll her over and my hands come out and they re full of blood and at that point i just shake my h
brittany says she began calling the prosecutor s investigator every week like clockwork. and amazingly he started showing some interest in the case. and he d say, you know, nothin new, or you re looking for a killer? right. is he looking for a killer or just trying to find out what happened? i think at that point at first he was just trying to put the pieces together. reporter: it wasn t going to be easy. what brittany didn t know was that detective bratton had done a fair bit back in the day, chasing down leads, trying to make sense of it all, but interview tapes, crime scene photos, evidence most of that was missing. not to beat people up, but what happened to all those boxes, the interviews, the pictures, the measurements it seems like it disappeared, just vanished. to the average person that s probably unnexcusable and why did it happen? it is possible somebody looked at that, looked at the date and thought moldy oldie, huh? we can get rid of that.
was removed from the public education system. meaning no music? mo dance, no theater, no photography, no fine arts, no painting, nothing. nothing. reporter: and the question i ve often wondered is what if a child doesn t have a way to discover her passion? what if that hidle talent is never tapped? this is my moldy oldie photo album. my mother was a drama teacher so i was always around school plays. my first role i was a munchkin in the wizard of oz. i couldn t really act or sing, so i never was the star, but even just being a bird in the background i loved it. it makes me sad to think about what my life would have been like without the school plays because those were the highlights of my school experience. this is dream yard, a nonprofit that brings music, dance,