where was her life headed? she had a lotta goals. she wanted to own a boutique. get a job, be successful, have a good life. but she never got there. never got there. reporter: it was labor day weekend, 1982. deb was camping with her family when she got word that dana had been found lying on the side of the road, about eight miles from the dance club where she d gone with a friend. and i needed to get to toledo as soon as possible. she was in critical condition at st. charles hospital, in oregon, ohio. so this is an awful drive for you? absolutely, yeah. you don t know what you re gonna find at the other end? yeah. reporter: what she found was dana hooked up to life support and friends and family gathering. and of course my mother was there, and she was in pieces. dana was her, you know, dana was the baby of the family and she was unconscious. tubes, bandages, machines? ventilator she had severe swelling. severe swelling in her face. reporter: and that
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roxy has always maintained she just knew him socially from being a regular at the club. not intimate. that is correct. reporter: roxy said she got dropped off first. and watched the bouncer and dana speed away. so, when roxy closes that car door and says, goodnight, now we re into the mystery of what happens next, huh? correct. reporter: but here s the thing. the name of the bouncer was one police had heard before. it was none other than russell adkins, the young man who said he d spotted dana a stranger in trouble lying in the road. he d gone looking for help. knocking on doors. knocking on late in the night. please, somebody call 911. correct. reporter: but it looked as though a crucial part of that story had been a complete lie. dana was far from a stranger to russell adkins. she d been a passenger in his car. he admitted as much to the original detective in 1982, when he was called in for an
junkyard. reporter: the investigator had an idea. he d take a fresh look at the stretch of road where it all began. i wanted to see it for myself. reporter: remember the bouncer told police he d been approaching a corner when dana fell out of his car. so you actually measured? you had one of those roll-out. i did it the old reporter: measuring devices, huh? i did it the old school way. and i had a police crew behind me, blocking traffic, and i got out, and i walked the whole thing. reporter: the investigator figured out that the closest corner was more than 200 feet away from where dana s body had been found. the whole thing didn t make sense. when you sit there and go, how does she end up on the right side of the roadway? how does her purse end up in the middle of the roadway when she s going out the opposite direction? why is he down here in the first place? reporter: the bouncer told the original detective he d taken that particular road to get cigarettes. but in
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