We cant let this go. Its heartbreaking. Shed left for hawaii, a new life, with a new husband. But the sunny paradise soon grew dark. Something was very wrong it was horrible being so helpless. What was behind their moms strange death . They set out together to discover the answer. And they were about to get some help from their mother herself. There it was. Evidence she left for you to find . Yes a possible clue. Hidden, in an envelope marked baby pictures. But tucked inside . A journal that painted a different picture, entirely. We pulled out the envelope and that was like, wow. Could their mom help them solve her own mystery . We cant quit. We are her voice. We made a promise. We made a promise to our mom. Im lester holt. And this is dateline. Tonight, Keith Morrison with the promise. Here they were again. Two sisters on a holiday in paradise. Or so the other vacationers must have assumed here in americas midpacific garden. In the lush resort near honolulu. But they would be wrong. T
around it? how do you process all of it? how do you move forward every day? and how would they make the case against ken and persuade the state to start from scratch? ken s story had never changed, that shirlene killed herself, accidentally or on purpose, with an overdose of pills. of course, the state still had evidence, like that pill bottle the sisters said they found stashed in the back yard of the condo, as if ken fed the pills to shirlene, then tried to hide the bottle from the police. but defense attorney edmunds could show ken didn t try to hide anything, that, in fact, he took paramedics to the medicine cabinet himself. they counted down tablets in a bottle of pills to see how many were left, and how many tried to figure out how many she d taken. which is what she said she had done. and there was a potential new defense witness who knew shirlene well, didn t like her at all, in fact. and she has her own strange theory on what happened to shirlene. you get to know the