a mailbox? that was a new detail didn t appear in the old case files. suddenly goes out the door, tabs on the road, her hair presumably hits a mailbox. that is which he says. which would counter the injuries? but we knew there was nothing there except for three very large trees kind of spread along the roadway. investigator profoundly leveled with the bouncer. russ, with all due respect, not bind. it wears you look at nine cars are treating with me with respect to. but i m sorry man, i m not buying it. that same day, atkins was charged with murder. when britney founded atkins wasn t custody it was only one person she wants to tell. the first neck and my mind was i need to get my dad. and i just said, they got him. and it would mean they got? i said he s been indicted, he s in custody, and my dad just cried. he just kept saying, thank you god. thank you. this is what i wanted my whole life. but brittani knew her fight for justice was far from over. you have to suff
britney header some of the stories about him over the years. his temper, the fights with her mom, and which was 15 she cut toby off. i turned into just kind of suffering the relationship with my dad so he was out of your life from that point on? yes. and yet, somehow, amid all this loss, britney kept going. she graduated from high school, i love, and at the age of 19 found out she was going to have a baby girl. i wanted to name my daughter dana. i don t know why. and everybody cried. and i understand because i don t think, now, i can color data it would be hard. britney said it on dana as a middle name instead. i began to raise her daughter her mother s death receded slightly to the background. that is until 2006, more than 20 years after she died, brittani was serving jury duty of local courthouse when a sudden impulse to cold.
i stood there, and i wouldn t leave until she was back, exactly issue was. i started thinking and i started putting dirt back into her grave. , there is still no word from the corner, about what s, if anything, she discovered. brittany could only guess, an agonizing wait began, she imagined that night over and over in her head. accident, murder, the bouncer, her dad. toby was still a suspect in some people s eyes, and that s who dana s best friend, roxie blamed all these years later, when brittani gave her a call. i said would happen to my? mom and she immediately throughout my dad s name. and i said, why would you say? that just because. well, was my dad there with you guys that night? now. well then, why would you say. because i just. now toby wasn t surprised his name cropped backup, he knew brittany s questions could reignite suspicion that he was involved. when i found it when she was doing, i just didn t want her to be pushed aside by can never mattered. and, if sh
go to a party in everything, she woke me up and told, me i love you. and i was the last thing i ever heard from her dad. investigator kinder needed to know more about dane s activities, after she left home. starting with the nightclub on the senior side of town. i was a place all about? it was very stereotypical the early 80s, and a lot of nightclubs. a lot of music, a lot of lights, a lot of people. and a hot spot, well known to the city vice, unit according to detective bob bratton, toby had a theory about the club he shared with police. dana could ve gotten mixed up with something. there is some dark business going down to this nightclub. drug deals? girls dating for money. after our parties. should come home and told me that she thought something was going to physically have into her. but, whatever happened today
process and to my dad to tell me, it s okay. and so, in april, 2016, brittani and her aunts stood by as dana s grave was opened up yet again. i m trying to be strong. i have been wanting this for so long. and, for most people it s bring everything back for me, is just anger, i m mad. the second trial began a few months later, brittany s family an atkins supporter gather once again at the courthouse. was that coming tough coming out the elevators, together and see him in the courtroom. it was very, tough but there are several of them who came out to me and apologized we had to go through this, and go through the pain. i brittany watched as a prosecution called the same staff witness to the stand, the investigator, the medic. i kind of stayed with her and held her hand. this time around, jurors saw with dana s injuries, not on the slide, but etched in bone. to show you the jury what they had, found the prosecution brought a box to court. inside, dane s actual skull. t