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.
i wanna know what happened to my mom. and he just said you know, you need to keep pushing and that s all he d say. reporter: so she did. 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 a
and he just said you know, you need to keep pushing and that s all he d say. reporter: so she did. 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 tnk at thatoint at first he was just trying to put the es 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 look
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.