and accuse ignatow of the crime. >> if i can't have mel ignatow, says maryann shore, nobody's going to have mel ignatow. he'll go to hell first! >> the way she was dressed didn't help. brenda's brothers were horrified by shore's very short skirt. >> she was a sight to behold. she looked like a tramp. >> this was the prosecution's star witness? >> this was the witness to the crime. >> and then there was that tape, the one ignatow's attorney had hoped the jury would never hear. he fought to keep that tape out. >> for years, for two years to keep it out. >> jurors did hear it. but there was one word on the tape that prosecutors had disregarded, a word the defense argued changed the entire meaning of the tape. the word was safe and it seemed to come out of nowhere. >> that one area right by where that safe is does not have any trees by it.