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right. what s your strategy in dealing with him? i just wanted to go slow and easy. i wanted to go over his story. do you still want to talk to me about what what happened that night? yeah, this this needs to be figured out. this is just stupid, you know. reporter: adkins story started out the same as it always had. the chick fell out of my car. i mean, absolutely fell out of my car. i don t know if she grabbed the door handle, or i still don t know how. it still bugs to me this very day how she got out of that door. reporter: and once again, adkins had a ready explanation for why he d initially lied to the cops. you originally told them, russ, that you were just driving by and saw her laying in the grass. well yeah, cause i was scared. well what were you so scared of? just being involved with the police, period. reporter: but as hard as he said it was to remember that night, adkins offered the investigator a brand new detail when confronted with evidence ....
Just a few hours later. but aunt deb hadn t told brittany much about that night. there were some things she just wasn t willing to share with the little girl. did you talk about her last hours? did she know no. what happened to her? no, no. did you try and keep her mother s presence in her life? somewhat, you know? it s hard to do. it s hard to do, because of the the horrible way that that the events happened. that she died. so do you want to continually have that in your life, you know? or do you put it put it away? reporter: but as the years passed, the silence, the mystery that weighed on brittany was a dark one. the older i got it was like everybody knew. everybody knew my mom had gotten killed, however it was did a kid tell you something? no, i just i could feel it. death. could deal with my mom s so, something was missing yeah. in your mom s story. you didn t know what it was? yeah. reporter: then in seventh grade, brittany says, a po ....
reporter: roxy says that s why dana had asked for a lift home. she was scared of what toby would do to her if he caught up with her. and maybe he did, roxy thinks. she says the bouncer told her he saw a motorcycle near the scene that night. could it have been toby following them? roxy wonders whether toby pounced on dana after she fell from the bouncer s car and lay stunned and helpless on the road. remember adkins had gone looking for help. he had enough time to slam her head in that side of that road and then be gone cause his alibi is four trailers away from her body. that s his alibi. reporter: toby adamantly denies having anything to do with dana s death. he also denies he raped dana that afternoon or showed up at the club. when you hear the stories that you were there that night, you re sayin that s baloney? that s that s total crock. she s got another part of the story. not only does she say you were there that night but she says that you violently assaulted da ....
what s up with this basically? yeah, i think i actually told him i hated him. did he say, okay, you re old enough now, i can tell you unh-uh. a more complete story ? unh-uh. he said, you re not ready. you re not ready, still? reporter: brittany wasn t sure her dad would ever tell her. he wasn t around much during her childhood. his parents were the ones who d taken her in as a baby, raised her. they wouldn t talk about the past much either. so you re an angry teenage girl with your fists balled up, and you re still trying to find out the story of your mother, huh? right. what s making you go forward? why not just let it be? something inside of me just wouldn t i wouldn t stop. you know, i then i would start the hyperventilating, i d wake up crying all the time, you know, i want my mom, i want my mom. and they d tell me, you need to stop, you need to calm down. so then i started digging. reporter: sometimes when her grandmother slept, brittany sa ....
reporter: the investigator was convinced russell adkins was the man responsible for dana s death. his next step was to track down the bouncer and get him to talk. what would his story be now? i just want to know why, you know, what led up to why he did what he did. reporter: so where was adkins now? investigator kinder didn t have to look far. the bouncer was living just a boat and people in town loved him. he comes off kind of rough, but he he s a big teddy bear ....