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And showed them where it was. that s correct. they wanted a statement from us as to everything that we had done from the very beginning. not just what we had done that day. the whole, long story? that s basically what they were asking for. and in fact, they had been given the story along and along as it occurred. hours later the ex-detectives were finally released. but not bill capps car. didn t get that back until they filed motion papers for an injunction. even now the memory still rankles all of them. 34 years in the police department. to sit in the back of a police car and have some guy question you, get you to take a statement. that s right. like a criminal. that s what we were sitting in the back of a car like a criminal. we call it like we see them. still, this was it. the news traveled to the house on the battery. the warings fell from their anxiety and into grief. mixed emotions. relief that she s been found, ....
And moved to punta gorda. mike vogel and kirk mayo. i moved to florida and came down here to hunt and fish and play golf and go boating and go to the beach, and just relax. and that lasted a couple of months, got very bored. and so three bored ex-detectives put on badges to form the sheriff s very first official cold case unit and decided early on they would work on tara s case. prosecutor feinberg was finally optimistic, sort of. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. if it had a new set of eyes, it had somebody that could put the case together, connect all of the dots. what requests did you make of them? we wanted to know more about every piece of evidence, we had to rule out every piece of dna in that house, so it was closing ....
meanwhile, andy savage s a-team of ex-detectives was making progress. when they flashed that fat grocery bag of cash around the neighborhood, they certainly got a rise out of ethan and heather. a furious ethan called andy. your investigators are out here. they re accusing me of being involved in this homicide. kate was my best friend in life. as he s on the phone, kamp calls. she starts out in this rage about, you know, what are you doing out here, accusing me of this, we had nothing to do with that. fascinating reaction, thought andy savage. and perhaps an opportunity. we had done a lot of background on kamp. and so we knew her and we knew her personality. we knew a little about what buttons to push. so the reaction we had toward heather was one of comfort. not one of angst. and during that time, we planted the seeds that as a mother she must know the feeling of janice ....
but wait a minute. you found the body. and showed them where it was. that s correct. they wanted a statement from us as to everything that we had done from the very beginning. not just what we had done that day. the whole, long story? that s basically what they were asking for. and in fact, they had been given the story along and along as it occurred. hours later the ex-detectives were finally released. but not bill capps car. didn t get that back until they filed motion papers for an injunction. even now the memory still rankles all of them. 34 years in the police department. to sit in the back of a police car and have some guy question you, get you to take a statement. that s right. like a criminal. that s what we were sitting in the back of a car like a criminal. let s call it like we see it. still, this was it. the news traveled to the house on the battery. the warings fell from their ....
But then, a year later, 2009, punta gorda got a new sheriff. and he thought some of the unsolved cases in town needed a new look and called upon the retired detective mike gandy. and these two, who had been detectives up north before they, too, retired and moved to punta gorda, mike vogel and kurt mehl. i moved to florida and came down here to hunt and fish and play golf and go boating and go to the beach and just relax. and that lasted a couple months. i got very bored. reporter: and so three bored ex-detectives put on badges again to form the sheriff s very first official cold case unit and decided early on they d work on tara s case. prosecutor feinberg was finally optimistic, sort of. i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. if it had a new set of eyes, it ....