arizona, chose not to charge veach because of lack of evidence. the file on cassie was officially closed in 2003. veach was a free man. fast forward a few years to february 2006 when cassie s case landed on the desk of julie haney, a cold case investigator for ncis, the naval criminal investigative service. because veach was a marine, a case file had been created years earlier. common sense and 24 years of doing this told me it didn t add up. reporter: haney started to piece together what happened. for inspiration, she posted this picture at her desk. it just reminds me of what why i m here. what who i m working for. reporter: julie haney turned the case file inside out, starting with veach s interrogation video.
february 2006 when cassie s case landed on the desk of julie hainy, a cold case investigator for ncis, the naval criminal investigative service. because veech was a marine, a case file had been created years earlier. common sense and 24 years of doing this told me it didn t add up. reporter: hainy started to piece together what happened. for inspiration, she posted this picture at her desk. it just reminds me of what why i m here. what who i m working for. reporter: julie hainy turned the case file inside out, starting with veech s interrogation video. watching his video i got the sense that those were crocodile tears. those were not for cassie, those were for him. reporter: the biggest problem with the case was the early diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. from day one she said that threw the case off course. her own investigation found cassie hadn t been shaken at
officially closed in 2003. veach was a free man. fast forward a few years to february 2006 when cassie s case landed on the desk of julie haney, a cold case investigator for ncis, the naval criminal investigative service. because veach was a marine, a case file had been created years earlier. common sense and 24 years of doing this told me it didn t add up. reporter: haney started to piece together what happened. for inspiration, she posted this picture at her desk. it just reminds me of what why i m here. what who i m working for. reporter: julie haney turned the case file inside out, starting with veach s interrogation video. watching his video i got the sense that those were crocodile tears. those were not for cassie, those were for him. reporter: the biggest problem with the case was the early diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. from day one she said that threw
the medical examiner ruled cassie had died of blunt force head injuries but couldn t say for sure how it happened or if a crime had been committed. so prosecutors in yuma county, arizona, chose not to charge veech because of lack of evidence. the file on cassie was officially closed in 2003. veech was a free man. fast forward a few years to february 2006 when cassie s case landed on the desk of julie hainy, a cold case investigator for ncis, the naval criminal investigative service. because veech was a marine, a case file had been created years earlier. common sense and 24 years of doing this told me it didn t add up. reporter: hainy started to piece together what happened. for inspiration, she posted this picture at her desk. it just reminds me of what why i m here. what who i m working for. reporter: julie hainy turned the case file inside out,
answer the phone he said he heard a thud. just two thumps on the first one, i can only assume was the kitchen table. reporter: veach said cassie fell out of her highchair but cassie s highchair was just 30 inches from the ground. just 2 1/2 feet. it just didn t make sense that she would fall and from that short fall that she would be in such critical condition. reporter: doctors couldn t save her. 15 days after she was rushed to the hospital, the little girl with the sparkling blue eyes and blond pigtails was dead. the medical examiner ruled cassie had died of blunt force head injuries but couldn t say for sure how it happened or if a crime had been committed. so prosecutors in yuma county, arizona, chose not to charge veach because of lack of evidence. the file on cassie was officially closed in 2003. veach was a free man. fast forward a few years to february 2006 when cassie s case