Investigating needs it, but the daughter of you in you must be i was just terrified that you re gonna be well, getting knowing that, okay, they re gonna exhume her means they re looking at her case. she s not just a paper file anymore. so they re going to look further. reporter: brittany prepared herself to face whatever secrets had been buried with her mother. coming up a 30-year old cold case turns red-hot. it was like, i was right. reporter: and the spotlight of suspicion lingers on brittany s dad. i said, what happened to my mom? and she instantly threw out my dad s name.
Body s gonna look like after 31 years down. how d you feel about this? i mean, the part of you that s investigating needs it, but the daughter of you in you must be i was just terrified that you re gonna be well, getting knowing that, okay, they re gonna exhume her means they re looking at her case. she s not just a paper file anymore. so they re going to look further. reporter: brittany prepared herself to face whatever secrets had been buried with her mother. coming up a 30-year old cold case turns red-hot. it was like, i was right. reporter: and the spotlight of suspicion lingers on brittany s dad. i said, what happened to my mom? and she instantly threw out my dad s name.
that s absolutely correct. but he checked the box undetermined? which to us was was very significant. reporter: so was the bouncer lying about the fall from the car? or maybe that part was true, but she d survived the fall and met her fate in another way. the prosecutor wondered if a modern day coroner would have better luck figuring it out. one of his investigators went to find out. he knocked on my door one day, and he said, doc, i have this case. it was originally ruled undetermined. the daughter has been seeking an answer. and what do you think about an exhumation? what d you tell him? well, i said, you never know unless you look. because you never know what the body s gonna look like after 31 years down. how d you feel about this? i mean, the part of you that s investigating needs it, but the daughter of you in you must be
You looked so excited about it. i think it was insane. it was crazy. it was like a dream. like i think we should support the president throughout his run right now because he kind of needs it. clayton: how is your family doing, marcos. oh, they are doing pretty good right now. my family in houston, they are doing better than some people in houston right now. they have been trying to help and do their part. because they live there. pete: marco, you got the flag back and the president signed it. and so where is it going to go. it s going to go on my wall. it s going to stay there for the rest of my life. maybe when i m like 90 give it to a museum for other people to enjoy it. clayton: very cool. abby: marcos, i m sure it was a day you will never forget. good to have you on this morning. yes, sir. can i say something though? clayton: go ahead. go for it, quick. okay.
reporter: this is a fairly recent probably the last 10 years or so that france has developed this psychological support system when there are these traumatic events and there have been more and more of them. they re saying, in fact, a lot more could be done and when you see an event like this one, there s sdwrus njust not enough. all those budgets are being cut and at a time like this, just about everyone involved needs it. and i think there will be an argument made that they need more of these kinds of people. the gentleman we talked to had been through charl aie hebdo ana number of different things where they provide psychological help right away. and then they sometimes get the post traumatic shock. what about how you see this