plus, ask how to keep your current phone. visit your local xfinity store today. reporter: six days after dana rosendale had been found dying on an ohio back road, deb s family made the decision to take her off life support.
for you to say that there was a pool cue down there that no, i ain t going for that. no, i didn t do that. she fell out of my car. do you know that, in fact, was the pool cue that he carried we can t say 100%, but circumstantial evidence and coincidence is he goes down to that location, turns around, and, in a field, nearby, a pool cue just happens to show up. reporter: so, nearly 34 years on had the prosecution painted a clear enough picture for the jury of what happened that night? did they do it in your opinion as you sat there? or were you worried? i was a little worried and i don t know if it was just because it was my first time hearing everything, and everything was so scrambled and it was so stressful. i knew that the prosecution had a hard road ahead of themselves. reporter: the defense team was about to lay into the prosecution s case with a celebrity scientist and a basket load of doubt. coming up
if it was murder, how would they ever prove it? it was all circumstantial there wasn t a murder weapon. they just had her body. just had stories and a victim on the side of the road. right. reporter: when dateline continues.
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
it is possible somebody looked at that, looked at the date and thought moldy oldie, huh? we can get rid of that. reporter: investigators reported back to this man, wood county prosecutor paul dobson telling him what they had to work with and what they didn t. somewhere along the line, you had to greenlight this and commit budget money to it. you had to roll the dice a little. we had to find out whether there was justice to be done. reporter: the prosecutor s investigator teamed up with the northwood police department to rebuild what had been lost. to track down people and interview them again. that included paramedic ron billings. she was laying on her right side in the semi-fetal position. reporter: billings had been one of the first on the scene that night. what he found has haunted him, he says, for thirty years. i see her laying on the side of the road in between the pavement and the sidewalk. i put my hands behind her head and we roll her over and my han