it, it s like didn t make any difference. reporter: yeah, not gonna bring him back. it is not gonna bring trent back. but still it s why did this happen? you re four years in, five years in, and really no closer to solving it. than from reporter: your first case and it day one. that will make you doubt yourself. reporter: and then one day a particular woman happened to see an anniversary story about the unsolved murder of the football player back in kentucky. a woman who d once sat in a bar in a fog of love. and who now was quite terrified. coming up. a break in the case from out of the blue. an ex-lover reveals all, including a motive for murder almost too absurd to believe. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed because it was something this weird.
reporter: and shane ragland went home on a million dollars bail, paid by his dad, to wait for a whole new trial. it s been a long time, shane. how does it feel to be outside, going home with your father right now? i don t really look at it like that. i look at the long-term goal of fighting a case against me that s fake, that s false. and i know i m innocent. i don t worry about my feelings, creature comforts. reporter: why was the verdict thrown out? it had nothing to do with aimee lloyd or her explosive testimony or the sting tape recorded at the airport. all that was fine. so what was the issue? the bullet that killed trent. an fbi expert had linked the fragments of that bullet found during the autopsy to bullets like these that were found in shane s father s house. but after shane s conviction the fbi realized the test it used was, in fact, bad science and stopped using it. these are things that we have been arguing for years, frankly, shouldn t have been admitted. re
mr. digiuro. i got some bad news. trent s been killed zplr just like that. just like that. he said he was shot. what does that do you to you to get news like that? it s numbing. it s hard to imagine the feeling. reporter: suddenly your life doesn t make sense anymore. it absolutely stops and pivots in an instant. and then it was kinda, you know, now what? reporter: and soon everybody knew. i couldn t even believe it, couldn t understand it. who would murder somebody so wonderful? reporter: it was about then that the first really useful evidence came back from the medical examiner. bullet fragments were recovered in the autopsy, and the ballistics showed it wasn t a handgun at all that killed trent. it was a rifle, which turned detective evan s first theory upside down. well, the theory about
pretty lights on the tree i m watching them shine watch the full story at xfinity.com/sing2 reporter: it was early spring in kentucky when justice was done for the murder of trent digiuro. thanks, his friends knew, to a woman who faced up to fear and told her story. we ve never met aimee and i m eternally grateful absolutely. to aimee for everything that she s done for not only trent and his family, but for us. reporter: except there was an appeal. of course there was. standard procedure. but what happened was not standard at all. a court reversed the jury s decision. any comment, shane?
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