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>> turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an i.t. guy before joining the police force. >> richter came down and said, hey, do you mind taking a look at this? i start looking for what we call low-hanging fruit. whats easily available. thats when i started digging through and finding the audio files. >> nobody had listened to the audio files before because investigators were so focused on finding video from the night nique disappeared. thats just w...

Investigation? >> i think at the minimum we needed to redo it to see if technology had advanced. so i needed new forensic guys to look at the video, or whatever else he could find on the computer. >> turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an i.t. guy before joining the police force. >> richter came down and said, hey, do you mind taking a look at this? i start looking for what we call low-hanging fruit. whats easily available. thats when i starte...

Technology had advanced. so i needed a new forensic guy to look at the video or whatever else he can find on the computer. >> reporter: turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an i.t. guy before joining the police force. >> richter just came down and said, hey, you mind taking a look at this? so i start looking for what we call low-hanging fruit. whats easily available? that was where i really started digging through and finding all these audio fi...

Get you to the next step in the investigation? >> i think at the minimum we needed to redo it to see if technology had advanced. i need a new forensic guy to look at the video or whatever else he could find on the computer. >> turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an i.t. guy before joining the police force. >> richter came down and said, hey, do you mind looking at this. i start looking for what we call low-hanging fruit. whats easily available...

>> i think at the minimum we needed to redo it to see if technology had advanced. i need a new forensic guy to look at the video or whatever else he could find on the computer. >> turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an i.t. guy before joining the police force. >> richter came down and said, hey, do you mind looking at this. i start looking for what we call low-hanging fruit. whats easily available. thats when i started digging through and find...

Accident. someone had deleted those files and run a cleanup program to clear the database logs. not once, was twice. >> the only days was the day he reported her missing and the day her body was found. >> he turns to leave and i think he just looks back and he says oh, i got a bunch of audio files on there if youre interested. >> reporter: quantify it. what are we talking about in terms of hours of material? >> thousands of hours of material from 2008 up to 2011. >> reporter: the audio recording...

Get you to the next step in the investigation? >> i think at the minimum we needed to redo it to see if technology had advanced. i need a new forensic guy to look at the video or whatever else he could find on the computer. >> turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an i.t. guy before joining the police force. >> richter came down and said, hey, do you mind looking at this. i start looking for what we call low-hanging fruit. whats easily available...