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>> reporter: nothing came of it. the whole world had moved on, forgotten, apparently. but then, a year later, 2009, punta gorda got a new sheriff. and he thought some of the unsolved cases in town needed a new look and called upon the retired detective mike gandy. and these two, who had been detectives up north before they, too, retired and moved to punta gorda, mike vogel and kurt mehl. >> i moved to florida and came down here to hunt and fish and play golf and go boating and go to the beach an...

Forward and tell us where katie is. >> that was the public waring family. at home the private tom waring couldnt help but be drawn back to the play-back button on the voicemail. >> dad, mom? if youre there, pick up the phone. if youre there, pick up the phone. call me back later. bye. >> i would look at photographs of her or play those voicemail messages, just keeping her voice current in my mind. >> meanwhile, andy savages a-team of ex-detectives was making progress. when they flashed that fat ...

Charleston county deputy. and i said, well show you where the remains are. took him out there and said, its your crime scene now, and were backing off. and thats what we did. >> but that wasnt the end of it, was it? >> no. >> no. we were detained to put it mildly. >> detained? >> detained, placed in separate police cars. >> what do you mean -- you were arrested or -- >> well, very strictly i guess by the legal definition, we were not free to leave. they made that clear. and, one, we couldnt leav...

Charleston county deputy i said, well show you where the remains are, took him out there and said its your crime scene now and were backing off. and thats what we did. >> reporter: but that wasnt the end of it, was it? >> no. we were detained, to put it mildly. >> reporter: detained? >> detained. placed in separate police cars. >> reporter: what do you mean, you were arrested? >> very strictly by the legal definition, we were not free to leave, they made that very clear. and we couldnt leave bec...

Playback button on the voicemail just to hear her voice. >> dad, mom, if youre there, pick up the phone. if youre there, pick up the phone. call me back later, bye. >> i would look at photographs of her or play those voicemail messages. just keeping her voice current in my mind. >> reporter: meanwhile, andy savages a-team of ex-detectives were making progress and when they flashed that fat bag of cash around the neighborhood, they got a rise out of ethan and heather. a furious ethan called andy....

Message. keeping her voice current in my mind. >> meanwhile, andy savages a-temperature of ex-detectives was -- a-team was ex-detectives was making progress. when they flashed that fat grocery bag of cash around the neighborhood, they certainly got a rise out of ethan and heather. a furious ethan called andy. >> your investigators are out here. theyre accusing me of being involved in this homicide. kate was my best friend in life. as hes on the phone, kamp calls. she starts out in this rage abou...

And showed them where it was. >> thats correct. they wanted a statement from us as to everything that we had done from the very beginning. not just what we had done that day. >> the whole, long story? >> thats basically what they were asking for. and in fact, they had been given the story along and along as it occurred. >> hours later the ex-detectives were finally released. but not bill capps car. didnt get that back until they filed motion papers for an injunction. even now the memory still ra...

And moved to punta gorda. mike vogel and kirk mayo. >> i moved to florida and came down here to hunt and fish and play golf and go boating and go to the beach, and just relax. and that lasted a couple of months, got very bored. >> and so three bored ex-detectives put on badges to form the sheriffs very first official cold case unit and decided early on they would work on taras case. prosecutor feinberg was finally optimistic, sort of. >> i always felt that this was a case that could be solved. i...

>> meanwhile, andy savages a-team of ex-detectives was making progress. when they flashed that fat grocery bag of cash around the neighborhood, they certainly got a rise out of ethan and heather. a furious ethan called andy. >> your investigators are out here. theyre accusing me of being involved in this homicide. kate was my best friend in life. as hes on the phone, kamp calls. she starts out in this rage about, you know, what are you doing out here, accusing me of this, we had nothing to do wi...

>> but wait a minute. you found the body. and showed them where it was. >> thats correct. they wanted a statement from us as to everything that we had done from the very beginning. not just what we had done that day. >> the whole, long story? >> thats basically what they were asking for. and in fact, they had been given the story along and along as it occurred. >> hours later the ex-detectives were finally released. but not bill capps car. didnt get that back until they filed motion papers for a...