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Documents were being refuted and contrary information provided by the defense. and it really cripples the case. >> coming up -- like i dont get to go? why am i not going to court? >> jeffrey epstein makes a deal. >> is that a sweetheart deal? >> ive never seen anything like it. >> when "dateline" continues. >> when "dateline" continues or delicious... or fun. ♪ but since you need both car and home insurance, why not bundle them with esurance and save up to 10%. which you can spend on things ...

Forward, retired chief reiter says there is value in looking back. >> some good has to come out of this case. laws need to be changed. someone in authority in both the state of florida, the united states government, has to apologize to the victims and their families for the way that they were treated by prosecutors in south florida. >> reporter: the women we brought together here persevere. theyre strengthened by a new sisterhood, a solidarity forged by their shared survival. >> this was somethi...

Delayed and frustrated their investigation and their prostitutipro prosecution of the case. >> still, he says, acosta told him his office was moving forward. >> i left that meeting thinking this guy is going to hopefully do his job. hes telling me he is. >> but then he decided not to charge epstein in federal court and sent the case back to the local prosecutors, the very same office that rider says dropped the ball in the first place. now epstein made a deal, pleading guilty to two counts relat...

>> little did virginia and other victims know that everything would change this year. >> coming up -- >> where do you think this case is going now? >> there are still people out there, people that were enabling epstein. >> can these women still get justice? >> they failed us before. dont fail us again.

Often after you left? >> this was the case that never really left me. >> reporter: did the justice system fail these victims? >> not only in my opinion, but in the opinion of others that have worked a long time in the system, this is the worst failure of the criminal justice system that i or they are aware of in modern times. >> reporter: it turned out reiter wasnt the only person in south florida who hadnt forgotten jeffrey epstein. in november 2018, the "miami herald" published an explosive se...

>> i say when you are abused, you know your abuser. i might not have my dates right. i might not have the times right and sometimes even occasions, like the places might not even be right. but i know their faces and i know what they have done to me. >> coming up -- >> this was a very prolific sexual predator. >> the police chef on epsteins trail more than a decade ago gives his first in depth television interview. >> did you feel that you had a strong case? >> oh, absolutely. ive been diagnosed ...

Look at the flight logs. ghislaine, she doesnt wanna be embarrassed. shes a socialite. she doesnt wanna be held accountable for this. and in her mind, i believe she doesnt think that what she did was wrong. thats the kind of evil monster she is. >> reporter: in addition to virginia, two other women have publicly accused maxwell of sexual abuse, incidents detailed in an affidavit. maxwell, who has vanished from public view, has not been charged with any crime, and denies any wrongdoing. as for pr...

Ultimately got, was that a sweetheart deal? >> well, i have never seen anything like it. im not a lawyer. im not a prosecutor. i was a police chief. i think police chiefs know the difference between right and wrong. and this case was clearly to us a very prosecutable case. >> perhaps the most unusual part of the deal, federal prosecutors agreed they would not charge any potential coconspirators. for rider none of it made sense. >> how is it possible the system could have failed on so many levels...

Performance at her high school, congratulating her at the end of the performance. we found in the trash the report card from one of the victims. and any thoughts that this didnt happen, this kind of physical evidence drives home that -- that it did. >> he used to tell some of the accusers, i own the palm beach police department. >> that is ridiculous. im sure he thought that he owned the palm beach police department because, frankly, he tried to set us up. >> rider says epstein made donations to...

In florida got an opportunity to try. it was palm beach, march 2005. police got a call from a distraught mother of a 14-year-old girl. >> she said my daughter is having sex. shes a minor and shes having sex with an adult and lives in a mansion in palm beach. >> michael is the former chief of the palm beach police. this is his first in depth television interview detailing what happened inside his departments investigation and the monumental failures that followed. his detectives took the case ser...