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>> reporter: kathy found some piece in that, the knowing, the seeing, but why quinnas life was taken? its so much harder to comprehend. >> i dont think ill ever be able to accept it. its hard. its hard. >> reporter: criminal trials are one way to grieve and find answers. and with a confession on tape, the trial of steven gordon looked like a formality -- or so the prosecutor might have hoped. then the judge made that ruling. oh, boy. >> a suspected serial killer turns the case against him upside...

It wasnt a dirty, dark, nasty, gross area. >> reporter: kathy found some piece in that, the knowing, the seeing, but why quinnas life was taken? its so much harder to comprehend. >> i dont think ill be able to accept it. its hard. its hard. >> reporter: criminal trials are one way to grieve and find answers and with a confession on tape, the trial of steven gordon looked like a formality or so the prosecutor might have hoped. then the judge made that ruling. oh boy. >> a suspected serial killer ...

Envisioned. it wasnt a dirty, dark, nasty, gross area. >> reporter: kathy found some piece in that, the knowing, the seeing, but why quinnas life was taken? its so much harder to comprehend. >> i dont think ill be able to accept it. its hard. its hard. >> reporter: criminal trials are one way to grieve and find answers and with a confession on tape, the trial of steven gordon looked like a formality or so the prosecutor might have hoped. then the judge made that ruling. oh boy. >> a suspected se...

It wasnt a dirty, dark, nasty, gross area. >> reporter: kathy found some piece in that, the knowing, the seeing, but why quinnas life was taken? its so much harder to comprehend. >> i dont think ill be able to accept it. its hard. its hard. >> reporter: criminal trials are one way to grieve and find answers and with a confession on tape, the trial of steven gordon looked like a formality or so the prosecutor might have hoped. then the judge made that ruling. oh boy. >> a suspected serial killer ...