nobody knew anybody by those names. didn t recognize the ring either. but as livers was confessing. and as they were as arrested and put in jail, one of kofoed s officers kept puzzling about that ring. on the inside were three tiny letter, aaj. the manufacturer perhaps? well, yes. turned out to be a place called a & a jewelers, buffalo, new york. i remember one of the girls in shipping had indicated that there was a call from somebody in the nebraska police department. reporter: mary martino was running what was left of buffalo s a & a office just then. why what was left? the place was going out of business. massive layoffs. 200 jobs lost. by the time nebraska cops started calling, mary was one of only three people left to clean up the buffalo office and close it down. and now, here was this investigator asking mary to
track down a ring the company likely shipped years ago. and you said what? you got to be kidding? i said that s like looking for a needle in a haystack. however, she mentioned homicide. reporter: and that s when mary martino heard about the ring and the double homicide and the fact that nobody else at the company seemed able to help. she said she had made several attempts and no one was willing to assist her. reporter: so mary martino said she d see what she could do. certainly her company would have taken the order, made the ring, inscribed it love always, cori and ryan and shipped it, but where? mary went to the warehouse where tens of thousands of back orders were kept. so i started with just box number one, stores 1 through 25. then box number two, stores 25 through 30. reporter: and you went through each one? yes. until i got to like 100 and i believe it was 108 or 118 and i said, this is going to be
likely shipped years ago. and you said what? you got to be kidding? i said that s like looking for a needle in a haystack. however, she mentioned homicide. reporter: and that s when mary martino heard about the ring and the double homicide and the fact that nobody else at the company seemed able to help. she said she had made several attempts and no one was willing to assist her. reporter: so mary martino said she d see what she could do. certainly her company would have taken the order, made the ring, inscribed it love always, cori and ryan and shipped it, but where? mary went to the warehouse where tens of thousands of back orders were kept. so i started with just box number one, stores 1 through 25. then box number two, stores 25 through 30. reporter: and you went through each one? yes. until i got to like 100 and i believe it was 108 or 118 and i
nobody knew anybody by those names. didn t recognize the ring either. but as livers was confessing. and as they were as arrested and put in jail, one of kofoed s officers kept puzzling about that ring. on the inside were three tiny letter, aaj. the manufacturer perhaps? well, yes. turned out to be a place called a & a jewelers, buffalo, new york. i remember one of the girls in shipping had indicated that there was a call from somebody in the nebraska police department. reporter: mary martino was running what was left of buffalo s a & a office just then. why what was left? the place was going out of business. massive layoffs. 200 jobs lost. by the time nebraska cops started calling, mary was one of only three people left to clean up the buffalo office and close it down. and now, here was this investigator asking mary to track down a ring the company
however, she mentioned homicide. reporter: and that s when mary martino heard about the ring and the double homicide and the fact that nobody else at the company seemed able to help. she said she had made several attempts and no one was willing to assist her. reporter: so mary martino said she d see what she could do. certainly her company would have taken the order, made the ring, inscribed it love always, cori and ryan and shipped it, but where? mary went to the warehouse where tens of thousands of back orders were kept. so i started with just box number one, stores 1 through 25. then box number two, stores 25 through 30. reporter: and you went through each one? yes. until i got to like 100 and i believe it was 108 or 118 and i said, this is going to be impossible. reporter: so mary asked for