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And she was laying on the ground, and i could see blood everywhere. >> in a panic shaun called 911, and then called her brother brett. >> she says moms been hurt. shes got a hole in her neck. she was frantic. >> then police and paramedics arrived and cordoned off the place where she lay. >> i could see numerous bullet holes in the back of her neck. >> keith mason was a detective, torrance pd. >> in all my years ive seen people shot in homicides but never this many times. >> this was really an ex...

The wedding. his only daughters wedding. but he was around, bold as brass. >> i would go out to a big place, there hed be. hed be walking around. >> wow. >> and i would think right away, you know, youre free. youre free, but i hope not for long. i hope not for long. >> but it was long. very long. the joan bradford case was ice cold. the 80s turned to the 90s, and then the millenium. bill bradford remained free, celebrating the new year, the new millennium like everybody else. and then a few mont...

Dinner, then he went to his bedroom. >> to be alone or what? >> to work on a stamp collection. >> exacting, organized, introverted. joan was the polar opposite. eventually that disconnect took its toll. bill moved out, joan moved on, filed for divorce. the kids grew up, moved away. in the fall of 1988, joan sold the house on sharynne lane. >> my mom was trying to finish up the sale and the move from torrance to start her life over again. >> it was a friday evening. joan was packing, getting read...

>> i went from suspecting that my father murdered my mom to having it confirmed. because theres always that little point that still wanted to be daddys little girl and wanted to believe that this was something else. >> it was shauns birthday a few weeks later when her father was sentenced to 26 years to life. hed be 85 by the time he was eligible for parole. >> i remember telling his daughter that this mans not going to last five years in prison. so i thought it would be a life sentence. >> i wa...

Who has no idea. >> bradford was charged with first-degree murder. and one of the detectives phoned shaun. my first reaction was do you know what day today is? he said no. its mothers day. and he stopped and he said, "oh my gosh, im sorry." i said, "no, thats fitting for the mother that he took away 13 years ago." >> bradford quickly lawyered up, while his family braced themselves for a trial. would their father walk free? or be locked up for life? >> i want to use the word "apprehensive" becaus...

Really, moved on. a year passed, then two, the bradford case got buried. >> i would sit around and wonder, oh you know im gonna grab that bradford case out, and im gonna read that again. maybe theres something i missed. maybe theres something i didnt do. maybe theres something i could do. >> but all those somethings led to a bunch of nothings, not one new lead. mason stayed in close contact with shaun, who by this time was engaged to be married. her father wasnt on the guest list, but shaun was ...

What advice for this man, this tough, aggressive prosecutor who now fears for his life? >> this man is a threat to me. he is a threat, more importantly, to my family. >> in the annals of criminal justice, some cases refuse to lie down and die. they fester. >> and here we are now. and all thats happened, i hate to say this, but i think that we have to take this seriously. >> yes. but it begins with her. joan. she lived when she lived a thousand miles south of that little cemetery a few miles from...

Left it? >> i havent the slightest idea where it went. >> did it strike you odd that this fellow is so well organized would misplace a gun? >> oh, yes, it struck me odd. i knew right away he didnt misplace it. no doubt in my mind because of the type of fellow he was. >> but bradford did have an alibi. a parking stub. sure enough, he entered the pier parking lot the friday of the murder, 7:29. so he said he could not have killed joan, unless -- the detectives put together a timeline. joan answere...