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Inoperable. the car would have gone right to a repair shop. armed with that information, it would have been somewhat easy to find out where that car was. it would have to have been either towed or taken directly to a shop in the area. but, again, there was no follow-up in this investigation. until, really, now. >> and the victims mother, ruby burdette-ellis, told us no one from the sheriffs department in the three-and-a-half years since her sons death had interviewed her as part of their investi...

Find out where that car was. it would have to have been either towed or taken directly to a shop in the area. but, again, there was no follow-up in this investigation until, really, now. >> and the victims mother, ruby burdette-ellis, told us that no one from the sheriffs department in the 3 1/2 years since her sons death had interviewed her as part of their investigation until a few weeks ago, hours after one of our producers informed the sheriffs department that we were looking into this story...

>> you know, as weve been reporting, they really did nothing at the time, anderson. but think of how, again, invaluable that information would have been at the time of the accident. there was radiator fluid, apparently, all over the scene. so that car would have been inoperable. the car would have gone right to a repair shop. armed with that information, it would have been somewhat easy to find out where that car was. it would have to have been either towed or taken directly to a shop in the are...

Uninvolve u uninvolved. as far as we can tell, for 3 1/2 years the sheriffs department has done very little to find out what happened. has anyone from the sheriffs office investigated this, d.a.s office, been in contact with you? >> no. >> never? >> never. never. >> never came to ask if your son had any enemies, any problems with anybody? >> no. never. >> how can you say theyre still investigating? >> im just going by what the papers say. >> reporter: last month, cnn, again, tried to ask the pan...

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And again, we got no response. but hours later, ruby burdette did. >> he came in. he said he was an investigator. he introduce himself. we sit at the dining room table and he started talking. he -- he told me he apologize for no one coming out before now. and he -- he told me that the first investigator they had didnt do anything. he said he was the one that hoped, you know, to see this thing come toon end. he said he would, you know, if anything -- if anyone could be found, he was gonna find th...

In november of 2009, purdets body was found on this site. the autopsy revealed multiple injuries consistent with being hit by a vehicle. for three years, theres been nothing more than this simple one-page incident report about what happened. no one in the sheriffs department ever bothered to do anything else. >> did they ever come up and down these streets handing out flyers, knocking on doors, asking people if they seen anything? >> no, not over this way. >> do you know of any activity that way...

Looking for it. ruby burdette never misses it. she put it here three and a half years ago to mark the spot her son died and a mystery began. they know he was hit by a car? >> yes, thats what they say. >> did they ever find who drove that car? >> no. >> do you feel that they did an adequate investigation to find who did that? >> i dont really -- i cant say because they say they still investigating. i dont know. no one relates to me anything. >> they are still investigating? >> yeah. >> reporter: ...

These streets, handing out fliers, knocking on doors, asking if they had seen anything? >> no, not out this way. >> you know in of any activity that way? >> no, no one said anything. >> so, how do you know they are investigating? >> well, they had put it on the paper, you know, when they found him dead and then they had put on there, and then they wrote it in the newspaper, they said there was a -- it was still being investigated. >> reporter: ruby burdettes hope rests in this one small news art...

No one in the pinola sheriffs department offered to do anything else did they come down these streets, handing out fliers, new yorking on doors, asking if they had seen anything? >> no, not out this way. >> you know in of any activity that way? >> no, no one said anything. >> so, how do you know they are investigating? >> well, they had put it on the paper, you know, when they found him dead and then they had put on there, and then they wrote it in the newspaper, they said there was a -- it was ...