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Forget." and i said, "i know." and so we had to go through the drivers side cause the passenger side door was broke. >> couldnt open it. >> you could. oh, yeah. >> you could? >> you could. but to make it close correctly, you had to kinda lift it up and close it. >> was it common knowledge, roxy, that he had a car with a bum door? >> yep. >> reporter: and what roxy says happened next could be the key to the mystery. according to roxy, the bouncer stopped at her house first and dana got out to use...

And maybe he did, roxy thinks. she says the bouncer told her he saw a motorcycle near the scene that night. could it have been toby following them? roxy wonders whether toby pounced on dana after she fell from the bouncers car and lay stunned and helpless on the road. remember adkins had gone looking for help. >> he had enough time to slam her head in that -- side of that road and then be gone cause his alibi is four trailers away from her body. thats his alibi. >> reporter: toby adamantly denie...

She come home and told me that she thought somethin was gonna physically happen to her. >> reporter: but was tobys theory something else? maybe an attempt to throw the cops off his trail? remember toby said hed been asleep at danas apartment, near the scene that night and he was known to have had a turbulent relationship with her. >> there were a lot of people pointing fingers at toby over the years. >> if you went down to the diner and asked, "what happened to dana," a lotta people woulda told ...

>> reporter: but there was still no word from the coroner about what, if anything, she had discovered. brittany could only guess. an agonizing wait began. brittany imagined that night over and over in her head. accident. murder. the bouncer. her dad. toby was still a suspect in some peoples eyes. and thats who danas best friend roxy blamed all these years later when brittany gave her a call. >> i said, "what happened to my mom?" and she instantly threw out my dads name. >> and i said, "why would...

Roxy is sure she knows who did it. and it wasnt the bouncer. roxy says dana had confided in her, that her relationship with toby was broken. and one chilling statement she made stood out to the best friend. >> anything that happens to me, its toby. >> wow? >> yep. >> she said that? >> yep. >> was it hands-on? was it mental games? or -- or was it -- >> mental. physical. yup. >> reporter: something she saw with her own eyes, roxy says, when she went to meet dana before they went dancing that night...

Police was just a casual acquaintance. and yet, theres a note in the police file that adkins might have been roxys boyfriend back then. that she told danas mother they were dating. >> clear up the issue, was there anything between you and -- and russ adkins? >> absolutely not. never. >> he was just a guy at the club? >> thats right. he was just a guy at the club. >> and youre not covering for him and trying to do him some good? you -- >> absolutely not. i wouldnt even protect him over my best fr...

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