deborah hollermann's family was angry with police when they learned some of the details surrounding the car crash that took her life. >> how can there be a car on the side of the road for a couple of days? i mean, isn't it someone's responsibility to take a car off of a state highway? >> highway patrolman tony snyder was less concerned about the abandoned car and more concerned with steve hollermann's driving skills. he was convinced there was more to the story than steve was telling. >> i asked him if a deer jumped out, if he was playing with the radio knobs, if he was on the cell phone. i'm asking if he passed out, blacked out, was dizzy, fell asleep, and none of those things was the reason he went off the roadway. he just said he -- he didn't know. >> steve told investigators that he and deborah had been shopping and were heading home when the accident occurred.