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Ex-wife joan. it was 2002, and though 14 years after the murder d.a. lewin had a pile of the same old circumstantial evidence, he charged ahead. were you confident going into this trial? >> very confident. i thought that circumstantially, it was an absolutely overwhelming case. >> really? the original d.a. rejected it. weak, he called it. no smoking gun, no dna, no eyewitnesses. >> we felt this burden. we'll never get another case like this ever filed again, if we lose this one. >> getting a little nervous by this point -- >> oh, i was -- i was. because i didn't know how this would all fit tog...

Find the proverbial smoking gun, they will not take this case to trial." >> this case did not have a lot. >> everything just kind of like went cold case. >> blow off the dust. fan the ashes. and even an ice-cold case can heat up again. >> when i read the file, my response was, "oh, my gosh. how's this guy walkin' around? how is he not in custody?" >> some worried answering that question could cost this d.a. his life. >> they tell me that he is making plans to murder you and your family. >> this is a guy who is on a mission. >> he killed once. would he kill again? when will he stop being danger...

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. it's mother's day. and he stopped and he said, "oh my gosh, i'm sorry." i said, "no, that's 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" because after years can a case be won? >> coming up -- >> we thought this burden, we'll never get anot...

The mob or the mexican mafia or any prison gang, right? and quite frankly he didn't even know who john lewin was. >> in the room that day he didn't recognize him? >> didn't even know him. didn't remember his name. >> how did you know that? >> it was just apparent. he is not a threat at all the way that he is. >> the prison's own psychologists examined him, and they came back with a rating. there's low risk, moderate risk, and high risk. he came back with a moderate risk. >> the issue that the commissioners are trying to focus on and wanted you to focus on, but you didn't want to, was he's not ...

>> when i read the file, my response was oh, my gosh, how is this guy walking around? how is he not in custody? >> it seems so obvious? >> it seemed so obvious. >> but so difficult to prove, especially without any new solid evidence. so lewin called in cold case detective jim wallace, who seemed to have a knack for making sense of complicated cases. >> this case did not have a lot. we didn't have anything new. >> but you've got to have some evidence. what do you do? >> you are looking for the things hiding in plain sight, trying to read between the lines. sometimes when we do cold cases like t...