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>> he was under the care of a psychiatrist for the rest of his life and never recovered from it. >> really only about one thing kept him alive. persistently and politely, bud and rhonda nudged detective davis. >> rhonda, i remember, would call me probably twice a year, about every six months. and she'd ask me, "hey, steve, you know, what's going on with this case? you know, i'm just calling to see if there's anything new." >> he'd say, "rhonda, this file is on the corner of my desk. years later this file is on the corner of my desk. i never forgot about it." >> you never lose hope on these thi...

Prevent, by hanging posters all over town. >> if anybody out there knows anything at all, i'm begging them to please come forward. we sure need the help. >> she was his baby. he was never the same. he used to be such an outgoing, fun-loving person, and this just totally changed him. >> he was just very heartbroken. it crushed him. it really crushed that man. >> was there anybody else bud fleming knew who could have committed the crime? perhaps someone on the fringe of his daughter's large social circle who had re-entered her life, and then ended it. there was someone, a lost love found again. ...

The world was otherwise occupied in the years after christie fleming took the secret of her murder to the grave. the internet arrived. the clinton years came and went and 9/11. hybrid cars arrived and so did a remarkable breakthrough in that crucial crime-solving technology dna. mind you by 2002, 13 years after the murder, nothing much had happened to solve it, and christie's family was stuck in a long, grief-weighted purgatory without answers. >> you have to tell yourself that god will take care of it. at some point, this person will pay for what they did. it's really the only way to be able ...

A secret preserved by a cigarette for 14 years finally produced justice, that and a detective's determined patience. >> any time you convict a murderer, that's a good thing. but when you convict somebody that you know has gotten away with it for 14 years, that's a long time. and so to finally see justice served, that's a good feeling. >> bud fleming did not quite live to see it happen. his early death made for a gaping absence at the trial. did it hasten his death? >> absolutely. he really aged, really took its toll physically, mentally. he wasn't a healthy guy. and then, of course, all these ...

The police say that this person that's committed this crime has told someone, somebody knows. all that person has to do is come forward. >> if only it were so easy. but day followed day, and nobody came forward, nobody at all, and none of christie's friends or neighbors saw, heard or knew a thing. detectives started out with a list of four possible suspects, men whom christie had dated, and each one of them was questioned, their movements and alibis checked, and then one by one, they were cleared. but christie's father, bud fleming, remembered something. there had been a young man years earlie...