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>> reporter: could be confusing for richard. not many young women with as many male friends as the crowd that hovered around liz. her sweethearts, as she called them. >> one of the things was trying to find out where i fit in her life. >> reporter: but with richard, i it was romance, was she perhaps a little too intense? which are the perhaps she was. >> it was too much in the beginning. even her sister said that. >> so she was going a little too fast, is that it? >> yeah, yeah. >> but love has a way of circling back, by the end of that summer of 1979, they ran into each other again. on a wate...

His alibi, which was absurd. the fact that he was the only person in her life that had motive. >> but proving it, creepy and absorb are not exactly legal terms. his boss, the district attorney, would laugh him out of his office if he didn't come up with something new to connect bradford to the crime. bit by bit, over years, luin, wallace, and his partner worked the case like a big jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. one didn't quite fit. such a brutal crime committed by a dirty engineer? >> one of the big problems i had was when you looked at doug bradford, he looked like a normal, regular guy ...

For 30 years, he built a life, started an engineering business, made it successful, got married, obeyed the law, and maintained with absolute consistency that he had nothing whatever to do with the brutal murder of his one-time girlfriend, the canadian nurse, lynne knight. >> code 6. >> now, doug bradford was in the back of a squad car facing a charge of first degree murder. >> he was calm the whole way. he was defiant the whole way. he never wanted to talk to us. >> though, he did say one thing which certainly got detective wallace's attention. >> i asked him, do you have an attorney? yeah. d...

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Sentence of 25 years to life in the murder of lynne night. >> which all things considered, said john lewin, isn't such a bad deal for doug bradford. >> so in the end, what happened in this case was the defendant got his parole 35 years early. he lived a life that he never should have had. the right thing happened, he is in prison today. i don't think he'll ever get out. sometimes that's the best we can do. >> it's been a long journey. it's been a long journey. for 35 years of it always being