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>> i'm going to take you with me, step-by-step in my investigation. >> the podcast was a finalist for the pulitzer prize, but shapearl is not sure the people she really wants to hear her are listening. >> i have no faith in chicago police department that they will solve my son's murder. >> so your mission is not over? >> no. i will keep fighting for courtney until my last breath, until they bring me a convicted murderer. >> you know that won't even the scales. >> no. but i feel like my son deserves justice. >> that's all for this edition

There are no drugs in his system, the police review later said traumatic shock made him combative. a spokesman for the paramedics told us courtney was handcuffed for medical reasons and he was not in custody. they are claiming that people who are experiencing trauma sometimes fight because they're frantic. >> handcuffing is not something that is normal, even if the person is violent and agitated. >> we check that with several experts who trained paramedics. they told us that while gunshot victims do sometimes need to be restrained for their own safety, it is unusual for any patient to arrive a...

A department that had unprotected courtney, or served her. she went to meet with the cpd again and once again she was recording. by this time her relationship with detectives had deteriorated. and she challenged them on their record. >> you only have a 26% murder solve rate in the city of chicago. >> you know people can talk about the police department as far as that goes, but it's the community that's failing here. >> the sergeant said his detectives had been working courtney's case hard. >> somebody knows what happened here and they're not coming forward. i mean, we get spit on, we get kicke...

In spite of the reassuring words about working the case into out it looked as if they had never set up interviews with any of courtney's friends. you understand that in this country there is almost no family of any homicide victim who believes that the police are doing enough. everybody wants to see more of an effort? >> but, i don't think they're a lot of families who have access to the evidence that i had. >> after months investigating her son's case, getting her hands on those reports, recording her interactions with police and walking the neighborhood, shapearl wells had teamed up with and...

>> and he was like, man, you know i just darted reading this book i'm writing all the things that i want to accomplish in my life. he was just so happy. >> chris says courtney was headed home, so how did he end up in northwest chicago? >> you know, i started asking who lives there? who do we know that lives there? why would he be there? >> finally someone at the hospital put two and two together. that neighborhood was where alma lived. >> and i remember his cousin saying who's alma? where she? >> she's walking in and she says that's me what's going on? >> that's how shapearl learned that corde...