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They wanted the jury to hear about. they called a former patrol officer to the stand. two days after dana's body was found, he'd stumbled on something a few feet from the place where adkins said he'd turned his car around. >> i found the back side, the back end, whatever, of a pool cue and it appeared to have a substance on it that i thought possibly could have been blood. >> reporter: could a pool cue have been the murder weapon? the prosecutors asked the jury to listen to what adkins had to say about it. >> did you used to have a pool cue that you used to carry in the car? >> well, yeah, i s...

>> for you to say that there was a pool cue down there that -- no, i ain't going for that. no, i didn't do that. she fell out of my car. >> do you know that, in fact, was the pool cue that he carried -- >> we can't say 100%, but circumstantial evidence and coincidence is he goes down to that location, turns around, and, in a field, nearby, a pool cue just happens to show up. >> reporter: so, nearly 34 years on had the prosecution painted a clear enough picture for the jury of what happened that night? >> did they do it in your opinion as you sat there? or were you worried? >> i was a little wo...

Had a possible murder weapon they wanted the jury to hear about. they called a former patrol officer to the stand. two days after dana's body was found, he'd stumbled on something a few feet from the place where adkins said he'd turned his car around. >> i found the back side, the back end, whatever, of a pool cue and it appeared to have a substance on it that i thought possibly could have been blood. >> reporter: could a pool cue have been the murder weapon? the prosecutors asked the jury to listen to what adkins had to say about it. >> did you used to have a pool cue that you used to carry i...

There were probably five different people that got up and sang and played music, and just so many people that really have nothing. but they all pulled together, and whatever they had to offer, they did. >> reporter: vera wondered if her former lover was being targeted because he was a biker. but she says even that doesn't matter. >> whether he's a nice man or whether he's a jerk, the bottom line is there was not enough evidence to accuse this man of this. >> reporter: adkin's defense attorney neil mcelroy couldn't agree more. >> my first instinct when i got the case was, "it's a 1982 case, the...

Three different impacts. do you agree with that opinion? >> no. >> what conclusion can you draw about how these fractures and these injuries were caused? >> one impact on a very hard, flat surface. that's my opinion. >> reporter: dr. spitz said the science showed russell adkins had been telling the truth. dana had hit her head on the road after falling out of a car. and the original autopsy, which identified three small abrasions on her elbows and shoulder, proved that. >> the abrasions were significant to him, that abrasions to the elbows and the abrasions to the elbows and the shoulder are i...