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And again, we got no response. but hours later, ruby burdette did. >> he came in. he said he was an investigator. he introduce himself. we sit at the dining room table and he started talking. he -- he told me he apologize for no one coming out before now. and he -- he told me that the first investigator they had didn't do anything. he said he was the one that hoped, you know, to see this thing come toon end. he said he would, you know, if anything -- if anyone could be found, he was gonna find them. >> reporter: she doesn't know why now, why it took so long and why, for three and a half years,...

In november of 2009, purdet's body was found on this site. the autopsy revealed multiple injuries consistent with being hit by a vehicle. for three years, there's been nothing more than this simple one-page incident report about what happened. no one in the sheriff's department ever bothered to do anything else. >> did they ever come up and down these streets handing out flyers, knocking on doors, asking people if they seen anything? >> no, not over this way. >> do you know of any activity that way? >> no, no one said anything. >> so how do you know they're investigating? >> well, they had put...

Looking for it. ruby burdette never misses it. she put it here three and a half years ago to mark the spot her son died and a mystery began. they know he was hit by a car? >> yes, that's what they say. >> did they ever find who drove that car? >> no. >> do you feel that they did an adequate investigation to find who did that? >> i don't really -- i can't say because they say they still investigating. i don't know. no one relates to me anything. >> they are still investigating? >> yeah. >> reporter: garrick burdette was 41, he walked wherever he went, in rural panola county that can be dangerou...

These streets, handing out fliers, knocking on doors, asking if they had seen anything? >> no, not out this way. >> you know in of any activity that way? >> no, no one said anything. >> so, how do you know they are investigating? >> well, they had put it on the paper, you know, when they found him dead and then they had put on there, and then they wrote it in the newspaper, they said there was a -- it was still being investigated. >> reporter: ruby burdette's hope rests in this one small news article from three years ago that says police are still investigating. cnn has learned they never real...

No one in the pinola sheriff's department offered to do anything else did they come down these streets, handing out fliers, new yorking on doors, asking if they had seen anything? >> no, not out this way. >> you know in of any activity that way? >> no, no one said anything. >> so, how do you know they are investigating? >> well, they had put it on the paper, you know, when they found him dead and then they had put on there, and then they wrote it in the newspaper, they said there was a -- it was still being investigated. >> reporter: ruby burdette's hope rests in this one small news article fr...