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Formally trained in forensic science, he couldn't believe the coroner's report. >> i was sick to my stomach when i heard those words come out of his mouth, 'cause i thought i was at a dead end now. i was not comfortable with it at all. but to be honest with you, i was tore up inside. i couldn't even sleep that night. >> snyder was bothered because this accident didn't seem bad enough to have caused a fatality, as he had seen in so many other accidents. >> i've been to accidents like that where people -- actually, their head had went clean through the windshield and they're speaking to me when ...

He got a call about a traffic accident on route 95 outside of princeton, minnesota. >> it was maybe ten miles from my house, so i said i would do it. >> when snyder arrived, he saw that there had been a two-vehicle accident. apparently, a jeep collided with an abandoned car that had broken down and was parked on the side of the highway. >> when i was met by the deputy, he informed me that one person is deceased, the female passenger in the red jeep, and the other vehicle that was struck was unoccupied. i could see the ambulance personnel working on a male who was covered in blood and he was sc...

He and deborah had been shopping and were heading home when the accident occurred. so snyder checked steve's story by reviewing the videos taken by the store's security cameras. they show the hollermans at the store that night, but they left several hours earlier than steve claimed. >> the last store he left was around 7:30 p.m., and i got the call to come to the crash at 10:00 p.m., so there's quite a bit of time missing to drive 18 or 20 miles. >> in addition, the items the hollermans bought at the store weren't in the jeep at the time of the accident. so where were the hollerman's between 8...

This figured out. i was running into a lot of dead ends. >> since the original autopsy ruled deborah's death as accidental, snyder asked dr. janice amatuzio for a second opinion. >> as i looked of those photographs of the vehicle, which i had not seen before that, and i looked at the injuries and i said there's something we don't know here. i think this case deserves more investigation. there's way too much blood inside the vehicle. >> dr. amatuzio wanted to examine the hollerman's jeep herself. >> because, let's face it, steve hollerman's future was at stake here and the truth about deborah h...

My house, so i said i would do it. >> when snyder arrived, he saw that there had been a two-vehicle accident. apparently, a jeep collided with an abandoned car that had broken down and was parked on the side of the highway. >> when i was met by the deputy, he informed me that one person is deceased, the female passenger in the red jeep, and the other vehicle that was struck was unoccupied. i could see the ambulance personnel working on a male who was covered in blood and he was screaming. the jeep driver, steve hollerman, was rushed to a nearby hospital. steve's passenger, his 41-year-old wife...