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To each of them, i want you to know personally that your service mattered. >> it matters hearing that from him in this moment. my next guest has written a piece for cnn.com saying, my dad died serving in afghanistan. i'm sad and angry, and you should be, too. omni sergeant first class james was killed by a road side bomb in afghanistan during his fourth tour of duty there. that was 2005. just look at those pictures. his son nick joins me now. he is also the chief investigative reporter at wbtv in charlotte, north carolina. nick, thank you, and i'm so sorry. >> thank you. thank you for having m...

Joy of their lives through the testimony of friends and loved ones. >> i'm thinking of what i'm going to say at the funeral now. and i just want to emphasize they were so cool. people would -- when i was younger my friends would come over and i felt like they were coming over to hang out with my parents. >> they were so cool. >> 7-year-old stella and her mother were in the condo with three other family members when it collapsed. stella's baby sitter said she was a quiet girl who was very close with her mother. stella's father is a miami firefighter. her grandparents also died in the collapse. ...

>> i love to travel by train. >> oh, yeah? what do you think this is, a class trip? >> are you always this angry? >> this is just temporary until we find the owner. >> the next generation would get to know him as the father in "beethoven." ♪ roll over beethoven ♪ >> no, no, no! no! >> a frequent guest on "late night." getting his own late night show. his dry wit. >> as i see it, my major problem is, you know, a lot of people hate me. >> tonight, charles grodin's son nick revealing his father has died of bone marrow cancer. remembering him as a loving father, for his talent, his advocacy, f...

To a dna lab in texas and waited. >> it was almost 15 years late whern the call came in and there was a match. >> they have identified his hair. him and only him to the exclusion of all others on the dead body of carmen smith at the time she was found. >> you had your smoking gun? >> absolutely. >> i got a call. i was very happy but it was hard for me to have to go back and tell the stories. >> she dreaded the thought of testifying in open court in front of daker but she knew there would be no avoiding it. he was arrested and charged with murdering carmen smith and stabbing her son nick. his t...

It was sent to the crime lab for analysis. >> the lab test kept coming back without the physical evidence that we needed that linked him to the dead body of carmen smith. that's when we knew that it may always be a circumstantial case. >> and the circumstantial part of the case was too weak to make an arrest. prosecutors still believed he was the only viable suspect in carmen smith's murder and the stabbing of her son nick but they didn't have the evidence to prove it. the investigation stalled. >> so he walked away from the murder. >> he walked away from the murder but not accountability. the...