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Do you think somewhere in there is the nugget that's going to get you to the next step in this investigation? >> i think at minimum we need to redo it just to see if technology had advanced. so i needed a new forensic guy to look at the video or whatever else he can find on the computer. >> reporter: turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an i.t. guy before joining the police force. >> richter just came down and said, hey, you mind taking a look at this? so i start looking for what we call low-hanging fruit. what's easily available? that was wh...

Took another look at matt leili's computer hard drives. do you think somewhere in there is the nugget that will get you to the next step in the investigation? >> i think at the minimum we needed to redo it to see if technology had advanced. so i needed new forensic guys to look at the video, or whatever else he could find on the computer. >> turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an i.t. guy before joining the police force. >> richter came down and said, hey, do you mind taking a look at this? i start looking for what we call low-hanging fruit....

>> i was actually in the homicide unit as a corporal when her body was found. >> does that stay with you? >> yeah, i would say that certain cases that stick with you. and this is one. >> at first richter did what all cold case detectives do. he re-interviewed witnesses. when that went nowhere, richter took another look at matt leili's computer hard drives. do you think somewhere in there is the nugget that will get you to the next step in the investigation? >> i think at the minimum we needed to redo it to see if technology had advanced. so i needed new forensic guys to look at the video, or w...

In this investigation? i think at minimum we need to redo it, just to see if technology had advanced. so i needed a new forensic guy to look at the video, or whatever else he can find on the computer. dennis murphy: turns out the techie richter needed was just down the hall. corporal chris ford had been an it guy before joining the police force. richter just came down and said hey, do you mind taking a look at this? so i start looking for what we call low hanging fruit, what's easily available. and that's where i really started digging through and finding all these audio files. dennis murphy: ...

He was to set up a skype account so that we could talk with the girls. nothing. packed up. moved. >> five months later in the summer of 2012, the investigative file passed to cold case detective sergeant john richter. >> i was actually in the homicide unit as a corporal when her body was found. >> does that stay with you? >> yeah, i would say that certain cases that stick with you. and this is one. >> at first richter did what all cold case detectives do. he re-interviewed witnesses. when that went nowhere, richter took another look at matt leili's computer hard drives. do you think somewhere ...