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>> right. >> reporter: but, for all their middle of the night questions, the police did not arrest tom, nor charge him with anything. >> what were they telling you along the way? >> oh, that they were investigating it. >> reporter: at ashley's funeral, tom was one of the speakers. >> ashley doesn't have much patience. >> reporter: and what he said wasn't the sort of thing people expected to hear. >> she goes, "i don't care when you do it, where you do it, i want it now." >> reporter: it was an unusual and frankly not emotional eulogy, for reasons only tom might understand. but her parents were...

>> it's a hell of an accusation to make though. >> it is. it is strong, but that is how we feel. >> reporter: mind you, the evans police department strongly disagreed. both the coroner and the crime scene investigator issued reports concluding ashley's death was indeed suicide. and remember, tom told the police she had expressed suicidal thoughts before. she had two close relatives who'd taken their own lives. investigators found prescription psychotropic drugs in ashley's purse and nightstand, which tom told them she quit cold turkey without medical supervision when she learned she was pregna...

Dangerous condition called hydrocephalus which causes life threatening fluid buildup in the brain. >> she talked about it a lot. >> reporter: did she? >> yeah. but i didn't get the impression that she felt burdened by it, by any means. like, i felt like she -- i mean, that was the cards that she was dealt. >> reporter: well, in fact, she embraced the challenge, said ashley's mom jenna, became a public advocate. >> this is our son, and he is the face of hydrocephalus. >> she went to washington, d.c. in the fall of 2011 to speak before congress for funding for hydrocephalus. so she had a full pl...

Bedroom, ashley was alive, but the wounds to her head were catastrophic. the police body camera shows officers kneeling on the floor trying to stabilize her condition. >> alright grab that >> paramedics went in. and they made a decision to do what's -- we call a load and go, which means they're not going to spend any time doing life support stuff. >> get her on the cot and get her out and go. reporter: ashley's mom, jenna, huddled with her grandchildren in a neighboring bedroom, listened to it all through a closed door. >> is there any way to describe what it was -- what's it -- what it's like...

Iris eytan, was very emotional. but ashley's parents, they -- they left the courtroom fairly quickly. >> reporter: ashley's parents declined to talk with dateline after the verdict, but their legal battles are far from over. in 2015, they filed a civil lawsuit against several employees of the evans police department and the weld county sheriff's office who they believe falsified, altered, and omitted key evidence to make ashley's death look like a suicide. and despite the verdict, they currently have no plans to drop it. >> what about ashley's family? can they just accept this, and go on? >> i...