Blaine Alexander

And I would just be, you know, sitting out in the lobby twiddling my thumbs.

So you remember this from a teen's perspective of your parents, just the frustration.

The frustration, the anger, the feeling of helplessness that...

They couldn't do anything for Tara anymore.

This is all that they could do.

The investigation was constantly changing hands, and to the family, no one seemed to be in charge.

Kevin went from a little boy to a young teen watching investigators come and go.

You hit a wall, and then a new team starts over and said, okay, well, we'll figure it out.

Well, we're going to start at the beginning.

Virginia says some of the information they did get in those first few years was bizarre and flat out wrong.

The...

Police came to my house and demonstrated how somebody had snuck up behind her.

And one pretended to be Tara and the other was, you know, the culprit and pretended how she was, her throat was cut from behind.

And so she died quickly.

They demonstrated this?

They demonstrated that in my living room.

It was a twisted game of charades.

So officers were acting out for your family what they believe happened?

Mm-hmm.

to my mother, and then later walked it back.