Rick Hadle

But she was working for the U.S.

government, for the agency, working on communications for them.

Memories of the Cold War were still fresh.

It could turn into an espionage investigation, for example, if you have missing classified information and somebody's going over helping the Russians, the Chinese, somebody like that.

It could theoretically turn into that kind of a case.

So here it is now, January 2002.

I'm a squad supervisor now.

I'm the guy that assigns the cases instead of investigating them.

And I'm talking with an agent, and I said, Tony, how about reopening this case as an assault on a federal officer case?

All just because you never stopped thinking about it.

Exactly.

I just didn't like the fact that you've got a woman who's given her life, dedicated to the government, murdered, and just lying out there because nobody cares.

And so I thought, well, let's give it another shot.

Technology advances so quickly that in 2002, I said to Tony Vasley, hey, maybe there's fingernail scrapings.

Maybe there's something of that nature.

In fact, there were fingernail scrapings in this case.