Toni Hartzong

For Bob Hartzong and his loved ones, the verdict brings not only relief, but vindication.

It's impossible for the kind of person that I am.

You can't imagine what it's like to spend 24 months in jail and finally be free for something that you didn't do, for losing somebody in your life that was more important to you than air.

And here I am, I'm gonna live.

But the jurors say the verdict does not reflect what they truly believe about Bob Hartsong.

Out of 12 jurors, 10, 11 of us, if not all of us believed he did it.

You're saying that Bob Hartsong got away with murder?

Yes, I am.

And for foreman Tony Alberto, that inconclusive DNA on the palm was what turned this case around.

If it had been his blood, there is no way, no way that I would have entered a not guilty verdict.

Thank you for listening to me.

The jurors say it's the state's fault that Bob Hartsong isn't going to prison.

The state didn't have enough case against them.

That's why we couldn't do our job and convict them.

For Tony's family, the verdict is a mixed bag.

In your heart of hearts, do you think Bob Hartzong killed Tony?

I'm not completely unhappy with the result.

He gets to go back to his kids.

I don't know the answer.

Listen, what my sister would have wanted for her children is more important than my instinct to a vendetta.