. >> rorter: mary martino was running what was left of buffalo's a & a office just then.ess. massive laoffs. 200 jobs lost. by the time nebraska cops started calling, mary was one of only three people lft to clean up the buffalo office and close it down. and now, here was this investigator asking mary to track down a ring the company likely shipped years ago. and yo said what? you got to be kidding? >> i said that's like looking for a needle in a haystack. however, she mentioned homicide. >> reporter: and that's when mary martino heard about the ring and the double homicide and the fact that nobody else at the company seemed able to help. >> she said she had made several attem attempts and no one was willing to assist her. >> reporter: mary martino said she'd see at she could do. certainly her company would have taken the order, made the ring, inscribed it "love always, cori and ryan" and shipped it, but where? mary went to the warehouse where tens of thousands of back orders were kept. >> so i startedwith just box number one, stores 1 through 25. then box number two, sto