but alissa can't establish when that butt was left there.ave been days or even weeks before. >> and so i tried as hard as i could to find out who really did this. and never could definitively say it was one person or another. but i did in that process gather enough evidence to show that kim definitively could not have done it. >> reporter: she started with the core of the prosecution's case, the credibility of jeff dills. remember, he's the dead man talking, the biker friend kim hooked up with that fateful night. >> a man who had died before trial. a man who had never been cross-examined thoroughly about this timeline. about how much he drank. about his motivation to distance himself from kim because he was afraid the tops were going to blame the murder on him. >> reporter: dills told the cops he dropped kim off between 1:20 and 1:30 a.m. the 911 call came in at 2:09. prosecutors asserted that ozzy was killed during that window. but in death ozzy's body held clues which might refute that. details that suggest he may have been killed before k

officer and mom to 4-year-old grady still getting to know her sister jenna and biological mother alissaondered for 37 years if she would ever be reunited with the child she gave up when she was 18. >> a roller coaster of all kinds of emotions. all the pain of, you know, when i put megan up for adoption came out, but then all the joy of her finding me. >> new jersey's new law unsealing adoption records made it possible less than two weeks after a copy of megan's original birth certificate came in the mail last month. she and grady were meeting their newfound relatives in north carolina, a state where they now live. >> it was just hugs and tears, and it wasn't like meeting strangers. >> but there has been a few surprises. megan lives in surf city, new jersey. turns out home for center jenna is just outside surf city, north carolina. >> everyone is connected. >> megan's quest for answers was mainly driven by hopes of filling in her family's medical history. her adoptive parents cathy and jim cochran constantly encouraging and supportive. >> i would never deny her the right to find out her

the article ends with a few paragraphs about alissa hurd, the advocate described in the beginning of the story. after enrolling her son in two more schools that didn't work, she found a small start-up school that has strategies for helping judah compensate for his adhd. he had to repeat the third grade but has rocketed ahead. now he talks about becoming a scientist. the realization that better is possible has redoubled hurd's willingness to make the trek to lansing and often -- as often as parents' voices need to be heard. quote -- who are these people making the decisions, and why aren't they in the schools? why can't we know. why can't you just be accountable to the people that you are serving? now, during the confirmation hearing, senator bennet, whom i greatly admire, who is a former superintendent of the denver public school district, asked mrs. devos how the policy failures in detroit might inform her leadership of the d.o.e. she replied i think there is a lot that has gone right. senator patty murray, a former school board president, asked of mrs. devos with promise not to pri