physical evidence that we have located, we anticipate dismissing the charges against roger and pam mortensenrow. >> roger and pam were finally freed. >> those 4 1/2 months seemed like 4 1/2 thousand years. i felt like i was in there forever. >> pam got a standing ovation from an unlikely crowd. >> as i was walking out of that big dorm area, there was 90 women clapping and cheering for me. they knew i was innocent. and for me having the situation that i've dealt with with roger's family turning against us, friends turning against us, to have that support of those people that people would consider criminals, to have them cheer and yell and scream was a very emotional thing for me. >> pam wanted the prosecutor to issue a public apology. that would help make up for what all this has cost them, she said. we offered the prosecutor this forum. >> am i sorry? yeah, i am. i have no problem with saying that i made a mistake. we didn't try to defraud anyone. we didn't try to lie. we didn't try to fabricate anything. but we made a mistake. >> pam and roger filed a lawsuit, arguing that the prosecutors a

pam stopped talking. and the lopsided rift in the mortensen family widened. to anger to outright accusation. chris andress, the woman darla called the night of the murder, was one of very few people who continued to support roger and pam. >> they were left to hang out and dry. >> how did you feel about that? >> so angry. i was just so, so angry. i couldn't believe that you could love somebody and do that to them. even if i thought roger had done it, i would not have abandoned him. >> and they did? >> absolutely they did. not only did they abandon him, they crucified him. >> months dragged by. roger and pam were headline news in utah. but in the absence of definitive physical evidence linking them to kay's murder, they remained free. day by day they went about their business, as if their lives were still quite normal. then on july 28th, 2010 utah county prosecutor tim taylor took a dramatic step to break the logjam. he presented the case against roger and pam to a grand jury. >> so why call the grand jury? why not just charge them? >> we thought the grand jury

physical evidence that we have located, we anticipate dismissing the charges against roger and pam mortenseninally freed. >> those four and a half months seemed like four and a half thousand years. i felt like i was in there forever. >> reporter: pam got a standing ovation from an unlikely crowd. >> as i was walking out of that big, dorm area, there was 90 women clapping and cheering for me. they knew i was innocent and, for me, having the situation that i -- that i've -- we dealt with, with roger's family turning against us, friends turning against us. to have that support of those people that people would consider criminals. to have them cheer and -- and yell and scream was a very emotional thing for me. >> reporter: pam wanted the prosecutor to issue a public apology. that would help make up for what all this has cost them, she said. we offered the prosecutor this forum. >> can you sit here, in this very public place, on television, in front of the country, and apologize to pam and roger? >> you know what, apologizing on tv really doesn't mean anything. that very first meeting, when we we