you need to send me all the information on angela samota's case.talk to the detective, and i need you to tell me, you know, what has been done, what hasn't been done. where's the information, where's the evidence? all of that. it wasn't well received at all. but they met with you to talk about the case? no, no. they gave you the evidence? no. no. they gave you regular updates? no. no, no, no. nothing. it doesn't sound to me like it helped to be a private eye. it did not. so after finding out they were not going to welcome me into the investigation, i started making phone calls to them. and the first 50 phone calls went to the lead detective who had been moved to traffic. got nowhere with him. and finally, one day six months into it, i talked to a receptionist who said, he's in retirement. he's not even working traffic. wait a minute. you left 50 messages in one month? [laughs] yes. i'm a little obsessive. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): sheila's persistence paid off. she eventually was put in touch with the investigator looking at cold cases, a woman