they listened to an audio cassette of her interview with ed barakovich.stigator with the district attorney's office. donna stuck to her story about how they'd taken michelle to mike's mother's home while the rest of the family relocated. but she also tried to explain away rich jr.'s claim that he'd overheard her one night using the words michelle and dead in the same sentence. >> he at one time said that he had overheard me saying that she was dead. >> that he overheard you say that? >> yes, that he heard me say this. >> okay. >> and i said, well, i disagreed with him. >> okay. >> as far as i was concerned because of the length of time, that she was dead. because i'm not -- i was not going to go through anything that was not going to -- >> why would you say she was dead? >> no, no, i didn't say that. i said she was dead to me, because i was not bringing her into my life. >> donna also defended her seeming indifference to what had happened to her own dghter. >> it's hard to believe that you never, ever, and you know, after all these years without your daug