. >> candice shipman was working the bar. she said the altercation was minor. >> it got a little loud. they quit. and it seemed okay. normal stuff that happened in a bar. >> several patrons said freeman left about 20 minutes before laura did. and his parents said he came home a short time later and stayed there the rest of the night. investigators learned there was another man in the bar that night, laura's ex-boyfriend, robert mcswain. >> she loved him. she was just smitten. he could do no wrong. it was an on again/off again relationship. >> friends said laura hoped to marry robert. but he wasn't interested. mcswain said he went directly home from the bar on the night of the murder. and family members backed up his alibi. >> he stayed at the house the rest of the night. never left. and his mother and sister were there also at that time. >> police, now, were at a dead end. no one else at the bar that night matched the general description of the man presumed to be the killer. >> it was a hurt that there was just no closure to