attorney charles brunn, who represented rod sinclair, believed something vital might have been missed. >> rod kept saying over and over again, they were in my lane of travel. they were heading right at me. there was nothing i could do but hit the brakes. >> was deputy sinclair telling the truth? rod hired his own investigators to find out and what they would discover would force the highway patrol to reopen their investigation. >>> three secret service agents had been killed in a near head-on collision with a sheriff's patrol car. all the evidence indicated that deputy sheriff rod sinclair was solely to blame. but then, a local photographer, don schneider, was looking at slides of the accident when he discovered a clue the highway patrol had missed, another skid mark. >> it was a surprise to me to see the mark there, because i had not observed the skid mark at the accident site. and i asked the question of the group that was there, hey fellas, what is this? and pointed to the skid mark that i saw on the screen. it was obvious in the matter of discussion a few moments later that this h