worth of things to say to this person. >> i still to this day don't understand myself. >> dennis earl bradford was in the county jail awaiting trial. i get a phone call in the middle of the night that woke me up and said dennis earl bradford had committed suicide and hung himself in his jail cell. >> all the work that we'd put together to give jennifer her day in court was just gone, so we had to decide what would be the best way to tell jennifer. >> not knowing if this information was going to be in the news in the morning, richard and i decided probably need to call her as soon as possible on the phone and let her know what had happened. it was not a good phone call. >> when he was arrested, the first thing that i said after they told me they arrested him was, "please don't let him kill himself." >> there was just crying and screaming on the other end of the phone. she didn't want to believe it. i... most i could do was just tell her i was sorry. >> and the only thing that i can describe is devastation. i felt like everything that i had worked so hard for was just ripped away from me in an i

worth of things to say to this person. >> i still to this day don't understand myself. >> dennis earl bradford was in the county jail awaiting trial. i get a phone call in the middle of the night that woke me up and said dennis earl bradford had committed suicide and hung himself in his jail cell. >> all the work that we'd put together to give jennifer her day in court was just gone, so we had to decide what would be the best way to tell jennifer. >> not knowing if this information was going to be in the news in the morning, richard and i decided probably need to call her as soon as possible on the phone and let her know what had happened. it was not a good phone call. >> when he was arrested, the first thing that i said after they told me they arrested him was, "please don't let him kill himself." >> there was just crying and screaming on the other end of the phone. she didn't want to believe it. i... most i could do was just tell her i was sorry. >> and the only thing that i can describe is devastation. i felt like everything that i had worked so hard for was just ripped away from me in an i

. >> reporter: the dna matched a convicted kidnapper named dennis earl bradford, just as jennifer hadis earl bradford's driver's license photo, it was another perfect match. >> it was the most surreal moment of my life. >> chilling, right? >> oh, my god. >> it's amazing she can talk so articulately about it. and then to think of the horror she went through. normally time w in a case like this. >> usually time is the enemy. but not here. it actually worked for them because there were advances in dna technology. here's the other rub. he attacked someone else, he kidnapped someone else, he went to jail for someone else. that's why he was in the files and that's why they got the hit. >> how is she today? >> she is just fine. she has two beautiful children, she is very happily married -- >> imagine living with this for 27 years. >> but she has managed to work through it because every day of her life she imagined getting her day in the court, looking this man in the eye and telling him you did this to me and >> the question is did she get justice? >> and that's called a tease. >> you can se