j.b. hardeman, the man seen leaving the parking lot in a hurry just minutes before vicky was found. >> i was leaving. my wife got me some chicken so i went by the chicken place got me a box of chicken. come back down there and they were running the papers, i got me a paper and take off. >> hardeman was a minister but made his living peddling fish in the back of his truck. police caught up with him in the nearby town of snyder. >> we have a warrant for your arrest. for what? for running over a girl in big spring and leaving the scene of the accident. i don't know a girl in big spring. >> snyder police put hardeman in a jail cell where he overheard officers talking on the phone. >> after talking to the police, he told me he couldn't find anything but one spot of blood. that kind of shook me up. >> after almost three weeks in a coma, vicky, who regained consciousness, she suffered severe damage to her skull and one eye. she could not walk or even speak. as time went by, vicky's condition slowly improved. one day, crystal took vicky to the newspaper office to see everyone who had been concerned