janice? >> a few minutes later, a neighbor stopped by the johnson's home. he discovered janice at the bottom of the stairs. she was bloody and unconscious but still alive. clayton heard the news when he arrived at work and rushed to the hospital. >> when i first seen her, i didn't recognize her because of like all the tubes and the swelling. i'd look almost twice to realize it was her. and it was just -- just one of those things you don't want to see every day. >> janice had sustained severe head injuries from what was assumed to be an accidental fall down the basement steps. despite the best of medical treatment, janice died of her head wounds several hours later. she was just 35 years old. >> i think it was the first time i had ever seen my father cry. my first reaction was that it wasn't -- it wasn't real, like you want to believe it didn't happen. >> that's one of the hardest things i've ever done in my life, is to tell the two girls that their mother passed away. >> the small community of shelburne rallied around clayton johnson and his two daughters as

vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> on the morning of february 20th, 1989, something terrible happened to janice johnson >> claire, i've got to go. i'll talk to you later, okay? >> the investigation into that morning's events would raise questions that persist to this day. >>> clayton and janice johnson lived in the tiny coastal fishing village of shelburne,