but one who did believe in her innocence was her attorney jim irvin. >> everybody rushed to judgmentreporter: the way jim irvin saw it, the prosecution's case agt circumstantial one that hinged on a bunch of theories as to motive. >> what always bothered me about this case, when you look at the gunpowder residue, there was none on bambi. >> reporter: he said that one bit of hard evidence detectives thought they had against bambi, what they thought was blood on her boot, turned out to be nothing. >> the detective said, we got her. the dna on this boot's going to belong to one of the two people. they couldn't even say it was dna. >> reporter: as for the polygraph test detectives said bambi failed to pass, according to irvin, those results were suspicious. >> the last question they asked her, have you told me everything you know about this case? if i asked a detective that same question, he couldn't pass it either. it's just too broad a question. >> reporter: bambi sat in jail for six months. they were hoping she'd flip and tell them the story. >> that's exactly what they were hoping. >