and because it occurred in a small, rural county, it triggered a call to the kbi. of investigation, whose special agent dave poe let i welcomed a chance to hear what happened directly from brett seacat himself. >> brett, remember, was in law enforcement himself and understood that the agent needed to hear the whole story, warts and all. >> we interviewed him for approximately 7 1/2 hours. just two cops talking to each other. >> seemed to be forthcoming? >> very forthcoming. >> i just want to talk about what happened. i know there's been a terrible time for you. >> the agent was about to discover that brett was dealing not just with grief but with a heavy burden of guilt, though it took a while to get to that part of the story. >> when we interview people, i want to start at the very beginning and we did. >> brett told them the story of how he met vashti in high school and how he was smitten from the very first moment. >> she was great. she wanted to make everybody happy. she really worked on that. she really cared what people thought about her. almost to the point