one of them was reuben mankin of the texas rangers. >> my initial observation was just from coming inhrough the foyer was -- that it was a clean house. then i made a beeline for the -- the laundry room, which was -- >> reporter: wait one sec. "clean" meaning didn't look like she'd interrupted a burglary? >> that's correct. that's correct. >> reporter: i mean, there was no stuff missing, drawers pulled open? >> right. >> reporter: something else was telling -- on the floor of the garage was anna's purse, which still held $300. and nothing else seemed to be missing, except anna's car. ranger mankin surveyed the scene with lead detective brian tschudy. >> that's when we notice some shell casings in the garage. um, just multiple shell casings. >> reporter: the casings easily identified the murder weapon as a .22 -- and a careful look at anna's body told them a little more. >> i observed her to be lyin' on her back. she was heavily clothed -- still wearin', you know, her jacket and a couple of scarves. i -- i saw what appeared to be a bullet hole in her -- in her scarf that was wrapped aro

they had one competitor at the time, mankin was the editor and it was the smart set where they said, reader is worth a thousand boneheads. [laughter] >> well, smart set especial especially-- eventually went out of business and they had a friendly rivalry between them. and george mason who worked at smartset ended up working at "vanity fair" after it closed. conde believed in hiring the best people no matter what. it didn't matter whether they were gay, lesbian, jewish, catholic, whatever, black, it didn't matter. what mattered was talent. it didn't matter if they were known. so he hired a girl called dorothy rothchild to write captions for vogue. the one that caught frank's high is brevity is the soul of lingerie. she kept dropping poems on frank's test to transfer from little old vogue into "vanity fair." finally he agreed to take her on. he then also wanted to take on somebody to make the "vanity fair" articles more substantial, so he brought on the chap in the middle, a guy called robert benchley he was actually one of the funniest people i've read about and i've read his own biog