so in october, 2005, mike o'keefe met with d.a. robert foltz, and brought along his powerpoint presentation, featuring all those edited clips of jennings' statements. >> they had everything very carefully kind of sifted down to what they felt was the important things to consider. >> so they goosed it? >> they goosed it. i thought it was compelling. >> reporter: and, several days later -- >> i decided that as problematic as the case was, it was not an impossible feat to get this case so, i filed it. >> reporter: by then, though, the man at the center of it all, ray jennings, was nowhere near the antelope valley. jennings, the national guardsman, was halfway around the world. >> i was selected to go to iraq. and -- and that's how i ended up in iraq. >> did you have any idea while you were in iraq that you were still a suspect? >> as far as actually looking to -- press charges or issue any type of warrants for anything, i -- i was -- you know, unaware of these things. >> reporter: but his has he'd soon be back in the antelope valley,

and he huddled with mike o'keefe to ferret through every frame of those videotaped interviews with jennings. >> you did not see or talk to any human being. >> reporter: but as jeffra analyzed all those police reports and the hours and hours of videotape, he noticed what seemed like the same inconsistencies in ray jennings' story, and came to the very same conclusion as all the other investigators. that jennings didn't see things he should have seen, but knew things an innocent man shouldn't have known. >> he is telling a story that just doesn't add up in these videos. even a .22. >> he had to have been there. >> he just knew too much. >> he knew what the top forensic investigator in the united states took over a month to figure out. >> reporter: and after completing their investigation. >> there was no doubt in my mind, just no doubt. i think he killed michelle. ? >> reporter: but jeffra's analysis wasn't much different from what homicide detectives were already thinking. yet, another opinion fingering jennings wasn't going to charges, unless there was some new evidence. but then they had a