and that's pretty much where the whole mysterious story of pamela butler stayed-- in limbo. that haunted me for years. that picture of her in the the purple dress is emblazoned in my mind. you knew something was wrong. you knew something bad had happened. your daughter will be remembered every day. dennis murphy (voiceover): on the first anniversary of pam's disappearance, derrick held a vigil, attended by family and pam's closest friends. and as the years passed, there were more vigils. i will tell you, they were very, very painful because you're standing in front of her house. you're reliving the whole scenario. dennis murphy (voiceover): detective credle attended the vigils, too, and he kept searching for clues, sometimes spending hours late at night outside pam's home. mitch credle: a long time ago, when i first joined homicide, my sergeant said, you spend enough time on a crime scene to start talking to you. what was this one telling you? here you are in the dark, years later. mitch credle: at night, watching the house, there is no late dog walkers. there is no one jogg

investigators the location of pam butler's remains in the median of interstate 95, that jogged a distant memory over in virginia. when they were on the scene searching for pamela's south from there, they had found some other remains. dennis murphy (voiceover): a state trooper recalled that in 1991, nearly 20 years before pam butler was murdered, civil war relic hunters turned up another body six miles south in the median of i-95. dennis murphy: so instead of a shell casing or a button from a jacket, they found a murdered woman. they found the remains. so they immediately called the police. dennis murphy (voiceover): back in 1991, there was no good way to identify the woman's sparse remains. so she was listed as a jane doe. but the detectives had a hunch. could she be marta? the first thing that came to mind-- have you guys submitted dna for testing. the detectives obtained a dna sample from hadsell, jose, and marta son. they sent it off for comparison with a sample extracted from the remains of the jane doe. and at that point, your phone rings? we have a match. and your dna turns out to be marta rodriguez. rosa ortiz: i couldn't believe it. and this is where the

. >> host: pamela toler, that first meeting with butler took place at the hotel kaiser, but the hotel in your story. why? >> guest: it was the initial club for foreign correspondents. and it was where they found out, they met with politicians, when she first was hired because she grew up in a time and a social class in which respectable women didn't travel to bars unattended. they needed to be chaperoned by their father or their husband or a brother or a fiancÉ but she knew she could not avoid that. she needed to go into that bar and act like one of the boys. at the same time she knew she couldn't match most of the men drink for drink and she was a small woman, barely 5 foot 2, almost underweight. world war i had been a hungry place. she was down to skin and bones. she made a deal with the bartender. orange juice based cocktail. he got orange juice with a heavy dose of clear alcohol the bartender opened at the time. she created this illusion that she was a hard drinking newspaperman and that was her preferred term, newspaperman but the idea of getting a drink. >> host: you report abou