one of the first to hear the awful news was michelle's brother, sheriff's deputy scott o'connell. >> your sister michelle has passed away. we believe it's suicide. i was in disbelief. shortly thereafter, they asked me to break the news to my mom. >> i asked to go see her and they told me, no, i couldn't. can i just see my daughter? they told me no. i wanted to be there with her. >> soon the extended o'connell family was streaming into their mom's house, crying in disbelief, literally disbelief. some of them even in those early hours weren't buying jeremy banks' suicide story. michelle's sisters, jennifer and christy. >> reason number one why she didn't kill herself? >> the love for her daughter. someone that worked three jobs for her daughter. someone that read countless books on how to be a better mother. single parenting in the new millennia. any book she read it. >> they demanded outside neutral investigative eyes. not the brothers in blue writing up a report on one of their own. >> he goes, i want another agency to take over this. he said -- he was so upset. he was verbally ranti