randy's brother, state trooper rory steidl, believed randy was guilty. randy's mother wanted to see for herself, so she visited him behind bars. >> you see your mother's eyes, tears streaming down her cheeks. sets down. she said, you look at me right now. did you have anything to do with t this at all? i looked at her right in her eyes, and i said, mom, i've done some bad things in my life, but i've never done anything like this. you know i'm not capable of doing anything like this. as soon as i got that out of my mouth, she was up and out of this visiting booth, slammed the door. >> and when we left, she said, he didn't do that, rory. i said, well, how do you know? she said, by the way he answered my question. i looked him right in the eye. i know when he's lying to me. >> despite their mother's belief in randy's innocence, only hard evidence could shake rory's faith in the system. that evidence was about to come from an unlikely source. >> my epiphany came when i got the call from randy's attorney that said, i just received a letter from debbie reinbol