louisville, kentucky, had questions about what happened, so they hired a civil attorney named steve keeney to help them get answers. >> i wish the coroner had done a better job. i don't know what california standards are, but you would think that california would be closer to the cutting edge. this was far behind the cutting edge. and those responsibilities made it very difficult to show with any certainty to the insurance company or to a court or anyone else exactly what the cause of death here was. >> what troubled keeney were the photographs taken of donna shortly before her death. they told a story that was much different from the mcginnises' account. >>> local authorities took no photographs at the scene of donna hartman's fatal fall because rescue workers believed it was an accident. so investigators asked donna's traveling companions, virginia and b.j. mcginnis, for a copy of the photos they took that day. >> they're using a disc camera, which has a rigid film on a circle. so we know the sequence of the photographs where they were taken. >> early in the sequence, donna appears happy