. >> reporter: chris, it is costly to exhume theresa corley's upwards of $20,000, and that is a bill the district attorney's office won't foot. >>it's very frustrating not to have the answers that we've wanted. >> reporter: but now is the time, gerry hood says to bring justice for her sister. >>she was the type of girl that would talk to anybody. >> reporter: it was december 1978, theresa corley left a party at a bar. according to authorities, a group of men picked her up and sexually assaulted her. she was murdered in a ditch along 495. >>it's been 38 years, but i think for her, myself, and my family especially a day like today, thanksgiving, it's like it was yesterday. >> reporter: now the hope is that technology is on their side. hud hopes to exhume her sister's body for one last effort for dna testing. >>when we're being told the one last thing that you could do is to exhume her to see if there could be any trace dna evidence under her a suspect, that's the one thing now that my family is focused on. >> reporter: it's a costly endeavor. that's why the family is hosting a fundrais