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THEY DISCOVERED THEIR DAUGHTER MEGYN PARRA IN HER HOME WITH A GUN SHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD. HER DEATH WAS RULED A SUICIDES. I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THE CASE. STEVE PUSHED FOR ANSWERS GIVEN 100 PHOTOS OF THE SHOOTING SCENE AFTER MONTHS OF STUDYING IMAGES HE AND BETSY BEGAN TO BELIEVE THAT MEGYN WAS MURDERED BUT AUTHORITIES DISAGREED. STATE SHUT YOU DOWN. SHERIFFS SHUT YOU DOWN. UNTIL

A CRIME SCENE ANALYST DISCOVERED WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE IRREFUTABLE PHYSICAL ED ON PARRA WAS WEARING THAT DAY. AFTER HEARING THAT EVIDENCE A GRAND JURY INDICTED PARRA FOR SECOND-DEGREE MURDER IN 2021. BUT IT WAS NOT AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE. PEOPLE THOUGHT WE WERE JUST A GRIEVING FAMILY. AND HE JUST LED US FOR NINE STILL LEADING US -- >> AND JOINING ME NOW WITH MORE IS

DAVID AND DAVID THIS IS SO FASCINATING AND A LOT OF QUESTIONS A LOT TO UNPACK HERE I WANT TO START OFF BY ASKING WHAT WERE THE OBSTACLES IN THIS CASE? FIRST OF ALL YOU HAD AN EXPERT HIRED BY THE FAMILY WHO SAID HEY LISTEN I THINK THERE WAS FOUL PLAY BUT YOU HAVE THE LOUISIANA STATE POLICE SAY WE TOOK A LOOK AT IT WE DON'T THINK

THERE'S FOUL PLAY SO STATE POLICE WAS GOING TESTIFY FOR THE DEFENSE IF IT WENT TO TRIAL SO GET-GO. ANOTHER QUESTION IS WHY WAS MEGYN'S DEATH INITIALLY DECLARED A SUICIDE? J WELL SHE WAS FOUND AT HOME FORCED ENTRY. SO TO SPEAK AND DAY BEFORE RACHEL SHE DROVE OFF THE ROAD AND HIT A TREE SHE WAS IN A CAR BY HERSELF. SO WHEN YOU TAKE ALL OF THAT

INTO ACCOUNT THE YOUNG OFFICER STARTED INVESTIGATING THE SHOOTING SAID I THINK IT IS A SUICIDE TWO DAYS OF INVESTIGATING WROTE A ONE PAGE WALKED AWAY. KEY FACTORS IN THE CASE HOW DID THE FAMILY GET AHOLD OF THE PHOTOS? THEY FOUND OUT OFFICER WHO TOOK THE PHOTOS STILL HAD THEM. AND SO THEY CALLED HIM AND HE WAS LIKE I KEPT THE COPY BECAUSE I WAS A LITTLE

SUSPICIOUS. AND SO THEY WENT TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO GET THE PHOTOS AND CIVILIAN INVESTIGATION YOU TO UNDERSTAND IN ALL OF THE YEARS F REPORTING YOU MAY HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT THE SHERIFF, THE CORONER, D.A. NOBODY BELIEVED THIS DAD WHEN HE SAID I THINK THERE'S MORE TO IT SO IF YEARS ON HIS OWN HE BUILT A CASE AND IN THE END -- HE WAS RIGHT. IT

IS THE FAMILY WHO TOOK THIS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AND FOUND JUSTICE. 100%. ENTIRELY. THAT'S -- THAT'S WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO IS THIS DAD, I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS HE CONTACTED A HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND OF HIS WHO WENT ON TO BE A VERY SUCCESSFUL FBI AGENT. AND SAID I WANT YOU TO ATTACK LOOKING AT THE CASE FBI AGENT FLEW DOWN READY TO TELL THE DAD

YOU HAVE TO LET IT GO IT DOES NOT A HOMICIDE BUT A SUICIDE AND ONE SAID YOU'RE RIGHT I'M WRONG IT IS A MURDER AND I'M GOING TO HOPE YOU PROVE IT. I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH YOUR REPORTING ON THIS DAVID THANK AND DON'T MISS TONIGHT EPISODE OF 48 HOURS AT 10:00 RIGHT HERE ON CBS. AND STREAMING ON PARAMOUNT PLUS. WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.