Synopsis:
An investigation involving a mystery that's been buried for 18 years. When 16-year-old Janie Ward died at a party on September 9, 1989, at a rural cabin in the Arkansas Ozarks, her parents were told that she died falling off a porch. There was only one problem: the porch was just 9 1/2-inches high. For nearly two decades Janie's parents have been fighting to prove that Janie was murdered and that the crime was covered up - not just by the kids, but local authorities as well. Through the years there have been rumors of corruption, missing evidence, and accusations of high school rivalries. "Primetime" interviews an alleged eyewitness who says she saw Janie beaten with a baseball bat by a popular classmate who happened to be a beauty queen and a prominent judge's daughter. That former classmate, who has been the target of rumors of wrongdoing since the night Janie died, speaks out for the first time in 18 years to ABC News' Jim Avila.
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