Two in a Million

Son

Dana Ewell got himself a local lawyer and began a media campaign to save his name—he claimed—after investigators, according to him, having not been able to solve the case, pointed their sites and, with blinders on, failed to investigate other credible leads.

"Defamed" was the word Dana used.

Dana was a sharp kid. He had garnered a reputation as one of the region's most influential, motivated and up-and-coming businessmen.

Just two years before the murders, Dana had told the San Jose Mercury News—who portrayed him in an article as a "young mogul," a bright kid with a promising career in business management, a Trump Junior who sold mutual funds and transformed his father's fledgling business into a multi-million-dollar profitable company all before he was out of his teens—that he ran his own financial company. He had even showed the reporter the building he was said to have rented.

Oddly enough, though, he wouldn't allow the reporter to enter the office.