Be sure to watch the Forensic Files episode on this case entitled "Two in a Million" on Court TV next Wednesday, Sept 5 at 9 p.m. E/P

The Ewell Family

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After it was all over and he went to prison for the rest of his life, at thirty-two years old, Dana Ewell—a Santa Clara University grad with such a genius sense of business management, the one-time rising star of the powerful Ewell family, a kid who showed such promise—summed up his life by simplifying the past in a few simple words: "I used to search for happiness and peace in external things," he wrote on his inmate classified pen pal Website, "a career, in achievements, in professional success."

Dana Ewell

As a young man in his early twenties, Dana had all the perks of growing up among the rich, powerful and elite in California: He drove a Mercedes, had a fat bank account to pull from when he needed cash (set up by his father), all the bling he could stand to wear, expensive clothes, private plane rides up and down the west coast, and a multi-million-dollar inheritance waiting for him.

None of it, however, allowed Dana to experience "true happiness," he later said, "and joy," an inner peace, he added, that "can only come from within."

Ah, yes, that elusive "joy" in life that only God can bring. They all find it at the most trying times of their lives: when all else has failed, when the clock, so to speak, has run out, when there is nothing left. In through steel bars shine beams of white light from heaven, directing them to the good side.

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