very much at all on the way there. >> because? >> just nervous, you know. >> little anxious? >> right. >> do you remember pulling up to the house? >> yes. very vividly. >> reporter: at that moment charlotte was on the phone with her dad. >> as soon as we got to the top of the hill you could see, the police, you know, the sheriff's lights and all the cars and, you know, just the worst thoughts are kind of going through, you know, my mind at that point. >> you know, the almost kind of thing that hits you here before it hits you here. >> right. yeah. kind of feel it in your stomach first, for sure. and we got closer to the house and we saw a caution tape and all of, you know, people running around and everything. >> we had pulled up and stopped on the side of the road and two sheriffs walked up on either side of the car and we rolled the windows down. >> did this person know who you were? >> i think he had asked, you know, "were you guys just passing through?"