oh, yeah, i went through a lot of those mines myself. alone? mm-hmm. you re looking for the remains of your own mother. i mean, i can t imagine what that i can t explain it. it s always been a fire that just drives you to do something. and then one day i had been going through some of my dad s stuff in the basement. i found a box of stuff that she had supposedly taking with her. a denim jacket her mother had given her, passport and drivers license was there. what was that like. that was kind of the final straw. naturally if she was gone, she would have taken those things with her. that was my final piece of the puzzle. he left it there. left the box in the basement and emerged a changed person. shannon told us, aaron wouldn t talk much about his mother when they were married. but i would find him up at night just, over her stuff, just over papers. i mean, just emotional. going through her papers.
pam wasn t leaving. and so he had only one option left. reporter: if he became a widower, he d be free to marry again. it was, said the prosecutors, one of the more disturbing motives for murder they d ever heard. so his religious beliefs were more important than somebody else s life? ralph candelario s life was more important than anyone else s life. reporter: so the jury got the case. and they worked till the end of the day and then through a second and then a third. tick tock. whether they convict him or they don t is going to be a different set of emotions. reporter: and then in the middle of the third day we the jury find the defendant, ralph leroy candelario, guilty of count number one of first degree murder. reporter: guilty. but the end of ralph s story? oh, no. on the day set aside for his sentencing ralph decided the
so no surprise said eric mullens of the world journal. invasion and killing at the candelario place was a big deal for the weekly paper and for the whole town. we didn t know who was out there. people like their neighbors, dina and mark. i was afraid. i didn t even want to go to my paint class that i do in the evening because i was afraid to be out. a lot of people got guns. a lot of neighbors told me. i went out and got a gun. you know? i want to protect myself. everybody knew the candelarios had a nice house, filled with vintage treasures. there s a little jewelry that pam kept. this is her dresser. some of which were missing as ralph told the police during a videotaped tour. the television s gone. okay. the candelarios had been about to leave on vacation. so maybe the intruders thought they were gone and were surprised to find them at home. but who? a citizen s tip supplied a possible lead.
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