they wore gloves with l.e.d. lights on them. which would explain why no one else s prints would be on the knobs of the drawers. have you ever heard of gloves with l.e.d. lights? we researched it, because i had never heard of that. they do exist. in the letter, ralph also changed the time of pam s death, backed it up by more than 24 hours. why? could that perhaps have been a response to this investigator s challenge? she didn t die at 3:00 in the morning. it had to be earlier than that. we ll know after today. we ll know that. okay. and that s going to come back to you. okay. but that s when ralph reported the invaders were in his house just a few hours. now in his letter, he remembered the ordeal lasting nearly two days. and do you remember we mentioned it a while back that broken glass in the back door? the thing was, the glass fell out the door, not in, as you would expect it would do if somebody was breaking into the house. the police, of course, brought that up with
the best he could remember, said ralph, he got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. then decided to go downstairs to make sure the wood-burning stove was still lit. but on his way to the bottom of the steps, he said, somebody hit him from behind. and then again from the side. and i put my arm up, and, boom, i mean, it just hit me like a ton of bricks. it hit me hard, you know. and so i went backwards. the ringing i couldn t see no more. ralph was knocked unconscious. i mean, i don t remember anything else, other than waking up in the morning. then, said ralph, still disoriented, he tried to sit up. i looked down the hallway. i could see pam, her legs. she was there. revealed by the first rays of a warm morning sun. her head there was just blood all over. and there was blood on the floor.
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. she brought up individual
sick. and angry obviously. yeah. her sister kelsey s interpretation? i thought it was very strange. i thought that he had some work to do on a story because it sounded really phony. entitled to their opinions, of course. but then so were the cops. recovered memory? no, said the cbi s jody wright. more like a cover-up. nothing in his statement matched anything that i knew to be at the crime scene. it just didn t make sense. none of it. it wasn t really that ralph changed his story in his world journal manifesto, not exactly. more like he kept adding to it. so he watches very carefully what you re doing and tailors his story to match what he thinks you re finding. exactly. ralph kept explaining, kept offering not less, but more
palmer were young and in love and engaged to be married. but their family was rocked by scandal. then murder. aaron s father was found at the crime scene dazed and confused. but his confusing story had police questioning his version of events. here s keith morrison with tangled. you can t put words to that. it was very surreal. 911. where is your emergency? it s true, the old saying, when you marry someone, you marry their family, too. we need an ambulance. he looks like he s been shot. he said someone broke in last night. him and his wife both. not a bad thing to turn to mom or dad for advice and counsel. it s hard. sometimes you think maybe it didn t happen.