the top of the town. look at the story be true? ralph said yes. and police wondered if the truth was in there. somewhere. returning to tangled, here is keith morrison. ralph candelario appeared to believe that his 3,300-word letter about the murder of his wife would be the accepted true account of that terrible event. but here s what pam s daughter, shannon, thought. it felt overly dramatic and really just glamorous that he was the victim of this. and that wasn t that made me 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,
touched her cheek. and she was cold, cold, cold. and i ran out of the house. and that, said ralph, is when he saw his neighbor and yelled for help. but who did it? robbers? or someone else? normally, said walsenburg police captain vince suarez 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. and i touched her cheek. and she was cold, cold, cold. and i ran out of the house. and that, said ralph, is when he saw his neighbor and yelled for help. but who did it? robbers? or someone else? normally, said walsenburg police captain vince suarez you always look at the closest people to the victim. except in this case, ralph candelario was also a victim, and clearly wanted to help find the killer or killers. cbi
right back at the beginning. but nothing could clear ralph. and nothing could soften a truly shocking allegation ralph murdered pam because divorce would get him disfellowshipped, cast out, from his church. 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
and he would know you re looking for fingerprints of these home invaders. well, yes. but what if they didn t find any fingerprints besides his and pam s? well, in his letter written a few days later, ralph provided a new detail that accounted for that possibility. all of a sudden, now his attackers, he remembered that 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.
like certainty. his mother must be dead. his father must have done it. and after that, it became more of, okay, where would he put her body? he was maybe 13 or 14 when he thought about those old coal mines around walsenburg. you actually went and looked? 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.