a sprawling southern family farm with a pair of churchgoing grandparents at its heart. they are definitely the most loving individuals i ve ever met in my life. there was no way it was supposed to end like this. she took me about a hand and said diane and charlie have been murdered. the former church deacon, and his wife. who on earth would want them down? it does not make sense. they were loved by everyone. everyone, maybe. but their own daughter who admitted to a bitter, simmering dispute. it s been a long family feud. her stepfather won her dead so she could get her property back. evidence pointed to her boyfriend as an accomplice. you have that blood on your shoe, he was there. or, was he? no hair, no fingerprints, no dna. nothing. a once loving family now gripped by suspicion.
she runs a flower shop nearby. tell me about the feeling that day? could you feel it in the air? you could feel it in the air. i was in the flower shop. probably not too thrilled about the idea. i didn t even want to go home. it was pretty bad in horry county that day. when i first arrived, while i m looking at is an opportunity to get oriented to the crime scene. the man responsible for making sense of the crime scene was prosecutor fran humphries. then deputy chief solicitor for horry county. had the house been tossed? it had. this appear to be a home invasion, burglary. first take on it? first take. home invasion. it was a gruesome crime scene. the bathroom, awash in charlie s blood. there was blood spatter in the bedroom where diane laid. but several feet from diane, there were noticeably a few small droplets. it appeared that someone was involved in the crime, not the victims. they were a bleeder. why can t that be from one of your two victims? it appeare
but new solar had the boys moved, then diane was making the case to get them back. mom was concerned. the key wants to hold on to the boys? she said she would like for them to, you know, continue to stay with her. boyfriend rick thought bambi could not catch a break with her family. everybody pretty much treated bambi like crap. it stemmed from issues that diane, charlie and bambi had. those issues were simmering into an angry family problem. and then, a few weeks after the boys were turned over, it happened. it was april 12th, a tuesday morning. bambi called her mom, no answer. then charlie was late for work. one of his boys went up to the house to look for him. moments later, he called 9-1-1. she s laying on the floor, there s blood everywhere. blood everywhere? yes, ma am. inside, things were chaotic. an appalling sight. big charlie and diane we re
daddy are dead. just like that? yes. and i said, what? he said, bambi, someone broke in here and killed them. shot them. and i just dropped the phone and it started crying. when bambi arrived at the house, yellow caution tape blocked her way. police were everywhere. my mom was freaking out. rick tried to comfort bambi. young cody turned to him to. and i remember rick, he was near me. i was crying on his shoulder. it was a madhouse that day. in those moments, it seemed the whole county had gone mad. the murders of diane and charlie came hard on the heels of two other vicious killings nearby. the suspect, a man all over the news, named stephen stanko, was still at large. they were looking for stephen stanko, when charlie and diane parker were discovered. vivian skipper was charlie and diane s neighbor.
all the blood and just one of the most horrible things i had ever seen. rick approached the bathroom were charlie had been killed. he said he noticed bambi, through the window, pacing in the backyard. she was calling out, mama, mama. she was crying, screaming. i stepped into the bathroom, trying to step around the mess as best as i could. and i shut the blind. you closed it because you didn t want bambi to see the bloody room? that s right. i remember saying to bambi, i think i stepped in some blood in the bathroom. i was wiping my shoe off on the sand. she was telling me to wash my shoes. so, i get blood in her mom s truck. it must have been eerie being in the house that night? yeah. extremely. it was an eerie moment. one that would haunt bambi and rick for years to come. coming up bambi makes a stunning admission. there s been a long family feud. over the land? a long time. when dateline continues.