medical examiner s office that they had recovered a knife that was sticking in the woman s back. what did you think when you heard that? i went back to my photographs and, sure enough, in the middle of her back was the knife. so someone stabbed her. but who? firefighters tipped police that a brother/sister duo across the street, rocky and jessica fugett, had been watching the fire, claimed to know the victims. robert davis and his friend, kevin marsh, knew them as aggressive troublemakers in high school. people were afraid of them. if they come through the hallway, people would move out the way for them. try not to be around them. kevin s friend, shy and awkward robert, seemed to be a favorite target. they used to pick on him all the time. called him retarded. fat, ugly, stupid. robert said he tried to ignore it, but they knew his vulnerabilities. i tried to keep my distance from them when i could and stay cordial when we were in close proximity to each other. safer tha
jessica told detective giles the murder weapons were a kitchen knife and a metal rod for bludgeoning. which they stashed in a hole out behind ann s house. she said we probably couldn t find it without her. we drove her out there until we walked t entire path until we got to the holesnd did it right there. we had the evince folks with us. and reached in. discovered those two items over there. what was that like? you know these are intimate details and only those involved are going to know where the instruments were used to kill someone. that was that. they had their story and their culprits. except there was one more very significant detail offered up by both jessica and rocky. something the town s rumor mill failed to catch by the time kevin and robert went out for the evening a couple of days later. we went bowling. we went out to eat. just had a grand old time. by that time, it was after midnight and about time to go
in any case, the detectives paid a visit to the fugetts house where they learned enough to march the pair down to police headquarters two days later for questioning. rocky admitted he was there. to rob the place. i was in the house. i started out downstairs. jessica went upstairs first. i was supposed to watch. detective phil giles interviewed jessica. she eventually acknowledged. she tried to say it was somebody else first. and then at some point put herself there. it was supposed to be routine. we go in, find her purse, get the money and leave. that was all that was supposed to happen. but then rocky way off script. said jessica. tied ann to the bed with duct tape and turned it into murder. who set the place on fire? rocky. who cut ann s throat? rocky. who stabbed ann in the back? rocky.
some type of clubbing device. clubbing device. snead knows the weapon was really a metal rod. then i hit her two times. because they said if it was if i didn t it would be wait a minute. now i got somebody else clubbing her, robert. i got someone else doing that act. robert has it wrong. jessica already confessed that rocky clubbed ann charles. you did another act. you know what that act is. and we know. that s the thing that has your something on it that s yours. what would that be? i m not going to tell you. you re going to tell me. so, again, robert starts guessing. i didn t rape nobody. no, i m knot saying that. i didn t kill the baby. no. i m not saying that. i m not saying that you raped anybody. i didn t cut nobody. i didn t say you cut. i didn t shoot anybody. i didn t say you shot nobody. robert, i m going to come
randy snead has his confession. what you said tonight or this morning to me, is that a true and accurate statement? yes. okay. when rosenfield delivered a clemency petition to virginia governor bob mcdonnell, nirider added volumes of evidence in support. and then, as they waited for an answer out of nowhere, jessica sent a dear mr. rosenfield letter. she admitted to the throat cutting, the stab wounds to the back and absolutely adamant that robert had nothing to do with it whatsoever. so jessica s affidavit was sent off to the governor too. and everybody waited. and waited. and then, on the governor s very last day in office, more than nine years into robert s sentence, a decision. denied. rosenfield, devastated, drove to