it was very surreal. but their family was rocked by scandal, then murder. aaron s father was founded the crime scene dazed and confused, but is 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. 9-1-1, 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. but yet it really did. it s with their help and support, after all, that true love could deepen and grow, and last. i watched the crime scene shows on tv. i never, ever
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. 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
mother he couldn t even handle. just it wrecked him. and when aaron heard pam was dead my first response was, how did he do it. and then he told the cops about his mother. now, you may have a serial killer on your hands. serial killer of spouses. something like that. that was the thought. two wives, one missing, the other dead. and the one thing they had in common was ralph candelario. but suspicion alone wasn t enough. it wasn t proof. so the investigation continued? yes. in an effort to shake him, or maybe even get a confession, they sought help from the one person whose presence back at the hospital made ralph break down and cry. shannon. cbi had me call him, bugged my phone and tried to get him to tell me what happened. she must have been so scared. she was terrified. it was probably one of the hardest things she s ever had to do. ralph? hey, this is shannon. but shannon did it. i ve been waking up having
it was a crush. you were crushed. what happened? no one knew. except that now these two had one more thing in common. both products of broken homes. the wedding day approached, just a few days to go, when shannon s mother, pam, and aaron s dad, ralph, invited the bride and groom-to-be for dinner and a talk. ralph was every bit a devout a believer as pam. so some premarital guidance perhaps? oh, no. nothing like that. they told us, we ran off, we eloped and got married. wait, what? your mother and aaron s father? yes. who does that? i don t know. but i can t tell you how much it felt like i got hit by a bus. do you know what that meant? it meant that by the time you got married, you were marrying your stepbrother. right. i didn t say much. i was just like, well, we re leaving. and suddenly jerry realized how blind he d been. you didn t understand, but
exactly. ralph kept explaining, kept offering not less, but more details. about, for example, the drawer pulls in his house, the ones investigators removed to test for fingerprints. in the event that one of the invasion persons touched them. now here s ralph with the police at his house just after pam was murdered. noticing the missing knobs. what happened to all the knobs? he was very upset that they were missing. i don t understand why the knobs are gone. 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