the staircase. the mansion s heavy chandelier had fallen to the floor next to him. rebecca said max wasn t breathing, and she started cpr. rebecca s 13-year old sister xena, who was visiting, called 911. my sister s trying to resuscitate a a um, a boy. i m sorry she? he can t breathe. reporter: police and paramedics arrived within minutes. jonah called dina from the hospital. and he tells me, thank god that she was able to give him cpr. i think to myself, thank my god. reporter: he s gonna be okay? he s he s gonna be okay. reporter: max was unconscious. dina and jonah took up a vigil at the hospital. jonah s brother adam flew in from his home in tennessee. you came out to support jonah? correct. reporter: how well had you known max? i knew max well. he was a really wonderful kid. reporter: at max s bedside, jonah asked one of the doctors
doesn t heal anything. the pain becomes a part of you. reporter: time. turn the clock back to the year 2000, september 28th, to be precise, a thursday after work. the place: a church rec center gym in georgetown, southern indiana. a pick-up basketball game was underway with the usual thursday night guys. this is just you guys gettin together. just pride. pride. little bit o glory days, huh? yeah. reporter: david camm, a 36-year-old manager at a waterproofing business was a regular. you guys grow up with it. this is religion, right? yeah. we play a little basketball in indiana. reporter: that night after the game wrapped up, david headed straight home. he and his wife kim had two children, brad, a quiet 7-year-old and little jill, a spitfire, two years younger. usually, david helped kim with the kids in the evening, but on this night he was late and he knew kim wouldn t be happy about that. they gotta get their homework done before they went to bed. and i thought,
reporter: he called the indiana state police where he used to work. get everybody out here to my house. go to dave camm s house now. signal 10. okay. david we re gonna, we ve got people on the way, okay? get everybody out here. come here. everything s going to be okay all right? we re going to . every, everything s not okay, get everybody out here now! they re coming, go to dave camm s house now. do you know what happened, david? no. reporter: david camm s 13-year journey into hell was only minutes old. coming up david was beating on the floor, and he said, they re all dead. they re all dead. your family, dead, murdered. how do you begin to even absorb that? just all these things spinning around inside my head. is this real? am i really here? it was surreal. reporter: there was more pain, much more still to come.
there was no moisture. they were half shut. it was it was pretty obvious that he was gone. and this has all happened in, what, 45 seconds of your life? that s yeah. probably. maybe a minute. reporter: kneeling on the bloody garage floor, amidst the bodies of his family, david knew he had to get help. dave? get everybody out here to my house now. okay. reporter: he called the indiana state police where he used to work. get everybody out here to my house. go to dave camm s house now. signal 10. okay. david we re gonna, we ve got people on the way, okay? get everybody out here. come here. everything s going to be okay all right? we re going to every, everything s not okay, get everybody out here now! they re coming, go to dave camm s house now. do you know what happened, david? no. reporter: david camm s 13-year journey into hell was only minutes old.
36-year-old manager at a waterproofing business was a regular. you guys grow up with it. this is religion, right? yeah. we play a little basketball in indiana. reporter: that night after the game wrapped up, david headed straight home. he and his wife kim had two children, brad, a quiet 7-year-old and little jill, a spitfire, two years younger. usually, david helped kim with the kids in the evening, but on this night he was late and he knew kim wouldn t be happy about that. they gotta get their homework done before they went to bed. and i thought, she s gonna be upset when i get home cause i m not there to help. reporter: as he rolled into his driveway, he clicked the garage door opener. a nightmare awaited him. once the the garage door raised up just above the hood of my truck, that s when i saw kim. she was down on the garage floor? yeah, actually at first i thought it was jill lying there. i didn t realize it was kim until i got outta my truck and