people who owed shirley money. >> more than a decade after the killing -- >> it didn't have to happen this way. >> -- the search for answers continues. >> i am never going to give up hope? >> who did it? why? >> did he ever tell you he wanted-up to kill shirley? >> absolutely. he said he wanted it to look like a mob hit. >> "murder on cape cod, who shot shirley reine?" >> loretta! shirley! >> they say time heals. i don't believe in that. sometimes it gets worse. we were like two peas in a pod. we had a blast. i miss those times. i just miss her. yeah. i just wish it never happened. it didn't have to happen this way. it really didn't. ♪ >> good night. >> yeah, send somebody down to 657 east falmouth highway. i think somebody shot shirley. >> oh, my god. >> oh, man. let me tell you. can you hurry up? >> may 10, 2005, 51-year-old shirley reine is discovered by a co-worker, collapsed on the floor of her garage. >> i called rescue. she wouldn't answer the door. i want to see if her car was in the garage. she was laying beside the car. i thought she passed out last night. you know what i am saying? is she in the car? >> no. outside of the car, but there is a pool of blood here. >> shirley has been laying on the cold cement floor covered in blood for more than eight hours. >> i think somebody just shot shirley. >> shirley? >> yeah, shirley reine. >> the call came in fairly early that there had been a body found in east falmouth. >> george brenner is a local reporter for the "cape cod times." >> the editor called. we want to put a couple more people on this. this could be big. >> rescue just arrived. >> how did you find out? >> i got a call. it ended up being one of the workers, michael. >> loretta gilfoy is shirley's younger sister. he goes, are you sitting down? i said, yeah. he goes, your sister is gone. she's gone. she's gone. you mean, she's dead? this was house right here. >> you came here the day that she was found. >> that morning, yes. >> what do you remember about that day? >> very little. i was very numb. i remember pulling in. and i did walk up to the garage. i saw a glimpse of her. i saw the yellow shirt she was wearing the day before and her red jacket. her body was up against her door. >> that must have been hard to see. >> it was. and then i started -- i started freaking out. i started banging on doors. and banged on johnny's door. >> johnny reine, shirley's brother-in-law and next door neighbor. >> i ran over there. i just opened the door. i said, you guys didn't hear anything last night? oh, no. we didn't hear a thing. i said, right next door. you didn't hear anything? why, what happened? i said shirley is f'ing dead. >> nearly inconceivable for loretta who saw her sister just hours earlier. >> good night. >> shirley reine's final day was typical. she went and spent some time after work with her sister. even though the two of them worked all day together, they would often spend their evenings together as well. >> the evening of may 9th was no exception. after work, shirley drove down the street to loretta's house. >> every night at 6:00, she would be there for dinner. and she couldn't be late. >> only that night. shirley was late. she arrived noticeably unsettled. disturbed that her stepson todd had been visiting his ex-girlfriend's house just two doors down. >> she just felt very uneasy that he was still there. >> i didn't think anything of it. had dinner. >> after dinner the two sisters watched some tv. and then shirley drove home. right on schedule. >> she left between 8:30, 8:45 like she always did. >> she pulled into her garage. as she was getting out of the car, she was ambushed. she was shot twice. and left there for dead. >> one 9-millimeter shot to her chest. the second to her head. >> the way she was killed tells you that they knew what her routine was. they knew when she was going to arrive home. they knew how she was going to arrive home. >> and they knew not to leave any evidence behind. no sign of forced entry. no murder weapon. and not a single witness. >> this wasn't an accident. this was intentional. it was planned very well in advance. >> whether one knew who the reines were or who shirley reine was or not, the reaction was, "this doesn't happen on cape cod." >> william enright was shirley's attorney. he met with her to discuss a pending lawsuit against her. >> i was horrified. we were scheduled to go to trial nine or ten days after shirley was murdered. we were ready to go. >> ready to fight a lawsuit her stepsons, todd and melvin reine jr., filed her against her over the family estate. >> such a bitter lawsuit over the family property. that, you know that raised suspicions almost immediately. >> they tried to take everything from her. ten days before she -- they go to court, she is murdered. coming up -- what about those who say that shirley wasn't as innocent as some say? 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>> make her disappear. nobody has ever seen or heard from her since. >> a year after wanda disappeared, a local teen, jeffrey flanagan, was discovered in the cranberry bog across from melvin any house with a shotgun blast to his head. >> he hung out with the same crowd that hung around with melvin reine. he became very friendly with this teenage girl at the time. and her name was shirley souza. >> 19-year-old shirley souza was the babysitter for the reine boys and their father melvin's new live-in girlfriend. >> did anybody think he knocked off his first wife to be with shirley? >> absolutely. people suspected that. >> melvin was suspected in the 1978 disappearance, a young teen slated to testify against melvin in an arson case. >> he had relatives that lived on the vineyard. we were going to put him over there for a few days just to keep him out of trouble. we watched him get on the ferry. watched the ferry leave the dock. he didn't get off. >> he was never seen again. then there is john busby, a falmouth police officer who dared to arrest two reine family members in 1979. >> in august 1979, i was going to pull an overnight shift. a vehicle pulled up alongside me and opened up with a shotgun. >> three shots were fired. one shattering his jaw. tearing through his mouth, impairing his speech forever. >> the passenger seat, saw that there was a lot of me. there was no doubt, when i was in the emergency room, i wrote in a notebook, melvin did this. >> he is telling his officers that melvin reine did this. and they don't go to melvin's house. they don't interview melvin reine that night. they don't go to him and say, do you have an alibi? there is technology you can test to see if someone shot a gun. they don't test him. >> like the other unsolved cases related to melvin, he was never charged. busby's case went cold. and fear drove the busby family out of falmouth for good. >> they had succeeded in getting john busby out of their little world. >> just two and a half years later, there appeared to be a breakthrough when melvin's son todd, then 17, got a traffic ticket. his father was furious. so furious he threatened a local cop. you guys are going to find out how bad i am, he told the officer. i made the call and busby got his. you are the only one that knows that for sure now. years later after the statute of limitations had passed on busby's case, melvin's brother, john reine told police he was in the car the night melvin shot busby. and he says, shirley was too. >> i think she knew everything melvin ever did. including his first wife, the two young men who were killed and everything involved. >> but shirley's best friend, kathy, calls the allegations pure lies. what about those who say that shirley wasn't as innocent as some say? >> they're lying. >> that she was. they say that she was maybe an accomplice in some of melvin's actions. >> they're lying. they're lying. they're lying. >> but if they're not, then shirley had plenty of enemies. >> i think there were a lot of potential candidates who could have murdered her. it could have been a matter somebody waited ten days before the contentious civil trial to murder her and make it look as though the boys had committed it when in fact they may have had nothing to do with it. >> ahead -- >> when he approached me, he had the plan drawn out. he said, $10,000 is in the drawer. the sex tapes are over there under the tv and the safe is there. >> two weeks after cape cod native shirley reine was gunned down pulling into her garage, police allowed her two sisters inside the house where she was killed for the first time. >> just being in the house was kind of freaky. >> it is the home where shirley reine spent the past three decades of her life. where she lived, where she worked. and now where she died. above the garage, the once hectic offices where shirley ran the family business seemingly frozen in time. what was it like working there? >> we had fun. we really did. it was a lot of fun. shirley was the clerk at the company. i took care of the accounts payable and accounts receivables. >> shirley's husband melvin reine started the trash removal company five star enterprises in the 1970s. >> it was really very much a family business. shirley reine worked in the business. >> and his sons took part in it? >> his sons took part in it. >> but over the years as the company expanded, the lucrative business that once united the reine family quickly became the root of its unraveling. >> i am told that the sons did not work their territories. there were customer complaints. there were lost customers, and melvin became frustrated at them because they were not working their territories. eventually melvin sold off the territories, and he stopped speaking with his sons. so his sons, todd and melvin jr., left the company and severed ties with their dad for good. >> they actually went and worked for another company. when they left, you could see a difference in him. you almost felt sorry for him. >> for the first time, the notorious falmouth fox appeared diminished. he had lost ties with his two sons and was also losing his mind to dementia. >> i think he knew something was up with him. he was losing it. he was. he was doing weird things. >> after a string of bizarre incidents, a judge ordered melvin to be evaluated, which landed him in this local mental hospital indefinitely. >> when melvin was institutionalized, that's when everything broke. >> how did shirley deal with his illness? >> it was scary for her. she had three mortgages to pay. she had a business she had to run. >> she was handling everything? >> everything. >> everything that her stepsons believed was rightfully theirs. >> they wanted what she had. they wanted it all. >> the rift was over the money, the family business, the family property. they wanted a piece of that. and they could see that everything was going shirley's way. >> and they were right. weeks before melvin was institutionalized, melvin cut his sons out of his will, signed over his business and all of his properties to his wife shirley. does anything about the timing surprise you or make you suspicious at all? >> certainly todd reine and brother tried to make the case that the transfer of property to shirley reine happened much too close to when he was institutionalized. their whole argument was he couldn't have been of right mind to sign the property over. >> to make the argument in court and win, they needed shirley and melvin's financial documents to prove it. todd reine believed he knew just the guy who could help. his name is john rams. >> you know i owed todd a favor. just happened this guy wanted a burglary. i told hem i am not a burglary type person. that's not what i do. >> but rams does have an extensive criminal record from assault to manslaughter. did he ever tell you why he wanted you to burglarize shirley's home? >> he wanted the documents. the sex tapes. >> he wanted shirley and melvin's newly signed will and trust documents and several tapes rumored to exist which allegedly show his stepmom performing sexual acts with other men. >> when he approached me, he had the plan drawn out. he said the $10,000 is in the drawer. the sex tapes over there under the tv. the safe is there. in the safe is the documents with the will and testament. >> did you feel look you had a choice? >> you always have a choice, ma'am. >> in december of 2002, john rams and two accomplices carry out todd's plan and break into shirley's home. did the burglary go according to plan? >> yeah, yeah. he got his thing. boom, boom. done. everything done. >> what exactly did you take from shirley reine's home? >> we took the safe. i saw the sex tapes. i made a judgment call not to grab them. i don't know, it was just icky. there was no cash in -- the $10,000 wasn't there. he got the documents. once todd reine had the documents he was looking for in that safe, a short time later, a lawsuit was filed against shirley reine. >> up next -- >> they put a hit out on her. she was afraid. >> who killed shirley reine? 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friend say shirley was never told. she was afraid. when she came out of the movies, she never knew when she turned her car on if it was going to blow up. i don't know how she lived like that. i said, oh, cut it out. they're just pulling your leg. they're just trying to scare you. little did i know. >> little did loretta know that according to john rams, a plan to kill shirley was already being hatched. did he tell you that he wanted to kill shirley reine? >> he had a plan and everything. he wanted me to shoot shirley. go in her house and shoot her for him. >> john insists that he never agreed to do it. but that todd was determined to make it happen with or without him. >> he said he wanted it to look like a mob hit. i am just listening to this guy. >> did you warn authorities after talking to todd? >> yeah, absolutely i did. >> two years before shirley was killed, john says he had a secret meeting with state and federal law enforcement to warn them that shirley's life was in grave danger. when it came up that todd reine wants to kill shirley reine, the first thing out of their mouth was, do you know he is a federal witness? i just looked at them. basically didn't say much more after that, man. >> while cnn has been unable to confirm or deny todd's ties to federal law enforcement, he was at one time an informant for the local police department. >> he was protected by the police. he had the police. if you are not worried about the police, who are you worried about? >> an allegation that police have adamantly denied. but then why does the written report from john's 2003 meeting make no mention of shirley or todd reine anywhere? >> rams insists that he told authorities todd reine wanted her dead. why wasn't it in the report? it's hard to say, but it does make you wonder what's going on here. >> we asked the dea who said the threat against shirley isn't in the report because john never discussed it. but john's attorney who was also present at that meeting confirmed to us he most certainly did. >> it could have been avoided. really could have. that life could have been saved. >> by may 9th, 2005, it was too late. >> i tried. i gave them two years in advance and they still didn't do anything. >> after shirley's death, police launched a murder investigation. but instead, wound up solving the burglary case. >> during the murder investigation they came across information that led them to todd reine as the ringleader of the theft of the safe. >> while his brother, melvin jr., was never implicated, todd, john rams, and an accomplice were all convicted of the theft and sent to prison in september 2007. which allowed investigators a unique opportunity to build shirley's murder case while their two main suspects were locked up. >> they definitely were trying to get john rams to flip. they went to john rams several times trying to get him to talk. >> and talk he did. between 2005 and 2011, john rams willingly spoke to police at least seven times. >> he said, "i didn't do it but --" todd reine wanted her dead. >> despite his repeated denials, in december 2011, john received the stunning news that he, not todd, was being charged for the murder of shirley reine. >> i did everything. i took lie detector tests. i told you everything two years before it went down. i did everything i could and i still have this? 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>> no. >> the latest chapter in a sordid family drama that plays out like a hollywood script. the reine family once run by a notorious arsonist later divided over the family fortune. and then, destroyed by the murder of one of their own. the d.a. said this man pulled the trigger. >> they always told me that they believed that rams did it. did he do it? i am not 100% convinced. was he asked to do it? i believe he was. >> by whom? >> buy todd. >> todd reine, shirley's stepson, something john rams said over and over. >> john rams repeatedly told investigators that todd reine wanted shirley dead, and he was willing to pay someone to do it. that he was willing to pay him to do it. >> the question is, did he follow through with it? >> never once did i say, "yeah, i will solidly do this for you." never once did i tell him "yes, i will do this." >> the district attorney's office wasn't buying john's story, and were betting the jury wouldn't either. >> the prosecution's story was pretty clear. that john rams had been hired to do this job and todd reine had hired him to do it. >> but the forensics told a very different story. >> there was no fiber, fingerprint, dna, trace, ballistics, foot impression evidence against john rams, none whatsoever. >> the one fingerprint that was discovered at the scene didn't point to john either. >> john rams was excluded as a possible source of this latent print. >> the strongest evidence against him came from witness testimony by jail house informants, including one former cellmate who testified that john confessed, i killed her with a gun supplied by todd reine. >> all the prosecution had was a collection of informants and people who weren't very credible. >> i thought it was full of misrepresentation and outward deceit and lies actually. >> mr. rams, any comment today? >> i won't let them make up a story. >> two people who never gave their stories -- shirley's two stepsons. >> todd reine and melvin reine jr. were both on the witness list. and the prosecution wanted to question them on the stand, but they both pleaded the 5th. >> shirley's husband melvin sr. never took the stand either, still institutionalized with dementia. he was unable to even attend his wife's trial. but his son todd did. and john rams' attorney, timothy flaherty, made sure jurors knew it. >> there had to be a question in his mind. they believe todd reine is the person who paid john rams to do this, and yet he is sitting in this courtroom. how is that? >> that was the most compelling argument i made in the trial. john rams, where is todd reine? sitting in the gallery, not at counsel table. why isn't he charged? the man with motive, opportunity, means. why didn't they charge him? >> why didn't they ever charge reine? >> a better question for michael o'keefe. >> cape cod district attorney michael o'keefe declined our request for an interview. >> i believe that if law enforcement had enough information to charge either one of the reines, or both of them, law enforcement would do so. and the reason they weren't charged was there wasn't enough evidence. >> even if detectives thought that todd reine was the master mind and asked john rams to kill shirley, why do you think he was never charged? >> i don't know. i don't know. that's what kills me. i don't know. >> they never even questioned -- he never even got questioned. >> todd was never questioned. not because police didn't try, but because he and his brother melvin refused to talk. >> tell folks how long this journey has been for you to see justice here? >> nine years. >> what would you say to mr. rams if you could talk to him? >> do the right thing. just do the right thing. >> in april of 2014, after less than two weeks of testimony, the prosecution rested, and the defense made the bold choice not to call a single witness. >> i felt very strong about simply making my final argument to the jury and asking them to acquit john rams based upon the record evidence. >> it was time for the jury to decide. when we come back -- did you kill shirley reine? the verdict. >> no one expected when the case went to the jury that it would come back that quickly. but managing my symptoms was all i was doing. so when i finally told my doctor, he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. and that in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. if you're still just managing your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. introducing our 2015 nfl line up. get your favorite team's bud light can for game day. ♪ >> mr. rams, what do you have to say? >> thank you for the jury's decision. america is wonderful. >> after two weeks of trial, and less than two hours of deliberation, john rams jr. heard the two words he had been waiting for. not guilty. >> what did you think when you heard those two words? >> i get to go home. >> the cloud of suspicion that hald followed john rams ever since shirley reine's death in 2005 had been lift popped. >> so you're a free man. does your life start over again, what happens? >> it starts over, right. it starts over. >> but starting over was exactly what shirley's loved ones had feared most. >> it was heart breaking. here we go again. >> stressed out? >> yeah. >> that was very devastating. i was hoping at least if he got something i could deal with some closure, get some justice. >> if you could say anything to john rams, what would you say? >> if he did it, please say that he did it. you're not going to get in trouble for it now. >> do you think the jury got it right? >> the jury in this case got it right. there was no way based on the evidence that was presented to come back with a conviction. >> we respect the verdict of jury, certainly. it was a difficult case. >> do you still believe the prosecution had a strong case even though the jury did snoot. >> nifr thought we had a strong case. >> a difficult case, and some say the wrong defendant. >> he got off. you know why he got off? because that whole trial was about todd reine. that's all the jury heard was reine, reine, todd, todd, todd through the whole thing. >> despite our own attempts to interview todd and his brother melvin, they refused. neither has ever spoken publicly about their stepmother's murder. >> i tried many times to ask todd to talk about the murder of shirley reine and he just won't do it. the best i've ever gotten out of him is sort of a wry smile. >> what that smile meant, if anything, we may never know. >> they got the wrong guy at the beginning. i think they should have arrested todd. todd told people he wanted her dead. >> and shirley told a long list of people she feared that todd and his brother just might do it. her attorney, her accountant, her hairdresser and her best friend. shirley warned them all. >> if anything happens to me, make sure everyone knows the boys did it. >> what i can say is since shirley reine's death, todd reine and melvin reine jr. got what they wanted in terms of the lawsuit. melvin reine jr. lives in the house where the murder happened. todd reine lives on the property. >> would you say there are any other dus suspects besides shirley's sons? >> there was lots of talk about other potential suspects, people who owed shirley money and didn't want to have to pay it back. >> i believe there were other people out there who had a motive. i don't know what shirley was doing with those sex tapes. could she have been using them to try to extract money from some people whom she had relations? i don't know, but it's a possibility. >> nice setting here. >> but more than a decade here, john rams is the only suspect ever charged in shirley's murder, and he's more adamant than ever that he had nothing to do with it. >> radio did you kill shirley reine? >> no, ma'am, absolutely not. >> the people who are going to watch this special, they're going to say why should i believe this guy? he has a history, he's got a criminal history. convicted of manslaughter. why would i believe this guy? >> because of the conviction in my voice, the way i articulate my words. >> i don't want him. i always said that from day one. i don't want him, i want the ones that are responsible. everybody that's responsible. >> and investigators say they haven't given up on finding them. >> i would not be one bit surprised if there was a subsequent prosecution for the homicide of shirley reine. will it happen? i think it just takes one set of lips to solve this crime. that set of lips is out there somewhere in the community. >> a community with a complicated history with the reine family and the scars to prove it. >> when the name reine is spoken around the town of falmouth and east falmouth these days, what do people think? >> these days it's more about mystery. people are wondering how are there so many unsolved crimes that revolve around this family? and most particularly, will there ever be a resolution to who killed shirley reine? who was it? >> a question shirley's husband, a man with many secrets of his own never lived to see answered. he died while still institutionalized in november 2013. >> it's hard not knowing. >> you never get closure. people tell you all the time, you need to move on. how can you move on? >> what do you miss most about her over the years? >> i miss the most, the laughs. >> when you come back here now ten years later, how does that feel? >> it feels surreal. some days it feels like this happened 30 years ago and then other days it feels like just yesterday. >> you wish you had answers ten years later? >> i do. i do. i'm never going to give up hope. >> hope that one day her sister's name will finally be removed from the list of reine family mysteries. so you believe your sister was innocent till the end? >> nobody is innocent. you're not innocent, i'm not innocent. but she did not deserve that. nobody does. nobody has the right to end somebody else's life. i'm sorry, it just doesn't work that way. the following is a cnn special report. one man. four wives. a serial husband leaving in his wake three divorces, one death and a disappearance. >> drew peterson has gone from a person of interest to clearly being a suspect. >> drew peterson, cocky, arrogant. >> please go home. please leave me alone. >> a convicted killer. >> 12 people did the right thing up there. thank god. >> serving 38 years for killing his third wife. still suspte