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floor. and then there was a nine volt battery, it looked like it would go to a smoke detector. >> so somebody had taken it out of the smoke detector? >> that's what it appeared to be, someone had moved it. >> so whom? all the more shocking, in a town where murder is exceedingly rare, said detective phil giles. >> it's not a common currency, this style of homicide. >> how did it hit you, the numbers in the department? >> well, you have a victim, you also have a child. the child, of course, that always touches you in a different way -- excuse me -- because it was a three year old child. >> yes. these things do touch you personally, don't they? >> outside, the curious on looker's were a beat behind. all we knew was that an charles and her little boy were no more. >> it is just devastating. new, i was in shock. especially about that little boy. and i still did not know what had happened, really. >> it was not long, though.