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Just a week before her death, ginger hayes and her son nicolas got to spend a week with her mother and father while her husband jeremy was away on a boy scouts trip. it was a week her family will always cherish. >> so it was just, its indescribable, the joy that you feel when you have that child and the grandchild, and youre just getting to watch, its like watching a flower bloom. you cant put word does that. >> just one week later as ginger was innocently changing her sons diaper in the parking...

Vehicle. >> 17 partial fingerprints and 19 partial palm prints were found that did not belong to jeremy or jen injure hayes. fbi analysts compared them with fresh prints from andre edwards. >> his fingerprints and his palm prints came in contact with this vehicle numerous times. >> now andre edwards, you know, said he didnt know anything about the car. very quickly, they were able to prove that he had been inside of it. >> that meant edwards was lying. but it didnt prove he was a murderer. the m...

He is currently serving life without parole. elizabeth pitman who was in possession of gingers cell phone and jewelry claims she was given the items by edwards at the picnic and was not charged. today, nicolas hayes is a healthy grade school student. although he has permanent scars from the sunburn. his father says he has only vague memories of what happened. >> told me that the monsters were going to get him. he said, asked him about what he meant. and he said well, mommy holds me, but the mons...

Die from exposure. edwards parked the car at a friends house, unaware that hed left dozens of fung fingerprints behind. >> you can almost see the timeline being laid out, just based on forensic evidence alone. >> edwards alawyer claimed their client was so impaired by his clients drug addiction he didnt know what he was doing. >> his whole defense throughout this whole process had been oh, he couldnt have understood. he didnt have intent. but the result of what happened was a woman lost her life...

Two innocent victims chosen at random. >> she was changing her babys diaper. and because of her taking care of her child, ultimately, she becomes a victim. >> a suspect, andre edwards, was in custody, after the only eyewitness, the mailman picked him out of the lineup. >> i actually told him that both nicolas and ginger was deceased and to see what his reaction was to that. no emotions. i tell you, i dont know what youre talking about. >> but there was one problem. how did the mailman get a good...

He walked through residential areas where the mail carrier first noticed him. edwards stopped at the same strip mall where jeremy and ginger hayes stopped to get snacks. edwards saw the car running with the door open and decided to steal it. he probably didnt know that there was a baby in the back seat until later. edwards drove to a store 45 miles away and forced ginger to withdraw 100 from her debit card. investigators believe edwards may have had an accomplice watching the baby in the car at ...

Stocky build and about a medium height. >> police con verged on the home and took evans in for questioning. >> he claimed that he didnt have anything to do with the car. that he was asked to watch the car for someone else. >> evans led police to andre edwards, the man he claimed left the car in front of his house. inside, police found edwards, along with several others. >> there were four other people taken into custody besides timothy evans. they had no idea what this black male may have looked...

The physical characteristics of the die and the hairs themselves were consistent with hairs collected from ginger hayes. >> the harris recovered from the tire rim exhibited all the same microscopic traits as the hair coming from the victim. >> during questioning, investigators noticed some dark brown stains on edwards shoes and clothing. those stains were blood and the dna profile of that blood was compared to the tire at the crime scene. the results left no doubt. >> certainly, the presence of ...

The mailman said every time he thought he got far enough ahead of the man he seemed to catch up. >> the fact that the mailman is doing his route. hes stopping several time, and he keeps seeing this person is odd. red flags are going to start to go up. and thats what happened with this mailman. >> initially the mailman was concern thad he himself could potentially be a victim because at each stop he made the black man would always catch up to him. >> so the mailman saw this mans face before the i...

>> yes. this is just the beginning. showers out of the main front and it looks as the main frontal system makes its way through we are going to see the rain picking up. lightning strikes embedded in some of the cells, you can see one making its way into san francisco and also into concord, parts of the north bay, as well. we have more on the way. its going to pick up through the day and a larger storm for the weekend. well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. right now, lets che...