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Erica started running and crying to the teacher and said dont let him hurt me. >> reporter: judith told detective arnold about her fear of men with braids. there it was, the mystery man had braids. the image was too fuzzy to figure out. rick circulated a freeze frame of the man and hoped someone could identify him. then, he waited. eight months later, rick got promising news. a detective thought he recognized the walgreens guy from another shooting. >> i might want to check him out. >> reporter:...

An unlikely witness came forward about information of kenneth williams. the witness for shawn turner was questionable. he was charged with murder, himself, for which he pled guilty to manslaughter and he was gravely wounded in a shooting. >> hes on his death bed. he thinks hes going hell and has something he needs to say. >> reporter: weeks later, his health improved enough to talk to rick arnold. >> they hit a lick on some lady. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> slang for a robbery. >> repor...

Circuit monitor where she was see the other in a room. >> hes got time to think, what is he telling detectives? what is he talking about? >> reporter: he needed both suspects to admit they were in the house when the shootings went down. that would back-up murder charges. he said he knew nothing about the crime. as the interrogation wore on, he started blaming the man in the other room. >> i want you to tell me why you killed her. >> i wasnt there. >> reporter: but, detective arnold new something...

Arnold new this would be a high profile case. he didnt know it would be the case of a lifetime. >> todays date is may 18,2006. >> reporter: a video camera rolled as detective arnold processed the crime scene, honing in on clues. >> this drum, near the victims body, a shell casing. >> reporter: the harsh reality of death lay side by side with the every day images of young life. erins body in a pool of blood, near a red kiddy wagon. a shell casing in front of a box of diapers. and the bed where er...

Knew it was your daughter. what went through you? >> i lost a son in 78 in a car wreck. he was gone when i got to the hospital. i shed a few tears. this was different. he was 21, had no children. >> the loss of erin was devastating. now the family had to deal with what happened to baby erica, finding out in the most impersonal way. >> i knew she was hurt. the police rushing her down the street, i saw on tv. >> reporter: later, they learned how badly hurt. she had been shot in the head. >> why, i...

Talk as much. she was quiet. >> reporter: with no idea why her sister and mother were shot, ebony and her grandparents remained fearful. you must have been worried like, who did this and where are they? >> yeah, i was thinking about the safety of the other kids and me. i didnt go out much. >> reporter: back at the police station, detective arnold was trying to find out his next move when he got a break. a 75-year-old spotted some of erins things in a ditch three miles from erins house and phoned...

Retired rick arnold knew it would be a high profile case. he did not know it would be the case of a lifetime. >> this is detective rick arn d arnold. today is may 18th, 2006. >> the video camera rolled across the crime scene. >> this is where the victims body was located. >> the harsh reality of death lay side by side with the images of young life. erins body in a pool of brood near a red kid wagon. a shell casing in front of a box of diapers. and the bed where erica jumped for joy was cases. >>...

>> i wanted them to understand they didnt tell us the truth, the other guy may be. >> detective arnold even walked williams past a close circuit monitor where he could see quisenberry in an interview room. >> now, hes got time to think, whats he telling them about. >> detective arnold needed both suspects to tell them they were in the house. that would back up murder charges against both of them no matter who pulled the trigger. quisenberry was interviewed first. he said he knew nothing. but as ...

With information about that same kenneth williams and the night erica and her mom were shot. but the witness, rashon turner, was questionable. he was charged with murder himself and he was also greyly wounded in a shooting. >> hes on his death bed. he thinks hes going to hell and he has something to say. >> weeks later, his health improved enough to talk to rick arnold. >> they hit a lick on some lady. >> what does that mean? >> slang term for a robbery. >> robbery that escalated to murder. >> h...

Detective rick arnold admitted it made his blood boil. >> why did you make that promise? >> that was probably a little emotion spilling over. if we were expecting at that point, the baby to die. >> erica had practically flat lined as the police caravan delivered her to kosair childrens hospital. she was rushed to the emergency room where doctor and nurses worked frantically to stabilize her. dr. thomas moriarty, seen here during a recent operation, performed surgery on the gun shot wounds to eri...