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Tried to obtain prescriptions using bogus names. >> and on the security tape, rick looked closely and saw the man in the baseball cap leaning through the window of the enclosed pharmacy section, seemingly checking out names from pill bottles. over and over detective arnold stared at the grainy walgreens tape. the man in the baseball cap looked familiar. >> one person looked like quisenberry. >> as in james quisenberry, family friend who phoned her minute before the murder. earlier, he told the d...

Theory, the person rushed away from the house, threw the pill bottles and credit cards into the getaway car and drove off. a few miles away, whoever was in the car got rid of the hot property, tossing earons empty pill bottles and credit cards out the window along with the manual. thats how everything ended up together in the drainage ditch. >> i think they were just grabbing stuff and they thought we dont want to have this. shes dead. >> rick asked the pharmacist if he knew who broke into his c...

Time it turned to murder. when williams came along with a gun. >> i had no idea they would go in the house and kill you over a bottle of pills. >> the trial took one week and there was little doubt that quisenberry would be convicted of some crime. he got manslaughter and a maximum 45 years in prison. as for williams -- >> we, the jury, find the defendant, kenneth williams, guilty. >> guilty of murder. and then a life sentence with no possibility of parole, spared the death penalty only because ...

>> with still 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 just thinking about the safety of the kids and me so i didnt go out much. >> back at the police station, detective arnold was trying to figure out his next move when his investigation caught a lucky break. a 75-year-old neat nick spotted some of earons things in a rain-soaked ditch three miles from earons hous...

>> james and kenneth williams. they supposedly had hit a lick on some lady. >> what does that mean? >> slang for a robbery. >> robbery that quickly escalated to murder. >> he knew things he couldnt have known. he knew things that werent in the media. >> there are things he couldnt have known some of this stuff. >> what kind of things? >> that there were pills involved. >> a long, frustrating, 15-month investigation. but rick was finally close to the answers he had promised ericas grandmother. wh...

>> he is hard core. >> i didnt shoot that lady. i didnt do nothing to her or her baby. >> he also denied everything and blamed the man in the other room, quisenberry. >> did he have a gun? >> yes. >> what color was it? >> black. >> williams kept insisting he was not even in the house. but rick needed to get him inside, as he had with quisenberry. >> i wanted him in the house, not outside by the car, not down the street by the stop sign. >> and he needed it fast. although, he didnt realize how fa...

Friend who made the last phone call to erin, and kenneth williams, who admitted to a witness he was part of a robbery that turned deadly. now it was time to bring both men in and interrogate them. >> im a little apprehensive but not nervous, no butterflies just because it was something i had planned on and prepared for for such a long time. >> you were ready? >> i was ready. >> 15 months after the shootings, quisenberry and williams voluntarily came down to headquarters. each knew the other was ...

>> and he said they didnt look like they were regular shoppers at our walgreens. most of our prescription customers are regular customers. he went on to tell me they had come back to the pharmacy and tried to obtain prescriptions using bogus names. >> and on the security tape, rick looked closely and saw the man in the baseball cap leaning through the window of the enclosed pharmacy section, seemingly checking out names from pill bottles. over and over detective arnold stared at the grainy walgr...

Crack. >> first impression? >> he is hard core. he is hard core to the max. >> i didnt shoot that lady. i didnt do nothing to her or her baby. >> he also denied everything and blamed the man in the other room, quisenberry. >> did he have a gun? >> yes. >> what color was it? >> black. >> williams kept insisting he was not even in the house. but rick needed to get him inside, as he had with quisenberry. >> i wanted him in the house, not outside by the car, not down the street by the stop sign. >> ...

Ive worked. >> a lifelong local, once promising pitching career at the university of louisville, detective rick arnold knew it would be a difficult case but he didnt know it would be a case of a lifetime. >> todays date is may 18th, 2006. >> a video camera rolled as detective arnold processed the crime scene, honing in on clues. >> the victims body, a shell casing. >> the harsh reality of death lays side by side with the everyday images of young life. erins body in a pool of blood, near a red ki...