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>> she must have been so nervous. >> she was terrified. it was probably one of the hardest things shes ever had to do. >> ralph? hey, this is shannon. >> but shannon did it. >> ive been waking up having panic attacks. i cant deal with this. i want to know what happened. can you tell me anything? >> yeah. the only thing, you know, that i know is that a lot of stuff was stolen from the house. >> okay. >> ralph stuck to his story. a deadly home invasion. >> and then i found her. >> yeah. >> and tha...

>> well, you know, suckers would rather go out than face his destiny that way. >> suicide attempt, delay tactic. whatever it was, it didnt work. the day later judge ordered ralph back to court. >> people versus ralph lee, sentencing. and ralph, bandaged up. got another day in the spotlight. >> your honor, ive maintained that ive been innocent through this whole process. >> and then, the keen observer might almost have heard the jaws drop around the courtroom. >> pam will be resurrected. we will ...

Letter about the murder of his wife would be the accepted true account of that terrible event. but heres what pams daughter, shannon, thought. >> it felt overly dramatic and really just glamorous that he was the victim of this. and that wasnt -- that made me sick. >> and angry obviously. >> yeah. >> her sister kelseys interpretation? >> i thought it was very strange. i thought that he had some work to do on a story because it sounded really phony. >> entitled to their opinions, of course. but th...

He woke up on thursday morning. i thought my nightmare was over. but i looked down the hall, and i could see pams legs in the kitchen. thats when he ran out of the house and found his neighbor who called 911. of course, the "world journal" printed all that though the police werent too happy about it. and eric mullens? >> i remember taking it home and reading it and putting it down and thinking, no, it didnt say that. and picking it back up again. >> but remarkable as ralphs letter was, it still ...

You see, maybe a degree of selling the heritage because theres nothing else left to sell. >> so no surprise said eric mullens of the "world journal." invasion and killing at the candelario place was a big deal for the weekly paper and for the whole town. >> we didnt know who was out there. >> people like their neighbors, dina and mark. >> i was afraid. i didnt even want to go to my paint class that i do in the evening because i was afraid to be out. >> a lot of people got guns. >> a lot of neigh...

Me. >> a bizarre one at that. >> shannon who had been angry at ralph for not protecting her mother, read the letter and began to have thoughts that were much more disturbing. >> i didnt get through more than a page and a half and i threw it, and i said, this is bull [ bleep ]. i said, this is the worst -- i could barely stomach to finish it. >> and aaron, shannons ex-husband, ralphs son? aaron went to a very dark place indeed. oh, you have no idea. you were 11 years old when your mother disappea...

Said his captors held him and abused him for nearly two days. >> in my mind, if youre not going to tell me what happened, and youre going to dance around the issue and tell three different stories, what are you hiding? >> investigators wondering the same thing, tried to find answers in the evidence. on a laptop they found hits for, match.com, just days before the murder. somebody had been visiting the site at least. >> that would have been our suspicion. >> its going to be either pam or ralph. >...

>> oh, yeah, i wt throh a lot of those mines myslone? >> mm-hmm. >> youre looking for the remains of your own mother. i mean, i cant imagine what that -- >> i cant explain it. its always been a fire that just drives you to do something. >> and then one day -- >> i had been going through some of my dads stuff in the basement. i found a box of stuff that she had supposedly taking with her. a denim jacket her mother had given her, passport, drivers license, cell phone. >> wait a minute. what was th...

Painstaking police work before investigates finally had enough evidence to arrest ralph for the murder of his wife, pam. that i had have to find him first. ralph was on vacation, maybe on the run. >> i initiated phone calls with ralph to try to track him down. >> tracked his cell phone. and caught up with him. >> get your hands in the air. >> in northern california. >> walk back to the sound of my voice. back to me. >> are you all right. >> yes. >> charged him with first-degree murder. pams daug...

>> ralph agreed to show the investigators exactly what happened, and where. >> he grabbed me with the other hand on my hip right here. and he proceeded to assault me. >> so that was the whole awful story. but if ralph thought that sharing his new more detailed recollections would clear the air, he was wrong. what did you think when you saw it? >> i was pretty blown away by what was written. >> coming up, back at home with detectives, ralph gets his own surprise. >> what happened to all the knive...