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World journal," so did everybody else in town. neighbors, mike and dina -- >> it sounded like a novel to 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? aaro...

>> she realized that she had given up her family, because she had destroyed this relationship with me and kelsey, and shes gotten into this new marriage, telling me that she just wasnt as happy as she should have been. >> lots of circumstantial evidence, almost enough. not quite. and then the antique rugs. >> i was searching the kitchen area and found in the washing machine two small size rugs. and the rugs were still very wet. and they were balled up to one side. >> but when ralph saw the rugs ...

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Night. he ands with high of both. >> how are they doing? >> hes not good. crying. he told me to go help her. shes in the kitchen. im going to get my neighbor to help me here. ralph, were getting help for you, ralph. okay? >> the police arrived. went into the house with guns drawn. and there at the entrance to the kitchen, still in her nightgown, lay pam candelario. her head covered in blood. >> i knew she was dead when the ambulance showed up, because they didnt go into the house. they just stay...

Changed his story in his "world journal" manifesto, not exactly. more like he kept adding to it. so he watches very carefully what youre doing and tailors his story to match what he thinks youre finding. >> exactly. >> ralph kept explaining, kept offering not less, but more details. about, for example, the drawer pulls in his house, the ones investigators removed to test for fingerprints. >> in the event that one of the invasion persons touched them. >> now heres ralph with the police at his hou...

>> reporter: then, said the defense, one of the bad guys saw pam and -- >> he hits pam in the head hard. hes standing there in the kitchen, fire poker in his hand, wondering what to do. >> reporter: the robbers must have thought pam and ralph had already left on vacation. >> this family was supposed to be gone. that was the talk around town. >> reporter: so, for the jury it came down to whose story to believe. prosecutors said the police cleared those suspects right back at the beginning. but no...

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 wasnt the whole story. a few weeks after the murder, he mustered up the courage and told the poli...

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 neighbors told me. i went out and got a gun. you know? i want to protect myself. >> everybody knew the candelarios had a nice house, filled with vintage treasures. >> theres a little ...

The thing was, the glass fell out the door, not in, as you would expect it would do if somebody was breaking into the house. the police, of course, brought that up with ralph. and what did he write in his letter? i went out the back, and the rear door glass was broken. some pieces fell out when i opened the door. ralph even had answers to questions he wasnt asked, like, why was the fireplace poker exactly where it belonged by the fireplace? >> normally if you used a weapon, youre going to find i...

Welcome back to "dateline extra." im tamron hall. police werent buying the story ralph candelario shared with the local newspaper about how his wife was murdered. now ralphs son, aaron, had a story, too. this one from the past. here again is keith morrison with "tangled." >> the year was 2004, and aaron candelario was 11 years old. his parents has recently separated were sharing custody. one day after a weekend at his dads house, aaron went home to find -- >> there was just a note on the coffee ...