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>> coming up, back at home with detectives, ralph gets his own surprise. >> he was very upset that they were missing. why did i walk away? well, not because it was easy. i mean, the game is all i know. you think back to your draft. it felt like a fantasy. but the second you know you cant compete anymore, you owe it to yourself, to your team, to find a fresh start. so, yeah, thats why i did it. thats why i walked away... from my fantasy league. (announcer) redeem your season on fanduel. play free...

It took nine months of painstaking police work before investigators finally had enough evidence to arrest ralph candelario for the murder of his wife pam, but theyd have to find him first. ralph was on vacation -- or maybe on the run. >> i initiated some phone calls with ralph so that we could try to track him down. >> they tracked his cellphone and caught up with him. in northern california. >> walk back to the sound of my voice back to me. >> are you all right? >> yeah. >> charged him with fir...

>> the one guy that hit me that i saw from the front was taller than me. >> okay. >> and he had a dark complexion. you know, he had marks on his face. >> and then something that didnt sound quite right. >> and i dont know. and thats -- and it felt like a split second. >> a split second? remember, in his letter, ralph 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 me three...

Front of his house, hurt. >> i got to him and asked him if he needed help. and he seemed to be kind of out of it. >> finally ralph managed to get the words out. he and his wife had been attacked and robbed. very afraid the attackers might still be in the house, called 911. >> he looks like he had been shot. he said somebody broke in last night. >> 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 ...

>> and suddenly jerry realized how blind hed been. >> you didnt understand, but then afterwards it all -- all the pieces fell into place. >> you were never suspicious? >> i trusted her. dont we do that? in a relationship? >> no trust now. shannon and aaron were furious, told the elopers, interlopers more like, stay away from the wedding. but they couldnt pretend it hadnt happened. and when they hit the little bumps most young marriages encounter, it colored everything. did your father and her mo...

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 it somewhere around where your victim is. and it looked like the poker had been put back in its original place. >> heres what ralph wrote. i picked up the poker to stir up the fire. i saw blood on the end of it and put it down. so investigators studied ralphs

>> something like that. >> that was the thought. >> two wives, one missing, the other dead. and the one thing they had in common was ralph candelario. but suspicion alone wasnt enough. it wasnt proof. so the investigation continued? >> yes. >> in an effort to shake him, or maybe even get a confession, they sought help from the one person whose presence back at the hospital made ralph break down and cry. shannon. >> cbi had me call him, bugged my phone and tried to get him to tell me what happene...

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. >> he was very upset that they were missing. >> a better question, why would he care? th...

>> reporter: suicide attempt, delaying tactic, whatever it was it didnt work. a day later the judge ordered ralph back to court. >> people versus ralph lee candelario sentencing. >> reporter: and ralph, bandaged up, got another day in the spotlight. >> your honor, i have maintained that i have been innocent through this whole process. >> reporter: and then a keen observer might almost have heard the jaws drop around the courtroom. >> pam will be resurrected. we will be able to see her again. we ...

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 was there. >> what was that like. >> that was kind of the final straw. >> naturally if she was gone, she would have taken those things with her. >> t...