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thank you for watching. >> im craig melvin. >> and im natalie morales. >> and this is dateline! >> he said he couldnt handle talking about it. i was angry at him. if youre not going to tell me what happened, then youre going to dance around the issue and tell three different stories, what are you hiding? >> it started as a teen romance. >> two of my girlfriends are like, theres this guy, and you need to meet him. >> i was in love, yes. >> it ended in one of the strangest love stories y...

bus. >> right before their wedding, her mother and his father got married. >> they told us, we ran off, we eloped. who does that? >> two families and a small town left stunned. but it was nothing compared to what happened next. >> he looks like hes been shot. he said someone broke in last night. >> a deadly attack in the dark of night. her mother murdered. >> i realized that last conversation i had with her, that was it. >> his father bruised and bewildered. >> i dont remember anything...

Investigation of this magnitude. >> you have small town departments, five, six, seven people. you dont have murder cops on staff. you dont have forensic professionals on staff. >> so by the time shannon arrived at the hospital looking for her mother, an agent of the colorado bureau of investigation was there to meet her. along with aaron. how did she take it? >> about as well as you expect anybody to get hit by a sledgehammer or whatever. first youre just kind of shocked, then a little bit of de...

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 stayed, and were working on ralph. >> ralph wasnt shot, but he was hurt. and he was air lifted to the nearest trauma hospital. walsenburg, as local reporter eric mullens knew, was not equipped to handle an in...

Th that. i know you want it. surplus military equipment has been made available to law enforcement. this is equipment rotting in warehouses that a past administration didnt want you to have. some day theyll explain that one to me. i have heard the reasoning. youre getting it and its coming in droves. as we get additional equipment, we send it out to our great police. when an officer is hurt, its a wound inflicted on our entire nation. in my administration, we strongly believe that criminals that...

>> ralph wasnt shot, but he was hurt. and he was air lifted to the nearest trauma hospital. walsenburg, as local reporter eric mullens knew, was not equipped to handle an investigation of this magnitude. >> you have small town departments, five, six, seven people. you dont have murder cops on staff. you dont have forensic professionals on staff. >> so by the time shannon arrived at the hospital looking for her mother, an agent of the colorado bureau of investigation was there to meet her. along ...

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 stayed, and were working on ralph. >> ralph wasnt shot, but he was hurt. and he was air lifted to the nearest trauma hospital. walsenburg, as local reporter eric mullens knew, was not equipped to handle an investigation of this magnitude. >> you hav...

Crying. he said she is in the kitchen. ill go get my neighbor. ralph, were getting help for you ralph. >> the police arrive. went into the house with guns drawn. at the entrance to the kitchen, still in her nightgown lay pam. her head covered in blood. >> i knew she was dead when the ambulance showed up because they did not go into the house. they just stayed and were working on ralph. >> ralph wasnt shot, but he was hurt. he was air lifted to the nearest trauma hospital. the local reporter knew...

>> 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 stayed, and were working on ralph. >> ...

>> i knew she was dead when the ambulance showed up, because they didnt go into the house. they just stayed, and were working on ralph. >> ralph wasnt shot, but he was hurt. and he was air lifted to the nearest trauma hospital. walsenburg, as local reporter eric mullens knew, was not equipped to handle an investigation of this magnitude. >> you have small town departments, five, six, seven people. you dont have murder cops on staff. you dont have forensic professionals on staff. >> so by the tim...