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>> we had the same number of knurls, same width, and those knurls looked kind of like railroad tracks going around the outer surface of that bullet. all the physical characteristics, everything that we could physically see and measure were indistinguishable from one another. we could not tell the difference between one and the other. >> police brought shannon touchet in for questioning. he insisted he knew nothing about ron shaws murder. he said he was with his girlfriend that night. >> she did ...

When police interviewed the neighbors, several of them said they saw a burgundy-colored car parked a short distance away from the shaws home. >> the vehicle was occupied by black males. either they observed these black males within the vehicle or standing outside the vehicle, but it was parked in front of a vacant lot in this particular neighborhood, so it did stand out. >> and about a mile from the crime scene, search dogs found a potentially crucial piece of evidence. >> while they were walkin...

To me. he had some gold teeth. >> ron shaw was a successful oil man. he had developed the concept of placing global positioning satellite chips in his drill bits, which improved accuracy when drilling for oil. although the shaws were a wealthy couple, police werent sure the motive was robbery. >> they left jewelry in the safe. they left an additional $5,500 in the safe, gold coins that were valuable. he had $1,133 in his pocket. he had a rolex watch on his arm. and none of these were taken. >> a...

People at the office, the architect, the construction workers, friends. there was a lot of people that could have known about the safe. >> the general contractor who built the shaws home fully cooperated with authorities. >> ernest touchet revealed the names of several disgruntled employees that he felt might play a role. and later added that he also had two grandsons that had worked on the home and that had also recently had several run-ins with the law. >> but investigators dismissed that idea...

The owner of the construction company who had built the shaws new home, ernest touchet, told police he feared his two grandsons might have been involved in rons murder. initially, police thought little of it, since the perpetrators were black and ernest touchet was white, until they looked at the mugshots of his grandsons. >> shannon touchet was a black male and was a product of an interracial marriage that his mother had had during her earlier years. >> 17-year-old shannon touchet had worked on...

To go in the house when she opened the door. i was going to stand outside and wait for them. >> shannon said that the motive was robbery. this was how shannon repaid ron shaw for giving him a job at his grandfathers request. >> i was talking about my job, which mr. shaw, he was paying me good. i was telling them about that and how he had money and stuff. we started planning for, like, two weeks before, and then we finally went and did it. >> prosecutors say the three men drove to ron shaws neigh...

>> he had distress for her. -- diss trust for her. he wondered what her motivation was for marrying his father. had she married for money? >> and were there others who had a potential motive. a background check revealed ron had shifted funds from one oil drilling research project to another. one was successful, the other wasnt, which created substantial losses for investors. >> there were a couple of them that had actually lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. it didnt surprise them at all that...

Out of trouble. you know, they needed to do something. so, my husband says sure. my husband really appreciated the grandfather, ernest touchet, so, he said, of course, bring your two grandchildren and ill hire them. >> police didnt believe the touchet boys would repay ron shaws kindness in this way, or blam

Hes the one that was very close to me. he had some gold teeth. >> ron shaw was a successful oil man. he had developed the concept of placing global positioning satellite chips in his drill bits, which improved accuracy when drilling for oil. although the shaws were a wealthy couple, police werent sure the motive was robbery. >> they left jewelry in the safe. they left an additional $5,500 in the safe, gold coins that were valuable. he had $1,133 in his pocket. he had a rolex watch on his arm. an...