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I was standing there. she can be an absent-minded dingbat. >> reporter: but remember the day police searched the loft? >> they took apart my toaster. >> reporter: she was focused like a laser that day, said bianca, watching intently, she said, as an officer looked in the empty 9 millimeter gun case. >> i was sitting beside her. >> reporter: no test fired shell casing, she said. >> i dont mean to sound cynical, but i know it wasnt there. >> reporter: only possible conclusion, said bianca, it was ...

First kay now becky? >> it just -- it did not make sense to me. >> what in the world was going on? >> thats what i wanted to know. >> reporter: sheriffs deputies immediately canvassed the neighborhood looking for anyone matching beckys description of the shooter. >> so you have a gunman on the ground on the loose. >> right. >> what are you doing on that score? >> we had started sending units out to see if anybody had seen anything, see if anybody heard any gunshots. see if they saw anybody match...

Wedding ring away. we had to dig it out of the garbage. i was standing there. she can be an absent-minded dingbat. >> reporter: but remember the day police searched the loft? >> they took apart my toaster. >> reporter: she was focused like a laser that day, said bianca, watching intently, she said, as an officer looked in the empty 9 millimeter gun case. >> i was sitting beside her. >> reporter: no test fired shell casing, she said. >> i dont mean to sound cynical, but i know it wasnt there. >> ...

Ive worked. >> a lifelong local, once promising pitching career at the university of louisville, detective rick arnold knew it would be a difficult case but he didnt know it would be a case of a lifetime. >> todays date is may 18th, 2006. >> a video camera rolled as detective arnold processed the crime scene, honing in on clues. >> the victims body, a shell casing. >> the harsh reality of death lays side by side with the everyday images of young life. erins body in a pool of blood, near a red ki...

And when the cops found it and scoured the interior, they got a hit. chris dna. >> we had a dna result from the inside door handle of the suv. >> reporter: it was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris in ken dolezsars car drivers side which certainly helped the case. but it wasnt quite air tight, not yet. the murder weapon had not been found. yet they found an empty gun case in chris and biancas apartment, but nothing to connect the case to the murder. and just about then ...

>> what a blessing as opposed to the bullet going through and damaging and destroying everything. >> dr. moriarty was relieved that it only struck the brains frontal lobe, which can absorb injury better, especially in the very young. >> less than 3 years old, the brains ability to repair is truly remarkable. >> after a delicate 3 1/2 hour surgery, he was encouraged by comparative scans of ericas brain. the bullet and brain fragments in the pre-op image were gone. despite the repair, brain injuri...

Casing. >> reporter: big moment. >> big moment. >> reporter: big moment because when ballistics tested that shell casing -- >> it was a match. that shell casing was fired from the same gun as the shell casings recovered at the scene where ken dolezsar was killed. >> reporter: chris wrights missing gun must have been the murder weapon. now the case looked very strong indeed. though chris wife bianca certainly didnt think so. >> i know categorically that christopher different do it. >> reporter: i...

A 911 call from a condo where jim knapp went to live after carol was killed. >> we came for a welfare check of a friend of mine. the doors open. it looks like a gun shot hole in the window, and theres a shell casing inside and the bedroom doors closed. >> who are you doing the welfare check on? >> jim knapp. >> reporter: jim knapp was dead. gunshot wound. the medical examiner ruled it a suicide. >> i was stunned. it was -- it was one of those moments where it just sort of took my breath away. an...

>> if you knew sweet bianca, she accidentally threw her gorgeous wedding ring away. we had to dig it out of the garbage. i was standing there. she can be an absent-minded dingbat. >> but remember the day police searched the loft? >> they took apart my toaster. >> she was focused like a laser that day, said bianca, watching intently, she said, as an officer looked in the empty .9 millimeter gun case. >> i was sitting beside her. >> no test fired shell casing, she said. >> i dont mean to sound cyn...

Flee the scene. and when the cops found it and scoured the interior, they got a hit. chris dna. >> we had a dna result from the inside door handle of the suv. >> it was a tiny sample, not a perfect one, but it seemed to put chris in ken dolezsars car drivers side, which certainly helped the case. but it wasnt quite airtight, not yet. the murder weapon had not been found. yet they found an empty gun case in chris and biancas apartment, but nothing to connect the case to the murder. and just about...