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>> my son came home. when he was at the barn, somebody hit him in the back of his head. >> does he know who did it? >> no idea. he don't know if he blacked out or what. >> nothing had been stolen. which led police to believe michael had surprised his attacker before he could steal anything. >> it created a lot of concern with the family. it was common in this area to at night leave a garage door open or even a window open or what have you. that was not the case after the barn incident. >> before this incident, 40 miles away, a woman was raped during a home invasion. a week before that, a woman...

>> as a reporter i'm hearing him say this and i'm thinking this guy is an absolute hero. when you saw the damage inside this home you realized had she been in there much longer, she certainly won't have survived. >> fire investigators determined the cause of the fire was faulty wiring and there was no functioning fire detector. >> the fire was ruled to have been an accidental fire. >> michael, effie and their baby moved in with michael's parents, but a month later, tragedy struck the ratleys again. >> michael ratley was sleeping in the living room with his newborn son. that was something he di...

>> and robbery didn't appear to be a motive. >> there was a purse by the window that was not taken. there was a wallet on the nightstand that was not taken. and she was not sexually assaulted in any way. >> investigators also found some personal items in michael ratley's possession that raised questions about the couple's marriage. >> there was a portable dvd player, a bottle of personal lubricant, and several dvd movies that contained adult male gay porn graphic material on it. >> it did lead to theories about motive, you know, he had a boyfriend somewhere and maybe he wanted to do away with ...

Idea the intruder entered through the ratleys' bedroom window. it had been freezing cold on night of the murder. yet, there were no foot impressions outside in the ground under the bedroom window. >> there was a heavy frost that night. also, there were no footprints in the frost where that would indicate that someone had disturbed it. >> and nothing had been tracked inside onto the bedroom carpet. >> this carpeting was white. and so if somebody had come in through the window, you would expect some evidence, some debris that would have been carried inside the residence from outside. >> in fact,...

I didn't know why this would happen and why it would have to be stephanie. there was no reasoning for this at all. >> there was no sign of forced entry into her ground floor apartment, although the killer might have come in through her bedroom window. >> the window screen had been removed from her window. which would indicate someone possibly had gone through that window. >> nothing was stolen. but some items in the apartment, a phone, a water glass, and a box of tissues were found in the closet of the second bedroom. >> the closet itself almost looked like somebody had been in that closet in ...