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Tried to obtain prescriptions using bogus names. >> and on the security tape, rick looked closely and saw the man in the baseball cap leaning through the window of the enclosed pharmacy section, seemingly checking out names from pill bottles. over and over detective arnold stared at the grainy walgreens tape. the man in the baseball cap looked familiar. >> one person looked like quisenberry. >> as in james quisenberry, family friend who phoned her minute before the murder. earlier, he told the detective how much he wanted to help the investigation. >> find whoever it is. >> rick wasn't buying ...

Theory, the person rushed away from the house, threw the pill bottles and credit cards into the getaway car and drove off. a few miles away, whoever was in the car got rid of the hot property, tossing earon's empty pill bottles and credit cards out the window along with the manual. that's how everything ended up together in the drainage ditch. >> i think they were just grabbing stuff and they thought we don't want to have this. she's dead. >> rick asked the pharmacist if he knew who broke into his car. >> he said i don't know for sure but i have a pretty good idea. >> the pharmacist remembered...

Time it turned to murder. when williams came along with a gun. >> i had no idea they would go in the house and kill you over a bottle of pills. >> the trial took one week and there was little doubt that quisenberry would be convicted of some crime. he got manslaughter and a maximum 45 years in prison. as for williams -- >> we, the jury, find the defendant, kenneth williams, guilty. >> guilty of murder. and then a life sentence with no possibility of parole, spared the death penalty only because one hold-out juror would not vote for it. did you think that he should have gotten the death penalty...

>> with still no idea why her sister and mother were shot, ebony and her grandparents remained fearful. >> you must have been worried, like who did this? and where are they? >> yeah. i was just thinking about the safety of the kids and me so i didn't go out much. >> back at the police station, detective arnold was trying to figure out his next move when his investigation caught a lucky break. a 75-year-old neat nick spotted some of earon's things in a rain-soaked ditch three miles from earon's house and phoned police, empty prescription pill bottles, credit cards, i.d. cards and personal paper...

>> james and kenneth williams. they supposedly had hit a lick on some lady. >> what does that mean? >> slang for a robbery. >> robbery that quickly escalated to murder. >> he knew things he couldn't have known. he knew things that weren't in the media. >> there are things he couldn't have known some of this stuff. >> what kind of things? >> that there were pills involved. >> a long, frustrating, 15-month investigation. but rick was finally close to the answers he had promised erica's grandmother. what kept you going during some of those times where you might have felt like i'm hitting a dead e...