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Erica started running and crying to the teacher and said don't let him hurt me. >> reporter: judith told detective arnold about her fear of men with braids. there it was, the mystery man had braids. the image was too fuzzy to figure out. rick circulated a freeze frame of the man and hoped someone could identify him. then, he waited. eight months later, rick got promising news. a detective thought he recognized the walgreen's guy from another shooting. >> i might want to check him out. >> reporter: his name, kenneth williams. he compared several mug shots and you think you have the guy? >> i th...

An unlikely witness came forward about information of kenneth williams. the witness for shawn turner was questionable. he was charged with murder, himself, for which he pled guilty to manslaughter and he was gravely wounded in a shooting. >> he's on his death bed. he thinks he's going hell and has something he needs to say. >> reporter: weeks later, his health improved enough to talk to rick arnold. >> they hit a lick on some lady. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> slang for a robbery. >> reporter: robbery that quickly escalated to murder. >> he knew things he couldn't have known. he knew t...

Circuit monitor where she was see the other in a room. >> he's got time to think, what is he telling detectives? what is he talking about? >> reporter: he needed both suspects to admit they were in the house when the shootings went down. that would back-up murder charges. he said he knew nothing about the crime. as the interrogation wore on, he started blaming the man in the other room. >> i want you to tell me why you killed her. >> i wasn't there. >> reporter: but, detective arnold new something he did not. after his first interview, rick scooped up the smoked down marlboros for dna testing....

Arnold new this would be a high profile case. he didn't know it would be the case of a lifetime. >> today's date is may 18,2006. >> reporter: a video camera rolled as detective arnold processed the crime scene, honing in on clues. >> this drum, near the victim's body, a shell casing. >> reporter: the harsh reality of death lay side by side with the every day images of young life. erin's body in a pool of blood, near a red kiddy wagon. a shell casing in front of a box of diapers. and the bed where erica jumped for joy was covered in her own blood. >> suspected blood on the sheets, pillows and p...

Knew it was your daughter. what went through you? >> i lost a son in '78 in a car wreck. he was gone when i got to the hospital. i shed a few tears. this was different. he was 21, had no children. >> the loss of erin was devastating. now the family had to deal with what happened to baby erica, finding out in the most impersonal way. >> i knew she was hurt. the police rushing her down the street, i saw on tv. >> reporter: later, they learned how badly hurt. she had been shot in the head. >> why, in the name of god, would somebody do that? >> reporter: it was this man's job to find out. in your ...