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Talk as much. she was quiet. >> reporter: with 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 thinking about the safety of the other kids and me. i didn't go out much. >> reporter: back at the police station, detective arnold was trying to find out his next move when he got a break. a 75-year-old spotted some of erin's things in a ditch three miles from erin's house and phoned police. there were empty prescription pill bottles, credit cards and id cards and personal paper...

Retired rick arnold knew it would be a high profile case. he did not know it would be the case of a lifetime. >> this is detective rick arn d arnold. today is may 18th, 2006. >> the video camera rolled across the crime scene. >> this is where the victim's body was located. >> the harsh reality of death lay side by side with the images of young life. erin's body in a pool of brood near a red kid wagon. a shell casing in front of a box of diapers. and the bed where erica jumped for joy was cases. >> detective arnold noticed something on the bed that would burn in his memory throughout the invest...

>> i wanted them to understand they didn't tell us the truth, the other guy may be. >> detective arnold even walked williams past a close circuit monitor where he could see quisenberry in an interview room. >> now, he's got time to think, what's he telling them about. >> detective arnold needed both suspects to tell them they were in the house. that would back up murder charges against both of them no matter who pulled the trigger. quisenberry was interviewed first. he said he knew nothing. but as it wore on, he started blaming the man in the other room. but detective arnold knew something qui...

With information about that same kenneth williams and the night erica and her mom were shot. but the witness, rashon turner, was questionable. he was charged with murder himself and he was also greyly wounded in a shooting. >> he's on his death bed. he thinks he's going to hell and he has something to say. >> weeks later, his health improved enough to talk to rick arnold. >> they hit a lick on some lady. >> what does that mean? >> slang term for a robbery. >> robbery that escalated to murder. >> he knew things he couldt have known. there's no way he could have known some of this stuff. >> what...

Detective rick arnold admitted it made his blood boil. >> why did you make that promise? >> that was probably a little emotion spilling over. if we were expecting at that point, the baby to die. >> erica had practically flat lined as the police caravan delivered her to kosair children's hospital. she was rushed to the emergency room where doctor and nurses worked frantically to stabilize her. dr. thomas moriarty, seen here during a recent operation, performed surgery on the gun shot wounds to erica's head. these were cat scans of her skull and brain, preop. >> part of the bullets and broken bo...