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Burglaries aren't uncommon. especially with all the drugs around. >> then, said the defense, one of the bad guys saw pam. and he hits pam in the head hard. he's standing there in the kitchen. fire poker in his hand. woe wondering what to do. >> this family was supposed to be gone. that was the talk around town. >> so for the jury, it came down to whose story to believe. prosecutors said the police cleared those suspects right back at the beginning, but nothing could clear ralph. and nothing could soften the truly shocking allegation. ralph murdered pam because divorce would get him disfellowsh...

Fine, then -- >> we seemed to be getting along. everything was fine. she said, this is it, i'm done. >> what did that feel like? >> it was a crush. you were crushed. >> these two had more things in common, both products of broken homes. the wedding day approached, just a few days to go, when shannon's mother, pam, and aaron's dad, ralph, invited the bride and groom-to-be for dinner and a talk. ralph was every bit a devout a believer as pam. so some premarital guidance perhaps? oh, no. nothing like that. >> they told us, we ran off, we eloped and got married. >> wait, what? your mother and aaro...

It was, said the prosecutors, one of the more disturbing motives more murder they'd ever heard. >> so religious believes were more than important than someone's life. >> ralph's life was more important than anyone else's life. >> so the jury got the case and they worked until the end of the day and through a second and then a third. ti >> whether they convict him or they don't is going to be a different set of emotions. >> then in the middle of tv third day. we the jury find the defendant ralph guilty of count number i, first-degree murder. >> guilty, but the end of ralph's story. oh, no. on t...

Investigation that had occurred to that point. >> which the prosecution listed in detail for the jury to hear, but there's always more than one side to a story. defense attorney told the jury that when she read carefully through all the prosecution material, here's what jumped out at her. >> when you take a good hard look at their evidence, when you see they've interpreted the evidence to fit the conclusion they drew in the first 12 thours hours of this case. you see all it is is assumptions and sub positions and cub corners. >> but said the defense, if the jury looked at facts, they would see...

Telling me that she just wasn't as happy as she should have been. >> lots of circumstantial evidence, almost enough. not quite. and then the antique rugs. >> i was searching the kitchen area and found in the washing machine two small size rugs. and the rugs were still very wet. and they were balled up to one side. >> but when ralph saw the rugs during a walk-through with the police, he didn't seem to recognize them. >> i mean, i've never seen these rugs. >> the minute we heard he had never seen them, we knew the rugs had importance. we just didn't know how. >> they sent the rugs to the lab. an...