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And what did he write in his letter? "i went out the back, and the rear door glass was broken. some pieces fell out when i opened the door." ralph even had answers to questions he wasn't asked, like why was the fireplace poker exactly where it belonged by the fireplace? >> normally if you used a weapon, you're going to find it somewhere around where your victim is. >> uh-huh. >> and it looked like the poker had been put back in its original place. >> reporter: here's what ralph wrote. "i picked up the poker to stir up the fire. i saw blood on the end of it and put it down." so investigators st...

>> reporter: ralph kept explaining. kept offering not less but more details. about, for example, the drawer pulls in his house, the ones investigators removed to test for fingerprints. >> in the event that one of the invasion persons touched them. >> reporter: now here's ralph with the police at his house just after pam was murdered. noticing the missing knobs. >> what happened to all the knobs? >> he was very upset that they were missing. >> well, i really don't understand why the knobs are gone. >> reporter: and he would know you're looking for fingerprints of these home invaders? >> yes. >>...

Again.er it was, said the prosecutors, one of the more disturbing motives for murder they'd ever heard.alph so his religious beliefs were more important than somebody else's life?so >> ralph candelario's life was more important than anyone else's life.th >> reporter: so the jury got the case.-- and they worked till the end of the day and then through a w second and then a third. tick tock.th >> whether they convict him or r they don't is going to be a they don't is going to be a different set of emotions. >> reporter: and then in the mbr middle of the third day --ree >> we the jury find the de...

>> oh, it's been a horrible day. >> reporter: best he could remember, said ralph, he got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, then decided to go downstairs to make sure the wood burning stove was still lit. but on his way to the bottom of the steps, he said, somebody hit him from behind. and then again from the side. >> i put my arm up, and boom. i mean, it just hit me like a ton of bricks. it hit me hard, you know, and so i went backwards. the ringing. i couldn't see no more. >> reporter: ralph was knocked unconscious. >> i mean, i don't remember anything else other than waking ...

And i know that i need to cope with whatever answer comes. >> your opening.ut >> yes, your honor. >> then here it was, february 25th, 2016. victory, had tied prosecutor ndl ryan brackley's hands, in one way, anyway.er >> well, we tried to tell the entire story about ralph candelario and ralph as >> in other words, the very suspicious disappearance of dena, the first wife, whose bodt has never been found. but --ec >> ultimately, the judge deniedt that motion, and we went to trial without that piece. >> you've already heard about the prosecution's evidence. ralph's open letter to the "huerfano "...