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>> all they knew was he was somewhere, probably mexico. >> but it was a full six weeks before they tracked him down, surprised him at a relative's house, sure enough in mexico as he played one of the video games he stole from amber's store. detective roberts finally got his suspect exactly where he wanted him. >> we're in a gym, a cold, stinky, loud, kbim. >> i'm detective roberts. >> all this background noise. we read him his rights. >> and he starts talking. >> i've had this guilt for a long time. i've been wanting to turn myself in. but i was put the needs of others before me. >> wait. he p...

Awful morning in the video game store. amber belkin's funeral was huge, as if in death she had been adopted by the community around her. >> over 600 people, and the ones that couldn't get into the chapel waited in the lobby and in the parking lot. >> is that a comfort? >> a very big comfort. that she touched that many lives. >> they loved amber. they said, we love amber. >> as amber's parents watched, they could not stop seeing in their heads another scene, the one in the back room of the video game store, the way she was killed. >> they told me it was personal. >> she had to be so frightened....

>> when they searched his house -- >> it seemed like a scene out of a movie, going through drawers, thrown her clothes. they left my house a wreck. looked in the attic, looked in our garage, in our refrigerator. they went through my car. you know, they were swabbing stuff, little sticky circle things, just swabbing everything, swabbing everything. >> even when he was finally cleared, he said, no one told him. nor, he said, was he told amber had written him up, although he agreed they hadn't always seen eye to eye on some things. and until we spoke with him, he said, he had no idea amber's moth...

That animal. >> like her little dog, buddy. amber's parents, leigh and randy. >> she actually ran for buddy across the expressway, and the hair was all matted up. looked like dreadlocks. >> and she said, well, i can't put it back out on the road, it will get killed. >> so i just opened the door and let it in. >> amber was their only child. they doted on her from the day she was born, and she was good in return. >> amber was the type person that would give you the shirt off her back. she helped anybody that needed it. they didn't even have to ask. >> she was going to make sure that you were pro...

Including amber's father. >> my brother called me and said there was a robbery and a manager had found someone murdered in the store. my daughter was the manager. i started calling amber's phone. >> you thought she was the manager who discovered a body? >> i jumped in my truck and i called a friend of mine who is a defense attorney and i said, i need you to call anybody that you can and see what you can find out. and i was just about there, and he called me and he said, how far are you from there? >> that's when he realized it wasn't that amber found someone dead. >> they found her. [ crying ]...