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Crying. he said she is in the kitchen. i'll go get my neighbor. ralph, we're getting help for you ralph. >> the police arrive. went into the house with guns drawn. at the entrance to the kitchen, still in her nightgown lay pam. her head covered in blood. >> i knew she was dead when the ambulance showed up because they did not go into the house. they just stayed and were working on ralph. >> ralph wasn't shot, but he was hurt. he was air lifted to the nearest trauma hospital. the local reporter knew the town was not equipped to handle this investigation. >> you don't have murder cops on staff. ...

But here's what pam's daughter, shannon, thought. >> it felt overly dramatic and really just glamorous that he was the victim of this. and that wasn't -- that made me sick. >> and angry obviously. >> yeah. >> her sister kelsey's interpretation? >> i thought it was very strange. i thought that he had some work to do on a story because it sounded really phony. >> entitled to their opinions, of course. but then so were the cops. recovered memory? no, said the cbi's jody wright. more like a cover-up. >> nothing in his statement matched anything that i knew to be at the crime scene. it just didn't ...

But i looked down the hall, and i could see pam's legs in the kitchen. that's when he ran out of the house and found his neighbor who called 911. of course, the "world journal" printed all that though the police weren't too happy about it. and eric mullens? >> i remember taking it home and reading it and putting it down and thinking, no, it didn't say that. and picking it back up again. >> but remarkable as ralph's letter was, it still wasn't the whole story. a few weeks after the murder, he mustered up the courage and told the police -- >> while he was held captive, he had asked to go to the ...

Hillary clinton campaign. this comes three days ahead of the meeting with president trump and vladimir putin in helsinki. and demonstrators protested his visit in nearby london as president trump meets with the queen. now back to "dateline." >> welcome back. i'm craig melvin. when ralph candelario's account of the home invasion was published, it became the talk of the town. everyone wondered, could this story be true? ralph said yes. and police wondered if the truth was in there, somewhere. returning to "tangled," here's keith morrison. >> ralph candelario appeared to believe that his 3,300-...

Somebody was breaking into the house. the police, of course, brought that up with ralph. 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. and it looked like the poker had been put back in its original place. >> here's what ralph wrote. i picked up the poker to stir up the fire. i s...