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>> a freak snowstorm. like an omen. smothered the little town in the blue ridge mountains. february 14th. just before 9:00 a.m. winter or no, virginia was used to this. the white blanket, a piercing sound. fire alarm. it was the last thing on his mind. >> the tone went off for fire of occupants possibly trapped inside. ramps everything up to full force. >> the alarm was on a street with starter homes. >> a lot of kids in the neighborhood. you are running a lot of things through your mind when you go in there? who are the occupants that you're going to have to rescue? >> the fire trucks raced t...

>> so cruel and deliberate. all the more shocking in a town where murder is exceedingly rare. said detective phil giles. >> it's not a common occurrence of homicide. >> how did it hit you and members of the department? >> you have a victim and then a child. the child, of course, that always touches you in a different way. excuse me. because it's a 3-year-old child. >> these things do touch you personally, don't they? yeah. >> outside the curious onlookers were a beat behind. all they knew is that ann charles and her little boy were no more. >> it's just devastated me. i was in shock, especiall...

A visit to the fugett's house where they learned enough to march the pair down to police headquarters two days later for questioning. rocky admitted he was there. to rob the place. >> i was in the house. i started downstairs. >> detective phil giles interviewed jessica. >> she eventually acknowledged. she tried to say it was somebody else first. and then at some point, put herself there. >> it was supposed to be routine. we go in, find her purse, take the money and leave. that was all that was supposed to happen. >> but then rocky way off script. tied ann to the bed with duct tape and turned i...

>> at first, it was just a rumor that sped around crozet, virginia, february 2003. pretty soon everybody knew it was true. it wasn't any ordinary fire robert davis witnessed out on cling lane. >> you hear about it in the grocery store or the gas station or stuff like that. >> it was clear that it was a murder. >> yes, sir. >> ann charles and her 3-year-old thomas were dead, horribly. the forensics man, larry claytor, got a better look at it than anybody. >> this is probably one of the more horrendous cases i had worked in my career. >> larry couldn't give investigators much to go on. a few sma...

>> so what did that tell you? >> right there, that keys up, this is a crime scene. we basically extinguished a fire that left everything as is. >> then forensics investigator larry claytor took over. >> the one thing that jumped out there that was out of place was a 5 gallon bucket sitting right in the middle of the living room floor with an empty bottle of rubbing alcohol. it didn't look like it belonged there. >> upstairs scattered near ann's body, he found three aerosol cans. quite probably also accelerants. all liquid for murder. >> there was a blob of melted plastic consistent with a smok...