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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, especially about that little boy. >> yeah. >> still didn't know what...

February 19th, 2003, just before 9:00 a.m. winter or no, virginia was unused to this. the white blanket, a piercing sound. fire alarm. now the snow storm was the last thing on the fire chief's mind. >> the tone went off for fire of occupants possibly trapped inside. ramps everything up to full force. >> the alarm on a quiet street lined 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 to the home of a recently separated woman named...

A single mom and her little boy killed in a house fire. 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 small footprints out back in the snow. but forget dna. any p...

>> that's what it appeared to be, that someone had removed it. >> so cruel and deliberate, and all the more shocking in a town where murder is exceedingly rare, said detective phil giles. >> it is not a common occurrence, our style of a whom side. >> how did it hit you and members of the department? >> well, you have a victim and you also have a child. the child, of course, that always touches you in a different way because it is a three-year-old child. >> these things do touch you personally, don't they? yeah. outside, the curious onlookers were a beat behind. all they knew was that ann charl...

Parking lot talking, just laughing, and all of a sudden multiple police cars pull up. they get out, guns drawn. they order me out of the vehicle first. they get me walking backwards to them with my hands up. >> then -- through all of the terror and confusion, it dawned on kevin marsh. it wasn't him they had come for. >> so then i see them getting robert out, kicking him about his feet, knocking him to the door, ramming his face into the asphalt, putting him in the handcuffs. >> the story the fugats told the police, they had accomplices when they murdered ann charles. and one was robert davis. ...