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Interrogation." >> a freak snowstorm. like an omen. smothered the little town in the blue ridge mountains. february 19th, 2003, just before 9:00 a.m. winter or no, virginia was unused to this. then through the white blanket that blanketed the town, 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. cling lane. >> there were a lot of kids in that neighborhood. you are running a lot of things thr...

At first it was a little rumor that spread around. but soon everybody knew it was true. it wasn't any ordinary fire robert davis witnessed 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 son 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 fo...

>> all right. some type of -- >> clubbing device. >> clubbing device. >> snead knows the weapon was really a metal rod. >> then i hit her two times. because they said if it was -- if i didn't it would be -- >> wait a minute. now i got somebody else clubbing her, robert. i got someone else doing that act. >> robert has it wrong. >> jessica already confessed that rocky clubbed ann charles. >> you did another act. you know what that act is. and we know. that's the thing that has your -- something on it that's yours. >> what would that be? >> i'm not going to tell you. you're going to tell me. >> ...

Police cars pull up and get up, guns drawn. they order me out of the vehicle first. they get me walking backwards to them with my hands up. >> then, through all 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 by his feet, knocking him to the ground. ramming his face into the asphalt. putting him in handcuffs. >> the story the fugetts told the police, they had accomplices when they murdered ann charles, and one was robert davis. coming up -- >> i was scared. i was shaking. >> now, it would be robert dav...

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 had happened, really. >> it...