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Detector melted and laying on the floor. and then there was a battery. a nine-volt battery that looked like it would go to a smoke detector in the sink. >> somebody had taken it out of the smoke detector. >> that's what it appeared to be someone had removed it. >> 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. bec...

They had their story and their culprits. except there was one more very significant detail offered up by both jessica and rocky. something the town's rumor mill failed to catch by the time kevin and robert went out for the evening a couple of days later. >> we went bowling. we went out to eat. just had a grand old time. >> by that time, it was after midnight and about time to go home to bed. >> we were sitting in the parking lot talking, just laughing. and all of the sudden, multiple police cars pull up and get up, guns drawn. they order me out of the vehicle first. they get me walking backwar...

As detectives search for suspects, the neighborhood's heartbreak turned to fear. who would want ann charles dead and was the murderer still in their midst? here again is keith morrison with "the interrogation." >> 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. th...

A nine-volt battery that looked like it would go to a smoke detector in the sink. >> somebody had taken it out of the smoke detector. >> that's what it appeared to be someone had removed it. >> 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? >> well, 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 person...

We went out to eat. just had a grand old time. >> by that time, it was after midnight and about time to go home to bed. >> we were sitting in the parking lot talking, just laughing. and all of the sudden, multiple 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 hi...