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Piece by piece, evidence mounted that robert davis may in fact be innocent. that confession, experts insisted, was coerced. even the admitted killers swore robert had nothing to do with the murders. and still he sat in prison. his petition for clemency denied. then support from an unlikely source and a second chance for freedom. back with more of "the interrogation," her is keith morrison. >> every moment of those years, dictated by one long night with officer randy snead at the miserable, exhausted end of which robert said the words he cannot take back. >> you stabbed that woman. >> i stabbed...

Something the town's rumor mill failed to -- catch by the time kevin and robert went out to 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 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 co...

The murder of the young mother 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 t...

In the snow. but forget dna. any possibility of finding that was flushed away by fire hoses. >> and then i get word from the medical examiner's office that they had recovered a knife that was sticking in the woman's back. what did you think when you heard that? >> i went back to my photographs and, sure enough, in the middle of her back was the knife. >> so someone stabbed her. but who? firefighters tipped police that a brother/sister duo across the street, rocky and jessica fugett, had been watching the fire, claimed to know the victim. robert davis and his friend, kevin marsh, knew them as a...

Stood beside robert. worried about the pretty young mother trapped in there and charles. >> she would come outside and play with the kids and we would talk here and there. but she was a really nice person. >> and then something good. ann's two daughters, katie and wendy, escaped unharmed from the downstairs bedrooms. but that left ann and little thomas, just 3 years old, unaccounted for. somewhere upstairs. >> we put the fire out and then we started checking the bedroom for occupants. >> nothing good after that. upstairs, firemen found little thomas on the floor beneath the window. dead of smo...