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Tied ann to the bed with duct tape and turned it into murder. >> okay. who set the place on fire? >> rocky. >> who stabbed ann in the back? >> rocky. >> jessica told detective giles the murder weapons were a kitchen knife and metal rod for bludgeoning. at ann's house. >> couldn't find it without her and drove her out there and we walked then tire path and until we got to the hole and that's it right there. lo and behold, they reached in and discovered the two items were there. >> what was that like. >> these are intimate details and only those involved will know where the instruments were to k...

A few small footprints out back 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? >> 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, had been watching the fire, claimed to know the victims. robert davis and his friend, kevin marsh, knew them as aggressive troublemakers...

The floor and then a 9 volt battery that looked like it in the would go to a smoke detecter. it appeared someone removed it. >> so cruel and deliberate. all the more shocking in a town where murder is exceedingly rare. said detective phil jiles. >> 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. because it's a 3-year-old child. >> these things do touch you personally, don't they? >> outside the curious onlookers were a beat behind. all they kne...

I'm not saying that you raped anybody. >> i didn't cut nobody. >> didn't say -- >> didn't say you shot nobody. >> let me tell you, since you're not going to tell me. you stabbed that woman. >> i stabbed her. >> you stabbed her, didn't you? huh huh, one or two times. >> snead asks robert where. >> it was in the middle. >> and again, snead corrects him. >> you had a knife in your hand, all right, and prior to stabbing her in the back, all right, you cut her. >> it was essentially the police's confession, not robert's. >> tonight, today, i doubt it. >> why am i lying about all of this to you so i...

That confession, experts insisted, was coerced. even the admitted killer said he had nothing to do with the murders but his petition for clemency denied and then support from an unlikely source and a second chance for freedom. back with more of the interrogation. here's keith morrison. >> this is the coffeewood prison in mitchellsville, virginia. robert davis' home, this and other places like it, for something like 40% of his life. every moment of those years, dictated by one long night with officer randy snead of the miserable exhausted end of which roberts said the words he cannot take back....