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Vcrs, coats and other items identified by the victims' relatives. when questioned by police, 23-year-old robert parker denied any involvement in the murders. >> there were no fingerprints. there were no eyewitnesses. he never admitted to being in those apartments. >> but a background check revealed past brushes with the law. >> at the time of the murders, robert was making his money by selling drugs on the street. and it -- pawning property and selling property. most likely stolen property that he got in drug trade and stuff. >> but then, princess gray recanted her story. apparently, she and r...

The case of barbara walsh was virtually identical. she, too, was doing her laundry and had left the door open while she went downstairs. like the first crime, parker used materials he found inside the apartment. after the sexual assault and murder, he used the towels in the bathroom to clean up before setting the fire. in the folded towels, one hair with the root intact survived the intense heat, smoke, and flames. a tiny hair found with the help of an angry girlfriend intent on getting revenge. investigators think the motive for parker's crimes was, in part, his anger and resentment towards h...

And he started like choking me and calling me bitches and whores and stuff. >> and gray said something else about parker's personal hygiene. >> she mentioned that after she and parker had made love, he frequently would go into their bathroom, clean up using their towels and leave the towels lying about their vanity. we found two towels in barbara walsh's bathroom laying on top of her vanity. >> although the towels had been in the fire, investigators wondered if parker might have used them after the sexual assault of barbara walsh. to find out, investigators took a close look at those towels. >...

>> for two years, investigators searched for the killer with no success. then investigators got a new lead from an unusual source. a woman incarcerated in the local prison. >> i mean, this tip is just too much to not, not handle right away. >> her name was princess gray. she was in jail awaiting trial for assaulting her boyfriend, robert parker, when he had the audacity to leave her for another woman. >> she had assaulted the new girlfriend. and then later when they were in court on that, she had also assaulted robert in the courtroom. and so she was now in jail on those assaults. >> princess ...

>> it was the kind of tale police had heard hundreds of times before. >> princess gray did have reason to lie. she was the jilted woman. >> but gray said she and robert lived just 150 yards away from the apartment complex where renee powell and barbara walsh were murdered. >> he started bringing stuff in the house. and i was like what are you doing? where did you get this stuff. he was just like just move, be quiet. be quiet, be quiet. so he brought the stuff in. then he put pepper all over the floor. >> inside or outside? >> inside and outside. >> the pepper would throw off the scent of any p...