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The owner of the construction company who had built the shaws' new home, ernest touchet, told police he feared his two grandsons might have been involved in ron's murder. initially, police thought little of it, since the perpetrators were black and ernest touchet was white, until they looked at the mugshots of his grandsons. >> shannon touchet was a black male and was a product of an interracial marriage that his mother had had during her earlier years. >> 17-year-old shannon touchet had worked on ron shaw's home and would have known about the safe hidden in the master bathroom closet.

To go in the house when she opened the door. i was going to stand outside and wait for them. >> shannon said that the motive was robbery. this was how shannon repaid ron shaw for giving him a job at his grandfather's request. >> i was talking about my job, which mr. shaw, he was paying me good. i was telling them about that and how he had money and stuff. we started planning for, like, two weeks before, and then we finally went and did it. >> prosecutors say the three men drove to ron shaw's neighborhood and waited for the shaws to come home. witnesses saw the three men loitering in the area. ...

>> he had distress for her. -- diss trust for her. he wondered what her motivation was for marrying his father. had she married for money? >> and were there others who had a potential motive. a background check revealed ron had shifted funds from one oil drilling research project to another. one was successful, the other wasn't, which created substantial losses for investors. >> there were a couple of them that had actually lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. it didn't surprise them at all that the victim had met such a violent death, because they felt that his business practices were dubio...

Out of trouble. you know, they needed to do something. so, my husband says sure. my husband really appreciated the grandfather, ernest touchet, so, he said, of course, bring your two grandchildren and i'll hire them. >> police didn't believe the touchet boys would repay ron shaw's kindness in this way, or blam

He's the one that was very close to me. he had some gold teeth. >> ron shaw was a successful oil man. he had developed the concept of placing global positioning satellite chips in his drill bits, which improved accuracy when drilling for oil. although the shaws were a wealthy couple, police weren't sure the motive was robbery. >> they left jewelry in the safe. they left an additional $5,500 in the safe, gold coins that were valuable. he had $1,133 in his pocket. he had a rolex watch on his arm. and none of these were taken. >> and police found the box full of jewelry several hundred yards behi...