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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. investigators went to shannon's home. he wasn't there, but his mother was, and she was very helpful. >> she reported to us that she had found some bullets and a black bag, a blac...

>> and about a mile from the crime scene, search dogs found a potentially crucial piece of evidence. >> while they were walking around in the roadway, they discovered a red ski mask with blue outlines on it next to the roadway, which was in direct line of sight to the rear of the victim's property. >> this ski mask, red with dark trimming around the eyes, was similar to the one described by rosana shaw. at ron's autopsy, the medical examiner confirmed that ron shaw was shot three times with a .38-caliber weapon. >> there were two torso shots. one of those torso shots, the bullet remained. the ...

Two grandsons that had worked on the home and that had also recently had several run-ins with the law. >> but investigators dismissed that idea. the perpetrators were black, yet, ernest touchet, and presumably his grandsons, were white, and ron shaw knew these boys personally. >> ernest touchet came to my husband and asked to hire his two grandchildren to keep them 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'...

Girlfriend that night. >> she did verify his alibi and stated that shannon touchet was, in fact, with her in lake charles. >> but looking at shannon's shoes, investigators noticed he was wearing nike air jordan basketball shoes, similar to the shoe impressions at the crime scene. scientists took casts of shannon's shoes and compared them to the cast from the impression in the sand outside ron shaw's home. >> we concluded that the shoe impressions at the crime scene were basically indistinguishable from those of shannon touchet's shoes. they had the same wear, the same physical characteristics,...

And our old internet just wasn't cutting it. so i switched us from u-verse to xfinity. they have the fastest, most reliable internet. which is perfect for me, because i think everything should just work. works? works. works! works? works. works. 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.