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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. investigators went to shannon's home. he wasn't there, but his mother was, and s...

Black males. either they deserved these black males within the vehicle or standing outside the vehicle, but it was parked in front of a vacant lot in this particular neighborhood, so it did stand out. >> 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 rosan...

>> in the yard, investigators found the projectile that passed through shaw's body. this along with the two inside shaw's body were sent to the forensics lab. under a microscope, firearms expert chris henderson discovered that the lands and grooves on two bullets were the same. the third bullet was different. >> we determined that we had two different shooters based on the class characteristics of the bullets. >> in their search for potential suspects, police had to consider whether rosana shaw had anything to do with her husband's murder. ron's grown son from his first marriage certainly thou...

Had found some bullets and a black bag, a black bag that she recalled had at one time also contained ski masks and drugs. >> police found the bag in shannon's bedroom. the drugs and ski masks were gone, but they did find 13 unfired .38-caliber bullets. investigators wondered whether these bullets matched the ones that killed ron shaw. firearms expert chris henderson examined the knurls on the fatal bullets. knurls are the ridge-like pro tuitions that hold the lubrication needed to fire them. henderson then compared those knurls with the knurls on the bullets found in shannon touchet's bag. >> ...

Use of computers, the extent to which he left evidence of premeditated murder on his work computer in such a sort of blatant way really continues to boggle my mind. there were lots of suspects in the murder of a millionaire oil man and many salivating over the man's estate, and that fact alone helped crack the case. >> ron and rosana shaw had just moved into their luxurious, new home in youngsville, louisiana, but they still had some things to do before the birth of their new baby. on this night, ron helped his pregnant wife by doing the grocery shopping. >> ronnie put two bags of