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 groceries on my arms. we started walking towards the house. and all of a sudden, three men jumped from behind the garage. [ shots ] >> i was in shock. i was just waiting for them to shoot me. they put the guns to my head. >> they told rosana to open the safe in the master bathroom. >> open the safe, lady. now! >> i tried to open the safe, and i just couldn't. i was so nervous, i was shaking. then he said, "you'd better open it this time or i'm going to kill you." >> rosana finally remembered the combination. >> he was disappointed. i guess he was expecting a lot of money, a lot of cash in there, but it wasn't a lot. >> the men took $7,000 in cash and a box of jewelry. >> and i thought okay, now, he's going to kill me. >> in desperation, rosana begged for her life.

>> i got on my knees, and i told him, i'm pregnant. >> the killer backed off, but left her with a warning. >> he said, "if you come out of here, i'm going to kill you." [ sirens ] >> the men left, and rosana called police. 52-year-old ronald shaw was pronounced dead at the scene. police knew right away that this was an inside job. >> whoever was responsible for the death had to know the layout of the home, or certainly, at least, that there was a safe contained inside the bathroom of the home. >> rosana was unable to give a detailed description of the killers because they were wearing masks. >> i could tell they were young. they were black males. and they -- the first one was wearing a red ski mask with some black around the eyes. 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 behind the shaws' home. >> we had considered that the motive may have been a murder-for-hire, as opposed to a robbery. >> the question was, who wanted ron shaw dead? ron shaw's murder was a

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ron shaw's murder was a major news story in louisiana and the entire gulf coast region. >> it was huge. it was characterized as a well-organized home invasion of people who police believe laid

in wait for the shaw family. >> the victim was portrayed as a very wealthy business executive. and then to have him killed in front of his wife certainly hit a nerve with society in general. >> the shaws' home was only a few months old. not all of the landscaping had been completed. and this produced the first piece of evidence. >> it's a new construction. there was builder's sand in the back of the house. so, as the suspects stepped in that sand in the back of the house and went through the house, they left real nice shoe impressions down the hallway. >> the outside print was preserved with a substance called denstone. >> kind of like pancake batter. then you're able to lift those impressions and bring them back to the crime laboratory. >> inside though home, investigators lit the hardwood

floors from various angles and saw two more sets of shoe impressions. criminalists lifted the prints with gelatin strips. >> you roll the gelatin with the black side down on to your questioned shoe impression. and when you peel it off, the adhesive in the gelatin adheres to the dust particles on the floor. >> with some research, investigators identified the prints outside as a pair of size 10 nike air jordans. the perpetrators inside also wore nike shoes. one wore the air medal force model, the other the shocks trainers. when police interviewed the neighbors, several of them said they saw a burgundy-colored car parked a short distance away from the shaws' home. >> the vehicle was occupied by black males. either they observed 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 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 other torso shot, the bullet went all the way through his body. >> in the yard, investigators

found the projectile that passed through shaw's body. this, along with the two bullets found 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 thought so. >> he had distress for her. he wondered what her motivation was for marrying his father. had she married for money? >> and there were 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 dubious and unethical. >> with so many potential avenues to explore, investigators focused first on who knew that the shaws had a safe? >> the people that knew about the safe was the safe company, my family, ronnie's family, people at the office, the architect, the construction workers, friends. there was a lot of people that could have known about the safe. >> the general contractor who built the shaws' home fully cooperated with authorities. >> ernest touchet revealed the names of several disgruntled employees that he felt might play a role.

and later added that he also had 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't believe the

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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 she was very helpful. >> she reported to us that she 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 protrusions that hold the lubrication needed to fire them. henderson then compared those knurls with the knurls on the bullets in shannon touchet's bag. >> we had the same number of knurls, same width, and those knurls looked kind of like railroad tracks going around the outer surface of that bullet. all the physical characteristics, everything that we could physically see and measure were indistinguishable from one another. we could not tell the difference

between one and the other. >> police brought shannon touchet in for questioning. he insisted he knew nothing about ron shaw's murder. he said he was with his 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, they were nike air jordans, same size. >> shannon's own mother disputed his alibi. she told investigators that shannon was out with two friends

on the night of the murder, reggie basile and ronald benson, and they were driving a burgundy car, similar to the one witnesses saw near the murder scene. when questioned, both reggie basile and ronald benson denied any involvement in the robbery and murder. police obtained a search warrant and confiscated all of the shoes belonging to the two men, but none matched the shoe impressions found inside shaw's home. so, investigators decided to look for genetic material inside the red ski mask that had been discarded after the murder. the forensic scientist turned the mask inside out and swabbed around the mouth area, hoping to pick up cells from saliva. >> using the entire surface area of the swab to collect as much of the potential cellular

material that's there. >> using a dna test called str, or short tandem repeats, scientists found dna from three different individuals inside the mask, but investigators needed to know who was wearing the mask before it was discarded. to find out, they analyzed the swab from the ski mask to determine who left most of the saliva behind, and the results of this test were clear. >> in this case, the major contributor of dna matched that of ronald benson. >> the red ski mask was very important because it corroborated the story that we were able to receive from mrs. shaw. mrs. shaw indicated that the person with the red mask was the most aggressive in the robbery. >> the identity of the other two dna profiles in the mask was inconclusive.

the ski mask implicated ronald benson. the shoe impression outside the shaws' home implicated shannon touchet. but there was no forensic evidence linking reggie basile to the crime. >> as an investigator, that's a little hard to swallow, you know. that's a little hard to leave in the end of the day with, knowing that there's nothing else you can do, and you feel fairly certain of who's responsible for doing it. >> investigators hoped that would change.

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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. when the shaws arrived, they were ambushed. ronald benson fired twice. [ gunshots ] reggie basile fired the third shot. shannon touchet stayed outside, leaving the shoe impressions in the sand.

benson and basile took rosana inside and forced her to open the safe. for reasons that are unclear, they didn't take all of the valuables inside the safe, but they spared rosana's life. >> i think my daughter saved my life that night. when i told that man that i was pregnant, it just did something to his mind that decided not to kill me. and yes, my daughter saved my life. >> while running to the getaway car, they dropped the box full of jewelry. as they drove away, benson threw his ski mask out of the car, unaware that it contained his dna. shannon touchet left ammunition matching the fatal bullets in his gym bag.

the murder weapons have never been found, nor the shoes that left the impressions inside the shaws' home. shannon touchet and reggie basile both pled guilty to first-degree murder and aggravated robbery and were sentenced to life in prison. ronald benson chose to go to trial. the jury found him guilty. he got the same sentence -- life in prison. >> the forensic efforts on the part of our crime lab were invaluable to the final conclusion in this case. without them, there would have been no conviction for any of the three defendants. >> it was amazing to me the -- about the dna, the shoe prints, all the evidence they can gather from the crime place, you know, that can help find out who did it. >> there's a lot of technology. if things are done right, everything falls into place. and sometimes a little bit of luck helps.

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