. >> sharon zachary lived next door to rogers and acted as his caretaker. >> sharon zachary had become almost like a daughter to him. she would take care of him. she would look in on him. she would come and visit him. >> it worked out nicely until the day sharon zachary stopped by rogers' home and found it had been broken into. >> what's the problem? >> we have an elderly gentleman, he's been robbed and broken into. the back sliding glass window was broken. my husband yelled for him, but he wouldn't answer. >> when police arrived, they found robert rogers on the living room floor. he had been beaten to death. >> the person that committed this crime did not want any possibility of mr. rogers to be alive to identify the perpetrator. >> it looked like a piece of firewood was used to break the rear sliding glass door. drawers and closets had been ransacked. but if the motive was robbery, the perpetrator had not been entirely successful. >> after the homicide, they found $133,000 in cash hidden in the house, which that by itself was such an attention-grabber in this community. i mean, that