. >> reporter: ramon baros and jose ninajualpa, known drug users.d rap sheets, a history of breaking and entering and assault. one informant said ramon was trying to sell jewelry the day after the murder. so you have a responsibility to check into that? >> yeah. >> pam's daughter shannon found herself blaming ralph for not preventing what happened. >> i was angry at him. in my mind i was like, why didn't you protect my mother. that's your role as her husband. >> and right about then the biggest scoop of eric mullen's career landed right in the lap of the "huerfano world journal." >> i've been in news since i'm 15 years old. i've seen a lot of things walk in the newsroom. but i have never seen anything like this. >> in through the front door marched ralph candelario with an open letter to the whole town. >> it was him explaining what he could remember after he had been treated up in pueblo for his injury and interviewed by the cbi. >> this is my story and this is what happened. >> this is my story. and this is what happened to me >> "to whom it may c