he's a millionaire. >> reporter: anthony thomas says his daughter was impressed with cummins' alleged "you're telling me he's been in these fbi and the cia." "oh, yeah. oh, tad has got a bunch of money. actually a couple million dollars in the bank." >> reporter: still, thomas didn't object when cummins took elizabeth to church. former fbi agent brad garrett is an abc news consultant. >> the idea that he would bring elizabeth to this church doesn't surprise me one bit because he needs a cover story. look at this, i'm bringing you to church with my family. isn't this a wonderful thing? >> reporter: despite outward appearances, authorities say cummins' intentions become less of the spirit and more of the flesh. d.a. brent cooper says investigators discovered a special system cummins devised to exchange secret messages with elizabeth using the same e-mail account. what was kind of the nature of those messages? >> things that only people that were in an intimate relationship would share. there was a message that says, "i saw you standing by your backpack and just wanted to tell you, you h

. >> reporter: their father anthony thomas, often working around the clock as an exterminator to supportis five young children, insists he didn't know how bad things had gotten at home. it's hard for you to talk about, isn't it? >> yeah. >> reporter: you don't like to think about what was happening. >> i need to take a break. >> reporter: their mother's removal is a welcome relief. but almost immediately elizabeth is pushed into the teenage piranha pool known as high school. the ultimate outsider, she is bullied early and often. >> i mean, there's always cliques and she didn't fit in anywhere. >> reporter: what were they making fun of her about? >> they were calling her names. they were making fun of the way she dressed, her hair. no one would be her friend. so she was miserable. >> reporter: but elizabeth eventually found one person she thought she could trust. >> she had no one in that school to talk to except for this teacher. >> reporter: a popular and friendly science teacher, tad cummins. >> and that is how hot dogs are made. >> reporter: who would end up impacting her life more th

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but boston battles back thomas scoring a game high 33 points o boston rallying for the 123 to 111 win. game two is tuesday night in boston. >> nats hosting the mets and anthonyendon had a day for the ages. third inning nats up five-three, rendon with an up cut blow deep top left. his third rbi in three innings. all right. how about we go to the fourth inning now. >> crazy. >> same name t rendon, not done. two runners on, 406 feet to center. its nats nats l had a bases clearing double. rendon finished with three home runs and 10 rbi's, just short of the mlb record. record. touchdowns, if you will and tack on a safety. they beat the mets 20y 23 to five. that is crazy. >> is that the highest scoring baseball game ever? it's got to be in the records. >> it's got to be up there. i don't know. that is crazy. >> that is insane. >> right. mike thomas, looking a little sun kissed. >> i was going to say what happened to you this weekend. >> yeah, i made it out to the beach this weekend which by the way it was like -- it was summertime at the been. >> it really was. you're looking good. >> 92 degrees i think on saturday. so, it was hot. the water was brutally cold thou

it wasn't long before anthony garcia's name came up, a former resident who had been fired by doctors hunter and brumback. >> did your son kill roger brumback, mary brumback, thomasnd shirlee sherman? >> a lot of emotion. >> there were pictures that were so difficult for me to look at. there were intervws that's emotion at every turn in the story. you don't see homicide detective is cry very often. you see emotion. you see the 11-year-old boy. the emotion there. the mother of the suspect sat for an interview that was among the most painful things i ever had to watch as she was sort of resling with the notion that maybe her son was a killer. this is an hour full of emotion. >> wow. and i think dr. garcia had the motivation? >> it was a revenge story. it was a cold case for five years because they're looking at who could have killed an 11-year-old boy. maybe the target was his father. >> jim, thank you. thank you very much. >> you can watch jim axelrod's full story. it's called "resident evil." tomorrow night on cbs. >>> ahead, why ryan zinke is making the washington, d.c., headquarters cozy for canines. lu try to make history this weekend. >>> right now in the run