this is where bambi bennett's family was ripped apart w parpa act of cruel unspeakable violence. bambi, her given name, was a fun, feisty good old girl, country through and through. >> i was at my grandparents a lot growing up. we gardened, we had a big yard, huge yard. >> you're a country girl? >> uh-huh. >> but she'd endured her share of heartache at a tender age. her parents divorced when she was just 6. mom re-married and a few years later came that terrible day she'll never forget. >> my daddy and my granddaddy passed away on the same day. i was 12 years old. >> all of a sudden you lost the two important men in your life? uh-huh. >> it was a bewildering and tragic day. there was so much sudden loss to absorb, young bambi not yet a teenager, paid no mind to her grandfather and father's wills. it turned outside she'd been left the entire homestead, all 240 acres of it, to be held in trust until she turned 18. not long after bambi inherited the farm, her stepfather, charlie, moved the family onto the property, her property. most everybody called him big charlie. bambi called him

>> figuratively. >> he said this was a story about a spoiled woman, bambi bennett, who manipulated hergagnon, into doing her murderous dirty work, get back the deed and get her mother off her back. >> he had heard from bambi how her parents were not fair to her, they have her land. my parents are horrible people and they're taking advantage of me. >> to make things right argued the prosecutor, the dutiful boyfriend and his right handman entered the house and hunted down bambi's parents in their night clothes. the jury heard a drama of southern gothic proportions dripping with greed. now time for a different story. >> none of the puzzle pieces fit. >> reporter: rick's defense team said the case was heavy on fiction, light on facts. >> they had a little pieces but the pieces weren't exactly right. >> the state was so desperate to prove its case, she said, it clung to the word of a jailhouse snitch and career criminal. >> a fellow there to cut himself a deal and get himself some assistance, i guess, in his own case, is not likely to be credible. >> not only was the snitch not to be believ