. >> jim christopherson was one of the first to arrive at the scene. >> the entire residence was ransacked, everything turned upside down, chairs turned upside down. anything that was in a drawer was tipped out and spilled out on to the floor. >> when they got to the couple's bedroom, police discovered this was more than a robbery. >> clifford merck had been lying across the bed with his hands and feet bound with some sort of a cord, and he was obviously deceased. it was later determined that he had been shot in the head twice. >> nearby police found a pillow with two bullet holes. the pillow had been used to muffle the sound of the gunshots, but there were no spent shell casings in the home. >> so, whoever committed the crime probably collected those casings to hide the evidence or to throw the investigation off track. >> the search team found alma merck's body in the second bedroom. >> there was a sliding panel in this location, and as we slid it back, one could see that there was a body placed in this closet. >> he told me that my mother, they found her in a wardrobe with a telephone co