the victim was ciara ingram.ood friend, kendra smith, said she had not been answering your phone for days. >> at first i thought, you know, why did i not go down there? i knew something was wrong. >> police would later estimate that she had been dead in her apartment for nearly a week. >> i think i was, i think i was so distraught. that she was gone. then i don't really think that at the time, i put a lot of thought into who did it. or why. >> apartment managers told the arriving officers that she had small children, so one of the detectives first questions were where are the kids now? and that led to a bigger question. one all homicide inspectors ask. what's the back story here? what is the victims life all about? they began piecing together the story of ciara ands jarod ingram. >> she was the wife and mother of your children? what do you think of her? and the brutality of it? >> it's awful. i don't wish that on anybody. >> sierra, already the mother of a young boy, met jarod ingram when they both in the seat in