. >> clifford merck had been lying across the bed with his hands and feet pund with sobound withf cordand he was obviously deceased. it was later determined 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 hate the evidence or to throw the investigation off track. >> the search team found alma merck's body in the second bedroom. >> it was a sliding panel in this location. 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 cord tied around her neck. strangled. >> alma's jewelry and cliff's handguns were apparently stolen during the attack. investigators found two foreign fingerprints inside the home. one at the back door, the other on a sewing tray in the living room. in a search for suspects, a neighbor told police that he saw two men lurking around the mercks'