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here's dennis murphy with "what they saw." >> i think you're good to go. >> all right. thanks for sitting down with us. >> you're welcome, thanks for having me. >> did you take a butcher knife and plunge it into ciara's neck and kill her? >> no. >> while the kids were waiting outside? >> absolutely not. >> that did not happen? >> no. >> credibility. the reliability of years-old memories. there's a lot of that ahead, because this is the story of a murder. june 8th, 2012. columbus, georgia. it was an apartment maintenance man who found her. she'd been stabbed to death upstairs in the bedroom. in the kitchen sink, a butcher knife. the victim was ciara ingram, 28-year-old nurse and mother. her good friend kendra smith said she hadn't been answering her phone for days. >> at first i thought, you know, why didn't i go down there? well, i knew something was wrong. >> police would later estimate ciara had been dead in her apartment nearly a week. >> i think -- i think i was so distraught she was gone that i don't really think that at the time i put a lot of thought into like wh

here's dennis murphy with "at close range." >> reporter: winter comes early and stays late in far westernew york. the farmlands near chautauqua lake, tilled by amish and dutch families, are encased in snow and ice for months at a time, but in this place of frozen stillness, the hottest of passions, boiling jealousy, came to call one day, and tiny clymer, 1700 residents in the southwest part of the country, county, is still shaking off the shock of it all. joe gerace is the long-time sheriff. >> my 35 years in law enforcement, can you ever remember a homicide in clymer? never. >> it began quite simply. the new school superintendent in town went missing one weekend, just a few weeks into the school year in september 2012. keith reed, 51 years old, was a long-time educator who had landed in the sweet spot of his professional career. up until then school principal had applied for top administrative job in the climer district with his big brother kevin urging him on. >> old school in the county, i don't know if i should apply there. i said apply. >> reporter: you might think a close-knit commu

dennis murphy: 18:34:39;28pipe bombs are over here. tom stankiewicz: yeah, and mechanical timers that-- that are the device. and then you have the distractions that are laid in there. track 408 the device was filled with things that were meant to confuse -- this cell phone is a toy... connected to nothing. and some of the warning labels were phony. but it was lethal, with compressed black powder sifted from shotgun shells. stankiewicz's model was built to the exact specifications of the original... down to the make and model of the household items used. this digital timer was designed to sound a warning beep beep in the seconds before the bomb exploded. >> yeah, so that's what you're hearing right there. >> gives me chills. makes me want to get away from this thing as i hear it. >> yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: the bomb was the work of someone with machine shop skills. and, clearly, a devious mind. the original bomb parts were sent to the fbi lab in quantico, virginia. the scavenger hunt notes, meanwhile, were delivered to fbi behavio

here's dennis murphy with "the girl with the red shoes." >> veronica kasprzak is a determined woman. >> did someone say you can't save them all to you? >> my mother is probably the one that would say and still says that. but yeah. i heard that a lot. >> she rarely listened, though. the desire to do good, to save a child, was too strong. though sometimes in the quiet hours, she wonders if she did the right thing. >> if i wouldn't have picked that house, if i would have not taken a shower, if i would have done something else, she wouldn't have been in that situation. >> of course, no one could have known then that it would end up like this. >> i need to report a runaway. my daughter is missing. >> her daughter was annie grace kasprzak. although when veranda met her, she wasn't a kasprzak at all. >> she'd been through abuse, she had a hard time trusting other people. >> 2005, veronica was a case worker for university's division of children and family services. her job was to find homes for kids who no longer had one. annie was one of those kids. >> annie has kind of a larger-than-life p

murphy isn't on any of those. he is on mine. back to you. >>> thank you, dennis. chopper 5 is live over a protest in martinas. we will have a live report. >>> florida shatters the nationwide record reporting the highest number of new cases in a single day. why some experts say it could get worse. >> i think things are going to get worse before they get better. >> how the pandemic is changing the presidential race. we will have the results of a new poll. >>> you are watching kpix 5 news. >> a black lives matter protest in martinez. hundreds of people showing their support after a recent hate crime. >> let's get right to joe vasquez who is live at the scene. >> reporter: we are at waterfront park where this demonstration continues. it is going into its third hour. you can see people have brought numbers. they brought their homemade signs and peace. this demonstration started around 4:00. they marched onto the courthouse, then from the courthouse to the park. the courthouse is the site of a large black lives matter street mural. you may have seen that viral video from july 4 wear the white couple painted over th