. >> the night of the crimes, a woman named diana roper had seen her boyfriend, man named lee furrowe wee hours of the morning. lee furrow comes rushing into the house wearing coveralls splattered with what looks to be spots of blood. he changes clothes and turns around and leaves. there were other people in the house, and someone looked out the window and saw a white station wagon, matching the ryens' parked in the driveway with other individuals in that car. >> diana roper called the sheriff's department and she gave them the coveralls. the bloody coveralls that they recovered were booked into evidence. >> when diana roper later learned that a hatchet was used in the murders, she again called police and said that lee furrow's hatchet was missing from his tool belt. >> it would make sense that somebody like lee furrow would have killed the ryens. he was a convicted murderer. he had strangled to death a young woman and thrown her body into a canal. >> but san bernardino police waited 11 months before questioning lee furrow. and when they did, they never asked him about his missing ax