narrator: frank butler was annie's ticket out of greenville. they soon married. for the next six years, while butler and his new shooting partner john graham performed on the variety circuit, annie stayed in the background. that was about to change. butler and graham were playing a theater in springfield, ohio, when john graham suddenly fell ill. annie filled in, holding the targets. ( gunshot ) ( crowd booing ) that night frank kept missing, until a jeering spectator shouted: man: let the girl shoot! narrator: frank obliged. ( gunshot ) ( applause and cheering ) annie hit the targets every time... ( gunshot ) ...much to the dight of the raucous cwd. ( cheering and applause continue ) "butler and graham" soon ceased to be. mrs. butler took a stage name, borrowed from her paternal grandmother: annie oakley. when the shooting team of butler and oakley hit the road, traveling entertainment was in its heyday. man: here you are, little lady, and thank you, madam... narrator: circuses, theater companies and vaudeville acts traveled the country, playing venues from outdo

frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. >>> investigators released chilling new details into the shooting deaths of those two santa cruz police officers. sergeant loran "butch" baker and detective elizabeth butler were both killed in february as they questioned a sexual assault suspect there. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is in the newsroom with more on the findings. >> reporter: the officers were killed within three seconds of the suspect opening fire. the details that came out of this three-month investigation are haunting and in some cases heroic. >> both officers were standing at the doorstep when goulet exited the home. and within three seconds, goulet fired five rounds at the two officers. >> reporter: the santa cruz county sheriff describes the deaths of police sergeant loran "butch" baker and detective elizabeth butler as an ambush. the accused killer, 35-year-old jeremy goulet was shot and killed by other officers less than an hour later. >> a significant number of ruined struck goulet. he continued to return fire for a long time. >> reporter: the detectives came to the home in the middle of a februar afternoon. they had been talking to him through a window about 10 minutes trying to ge