. >> jim kristofferson was one of the first to arrive at the scene. >> the entire residence was ransackedeverything turned upside down, a chair was turned upside down. anything in a drawer was tipped out and spilled on to the floor. >> when they got to the couple's bedroom, police discovered this was more than a robbery. >> clifford merck had been lying across the bed with his hands and feet pund with sobound withf cord. and 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.