. >> reporter: a larry claytor took over. >> but one thing that, that kinda jumped out, it, that was outta place, there was a five gallon bucket sitting right in the middle of the living room floor with an empty bottle of rubbing alcohol. >> an empty bottle of rubbing alcohol? >> right. it didn't look like it belonged there. >> reporter: upstairs scattered near ann's body claytor found three aerosol cans, quite probably also accelerants, all of that liquid kindling for murder. >> there was a blob of melted plastic consistent with a smoke detector melted and laying on the floor. and then there was a battery, a nine-volt battery that looked like it would go to a smoke detector, in the sink. >> so somebody had taken it out of the smoke detector and -- >> that's what it appeared to be, that someone had removed it. >> reporter: so cruel and deliberate. all the more shocking in a town where murder is exceedingly rare. said deck tv phil giles. >> that's not occurrence -- style -- or style of a homicide. >> how did it hit you and members of the department? >> well, you have a victim and you