lee evans became a suspect immediately? >> yes. >> reporter: why is that? ecause he was last seen with the children. >> reporter: evans took a polygraph. it was inconclusive. >> there was a lot of flies around the case, you know. and flies only come around when something is stinking and it was dirty. >> reporter: back in '78, police, desperate for clues, searched the woods, the morgues, even tried a ouija board. in 1976, they consulted two psychics. >> somebody got buried or i would not get those feelings i did. >> reporter: still, they came up empty. the mystery continued to make headlines. families endured painful anniversaries. >> every year you play it over again. you look at what are the possibilities. what could have happened. >> reporter: in 2007, eutsey asked lieutenant louis coraga to help on the case. you had to start from scratch? >> start from scratch. >> reporter: in 2008, a strange switch. suspect lee evans called one of the victim's brothers and told him he had become a born-again christian, and wanted to let him know that mobsters were involv

lee evans and philander hampton are charged with murder and arson.orked odd jobs for evans. but the 56-year-old had been cleared as a suspect until new information surfaced. >> detectives believe that the victims had broken into one of the defendant's homes and stolen an undetermined amount of marijuana. >> reporter: on that hot summer night, the five boys played a game of pickup basketball in this neighborhood. after dinner, they went out to meet with evans. they were never seen again. debbie wilson doesn't believe her brother melvin deserves to die for an alleged break-in. she is furious that evans didn't get caught sooner. >> it's not closure for me because i really believe that this man walked around for 30 years, living his life. our kids are dead, buried underneath some ground, and you had no heart. you didn't tell us. >> reporter: police say a third man, believed to be involved, died two years ago. evans and hampton face arraignment wednesday. bail has been set for $5 million each. terrell brown, cbs news, newark, new jersey. >>> in connecticu

prosecutor says 53-year-old siland ra handson and lee evans held them at gunpoint.nd later set it on fire. the teen's remains were never found. the break in this case came this week when a new witness came forward. the judge also continued bail for both men at $5 million each. vic? >> jessica, thank you. prosecutors say the killings were likely the result of a dispute over stolen marijuana. >>> virginia police say a case of road rage. police say 25-year-old gabriel proventu of woodbridge was driving a jaguar with his 2- year-old daughter inside. when he started fighting with a truck driver. police say proventud jumped out of his vehicle and fired 13 shots, hitting the truck several times as it drove away. faces charges of attempted homicide and child endangerment. the other driver is charged with reckless driving. >>> a mississippi student filed a lawsuit against her high school. the student wanted to bring her girlfriend to the dance. >> a federal judge ruled her high school violated her right by refusing to let the 18-year- old take her girlfriend to the big dance

police have arrested lee evans and hampton.osecutor says the suspects murdered the boys by burning them inside an abandoned building. bail for the each of the men remains at $5 million. >>> a texas woman tried to save her car by tossing her child who is 1 year old, into the vehicle, to prevent the repoe man from driving away. >> when people know their car is in for repoe, they'll go to any extent to keep it. >> it was late in the afternoon, when ross showed up on this house. the 31-year-old already had the keys to repossess christal gardner's ford expedition. >> i don't even have the door closed. with the key in it. starting it. and i look look out of the corner of my eye. and i see a baby slide through that window. >> reporter: dallas police say gardner tossed her baby through the open window of her suv. ross says the 1-year-old landed hard on the back seat. >> like a kid, bouncing on a bed. >> the boy immediately started crying. so ross put the expedition in park. state law forbids a law to be repossessed if a person is insid

new jersey teenagers to death in 1978 say they are not guilty. 53-year-old hampton and 56-year-old lee evans made their first court appearance in newark this morning. until yesterday nobody knew what happened to those five boys when they disappeared. it was one of the state's longest running missing persons cases. both suspects were charged with five counts of murder, one count of arson, being held on $5 million bail each. one of those guys reportedly told a family member what actually happened back in 1978. >>> the national urban league released its annual state of black america report today. for the first time it also addresses inequality for hispanics. the nation's fastest growing demographic group. it shows african-americans are making gains in overall equality but still twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. and more blacks and hispanics lack health insurance compared to white americans. i'm joined now by congresswoman barbara lee who chairs the congressional black caucus. was any of what you saw in this report can be congresswoman, a surprise to you? >> no, it wasn't. members of t

. >> reporter: late monday, police arrested 56-year-old lee evans and 53-year-old phil lander hamptonone of the longest missing persons cases ever in new jersey. at the time of the crime evans told police he dropped the boys off at a street corner near an ice cream parlor. >> he was the last one to see the kids and i've always felt that he was responsible. >> reporter: helen simmons has collected virtually every newspaper article since her nephew michael and his teenage friends disappeared. >> doesn't change anything. that's the sadness of it. you know? if this is justice, justice is always empty. >> reporter: the abandoned house was destroyed in the blaze. the five bodies were never found. >> the motive we believe was a result of apparently some marijuana that was stolen from the boys, from these individuals, apparently a few days earlier and this was a killing in retaliation for that. >> reporter: the break in the case came when a witness with direct knowledge of the murders came forward 18 months ago. newark police say they never looked at the matter as a homicide but always treate