morning, chris hughes' father discovered the lifeless bodies of his son chris as well as doug and peggy ryennd their daughter jessica. among the carnage, first responders also found 8-year-old josh ryen. he was still breathing but barely. he was immediately airlifted to a nearby hospital. >> i first arrived with sheriff floyd tidwell. each of the victims had a combination of hatchet and knife wounds. this was such a brutal crime. >> the severity of the crime puts it on another level. i think we'd be lying if we didn't say that. >> we were trying to figure out a motive for these killings and couldn't come up with anything. nothing made sense. >> we heard there had been a murder up on the hill. as a community, our hearts grieved for these people. they're horse people. they were our people. >> how could anybody do this? it just doesn't make sense. they were the type of people no one would ever hate. ever. >> on the same day the bodies were found, a chino hills resident stumbled onto another discovery. one of the murder weapons lying on the side of the road. >> the hatchet had the victims' blood