after a six-year investigation, john rams jr. r the 2005 murder of shirley reine. >> mr. rams, did you kill shirley reine? >> no. >> the latest chapter in a sordid family drama that plays out like a hollywood script. the reine family once run by a notorious arsonist later divided over the family fortune. and then, destroyed by the murder of one of their own. the d.a. said this man pulled the trigger. >> they always told me that they believed that rams did it. did he do it? i am not 100% convinced. was he asked to do it? i believe he was. >> by whom? >> buy todd. >> todd reine, shirley's stepson, something john rams said over and over. >> john rams repeatedly told investigators that todd reine wanted shirley dead, and he was willing to pay someone to do it. that he was willing to pay him to do it. >> the question is, did he follow through with it? >> never once did i say, "yeah, i will solidly do this for you." never once did i tell him "yes, i will do this." >> the district attorney's office wasn't buying john's story, and were be

and, by the way, his son charles rams ramsey, jr., just graduated from the police academy in june. in the digital operations center, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >> monique, thanks. >>> we will continue to get reaction throughout the day on the announcement of commissioner ramsey's retirement. who may replace him. we're seeking answers for you. you can get updates at nbc10.com or through the nbc 10 app. and police in camden county have a big job on their hands. they're still trying to figure out how a three-year-old boy died. our south jersey borrow reporter cydney long is live for us again in haddon township. they was there all day yesterday as the search for this boy turned into a death investigation. cydney, a law enforcement source told you this boy's death is suspicious? >> reporter: that is correct, chris. that information came to us yesterday afternoon, but i have brand new information also the from a source very close to this investigation. we're told that the little boy, brendon credo, did not leave the apartment building where he lived and take himself by himself down to

jr. said the battering rams of historical necessity. history, you can't have the goodies without having the burdens. the goodies and the blessings are, you the man. the blessings are, you're the first african-american president. the first, the blessing is that you as a black man had an ideal that no other black person in the history of this universe has ever successfully nurtured in his own mind. i will be the head of the most powerful democracy in the history of the world. so that's extraordinary. on the other hand, i think what professor butler is suggesting and ms. reid is also pointing to, we never thought this was going to be a postracial reality. obama himself says in his second book about home, the audacity of hope, that slow down. don't put the postracial tag here because we ain't there yet. rather, what we should have as richard ford has said, a law professor, a postracist society. post racial is post-negro. it mean post-black. thought we had been there, done black. thought he had finished it. now obama has been elected, we're