my husband yelled for him but he wouldn't answer. >> when police arrived, they found robert rogers on the living room floor. he had been beaten to death. >> the person that committed this crime did not want any possibility of mr. rogers to be alive to identify the perpetrator. >> it looked like a piece of firewood was used to break the rear sliding glass door. drawers and closets had been ransacked. but if the motive was robbery, the perpetrator had not been entirely successful. >> after the homicide, they found $133,000 in cash hidden in the house, which that by itself was such an attention grabber in this community. i mean, that was one of the most unusual things about the whole incident. >> the blood evidence revealed rogers was beaten at two different times. >> the victim sustained some injuries and then had enough time to lay there, his wounds even started to heal, and then he was hit again. >> that's bloodthirsty. that's cold. but to come back and he's not dead and just beat him again to make sure he's dead, that's cold. >> and the forensic evidence indicated the killer approach