out who had attacked vern was now in the hands of this man, yakima county sheriff's detective, sam perrault did you know vern holbrook? >> i knew of him. he was just known to be one of the big movers and shakers in the real estate industry in the yakima valley. >> the detective had been called to the house where vern was found that saturday night. he'd heard from the responding officer, the one who wore this body camera and captured these scenes from the moment he arrived just before 8:00 p.m. that a colleague had gone looking for vern when vern's wife became worried that he didn't return from the showing. the colleague found him here, lying in a pool of blood at this rural home near the small town of cowiche. >> the last people talked to vern around 11:15. and so we could surprise that he had likely been attacked sometime around noon. >> he'd been lying there for, what, maybe seven, eight hours? >> yes. >> not a whole lot of evidence to go on at the beginning. >> no. >> vern's truck, still parked outside, offered little. >> his wallet was in there with his i.d. and his credit cards. >> so