the suspect, a man all over the news named stephen stanko was still at large. >> they were looking forstephen stanko when charlie and diane parker were discovered. >> reporter: vivian skipper was charlie and diane's neighbor. she runs a flower shop nearby. >> reporter: so tell me about the fear, vivian. is this a kind of thing you could feel in the air or what? >> you could feel it in the air. i was at the flower shop. >> reporter: probably not too thrilled with the idea of getting in your car and driving away. >> i didn't even want to go home. it was pretty bad in horry county that day. >> when i first arrive, what i'm looking at is -- is an opportunity to get oriented to the crime scene. >> reporter: the man responsible for making sense of the crime scene was prosecutor fran humphries, then deputy chief solicitor for horry county. >> reporter: had the house been tossed, rifled? >> it had. it appeared to be a home invasion burglary. >> reporter: first take on it? >> first take -- >> reporter: home invasion -- >> no question. >> reporter: it was a gruesome crime scene. the bathroom awa