I don't recall having a murder case with a young witness and then that witness

be so crucial to the investigation. I mean the young man essentially solved the

case from the beginning.

I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff. I'm Anna

Sige Nikolasi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of

investigation discoveries through conviction. And this is Anatomy of Murph.

Take a deep breath for a moment as I'd like to paint you this picture. A person

is lost on the street, it's dark, it's just a few hours until the sun comes up.

He's going door to door asking, rather pleading for help. His knocks on the door

go unanswered. His cries for help are heard by no one. His heart is pumping so

fast you can see his entire chest shake. His face is covered in sweat, tears and blood.

He is just witnessed a murder. Now imagine that person is only five years old and the

victim was his mother. In our agency we have a team of on-call investigators, six to seven

generally in a supervisor who work nights and weekends. You're listening to major Kevin

Eisenhower from the Richland County Sheriff's Department. I got a call from the

un-call sergeant who told me what they had going on. The time, 5am, the date March 13,

2021. Deputies respond to a neighborhood in Columbia, South Carolina. Where they found

a deceased woman who had been shot and that they had been alerted by neighbors who called

about a child going door to door asking for help. Mill of the night this young man,

this very small young man was knocking on the door.

Now for obvious reasons we are not releasing the name of the child because he was five

years old at the time. He's still a child. And the child had also gotten his mother's

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