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Up next, detectives are still haunted by what they saw.

To see this amount of destruction that had taken place inside this residence, that kind of has stuck with me throughout all these years.

Just a completely horrifying case.

Hearing about that, it just makes your gut hurt.

The case crisscrosses the country.

We were doing the math, and I thought, you know, how far is it from Ohio to Baker's filled them back?

Well, 5,400 miles.

After that many miles, a lot can happen to a car.

The FBI, they just said, can you look at this radiator and tell us where the car has been

based on the insects? And what scientists find puts a mass murderer behind bars. Yes, it was

certainly good and evil, bad against good, good winning out. You know, Their faith was a central part of life for the Harper family of Bakersfield, California.

Each Sunday, the family would attend church services two times, once in the morning and again later in the evening.

But the service on the July 4th weekend of 2003 promised to be special.

On Sunday, July 6th, the entire family attended church services in the morning.

Joni Harper presented her youngest child, the six-week-old infant Marshall, to the congregation

for the very first time.

So it was a joyous occasion to them because Marshall was brought out to church, and this

is his first experience.

But none of the Harper's showed up for the evening service.

No one thought anything of it.

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