Annie Elise

John was getting up there in age.

He was 87, to be exact.

He also couldn't drive himself anymore, and he was on a slew of different medications.

But he never stopped working.

He was always up by sunrise.

He would always be working from home on his latest real estate project, just very together and very with it.

So when Elaine got to his house around 8.30 that morning, she immediately knew that something was wrong.

The house was very quiet.

He also wasn't in his office, and it was clear that he hadn't been in there that morning, which just was not typical for him.

And from the way that Elaine recalls it, her stomach just dropped, and she prepared herself for what she thought might be the worst.

She assumed that he had more than likely died overnight in his sleep because of his age.

So she slowly walked to his bedroom, preparing herself mentally and physically.

But when she opened the door, it was so much worse than what she had ever imagined.

John was, yes, in bed, but he had a pool of blood surrounding his body.

Now remember, Elaine was a nurse, and she wasn't naive.

She knew right away that John had been killed.

This man, this 87-year-old man, had been shot once in the stomach and twice in the head.

The investigators noted that the shots to his head had also been done at very close range, so much so that nearly half of his skull was gone.

The theory that developed very quickly was that someone had come into his home, stood right next to his bed while he was peacefully asleep, and murdered him.

They were even able to come up with a potential murder weapon, which is what they believed to be a Sig Sauer rifle.