Detective

Hundreds of crime scenes later, it still rakes right up there.

You know, it's still very vivid to me.

Probably when I got about maybe 10 feet from the door, I picked up a faint smell.

It was kind of like burnt hair and maybe burnt fabric, like clothes burning.

As I entered the garage, there was maybe a 12 to 18 inch puddle of blood that was fresh.

As I started up the stairwell,

I could see holes in the wall, bullet holes coming from one wall across the stairwell into the other wall.

There was a blood smear on the wall.

It looked like a bloody hand had wiped down the wall.

And it almost looked like a mini war zone.

There was two bodies.

I checked for a pulse, but I knew in my mind they was deceased.

I actually walked into the smoke before I really realized that the top floor of that cabin was on fire.

Then our mindset went to protecting the victim's property because we thought the cabin was going to burn down.

On top of the coffee table, there was a VCR camera and some tapes.

I don't think I got all of this.

We believed that something violent happened in the house and that Mr. Perez was the one that did it to his father.

Obviously we want to find your dad.

So what I would like to do is I'd like for you to go back to the station with me so I can use all my resources and all that good stuff.

Hop in, Thomas.