Peter Van Sant

At this point, we don't know.

There's nobody that stands out.

Investigators would not have to speculate long.

Just days after Dennis and Myrna are found dead in their home, a neighbor, Steve Burgess, a president at a local bank, provides the first lead in the case.

Steve Burgess came forward to the Sheriff's Department stating that he had been receiving threats, and they were distinctly death threats.

Burgess is suggesting there may be a case of mistaken identity, that someone out to kill him killed the Colas instead?

Yes.

But how could such a fatal mistake have been made?

Easily, if the killer used the internet.

In fact, when you Google Earth Steve Burgess's address, the zoom into the house goes to the Colas house, not to Steve Burgess's house.

Yes, and now we've got a lot of work to do because whoever committed this homicide certainly has a jump on us.

Eric Cola and Cindy Cowell had been turned into orphans in the same instant.

It's been said that you and your father were best friends.

Is that true?

It's difficult to say which sibling took their deaths harder.

Cindy was completely distraught.

She was emotionally wrecked.

It's the most bizarre twist of fate.

For two people who were so against violence to be brutally shot.

Two people with no known enemies had been assassinated in their home.