>> POLICE SAY IT'S THE OLDEST
COLD CASE SOLVED SNL
JACKSONVILLE.
WE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW.
>> THE 34-YEAR-OLD DIED IN 1974
WHEN HE WAS SHOT AT HIS GRAND
PARK GROCERY STORE.
POLICE BELIEVED THIS NEW ORLEANS
STREET PERFORMER KNOWN AS
URCHGLY LOUIE -- UNCLE LOUIE
COMMITTED THE CRIME WHEN HE WAS
A TEEN.
IT MAY NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.
THE FAMILY SPOKE WITH STACY IN A
STORY YOU'LL SEE ONLY ON NEWS
4JAX.
>> FREDDY HAS BEEN HUNTING A
KILLER.
KNOWING WHO MURDER HIS FATHER
HUNG WITH HIM ALL HIS LIFE.
AS A GROWN MAN HE MAY HAVE THE
ANSWERS HE ALWAYS LOOKED FOR.
>> YOU ARE IN OUR HEARTS AND
PRAYERS EVERY DAY.
>> IT'S A A BITTERSWEET TIME FOR
THE FAMILY.
HERE AT THE CEMETERY WHERE THEY
BURIED HIM OVER FOUR DECADES AGO
THEY HAVE THE RELIEF KNOWING
SOMEONE HAS FINALLY BEEN
ARRESTED FOR HIS MURDER.
>> LOVE YOU, DADDY.
>> THAT ARREST DOESN'T DULL THE
PAIN OF LOSING A LOVING HUSBAND
AND AFFECTIONATE FATHER.
>> HE WAS THE LOST OF MY LIFE.
THE FATHER OF MY FOUR CHILDREN.
>> SHE GOWNED THIS GRAND PARK
GROCERY STORE WHEN SOMEONE SHOT
HIM DURING A ROBBE ATTEM HIS
WIFE REMEMBERS GETTING THE CALL.
>> THEY TOLD US HE WAS SHOT IN
THE HAND AND IN THE EMERGENCY
ROOM AT WHAT WAS THEN METHODIST
HOSPITAL.
I WENT RACING OVER THERE AND MET
AT THE DOOR.
AND I COULD TELL FROM THE LOOK
ON THEIR FACE IT JUST A SHOT IN
THE HAND.
IT WAS WORSE.
THEY TOLD ME HE HAD PASSED AWA
>> WHERE HAD HE BEEN SHOT?
>> IN THE HEAD.
RIGHT IN THE FOREHEAD.
THIS IS FREDDY.
>> THE FIRST ONE, YEAH.
>> OVER THE YEARS FREDDY'S CASE
WENT COLD AND NADA, BUSY WITH
FOUR KIDS UNDER THE AGE OF 11
WHEN HER HUSBAND DIED DIDN'T
FOLLOW UP WITH POLIC.
AS HER SON GREW HE WANTED
ANSWERS TO HIS QUESTIONS.
>> BOBBY WOULD NEVER GIVE U
>> NOPE.
>> DID IT FOR YOU.
HE DID IT FOR YOU.
>> CONVINCED THE DEFECTIVE TO
REOPEN THE CASE IN 1998.
>> IT REALLY BOTHERED ME I
DIDN'T KNOW WHO OR WA WHY.
I TOLD HER, UNTIL THEY TELL ME
TO STOP ASKING AND QUIT COMING
AROUND I WOULD CONTINUE TO ASK.
>> AFTER, YOU KNOW, SEVEN,
EIGHT, TEN YEARS, I WOULD TELL
HIM, HONEY IF THEY HAVEN'T FOUND
HIM NOW THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO
FIND HIM.
EITHER HE IS DEAD BOBBY DIDN'T
QUITE AND OVER THE YEARS DNA
TECHNOLOGY EVOLVED.
AFTER SEVERAL DEAD ENDS POLICE
GOT A DNA MATCH ON A PALM PRINT.
A PRINT THAT LONGS TO JOHNNY
MILLER KNOWN FOR HIS UNCLE SAM
MIME ROUTINE IN THE FRENCH
QUARTER.
JUST LAST MONTH THE FAMILY GOT
THE NEWS THEY WAITED DECADES TO
HEAR.
>> I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW WE
BASICALLY MADE AN ARREST IN YOUR
HUSBAND'S MURDER.
IT WAS OVERWHELMING.
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU HEARD
THAT?
>> I WAS IN SHOCK BECAUSE I WAS
EXPECTING THEM TO TELL ME I'M
SORRY WE DID OUR BEST WITH YOU
WE COULDN'T FIND HIM.
HE TOLD ME THAT AND I WAS IN
SHOCK.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
BUT THEN I WAS RELIEVED.
AFTER HIS EFFORTS THAT PAID OFF.
HE HAS EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN AND
HOPEFULLY HE GETS TO SEE THEM IN
HEAVEN.
>> MURDER HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS
A MON TRUSS ACT NOT JUST
VICTIMIZING THE PERSON BUT
AFFECTING ENTIRE GENERATIONS.
>> ARE YOU MADE THAT YOU WERE
ROBBED OF THE EXPERIENCE OF
HAVING A FATHER.
>> I WOULDN'T SAY MAD.
FRUSTRATED, I GUESS.
HE MISSED OUT ON SO MANY THINGS.
I WONDER WHERE I WOULD BE IN MY
LIFE, MY CHILDREN'S LIFE, MY
SISTERS LIVES HAD HE BEEN HERE.
>> EVERY TIME A BIG EVENT OCCURS
IN OUR LIFE, I WOULD THINK WHAT
WOULD FREDDY SAY IF HE SAW THIS?
WOULD HE B PROUD
THEY ARE PREPARING THEMSELVES
FOR THE POSSIBLE BUT TRULY FEEL