Milagros Nieves (3 of Clubs, Connecticut)

[tense music] Frank Papalucha was a rookie cop on September 22nd, 1993, when he and his partner got a call.

There was a possible break-in at an apartment complex on Arnoston Avenue, number 223.

They arrived at the three-story building overlooking the picturesque Long Island sound at around 3:48 PM.

You know, you get out of the police car, you don't know what you're ever gonna expect.

A lot of times, too, you, you're dispatched with certain details that don't match what you're walking into.

So we never know, like, what we're, what we're gonna go into as an officer.

So we walked in, uh, and it was just horrific.

It was, like, a shock to me.

Alongside our team, Papalucha, who is now a detective, retraced his steps from that day back in September 1993.

He walked down Arnoston Avenue recalling every detail of what he saw after he walked up the two flights of stairs and entered apartment A-7.

There was a woman lying face up on the kitchen floor with blood smears beneath her legs.

She was motionless, dressed in a red nightgown.

And contrasted to all of that horror was a baby girl present.

Mercifully, she was alive.

It was a bad situation to come look at.

I've never had to see anything or experience anything like that in my life, where her throat was slit open and then she was stabbed throughout her whole body.

Blood all over the place, broken glass.

And then you have this little baby walking around.

It was really bad.

Papalucha cleared out the apartment and stood guard by the door until investigators descended on the scene to take over.