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Dale and Doreen Robie, the murdered boy's parents, cried with relief. But they didn't know that they were being sentenced, too. And I have one boy waiting in heaven for me. Dalton Robie, 12, has grown up in the shadow of his brother's death.

This past June, Smith was up for parole, and the Robie family struggled to keep its fear in check. The summer Derrick was murdered, in , he was coming up fast on his fifth birthday. That's the first time Correspondent Dan Rather met the Robies. Derrick was all boy -- all the time. He was also the unofficial mayor of Savona, a tiny village in western New York, with a population of Smith grew up just across town, and liked to spend time with his grandparents, Red and Edie Wilson.

But Smith's bright red hair and freckles made him a target at school for years. And as a teenager, he was seen pedaling around town for hours on end -- alone.

During the summer of '93, Smith attended a recreation program held a block from the Robie home. Derrick also attended the program. On Aug. I'll go by myself. He had only a block to go, and no streets to cross. The park was on a dead-end street. A short time later, as storm clouds moved in, Doreen says she felt something close to panic: "I swear that was the moment he died.

I think he was letting us know. What Doreen felt, but didn't yet know, was that five minutes after she kissed Derrick goodbye, he was dead.

The most disturbing details of the crime, however, were never made public. But now, a decade later, with the fear that their son's killer could be set free, the Robie family wants the whole story to be told. Evidence showed that Derrick was lured from the sidewalk and strangled. But at the time, the killer's identity was unknown. And he battered Derrick with those rocks," recalls lead investigator Charles Wood. And he sodomized Derrick with a small stick that he had found. According to Wood, the killer then arranged Derrick's body: "The left sneaker had been removed and was lying near Derrick's right hand.

And his right sneaker had been removed and was lying near Derrick's left hand. It almost looked like the body had been posed in that position. And most frighteningly, because he enjoyed it. The word "enjoy" would come up again and again in the course of the investigation. The first time was four days after the murder, when Smith walked into the police command center to see if he could be of help in solving the crime.

Totally enjoyed it. Didn't want it to end," says investigator John Hibsch, who repeatedly talked with Smith, and had no idea the killer was sitting right in front of him. He's very upbeat, very happy. He likes the fact that he's being talked to. At first, Smith denied seeing Derrick. But then, he abruptly changed the story. And that's when I saw Derrick.

I mean, you've just got to walk across an open field. And you're at the scene where the murder was. When Hibsch asked Smith what Derrick was wearing, Smith was able to describe Derrick's clothing and the fact that he had a lunch bag in his hand. He's happy and he's telling us something. Hibsch says Smith started getting emotional when investigators asked Smith to tell them where he had last seen Derrick. He put his head down," says Hibsch. Smith then asked to take a break and his father brought him a glass of Kool Aid.

When Hibsch continues the discussion, he says that Smith "grabs the red Kool Aid and just throws it on the ground. And I can't get around it. The next day, investigators asked Smith to get his bike and show them where he was when he saw Robie. Wood was there, and said that Smith was very calm: "I would have to say that he enjoyed it.

He was having a good time. But Smith's grandfather, Red Wilson, says the family knew Eric was hiding something: "In no way did we feel he had done it. So we felt that he knew something, maybe somebody had threatened him. That's why he wouldn't tell. It's exactly what Smith's neighbors, John and Marlene Heskell, friends of the Smith family, also believed.

After the murder, Smith spent nearly every night at their home. He wanted to know what that would show. Gradually, details began to leak out about the crime, and Marlene's friend called with a new theory about the murder.

They wouldn't have squashed it and made a mess. Marlene Heskell launched her own investigation into the murder. Well, they all did," says Marlene Heskell. I don't like bananas. Five days after he was killed, Derrick was buried in his baseball uniform. And just two days later, his killer confessed.

Family members sat Smith down and begged him to tell what he knew. But the truth was more terrible than they ever imagined. Because that wasn't my grandson. The Robie family has already learned in the most brutal way that nothing can be taken for granted, so they sent a letter to the parole board, along with home video showing the short life of Derrick Robie.

There's certainly enough things to worry about with an adolescent, other than the fact that there could be a killer running loose. I don't like to say that very often, because I don't want to scare Dalton. But that's the way I look at that. The uncertainty also weighs on Tunney, the man who convicted Smith.

Will the parole board see things differently than the jury? At the heart of the trial, which took place in August , was the haunting question: Why did Eric kill? But defense attorney Kevin Bradley said there was no choice. I lost control," said Smith's mother, Tammy. And he was just saying, 'I don't know. I don't know. The jury heard that as a toddler, Smith threw temper tantrums and banged his head on the floor.

He had speech problems, he was held back at school, and he was relentlessly bullied. When he asked for help with his anger, his adoptive father did not seem equipped to give it to him.

He was crunching his fists and shaking and told me that 'Dad, I need help,'" said Ted Smith. When I got angry when I was your age, I just grabbed a bag in our barn and started beating on it until I was too tired to do anything else. Then, Ted Smith said: "I heard a door shut, and I turned around and he was gone.

And as I got to the window, he was coming back in the door and he was calm. And I looked down and I noticed his knuckles and his hands were kind of skinned up and bloody. I asked him what happened, and he said, 'I hit the tree a couple of times.

Defense psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Herman diagnosed Smith with intermittent explosive disorder, uncontrollable rage. But the prosecution's expert said it was a rare disorder that was rarely seen at Smith's age.

Smith was subjected to extensive medical testing from specialists from both sides. They examined brain function, hormone levels and found nothing to explain his violent behavior. But Dr. Herman still believed there was something wrong: "Something happened to his brain, but we can't measure it. Smith's mother, Tammy, said she took a drug to control her epilepsy while she was pregnant with Eric. The drug, Tridione, can cause birth defects.

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