The Cleveland, Tenn., home where Robert Edwin Eaves lived.CLEVELAND, Tenn. - Seven-year-old Noah McMurray was about to make a second bowl of oatmeal Tuesday morning when the man knocked on the door of his family's home on Phillips Street.
Noah answered it.
"I'm your mom's friend Robert," the man said. Is she home? Noah told the man his mom wasn't there. Then the man asked to talk to his brother. Noah let him inside. The man went straight to Zach's room.
Then Robert Edwin Eaves turned aggressive.
"Get up," Eaves growled at 16-year-old Zach. And then, "I'm going to have to tie y'all up so y'all don't run."
Noah and his 9-year-old sister, Macey, started crying. Zach tried to reason with the stranger. You don't have to tie us up, he told Eaves, even as the man grabbed a wooden chair from the kitchen and dragged it into the bedroom to tie them to it.
