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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,023 --> 00:00:03,623 There have been further shocking developments 2 00:00:03,623 --> 00:00:05,993 in the Mineola Swingers Club Case today. 3 00:00:05,993 --> 00:00:10,723 With defendants Jimmy Sones and Shelia Sones now free after taking plea deals, 4 00:00:10,723 --> 00:00:13,193 the convictions of three of the other defendants 5 00:00:13,193 --> 00:00:15,923 look increasingly likely to be overturned. 6 00:00:16,553 --> 00:00:18,453 [thuds] 7 00:00:18,453 --> 00:00:20,753 {\an8}[Mike] After the lawyers for the Jamie Pittman, 8 00:00:20,753 --> 00:00:24,653 {\an8}and Shauntel Mayo and Patrick Kelly cases filed appeals, 9 00:00:24,653 --> 00:00:28,353 the 14th Court of Appeals threw out those verdicts, 10 00:00:28,353 --> 00:00:31,523 based on numerous evidentiary errors 11 00:00:31,523 --> 00:00:34,293 that the court said that Judge Jack Skeen had made. 12 00:00:34,293 --> 00:00:36,023 And this was something that the defense attorneys 13 00:00:36,023 --> 00:00:38,553 had complained about the whole time, 14 00:00:38,553 --> 00:00:40,493 Skeen seemed to be siding with the state 15 00:00:40,493 --> 00:00:45,393 and he did it to such an extent that the court threw out those verdicts. 16 00:00:47,023 --> 00:00:51,553 He went to all the other defendants and offered them plea bargains. 17 00:00:51,553 --> 00:00:54,193 To plead guilty to injury to a child 18 00:00:55,023 --> 00:00:56,993 and time served so they could get out. 19 00:00:56,993 --> 00:00:58,193 [camera shutter clicks] 20 00:00:58,193 --> 00:01:02,293 [Melinda] But Dennis Pittman still had an appeal pending 21 00:01:02,293 --> 00:01:05,753 and so Dennis wasn't offered the plea bargain. 22 00:01:05,753 --> 00:01:10,293 It was assumed he would get out shortly afterwards, like the others. 23 00:01:10,293 --> 00:01:12,453 - [Melinda] But by then, Patrick Kelly, - [camera shutter clicks] 24 00:01:12,453 --> 00:01:17,623 Jamie Pittman and Shauntel had been in jail for almost four years. 25 00:01:19,093 --> 00:01:23,393 [Mike] Matt Bingham, one of the most law-and-order prosecutors, 26 00:01:24,023 --> 00:01:26,653 makes a deal to let out 27 00:01:26,653 --> 00:01:31,293 a bunch of the most perverted, maniacal, 28 00:01:31,293 --> 00:01:35,923 criminal monsters that had ever struck Texas? 29 00:01:35,923 --> 00:01:40,193 If Matt Bingham really believed that they had done what 30 00:01:40,193 --> 00:01:43,753 he had prosecuted them doing for four years, 31 00:01:43,753 --> 00:01:45,823 do you really think he would have let them go? 32 00:01:45,823 --> 00:01:50,353 Absolutely not. They would be rotting in prison for the rest of their lives. 33 00:01:52,293 --> 00:01:53,353 [theme music playing] 34 00:01:56,093 --> 00:01:59,023 [woman speaking] 35 00:02:02,653 --> 00:02:04,893 [child speaking] 36 00:02:04,893 --> 00:02:06,253 [man speaking] 37 00:02:07,723 --> 00:02:10,123 [boy speaking] 38 00:02:11,393 --> 00:02:15,193 [man speaking] 39 00:02:15,193 --> 00:02:16,493 [girl speaking] 40 00:02:25,553 --> 00:02:28,193 [Reporter] Patrick Kelly, nicknamed Booger Red, 41 00:02:28,193 --> 00:02:32,193 was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the alleged child sex ring. 42 00:02:35,753 --> 00:02:37,923 I was locked up for almost four years. 43 00:02:38,823 --> 00:02:40,293 [Patrick] When I was in prison, 44 00:02:40,293 --> 00:02:43,493 they overturned my case and offered that plea and I accepted it. 45 00:02:46,493 --> 00:02:48,193 I was tired, I wanted to get out. 46 00:02:49,453 --> 00:02:51,123 I wanted to see my family. 47 00:02:51,123 --> 00:02:55,093 I wanted to see my mother. I wanted to see my brother, my wife, my son. 48 00:02:55,093 --> 00:02:57,823 [Patrick] What's up bud? 49 00:02:57,823 --> 00:03:02,993 {\an8}This is my world right here. I will fight a grizzly bear for him. 50 00:03:02,993 --> 00:03:06,023 {\an8}I'm not that good anymore, but I'll still try. 51 00:03:06,023 --> 00:03:08,823 {\an8}I'll give him my best shot that's for damn sure. [laughs] 52 00:03:11,493 --> 00:03:13,923 [Steven] When he actually went to jail and they told me 53 00:03:13,923 --> 00:03:19,293 that's what they're accusing him of and the DA tried to get me to turn against him. 54 00:03:19,293 --> 00:03:21,393 I told them they're crazy 55 00:03:21,393 --> 00:03:23,553 because my dad ain't never done anything like that. 56 00:03:24,623 --> 00:03:26,393 'Cause it... 57 00:03:26,393 --> 00:03:28,893 That was just all made up stuff in their head. 58 00:03:30,823 --> 00:03:33,253 To me, that's the worst thing in the world for you to do, 59 00:03:33,823 --> 00:03:35,393 is to molest a child, 60 00:03:35,393 --> 00:03:38,123 But yet I got convicted on hearsay. 61 00:03:38,123 --> 00:03:42,623 It's what was said, no proof of anything, it's just what was said. 62 00:03:42,623 --> 00:03:45,723 [Patrick] I mean, these people don't even know me, know nothing about me, 63 00:03:45,723 --> 00:03:48,023 just because of my nickname, I was the devil. 64 00:03:49,293 --> 00:03:52,753 For Margie Cantrell to do the things she's done, 65 00:03:52,753 --> 00:03:55,753 to brainwash them kids to say the things they said, 66 00:03:55,753 --> 00:03:58,653 because these kids are going to be traumatized for the rest of their lives. 67 00:03:58,653 --> 00:04:00,393 Margie Cantrell is a monster. 68 00:04:00,893 --> 00:04:02,823 [rooster crowing] 69 00:04:03,353 --> 00:04:07,123 [dog barking] 70 00:04:11,353 --> 00:04:13,623 [rooster crowing] 71 00:04:13,623 --> 00:04:17,023 [Shuantel] This is Margie and John Cantrell 72 00:04:17,023 --> 00:04:20,553 and all of their foster children. And my three children. 73 00:04:21,653 --> 00:04:24,123 {\an8}That woman and that man stole my life. 74 00:04:25,353 --> 00:04:26,923 [camera shutter clicking] 75 00:04:27,393 --> 00:04:28,893 Prison was hard. 76 00:04:30,353 --> 00:04:31,893 I learned how to fight. 77 00:04:32,653 --> 00:04:34,393 I was sexually abused in prison, 78 00:04:36,193 --> 00:04:38,093 by a group of women. 79 00:04:39,653 --> 00:04:41,453 I was very targeted. 80 00:04:42,893 --> 00:04:44,753 There was no reason to live anymore. 81 00:04:46,723 --> 00:04:49,993 But I knew that God wasn't going to leave me there 82 00:04:49,993 --> 00:04:52,393 I didn't know how long it was going to take to get me home. 83 00:04:55,123 --> 00:04:59,293 I filled my time with Bible studies and law books. 84 00:05:00,753 --> 00:05:05,623 In 2011, I could have probably took my bar exam and passed. 85 00:05:06,123 --> 00:05:07,453 That's how hard I worked. 86 00:05:11,093 --> 00:05:12,523 After I got out of prison, 87 00:05:13,023 --> 00:05:14,393 I knew by law, 88 00:05:14,393 --> 00:05:17,823 I would never get to have contact with my kids 89 00:05:17,823 --> 00:05:19,653 until they were 18 and they found me. 90 00:05:20,893 --> 00:05:22,123 It was... it was horrible. 91 00:05:34,453 --> 00:05:36,823 [Hunter] Margie was an attention hog. 92 00:05:36,823 --> 00:05:40,193 Her appearance to the public was important to her. 93 00:05:40,193 --> 00:05:44,253 {\an8}So when we went on outings like this, I remember this is at the zoo. 94 00:05:44,253 --> 00:05:46,123 {\an8}- [camera shutter clicks] - [Hunter] I remember this picture. 95 00:05:47,523 --> 00:05:50,023 {\an8}[Hunter] This was more of just like a show of like, 96 00:05:50,023 --> 00:05:52,193 like "Oh, hey, I got this big happy family." 97 00:05:52,193 --> 00:05:54,393 But it was pretend. 98 00:05:54,393 --> 00:05:58,393 Behind closed doors, this was not true. 99 00:05:58,393 --> 00:06:01,193 The entire time with the Cantrells was 100 00:06:01,193 --> 00:06:03,553 the worst time of my life. 101 00:06:03,553 --> 00:06:05,823 [birds screeching] 102 00:06:12,653 --> 00:06:15,493 [Hunter] Being back here brings back a lot of memories. 103 00:06:15,493 --> 00:06:16,923 [camera shutter clicks] 104 00:06:16,923 --> 00:06:19,353 [Hunter] I was always worried. Always scared. 105 00:06:21,293 --> 00:06:23,353 Margie was just, she was an animal. 106 00:06:25,123 --> 00:06:29,193 [Carly] The back scratcher was the main punishment for everything. 107 00:06:31,553 --> 00:06:33,253 They would pull your pants down, 108 00:06:34,293 --> 00:06:36,193 {\an8}whoop you with that, we'd have welts 109 00:06:36,193 --> 00:06:38,823 {\an8}on our backs and everything. 110 00:06:40,653 --> 00:06:42,453 {\an8}And you weren't allowed to cry. 111 00:06:42,453 --> 00:06:44,923 {\an8}If you cried, you got whupped again. 112 00:06:51,523 --> 00:06:54,923 [Hunter] Making Margie angry was as simple as 113 00:06:55,393 --> 00:06:56,823 taking a cookie, 114 00:06:56,823 --> 00:06:59,093 just 'cause you didn't ask permission for it. 115 00:06:59,093 --> 00:07:01,653 [Carly] Or going outside without permission. 116 00:07:01,653 --> 00:07:03,723 [Hunter] Or talking to the neighbors without permission. 117 00:07:03,723 --> 00:07:07,553 It was everything, you know, we... we couldn't be kids. 118 00:07:07,553 --> 00:07:08,523 We weren't allowed to. 119 00:07:12,293 --> 00:07:15,653 I remember the time whenever I'd used all the blankets in the closet 120 00:07:15,653 --> 00:07:19,253 she had repeatedly bashed my head into the doorframe, 121 00:07:19,253 --> 00:07:21,753 she used to drag us across the floor downstairs. 122 00:07:26,193 --> 00:07:27,823 [Carly] I think the worst thing that happened to me 123 00:07:27,823 --> 00:07:30,393 was when my head got slammed into the tile floor. 124 00:07:32,823 --> 00:07:34,623 It was right around here. 125 00:07:38,393 --> 00:07:42,653 I ran away and she was yelling and stuff about me leaving. 126 00:07:44,093 --> 00:07:46,123 She ended up slamming my head. 127 00:07:46,123 --> 00:07:48,823 I was on my knees and she ended up slamming my head. 128 00:07:51,293 --> 00:07:58,923 [Hunter] I was downstairs and I heard the crash on the tile and I ran upstairs, 129 00:07:58,923 --> 00:08:01,653 and I saw Carly on the ground, 130 00:08:03,623 --> 00:08:05,093 it really set me off. 131 00:08:06,253 --> 00:08:07,553 It was just something you didn't do. 132 00:08:07,553 --> 00:08:09,553 You didn't put your hands on my sisters, no matter what you did. 133 00:08:12,993 --> 00:08:14,723 [Margie] Carly's never been struck. 134 00:08:14,723 --> 00:08:18,193 Carly has never had a spank and a swat, nothing, ever. 135 00:08:18,623 --> 00:08:19,753 Hunter was. 136 00:08:19,753 --> 00:08:21,493 Not by the back scratcher. 137 00:08:21,493 --> 00:08:24,753 I can sit here and say, "Oh, no, no, no, never." No, no I did. 138 00:08:28,923 --> 00:08:32,753 I slapped him a few times. I popped him in the mouth a few times. 139 00:08:51,823 --> 00:08:56,453 Not long after that, a hearing was held in family court in Tyler. 140 00:08:56,453 --> 00:08:59,553 {\an8}Finally, the world's gonna see who these people really are. 141 00:09:01,193 --> 00:09:03,993 {\an8}[Female reporter] Our top is about the hearing that took place today 142 00:09:03,993 --> 00:09:06,123 {\an8}regarding the welfare of the foster children 143 00:09:06,123 --> 00:09:09,253 {\an8}currently in the care of John and Margie Cantrell. 144 00:09:09,253 --> 00:09:13,123 Those children were the victims of the Mineola Sex ring trials. 145 00:09:13,123 --> 00:09:16,123 Representatives from Child Protective Services and attorneys 146 00:09:16,123 --> 00:09:19,553 were in court to hear the judges remarks about what to do with the children 147 00:09:19,553 --> 00:09:22,093 currently in the Cantrell's home. 148 00:09:22,093 --> 00:09:24,993 [male reporter] The allegations of abuse came from multiple children. 149 00:09:24,993 --> 00:09:29,023 One child alleged being beaten with a wooden back scratcher until it snapped 150 00:09:29,023 --> 00:09:33,023 And another alleged that Margie Cantrell popped her in the mouth and slapped her. 151 00:09:37,293 --> 00:09:40,753 {\an8}[Judge speaking] 152 00:09:48,553 --> 00:09:54,653 {\an8}The children were ultimately removed from Margie and John, um because of physical abuse 153 00:09:54,653 --> 00:09:56,823 {\an8}[judge speaking] 154 00:10:05,753 --> 00:10:08,553 They didn't make that choice. I made that choice. 155 00:10:08,553 --> 00:10:13,453 Like they said, um, "These are her kids. She can relinquish them." 156 00:10:13,453 --> 00:10:17,823 And I chose to relinquish the conservatorship. 157 00:10:19,523 --> 00:10:21,653 [male reporter] Also in the courtroom was Shauntel Mayo, 158 00:10:21,653 --> 00:10:24,293 herself a defendant in the Mineola Swingers Club case 159 00:10:24,293 --> 00:10:27,753 and the mother of three children removed today from the Cantrell household. 160 00:10:29,553 --> 00:10:32,023 My heart's relieved, 161 00:10:32,023 --> 00:10:36,123 because they've known before my kids were put in there. 162 00:10:36,123 --> 00:10:38,293 They took them out of a good loving home, 163 00:10:38,293 --> 00:10:42,653 granted there was issues in our home, but it wasn't issues that was accused of. 164 00:10:44,293 --> 00:10:48,193 And put them into a worse situation for nine years, they've been abused. 165 00:10:48,193 --> 00:10:49,493 - So that's not true. - [indistinct chatter] 166 00:10:49,493 --> 00:10:53,993 and this is the lies they were spreading in the news about us. 167 00:10:53,993 --> 00:10:55,993 [male reporter] Throughout the Swingers Club Sex Ring Trial, 168 00:10:55,993 --> 00:10:58,453 foster mother Margaret Cantrell was instrumental 169 00:10:58,453 --> 00:11:01,823 instrumental in exposing the alleged abuse in Mineola and Tyler. 170 00:11:01,823 --> 00:11:04,893 However with these fresh accusations about her own conduct, 171 00:11:04,893 --> 00:11:08,353 the credibility of some of her statements has come into question. 172 00:11:08,353 --> 00:11:12,393 I believe, uh, from looking at that, 173 00:11:12,393 --> 00:11:16,193 that, uh, we were played in the media. 174 00:11:16,193 --> 00:11:21,193 To take innocent people and start slamming them is disgusting. 175 00:11:21,193 --> 00:11:22,823 {\an8}I think, over a course of time, 176 00:11:22,823 --> 00:11:26,553 {\an8}we might be seeing very interesting statements from these kids 177 00:11:26,553 --> 00:11:28,653 {\an8}about what actually happened to them. 178 00:11:28,653 --> 00:11:33,023 It's Thad Davidson, just pushing it and pushing it and pushing it. 179 00:11:33,023 --> 00:11:38,123 "If we can ever get the children away from Margie Cantrell's custody, 180 00:11:38,123 --> 00:11:41,653 we can get them to tell the truth." 181 00:11:41,653 --> 00:11:44,253 - Would you guys like to say anything? - No. 182 00:11:44,253 --> 00:11:46,523 - No, I don't think it's proper. - Nah. 183 00:11:46,523 --> 00:11:50,523 What do you think about these allegations that are being made against you? 184 00:11:50,523 --> 00:11:53,453 We don't even know most of them yet. [laughs] 185 00:11:55,023 --> 00:11:57,823 - [lawyer] Margaret! Don't talk to him. Go. - Yes, Ma'am. 186 00:11:57,823 --> 00:11:58,923 Yes, Ma'am. 187 00:11:58,923 --> 00:12:01,253 - No. - Go, hurry up. 188 00:12:01,753 --> 00:12:03,123 [lawyer] Go. 189 00:12:03,993 --> 00:12:05,753 [reporter] Would you like to say anything... 190 00:12:06,753 --> 00:12:10,723 We decided that the best thing, is to go back home. 191 00:12:11,823 --> 00:12:14,193 Home was always Vacaville, 192 00:12:15,753 --> 00:12:18,923 where we were loved, where people knew us, knew what we were like 193 00:12:21,023 --> 00:12:23,023 And it would be better. 194 00:12:24,023 --> 00:12:25,823 Yes, it was a dream home. 195 00:12:27,623 --> 00:12:32,653 But we loaded what we could load in a U-Haul and a trailer behind it. 196 00:12:32,653 --> 00:12:34,723 And everything else that we ever owned, 197 00:12:36,023 --> 00:12:38,023 was left behind. We locked the door, 198 00:12:39,653 --> 00:12:40,723 and we drove away. 199 00:12:52,653 --> 00:12:53,993 [camera shutter clicks] 200 00:12:53,993 --> 00:12:57,893 [Hunter] When they came to get us, I felt like it's about time. 201 00:12:57,893 --> 00:13:01,123 It had been so many years dealing with her 202 00:13:01,123 --> 00:13:04,653 it was just a major, major feeling of relief to get out of here. 203 00:13:17,753 --> 00:13:20,493 I was having a lot of issues with 204 00:13:21,123 --> 00:13:22,723 my adopted parents. 205 00:13:23,323 --> 00:13:24,853 We were not seeing eye to eye. 206 00:13:24,853 --> 00:13:27,753 And so I was you know like, "What can I do?" 207 00:13:27,753 --> 00:13:29,853 And then I thought about it, and I was like, 208 00:13:29,853 --> 00:13:32,553 "Well, I... I can look up my dad." 209 00:13:33,653 --> 00:13:37,593 And I got the idea to look him up on Facebook. 210 00:13:37,593 --> 00:13:41,593 We wasn't allowed to have any type of contact with Gabby. 211 00:13:41,593 --> 00:13:44,123 Uh, she would had to been eighteen years old before 212 00:13:44,123 --> 00:13:46,493 we were supposed to have contact with her. 213 00:13:46,493 --> 00:13:50,193 I got a Facebook page and all that stuff and I posted a lot of stuff in there, 214 00:13:50,193 --> 00:13:55,593 pictures and stuff of Gabby. And I left it open to the public. 215 00:13:55,593 --> 00:13:58,593 [Gabby] And that's how I found him and then I contacted him. 216 00:13:59,293 --> 00:14:01,453 She gave me her phone number. 217 00:14:01,453 --> 00:14:05,023 I called her and the next day her and her boyfriend come out to visit. 218 00:14:05,853 --> 00:14:07,493 As soon as I got out of the car, 219 00:14:07,493 --> 00:14:09,193 tears were running down my eyes 220 00:14:10,493 --> 00:14:12,093 and I just embraced her. 221 00:14:13,123 --> 00:14:15,553 I don't even know how long we stood there hugging. 222 00:14:15,553 --> 00:14:19,493 It was a happy, very happy emotional day. 223 00:14:19,493 --> 00:14:21,393 [Gabby] He hugged me for a really long time. 224 00:14:21,393 --> 00:14:23,553 - [camera shutter clicks] - [Gabby] It had been eight years 225 00:14:23,553 --> 00:14:25,393 since the last time I'd seen him. 226 00:14:35,223 --> 00:14:39,123 [Gabby] At that time, I was having a lot of problems with my foster parents 227 00:14:39,123 --> 00:14:41,953 - and so I... I just had enough. - [camera shutter clicks] 228 00:14:41,953 --> 00:14:45,093 [Gabby] I ran away and I never looked back. 229 00:14:46,953 --> 00:14:48,853 [Jimmy] When she ran away, 230 00:14:48,853 --> 00:14:51,093 she called me wanting me to come pick her up. 231 00:14:52,123 --> 00:14:53,753 So, I did. 232 00:14:54,693 --> 00:14:56,693 I damn sure wasn't gonna turn her down. 233 00:14:56,693 --> 00:14:57,953 [camera shutter clicks] 234 00:14:57,953 --> 00:14:59,823 [Gabby] There was no way I was going to be able to come home, 235 00:14:59,823 --> 00:15:02,923 not actually having formally recanted. 236 00:15:06,953 --> 00:15:08,823 [Mike] Jimmy read some of my stories 237 00:15:08,823 --> 00:15:10,853 and in 2014 called me up. 238 00:15:11,923 --> 00:15:14,453 {\an8}And he said, Gabby really wants to talk to you. 239 00:15:14,453 --> 00:15:16,493 {\an8}And so, we met at this truck stop, 240 00:15:20,023 --> 00:15:23,653 and all of a sudden, this big rig comes pulling into the parking lot and 241 00:15:23,653 --> 00:15:26,953 Jimmy gets out and he's... he's he's got this Duck Dynasty shirt on. 242 00:15:26,953 --> 00:15:31,693 And... and there's Gabby, who just looked like a goth teenager. 243 00:15:31,693 --> 00:15:34,453 They came in, and they sat down, and, and she was real nervous. 244 00:15:34,453 --> 00:15:36,093 I remember her, 245 00:15:36,093 --> 00:15:37,953 her leg going up and down and 246 00:15:39,393 --> 00:15:40,923 she just started spilling. 247 00:15:40,923 --> 00:15:42,493 Can... can I read what she said? 248 00:15:45,393 --> 00:15:47,693 She told me that everything they'd said was a lie. 249 00:15:48,453 --> 00:15:51,123 "Sex kindergarten, the swingers' club. 250 00:15:51,123 --> 00:15:54,223 Their parents and all the other adults were innocent. 251 00:15:54,223 --> 00:15:57,723 She said, "They literally blew up my mind and planted stuff in it. 252 00:15:58,293 --> 00:15:59,923 I'm furious about it. 253 00:15:59,923 --> 00:16:02,923 They lied to me, they used me, they screwed up my life. 254 00:16:04,393 --> 00:16:07,093 And she said, my ultimate goal is for this to be overturned. 255 00:16:07,093 --> 00:16:09,393 My goal for myself is just to tell the truth." 256 00:16:11,823 --> 00:16:14,123 {\an8}And not only Gabby, but Hunter recanted as well. 257 00:16:14,123 --> 00:16:15,723 [camera shutter clicks] 258 00:16:15,723 --> 00:16:18,593 When I got a bit older, I actually pulled my older sister 259 00:16:18,593 --> 00:16:20,553 aside and asked her, you know, 260 00:16:20,553 --> 00:16:22,553 do you actually remember 261 00:16:22,553 --> 00:16:25,223 any of this swingers club stuff happening? 262 00:16:25,223 --> 00:16:28,593 'Cause I started realizing I don't remember any of this. 263 00:16:31,093 --> 00:16:33,393 And that's when it really clicked that Margie 264 00:16:33,393 --> 00:16:34,493 brainwashed us. 265 00:16:37,323 --> 00:16:42,193 In the beginning, she asked me if anybody had touched us and things like that. 266 00:16:42,193 --> 00:16:43,853 At first I said no. 267 00:16:43,853 --> 00:16:45,653 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 268 00:16:48,123 --> 00:16:49,653 {\an8}[Hunter speaking] 269 00:16:49,653 --> 00:16:53,923 {\an8}But eventually, I just basically started repeating what Margie had been asking. 270 00:16:53,923 --> 00:16:55,493 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 271 00:16:57,593 --> 00:16:58,923 {\an8}[Hunter speaking] 272 00:17:03,753 --> 00:17:05,293 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 273 00:17:06,123 --> 00:17:07,323 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 274 00:17:07,323 --> 00:17:09,223 [indistinct chatter] 275 00:17:09,223 --> 00:17:11,553 [Dr. Wood] My name is Dr. James Wood. 276 00:17:11,553 --> 00:17:16,493 I'm a retired professor of psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso 277 00:17:16,493 --> 00:17:20,593 {\an8}A lot of my research has been on child interviewing, child suggestibility. 278 00:17:21,093 --> 00:17:25,853 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 279 00:17:28,593 --> 00:17:31,653 One of the more amazing things was just seeing those 280 00:17:31,653 --> 00:17:34,023 interviews and then how they were conducted. 281 00:17:34,023 --> 00:17:35,453 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 282 00:17:35,853 --> 00:17:37,293 {\an8}[Hunter speaking] 283 00:17:37,753 --> 00:17:41,093 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 284 00:17:41,093 --> 00:17:42,223 {\an8}[Hunter speaking] 285 00:17:42,223 --> 00:17:43,753 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 286 00:17:44,123 --> 00:17:45,753 Okay. 287 00:17:45,753 --> 00:17:51,123 Introducing information. So we've had, uh kindergarten and did anything nasty happen? 288 00:17:51,123 --> 00:17:54,323 And you put them together. So you've actually linked the two ideas, so that 289 00:17:54,323 --> 00:17:59,723 suggests to... to Hunter, we want a statement about nasty things in kindergarten, right. 290 00:17:59,723 --> 00:18:01,723 That's coming from the adults, not from him. 291 00:18:01,723 --> 00:18:02,953 [Margie] Where did that happen? 292 00:18:04,293 --> 00:18:05,953 {\an8}[Ranger Kemp speaking] 293 00:18:09,223 --> 00:18:11,753 {\an8}[Dr. Wood] Margie is the last person you want touching that 294 00:18:11,753 --> 00:18:13,693 {\an8}child as you try to get a statement from him. 295 00:18:14,223 --> 00:18:16,693 She's pressuring him. 296 00:18:16,693 --> 00:18:20,723 She's demonstrating her control, she pulls his hands down like that. 297 00:18:20,723 --> 00:18:22,653 She's giving him a lot of signals about, 298 00:18:23,493 --> 00:18:25,553 you're gonna do what I want right now. 299 00:18:25,553 --> 00:18:27,023 {\an8}[Ranger Kemp speaking] 300 00:18:27,693 --> 00:18:28,753 {\an8}[Carly speaking] 301 00:18:28,753 --> 00:18:30,123 {\an8}[Ranger Kemp speaking] 302 00:18:30,123 --> 00:18:33,093 {\an8}[Dr. Wood] Another suggestive interviewing technique is 303 00:18:33,093 --> 00:18:35,093 {\an8}giving positive feedback, 304 00:18:35,093 --> 00:18:38,723 {\an8}which is praising a child for making an accusation. 305 00:18:38,723 --> 00:18:40,593 {\an8}Saying, "You're doing a great job." 306 00:18:40,593 --> 00:18:43,293 {\an8}[Ranger Kemp speaking] 307 00:18:54,593 --> 00:18:58,823 {\an8}When Margie is with Shelby or Margie is with Hunter, 308 00:18:58,823 --> 00:19:02,323 {\an8}one thing is you could say, well, that's their caretaker, right? 309 00:19:02,323 --> 00:19:06,453 {\an8}But in the case of Gabby, they had no relationship. 310 00:19:06,453 --> 00:19:08,293 {\an8}She wasn't her foster child. 311 00:19:08,293 --> 00:19:11,923 {\an8}And yet Kemp brings Margie in to question Gabby. 312 00:19:12,493 --> 00:19:14,223 {\an8}[Margie clears throat] 313 00:19:14,223 --> 00:19:17,493 {\an8}[Gabby] They would pull us into this room. It was a small white room. 314 00:19:17,493 --> 00:19:21,493 {\an8}It was just the same question, just in different words, over, and over again. 315 00:19:21,493 --> 00:19:25,593 Just hours of the same question, wanting me to change my answer. 316 00:19:26,193 --> 00:19:27,393 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 317 00:19:32,393 --> 00:19:33,653 {\an8}[Gabby speaking] 318 00:19:33,653 --> 00:19:35,853 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 319 00:19:35,853 --> 00:19:37,223 {\an8}[Gabby speaking] 320 00:19:37,223 --> 00:19:39,223 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 321 00:19:39,223 --> 00:19:40,923 {\an8}So they can't get her to change her story. 322 00:19:40,923 --> 00:19:44,393 {\an8}So they put her in a room with Shelby and let Shelby interview her. 323 00:19:44,393 --> 00:19:46,023 {\an8}[Gabby speaking] 324 00:19:46,023 --> 00:19:47,693 {\an8}[Shelby speaking] 325 00:19:47,693 --> 00:19:48,953 {\an8}[Gabby speaking] 326 00:19:51,593 --> 00:19:53,023 {\an8}[Shelby speaking] 327 00:19:53,723 --> 00:19:58,393 {\an8}[Gabby speaking] 328 00:20:02,653 --> 00:20:04,093 {\an8}[Shelby speaking] 329 00:20:06,493 --> 00:20:07,923 {\an8}[Dr. Wood] Totally in violation. 330 00:20:07,923 --> 00:20:10,593 {\an8}You're not supposed to have children question other children, 331 00:20:10,593 --> 00:20:13,553 {\an8}and you're not supposed to have children pressure other children. 332 00:20:13,553 --> 00:20:16,393 {\an8}[Gabby speaking] 333 00:20:16,953 --> 00:20:19,853 {\an8}[Shelby speaking] 334 00:20:19,853 --> 00:20:20,853 {\an8}[Gabby speaking] 335 00:20:24,323 --> 00:20:25,593 Margie Cantrell 336 00:20:25,593 --> 00:20:28,023 and Ranger Philip Kemp 337 00:20:28,023 --> 00:20:31,553 violated just about every rule in the book 338 00:20:31,553 --> 00:20:33,693 for good interviewing of children. 339 00:20:34,323 --> 00:20:36,093 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 340 00:20:44,053 --> 00:20:45,323 {\an8}[Ranger Kemp speaking] 341 00:20:45,323 --> 00:20:46,323 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 342 00:20:46,323 --> 00:20:47,323 {\an8}[Ranger Kemp speaking] 343 00:20:47,323 --> 00:20:49,223 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 344 00:20:53,123 --> 00:20:54,853 {\an8}[Dr. Wood] It was crystal clear 345 00:20:54,853 --> 00:20:59,223 {\an8}that the children were subjected to very intense pressure and 346 00:20:59,223 --> 00:21:03,123 {\an8}suggestive questioning by Ranger Kemp and Margie Cantrell. 347 00:21:03,123 --> 00:21:06,853 {\an8}[Gabby speaking] 348 00:21:07,323 --> 00:21:10,753 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 349 00:21:10,753 --> 00:21:14,853 {\an8}[Melinda] It was Margie Cantrell telling them 350 00:21:14,853 --> 00:21:16,223 {\an8}that these things happened. 351 00:21:16,223 --> 00:21:19,193 {\an8}So it's like, if you tell the kid there's a Santa Claus and 352 00:21:19,193 --> 00:21:21,853 {\an8}and if you're not good, Santa Claus won't bring you anything 353 00:21:21,853 --> 00:21:25,593 {\an8}and you're putting that belief in that child's head. 354 00:21:25,593 --> 00:21:28,393 {\an8}Then you could put the bad beliefs in there too. 355 00:21:28,393 --> 00:21:30,953 [Hunter] None of this stuff actually ever happened. 356 00:21:30,953 --> 00:21:33,653 We were manipulated in to believing it. 357 00:21:36,823 --> 00:21:40,023 {\an8}When I finally realized the sex scandal never happened 358 00:21:40,023 --> 00:21:43,693 {\an8}and she knew it never happened I didn't understand why 359 00:21:43,693 --> 00:21:49,493 {\an8}she forced a child into telling you something that didn't happen. 360 00:21:49,493 --> 00:21:51,693 {\an8}[Margie speaking] 361 00:21:55,953 --> 00:21:58,193 We learned much later 362 00:21:58,193 --> 00:22:00,223 the reason she's doing this 363 00:22:00,223 --> 00:22:03,323 is because the worse the child is 364 00:22:03,323 --> 00:22:05,953 then the more the foster parents pay. 365 00:22:07,653 --> 00:22:11,853 And so, Margie started saying that the children had told her 366 00:22:11,853 --> 00:22:13,393 that they were sexually abused. 367 00:22:14,853 --> 00:22:17,693 [Gabby] Margie Cantrell got a lot of money 368 00:22:17,693 --> 00:22:19,493 for Shelby, Hunter and Carly. 369 00:22:19,493 --> 00:22:21,323 The more messed up they were 370 00:22:21,323 --> 00:22:23,923 the more money she got for taking care of them. 371 00:22:24,553 --> 00:22:26,123 I think it's horrific. 372 00:22:27,493 --> 00:22:30,693 [Hunter] She was creating this horrible backstory for us 373 00:22:30,693 --> 00:22:33,493 so that she could get paid. 374 00:22:33,493 --> 00:22:36,393 Margie just needed the money. She wanted the money. 375 00:22:36,393 --> 00:22:39,753 [Jenna] She would brag, "Oh yeah. 376 00:22:39,753 --> 00:22:43,293 John, John, now if we say this about this kid, 377 00:22:43,293 --> 00:22:46,053 then, you know we can get $1,500 for that kid." 378 00:22:46,493 --> 00:22:48,223 So everybody, 379 00:22:48,223 --> 00:22:50,453 even if they didn't have issues, 380 00:22:51,123 --> 00:22:53,123 they were going to "have issues" 381 00:22:53,123 --> 00:22:55,323 when they got to the Cantrell's house. 382 00:22:56,823 --> 00:22:59,493 [Dr. Wood] From an economic point of view, 383 00:22:59,493 --> 00:23:03,223 if she has these three foster children staying with her, 384 00:23:03,223 --> 00:23:05,693 they typically will be returned to their parents. 385 00:23:05,693 --> 00:23:07,953 But if the parents are convicted 386 00:23:07,953 --> 00:23:09,853 and they're put into jail, 387 00:23:09,853 --> 00:23:11,693 then the children are not going to be returned to those parents 388 00:23:11,693 --> 00:23:17,453 and they become a steady, reliable source of income. 389 00:23:17,453 --> 00:23:21,493 [Melinda] That's how we learned that each one of these children they got, 390 00:23:21,493 --> 00:23:23,493 every single child, 391 00:23:23,493 --> 00:23:27,323 their level escalated, so that they made more money. 392 00:23:30,393 --> 00:23:31,923 {\an8}[woman speaking] 393 00:23:37,553 --> 00:23:38,753 Yes, I was. 394 00:23:38,753 --> 00:23:40,393 I heard 395 00:23:40,393 --> 00:23:44,753 through one of the articles that it was 3000, 396 00:23:44,753 --> 00:23:47,393 maybe like 700 per child. 397 00:23:47,953 --> 00:23:49,653 I wish. 398 00:23:49,653 --> 00:23:53,193 But no, never, ever, ever was that true. 399 00:23:54,123 --> 00:23:56,593 You're never paid 400 00:23:56,593 --> 00:23:58,493 to take care of these children. 401 00:23:58,493 --> 00:24:02,323 You have to put the money out first, support them. 402 00:24:02,323 --> 00:24:06,453 It's a reimbursement plan that the state has. 403 00:24:06,453 --> 00:24:09,953 And as one would come in 404 00:24:09,953 --> 00:24:14,223 that might have been a fire starter, 405 00:24:14,223 --> 00:24:19,953 um poke the eyes out of cats, rip their limbs off, 406 00:24:19,953 --> 00:24:25,753 they would definitely require about $1,400 a month 407 00:24:25,753 --> 00:24:27,323 or something like that. 408 00:24:27,323 --> 00:24:32,823 That would be much more but that's a 24-hour type child. 409 00:24:35,453 --> 00:24:37,593 [Thad] Margie is a master actor. 410 00:24:37,593 --> 00:24:41,593 She's totally alive when she gets to play hero to the jury. 411 00:24:41,593 --> 00:24:44,553 She's totally alive running around the countryside 412 00:24:44,553 --> 00:24:47,853 talking to whatever law enforcement agent is foolish enough to listen to her 413 00:24:47,853 --> 00:24:50,753 {\an8}about how these poor kids have been traumatized 414 00:24:50,753 --> 00:24:52,393 {\an8}and damaged by all these evil people, 415 00:24:52,393 --> 00:24:53,693 but I'm here to save them. 416 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:56,393 But it's actually just a con. 417 00:24:56,393 --> 00:24:57,593 It's just a money scam. 418 00:24:59,023 --> 00:25:01,593 [Margie] I did my job. I did what I was supposed to do. 419 00:25:01,593 --> 00:25:03,553 And that's where my part ended. 420 00:25:03,553 --> 00:25:07,323 Even though people can hate me and try to blame things on me, 421 00:25:07,323 --> 00:25:09,853 I did not know the inner workings of this case, 422 00:25:09,853 --> 00:25:11,593 nor the people, nor anything, 423 00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:12,753 and then you start hearing 424 00:25:12,753 --> 00:25:14,553 well you made it all up Margie, 425 00:25:14,553 --> 00:25:16,023 you made this whole thing up. 426 00:25:16,023 --> 00:25:17,953 And now I'm on trial. 427 00:25:17,953 --> 00:25:21,123 But, where's the kids in the mix? 428 00:25:21,123 --> 00:25:24,493 Listen to them. Maybe talk to them more. 429 00:25:24,493 --> 00:25:28,123 Maybe another forensic... I don't know. 430 00:25:28,123 --> 00:25:31,123 But somewhere lies the truth. 431 00:25:32,693 --> 00:25:34,453 {\an8}[woman speaking] 432 00:25:38,323 --> 00:25:41,323 [Margie] After everything I've been through and everything I've seen, 433 00:25:41,323 --> 00:25:43,393 I don't think they had a choice. 434 00:25:44,123 --> 00:25:46,593 But Shelby says this is her truth 435 00:25:46,593 --> 00:25:48,753 and she stands by it to this day, 436 00:25:50,323 --> 00:25:52,953 and that's the end of her story. 437 00:26:01,123 --> 00:26:02,953 {\an8}[man speaking] 438 00:26:06,123 --> 00:26:08,493 I probably couldn't say anything to her. 439 00:26:08,493 --> 00:26:10,693 I would... I would probably just leave. 440 00:26:13,953 --> 00:26:16,223 [door squeaking] 441 00:26:19,393 --> 00:26:21,853 [Hunter] They basically took my childhood from me. 442 00:26:23,123 --> 00:26:25,453 They did steal my memories. 443 00:26:28,453 --> 00:26:31,693 With everything that happened, I never thought I'd ever see my mom again. 444 00:26:33,123 --> 00:26:36,493 {\an8}I can imagine it hurt a lot 445 00:26:36,493 --> 00:26:39,853 to have your children testify against you, 446 00:26:39,853 --> 00:26:42,223 and put you in prison for something you didn't do. 447 00:26:42,223 --> 00:26:45,223 And knowing that they were manipulated into doing it. 448 00:26:46,123 --> 00:26:47,323 It must have been hard. 449 00:26:49,123 --> 00:26:55,123 [Hunter quoting prosecutor and himself] 450 00:27:04,753 --> 00:27:11,123 "The record will reflect Hunter pointed to and identified the defendant." 451 00:27:11,123 --> 00:27:14,393 [Shauntel] Having my son testify against me broke my heart. 452 00:27:15,453 --> 00:27:16,693 It broke my spirit. 453 00:27:18,193 --> 00:27:20,493 It broke my spirit for all the kids. 454 00:27:21,223 --> 00:27:23,193 {\an8}[man speaking] 455 00:27:23,193 --> 00:27:25,293 There was no reason to forgive him. 456 00:27:26,553 --> 00:27:28,293 I've never blamed my children. 457 00:27:31,123 --> 00:27:32,923 From day one, I've known that it wasn't... 458 00:27:32,923 --> 00:27:34,693 it had nothing to do with the kids. 459 00:27:38,593 --> 00:27:41,323 When we were reunited after all these years 460 00:27:41,323 --> 00:27:43,593 my mom was just so happy to see me, 461 00:27:43,593 --> 00:27:47,023 she... she couldn't control her feelings seeing me, 462 00:27:47,023 --> 00:27:49,593 I mean she busted into tears. 463 00:27:49,593 --> 00:27:52,023 She was hugging me. She wouldn't let me go or anything. 464 00:27:53,693 --> 00:27:56,123 [Shauntel] I didn't think that I deserved 465 00:27:56,123 --> 00:27:59,653 the chance to... to be his mom. 466 00:27:59,653 --> 00:28:02,823 I couldn't believe that he even wanted to be around me. 467 00:28:02,823 --> 00:28:05,323 Because they wouldn't have been taken from me 468 00:28:05,323 --> 00:28:08,753 if I hadn't started doing drugs in 2003. 469 00:28:09,553 --> 00:28:10,953 It was my fault. 470 00:28:12,593 --> 00:28:14,693 It's always been my fault. 471 00:28:15,923 --> 00:28:17,593 After I got out of prison, 472 00:28:17,593 --> 00:28:20,493 I would have major anxiety attacks. 473 00:28:20,493 --> 00:28:23,123 I couldn't handle it, I couldn't get a job. 474 00:28:24,293 --> 00:28:26,593 But Jamie held my hand and 475 00:28:27,393 --> 00:28:31,053 taught me how to live again. 476 00:28:31,053 --> 00:28:33,853 My children haven't forgiven me completely. 477 00:28:33,853 --> 00:28:35,393 But I have. 478 00:28:35,393 --> 00:28:37,053 and I had to forgive myself 479 00:28:37,053 --> 00:28:41,823 because I couldn't be a mom to them without forgiving myself. 480 00:28:52,053 --> 00:28:53,593 [Gabby] After I had recanted, 481 00:28:53,593 --> 00:28:56,053 the reuniting with my mom happened. 482 00:28:56,053 --> 00:28:59,053 It was really emotional. Uh, she didn't know I was coming. 483 00:28:59,623 --> 00:29:01,323 I remember she was... 484 00:29:02,423 --> 00:29:04,863 she was watering some plants out, 485 00:29:05,893 --> 00:29:08,623 uh, by the porch area that they had. 486 00:29:11,623 --> 00:29:14,693 [Shelia] This truck pulls up. It was Jimmy in the... 487 00:29:16,253 --> 00:29:19,863 didn't know who the hell that was in the passenger seat. 488 00:29:19,863 --> 00:29:22,993 Then they both got out of the truck. 489 00:29:25,353 --> 00:29:27,393 And I finally realized... 490 00:29:27,993 --> 00:29:29,493 who she was. 491 00:29:33,253 --> 00:29:36,223 I dropped my water hose and 492 00:29:37,323 --> 00:29:39,763 I grabbed that child up so fast 493 00:29:39,763 --> 00:29:42,393 and so hard and I hugged her so long. 494 00:29:46,053 --> 00:29:48,153 I didn't want to let her go 495 00:29:48,153 --> 00:29:50,393 and I didn't want her to go away. 496 00:29:53,323 --> 00:29:55,393 Look how cute you were. 497 00:29:57,623 --> 00:29:59,693 Not that you're not cute now. You're adorable. 498 00:29:59,693 --> 00:30:02,523 [Gabby] She was like, "I can either be your best friend, 499 00:30:02,523 --> 00:30:06,623 or I can step back into the role of your mother, it's up to you." 500 00:30:06,623 --> 00:30:09,253 And I was, you know, finally like, "I, 501 00:30:09,253 --> 00:30:11,423 I want you to be my mom again." 502 00:30:11,423 --> 00:30:13,893 [Shelia] That's the picture I had. 503 00:30:13,893 --> 00:30:16,393 That's the picture I kissed every night. 504 00:30:16,793 --> 00:30:18,393 And I talked to. 505 00:30:26,593 --> 00:30:28,523 [Jimmy] I wrote this when I was in prison. 506 00:30:30,323 --> 00:30:34,893 And I was definitely depressed, 507 00:30:34,893 --> 00:30:37,423 I mean, I was giving up hope. 508 00:30:37,423 --> 00:30:42,223 I was laying in my bunk asleep, and I had this dream. 509 00:30:42,223 --> 00:30:45,623 And I got up immediately after the dream stopped, and I wrote it. 510 00:30:50,993 --> 00:30:54,593 "As I sit and think about my beautiful Gabby, 511 00:30:54,593 --> 00:30:58,793 how all it was is now nothing more than memories, 512 00:30:58,793 --> 00:31:02,423 I look outside and watch an angel fall from the sky. 513 00:31:05,353 --> 00:31:09,993 I look at her with a smile, although no words are said, 514 00:31:09,993 --> 00:31:12,893 she grabs my face and breaks down instead. 515 00:31:15,523 --> 00:31:17,793 I ask, 'What's the matter?' 516 00:31:17,793 --> 00:31:20,323 as I wipe her tears away, 517 00:31:20,323 --> 00:31:23,953 she leans in closer and she had this to say." 518 00:31:25,863 --> 00:31:27,793 "Love life and keep it simple, 519 00:31:27,793 --> 00:31:30,153 but most of all, keep your heart open, 520 00:31:30,153 --> 00:31:31,423 [sniffles] 521 00:31:34,153 --> 00:31:37,253 because she loves you and still needs you. 522 00:31:38,523 --> 00:31:40,423 My angel closed her eyes, 523 00:31:41,253 --> 00:31:43,123 and her body went limp 524 00:31:44,793 --> 00:31:47,623 as her spirit ascended back to heaven. 525 00:31:47,623 --> 00:31:50,793 I just sat there and cried because I knew what she meant... 526 00:31:51,123 --> 00:31:52,253 Gabby." 527 00:31:56,223 --> 00:31:57,523 You okay? 528 00:32:00,153 --> 00:32:02,523 It makes me cry every time I read it. 529 00:32:06,423 --> 00:32:09,523 I mean, I was to the point where I was ready just to off myself. 530 00:32:11,153 --> 00:32:12,693 That's how depressed I was. 531 00:32:16,423 --> 00:32:18,893 This right here kept me alive. 532 00:32:47,053 --> 00:32:50,593 The place where it all supposedly began. 533 00:33:06,223 --> 00:33:07,953 How could such an innocent building 534 00:33:07,953 --> 00:33:10,153 be so damn evil for me? 535 00:33:10,153 --> 00:33:11,353 I mean... 536 00:33:12,253 --> 00:33:14,053 this is where it started. 537 00:33:15,123 --> 00:33:17,323 It's where the lies came from. 538 00:33:18,623 --> 00:33:21,693 and I really don't like being here. 539 00:33:21,693 --> 00:33:23,393 If my little old arms could do it, 540 00:33:23,393 --> 00:33:26,053 I'd take every damn brick out of this bitch. 541 00:33:27,993 --> 00:33:30,223 [Shauntel] I didn't know it existed. 542 00:33:30,223 --> 00:33:32,523 How did my kids know what the inside of it looked like? 543 00:33:34,353 --> 00:33:35,763 Because I don't. 544 00:33:35,763 --> 00:33:38,253 But ask my two oldest kids 545 00:33:38,253 --> 00:33:40,323 and they can tell you what it looks like. 546 00:33:40,323 --> 00:33:42,893 That woman walked my kids through this building. 547 00:33:51,393 --> 00:33:52,693 [door closes] 548 00:33:54,623 --> 00:33:58,323 [Hunter] Margie brought me to this building the first time I was here. 549 00:34:02,223 --> 00:34:03,993 We drove up one day, 550 00:34:03,993 --> 00:34:06,253 Margie talking about wanting to buy the place 551 00:34:06,893 --> 00:34:09,423 and I was like 8 years old. 552 00:34:11,893 --> 00:34:13,123 It was creepy. 553 00:34:13,863 --> 00:34:16,153 And, uh, I remember stopping 554 00:34:16,153 --> 00:34:18,393 and seeing a basketball in the back. 555 00:34:18,393 --> 00:34:21,153 And, uh, I can't remember what I said about it, 556 00:34:21,153 --> 00:34:23,223 but I think I wanted the basketball 557 00:34:23,223 --> 00:34:25,253 so I think Margie just kind of took that 558 00:34:25,253 --> 00:34:27,253 and kind twisted that, 559 00:34:27,253 --> 00:34:30,523 you know, trying to make it seem like we had been here before 560 00:34:30,523 --> 00:34:31,953 and that was my basketball. 561 00:34:35,693 --> 00:34:38,123 As far as she's talking about memories, 562 00:34:38,123 --> 00:34:40,393 I don't know if Shelby maybe said something, 563 00:34:40,393 --> 00:34:43,493 but I had no memory of the place at all. 564 00:34:45,523 --> 00:34:51,693 I've never been in here with any family member ever, 565 00:34:51,693 --> 00:34:54,693 um, not even in the building or on the property. 566 00:35:13,323 --> 00:35:14,993 [dog barking] 567 00:35:20,763 --> 00:35:22,893 [Carly] My mother bought me a house. 568 00:35:22,893 --> 00:35:25,153 It's a mobile home right across the street from her 569 00:35:25,153 --> 00:35:26,523 with two lots, 570 00:35:28,053 --> 00:35:29,693 so if anything happens, 571 00:35:30,763 --> 00:35:31,993 I'm right there. 572 00:35:33,053 --> 00:35:37,523 In a year or so, I'm hoping to have me and my mother 573 00:35:37,523 --> 00:35:41,153 and my grandmother all right there in the same vicinity, 574 00:35:41,153 --> 00:35:42,693 if not side by side. 575 00:35:45,593 --> 00:35:48,223 [Hunter] I hope to go back and finish school 576 00:35:48,223 --> 00:35:49,893 and get some stability 577 00:35:50,693 --> 00:35:51,993 is really what I hope. 578 00:35:51,993 --> 00:35:53,523 In 10 years it would be nice 579 00:35:53,523 --> 00:35:56,253 to have a family of my own. 580 00:35:56,253 --> 00:35:58,993 [Shauntel] There you go. There you go, Carly. 581 00:36:02,153 --> 00:36:03,953 [Hunter] I would like to see myself 582 00:36:03,953 --> 00:36:06,693 closer to the family I have right now. 583 00:36:10,693 --> 00:36:13,393 I constantly feel guilt about what happened. 584 00:36:13,393 --> 00:36:17,493 I do feel like if I'd have stuck with my answer "no" in the beginning, 585 00:36:17,493 --> 00:36:19,693 that it had never happened, 586 00:36:19,693 --> 00:36:23,053 um, I feel like none of this would have ever happened. 587 00:36:26,623 --> 00:36:29,993 [Gabby] The fallout is devastating and it still affects us. 588 00:36:31,793 --> 00:36:35,523 This is something that we have to live with for the rest of our lives. 589 00:36:36,893 --> 00:36:38,993 Justice for my parents 590 00:36:38,993 --> 00:36:42,353 would be their names cleared, 591 00:36:42,353 --> 00:36:46,153 it taken off of their record, because that felony is still on their record. 592 00:36:46,153 --> 00:36:49,593 Justice for Margie would be seeing her behind bars. 593 00:36:52,623 --> 00:36:54,423 [Shelia] This one woman 594 00:36:55,863 --> 00:36:57,763 hated so much 595 00:36:58,393 --> 00:37:01,393 that she destroyed us. 596 00:37:01,393 --> 00:37:03,153 She was the rich woman. 597 00:37:03,153 --> 00:37:05,993 They're going to believe her over the poor people. 598 00:37:07,623 --> 00:37:11,123 Especially poor people that have had 599 00:37:11,763 --> 00:37:13,863 poor people problems. 600 00:37:13,863 --> 00:37:16,693 You could tell by the newspaper clippings 601 00:37:16,693 --> 00:37:20,053 and everything that 602 00:37:20,053 --> 00:37:24,623 society thought that, because we were poor, we were indecent, 603 00:37:24,993 --> 00:37:27,323 immoral, dirty. 604 00:37:27,893 --> 00:37:30,493 {\an8}[man speaking] 605 00:37:36,223 --> 00:37:37,953 I don't trust anybody. 606 00:37:40,863 --> 00:37:44,423 My life experiences are really negative toward the world. 607 00:37:45,423 --> 00:37:48,523 People are liars and they're mean. 608 00:37:54,793 --> 00:37:56,693 [Jimmy] We were innocent. 609 00:37:56,693 --> 00:37:59,253 Our lives were turned upside down. 610 00:37:59,253 --> 00:38:01,553 It cost me four years of my freedom, 611 00:38:03,253 --> 00:38:05,193 the loss of my daughter. 612 00:38:05,193 --> 00:38:07,523 I wasn't there as a father. 613 00:38:10,553 --> 00:38:13,353 You know it makes me sad the fact that 614 00:38:14,453 --> 00:38:15,823 I wasn't there. 615 00:38:18,723 --> 00:38:21,193 I didn't get to raise my daughter. 616 00:38:21,193 --> 00:38:23,163 I will never get those years back. 617 00:38:35,723 --> 00:38:37,993 {\an8}[Mike] After those guys got out, 618 00:38:37,993 --> 00:38:40,723 {\an8}I would still get letters from Dennis Pittman, 619 00:38:40,723 --> 00:38:44,723 {\an8}and basically saying, "Look, all these other people are out, what about me?" 620 00:38:44,723 --> 00:38:48,453 {\an8}And he would always sign his letters, 621 00:38:48,453 --> 00:38:50,923 {\an8}"Dennis Pittman, the innocent man." 622 00:38:51,823 --> 00:38:53,453 {\an8}And... 623 00:38:53,453 --> 00:38:56,553 he just got caught up in Smith County justice. 624 00:38:56,553 --> 00:38:58,623 We all knew he should be free, 625 00:38:58,623 --> 00:39:01,923 but the wheels of the criminal justice system turn really slowly. 626 00:39:03,093 --> 00:39:04,893 So, every year went on, and it was like, 627 00:39:04,893 --> 00:39:06,993 of course this guy's gonna get out eventually. 628 00:39:06,993 --> 00:39:08,193 [buzzes] 629 00:39:32,193 --> 00:39:36,993 [Jason] I would check to see where he was in the parole review. 630 00:39:36,993 --> 00:39:39,693 Because Dennis was convicted of an offense 631 00:39:39,693 --> 00:39:42,523 that allowed him to be parole eligible 632 00:39:42,523 --> 00:39:44,823 with less than half time served. 633 00:39:44,823 --> 00:39:49,453 So I would periodically check just to see and I happened to 634 00:39:49,453 --> 00:39:51,293 look it up and see that 635 00:39:51,293 --> 00:39:53,893 it didn't show he was in TC any longer, 636 00:39:54,453 --> 00:39:57,293 and so I text Melinda 637 00:39:57,293 --> 00:40:01,193 and I said, "Dennis might've made parole." 638 00:40:01,193 --> 00:40:04,093 And, you know, she responded back 639 00:40:04,093 --> 00:40:05,993 "Or he died," 640 00:40:05,993 --> 00:40:07,793 which I'd never even considered. 641 00:40:07,793 --> 00:40:09,423 And then we started looking into it and 642 00:40:09,423 --> 00:40:12,353 of course found out that he had indeed passed away. 643 00:40:17,253 --> 00:40:19,623 [Mike] He died of COVID complications. 644 00:40:20,193 --> 00:40:21,993 And that was that. 645 00:40:22,653 --> 00:40:24,193 So the last innocent man... 646 00:40:24,923 --> 00:40:26,063 was dead. 647 00:40:31,993 --> 00:40:33,893 {\an8}[man speaking] 648 00:40:35,253 --> 00:40:37,063 {\an8}- No. - [man speaking] 649 00:40:37,893 --> 00:40:39,293 He did? 650 00:40:40,453 --> 00:40:43,093 What? I did not know that. 651 00:40:46,063 --> 00:40:49,093 What? Oh, my gosh. Ugh. 652 00:40:49,093 --> 00:40:50,723 Well, now I feel really bad. 653 00:40:52,353 --> 00:40:53,723 Yeah, I didn't know. 654 00:40:54,553 --> 00:40:57,163 His life now is defined by this. 655 00:40:57,553 --> 00:40:59,063 You know, he died 656 00:40:59,063 --> 00:41:02,293 without ever having a chance to tell his story 657 00:41:02,293 --> 00:41:04,163 and for people to believe him. 658 00:41:04,163 --> 00:41:07,553 And so imagine how lonely and isolating it must have felt. 659 00:41:07,553 --> 00:41:10,823 It's not about pride and arrogance and winning cases. 660 00:41:10,823 --> 00:41:14,063 It's real lives that were affected and impacted. 661 00:41:14,063 --> 00:41:16,193 We all had a responsibility. 662 00:41:16,193 --> 00:41:17,923 We have failed him in many ways. 663 00:41:20,423 --> 00:41:23,453 [Mike] It was the final tragedy in this story. 664 00:41:23,453 --> 00:41:27,253 And you can trace every single terrible event back to two people. 665 00:41:27,893 --> 00:41:30,623 Margie and John Cantrell. 666 00:41:30,623 --> 00:41:33,093 They were never held accountable. 667 00:41:35,293 --> 00:41:39,553 There were various people talking about ways they could go after them 668 00:41:39,553 --> 00:41:41,693 with some kind of fraud charges. 669 00:41:41,693 --> 00:41:43,253 You know, I think, ultimately, 670 00:41:43,723 --> 00:41:45,723 the fact that 671 00:41:45,723 --> 00:41:48,893 we were dealing with a bunch of people who lived in trailers, 672 00:41:48,893 --> 00:41:50,893 a bunch of people who didn't have any money. 673 00:41:50,893 --> 00:41:52,693 I mean, ultimately, I think people just didn't give a [bleep]. 674 00:41:53,923 --> 00:41:56,723 She got away with it. And what does she do? 675 00:41:56,723 --> 00:41:58,093 She goes back to California 676 00:41:58,093 --> 00:42:00,093 and scuddles back into her hole. 677 00:42:08,723 --> 00:42:10,293 [Margie] Life is good. 678 00:42:10,293 --> 00:42:12,923 I've been swimming a lot. 679 00:42:13,793 --> 00:42:16,693 And I take care of my husband. 680 00:42:16,693 --> 00:42:20,723 He has PTSD and some problems. 681 00:42:20,723 --> 00:42:23,553 And we work in the backyard. 682 00:42:24,163 --> 00:42:26,523 Our backyard is gorgeous 683 00:42:26,523 --> 00:42:28,453 and I have, 684 00:42:28,453 --> 00:42:32,093 oh, so many grandkids surrounding me, 685 00:42:32,093 --> 00:42:34,653 and grandma's very involved in what they're doing. 686 00:42:34,653 --> 00:42:36,353 And, um... 687 00:42:36,923 --> 00:42:39,253 they make me laugh 688 00:42:39,253 --> 00:42:42,623 and they're coming into those teenage years so it really makes me laugh 689 00:42:42,623 --> 00:42:44,453 because I get to send them home. 690 00:42:44,453 --> 00:42:47,353 But it's good. Life is... is good. 691 00:42:48,553 --> 00:42:50,193 {\an8}[man speaking] 692 00:42:52,093 --> 00:42:56,353 I have regrets at walking away from my home 693 00:42:56,353 --> 00:42:58,353 and our dreams. 694 00:42:59,793 --> 00:43:02,893 But we have new dreams and they're pretty awesome. 695 00:43:05,893 --> 00:43:09,893 Preuzeto sa www.titlovi.com 57760

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