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[man] I love my country.
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But these, um... police officers...
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they, um...
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they killed me in '97.
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They, um...
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mind-raped me and made me believe
I killed someone I loved.
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[man] People look you right in the eyeand lie to you
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and destroy you and do it on purpose.
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[woman] As a television reporteron the scene,
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I've asked the question many times,
"Did you do it?"
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And this was the first time
that somebody actually said, "Yes."
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You feel any remorse
about what happened?
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I wanna apologize to the family
for what I've done.
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I've committed... a crime
that I can't take back.
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Police say Myers
beat and strangled Haught
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before setting fire to the Mill Inn
early Thursday morning.
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[woman] And I have played that night,
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that moment, the questions that I asked,
over and over in my own head.
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He says he's sorry
and he didn't mean to do it.
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I have no idea what kind of pressure
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and what kind of questions
need to be put upon someone
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in order to go from,
"No, I really didn't do it,"
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to, "Okay, yes, I did."
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[man] The police didn't give a damn.
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It was all a set-up.
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[woman] You don't know what goes onbehind the closed doors.
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You don't know what's being said.
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I loved Teresa very much.
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And I'm very sorry for the hurt
I've put on my family, her family.
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[woman] Usually, if somebody says,"I did it," you take them at their word.
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But things aren't always as they seem.
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[man] I met Wesley second grade.
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I mean, I don't know
how old I was in second grade.
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I can't do the numbers in my head, but...
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[Terry] We just used to play in the creeksand fish down in the pond.
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His mother and father's just as much
of a mother and father to me.
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I think he was like ten years old
when I met him the first time.
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His mother and I worked
in Charleston County.
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I was the music teacher,
and she was the art teacher.
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He wandered over into my room
and brought his guitar
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and sat down and played a song for me
that he had written and sang.
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[Wesley] Grew up,I had a great family.
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Then I was married
and my wife, she was pregnant,
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and a child was born.
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About three months after that, my wife,
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because she had knots on her neck
and you could feel them,
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we went to the doctor,
and I knew as soon as I walked in there,
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and the look on his face...
that it was cancer.
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And she had AML leukemia.
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It destroyed her.
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Before she died...
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she actually told me to go find somebody.
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And, uh, we separated.
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I met Teresa at the Mill Inn.
Her mom ran it then.
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We danced.
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I've been told I look pretty good
on the dance floor.
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Then we... started seeing each other.
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[man] Everybody drank back then.It was a different time.
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And I smoked pot and drank like a fish
and all that other kind of thing.
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And there was occasionally
a little cocaine around.
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It was always a love-and-hate relationship
with Teresa and Wesley.
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You know, whether they were mad
on Wednesday, they were great on Friday.
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And they always ended up back together.
For whatever reason, love is like that.
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[Terry] I tried to get himaway from her
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'cause I didn't like any of those people
that hung out there in that area,
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that part of North Charleston.
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Didn't like them, didn't trust them.
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They were the lower-lifes.
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Hanging around that crowd, he was...
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he was in pitiful shape, as far
as drinking and just partying and...
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It's just that lifestyle
they had down there.
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[Myers] I drank a lot.Everybody drank a lot. [chuckles]
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I normally drank until I would...
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black out.
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[McKeithan] I've never seen himactually punch her or hit her.
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I've seen probably Teresa be the more
of an aggressor on some occasions,
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trying to get something from Wes,
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back from Wesley,
or something along those lines.
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They loved to hate each other.
It's the only way I could put it.
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[Myers] She was a pretty tough girl.
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And she would fight man or woman,
it didn't matter.
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And especially
if she'd been drinking some.
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It was a road to nowhere.
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And I didn't wanna see him
go down there.
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But... love is blind.
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[Myers] I was at my mom and dad's.
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In fact, there was ice skating
of some sort.
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And Dad and I watched a little bit of it.
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Then I went to bed
because I had work the next morning.
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[match striking]
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[siren wails]
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When we arrived,
there was heavy smoke and fire
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coming from the front of the structure.
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[Cornell] And we went in.We was hitting the hot spots.
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There was a lot of flame, a lot of smoke.
You couldn't see.
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I happened to notice
something laying on the floor.
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At first when I seen it,
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I thought it was a mannequin,
and I had... I had to take another look.
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And that's when I realized
that it was a human body laying there.
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And I called the battalion chief
on the radio and notified him
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that I had a victim inside
that was deceased.
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I was heading to Texaco to go to work.
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She slept in the bar quite often,
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so I was gonna go by, like I normally did,
to check on Teresa and that.
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Parked my truck, got out,
and was met by a fireman,
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and I asked what was going on.
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And he informed me there had been a fire,
and I asked about Teresa.
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[Cornell] He said, "That's my girlfriend'scar sitting there."
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And I walked over
and told the arson investigator...
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that this man walked up and stated
that that was his girlfriend's car.
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And he said, uh...
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"Well, there's a body in there
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but we don't know who it is
'cause it's been burned."
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And, uh...
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"Do you have any pictures of her?"
And I did in my glove box.
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So I run to the truck
and got a picture and took it to him.
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And, uh,
they informed me it was Teresa.
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And...
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I... started crying.
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[Myers] That's whenDetective Payne showed up
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and said he wanted to talk with me.
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He said, "Well, we need to eliminate you
so we can move on."
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I said, "No problem. I didn't do it."
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[man] I like to get out of the office.I like to see where it happened.
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I like to see the people,
the place, take pictures.
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I gotta feel the case.
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And so, I don't hesitate
putting on blue jeans
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and going out and knocking on doors
and talking to people and...
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seeing for myself.
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It was obviously a very serious case.
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His girlfriend had been murdered
with a wine carafe,
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and the police collected
a number of things from the scene.
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One of the things they collected
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was the hair purportedly found
in Teresa's hand.
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The watch that was found
at the crime scene
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under or near Teresa's body.
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There was a bloody dollar bill...
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and the wine carafe, in pieces,
that had blood spatter on them.
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It wasn't the kind of case
where there was overwhelming evidence.
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[Myers] That afternoon,I went to Shores,
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and everybody was talking
about what happened,
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who done it, what's going on.
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I had a few drinks,
and Paul attached himself to me.
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[McKeithan] Well, I was coming homefrom work,
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and there was everybody at Shores,
and it was emotional.
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He had a picture of Teresa, he was talking
about wanting to be with her.
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Just how much he missed her
and all that kind of thing.
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And at the time, I'd had some friends
that committed suicide and things,
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and I was very concerned for Wesley.
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That particular night,
everybody knew what had happened.
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As soon as he walked in,
everybody, you know, come to him.
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So I think he wanted to go to a place
that wasn't known.
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[Myers] And he said,"Let's go find another place to drink."
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Well, I knew that the Joker was open,
so we went to the Joker.
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It's a strip joint.
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[McKeithan] At that time of night, that'sall that's left that's open, more or less,
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especially down Dorchester
and all that kind of road back then.
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It wasn't like he was up there
dancing with the girls
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and sticking dollars
in their drawers or nothing.
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We just sat down at a table
with a cold beer and, you know...
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We ended up back at Teresa's house,
a couple blocks from the bar.
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And he went upstairs to her room,
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and I stayed downstairs
and slept on the stairs,
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because that way
he couldn't step over me
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and get out of the house
without waking me up or something.
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[Myers] That next morning,I went home and my dad said,
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"The police have been calling for you.
They need you at the station."
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Then I went down there,
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and they asked if I had a problem
taking a lie detector test.
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And I said no.
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I told them I would do anything
to help them get this solved.
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Well, they got me back in the back room,
and they started asking me questions.
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[detective] In the last 24 hours, how much
alcohol have you had in your body?
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Probably a case of Budweiser.
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When you say "case,"
how many beers are you talking?
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Twenty-four.
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[detective] In most
domestic-type murders...
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the husband's always the first one
to be dragged in.
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Well, that's natural.
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Nobody likes to ask people
these questions.
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This is why I get paid to do what I do.
Okay? And I gotta ask you.
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The obvious question I'm gonna
ask you first is, did you kill her?
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No, sir, I didn't.
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Okay. Why wouldn't you?
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I loved her. And I'm not that...
I'm not someone that would kill nobody.
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Is there any reason, Wesley,
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that you can think of
that I won't be able to clear you?
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- No.
- Okay.
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Is there any physical evidence
that you know of,
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that she was in possession of,
that would tie you to where she was found?
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- No.
- None at all? Okay.
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Did you kill her and not mean to?
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- Did you...?
- I did not kill Teresa Haught.
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- Did you get in a fight with her?
- No, I did not.
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Okay.
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[Myers] Eliminating meis what they kept telling me.
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The boyfriend's always,
or the husband is, a suspect.
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But... they said, "We do this,
we can move on and get the real murderer."
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And I believed them.
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[detective] When was the last time
that you saw her alive?
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3:30 and... I left there
about 15 minutes later. At the bar.
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[detective] Okay.
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Now I want you to honestly...
honestly, think for a minute.
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And think about who could have seen
wherever you were...
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I did not see Teresa again.
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I... I talked to her on the phone
at four o'clock.
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My son and I did.
I never seen her no more after that.
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- Four o'clock in the afternoon?
- No, it was like quarter to 4:00.
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I picked my son up,
and we got home at 4:00.
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- Okay.
- And I did not see her again.
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They threw different scenarios at me.
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[detective] We both know, Wesley,
and let's be honest with each other,
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the people that generally get you
the most pissed off in all the world...
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are people you love.
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They are the ones
who push the buttons, okay?
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I've been married 20 years,
and I tell you what,
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I've never thought about divorce,
but I have sure thought about killing her.
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- You know what I'm saying?
- I imagine.
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And the thing is, we've all been angry
to the point of wanting to just...
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choke the living snot out of a wife.
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[Margiotta] He said it's okay for mento push women
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and told Wes
that it was all right for a man
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to get in a rage and react
and do something
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that he wouldn't normally do.
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[detective] Having been there myself
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and knowing and dealing with cops
who are there
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and dealing with a lot
of domestic disputes in the past...
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if you had... if you had gotten
in an argument with her...
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and you ended up hitting her,
or she ended up hitting you
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or scratching you or striking you
in some way...
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there's going to be physical evidence
tied to that.
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And us having that physical evidence...
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and then you lying about either the fight
or some part of that,
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is going to make it
unbelievably hard to clear you.
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Right.
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Even if you are actually innocent
of the deed itself. Okay?
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I was thinking I was helping
because that's what they assured me of,
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and I was ignorant.
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[detective] Now they tell me
that they have found a hair.
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- Is there any way that hair is yours?
- No, sir.
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- No way that hair could be yours?
- No way. I wasn't there.
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Okay. What if the hair was yours?
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I'd freak.
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I would freak out.
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- Okay. I mean, how...
- How... How...
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- How would you explain it?
- I couldn't explain it.
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- My hair isn't going to show up there.
- Okay.
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My... Nothing...
I am not guilty of this crime.
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[Myers] I didn't know I was being filmedand come to find out
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they were taping it all
and seeing how I was reacting.
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That black-and-white videotape
was surreptitiously made
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from a tissue box camera.
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That's not a comforting thought.
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[detective] All right, let me tell you
where we're at, Wesley.
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Obviously, we're always in...
we're always in a hurry in law enforcement
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to get these things over with.
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But you haven't had any sleep in a while.
You know what I'm saying?
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He said I was unfit
to be given a lie detector test.
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[detective] Physiologically, right now,
you're... you're starting to go down.
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I mean, you...
you are dragging butt right now.
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It's obvious, okay? If I hooked you up
right now to this thing,
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you're gonna have real flat reactions.
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[Myers] And they said that they'dtalk to me in the morning.
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Everything he said,
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through that whole supposed
polygraph pretest,
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laid the foundation for his subsequent...
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very intense interrogation.
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[Myers] The next morning,Denver Clayton come pick me up.
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And then we went on down
to North Charleston Police Department.
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I was in an examining room, I reckon.
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They were talking with me and discussing
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the facts of what they thought
had happened.
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[Myers] They had done told menumerous times, whoever's hair this is,
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the hair is gonna prove who killed him,
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"God put that hair there for us
to solve this murder."
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And Melvin Cumby received a phone call
and left the room and come back.
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He said, "The worst has happened."
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He said, "Wes, the hair come back yours.
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And I can even tell you
what part of the head it came from.
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It was a match."
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And I said, "There's no way."
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He said... "You done."
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[Kulp] There wasn't anybodyon the phone.
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Joe Powell, the analyst,
didn't even work that day.
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I couldn't believe it.
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And I was... questioning myself.
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It got real intense.
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They told me that I had blacked out.
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They said, "That's why you can't remember.
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But the evidence proves you done it, Wes.
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We got a hair that matches you."
And he kept saying that.
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I mean, this didn't just go on
for 30 minutes. This went on for hours.
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"You need to apologize.
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I told you God would put the hair in
and whosever it was. You're in denial."
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I mean, it's just a steady...
and there's three of them.
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And then they come back in with,
"We got an eyewitness."
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Then they come back in with,
"Oh, we've got bloody prints."
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And that it was on my clothes...
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in my truck.
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He said, "We've got you.
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But if you confess,
they'll go lighter on you."
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I said, "I don't remember none of this."
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"You most likely blacked all this out.
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And that's why you can't remember."
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Everything... Then I was in a haze.
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They were throwing pictures down
in front of me...
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of Teresa's burned body,
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beaten face, brutalized,
swollen up awfully.
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And...
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telling me I needed to apologize to her.
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They said,
"Look, you might not think you done it,
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but you done it and you're going to jail."
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And I had gotten kind of angry and I said,
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"Well if y'all got all that,
I must've done it."
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And they jumped up like a bunch
of cheerleaders and said, "We got him."
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As the police reported, "I guess..."
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I'll remember this forever.
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"I guess I must have did it, then."
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[Myers] They brought Teresa's mother,Dixie, down there to talk to me.
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Told me I needed to apologize to her.
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And at that point,
I would've done whatever they wanted.
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When she was gone
and he didn't call me to let me know
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or come to the house to be with us...
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then I knew something was not right.
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[Justis] The police called meand said that he wanted to see me.
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Would I go see him?
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So, they set it up.
I said, "Yeah, I would go see him."
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I wanted to look at him,
and I wanted him to tell me.
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As close as we're sitting,
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he told me face-to-face that he did it
and he was sorry that he did it.
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And he didn't... his words...
he didn't know why he did it.
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He loved her.
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I... I can't actually recall.
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I know I said, "I'm sorry."
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[Myers] After that,they'd written up a confession.
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And they read it to me.
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It was in their handwriting.
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At that point... I was numb.
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Everything just... seemed to be distant.
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And I signed the confession.
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They'd done convinced me that I'd done it.
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[Myers] They said, "Now, the news mediais out back, and...
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you need to apologize to the world."
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They walked me down these stairs.
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I remember watching the two officers
in front of me.
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And they said, "We got to get
all gussied up for the cameras."
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And then they opened them doors.
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And it was nothing but bright lights.
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[woman] North Charleston police say
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they suspected Wesley Myers
all along.
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And, Lee, I'm told he will face
the judge tomorrow morning.
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Back to you.
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I grew up
in a television household.
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My father ran radio
and television stations.
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I said, "Oh, good Lord,
I wanna be in the newsroom.
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This is where things happen.
This is where things are exciting.
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I wanna just do this."
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I was at work, and Mel Cumby
called at the station and said,
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"Hey, you know, we've got an arrest
in that murder in North Charleston.
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We've got the guy here.
We're gonna walk him.
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We think he's probably
gonna make a statement.
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You might wanna get up here."
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[Lothery] They walk Wes Myersout of their holding area.
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I thought, "Hey, I thought they said
he was gonna make a statement.
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He didn't say anything.
So, I might as well shout out a question."
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[Lothery] You feel any remorse
about what happened?
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I wanna apologize to the family
for what I've done.
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00:23:35,873 --> 00:23:39,251
I've committed a crime
that I can't take back.
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I loved Teresa very much.
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I was absolutely stunned.
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I said, "Oh, my goodness,
this man just confessed on camera."
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[Lothery] How many timesdid you strike her?
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[Myers] I'm not sure.
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[Lothery] Myers, who saidhe was not under the influence
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at the time of the crime,
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was picked up in Hanahan
this morning.
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It looked like Wes was just...
in a daze.
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Almost as if he'd been drugged.
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[Margiotta] And they presented itas three confessions.
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[Kulp] One, they got himto sign a statement.
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Number two, they brought
the victim's mother, Dixie, there
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and suggested he apologize,
confess to her.
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And the third might be characterized
as what happened during the perp walk.
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[Kulp] It's horrible.
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It's certainly doing very little
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00:24:27,341 --> 00:24:32,888
to protect a accused and presumed
innocent person's right to a fair trial.
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00:24:34,098 --> 00:24:35,098
It's just bad.
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00:24:36,350 --> 00:24:38,143
It's bad and it shouldn't have been done.
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00:24:39,436 --> 00:24:43,524
[McKeithan] I believed he was innocent...until I saw him on the news.
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00:24:43,607 --> 00:24:46,944
You're gonna confess to something
that's so horrible, you know,
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setting this woman on fire, you know,
and you didn't do it?
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No way. No way.
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00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:56,412
If it looks like a duck, quacks like
a duck, chances are it's a duck.
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[Lothery] Tonight, policehave charged Wesley Myers
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with murder and 3rd degree arson.
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00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:02,394
He's currently sitting
in the Charleston County Jail.
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00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:05,504
He says he's sorry
and he didn't mean to do it.
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00:25:05,587 --> 00:25:07,881
Tomorrow, Wesley Myers
will have his chance
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00:25:07,965 --> 00:25:09,508
to tell it to the judge.
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00:25:27,276 --> 00:25:28,503
[man] There are many who will say, "
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00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:31,363
I would never confess
to something I didn't do."
402
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:35,409
That's not true. Almost anyone can
under the right circumstances.
403
00:25:38,412 --> 00:25:39,830
[detective] If you killed her,
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00:25:39,913 --> 00:25:43,333
you would still be in the throes
of self-denial, okay?
405
00:25:43,417 --> 00:25:45,961
Wes was interrogated
for between 15 and 20 hours
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00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:47,296
over a three-day period.
407
00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:49,214
They plotted this out
that they were gonna,
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00:25:49,298 --> 00:25:50,966
you know, bring him back in,
409
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that they were gonna lie to him
about the results of the testing
410
00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:58,515
and tell him that this hair
had been conclusively determined
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00:25:58,599 --> 00:26:00,279
that was found in Teresa's hand to be his.
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All for the purpose of trying to,
you know, get him to make a statement.
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00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:08,150
[detective] As hard as I am on people
when I'm pressing them,
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when they feel that pressure internally...
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I can never ever replace the pressure
in a person that that person
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00:26:15,199 --> 00:26:16,509
- will put themselves under.
- Right.
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00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:18,035
If they have a conscience at all.
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00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:22,539
The police had so sort of broken Wes down
by the time that he confessed,
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00:26:22,623 --> 00:26:26,502
by the time they lied to him
about the hair,
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00:26:26,585 --> 00:26:29,338
that at that moment,
he, in fact,
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00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:33,008
may have even actually
believed himself that he did it.
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00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:35,761
[detective] If you're just
a sick motherfucker...
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and you've got the conscience
of a wall, okay?
424
00:26:41,141 --> 00:26:45,562
And you killed her,
accidentally or not, okay?
425
00:26:45,646 --> 00:26:48,774
If you are that sick individual, okay?
426
00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:53,612
You, right now, are seriously
being eaten up, internally.
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00:26:54,154 --> 00:26:57,324
Whether you're sorry or not,
you are seriously dealing with that.
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00:26:57,950 --> 00:27:00,661
[Blume] Law enforcement believedthat their job was over.
429
00:27:00,744 --> 00:27:03,288
They thought, "Okay, we've got our man.
430
00:27:03,372 --> 00:27:06,208
And, you know, we're just gonna let
the system play out."
431
00:27:06,291 --> 00:27:10,546
And I think what they didn't do
was continue to do the type of work
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00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:13,191
that you would hope that law enforcement
would do in these situations,
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00:27:13,215 --> 00:27:15,175
which would continue
to follow credible leads.
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00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:20,430
It wasn't, say, a situation
where no other person
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could have had access to her.
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00:27:23,934 --> 00:27:27,688
[Kulp] She was in a barthat was pretty much a public club.
437
00:27:27,771 --> 00:27:30,732
It was in an area where people
hung out late at night.
438
00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:32,900
It was rough.
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00:27:33,944 --> 00:27:36,738
And rough people came in there
and went out of there.
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00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:42,703
[detective] Let me ask you, who do youthink could have done this thing?
441
00:27:44,621 --> 00:27:46,373
I don't trust the boy, Dana.
442
00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:54,214
Dana was the primary suspect, at least,
in the minds of the defense in the case
443
00:27:54,298 --> 00:27:58,176
because he was seen
at the Mill Inn that night,
444
00:27:58,260 --> 00:28:01,680
approximate to the departure
of the two bartenderesses...
445
00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:07,519
and was acting weird
and had kind of the hots for Teresa.
446
00:28:07,603 --> 00:28:09,271
He was arrested by the police...
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00:28:11,481 --> 00:28:13,442
as kind of a suspect in the case.
448
00:28:14,192 --> 00:28:15,903
There were a lot of things
pointing to him.
449
00:28:16,486 --> 00:28:18,822
[Kulp] We tried to interview himin the past.
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00:28:18,906 --> 00:28:21,742
He was extremely reluctant
to even talk to us.
451
00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:25,162
Bingo! This is it.
452
00:28:26,038 --> 00:28:27,038
Yeah.
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00:28:34,671 --> 00:28:35,671
Mr...
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00:28:37,007 --> 00:28:39,426
- [man] What?
- I wanna talk to you.
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00:28:39,509 --> 00:28:42,012
[man speaks indistinctly]
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00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:46,016
- What?
- [man] What for?
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00:28:46,099 --> 00:28:48,185
About Wes Myers' case.
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00:28:50,812 --> 00:28:51,939
Back at the Mill Inn?
459
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:54,942
1997?
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00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,989
- [man] He confessed.
- Sorry?
461
00:29:01,073 --> 00:29:04,660
[man] He confessed, you idiot!
Go away!
462
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:07,371
- He confessed?
- [man] Of course he did it!
463
00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:10,832
[man] Go the hell away!
464
00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:17,714
Dana was seen outside the bar
the night of the incident.
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00:29:18,382 --> 00:29:20,509
He tried to force his way in.
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00:29:27,516 --> 00:29:32,187
[Blume] Then when he was interviewed,he initially denied being there at all.
467
00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:35,524
And he had also altered his appearance.
468
00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:38,443
He had shaved some of his facial hair
and altered it in a way
469
00:29:38,527 --> 00:29:40,445
from the night of the offense.
470
00:29:41,822 --> 00:29:45,575
He was arrested by the police
near the scene in a car,
471
00:29:46,118 --> 00:29:49,037
and he was charged
with unlawful possession of a firearm.
472
00:29:49,705 --> 00:29:52,332
And there were some other things
in the car.
473
00:29:52,416 --> 00:29:53,935
[Blume] There was a watchfound near the body,
474
00:29:53,959 --> 00:29:57,045
and there was a band similar to that
which was in his truck.
475
00:29:57,129 --> 00:29:59,172
Also, probably, even more to me,
476
00:29:59,256 --> 00:30:03,468
more shocking than that was,
they initially took some of his blood
477
00:30:03,552 --> 00:30:07,514
and had it available for DNA testing
and never developed a DNA profile on it.
478
00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:11,226
So, that's lost now,
and so we can't compare any DNA evidence
479
00:30:11,310 --> 00:30:13,312
which might have existed
on the dollar bill
480
00:30:13,395 --> 00:30:15,188
or the hair to his DNA profile.
481
00:30:15,689 --> 00:30:19,526
I don't think that...
Let's just be as fair as possible.
482
00:30:19,609 --> 00:30:23,405
That appropriate measures
were taken to exclude him
483
00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:25,741
as being involved in the murder.
484
00:30:41,381 --> 00:30:44,509
[Kulp] Every criminal defense caseis an uphill climb.
485
00:30:45,093 --> 00:30:47,155
Because the state has the edge,
they have the burden of proof,
486
00:30:47,179 --> 00:30:50,432
but they have an edge,
the pointing finger of accusation.
487
00:30:51,975 --> 00:30:54,519
[woman] It was a little nerve-rackingto know
488
00:30:54,603 --> 00:30:57,564
that I was being selected
for a murder trial.
489
00:30:59,941 --> 00:31:03,904
[Meeks] We were given the videoin the police station.
490
00:31:05,447 --> 00:31:09,117
We also viewed the newscaster's video,
491
00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:12,913
and then we were also given
the written confession.
492
00:31:15,123 --> 00:31:18,043
They had the dollar bill with blood on it.
493
00:31:18,919 --> 00:31:21,254
Back then, they couldn't determine
if it was blood.
494
00:31:21,338 --> 00:31:24,758
It was DNA commingled with Teresa's blood.
495
00:31:25,342 --> 00:31:28,011
[Meeks] They had the hairthey found in her hand.
496
00:31:28,762 --> 00:31:35,268
The forensic science they'd applied
was a microscopic hair comparison
497
00:31:35,352 --> 00:31:38,522
between an unknown sample
and a known sample
498
00:31:38,605 --> 00:31:42,567
that would lead someone
to say, "It is similar to,"
499
00:31:43,110 --> 00:31:45,278
or, "I can't say that it isn't."
500
00:31:46,196 --> 00:31:48,657
Phraseology that just stayed away
from the term "match."
501
00:31:50,033 --> 00:31:53,078
Now, at that time, we kind of looked
at each other and said like...
502
00:31:53,829 --> 00:31:56,540
"For a case that's a confession case,
we're not doing that bad."
503
00:31:58,542 --> 00:32:02,212
Because, at that point, the confession
was the only thing putting him in the bar.
504
00:32:02,796 --> 00:32:05,382
So, we went to court the next day,
and then, all of a sudden,
505
00:32:05,465 --> 00:32:08,760
the solicitor comes over, Bruce, and says,
"I got something to tell you about."
506
00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:13,390
I said, "Okay."
And I said, "You gotta be kidding me."
507
00:32:14,349 --> 00:32:16,518
[Meeks] I do rememberthe last-minute witness.
508
00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:19,729
It was kind of exciting,
shook up the courtroom for a minute.
509
00:32:22,858 --> 00:32:26,194
I was there the night of the murder,
just before it happened.
510
00:32:29,281 --> 00:32:32,451
I ran into one of the bartenders
that worked here, Tammy.
511
00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:37,747
And she told me
that Wesley was on trial at that time
512
00:32:37,831 --> 00:32:41,293
and that he was about to get off
because he's saying he wasn't there.
513
00:32:41,376 --> 00:32:44,629
And I told her, "Well, I know he was there
'cause I was there."
514
00:32:44,713 --> 00:32:47,090
She said, "Well, you need to call
the prosecutor."
515
00:32:47,174 --> 00:32:49,468
So I did, and the next morning,
516
00:32:49,551 --> 00:32:51,970
they picked me up
and took me down to the courthouse.
517
00:32:54,055 --> 00:32:55,936
[Kulp] And there she was,in court the next day.
518
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:59,811
I raised hell with the judge about it,
but my efforts to have her...
519
00:33:01,229 --> 00:33:03,899
excluded from testifying were...
did not work.
520
00:33:05,150 --> 00:33:08,612
[Villalobos] Well, I remember that nightvery well. It was March 13th.
521
00:33:09,196 --> 00:33:10,822
It was my brother's birthday.
522
00:33:10,906 --> 00:33:14,034
We were out partying at a club
on Dorchester Road.
523
00:33:14,618 --> 00:33:18,288
And I was getting close to running out
of money, and he didn't have any at all.
524
00:33:18,371 --> 00:33:21,541
So, I thought about Teresa
and her coming over...
525
00:33:21,625 --> 00:33:24,461
Letting me come over and cash a check
since she was still there.
526
00:33:26,421 --> 00:33:30,800
When I arrived, I had to knock on the door
because the place was closed.
527
00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:34,012
And Wesley opened the door and let me in.
528
00:33:34,471 --> 00:33:36,431
She gave me half the money for the check
529
00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:39,518
and told me she'd give me the rest
on Friday.
530
00:33:39,601 --> 00:33:41,645
And I noticed that she was crying
531
00:33:41,728 --> 00:33:46,107
because her makeup was completely
just running down her face.
532
00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:50,612
So, I knew she was upset,
and I asked her if she needed me
533
00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:54,324
to stay there with her for a while,
and she told me, "No, it's just Wesley.
534
00:33:54,407 --> 00:33:56,785
I can handle him.
I've been doing it for years.
535
00:33:57,452 --> 00:33:59,829
You go ahead
and do what you're gonna do."
536
00:34:01,790 --> 00:34:05,585
And I left,
and he locked the door behind me.
537
00:34:07,671 --> 00:34:10,757
The strongest thing, on short notice,
that I could come up with
538
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,553
to impeach her credibility
before the jury... was this.
539
00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:18,723
Simple, what we call "cornering"
in cross-examination.
540
00:34:21,434 --> 00:34:24,521
[Kulp] "You know this occurredalmost four years ago." "Yes."
541
00:34:25,522 --> 00:34:28,608
"And I'm sure
that you saw it in the press,
542
00:34:28,692 --> 00:34:31,278
either television coverage
or in the newspaper."
543
00:34:31,861 --> 00:34:32,861
"Yes."
544
00:34:33,989 --> 00:34:39,244
"And so, I would imagine
that that being the case...
545
00:34:39,828 --> 00:34:42,372
and considering
your testimony here today...
546
00:34:43,373 --> 00:34:47,460
that you immediately picked up
the phone and called the police
547
00:34:47,544 --> 00:34:50,463
and went down to the police station
and said, 'You know what?
548
00:34:51,172 --> 00:34:52,299
That guy was in the bar.'"
549
00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:54,342
"No, I didn't do that."
550
00:34:54,801 --> 00:34:59,639
And I said, "So, at any time
since that almost four years ago event,
551
00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:01,975
your viewing of him in the bar,
552
00:35:02,058 --> 00:35:05,979
have you mentioned to any other person
that you saw him in the bar?" "No."
553
00:35:06,646 --> 00:35:11,276
"So, the first time
that came to mind was last night,
554
00:35:11,359 --> 00:35:12,485
when you're in a bar
555
00:35:12,569 --> 00:35:15,113
and a friend of the victim's
is telling you she's worried
556
00:35:15,196 --> 00:35:17,532
that the case is going down the tubes...
557
00:35:18,325 --> 00:35:20,869
and then you recalled it
and told her about it.
558
00:35:21,578 --> 00:35:23,872
Is that correct?" "Yes."
559
00:35:24,331 --> 00:35:27,500
So, you know, pulling that
out of your back pocket, I mean,
560
00:35:27,584 --> 00:35:29,085
what else are you gonna do?
561
00:35:29,669 --> 00:35:32,756
Laurie... has a record...
562
00:35:35,175 --> 00:35:36,259
as long as a door.
563
00:35:42,932 --> 00:35:44,413
[Myers] What had actually happened...
564
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:48,355
she'd come by that Monday
to get a check cashed...
565
00:35:48,855 --> 00:35:52,817
and I told Teresa
I wouldn't give her all the money for it
566
00:35:52,901 --> 00:35:54,527
'cause it may be a bad check.
567
00:35:55,528 --> 00:35:59,491
And she didn't,
and Laurie got a little hostile about it.
568
00:35:59,574 --> 00:36:02,160
I never... I never did anything.
569
00:36:02,243 --> 00:36:07,082
I never went to the police or...
I assumed since the man confessed,
570
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:09,292
he was just going to prison from there.
571
00:36:09,376 --> 00:36:13,129
And apparently, he confessed on CNN,
and the whole world saw it.
572
00:36:14,089 --> 00:36:18,259
So, why would...?
I never thought there would be a trial.
573
00:36:18,343 --> 00:36:20,512
I thought, "He confessed,
he's going to prison."
574
00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:24,057
It's, you know...
Isn't that the way it works in America?
575
00:36:25,350 --> 00:36:28,436
I guess she seemed credible
at the time, relatively.
576
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,816
And I do recall that that did play
into our decision, you know,
577
00:36:32,899 --> 00:36:34,234
when we deliberated.
578
00:36:34,317 --> 00:36:36,027
You know, to be accused...
579
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,699
is not supposed to shift
the burden of proof to you.
580
00:36:43,493 --> 00:36:45,954
Everyone under the Constitution
is presumed innocent.
581
00:36:47,622 --> 00:36:48,665
But, in reality...
582
00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:56,005
Based on the little bit of evidence
that we had, the hair could have been his,
583
00:36:56,089 --> 00:36:58,550
we found him guilty.
584
00:37:04,431 --> 00:37:06,349
Wesley admitted what he did.
585
00:37:06,808 --> 00:37:09,561
He was tried. He was found guilty.
586
00:37:09,644 --> 00:37:11,604
I thought they all... they did their job.
587
00:37:11,688 --> 00:37:13,648
They did what they were supposed to do.
588
00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:18,361
We just felt that no one would confess
three times if they didn't do it.
589
00:37:34,169 --> 00:37:35,855
[Myers] I'm gonna tell you something.When you go to prison,
590
00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:38,173
the little things
that mean something to you...
591
00:37:40,550 --> 00:37:41,968
like the sound of a creek...
592
00:37:44,888 --> 00:37:45,888
a hug...
593
00:37:48,808 --> 00:37:53,313
I missed fishing, the outdoors, the woods.
I lived in them. I loved them.
594
00:37:59,778 --> 00:38:00,778
Quiet.
595
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:07,952
They took that love away from me.
596
00:38:11,456 --> 00:38:16,211
I remember the first time
I went up to Kirkland to see him.
597
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:20,757
And it was just nice
just to be able to sit and talk.
598
00:38:21,758 --> 00:38:27,305
We played gin rummy every time I went.
And whoever won was, you know,
599
00:38:27,388 --> 00:38:29,140
the rummy champion of the world.
600
00:38:30,642 --> 00:38:34,187
[Margiotta] When I was there,he tried to be very upbeat.
601
00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:36,940
But, um... when he would come out,
602
00:38:37,023 --> 00:38:41,945
his eyes would be just rimmed with black.
603
00:38:42,529 --> 00:38:44,906
And, I mean,
I knew he was living in hell.
604
00:38:50,495 --> 00:38:53,206
I actually got the case
because a private investigator,
605
00:38:53,289 --> 00:38:57,877
who I've worked with on a number
of other cases of wrongful imprisonment,
606
00:38:57,961 --> 00:39:00,505
thought that Wes
had been wrongfully convicted
607
00:39:00,588 --> 00:39:02,465
and asked if I would look into the case.
608
00:39:03,132 --> 00:39:06,469
Truthfully, I often enter it
with a sense of skepticism about it.
609
00:39:06,553 --> 00:39:09,389
I review many cases,
and truthfully, I take very few.
610
00:39:10,056 --> 00:39:14,143
But this was a family
who felt very strongly that their son
611
00:39:14,227 --> 00:39:17,814
was wrongfully convicted of a crime
that he didn't commit.
612
00:39:18,648 --> 00:39:21,192
So, I met with them.
I reviewed the files.
613
00:39:21,276 --> 00:39:24,112
I went and talked with Wes
on a number of occasions.
614
00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:28,491
I hired a private investigator
to look into several of the allegations.
615
00:39:29,117 --> 00:39:33,580
And, eventually, I became convinced
myself that Wes was, in fact,
616
00:39:33,663 --> 00:39:34,831
not guilty of this.
617
00:39:37,125 --> 00:39:40,503
[Blume] According to the statelaw enforcement division...
618
00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:44,007
they did what they call
"microscopic hair analysis,"
619
00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:46,426
which is, somebody looks at the hair
in the microscope.
620
00:39:47,051 --> 00:39:49,762
Then they look at a sample
of Wes Myers' hair
621
00:39:49,846 --> 00:39:52,348
and said they thought the hairs
were consistent.
622
00:39:55,143 --> 00:39:58,771
Since then, the hair's been tested
through DNA evidence
623
00:39:59,188 --> 00:40:03,526
and has been conclusively determined
to not be Mr. Myers' hair.
624
00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:13,745
In addition to that, there was a bloody
dollar bill found in her jean's pocket.
625
00:40:13,828 --> 00:40:20,084
And a DNA expert was able to conclusively
testify that the source of the DNA,
626
00:40:20,168 --> 00:40:23,796
the male DNA on the dollar bill
was the blood that was on it...
627
00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:28,843
and that the blood
was not Mr. Myers' blood.
628
00:40:29,761 --> 00:40:35,016
So, you have male DNA on a bloody dollar
bill found in the victim's back pocket,
629
00:40:35,099 --> 00:40:37,644
which wasn't Mr. Myers'
and belonged to someone else.
630
00:40:38,937 --> 00:40:41,689
The evidence that he did this,
if you take away the confession,
631
00:40:41,773 --> 00:40:44,484
is virtually nonexistent.
632
00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:51,199
Other than Ms. Villalobos, there's no one
who can put Wes near the scene that night.
633
00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:54,285
His mother, who was...
People might be skeptical of his mother,
634
00:40:54,369 --> 00:40:56,049
but his mother was a very credible person.
635
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:59,248
She was, you know, a school principal
in the area for many years,
636
00:40:59,332 --> 00:41:01,250
was insistent that Wes
never left the home.
637
00:41:02,794 --> 00:41:04,504
There's no physical evidence at all.
638
00:41:05,171 --> 00:41:11,135
No fingerprints, no DNA, no hair,
no fiber that links Wes to this offense.
639
00:41:11,219 --> 00:41:15,598
The physical evidence which does exist
suggests that he's not the perpetrator.
640
00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:40,248
So, like, you see where sayings come from,
like "so close and yet so far away" and...
641
00:41:40,999 --> 00:41:42,959
stuff like that because...
642
00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:46,212
For instance, when my case got
overturned by Judge Dennis...
643
00:41:47,463 --> 00:41:49,632
I'm going, "Yay, I'm gonna be home soon."
644
00:41:50,258 --> 00:41:53,928
It took the State Supreme Court
three years to write one line...
645
00:41:55,430 --> 00:41:58,725
to vacate my...
affirming Judge Dennis' sentence.
646
00:42:01,019 --> 00:42:04,689
I stayed in prison three years...
waiting for that.
647
00:42:05,690 --> 00:42:06,690
And, uh...
648
00:42:11,446 --> 00:42:12,739
why did it take so long?
649
00:42:15,283 --> 00:42:16,743
Uh...
650
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,000
[pan sizzling]
651
00:42:27,045 --> 00:42:30,798
I love to cook. I like to eat.
652
00:42:32,091 --> 00:42:35,845
Both of us have that in common,
that we both love to eat.
653
00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:36,929
[laughs]
654
00:42:39,182 --> 00:42:42,643
I never ever would have saw myself
with a younger man.
655
00:42:43,394 --> 00:42:46,689
But it's happened and it's...
It's really wonderful for me
656
00:42:46,773 --> 00:42:48,357
because he's a wonderful person.
657
00:42:51,277 --> 00:42:56,157
Wes and I played cards,
and we always kept score, and, um...
658
00:42:57,366 --> 00:43:01,245
I always took the scorecard home with me.
659
00:43:01,329 --> 00:43:04,707
And somewhere in a box in my closet,
I've got all of them,
660
00:43:04,791 --> 00:43:07,043
but this is one of them from...
661
00:43:08,127 --> 00:43:11,297
February the 25th, 2012.
662
00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:15,218
Towards the end,
before he got out of prison...
663
00:43:17,345 --> 00:43:21,432
I realized how deeply I felt about him.
664
00:43:22,016 --> 00:43:25,561
After he got out,
everything just really fell into place.
665
00:43:27,105 --> 00:43:31,067
It's just been a long time.
I'm very tired, very tired.
666
00:43:47,375 --> 00:43:49,293
They have hardened me.
667
00:43:52,421 --> 00:43:54,966
I have a hard time signing my name
to anything.
668
00:44:07,937 --> 00:44:12,108
[Myers] I do a lot of my thinking timeand that out here...
669
00:44:13,693 --> 00:44:15,194
walking through the orchard.
670
00:44:17,822 --> 00:44:18,906
I'm not a number.
671
00:44:20,283 --> 00:44:23,661
And... I ended up being one.
672
00:44:23,744 --> 00:44:27,165
27-33-28. It's implanted in me.
673
00:44:28,875 --> 00:44:32,044
I recited it four times a day
for all these years.
674
00:44:34,005 --> 00:44:35,256
And, uh...
675
00:44:36,215 --> 00:44:39,051
I blame myself for being weak...
676
00:44:43,389 --> 00:44:45,808
for confessing to something I didn't do.
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