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Sometimes when I'm up here,
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I feel I'm high in the balconyof the theater,
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looking down on a stagewhere a great drama has been played.
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Oklahomans have always been builders.
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It is one of our finest qualities.
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And there is one other qualitywe Oklahomans have always shared.
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We are...
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the dreamers.
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Everything around us,all is the result of someone's dream.
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There can be no builders
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if there are not also dreamers.
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We are the wanderers,
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the gamblers, the builders,
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the dreamers and the preservers.
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We are the castof a human drama called, Oklahoma.
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[opera music playing]
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Yes, I see that.
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I've never looked at itquite that way before.
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That's the way I've always felt about it.
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Let your healing virtue fill this room...
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and heal every person in it.
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[camera rolling]
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[Tommy] I borrowed my mom's carto go get a pack of cigarettes.
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And when I returned mom told me
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that the police had been there
looking for me,
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and I said, "What for?"
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"They said, well, something about...
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that woman that come up missing
from that store out there."
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[Tommy] She goes, "They wanted to talkto you for something about this."
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So I said, "Can you take me down there?"
So my mom was gonna take me down there.
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We went to the car�and started to back upout of the driveway,
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and a police carpulled in the driveway behind us.
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They said, "Are you Tommy Ward,"
and I said, "Yeah."
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They said, "Well, we had call-inssaying
that you had lived in Ada all your life,
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and that you might know who it was
that took this woman from the store."
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[Tommy] And I said, "Well, no.I've seen them composite drawings on TV."
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I said,"They don't look like nobody I know."
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And he goes, "We've got some better
pictures down here at the police station.
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We'd like for you to come down here
to look atto see if you might know 'em.
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'Cause..." and he goes,
"Would you help us out?
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If you do recognize someone
you would tell us who it is."
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And I said, "Yeah, sure."
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[Tommy]
They took me downstairs to this basement
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and they start asking me questionsabout my whereabouts.
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And then at that point,
I mean, they just come at me
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and started saying, "You did it,
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you know you did it,
this is how you did it.
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[Tommy] They kept on.
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And at first, I kept telling them,"No, I didn't."
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And they wouldn't takea "No, I didn't do it" for an answer.
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They kept lying to me,
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and lying to me.
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And in fact, after a while,
it just got me to lie.
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[Tommy] They'd just sit thereand kept telling me that...
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more like, "Use your imagination.
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What about your dream?"
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[camera rolling]
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-Did you kill this girl?-No, I didn't.
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I wouldn't kill nobody.
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I wouldn't take nobody's lifeaway from them.
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-Who killed this girl?-I don't know.
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I have no idea.
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[Tommy] I keep on telling themover and over again that I didn't do it.
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He goes, "Well, if you didn't do it,Why would you flunk the test so bad?"
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I said, "I don't know." I said,"Look my nerves, I'm a nervous person.
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I've got bad nerves,or something, you know?
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And I also, it could've been...
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the dream that I had after y'allcome talk to me the first time
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I had a dream."
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And they were, "What about your dream?"That's when I told them my dream story.
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[camera clicking and rolling]
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[Tommy] I was sitting in his vehicle...
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and I remember...
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like seeing, like through a glass
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where I seen,
like hands handing money to hands.
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[Tommy]
And then I had a flash in my dream.
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I seen this guy kissing on this girland she said, "Leave me alone."
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I said, "Leave her alone." He said,"If you don't like it, you can go home."
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And then I had to flash in my dream,
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and I was standing at the sink
trying to get something black off my arm.
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He said,
"Your dreams don't make no sense."
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And I said, "Well, what dream makes sense?
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Y'all just sitting there,
asking me what my dream was about."
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And then, he told methat we had to get rid of her...
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and asked me a good placeto get rid of her.
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I told him about a houseand about this ditch down by the...
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Sandy River.
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I thought they'd go out
and say that there was flies
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because it was just a made-up story.
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Did Denise Haraway,she begged y'all not to hurt her,
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or what did she saywhen all this was happening?
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She was asking us just to let her go.
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Well, I went in
at ten o'clock that morning
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and I think it was after six o'clock,
it was late in the evening,
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when they turned the video tape on and...
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I gave the bogus confession.
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[Bud]
College Heights, Missionary Baptist.
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Turn that on,
so we can see where we're�going.
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Well, I got a BB gun
when I was about to seven years old,
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and I was taught at that time...
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you kill nothing...
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except to eat...
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or to protect yourself.
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Five in the clip, nothing in the chamber.
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I've had 'em say, "Why?
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Why nothing in the chamber?" It's...
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personal conviction.
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[country music playing]
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[Bud] If it came right down to it,
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I don't think I would have a problemwith shooting somebody,
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but it's only in self-defense.
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[gunshot]
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Capital punishment...
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if there is no doubt whatsoever...
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I'm still against it.
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Of course, being a preacher,
I go with the biblical...
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rendition of that.
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God's the only one that should take life.
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It's not up to us to play God and say,
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"Well, you did this,
so you need to die for it."
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And you go back into the law
and it does say that,
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"And eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth."
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But as far as being able
to say when somebody should die...
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and how they should die...
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that's up to God.
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[country music playing]
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[gunshot]
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[Tricia] Okay, just stop right here,we're gonna say prayer.
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We're gonna say prayer, Mama.
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-Huh?
-We're gonna say prayer right here, okay?
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Say a prayer?
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-Yeah.
-So we can eat.
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So we can eat.
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[Bud] Lord, we thank you for this day
and the blessings you've given.
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We thank you, Lord, for these
that have traveled this far.
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We ask, Lord, that things be done
for your honor and Glory.
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We ask Lord that you bless this food
to the nourishment of our bodies.
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These are bodies in your service.
Forgive us where we've failed you.
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-For as Christ's name, amen.
-Amen.
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[Tricia]
I had heard about the confessions,
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and it was by his own mouth,when he called me.
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He was telling me
about them keeping him in there,
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and then how they would go over...
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Like he would say something,
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and it was almost like they was trying
to read to him what they want him to say.
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And he said, "I told 'em a dream,"
that's what he said.
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"I told 'em a dream.
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I had a dream
and I told 'em it was a dream.
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And they took that dream as a confession."
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[Tricia huffs] What's going on, you know?
[snickers]
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How could this be possible?
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[Kay] Here's the one of Tommy.
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I told you I thought
it was the same one as this one.
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-[Melvin] Is it?
-Yeah, it is.
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[Melvin] This is a picture of Tommy.
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I'm not sure if there's a date on the back
of it but it looked like he's more...
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six, seven.
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[Susie] These are... Look there.
You know who that is.
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There's no way he would have ever done
anything like that.
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And I know that because we know his heart.
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And we know the type of person he is
and there's just no way.
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[Robert] Denise...
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never showed up, never called home.
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[Robert] But there was no evidenceof where she was.
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One interesting thing that happened,
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that they found out by talking to people,
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was that,all over town, people said
they were dreaming about the case.
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[Robert] Dennis Smith wasthe Chief Detective on the case.
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So I went to see him...and I started talking about the case.
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And he says,
"Let me show you something else, first,
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because I'm not worried about that case.
Those guys are in jail already."
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[Robert] He says,"It's a case that burns at my stomach.
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We had another murder here
about a year-and-a-half ago,
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a girl named Debbie Carter.
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And we still haven't got that person,"
he says.
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And I knew Debbie Carter.
We lived on the same street.
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And I knew her,
every time I look at those pictures,
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it just tears me apart.
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[camera clicks and flashes]
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"And that's the one
I would want to solve."
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And he hesitates and he says,
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"Well, actually, it is solved.
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We know who did it."
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And I said, "Well, what's the problem
if you know who did it?" [laughs]
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And he said...
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"We can't do anything about it."
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I had went down there one day after work,
to the police department.
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I go in and ask him and talk to him.
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"Well, we just don't know anything.
We hadn't come up with anything."
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And I'd leave there so upset
because I think...
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they've gotta do something,
they've gotta know something.
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[Grisham] In small towns like Ada,the prosecutors and the police...
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are under enormous pressureto solve a crime.
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In a neighborhood where there are
several crimes, could it be the same guy?
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It's total fear, total terror,
you know, it's, "Find the guy."
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[Grisham] Well, it's gotta be two menwho did this, okay?
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Because it's so violent.
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I've been down and read this case file,
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every interview,everything that's in that file.
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And what there is a mention of,quite often, is Ron Williamson.
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Where you live...
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I know it. That's what gets me, man.
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-You are a very good suspect.-I know it.
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I'm just telling you.
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Dennis Smith and some local police thought
that Ron might have been a good suspect
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because of his personal history.
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In 1978, Ron had a case in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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where he had picked up this gal
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and apparently had forced himself on her
and had raped her.
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[Dan] He had also been arrestedin Oklahoma City.
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But in both cases,
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he was found not guilty in trial.
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[Dan]
He was a regular at the Coachlight and...
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there was a report that had RonWilliamson in the Coachlight that night.
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[Grisham] He was drinking a lot,partying a lot, raising hell,
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no real job.
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Lived very near the crime scene.
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They are very concernedthat you are the one that did it.
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[suspect laughs]
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Don't you think they've got better thingsto do than keep coming back on you?
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No, that's it.
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[continues laughing]
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I'll tell you what, if that'syour opinion, you're sadly mistaken.
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I've read the reports.
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They seriously think that you're capableof committing this type of crime, Ron.
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They're hoping that you didn't.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And if the allegations were�to getright again, the same guy's liable to...
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do it again.
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You know,this scene doesn't look like the scene
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of a guy that goes around, you know,pulling just your basic rapes.
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[Grisham] Ron was very suspicious,had a bad reputation.
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And at that time in his life, the only
person Ron was hanging around with
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was Dennis Fritz.
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[chattering]
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And this is their biggest concernwith you, with Ron,
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because with the historyof both of you...
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they feel likeit's a very strong possibility.
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Something went wrong.
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Either rejection, resistance, whatever...
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and somebody got killed.
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[Peggy]
I had got home from work at eight o'clock.
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Phone rung and it was Dennis Smith.
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[Peggy] He wanted me to come downand sign some papers.
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And I said, "Sign some papers?
What's going on?"
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He said, "Come down�and me
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and Bill Peterson will talk to you
about it."
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[Peggy] So I went down there.
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They handed me this paper. "Sign it."
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I said, "What's going on?"
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They wanted to exhume her.
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I said, "No.
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No, we're not gonna do that."
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[Peggy]
And he said, "Her daddy signed it."
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I say, "I don't care what he did.I'm not signing it.
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You're not going out there
and getting her."
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[Peggy] They said, "Well, Peggy,do you want this solved?"
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And I said, "More than anybody."
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And he said, "Well...
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We have found a handprint."
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[Dan] There was a palm printon the side of the wall.
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I believe it was below a window.
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We're somebody had actually put
their bloody palm against the wall
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and had a smear there.
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[Christy] The original report saysthat the handprint is not Debbie's.
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And they'd said�that it wasn't Ron's
and it wasn't Dennis's.
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They couldn't go to court
with this hand print.
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[Judge] Because, if they had a palm printfrom a person that was not Debbie Carter's
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and if it was not Dennis Fritzand if it was not Ron Williamson's,
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then the prosecutionprobably had a problem.
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Somebody else was there
with a bloody palm print.
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[Dan]
So they exhumed the body and develop...
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additional prints
and palm print off of Debbie's body.
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And later determined,
at that point in time,
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it was Debbie Carter's palm print.
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That was the hardest thing for me to do,
was to sign that paper.
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And I told him I said,
"Oh, wait a minute.
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Tell you what I'll do.
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I'll sign that on one condition."
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Bill said, "What's that?"
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I said, "I get to go with you
when you go out there and get her."
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I thought, "I get one more kiss,
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one more hug, one more kiss."
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[Peggy] I was at work one morning,
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and this guy that lived outon the other side of Rosedale Cemetery,
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he come to work at eight o'clock.
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He come up me and he said,"What are they doing?
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They're out there, it looks like
they're digging up Debbie's grave."
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"Are they?"
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I run and got my keys and my car.
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[Peggy] I clocked out.
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[Christy] So she leaves work.She knows exactly what's going on.
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She hauls across town.
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Gets there, and when she's there...
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Just empty hole.
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[Christy] Her open grave is thereand there's nobody there with her.
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[Peggy] And I just walk over and sit down.
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I was so upset
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because they wouldn't let me go,
I sat there and cried.
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There's that big old vault down there,
and Debbie's gone.
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[Peggy] They must've went out thereat 6:30 or seven and started that.
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But I was so upsetbecause they wouldn't let me go.
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They wouldn't let me.
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I just sat there...
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kicked my feet in that dirt.
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Sat on the side of her grave
and just kicked my feet in that dirt.
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I was so mad.
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And I went and got me a 12-pack
and went home.
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[Christy] I think,
some of the biggest changes came...
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after Debbie's body had been exhumed.
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[Christy]My Aunt Peggy had really...
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started to drink.
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Oh, yes, got to drinking.
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Ooh-wee! [clicks tongue]
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Pills wasn't working.
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Nothing worked.
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I got to drinking.
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[Peggy] I'd get off at midnight...
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and I'd stop at a convenience storeand get me a whole 12-pack.
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And I'd hit them country roads,
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roll my windows down,
turn that radio up,
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and I just sang and drank
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and sang and drink.
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Throw out them beer cans,
get me another one.
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[beer tin clanks]
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[Christy] She kind of developed
almost like a double life,
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in that she would just drive
country roads and drink,
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and somehow make it home and get up and...
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go do shift work all over again.
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[Peggy] There's times I just...
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I mean, I've been on anti-depressersnow for 35 years.
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You know, it's bad.
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It's bad.
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Because I had such a hard time
and still do at times.
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[Christy] That hand print...
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and exhuming Debbie's body,
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was a pivotal moment in the relationshipthat my mom and her sister had.
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And my mom actually admitted her.
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That was the first time that Peggy
went to a psychiatric hospital because...
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they broke her that day
by having her sign those papers.
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[Glenna]
She would be so drunk and so out of it,
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you know, that she just would be...
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on one hand just sloppy
and on the other hand just crazy,
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you know, with rage and anger.
And that's when I...
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-[takes a deep breath]
-...really I look back on it.
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And that's when I had to decide, you know,
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that's when I learned
I had to separate myself from it.
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[Glenna] I've had to put it on the shelf.
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I had a seven year old child,I had to move on.
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That was just the breaking point
for my mom, she just couldn't...
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she couldn't do it anymore
and she told her, "I can't...
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I can't relive this with you every day."
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[fire crackling]
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I don't think
it was ever the same after that.
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[Christy] That hand print iswhat sent them on their way to court.
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Debbie's case moved pretty�fast
after that.
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Mr. Williams...?
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I never killed nobody! I'm gonna prove it!
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[Ron Williamson shouting at Judge]
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Oh my goodness.
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He come in one day...
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and he was real upset about something.
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Mr. Williamson, any furtheroutbursts of anger and this hearing
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will be conducted without your presence.
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That's fine with me.
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This is your own personal decisionto waive--
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I said, I'm threatening!
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He gets mad.
I don't know what the lawyer says to him.
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But he flips this table.
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Papers go everywhere, people sit back.
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I'm going, "Oh my goodness."
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He throwed my little girl
around that apartment like that,
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I'll bet you.
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Oh my goodness, and I just sat there.
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Court record will reflectthat Ron Williamsonattempted
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to overturn a table
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and go after the co-defendantin this matter
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and had to be subduedand escorted out of the court room.
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...first game of the one.
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Here's the payout pitch.
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It's a hit! There it goes!It's out of here!
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[Grisham] Ron was a small-town boy
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with a family
that was very devoutly religious.
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[Preacher] Now thou wicked hateful devil,I come against you!
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And I charge you, devil,take your hands off God's property.
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[Grisham]
By the time Ron was finishing high school,
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he thought, as did a number of scouts,
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that in this section of Oklahoma,he was gonna be the next Mickey Mantle.
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[Grisham] From an early age,
he was on that trajectory
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to be a professional sports star.
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[fans cheering]
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[Grisham] He was drafted and took off.
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He was a party boy.
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00:24:39,103 --> 00:24:42,439
Didn't take care of himself,a lot of booze, lot of girls.
395
00:24:42,523 --> 00:24:46,360
Cocaine hit that part of the world,
hit American in early '70s and, you know,
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Ron was in the middle of it.
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He threw his shoulder out.
Hurt his shoulder.
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And he came back in rehab
and then went back and he hurt it again.
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00:24:59,748 --> 00:25:03,585
And I think he kind of realized, then,
he probably wasn't gonna make it.
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00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:06,880
But I think he went back�maybe
a third time and couldn't do nothing.
401
00:25:07,715 --> 00:25:11,093
[Bowen] He just got hurt and couldn't getover it. It is a very sad thing.
402
00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:14,013
And then later on,I guess it just destroyed him.
403
00:25:14,096 --> 00:25:18,308
He just was so down becausehe couldn't make it and couldn't play.
404
00:25:18,392 --> 00:25:20,728
It's just like
the whole world falls in on you.
405
00:25:22,730 --> 00:25:26,942
He just had so much difficulty
with letting go of that dream.
406
00:25:27,151 --> 00:25:31,780
That was his lifelong, the only dream
he ever had in his life, and it was gone.
407
00:25:34,408 --> 00:25:37,036
[Renee]
He just didn't handle it well at all,
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00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,747
and he turned to drugs and alcohol.
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00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:47,504
[Grisham] He started showing signs of,I guess it would be...
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called manic depressive back then,
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bipolar now, I'm not sure what the...
[takes a deep breath]
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I'm not sure Ron was ever
properly diagnosed.
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[clock ticking faster and faster]
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[Christy] Ron had been in troubleand he was in and out of
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that same house up the street.
416
00:26:06,273 --> 00:26:09,651
He would come and use the phoneacross the street at the neighbors house.
417
00:26:09,735 --> 00:26:11,528
And then I guess he would come out...
418
00:26:11,612 --> 00:26:14,823
and, like, sit on the curb
and smoke, or whatever.
419
00:26:14,907 --> 00:26:18,285
So he was sitting across the street
from our house...
420
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,913
looking towards our house.
421
00:26:20,996 --> 00:26:25,167
[Williamson laughing]
422
00:26:27,336 --> 00:26:28,378
What can I say?
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[Christy] We were scared to death.We thought he was watching us.
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We had been inundated with all this fear.
425
00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:38,555
I was terrified of him.
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00:26:39,389 --> 00:26:42,226
[Peggy]
I said it's gotta be more than one.
427
00:26:42,309 --> 00:26:43,477
She could've handled...
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00:26:44,478 --> 00:26:45,312
one.
429
00:26:45,687 --> 00:26:46,939
'Cause I knew Debbie.
430
00:26:47,022 --> 00:26:49,775
She told me one time, "As long as I've got
431
00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:52,277
teeth and nails and feet
432
00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:54,446
There ain't nobody ever gonna rape me."
433
00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:01,703
[Elizabeth] Dennis Fritz is my father.
434
00:27:02,204 --> 00:27:06,667
He grew up in both Missouri
and in a town in Oklahoma called Talihina.
435
00:27:07,376 --> 00:27:10,129
[Elizabeth]
My mother was a year older than him,
436
00:27:10,212 --> 00:27:13,715
and they met there when she was a seniorand he was a junior.
437
00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:21,849
He was a school teacher.He did that for most of my childhood...
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00:27:22,808 --> 00:27:24,101
in the state of Oklahoma.
439
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:25,394
He'd move around,
440
00:27:25,853 --> 00:27:28,147
town to town, and teach and coach.
441
00:27:29,189 --> 00:27:32,192
His daughter was in the house
when her mom was shot in the head.
442
00:27:32,693 --> 00:27:36,238
by a young man who lived
in the neighborhood, who was crazy.
443
00:27:37,531 --> 00:27:39,700
And the daughter was a toddler.
444
00:27:42,244 --> 00:27:44,788
[Elizabeth]
It was Christmas Eve, December 24th,
445
00:27:44,872 --> 00:27:49,418
and we had been living
out at a house outside of Durant
446
00:27:49,501 --> 00:27:53,797
and we'd been renting that house
from a near neighbor.
447
00:27:54,256 --> 00:27:57,551
And he had a nephew.
448
00:27:58,385 --> 00:28:01,305
[Elizabeth] That nighthe actually came over to our house.
449
00:28:01,388 --> 00:28:04,516
He knocked on the doorand my mom answered, she recognized him.
450
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,101
He ask to use the phone.
451
00:28:06,185 --> 00:28:09,730
He came in and she stepped outof the room while he did so,
452
00:28:09,813 --> 00:28:11,231
and I was still in there.
453
00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:16,278
So when she came back in she found
that he was doing something with me
454
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that was somewhat
what she fell inappropriate,
455
00:28:19,907 --> 00:28:22,910
at the time, and so she scolded him.
456
00:28:22,993 --> 00:28:26,496
She told him
she was going to call his uncle
457
00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:28,457
and the police and so on, so forth.
458
00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:30,584
So he left. [takes a deep breath]
459
00:28:30,667 --> 00:28:33,837
He went back to his uncle's house
and he broke into his gun cabinet,
460
00:28:33,921 --> 00:28:36,632
took the gun out, came back,
and shot her through the window.
461
00:28:37,883 --> 00:28:41,970
[Elizabeth] Got word to my dadand everybody and the police were called.
462
00:28:42,512 --> 00:28:45,933
My dad was just torn apart.It destroyed him.
463
00:28:47,476 --> 00:28:51,063
He couldn't care for me
for a period of time following that.
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00:28:51,438 --> 00:28:53,815
I end up moving to my grandmother's
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00:28:53,899 --> 00:28:56,944
and then, I think he floated around
in jobs and just,
466
00:28:57,027 --> 00:29:00,155
you know,�just wasn't real stable
during that period.
467
00:29:00,822 --> 00:29:02,783
Has there been any time...
468
00:29:04,076 --> 00:29:06,662
in your life, I think you saidsomething like that,
469
00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:10,249
that you have gotten mad enough at someonewhere you wanted to kill them?
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00:29:10,332 --> 00:29:14,419
Well, yes, there has,the man that took my wife's life.
471
00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:17,798
And I wanted to kill the man.
472
00:29:20,175 --> 00:29:21,969
[Grisham]
It messed Dennis up for a long time.
473
00:29:22,052 --> 00:29:25,305
He worked on the railroad,he taught school.
474
00:29:25,389 --> 00:29:27,683
He somehow ended up in Oklahoma
475
00:29:28,267 --> 00:29:31,395
and started hanging around Ada,
looking for friends, just something to do,
476
00:29:31,979 --> 00:29:33,397
and met Ron.
477
00:29:34,064 --> 00:29:36,024
That was his big mistake.
478
00:29:37,734 --> 00:29:41,613
He was kind of talking crazythat night, you know?
479
00:29:41,697 --> 00:29:43,573
Like talking about...
480
00:29:44,866 --> 00:29:48,829
he didn't wanna live, you know,and he didn't care to live no more.
481
00:29:48,912 --> 00:29:50,747
He'd been drinking a lot.
482
00:29:50,872 --> 00:29:51,999
[clears throat]
483
00:29:52,124 --> 00:29:53,041
And...
484
00:29:53,709 --> 00:29:56,378
He passed this girl,this girl passed him on the street
485
00:29:56,461 --> 00:30:00,007
He said, "I'd like to rape herand kill her.
486
00:30:00,757 --> 00:30:03,635
You know, like that." I said,"What are you talking about?
487
00:30:03,719 --> 00:30:05,721
You are talking out of your mind."
488
00:30:08,932 --> 00:30:11,518
[Smith] Fritz, I don't know.His story doesn't really check out.
489
00:30:11,977 --> 00:30:14,396
He never did tell anyone
where he was that night.
490
00:30:15,314 --> 00:30:17,607
And he called in sick to work
the next day.
491
00:30:18,275 --> 00:30:20,986
Did you find any pubic hairs...
492
00:30:21,987 --> 00:30:23,405
that match that of Dennis Fritz?
493
00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:25,032
Yes, sir, I did.
494
00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:27,993
I found one pubic hair from a washcloth.
495
00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:31,204
My opinion that it is consistent,
496
00:30:31,872 --> 00:30:33,957
I believe it was Dennis Fritz's...
497
00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:36,501
pubic hair, it's his.
498
00:30:36,585 --> 00:30:38,837
[Christy]
I think Ron was kind of the mastermind.
499
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,756
You know, it was his deal,he thought of it.
500
00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:42,257
Dennis was just kind of...
501
00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:44,468
along for the ride, or whatever.
502
00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:47,804
[Grisham]In Dennis's case, he was found guilty,
503
00:30:48,513 --> 00:30:51,099
and they move into the sentencing phase.
504
00:30:51,475 --> 00:30:56,521
And Dennis came within one vote
of getting the death penalty.
505
00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:08,116
RON WILLIAMSON'S
TRIAL STARTS APR 27
506
00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:10,160
[Bill Peterson speaking]
507
00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:12,621
The defendant says, "Just imagine this.
508
00:31:13,622 --> 00:31:18,418
When I was living in Tulsa, been drinkingand taking Quaaludes all day,
509
00:31:18,502 --> 00:31:21,463
and then drove to Coachlight,and drank some more.
510
00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:22,964
I got a little bit drunker.
511
00:31:23,632 --> 00:31:25,467
I ended up at Debbie Carter's door.
512
00:31:25,550 --> 00:31:29,054
Knocked on the door, and she said,'Just a minute, I'm on the phone.'
513
00:31:29,638 --> 00:31:32,432
I burst in the door,I raped and killed her."
514
00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:37,104
I sit there and thinking how...
515
00:31:38,438 --> 00:31:40,232
Why did they do it? I...
516
00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:42,109
Oh, I hated them so bad.
517
00:31:42,859 --> 00:31:43,902
I just...
518
00:31:45,695 --> 00:31:47,364
I didn't look at them that much.
519
00:31:47,489 --> 00:31:49,491
I kept my head down a lot.
520
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,494
[Peggy]
It was just sickening to look at them.
521
00:31:52,577 --> 00:31:53,537
[Bill Peterson speaking]
522
00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:56,540
Look at Debbie Carter,you tell me she didn't resist...
523
00:31:57,332 --> 00:31:59,376
with every fiber in her body.
524
00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:01,461
[gasping and grunting]
525
00:32:13,390 --> 00:32:16,435
She had all these little places
on her nose.
526
00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:21,231
It looks like somebody put out cigarettes
on her nose. Oh, it was...
527
00:32:21,314 --> 00:32:23,316
[takes a deep breath]
528
00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:27,070
And her lips were so big
and Debbie had little lips.
529
00:32:27,904 --> 00:32:29,239
[Peggy] He just...
530
00:32:30,449 --> 00:32:31,950
Was so mad at her.
531
00:32:32,242 --> 00:32:34,286
He done so much to her.
532
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:37,247
One of her little eyeswas all messed up, they said.
533
00:32:37,497 --> 00:32:38,707
And then he had...
534
00:32:39,124 --> 00:32:41,543
stuffed a wash rag down her throat.
535
00:32:42,461 --> 00:32:44,546
They had that wash rag at court.
536
00:32:45,547 --> 00:32:48,258
But they said the inside of her cheeks...
537
00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:51,219
looked like hamburger meat
538
00:32:51,303 --> 00:32:54,264
where she had tried
to get that wash rag up.
539
00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:59,436
[Peggy]
Well, I found out when I went to court
540
00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:01,938
that there was two things...
541
00:33:03,023 --> 00:33:05,775
that he used on Debbie's neck.
542
00:33:08,153 --> 00:33:11,698
Her cowboy belt
and her electric blanket cord.
543
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:15,118
I bought both of them.
544
00:33:18,497 --> 00:33:19,998
Bought both of them.
545
00:33:22,292 --> 00:33:24,127
[Bill Peterson speaking]
546
00:33:24,294 --> 00:33:27,797
Question is who killed Debbie Carter?
547
00:33:28,507 --> 00:33:29,883
Who killed Debbie Carter?
548
00:33:30,634 --> 00:33:33,345
The death was caused by the defendant.
549
00:33:34,554 --> 00:33:37,265
We had lot of people
that grew up in Ada who would tell us...
550
00:33:37,933 --> 00:33:40,227
You know when they were kids,
you know how your parents say,
551
00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:42,604
"You be home by dark
'cause the boogeyman's out there"?
552
00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:44,814
Well, for them,
the boogeyman was Ron Williamson.
553
00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:51,947
[Smith] Ron Williamson livedin a little thing behind his mom's house.
554
00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:54,324
And you could step outside
555
00:33:54,407 --> 00:33:59,162
the back fence of Williamson's mom's house
and see Debbie Sue Carter's... apartment.
556
00:33:59,246 --> 00:34:02,666
[Smith] A guy with a pretty good armcould put a baseball through the window.
557
00:34:02,749 --> 00:34:05,752
Halfway between them,
on the intersecting street,
558
00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:07,629
was a woman named Andrea Hardcastle
559
00:34:07,712 --> 00:34:10,924
that Ron Williams did exactly the same
thing too as he did to Debbie Carter
560
00:34:11,007 --> 00:34:12,300
except he didn't kill her.
561
00:34:15,095 --> 00:34:18,598
My neighbor that used to liveacross the street from me, Roy Haney,
562
00:34:18,682 --> 00:34:21,184
him, and what he introducedas Ronnie Williamson
563
00:34:21,268 --> 00:34:22,936
came over to my house.
564
00:34:23,019 --> 00:34:24,688
It was on a Friday or Saturday night.
565
00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:27,732
He said that the girls like meshould share themselves,
566
00:34:27,816 --> 00:34:30,151
and he told methat he was going to fuck me.
567
00:34:31,027 --> 00:34:33,196
He hit me and he knocked me on the floor.
568
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,366
And handling my breast, between my legs.
569
00:34:36,449 --> 00:34:37,826
He was very rough.
570
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:38,785
[takes a deep breath]
571
00:34:38,868 --> 00:34:40,620
I was screaming at first.
572
00:34:42,330 --> 00:34:45,000
And he kept telling methat if I didn't do what he told me to do
573
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,751
that he was gonna fuck me up.
574
00:34:48,878 --> 00:34:51,214
[Dan] Andrea Hardcastle was a young girlat the time.
575
00:34:51,298 --> 00:34:55,927
She came forward
and stated that Ron had molested her...
576
00:34:56,344 --> 00:34:59,055
some years before,
although she never pressed charges.
577
00:35:00,056 --> 00:35:02,809
She was also friendswith Dennis Smith's daughter...
578
00:35:04,436 --> 00:35:07,480
and also knew Debbie Carteras well, so...
579
00:35:08,565 --> 00:35:11,443
You know, all those kids
knew each other basically, so...
580
00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:13,945
Ronnie was sitting on top of my chest
581
00:35:14,029 --> 00:35:17,198
and he said, "You knowI'm gonna have to kill you, don't you?"
582
00:35:17,824 --> 00:35:19,034
And I said, "Yes."
583
00:35:20,035 --> 00:35:22,912
And I had already made my peace with God
584
00:35:22,996 --> 00:35:25,498
and just hopedthat someone would find the kids.
585
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:30,295
Glen Gore was one of our witnesses.
586
00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:34,090
[Peggy] He testified that yes,
587
00:35:34,174 --> 00:35:36,301
Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz
588
00:35:36,426 --> 00:35:38,762
was at the Coachlight that night.
589
00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:44,476
And him and Debbie
were kind of arguing with each other.
590
00:35:45,685 --> 00:35:49,439
On the night of December the 7th, 1982,did you have an occasion to see him?
591
00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:50,398
Yes.
592
00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:52,025
And where was that?
593
00:35:52,108 --> 00:35:53,610
It was at the Coachlight.
594
00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:55,862
I can't rememberwho I was sitting there with us.
595
00:35:55,945 --> 00:35:58,573
Anyway, I went up to get me another drink
596
00:35:58,657 --> 00:36:01,326
and Debbie said,"Glen, would you rescue me?"
597
00:36:01,785 --> 00:36:03,870
Saying he was bugging her so...
598
00:36:04,663 --> 00:36:06,998
they went out... me and herwent out on the dance floor.
599
00:36:07,499 --> 00:36:09,417
Do you know, did you hear...
600
00:36:09,501 --> 00:36:12,837
or do you know if Ron Williamson,what he said to Mrs. Carter?
601
00:36:12,921 --> 00:36:15,006
No, I was just walking by.
602
00:36:15,090 --> 00:36:17,926
She tapped me on the shoulder,said, "Save me."
603
00:36:18,009 --> 00:36:19,344
Save me.
604
00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:22,972
But you did seethe defendant Ron Williams talk to her?
605
00:36:23,056 --> 00:36:23,973
Yes.
606
00:36:32,232 --> 00:36:36,069
[Dan] As the club was closing,the Carpenters, both Terry and Mike,
607
00:36:36,152 --> 00:36:40,949
both saw Debbieand somebody arguing in her car.
608
00:36:41,032 --> 00:36:43,410
She kind of push him away
and got in the car and drove off.
609
00:36:43,910 --> 00:36:45,286
[Nancy Shew speaking]
610
00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:49,791
Gary Rogers, agent with the Oklahoma StateBureau of Investigation, testified next.
611
00:36:49,874 --> 00:36:53,503
"Ron Williamson told himand Rusty Featherstone
612
00:36:53,586 --> 00:36:55,547
that he dreamedabout killing Debbie Carter;
613
00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:57,507
that he was on herwith a cord around her neck.
614
00:36:58,383 --> 00:37:02,512
One of Agents asked him why,and he answered, "'She made me mad.'"
615
00:37:03,805 --> 00:37:07,267
Then the witnesses testifiedwho told you about...
616
00:37:07,934 --> 00:37:12,188
hearing Ron Williamson talk about hisinvolvement in Debbie Carter's death.
617
00:37:12,564 --> 00:37:15,233
Terri Holland was the first one of those.
618
00:37:15,316 --> 00:37:18,820
She heard him sayto someone else there in the jail...
619
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:22,031
"...he said he shoved a coke bottleup her ass
620
00:37:22,115 --> 00:37:23,783
and her panties down on the ground.
621
00:37:24,784 --> 00:37:27,036
And Mell Hett was the state last witness,
622
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,164
who told you,tried to explain a little bit
623
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:31,207
about the science of hair comparison,
624
00:37:31,291 --> 00:37:35,003
and the results that can beobtained from those kinds of test.
625
00:37:35,086 --> 00:37:37,672
Told you that there were two on the bed,
626
00:37:37,756 --> 00:37:39,966
on Debbie Carter's bedding,two pubic hairs,
627
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,802
consistent with those of Ron Williamson,
628
00:37:43,344 --> 00:37:46,139
and that there were two heador scalp hairs...
629
00:37:46,222 --> 00:37:49,142
on the washcloth takenfrom Debbie Carter's mouth
630
00:37:49,225 --> 00:37:52,395
that were consistent with the head hairsof Ron Williamson.
631
00:37:55,815 --> 00:37:57,859
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
632
00:37:57,942 --> 00:37:59,736
you've heard all the evidencein this case.
633
00:38:01,488 --> 00:38:03,114
The evidence is overwhelming.
634
00:38:04,741 --> 00:38:06,159
The facts cry out...
635
00:38:07,076 --> 00:38:08,578
for a guilty verdict.
636
00:38:09,996 --> 00:38:12,874
I'm gonna ask you to say,"Ron Williamson,
637
00:38:13,541 --> 00:38:16,753
you deserve to diefor what you did to Debbie Carter."
638
00:38:23,051 --> 00:38:26,846
"We the jury drawn in paneland sworn in the above entitled cause,
639
00:38:26,930 --> 00:38:30,058
drew up on our own,having here for found the defendant,
640
00:38:30,141 --> 00:38:33,186
Ron Keith Williamson,guilty of murder in the first degree,
641
00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:35,480
states his punishment as death."
642
00:38:44,739 --> 00:38:45,990
[Christy] One of the things
643
00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:48,368
that's really troublingabout Debbie's murder
644
00:38:48,451 --> 00:38:51,663
is that when you beginto look at everything else,
645
00:38:52,372 --> 00:38:54,749
to realize that she was
just collateral damage.
646
00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:58,586
That it changed everything
about our family
647
00:38:58,670 --> 00:39:00,630
and about how...
648
00:39:02,131 --> 00:39:04,050
certainly I've view the world.
649
00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:07,554
Certainly changed everything
for my aunt...
650
00:39:09,389 --> 00:39:11,641
but that she was really
just collateral damage
651
00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:13,518
in something bigger?
652
00:39:15,103 --> 00:39:18,398
It is sickening
that we don't even know what all--
653
00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:21,568
It's 30-something years later
and we don't even know what all that is
654
00:39:21,651 --> 00:39:23,236
and how that fits together.
655
00:39:26,447 --> 00:39:28,825
New information tonightin a rape and murder case
656
00:39:28,908 --> 00:39:31,077
that a victim's family thought was over.
657
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,454
Now that family has learnedtheir daughter's killer
658
00:39:33,538 --> 00:39:35,290
could still be on the loose.
659
00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:38,293
New DNA testing could meanthat the two men convicted
660
00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:41,462
of the 1982 rape and murderof Debbie Carter of Ada
661
00:39:41,546 --> 00:39:42,672
could go free.
662
00:39:43,006 --> 00:39:45,216
It's our big story tonight at six.
663
00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:48,678
Eyewitness News 5 reporter, Steve Volker,joins us live from Ada tonight.
664
00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:51,973
And Steve, some shocking newsin this case that many thought was solved.
665
00:39:52,056 --> 00:39:56,311
It was in this county courthousewhere Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz
666
00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:57,937
were sentenced 12 years ago.
667
00:39:58,021 --> 00:40:01,649
And it will be in this courthouse wherewe will learn if they will be set free.
668
00:40:01,699 --> 00:40:06,249
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