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>> open 504. >> shortly after bean and trowbridge are allowed back into their cell, corrections officers return to administer the drug tests. >> we test for eight different drugs. morphine, oxy, pcp, methamphetamines, cocaine and marijuana. >> bean. >> the containers are designed with a drug detection patch that provides immediate results. >> all right. bean, right? i have you showing positive for methamphetamine. thats your testing. you want it sent to the lab. >> send it to the lab. theres no ...

You cant make him talk. >> woods was released from the custody control unit and returned to general population. but hes been given a new cell assignment in another housing unit. >> you got to get along in here. you got to. >> we get along good. >> have you seen cash since the altercation? >> no. no. hes on the other side of the prison. >> did you guys leave on good terms? >> of course. >> over in the protective custody unit joshua bean has received word on his ongoing investigation. after testin...

Metrobridges cellmate shares the same unusual pairing of convictions, murder and abuse of a corpse. he is serving 68 years. the victim was his ex-girlfriend, heather norris. >> it was a toxic relationship. it was love/hate and i still very much love her. >> throughout the couples three-year relationship, heather had told her family that bean was physically abusive. and even though bean faced a pending trial and domestic abuse charges at the time of heathers murder, he says he wasnt abusive. >> t...

Is that bean attempted to get away with murdering heather by dismembering her body with a chain saw and placing the parts in trash dumpsters throughout indianapolis. heathers body was never recovered. >> i go by a dumpster and i wonder if thats one of my daughters last resting places. i see black trash bags and it makes me sick. i hear a chain saw and i have to get away. so much is different, obviously. he took heathers life. but he took mine. he took her dads. he took her familys. he took her f...

So whatever happened, obviously happened inside the cell. >> woods was taken to the custody control unit where he will be locked into a single person cell 23 hours a day pending the final results of the investigation. >> go ahead and strip out. socks and everything. everything. put that on. >> they put us in a room. they dont give us no manual to teach us how to live in a box with another man. its really hard. its really hard, man. especially when they have a seizure any time and you get blamed ...

An outside lab. bean is confident his positive test is the result of a prescription drug he is allowed to take. >> im on wellbutrin. theyd be able to tell in a lab, right? >> yes. >> getting narcotics or anything like that back here is next to impossible. so, you know, i dont -- i dont have a doubt when it goes to the lab ill be all right. >> for bean, a positive drug test could result in a transfer out of the protective custody unit where the high-profile nature of his crime, the murder of his ...

>> trowbridges cellmate wrote a letter to his victim heather, his former girlfriend whom he stabbed to death. >> dear heather. i cant push these thoughts and emotions to the darkest, most solitary place in my mind anymore. i suppressed so much. your parents think i abused and beat you on multiple occasions and your friends think i controlled and forced you to be with me. im so far from abusive sometimes i find it beyond belief how i wound up where i am. i never wanted anything other than your lo...

Manslaughter and best case self-defense. >> bean insists the couple had an argument and heather came at him with a knife. >> i was able to get ahold of her forearm and try to pry the knife out of her hand. even still after i had the knife she continued to come forward. that kind of caught me off guard. and in the heat of the moment, i reacted. i stabbed her in the side right here. >> but according to court records, bean had confessed to a friend that he stabbed heather several times and slit her...

>> cellmates reach out to the women they not only murdered but whose bodies they desecrated. >> i never wanted anything other than your love. i never would have hurt you. >> but the mother of beans victim has a different account. >> i know that heather was beaten by him at least four times. (amanda vo) i adopted scrappy on a fluke. and he totally has a super-power. didnt know i was allergic to ibuprofen. and i had fallen asleep... (scrappy barks) (amanda) he was totally freaked out, digging and ...