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>> open 504! >> shortly after, bean and trowbridge are allowed back into their cell. corrections officers arrive to administer the drug tests. >> we test for benzodiazepines, cocaine, marijuana. bean? >> the containers are designed with a drug detection patch that provides immediate results. >> all right. bean, right? right now ive got you showing a presumptive positive for methamphetamine. do you want to -- >> send it to the lab. theres no way. >> if an inmate tests positive, he can request a s...

Bean is confident his positive test is the result of a prescription drug hes allowed to take. >> im on wellbutrin, im almost positive thats what it is. theyll be able to tell that in a lab, though, right? >> yes. >> getting narcotics or anything like that back here is next to impossible. so 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 cr...

High-security cell block where hell be locked in a single-person cell 23 hours a day pending the final results of the investigation. >> go ahead and strip out. socks, everything. everything. go ahead and put that on. >> they put us in a room. they dont give us no manual to the teach us how to live in a box with another man. its really hard. really hard. especially if they have seizures, any time they hurt themselves, you get blamed for it. coming up, joshua bean faces new troubles following a ...

>> i cannot push these emotions to the darkest place in my mind any more. 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 believe with me. i never wanted anything over than your love, babe. i never would have hurt you. yet you are dead and i might as well be. >> but debby norris, heathers mother says that bean is a liar. >> i know that heather was beaten by him at least four times, four times that were pre...

>> he insists that heather came at him with a knife. >> i pried the knife out of her hand and even still after i had the knife she continued to come forward. that 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 throat. no one knows for sure because her body was never recovered. >> i decided to try to do something with the body. ...

I know she did. when she -- when she was -- after she got off me i had stabbed her right here, she lay down. i held her in my arms. and before she died she said i love you and those were her last words. >> during his sentencing one of the things that he did say was heathers last words were that "i love you, josh." i will never believe that. i have nightmares that heathers last moments was calling out for me to help her because she had done that so many times before. i dont see where this would h...

>> send it to the lab. >> he can request a second test from a lab. he is confident it is because of a prescription drug he is allowed to take. >> im on wellbutrin. >> getting narcotics back here is next to impossible. so you know 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 ex-girlfriend and

But he has a new cell assignment in a new housing unit. >> you got to get along in here. you got to. >> we get along good. >> have you seen cash since the altercation? >> 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 testing positive for methamphetamine during a recent shake down bean requested an outside lab do its own test. the results came back...

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 told her family that bean was abusive and even though he faced a trial on domestic abuse charges at the time of heathers murder he says he wasnt abusive. >> it was predicated on a lie. the lie is that we had a violent relationship. im not saying im without...

He is confident it is because of a prescription drug he is allowed to take. >> im on wellbutrin. >> getting narcotics back here is next to impossible. so you know 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 ex-girlfriend and destroying her corpse could make him a target among other inmates. >> i have not been anywhere in t...