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Who had brought suspects to these interrogation rooms for years was allowed to see her son alone. >> all i could do was hold him. i just felt extremely helpless. >> reporter: whatever they talked about, donna wouldnt tell detectives. isaiah stopped talking, too. but police were convinced they had the right suspect. they charged isaiah with two counts of murder and one count each of robbery and obstructing justice. but when the trial began in the summer of 2018, prosecutor michael perry knew that...

Heather collins became less hopeful. there was no direct evidence tying isaiah hagan to her daughters murder, no gun, no dna, no eyewitnesses, nothing to prove isaiah was a killer. >> i was at the point where i was prepared for him to be walking the streets. >> prosecutor michael perry urged patience. >> we knew that we did not have enough evidence to convict at that point, but thats why you go to the end. >> there was one person in particular he wanted the jury to hear from, donna hagan, isaiah...

Tracks. >> reporter: and the prosecution presented perhaps the most explosive piece of evidence they had, what investigators found when they searched the home of wandel and donna hagan. >> we were able to locate a towel from that home that was actually the same make, the same model of the towel that was located at the soccer field. >> reporter: and there was something else investigators discovered. wandel owned several guns, but one of them was missing. did you think that maybe isaiah took it? >...

>> i am getting emotional. im sorry. >> the defense attorney on the other hand got straight to work. he needed a new plan to save his client. when court reconvened he called dona hagan back to the stand. his goal, to show the jury that she couldnt be believed. >> on cross-examination she admitted that she believed that if the jury heard that isaiah said it was an accident then they couldnt convict him of murder. >> so you think that perhaps his mother in said these things so that her son could g...

Jury, but the damage was done. it only took the jury four hours to find isaiah hagan guilty on all four counts against him, including murder. >> thats the most relief ive felt since it all happened. i felt like a huge weight was lifted off of me, because all i wanted forever was to just get justice for her. i wanted her to know we were doing our best to give her some piece, and the fact that we finally did it felt really good, and i just remember crying, and i couldnt stop crying. it was a lot o...

Lies. right there in the interrogation video. the prosecution played the entire nine and half hours of it to the jury. >> i think anytime somebody says something that the state contends isnt true, you have to try to understand the dynamic of where it was said. >> phillips noted that detectives questioned isaiah aggressively for hours. they used profanity, invaded his space, intimidated him. >> im supposed to believe a stack of [ bleep ] -- >> maybe, he theorized, isaiah simply lied to make them ...

With her boyfriend, just the two of them, and drive together. and most shocking, she said i want to have a carbaby. i want to get married. i have an iud.ma they will not let me go to the doctor to get itl removed. sadly, this is legal under the terms of a conservatorship. however, the legal expert that i spoke to did explain, while its legal, it doesnt seem right. britney spears was lucid enough to get on the phone with the judgeph for 24 minutes. she is lucid enough to go in front of the world ...

>> i think its just as important to unhear that as those of us who heard president obama whisper to the president of russia that he is going to have more flexibility after his own election. that wasnt an appropriate comment either. we needed to get over that, as republicans. we eventually did. and youll get over this. >> im not sure you ever did, because i remember that vividly, and of course, youre bringing it up now. heres whats interesting, michael. at least we heard that, because of a hot mi...

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