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It looks like he packed his property. so he knew. thats pretty typical. when something happens, they go ahead and pack their stuff up so the officers dont get things mixed up or whatever. so hes ready to go to segregation. he knew he would be going. >> littlejohn checks the surveillance footage. while there is no coverage inside the cell he wants to rule out the possibility of another assailant entering the cell. >> what are you seeing so far? >> absolutely nothing. nobody goes in, nobody comes ...

Thats what i figured it would be from the beginning. when i tested positive. i knew i wasnt doing anything. >> open your mouth. thank you. >> although the prescription drug often creates problems whenever hes tested, according to bean it has become his lifeline. he says he needs the medication to cope with the anxiety and stress of being incarcerated for the murder of his girlfriend. >> and you know, just when i think i have a grip on it, these wounds are scar tissue that i thought was healed. j...

Sexually assaulted her and i killed her. and i robbed her. and i left. the poor woman didnt stand a chance. >> prosecutors determined that trowbridge not only strangled his victim but sexually assaulted her after her death. he was sentenced to 77 years for robbery, murder and abuse of a corpse. he has served 15 and with good behavior could be out of prison by age 50. he lives in wabashs protective custody unit which houses inmates whose lives could be at risk in general population due to the nat...

So at this point, you know, well go in and look at the cell and see what it looks like. >> while violence between cell mates is always a possibility in prison, for philip stroud and curtis mac grum, living together has had the opposite effect. >> is that that diabetic peanut butter? >> aint got no taste to it. >> put the cookie on the peanut butter. >> that sound like a snack. >> no more snacks. i have to get rid of this stomach. >> dear heavenly father we thank you for this meal. >> old curt. c...

The world like she was boasting as she confessed to her cellmate that she murdered teresa mayfield in cold blood. in fact, in recorded conversations with her cellmate, dawn not only admitted to shooting teresa, but said that she had tried once before. that strange night at the casino when teresa came home stumbling, that was her first attempt at murder. >> she wouldnt die. woke up the next damned night. >> why would she want to kill

Her friend? because, listen to this, the whole answer to the whole puzzle comes down to one little word. dawn uses it when telling her cellmate what she did. we? she was not acting alone, she had-conspirator. >> i dont know if she was trying to be a show off, because she was calling herself a hit man. >> dawn was a hired gun for -- you guessed it. scott mayfield. >> she was a loving wife, loving mother. >> the man who heaped praise on his dead wife, his grieving children by his side was accordin...

They told the prosecutor not only that dawn murdered teresa but they were convinced she tried and failed to kill her with a xanax overdose at the casino. >> the sheriffs department thought that was an attempt on her life, but we had nothing to really support that. >> if tim evans was to get a conviction, he needed more evidence, some concrete proof that dawn had pulled that trigger. you can bet dawn wasnt about to tell them anything. but that doesnt mean she wasnt talking. >> we had another youn...

>> that was enough to get cooperation from her. >> right. >> the objective was simple. get dawn talking, wrangle from her something that at least sounded like a confession. ellis and boyd outfitted dawns cell mate with a digital recorder no bigger than a matchbox. on a friday afternoon as an unsuspecting dawn reviewed her case file, her cell mate walked in and waited for some incriminating tidbit. at she got instead was the wholsickening story. >> heres what dawn said about the morning teresa wa...

Its like a fusion, gives you that nice spice, the right texture. thats pretty good stuff right there. >> beau dearborne likes commissary as much as anyone but feels theres room for improvement. >> i recommend theres a few items that can be added not only for the african-american types. but ive been using mayonnaise, for conditioner. literally, for my hair. a lot of breakage involved so im like, please, put some grease on here. love, peace, and hair grease. please. >> dearbornes girlfriend and co...

But he says it was one missed opportunity after another. >> there was four different other occasions where i had it so it was perfectly clean. >> such as? >> yeah, such as walking out of a july 4th party down in malibu at a friends house with 100 other people. >> they could ve -- >> yeah, it was a rural area. up even had the times, the dates, everything. the location. all he had to do was get in the car. and everybody at the party would have said, oh, yeah, she did it. >> jim says he was played ...