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With a cell mate potentially serving life behind bars who wants to act as his helper if he is indeed legally blind which has to be determined obviously by a doctor and not by somebody who works for him. he has no say in that. >> correct. >> key volunteer for solitary confinement or does he have no say if that. >> i cant imagine volunteering for solitary confinement. >> julie: what if you fear for your life? >> if he fears for his life -- the government has a duty to protect you not from everythi...

Phone. i asked where he was at? he said the cops have me pulled over. >> your dad, for heavens sake was being arrested. had to be a shock. >> i was very confused. i asked the arresting officer, why are you arresting me dad? he said it was solicitation and conspiracy. >> to commit murder. >> to commit murder, yes. >> in other words, he said your father was responsible for the death of your mother. >> uh-huh. >> still, as he sat behind bars, awaiting his day in court, he assured his children that ...

Talking. they equipped her with a digital recorder. as an unsuspected dawn sat in her cell reviewing her case file, her cellmate walked in and waited for some incriminating tidbit. what she got instead was the whole sickening story. heres what dawn told her cellmate about the morning teresa was killed. around 7:00, dawn called teresa with a lie to set the plan in motion. >> i wasnt taking any more vacation days. >> she claimed her car had broken down nearby. could teresa come pick her up. but of...

Why would she want to kill her friend? because, listen to this, the answer to the whole puzzle really comes down to one little word. dawn uses it when telling her cell mate when she did. >> we? dawn was not acting alone. she had a co-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 , with his grieving children by his side, h...

Murder-for-hire scheme. but who did the hiring? mears keith morrison with the conclusion to secrets in a small town. >> dawn lavender sounded for all the world that she was boasting as she confessed to her cell mate that she murdered teresa mayfield in cold blood. in fact, in recorded conversations with her cell mate, dawn not only admit today shooting teresa, but said that she had tried once before. that strange night at a casino when teresa came home stumbling, that was her first attempt at mu...

For democrats like chris coons to be bipartisan and defy their own party. >> its not a straight line. there are so many different dynamics in play whether or not this will actually occur. i will miss being called a little jerk. >> and a little brat. >> and a little brat. as we go to break, one more image i really want to show you, youre looking at 87-year-old congressman sam johnson. the texas republican was a fellow prisoner of war and a cell mate of mccains in vietnam. he normally is confined ...

Souls pay for our freedom. >> a man, yes, of the senate but also a man of the house a navy man, a family man, a man who made an enormous difference in the lives of countless people. >> now without question the most emotional moment of the day came when sam johnson, a republican congressman from texas who is retiring who was a cell mate of john mccains in vietnam was escorted to the casket by house minority leader nancy pelosi and joe crowley the democratic congressman from queens new york. now, ...

His cell mate on the other side of the wall had been required to memorize poems in school. they developed, all the pows, the tap code to communicate. he taught mccain the poem that he had been taught in school. one of them was "the creation of sack mcgee" who grew up in the white horse area in the yukon territory. then mccain disappeared. he hopped in a car and didnt come back for an hour or two. came back eyes shining because there was the residence of this poet whose work he had learned in tap...

The yard to be my cellie because of who i am. >> just days before this interview, terry had another fight. >> i had a fight in my cell with my cellmate because i was tired of living with him. for like seven months, its like being forced into a relationship that you dont want, so when i moved out, he attacked me in the kitchen, and i seen tears and i seen frustration, but i didnt care. i mean, he stabbed me with a cigarette which they make here homemade. he -- i mean, pulled out all my hair, it g...

Use caution. >> -- the officers came up empty on the "b" yard shakedown. leaving them no option, but to hit the inmates where they sleep. plus -- >> some people accept me and some dont. >> what happens when cellmates arent happy at home. >> i had a fight with my cell mate because i was tired of living with him. maybe you should take that pen and use it to sign up with a different insurance company. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual wont raise their rates because of their first...