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With their father but the 25-year-olds are behind bars accused of trying to burn him alive. >> it hurts my heart. it hurts me as a person. >> reporter: fire investigators say this charred portion of the familys home is where joshua and caleb allegedly set fire to their father bills bedroom as he was sleeping. but bill bledsoe believes his sons are innocent. ? my boys are my boys, and ill never abandon and not support them. >> reporter: according to the newly released court documents, the brother...

>> we run for cover. i leave my desk and go over to the next cubicle and hide under the desk. >> what told you to do that, just instinct? >> just instinct. we didnt have any other choice because it was, you know, captive inside the area. >> what was his reaction to the door being closed, did he fire? >> he did fire at the cubicle in front of the door and the glass shattered. and thats when, you know, we knew that it was the gunman. >> thats where you had been? >> i was just maybe less than 100 f...

Chief lanier, the mayor and deputy mayor will give you an update here in 20 minutes. thank you. >> she was i believe saying if we were hearing that correctly that there was not a situation. someone was asking her about at a local school if i was hearing that correctly, but theyre going to have another briefing coming up in 20 minutes. richard espozito, forgive me for interrupting you. sir, go back to what you were saying. >> reporter: well, just as you heard in that press briefing, theres confus...

Under the per view of the fbi. the fbi led that investigation as part of their white collar crime division. we think of the fbi has going after terrorism suspects or kidnapping suspect, but the fbi has a pretty braud mandate from international terrorism to art theft to all kinds of white collar crime. the fbi is busy, but because of the self-imposed never supposed to happen federal budget cuts, the fbi has decided to close. for ten days this year, all of its offices and hq in washington closed. ...

Closed. they believe that they did it. but for those who dont, there is that lingering question. if the west memphis three didnt kill those boys, then who did? e >> are you sure that your husband got shot? >> yes, he was hit in his head. >> a brutal killing on a glistening lake. >> you saw your husband get shot and thrown from the jet ski? >> yes. >> were they caught in a cross fire? >> it is a war over there, the two cartels fighting each other for control. >> a drug deal gone bad?

Evidence, including the dna, must be considered at the hearing. >> i think judge burnett made some erroneous rulings in the original trial, and i can say that because every member of the arkansas supreme court agreed with our position in challenging his ruling, denying an evidentiary hearing on the new evidence. >> but this is as close as we could get to judge david burnett. we came here to osceola, arkansas, where he lives and works. we had arranged to speak to him at his home, but he wasnt the...

When we arrived. we came to his office to find the office closed. we spoke to him on the phone and he says that he is not going to be giving any interviews now, unless the prosecutors in the case talk, as well. and theyre not talking. the judge says that he believes that there is a circus-like atmosphere around this case, and hes tired of being called the bad judge. we also reached out to the west memphis police department and the original detectives on the case, including chief investigator gar...

Evidence, including the dna, must be considered at the hearing. >> i think judge burnett made some erroneous rulings in the original trial, and i can say that because every member of the arkansas supreme court agreed with our position in challenging his ruling denying an evidentiary hearing on the new evidence. >> but this is as close as we could get to judge david burnett. we came here to osceola, arkansas, where he lives and works. we had arranged to speak to him at his home, but he wasnt ther...

His ruling denying an evidentiary hearing on the new evidence. >> but this is as close as we could get to judge david burnett. we came here to osceola, arkansas, where he lives and works. we had arranged to speak to him at his home, but he wasnt there when we arrived. we came to his office to find the office closed. we spoke to him on the phone and he says that he is not going to be giving any interviews now unless the prosecutors in the case talk as well. and theyre not talking. the judge says ...

Be held to determine if the west memphis three deserve a new trial. the court ordered that all new evidence, including the dna, must be considered at the hearing. >> i think judge burnett made some erroneous rulings in the original trial, and i can say that because every member of the arkansas supreme court agreed with our position in challenging his ruling denying an evidentiary hearing on the new evidence. >> but this is as close as we could get to judge david burnett. we came here to osceola,...