coronary disease, hardening of the arteries. turns out, as his family insisted, he did not die of drug abuse. robert joe halderman will do jail today and community service. david letterman not there. christie s auction house turns this into $1.68 million, a word record. called nude, green leaves and bust. and the winning bidder is called anonymous. that s amazing. it took him just a day to paint it? up next from altar boy to al qaeda? how does it happen? one american s disturbing journey. the result of a year-long investigation by cnn. later, was it a hate crime? white supremacist murdered in the south. the suspect is african-american. the details, though, may surprise you. sfx: coin drop
people who might go through this process and the danger that presents. i spent the better part of the year here in the u.s. and europe unraveling how he went from catholic to muslim, from u.s. army recruit to jihadist, from long island to lahore. he grew up on this street, in a middle class neighborhood on long island. his parents, latino immigrants, neither would go on camera with cnn but a neighbor says as a boy, bryant was like part of her family. very sweet little boy. he could come here any time and he was welcomed here. reporter: regis knew him best. when we were younger, we used to go in the pool a lot. he was respectful. he d make sure he didn t break any rules in the house. reporter: there was nothing remarkable about bryant s early childhood. his teachers remember him being
we know there was a gun, anderson. appreciate it. a source familiar with the investigation tells us faisal shahzad waived his miranda rights and has been talking to officials since his arrest. he s still talking tonight apparently. as joe said, it took less than 54 hours for law enforcement officials to track him down. he left behind those clues. the first was discovered underneath that suv abandoned in times square. drew griffin takes us up close. reporter: the moment the danger was over, the wires removed, one detective looked underneath the nissan path finder and wrote down the clue fay sal shahzad did not know he left behind. etched under the engine block, the vehicle s identification number, the same vin number he removed from the dashboard from a source familiar with the investigation. that number led to a registration in connecticut and with it, sources tell cnn, the name and address of the owner, whose daughter was selling the
calls, allow shahzad to make more mistakes and perhaps lead to accomplices. but by monday, sources said he got spooked, apparently deciding to flee. as agents began to track his movements, one of the first things they did, sources tell cnn, was to put his name on a no-fly list. monday night as he drove to jfk s international, according to federal sources he called emirate s air reserving his seat onboard this flight bound for dubai which would eventually connect to a flight bound for islamabad, pakistan. unknown to shahzad, there was no way he was going anywhere. even though the fbi briefly lost track of him, customs and border protection agents began examining flight manifests. then shortly after he arrives at the airport, an emirates employee enforms law enforcement that a man had just paid cash for a one-way ticket to pakistan. according to an account by cnn by federal law enforcement
federal law enforcement source, here s what happened next. as the plane is boarding, agents are moving in. the decision is allow the plane to shut its doors. before the plane can push back, sources tell cnn, the door is reopened, fz is placed under arrest and removed from the flight before it ever leaves the gate. under intense questioning, another emergency, two more names on board the emirates flight appear suspicious, under abundance of caution, the plane is told to go back to the gate. i have a message for you to come back to the gate immediately. reporter: they were questioned and let go. the only arrest is faisal shahzad he is said to be cooperating with the investigation and detailing his travels and training. he s apparently talking about pakistan. do authorities believe him? cops don t believe anybody, anderson. they make you prove it, especially in these terrorists