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Dorseys purported sexual misconduct, cash for conduct, bribery scheme and the personal use of his inmates and deputies. dorsey continued to defend himself. >> the only thing i can say to you and the world is that sidney dorsey is innocent of all of these accusations. there is no corruption in the dekalb county sheriffs office. those accusations are completely and totally false. >> and brown continued to plan for change. >> his main concern was cleaning up the jail, making sure that the programs ...

Interview hundreds of people. >> anyone who was going to be affected by the new administration now needs to be interviewed and accounted for for their activities that evening. >> two grand juries were impanelled. one who investigated the charges of corruption in the former sheriffs office. the other, the murder of derwin brown. >> i cant speak to whats going on in the prosecutors head or primarily what his motives are. my statement to you is that i am not guilty of any form of corruption and i h...

Into the political corruption. they went to the local library. and with the help of the librarian that they went through the stacks and figured out where i lived. and i said, well, mr. cuffy, why didnt you just look in the phonebook? he said, youre in the phonebook? i said, yes, im the only j. tom morgan in the phone book. he said, well, damn, we wasted all that time. right then i knew who am i dealing with? >> but perhaps the most stunning footnote to this story came late in the summer of 2007....

>> not long after dorseys incarceration, phyllis brown, derwins widow, a vigilant presence at every hearing and trial, suffered a debilitating stroke. >> that murder and the subsequent trials took a tremendous toll on her. >> remember, two of the gunmen, melvin walker and david ramsey, were acquitted in the state trial. >> i think the acquittal was very, very difficult for her. >> and the other two were granted immunity in return for testifying against the others. so all four gunmen were walking...

Two of the four deputy sheriffs who assassinated derwin brown were now in prison for life after two trials. the mastermind of the hit, former sheriff sidney dorsey, also in prison for life. >> wait a minute. >> the cost to the family was unmeasurable. in addition to losing a husband, father and grandfather in a hail of gunfire just days before he was to become the sheriff, his wife, phyllis brown, died of heart failure at age 52. 3 1/2 years after suffering a major stroke. >> that murder and the...

Dosy -- dorseys purported sexual misconduct, cash for conduct, bribery scheme and the personal use of his inmates and deputies. dorsey continued to defend himself. >> the only thing i can say to you and the world is that sidney dorsey is innocent of all of these accusations. there is no corruption in the dekalb county sheriffs office. those accusations are completely and totally false. >> and brown continued to plan for change. >> his main concern was cleaning up the jail, making sure that the p...

By a stunning turn of events. >> the investigation was dead in the water. >> it was a mystery with more twists and turns. >> did you do it? >> did you do it? >> than a detective novel. >> i said, this whole thing is not real. this is not even happening. >> there was the most remarkable murder case that i can remember. >> in this hour, who shot the sheriff and why? people seemed easily drawn to derwin brown. >> he was a man who was unafraid, honest, caring, and was concerned about more than himse...

>> now, the irony of all of this is that theres a shootout at cuffys house and cuffy is being prosecuted for something totally unrelated to the murder and thats when he wants to come talk to us. >> j. tom morgan went in the back room. cuffy went into the back room. cuffys attorney went into the back room. and the hearing was delayed. and several hours later, cuffy flipped. >> prosecutors agreed not to charge cuffy and another former deputy sheriff, paul skyers, in return for their testimony agai...

Brother in blue, be it that he was a political adversary or not. >> derwins own family was mystified. >> do you have any idea who did this? >> no. >> any suspects in your mind? >> no. ♪ >> more than 4,000 people attended derwin browns funeral. browns wife and five children watched as hundreds of officers passed by the flag-draped coffin. michael brown is the son who saw his father in the driveway the moment before he died. >> because i know hes watching and i know he can hear me. and i love yo...

Derwin brown was assassinated to pave the way for sidney dorseys comeback. the four co-conspirators, he said, were all promised promotions for killing brown. >> it was a very demented understanding and very irrational. but he believed that there would be a special election in which he could retake his office. >> full weight of the evidence against these two guys brought in the conspiracy that sid dorsey ordered it, brought in patrick cuffy, who was their star witness. and presented a case that i...