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Reggie wayne for the touchdown! 10-6 indianapolis. later the finishing touch. check out this run by donald brown. off to the races! and he could go all the -- thats the wrong network. colts get their first win. 27-13. finally, you have to see this incredible play between the new york giants and the washington redskins. all right? were going to show that? watch this. eli, here he is. back to pass. the deep ball. off the helmet, one of his players it hangs in the air and it finally comes down in t...

The money to solve the problem, we could cut medicare and solve it that way, and that doesnt seem to be what most americans want. if we do it in an intelligent way, it doesnt need to be that painful. if we wait until the last minute when we need to solve the problem in a hurry, it could be painful to a lot of people. >> did you get a gauge on the appetite for doing that? >> people who are opposed are strident about it, and nobody likes to say i am in favor of higher taxes but some people are lik...

>> he was afraid that if they broke up, she would talk about what had happened between him and her, you know. >> yes. >> right. >> the inappropriate relationship. >> right. >> and that that could cost him his license? >> exactly. >> reporter: and after susan filed for divorce, she claims felix was the one coming unhinged and lashing out. >> i mean, he would do this constant verbal and physical kind of, you know, intimidation himself. and then if the kids joined in at all in support of me, like w...

Mother left, and i dont think he wanted to lose her too. >> reporter: eli told the jury of seeing his father assault his mother physically and verbally. there was no doubt, said eli, that his mother was forced to defend her life that fateful night in the pool house. but on cross-examination the prosecutor quizzed eli about a letter hed written to his mother while she was in jail awaiting trial. >> and in it he said, i must testify for you. i will do anything for you, i would die for you. >> i sa...

In was -- was basically false. >> reporter: though both sons declined to be interviewed for this story, they told anchor catherine crier what they hoped the jury would say. >> what should happen to her, gabe? >> thats a tough question. i mean, ideally i think she should get some sort of help. so the outcome is either jail or on the street, and between the two i choose jail. >> reporter: eli for his part was silent, unable to voice support for susan but for a completely different reason. eli was ...

>> he expected me to be a very feminine person, and feminine for him meant submissive, that i wouldnt oppose his will in virtually anything. >> reporter: eli says as he and his brothers grew up his father exerted the same kind of control over them. >> i mean, my father was crazed. >> crazed? >> crazed. >> hed hit you? >> yes. >> did he hit your brothers? >> yes, he did. >> a lot? >> a fair amount. >> did he hit your mother? >> yes, he did. i saw him hit her. the black eyes. dragging her by the h...

Of my life with this man. >> reporter: the tension was miserable, all but unbearable, says eli. he, the middle son, feeling the searing anger, unable to understand it, felt compelled somehow to keep the peace. >> im in middle school, and i dont know whats going on. and at that point i wanted to find out what was going on. i put myself in the middle of that situation. >> trying to be a peacemaker? >> yes, exactly. >> in the war of the roses. >> and i came to find out they needed a divorce. >> pre...

Three years, five months after stabbing her husband, felix, to death, the trial of susan polk was under way. the prosecutor came out swinging, painting susan as a delusional murderer. was she? or was the prosecutor suffering delusions? remember, she was acting as her own lawyer, sometimes brilliantly. to counter the coroners testimony that felix had 27 wounds, susan put her own expert forensic pathologist on the stand, and he told the jury it wasnt murder at all. felix, he said, had a heart cond...

All of these things police believe pushed an already unstable woman over the edge. but is that really how it was? maybe not. could the dead man be blamed for his own demise? susan of course was saying yes. and she had an ally in her middle son, eli. >> he didnt have to do what he did to us. he didnt have to do that. he didnt have to hit my mom, hit us. it was unnecessary. >> and that wound up leading to his death? >> well, it wound up leading to his explosion where he attacked my mom and she def...

Five of them deep stab wounds, and evidence of a hard blow to felixs head. >> that told you so much about what had happened that night. >> reporter: and then, the prosecutor asked, why did susan fail to call 911? why did she clean herself up, allow her son to find the body, and then lie to the police for two days? >> i would not kill my husband. i cant pay the bills. >> its always tough to sell self-defense when the first time youre confronted by law enforcement you say i wasnt there and i had n...