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Just before the break on "legal view," i asked atlanta attorney phillip holloway the question, what about a damning statement that a wife makes to her husband in the interview room at a police station when presumably they dont assume anyone can hear? leanna harris was, why, did you say too much? on the surface, sounds awful. it is defensible. is it defensible enough to actually avoid a charge in this case? >> whats more interesting than the statement -- ive got my notes from court yesterday, app...

Light. the goal, the game for the prosecution, is to put only so much evidence as is necessary without showing their whole hand. when they chose to show evidence that they did about character, motive, whatever it is, you have to wonder, why did they choose to put that out there? did they feel that confident about mom and dads evidence? and what are they holding back. how much worse does it get from here? >> as the witnesses said, investigators said, we have only just scratched the surface. and i...

Edwards parked the car at a friends house, unaware that he had left dozens of fingerprints behind. >> you can almost see the timeline being laid out just based on forensic evidence. >> edwards lawyers claimed their client was so impaired by his drug addiction, he didnt know what he was doing. >> his defense throughout this whole process had been, oh, he couldnt understand. he didnt have intent. but people know what happened. the result of what happened was a woman lost her life and a family was ...

Hour. >> okay. and during the time he was there, he was in a cell, right? >> no. >> no? he was just in a lobby? >> he was unhandcuffed, he was placed into the interview room and given water. >> okay. and you recorded all of that. >> thats all recorded. >> sure. so anything he said or did, regardlets of how it may be characterized, were going to get to see at some point, right? >> yes, sir. >> and then who came in there to speak with him? >> i did and detective waldorf. >> who? >> waldorf with th...

>> did you later inform him he was also being arrested for felony murder? >> i did. after the decision was made and looking at everything we had had gathered to that point, we did decide to charge him with murder. i brought him back into the interview room and sat him down to explain the charge to him. >> when you told him what he was being charged with, what language did he use when responding to you? >> he looked at me and said but there is no malicious intent. >> no malicious intent. now, dur...

When you spoke to him in that interview room, he had not had an opportunity to see his wife, speak to his wife, or have any interaction with her at all, had he? >> that is correct. >> during the interview, was he expressing to you concerns about what in the world he was going to say to his wife? >> yes. >> and he wanted to talk to her. >> correct. >> and that would not be a remarkable or unusual concern for somebody in this situation, would it? >> i would say no. >> how long was the interview? >...

Human body with a chainsaw takes a lot of gall. takes a lot of spite. in my opinion you really have to dislike somebody to do that to them. >> daphne wright was convicted, but the jury spared her life. instead, shell spend the rest of her life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> one thing that kept coming back was what do we get out of sentencing her to the death penalty. what does she get out of it, what does society get out of it, what do we get out of it? really, we didnt see anything...

Die from exposure. edwards parked the car at a friends house, unaware that he had left dozens of fingerprints behind. >> you can almost see the timeline being laid out just based on forensic evidence. >> edwards lawyers claimed their client was so impaired by his drug addiction, he didnt know what he was doing. >> his defense throughout this whole process had been, oh, he couldnt understand. he didnt have intent. but people know what happened. the result of what happened was a woman lost her lif...

Cant you give them that same peace? and he was quiet and i looked at him, and i said, art, wheres cindy? and he looked at me and he shook his head and just said, thats a low blow. >> later, inside the interview room at the eastpointe cop shop with another concealed camera rolling, mack and jen came at art ream for the next eight hours. not confrontational, more like friends talking. they had all the time in the world for his and his ramblings. >> i think at this point i hope you understand, were...

Art, thats the problem here. thats the whole problem of this whole investigation. >> the initial strategy was to deal with him as though it were a gift, that everyone in that interview room knew ream had something to do with cindys disappearance and now was the time to explain it all. >> if you could put closure to this thing right now today. and help a family out. you think about it right now, you need some paper, ill get you some paper you can write it down. >> im not going to write it down. >...