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Start yelling, screaming, maybe grab something, hit one of us, so i stayed away from her. i didnt know how she would act. >> on august 7th, shortly after they find caylees body in her bedroom, both thomas and her mother are asked to come to camden headquarters. thomas enters the box, or interview room. what follows is a remarkable window into the interrogation process from the suspects point of view. >> did you argue with your sister? >> every now and then, maybe once a day. >> i was just answer...

I swear to god thats the truth. >> unlike rex krebs, thomas is a complete stranger to the criminal justice system. >> here hes 12. his sisters dead. hes emotionally an infant at this point. if emotional wounds were visible, this child would have bled to death before the first interview was over. >> in the summer of 20 0u6, thomas is about to enter the eighth grade. while lives here with caylee and their mother melody jones. melody is on disability. she tells authorities she suffers from mental i...

Paternal grandfather steve harris, has come to assist him. >> i said i would like to see my grandson, and they said, well, were interrogating him. i said, does he have a lawyer or a child advocate? >> they said, no, and the strangest thing they said was, since 9/11, thats all changed. >> officers point out that thomas mother melody jones is also in the building, and has given them permission to interview. boy. >> i said, she bipolar, she has just lost her daughter, shes in a destroyed state, she...

Several others, including gabby giffords. she led the pledge of allegiance tonight. and republican candidates faced off today in new hampshire. there were just two days left under the stays holds its primary. now back to our msnbc special. camden, arkansas, august 2006. >> okay. you know i didnt do it. i dont know who did. >> 12 years old thomas codville becomes talking to himself alone in an interrogation room after police tell him hes responsible for the murder of his 11-year-old sister ca...

Interviewed by msnbc. >> a parent should not be able to give up your rights, especially when shes the only other person that could have done it. >> even worse for thomas, hes giving investigators information thats starting to work against him, like details of a game he played with caylee, using handcuffs made of yarn. >> could you have been in a room since mama was in bed and you all decided to play and tie each other up? >> no, i dont tie her up with leashes. >> buttic have been in there and sa...

>> im going in circles. theres nothing else i can think about, but there had to be somebody else that had to get in there. but the cops kept saying that wasnt the case. >> let me ask you this, could it have been an accident? im not saying that you killed her. >> look, its a possibility that it could have been an accident and i dont remember it, okay? >> okay. >> i dont remember killing her. >> the interrogation is taking a critical turn. >> im starting to be convinced that maybe i just dont reme...

Hes around, any other child our young person. >> at a certain point, detectives excuse themselves and leave melody alone. when they do, the camera picks up a faint sound from another room. >> how are you doing? im not -- >> you heard the words from a male voice, thomas, im not going to ask you -- and it fades off, and i think the next word is "again." its about at that point that thomas says that he decided that it was time to go ahead and tell them what they wanted to hear. >> after i get throu...

>> thomas now waits to bring his mother into the investigation room. he tells hell confess under one condition. he wants to do it privately. the investigators leave the room, but the camera continues to roll. >> mom -- [ whispering. ] >> i when i terr theyll find out tomorrow my prints are not on the bag or anything. >> the officer testified he told thomas that the fingerprints from the person who killed caylee would be on the bag at a certain angle. well, thomas was smart enough to know that he...

Specific. questioning thomas about the circumstances surrounding caylees death. thomas recalls being woken up by his mother sometime before noon, and told to company her to caylees room to deliver a letter from a friend. >> my mom woke me up and said lets go find caylee. she was like that. >> just like what? >> she was tied up with bags over her head, and my mom ripped off the bags, and i went around to her other side, and she was all cold and blue. >> her hands and feet her tied. >> how were th...

Ability to record it. >> while thomas eats, melody jones replaces her son in the interrogation room. >> were you in any way involved in the death of your daughter? >> know, sir. i wouldnt hurt her like that. i dont even like spank them. i wouldnt do that. i never would hurt thomas, either. >> when you watch that tape, whenever you get past thomas wouldnt hurt his sister, then generally speaking you get some tears followed by something derogatory or negative about thomas. that he blows up, hes on...