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Williams stood trial for the murder of earon harper and the attempted murder of little erica. whatever the verdict, one man would not be there to hear it. for harold harper, facing the defendants was simply too much to bear. >> i couldnt look them in the eye without rage. and i was just afraid that i would mess everything up. >> it was an emotional trial. co-prosecutor mark baker, with two young daughters himself, cried in his opening statement. >> once you determine theres still life in that li...

The west coast of the state. now back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline." im craig melvin. investigators had more questions than answers in the murder of stephen watkins. but one thing they knew for sure, the shooting took place inside the skinner household. how would they finally find out who pulled the trigger? we continue with "the mystery on horseshoe drive." >> we all lost our lives that night. you know, its not something you ever get over. >> on the tuesday evening before thanksgi...

President ignored intelligence that russia may have paid bounties to taliban terrorists to kill service members. >> it never reached my desk. >> the president denied that over and over and when pressed about it again in july. he said he did not raise the topic during a recent call with put zbln did you bring up this issue? >> no, that was phone call to discuss other things and, frankly, thats an issue that many people said was fake news. >> although, there continues to be disagreement within the...

She just thinks she can control anybody that she comes along with. >> when jennifer doesnt get her way, what happens? >> she throws a fit and life is miserable for everybody around. >> do you believe jennifer was just using stephen to get a child. now she had what she wanted, she had to get out? >> i think at the time she was probably hoping that it would work, hoping he would knuckle under and obey her, but i think later on she saw that that wasnt going to work. she knew she had her child and t...

For more than half a century, civil war actually slowed the pace of deforestation. but now remote tracts of land have opened up. farmers, loggers, and miners are scrambling for resources. colombia is now reportedly losing 3,000 square kilometres of forest every year. we are travelling to an area famous for its emerald mines, western boyaca. this is a bittersweet journey for me. this could be the last time that i could see this forest. if i come back in ten years, this forest could be gone. colom...

In 2016, the colombian government signed a peace deal with the farc rebels. for more than half a century, civil war actually slowed the pace of deforestation. but now remote tracts of land have opened up. farmers, loggers, and miners are scrambling for resources. colombia is now reportedly losing 3,000 square kilometres of forest every year. we are travelling to an area famous for its emerald mines, western boyaca. this is a bittersweet journey for me. this could be the last time that i could se...

>> any sign of life? >> no. >> it was stephen watkins, dead on the floor. a 9 millimeter glock handgun on a box several feet away. >> trying to get in my mind what happened, the ems personnel told me shirley made a statement to them that she had shot him. >> they reported to the chief that shirley had said a couple times is he dead? i shot him. he shouldnt have come back here. a stunning story, but this was secondhand information. from first responders quoting an elderly woman in the midst of a ...

Who would kill him? ultimately mike vujovich, then with the state attorneys appellate prosecutors office and sergeant kelly walter, now a colonel with the illinois state police took over the investigation. they focused on a key question, who pulled the trigger. the forensic evidence was no help. >> was the weapon tested for dna? >> it was. >> was anything found? >> nothing. >> no fingerprints on it at all? >> no fingerprints on it. >> were gun residue tests performed on the people inside that ho...

Shirleys hand. whats more, they learned shirley had been planning stephens murder for a while, by trying to find somebody to kill him. >> about a month or so before stephens execution, shirley approached two of her employees and offered them $10,000 to cap this guy who they identified as being steve watkins. >> cap this guy. this little old grandmother? >> yes. the one employee said he thought she was joking. at which point she said no, im serious, im serious. >> how did an elderly religious wom...

They can be relaxed and be themselves. and to have that taken away is certainly very difficult for all of us. >> you know, i know the fires are still doing, too dangerous to traverse the land to see whats left and how you rebuild from there, but what are you imagining in terms of how you go from here, what is next, will there be another camp okizu? >> the first answer is that we are determined that there will be another camp okizu. it is too important not to do that. it is fun for people there a...