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Linking them to the crime scene, but there was something investigators didnt like about them, especially damien. >> damien was kind of a smartass, and he -- and he was a big reader. >> mara leveritt is a journalist and author of "devils knot: the true story of the west memphis three." shes known damien and his story for years. >> he would say things to this -- to jerry driver, the juvenile officer, that played against drivers own concerns about the occult and satanic activity in the area. and da...

Heard after police responded. back here, the prosecution blew it in the george zimmerman trial, thats according to a new book which hit bookshelves this weekend. lisa bloom covered the trial, was, quote, astonished by what she witnessed but she says for her, none of it was a surprise. "suspicious nation," the inside story of the trayvon martin injustice and why we continue to repeat it. its a bestseller now. it takes the reader through what bloom says are the six biggest mistakes made by the s...

Surprise to neither the farmer nor to the reader. what i did was move that to the end and made it a surprise. >> oh, my god. its my father. >> i loved the screenplay. i loved the story. and i thought that was as good a role as i was going to get. maybe ever. it had such deep down anger. daddys little girl. all the things that were working against him unfairly. and yelling at a woman in a coma i think is not something youre going to get to do very often in a film. >> tell me again that im too out...

>> and she said, i wrote it in the mcdonalds section of a target on my 15-minute breaks from my job at an advertising agency. >> the key thing in adapting it was treating it as if it were a mystery. in the book, really on page 2 or 3, shoeless joe shows up. and the farmer says to him, my father used to play ball. could he come and play with you guys? and shoeless joe says yes, finish building the field and he can come with us. so two-thirds of the way through the book, the father shows up, a sur...

No prosecutor ever does that. they didnt put on expert witnesses who are begging to testify on the scientific evidence. they didnt prepare important witnesses. theres no excuse for that. in this case, this was a high-profile case of the they should have been more resources, not fewer. >> was it a pure case of incompetent, or was there some reason why they performed so poorly? >> thats the ultimate question. and i think i really want to leave that to the reader of my book to come to their own con...

Stand. so im eating and thats where this rumor throughout the state of california. yeah, he was burning this fool and this. they never found his eyeballs. theyre like, yeah, they ate his eyeball in some type of weird ritual. it got righteously out of proportion. >> where were his eyeballs? >> no, one eyeball -- we dont know. i have no clue. >> as a made man in the mexican mafia, knighten strove to become a well-rounded leader of the organization when he arrived in prison. >> as far as being able...

Came out and said that she has investments, which she does, in transcanada. if she were to become secretary of state, she would need to get rid of those because any involvement or vocal supporting or against it for transcanada could would, obviously, be a conflict of interest. and they were right about that. if he were right a that, this is also a conflict of interest. these guys would profit, their opposition would benefit them if it were not to be approved. martha: so whats next on this? i kno...

C, aoffensive lineman, defensive tackles, quarterbacks and cornerbacks are all working with united way. for a million little reasons. the kids of our communities. to ensure their academic success, all the way to graduation day. it takes about 12 years to create a graduate. it takes the same time to create a dropout. and the difference between a kid becoming one or the other could be professional athlete. or it could be you. studies show, the earlier we get to kids, the better their chances. so b...

Windows half an hour as the murder played out on the street down below. >> 40 years after the crime an rosenthal was still defending the papers controversial reporting. >> i never said nor did anybody at the new york times say there were 38 peering out of a window. it is a total of 38 and we took the intelligence of the reader to understand that. >> this crime had an impact on the community. >> what is wrong with kew gardens, what are the people like that would laet this happen. >> how did this ...

Murder played out on the street down below. >> 40 years after the crime an rosenthal was still defending the papers controversial reporting. >> i never said nor did anybody at the new york times say there were 38 peering out of a window. it is a total of 38 and we took the intelligence of the reader to understand that. >> this crime had an impact on the community. >> what is wrong with kew gardens, what are the people like that would laet this happen. >> how did this play around the country? the...