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Trial was district attorney johnmann. he was a larger than life figure. he wore big cowboy boots and had a deep, booming voice. and he was a very commanding presence in the courtroom. >> the forensic evidence at the scene was very damning. there was a lot of blood, bloody hand prints in the doorways leading to twylas sons bedroom were found to be mr. skinners hand prints, his fingerprints. >> the front and the back of mr. skinner had blood that was consistent with twyla buzz bys. other bloodstai...

Belly. he had earphones in his ears and had a walkman there beside him, and he was dead. there was three wounds there. one went into the heart. and that was the death blow. >> for sheriff stubblefield, the grizzly murders hit close to home. >> twyla and her sons, i had known them through church. twylas kids were special needs kids. they were gods kids. even though they looked like grown men, mentally they were not. it was hard to take for everybody. >> the door that leads to the outside, i belie...

For aggravated assault and one for injury to a child. and his response was, is that all? >> skinner was charged with three counts of murder. he would face the death penalty. >> the family will never be the same. twyla thought she was in love. the police department, they apparently couldnt figure out a way to get him when they was told he was there. theyve got him now. >> local attorney harold comber was appointed to defend skinner. >> people feel offended in this kind of town when something like...

Going to head down there. >> happy 1994! >> police discovered 22-year-old scooter kaler on his neighbors front porch with knife wounds to his torso, kaler died shortly after reaching the hospital. police followed a blood trail to the home where scooter lived with his brother randy and mother twyla. >> blood smear on the glass of the front door. >> when i walked in, first thing i saw was a female laying on the floor there. and shes on her back. her face was beaten off of her, an ax handle. >> blo...

Going to have to let you go. >> one month after the nancy grace show john mann changed his mind about the dna. >> he decided on his own to do some dna testing but he did it without the involvement of the defense. he boxed up some items and sent them off for testing and told the lab what to test. >> the first items mann sent for testing included a set of human hairs found in twilas hands. >> and the mitochondrial dna on those hairs comes back to twila busbys mitochondrial line. >> this meant the ...

>> i want the world to know that im not a murderer. that means more than anything to me because ive still got family that are being -- you know, theyre suffering because of this. why would i kill her? i loved her more than anything in this world. i mean, and not only that, but scooter and randy, why kill them? you cant find a single person that truthfully will tell you that skinner never laid a hand on them. >> one of the things that struck me in talking to him was that there was a likely altern...

Was. >> who do you think killed the kids? >> uncle bob. >> why? >> he was jealous of hank living in twylas house. >> the people that saw hank skinner that night didnt believe hank did it. they saw the condition hank was in. and they didnt believe that he could possibly do it. >> it was new years eve and we were all having a good time together, me and twyla and her sons. later on in the evening we called a friend of ours, mitchell, to come pick us up and take us to his new years eve party. >> whe...

Bloody palm prints found on the wall matched hanks dna. >> the cut was on his palm. if your hand is slick with the victims blood all over the handle your hand is going to slide down onto the blade of the knife. >> the person who stabbed caler almost certainly had calers blood on his own hands. if that assailant was mr. skinner whose own right hand is bleeding by the time he leaves the house, there should be mixtures of mr. taylors blood and mr. skinners blood. we dont find that. theres only mr. ...