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Been shaken. i was of the opinion that the truth is going to come out. he is going to be exonerated as a suspect. were going to get to business and find out who murdered this child. >> last time i seen her she turned the corner and was headed home. >> do you want to know something? >> yes, sir. >> youre not telling me the truth. >> yes, sir. >> no, youre not. >> james duckett was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. ducketts trial began on april 25th, 1988. assistant state attorney ste...

>> according to the defense, ducketts police notebook from the night of murder contained his alibi. >> the notebook should have been in the trial record. and it is not. the jury never sees it. and when you see it, when you look at it, you go, theres evidence right here. >> beth faxed me copies of those pages. i looked at them. and that began to give me some doubts. i could be wrong all along.

He was so happy to see me. >> i believe it was on fathers day he showed up here. and i thought we had a good conversation. ate a hamburger, had a soda. we talked about the case and this and that. >> i asked him about the three girls and he said that never happened. it was all a lie. well, i dont know those girls but i didnt believe him when he said that. because if one said it, maybe its a lie. but all three, independently of each other its not likely they were all lying. but that didnt prove an...

He said, no. i said, why not? and then he said, you know, i dont know why i didnt tell them that. >> i didnt even think about it as far as being an alibi. i never even thought about the notebook during trial. never even dawned on me. >> the blood seeped from my head. i felt cold. someone is questioning you and you have an alibi for where you were at the time of a murder somewhere and you dont tell authorities that alibi. thats for a reason. the reason has to be, there is no alibi. i knew then th...

Theyre not guilty because i heard it all my career. i put a lot of people in jail for murder. i dont think i was ever wrong. so i pull out all the files. i read every report. when i started assembling all the evidence, it is like a mosaic. you get a little piece of this tile, a little piece of that tile, a little piece of that tile, you put it all together and you get a picture. and the picture was innocent. put your hand over your heart. is it beating? good! then my nutrition heart health mix i...

Disappeared. >> i got call one day from ducketts wife out of the blue, and she said, mr. hurm, i think jimmy may have had something to do with that case. i say why do you say that? she said, because i remember him coming home with a bag with a little stuffed animal and she said, the reason i remember it is i was mad at him because we had two boys and i said why wouldnt you bring two toys because you know theyll fight over it. i get goose bumps thinking about this. >> police never charge duckett ...

Discovered that ducat had an alibi for the time of theresas murder, an alibi that the jury had never heard. >> he told me he could not have been there at the murder because he got a call from the jiffy stop, another convenience store in a different part of town. so he went over there around the time the little girl was being murdered. he jotted everything down in his little spiral log book. time, activity, traffic stop. >> the notebook has her information in it. that i wrote down that night. >> ...

Alright. huh, hm, ohh... monster? she seemed so nice at dinner. im back! ahh! uhh... whatcha doing? ohh, just... watchin law & order. awww, youre nervous. thats so cute. call and upgrade to get x1 today. ♪ marshall frank had become convinced that james duckett was in fact guilty of murdering teresa mcabee. and he soon learned that duckett was the prime suspect in the murder of another girl named jennifer weldon. >> the evidence that i learned about the jennifer weldon murder was stronger tha...

Gurley testified that she saw theresa talking to ducat. moments later she saw duckett leave the scene with a small person in his police car. >> were you able to see the car? >> yes. >> were you able to see inside the car? >> yes. >> how many people did you see? >> two. >> prosecutors also called three women who each testified that officer duckett had made sexual advances while he was on duty. >> they were all accosted by duckett when he was on duty in uniform in his patrol car on the midnight sh...

A pubic hair, nothing that he can even say the pubic hair belonged to james duckett. gwen, her truthfulness is in doubt. >> weve been doing this a long time. hopefully we wont be doing it much longer, you know. hell be out and not needing an attorney. >> in the meantime, ducketts appeals had left teresas mother in limbo. >> i just want justice for my daughter. thats what i want. 26 years. im tired. i dont think ill ever have closure. because he is not going to admit it. >> these years looking ba...