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Was almost like seeing some old friend. 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...

In the dark, alone with a monster. >> hurm called an eyewitness 17-year-old glen gurley to the stand. gurley testified that she saw teresa talking to duckett. 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. >...

Contrary to what i promised myself i wouldnt do, i said im going to look more into this. im not a bleeding heart. i dont fall for people saying im not guilty. ive heard it all in 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...

Did you tell them about it? 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...

Hired and mentored duckett held fast in his belief that investigators were focusing on the wrong man. >> my confidence in him hadnt 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 on 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? youre not telling me the truth. >> yes, sir. >> no, youre not. >> he was arrested and...

>> as a matter of fact, i never offered her any deal whatsoever. >> after learning that gwen gurley had recanted her testimony, marshal also found that duckett had an alibi. >> he told me he could never have been there at the murder because he got a call at the jiffy stop, another convenience store, and went over there around the time the little girl was murdered. he jotted everything down in his little spiral, the traffic stop, activity. >> the notebook has her information in it that i wrote do...

>> 11-year-old was killed. that is tragic, murder should never have happened. but you dont have the smoking gun. you dont have what a lot of people demand in a case. >> from a legal point of view, he really should never have been convicted. it is a good thing that he was because there would probably be other dead kids out there. >> you know im not a fry them all, fry them sooner, that sort of thing. i feel the weight of the state deciding to take someones life. but, if the death penalty is appro...

Monster. >> herm called an eyewitness, 17-year-old glenn gurley, to the stand. she testified on the night of the murder she talked to duckett, moments later she saw duckett leave the scene with a small person in his police car. >> you saw him at the time when he turned the corner? >> yes. >> you did 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. >> th...

Offered her any deal whatsoever. >> after learning that gwen gurl le had recovered her testify, marshall discovered that she had an alibi, an alibi the jury had never heard. >> he will 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 not...

Carrying a lime green bag with a stuffed animal inside the night she disappeared. >> i got a call one day from ducketts wife out of the blue, and she says mr. herm, i think jimmy might have had something to do with that case, i said why do you say that? she says because i remember him coming home with a little bag with a little stuffed animal. and she says the reason i remembered it was i was mad at him, because we had two boys and i said why wouldnt you bring two toys because you know they will...