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Murder in Mexico Falcon Lake-20140105-05:45:00

of mistaken identity based on the tactical intelligence i've seen surrounding the case. >> the most likely scenario is, david and tiffany hartley had wandered into a drug war and were mistaken as the enemy. >> reporter: zapata county sheriff siggy gonzalez believes the hartleys not only wandered into a war but had arrived on the mexican side of falcon lake at the exact moment a cartel was about to move a large amount of marijuana. up on a bluff, the spotters, his sources told him, caught the first glimpse of a possible glitch in the drug deal. >> that area is an area that's notorious for crossing or storing of thousands of pounds of marijuana. we've known that for a long time. that information is information that i have relayed to federal officials, you know, i mean, local, state officials. we're all aware that that area is used as an area that they

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Murder in Mexico Falcon Lake-20140105-02:44:00

former intelligence official fred burton has been studying a turf war in mexico between two drug cartels. a former band of military guards called the zetas and the more traditional gulf coast cartel. >> what most people don't realize when you're looking at the border is that there are certain portions that are not controlled by the mexican government. and the area of falcon lake was directly controlled by the zetas, and this was a very strong smuggling corridor for them. >> reporter: so you believe this was mistaken identity? >> clearly, all evidence indicates that this was a case of mistaken identity base on the tactical intelligence i've seen surrounding the case. >> the most likely scenario is, david and tiffany hartley had wandered into a drug war and were mistaken as the enemy. >> reporter: zapata county sheriff siggy gonzalez believes the hartleys not only wandered into a war but arrive on the mexican side of falcon lake at the exact moment a cartel was about to move a large amount of marijuana. up on a bluff, the spotters, his sources told him, caught the

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CNN Presents-20140105-06:43:00

him for at least six months because he's a very cagy individual. if he senses one thing wrong, he goes into his shell like a turtle and you'll never get him back out once he's in. >> but keene didn't have time wait. he needed to get home to his ailing father. so hours after becoming a springfield inmate, he spotted larry hall and made his first move. >> i made it a point for us to bump shoulders together. as we gently bumped shoulders together, i turned around, excuse me, listen, i'm new here. you wouldn't happen to know where the library is, would you? >> hall offered to show keene the way. >> i just reached over and kind of slapped him on the shoulder and said, thanks a lot, i appreciate that from a cool guy like you. >> over the next week, keene watched hall's every move from his cell across the hall. >> and i walked to him and i says, hey, this is where i'm at. are you in this area here? he goes, yeah. i'm right there. you know, he bugs his eyes out of his head. i said, that's great. i said, you're right by me. i said, you know what, i told you you're a cool guy and i'm glad you're by me and all this and that. that's when he basically offered sometime if i'd ever want to have breakfast with him and his friends. >> keene was making progress, slowly gaining hall's trust. but life at springfield was

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140105:16:17:00

realistic fear these days? >> it depends on who you are. it was interesting because it shows how far we've come in two years, which is that he came out in a memoir. there was a publicist coordinating the rollout. it was treated like a major, major announcement. this time it wasn't quite ellen degeneres on the cover of "time" magazine, but it was still treated with great car and it shows how much the country has evolved. one last thing i want to say about duck dynasty is half of on our country still oppose easy gay marriage. but 59% of americans say they have no problem with gay relationships. they find them morally acceptable. so we've moved a lot. i think if you're an anchor in the deep south in a really conservative area, it could still be a problem. >> so if possible, sam champion, he came out. i don't know if gma is still number one or not, but is it

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140105:05:40:00

bunch of soap at me. at first i was confused. i was like did that really just happen? i didn't know what to do. i was like dude, what the heck is going on. he's like, it's not gay, it's just jailing. >> i said, hey, if we all share a shower, it will save water, it's just jailing. and that was what it was. and he wrote a kite saying i made him feel uncomfortable. and i was so angry because they were joking before i got up there, him and another inmate, about oops he dropped the soap before i even got up there. it is just the horseplay that goes on when you're in an all male facility in an area like that. >> the second time he came over, he is like hey, we are in the shower together again and all this. then he started talking about the jail wants us to save money, so we should shower together and use the same soap and same towel. at that point i was like, this is ridiculous.

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Murder in Mexico Falcon Lake-20140105-08:35:00

viewed as either working for another cartel or a possible informant for a government agency. >> this is the boat ramp. this is the area where she -- where she came to seek help. >> reporter: sheriff siggy gonzalez now trying to investigate a crime in another country was fending off calls from reporters asking if the hartleys themselves were drug runners or if david hartley was working with the cartel. speculation began to swirl that tiffany hartley killed her husband for insurance money or even that tiffany hartley was seeing another man. >> people still have a hard time believing you. does that hurt you? >> some days. other days -- they don't have room to judge. i mean, they don't know me. they don't know my husband. they weren't there that day. so really they have no room to judge me.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140105:01:25:00

of snow. as he lays stunned, the wrecked truck comes dangerously close to landing on top of him. >> my intention was to get up and over the guardrail where it was a safer area, but with the pain and everything else, i just couldn't move a bit. i was expecting that that's where it was all going to end, was right there. lying there, you start thinking about a lot of things. your family comes into your mind right away. wondering if you're ever going to see them again. >> seconds later, officer ward rushes toward him and screams for help. >> i started yelling for the other firefighters, and initially got ahold of the on-scene chief. notified him that the captain had been hit. >> as i lay there, i remember a police officer coming up to me and yelling, don't move, don't move, i'll get you some help. and some time shortly after that, i had firefighter nick harrison, firefighter tony jolly came over to my aid and between

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140105:01:54:00

>> auburn, washington, is a small blue collar city located 26 miles south of seattle. the area has traditionally been home to a number of farms but has become more cosmopolitan in recent years. in 2011, the combination of city and country living leads to one very bizarre night for the police department. sergeant john thorton is a 22-year veteran of the force and is on duty just before midnight as august 6th turns to the 7th. >> we had a typical saturday night. officers are going to theft calls or unwanted persons. >> in the normal call log is a report of an animal loose in the town which, at first, seems routine. >> people will call about stray cat or found a stray dog or there's a dog, you know, running down the street.

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Murder in Mexico Falcon Lake-20140105-02:06:00

one last big ride on their jet skis before they come back to colorado, and colorado doesn't have the water, what they have around there. so, yeah. one last time to have a good time. >> reporter: it is a two-hour drive to falcon lake from mccallon. a trip documented by a traffic stop halfway there in a town called rio grande city. something to the police looked suspicious. >> right, right. >> reporter: it looked like somebody might be steeling some jet skis. >> the trailer had expired tags. troopers let them go with just a warning, but this videotape would become part of the evidence for what was about to happen. >> you come to any strange area in the united states, mexico border, and you go to sightseeing, you're a tourist, stop in and talk to the locals. you know?

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Presumed-20140105-01:11:00

three little boys missing in west memphis, arkansas. their families frantically searching a wooded area near their homes. pam hobbs and her husband, terry, among them. but pam held little hope for her son stevie branch. >> i told terry, i said, he's dead. i said, i'll never see him alive again, and i was crying. and he said, no, pam, don't say that. it's going to be all right. we're going to find him. >> terry hobbs was right. they did find stevie. but pam was right, too. she'd never see her son alive again. a shoe. two bikes. and stevie branch with his two friends, christopher byers and michael moore. the boys were nude and bound with their own shoelaces. >> i run up there and one look at my ex-husband and i knew it was stevie and i hit the ground screaming, god, no.

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