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This animal killed twice before. he knows how to kill. he attacked, he killed her. he took her down to the windows underwater and showed her body to the people below eating dinner. it took 40 minutes to get her away from him. they had to take him over to the med pool which has a false bottom, lift him out of the water and pry her out of his mouth. because she was a trophy. that's why. that was an attack. happy animals -- happy animals don't kill trainers. >> it is hard to talk about what has happened here in that context certainly. jack, what about what russ is saying? let me ask you the quest...

Position to be in with an animal like him. so i think -- i think even if dawn was sitting here with me right now, she would tell you that was a mistake she made. >> reporter: remember, tilikum had killed before. in 1991 he and other two other whales pulled a trainer who fell into the pool underwater in a park in british columbia. that's why seaworld was more cautious with him. trainers were not allowed to swim with tilikum. >> he's not used to people being in the water. he was laying there looking at her. she was rubbing him down. all of a sudden the ponytail was there. >> reporter: on this vi...

I screamed and she screamed. i started yelling to the other trainer because he wasn't looking. i said, he took her down. he took her down. >> reporter: earlier reports suggested the whale had grabbed brancheau's waist, but today, seaworld set the record straight. >> our best analysis at this point is he grabbed her ponytail. >> reporter: look closely at this video. you can see brancheau's long ponytail swinging back and forth. but it may not have looked attractive to this six-ton killer whale until she got closer. the man who trained her said she made a fatal mistake. >> i think she made a mis...

The orcas in the wild throwing and playing with their prey. is this what you think -- you can see the video right there i think, russ. is this what you think was happening here or do you think something else? do you think he just snapped? >> no, this was an attack. this animal's killed twice before. he knows how to kill. he attacked, he killed her. he took her down to the windows underwater and showed her body to the people below eating dinner. it took 40 minutes to get her away from him. they had to take him over to the med pool which has a false bottom, lift him out of the water and pry her ...

Animal that won't be punished. one former trainer speaking out saying the victim made a deadly error in judgment. up close tonight, here's randi kaye. >> reporter: you're looking at video of seaworld trainer dawn brandcheau. a tourist taped this. it was just moments before the 12,000 pound killer whale, called tilikum, took the veteran trainer into his mouth and dove under water. brandcheau sways from side to side. he follows. she splashes him with buckets of water and feeds him fish. a reward for playing along. then suddenly his behavior seemed to change. the wife of the tourist who took this...