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A real estate investor in wisconsin buys a home brimming with clutter but has no idea what lies beneath. >> it was a crap shoot as far as what was underneath everything. >> october 2010 in bloomfield, wisconsin. rick schaeffer purchases a home in foreclosure in a remote lakefront community. >> it's a bunch of old cottages that get converted into homes. kind of in the middle of nowhere. >> not much is known about the previous owner. but for schaeffer the price is right even though the house appears to be in shambles. >> i've seen people save things and collect things. but i think in this case, ...

Stand. >> they are hearsay witnesses. >> it is not a crap shoot. >> and there is something called for forfeiture by wrong doing. let me tell you this. the reason here hearsay is admissible is because if you precommit a crime to prevent someone from testifying. for example from you stopped kathleen savio from testifying at the divorce settlement you can't say everything that she said doesn't come in. and if you stopped stacy peterson from testifying that drew said x, y, z by murdering her -- >> well, stated, judge. even if the physical evidence is lacking if the jury believes some of the circum...

he was bailed out almost immediately. they continued an investigation. what police discovered was disturbing. you mentioned the suicide of his son, his 14-year-old son which occurred back in march and followed some relatively minor disciplinary action at the school. following that suicide police say it really set off the father and changed things. they discovered these e-mails that he sent to himself an his wife that describes some very, very disturbing plots at the high school. >> he appeared to be very serious about all this. he was clearly starting fires and working on burning the...

Evidence. you talk to lawyers following this case, they say this can cut two ways. first of all, you have a lot of people in the penn state community who are angry at jerry sandusky for besmerching the good name of the school through this scandal and joe paterno, the legendary coach who died earlier this year. on the other hand, all the defense needs is one juror who associates jerry sandusky with joe paterno, who associates jerry sandusky with the great days of the penn state football program and that may be all they need to prevent a conviction here. so, it's really a crap shoot as to how th...

>> we're minutes from being told the verdict. i'm just at the instructions and how this will play out. you know this much better than i. with your legal background. thumbing through these papers, this will not be a guilty/not guilty move on. this is very complicated down by down here. >> yeah. and there's no, like you said, there is no quick answer. he has to be concerned at least through counts two, three, four, and five that by hearing not guilty on count two, that he is safe on the other counts, too. they're all distinct charges. the four four they'll decide on stand or fall separately. i t...