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Dosy -- dorsey's purported sexual misconduct, cash for conduct, bribery scheme and the personal use of his inmates and deputies. dorsey continued to defend himself. >> the only thing i can say to you and the world is that sidney dorsey is innocent of all of these accusations. there is no corruption in the dekalb county sheriff's office. those accusations are completely and totally false. >> and brown continued to plan for change. >> his main concern was cleaning up the jail, making sure that the programs that were in place were actually going to benefit the people that they were designed to se...

By a stunning turn of events. >> the investigation was dead in the water. >> it was a mystery with more twists and turns. >> did you do it? >> did you do it? >> than a detective novel. >> i said, this whole thing is not real. this is not even happening. >> there was the most remarkable murder case that i can remember. >> in this hour, who shot the sheriff and why? people seemed easily drawn to derwin brown. >> he was a man who was unafraid, honest, caring, and was concerned about more than himself and his family. >> brown was raised on new york's long island. >> he was the best brother you cou...

>> now, the irony of all of this is that there's a shootout at cuffy's house and cuffy is being prosecuted for something totally unrelated to the murder and that's when he wants to come talk to us. >> j. tom morgan went in the back room. cuffy went into the back room. cuffy's attorney went into the back room. and the hearing was delayed. and several hours later, cuffy flipped. >> prosecutors agreed not to charge cuffy and another former deputy sheriff, paul skyers, in return for their testimony against dorsey and two others. >> mr. dorsey, did you have anything to do with this? >> the day afte...

Brother in blue, be it that he was a political adversary or not. >> derwin's own family was mystified. >> do you have any idea who did this? >> no. >> any suspects in your mind? >> no. ♪ >> more than 4,000 people attended derwin brown's funeral. brown's wife and five children watched as hundreds of officers passed by the flag-draped coffin. michael brown is the son who saw his father in the driveway the moment before he died. >> because i know he's watching and i know he can hear me. and i love you, dad. >> do you swear or affirm -- >> on january 1st, 2001, thomas brown, no relation to derwi...

Derwin brown was assassinated to pave the way for sidney dorsey's comeback. the four co-conspirators, he said, were all promised promotions for killing brown. >> it was a very demented understanding and very irrational. but he believed that there would be a special election in which he could retake his office. >> full weight of the evidence against these two guys brought in the conspiracy that sid dorsey ordered it, brought in patrick cuffy, who was their star witness. and presented a case that i thought was a slam-dunk against these two guys. >> but it was not a slam-dunk to the jury. >> we, ...