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we weren't together that long. literally just a couple of months. so it wasn't something i was planning on going forward with. >> still, as ackerman awaits his murder trial in jail, he writes love poems. >> it's called my wondering love for her. so here i am wondering if i will ever see the light of day because i have this love for her that will never go away. but not that day, all she did was be crazy and run away and i will never leave again and i will -- and i will -- and i love you so, so much, man. so much. so much that i -- that i want to stay. so now it is our very lucky day. i love rosanna so much. i'm saying i spent my days thinking about her, what we should do, what we can do. i wish that i could write her but she don't write back.
this is when he was 16. when i look at the photograph, it just makes me think of the good times that we've had together. he's funny. he's always -- he's always making me laugh. and that's what i miss most about him. >> since they were arrested, dimauro has seen link only once during a court hearing. >> when i went to court, my son david did a heart motion. like this. he put his hands like this in a heart shape and he said that he loved me. he couldn't speak out loud but he motioned his lips i love you. it made me just burst out crying. >> link has accepted a plea deal for his role in the murder and could be called to testify against his mother and ackerman. >> i don't really want to testify against no one but i've always been a firm believer that the truth will set you free and everything. this whole entire crime was way against my morals. so the easiest way for me to fight that in my mind was just tell them the truth about exactly what happened.
brewer was giving dimauro. >> the whole time he had his shirt off showing off his tattoos off to all the guys and then he was showing them off to me. >> would you describe kasey as a jealous person? >> yeah. >> dimauro claims that not long after brewer's arrival, she went out for the evening. >> next thing i know, the police were knocking on the door in the morning and i answered the door. when i answered the door, they said that we need to come in for questioning for murder. and i was really surprised. and i was like where? who? who got murdered? >> prosecutors say dimauro not only knew about the murder but helped to clean up the blood and covered for some of her roommates who committed the murder. if convicted, ackerman, the alleged ringleader could face the death penalty. but he says he had nothing to do with it. >> we were drinking and i'm saying we were doing pills, smoking pot, just different stuff inside the apartment, and i fell asleep on the couch watching a movie.
no, i shouldn't say that. >> she'll be all right. >> i don't believe he did it. i believe maybe he participated in it maybe like after the fact but actually like they say how he stabbed a man, how he broke his skull. how he put him in this bag, no. he probably helped put him in the dumpster but he did not do -- he's not the ringleader. i know he's not the ringleader. never. >> coming up -- >> good morning. >> rosanna dimauro takes a turn for the worse. >> i have a little bit of a concern about her. i think she needs to be evaluated. >> while her son dreams of a brighter future. >> my dream i guess would be to be big with music or sit there and become an actor. in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behind. i faced reminders of my hep c every day. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. even hanging with friends i worried about my hep c.
at age 20 he is 18 years her junior. >> i'm implicated as the alpha dog of the house. i was the man of the household. they're saying that i was the ringleader, saying i was the one that was over it all, i planned it. i made everybody do it. >> ackerman is currently less than 100 yards away from his former girlfriend in the men's confinement unit. he has pled not guilty to murdering 26-year-old robert brewer. brewer was living on the streets of tampa when he became friends with some of dimauro's other male roommates and was invited back to the apartment for dinner. >> i was thinking, oh, no, not another freeloader around here. >> prosecutors say ackerman grew angry because of the attention
any murder, multimurder suspects, they will make our board. this is an interesting case. you have an older female who is dating a younger male who is friends with her son, and they are now locked up in our facility awaiting trial. >> ackerman, who prosecutors say was the ringleader of the murder, has been held in the men's lockdown unit where he has been confined to his cell 23 hours a day since he entered. that was eight months earlier. >> the finger's been pointed. you know what i'm saying? i've been implicated in it. this is where i got to sit. >> thoughts of dimauro help occupy his time. >> this is rosana sitting on the back of her mom's couch in her mom's house. that's her on the beach of the coast of california. she took that part of my heart. just something you know that i'll never be able to let go. >> but dimauro doesn't share ackerman's passion. >> it wasn't intended on being a relationship. it was intended on being a one-night thing.
happening. at one point kasey came out and i was trying to ask what was going on, he was like you don't need to worry about it. he said it's better if you don't know. >> link said that ackerman ordered him to buy some gasoline and bring it back to the apartment. when he returned, things had gotten much worse. >> he had stab wounds in his neck and his chest and then later on after that i witnessed them stabbing him and they had taken off his clothes. and at that point kind of everything hit me what they were doing. >> link says he assumed the gasoline would be used to burn brewer's clothes, but instead he claims ackerman and their two other male roommates stuffed brewer inside a duffel bag and carried him out to the dumpster. >> i thought he was dead because he wasn't moving, wasn't doing nothing but the duffel bag was moving in and out and kasey was starting to pour the gasoline on him. and i kind of just -- i couldn't -- i was just kind of stuck at that moment. i didn't know what to do. i was kind of just taken aback
i mean, i didn't hear no commotion or nothing going on. >> if ackerman and dimauro are found guilty, it may be due in part to the testimony of dimauro 19-year-old son david link. he's accepted a plea deal for his part in the murder and is cooperating with the prosecutors. >> i'm gettking charged with accessory after the fact to first degree murder. and they're going to give me 34.5 months followed by 5 years' probation. i told them everything i knew from my perception, everything i saw happen in order for them to know what happened. i feel like i did the right thing. >> link is in a separate housing unit at the hillsborough county jail where he will serve out his sentence. he told prosecutors his mother was not out as she claimed but was in the apartment during the entire ordeal and that ackerman initiated the attack after the victim fell asleep in the bedroom. >> i just heard some banging around. i didn't know exactly what was
shirt off, showing his tattoos off to all the guys and then he was showing them off to me. >> would you describe kasey as a jealous person? >> yeah. >> dimauro claims that not long after brewer's arrival, she went out for the evening. >> next thing i know, the police were knocking at the door in the morning, and i answered the door. when i answered the door, they said that we need to come in for questioning for murder. and i was really surprised. and i was like where? who? who got murdered? >> prosecutors say dimauro not only knew about the murder but helped to clean up the blood afterwards, and then covered for some of here roommates who committed the murder. if convicted, ackerman, the alleged ringleader could face the death penalty. but he says he had nothing to do with it. >> we were drinking and i'm saying we were doing pills, smoking pot, just different stuff inside the apartment, and i fell asleep on the couch watching a movie.
initiated the attack after the victim fell asleep in the bedroom. >> i just heard some banging around. i didn't know exactly what was happening. at one point kasey came out and i was trying to ask what was going on, he was like you don't need to know about it. he said it's better if you don't know. >> link said that ackerman ordered him to buy gasoline and bring it back to the apartment. when he returned, things were worse. >> he had stab wounds in his neck and his chest and then later on after that i witnessed them stabbing him and they had taken all of his clothes. and at that point everything just kind of hit me what they were doing. >> link says he assumed the gasoline would be used to burn brewer's clothes, but instead he claims ackerman and their two other male roommates stuffed brewer inside a duffel bag and stuffed him in a dumpster. >> i thought he was dead because he wasn't moving, he wasn't doing nothing. but then i looked in the duffel bag, and it was moving, in and out. and kasey was starting to pour the gasoline on him. and i kind of just -- i couldn't -- i was just kind of stuck at that moment.