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>> welcome to adulthood, right? >> yep. >> did you learn anything from that experience? >> yes, i did. >> what did you learn? >> i don't ever want to go back to prison again. >> so what are you going to do to make that doesn't happen? >> hopefully when i -- if i do get released today, take my ged, go to the interview with the iron workers union. if i get the job at the iron workers union, save up my money and do what i have to do to do what every other person does. works every day, start a family. >> is that a possibility? >> yes, it is. >> mr. elkins, i've read your report. the recommendation is he be given credit for time he served and that he be released today. are you agreement with the recommendation here made by the probation officer? >> judge, it really bothers me that this young man is sitting here today. he's had numerous services offered to him by this court. he's 18. he has no education. he has an adult record in another state.
>> yep. >> did you learn anything from that experience? >> yes, i sglid what did you learn. >> i don't want to go back to prison again. >> what are you going to do make sure that doesn't happen. >> hopefully if i do get released today, take my ged, go to do the interview with the ironworkers union and save up my money and do what i have to do to do what every other person does, works every day, start a family. >> is that a possibility? >> yes, it is. >> mr. elkins, i read your report. the recommendation is that he be given credit for time he served and that he be released today. are you in agreement with the recommendation here made by the probation officer? >> judge, it bothers me this young man is sitting here today. he's had numerous services offered to him by this court. he's 18. he has no education, he has an adult record in another state.
the 70-year-old retired plastics executive left no final note of explanation. after his suicide, investigators took a sample of howard elkins blood and sent it to lab corp, a north carolina dna testing facility. >> when we're testing for paternity, we look for shared dna bands between the child, or the fetus, and the alleged father. >> in the case of the fetus found in the drum, there were obstacles to overcome. the tissue samples from the fetus were very badly degraded after 30 years. a technique called polymerase chain reaction, or pcr, allowed scientists to amplify the existing dna, making an analysis possible. >> this is the dna banding pattern from the fetus. this is the dna banding pattern from mr. elkins.
that. >> the interview was interrupted by a phone call from elkins' wife. elkins asked the police to leave, saying he wanted to speak with her privately. >> i stood up and stood right in front of him. i said we're going to leave right now, mr. elkins. we're going to get a court order. we'll come back with that court order, and i'm going to take your blood and i'm going to match your blood up to the dead baby in that dead girl. and we're going to come back and arrest you for murder and put you in jail for the rest of his life. he nodded his head and opened the door and asked us to leave. >> as police left to get the court order, howard elkins left to go shopping. he purchased a shotgun and some ammunition. howard elkins was found inside a neighbor's garage by police and his own son. a shotgun between his legs, a fatal self-inflicted wound to his head.
at every region of the dna that we tested, the fetus and mr. elkins have a band in common. mr. elkins could not be excluded with a 99.93% probability of paternity. >> although the crime was solved, one mystery remained. the identity of the woman in the drum.
the small address book that had been submerged in the green liquid in the bottom of the drum was finally starting to tell a story. 30-year-old secrets on blank pages that were now readable with the latest in forensic technology. >> i kept looking through the book and on this page, on the second line, i found the name mr. elkins and the address in manhattan with a phone number. >> on another page, barely readable were the words -- a resident alien number. and the address and telephone number of someone named kathy andrade. investigators were surprised to learn that, after 30 years, she
mistake. >> mr. elkins. >> investigators believe that howard elkins lured reyna to the factory one night, shortly after she told elkins' wife about their affair, and elkins beat her to death. he then took the body to his suburban long island home, probably with the intention of dumping her into the ocean from his boat. he placed the body into a steel drum from work. to make sure it would sink to the bottom of the ocean, he weighted it with plastic pellets. but he miscalculated the weight of the drum after he sealed it. at 350 pounds, it was much too heavy to carry onto his boat. his only alternative was to push it into a crawl space in his
today, people thought that was over. i think these kinds of accusations and the elkins situation a couple of years ago are is like waking up, realizing maybe we thought this was buried before it was actually buried in terms of klan in law enforcement in the south. >> right. well, the police behavior across the country you didn't have to necessarily be in the klan. bull connor looked the other way when the freedom riders came through birmingham in 1961. he gave them 15 minutes to beat the heck out of the freedom riders -- black and white freedom riders. he maybe wasn't a klansman but his behavior was atrocious. he said beat them until it looks like a bulldog got ahold of them. >> that was 50 years ago this summer. all of them weren't klansmen. some looked the other way and let them do what they wanted to
chief of police." don, your reaction. >> my reaction is i think they are saying she's spinning, trying to make a bad situation look a little bit better. there is no documentation for her being under cover or for her husband being under cover. as you said, both police chiefs say it didn't happen. >> now, darryl, ann hunnewell described the kkk initiation right at the elkins home to the florida department of law enforcement. quote, once in the room a pillow case was placeded over their heads. as the ceremony began they were led into the living room and told to kneel. after a reading their pillow cases were removed from their heads and the ceremony was complete. it's really chilling to hear the ceremony described like this. are most people surprised,
campaign event a few days ago in tampa. that is an apparent violation of florida law. and there's this story. >> two veteran police officers are off the job this weekend because of their alleged involvement in the ku klux klan. >> according to a confidential fbi report, deputy chief david borst, who has since quit, and corporal george hunnewell, who has since been fired were associated with the klan. borst denies involvement with the kkk. the ex-wife of officer honnewell is saying she and her husband joined the kkk as part of an undercover operation, because, "they were trying to find out if another officer was a kkk member." she said that was in 2008. it turns out if 2009, another fruitland park officer was accused of having klan ties. that man, james elkins, quit the force after it was discovered he was a kkk recruiter. here's a picture reported to be of elkins in full klan get-up