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Using second-degree murder what about the fact the attorney says he was flagged to her mental state. you heard her father talk about how she was in and out of some mental hospital, flagged because she had no emotion when she was told that she killed four people. >> yeah. quite frankly any of us that have been prosecutors or in law enforcement we've dealt with what we call edps, emotionally disturbed people, that typically quite honestly is one of those responses that flat affect. again, i think this investigation will uncover a lot of details of this woman. we've now heard from her family sayi...

Exhilarating. there were moments of terror, you know, it ran its course. >> why would it be terrifying? >> oh, i was still in denial that i even did it at times. >> you're seeing this happening. >> well, i'm trying to also remember what came after as far as -- >> right. i'm watching. you're seeing this event happening and you're reliving this, right? trying to figure out. >> yeah. i can play back the videotape. >> of course, you can. almost 20 years later. >> yeah. i have no doubt you can play it back. >> yeah. >> this is part of the reliving process for him is this ability to play back these ...

The man who killed kevin rice. >> vincent holmes, he was a street kid. late teens. he was friends with william buck, hung out at the auburn manor apartment complex. really had a flat affect, borderline functioning intellectually. just a street kid with really no purpose in life. >> not surprisingly, when holmes was questioned, he pointed the finger at william buck. this created a problem. could forensics prove who pulled the trigger? several residents at the auburn manor apartments saw william buck and vincent holmes together on the night of the murder. they were outside the apartment drinking...

Would have seriously altered his mental state. >> i don't even recall it. i was a zombie mentally. i was no telling where. >> juries look at defendants. they look at their eyes, they look at the way that they respond to evidence that comes in. i believe the flat affect, which really was caused by these drugs, certainly led the jury to believe that earnest willis was a cold-blooded killer. coming up, will ernest willis win his freedom after 17 years on death row? the evidence says yes. but will a judge agree? >> it's still a little unnerving because anything could happen. you can get a $1,000...

Murder. he implicated his friend, 19-year-old vincent holmes, as the man who killed kevin rice. >> vincent holmes was a street kid, late teens. he was friends with william buck, hung out at the auburn manor apartment complex. really had a flat affect, borderline functioning intellectually. just a street kid with really no purpose in life. >> not surprisingly, when holmes was questioned, he pointed the finger at william buck. this created a problem. could forensics prove who pulled the trigger? several residents at the auburn manor apartments saw william buck and vincent holmes together on the ...