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Courtroom, i was thinking in my head, 50/50 chance, this is the way it could go. >> there he was, the onetime delta airlines maintenance worker they'd had in their sights for years. yvonne, this is your first chance to really see him, huh? >> well -- you know, the -- the old saying, if -- if looks could kill, he would have been dead on the spot. >> dekalb county prosecutor john petrey had a daunting task ahead, the first case in georgia with no crime scene, no body. >> the absence of a body doesn't mean that you cannot prosecute a murder case. it does, of course, complicate it. >> but it was g...

And he actually punched me. and i somehow managed to connect with his thumb and i bit him. and then he recoiled because he was in pain bleeding. and his wife came running down the stairs behind him. she sees me. she says, what's going on? i said, gail, it's me, tammy singleton. he tried to rape me. and she breaks down into hysteria and is crying and -- and immediately he's like a chastised little boy. and she takes control -- >> so his demeanor -- >> of the situation. >> has changed again, huh? >> yeah, he -- and he's begging -- begging. she says, "butch, you've got problems. you need to get h...

An airline maintenance worker, when he wasn't umpiring at the softball field. you don't take these stories at face value, you go to this guy butch and say, "let's talk about saturday. what's your story? what were you doing that day?" >> so we did talk to him on april 4th. >> hinton told police he was aware shannon was missing. and he said nothing unusual happened during the game. still -- >> he had a number of inconsistencies that just didn't add up. >> hinton told different stories about where he was in the hours after shannon vanished, but he did say he went home soon after the game. sure en...

>> one of them remembered an eerie late night conversation. >> butch had waked up in the middle of the night and said, "i didn't do this. the demon inside of me killed that girl." and then went back to sleep. >> and yet, jailhouse snitches, as they're called, get a lot of side-eye. >> oh, yes, they do. >> what is -- what is this guy getting in exchange for sitting here, telling us a story? >> right, right. >> but the state had other witnesses to bring in stories of his criminal past. tammy singleton came to court to tell how hinton kidnapped and assaulted her when she was 14, and to show he no...