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Rehabilitation, it is also a model for gaming the system. james st. james was never insane, odd name to choose. he was never insane, he planned to kill them. but americans lend second chances, those that know to trigger the empathy of fools. only the sane use the insanity defense. where does a demon like this go? to the campus lounge, that bottomless pit of deadly relativism that welcomes feinds from the underground. a mass murderer ends up running the psych department. he is probably the sanest professor they've got. bob, bob, bob, it's the academics. this guy should be dead. he should be dea...

Through the small town and made headlines around the country. the next year james wolcott was tried as an adult but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. seven years after that, in 1974, he was deemed sane and set free. after that, wolcott seemed to just disappear. until a texas newspaper reporter tracked him down here in the central illinois town of decatur where he's been teaching psychology. at millikin university for the past 27 years. here he is now. his name is dr. james st. james. he's the head of the psych department at millikin and a student favorite. >> he's very intelligent. h...

Get him. he felt like it was a self-defense move. >> so as we mentioned, he -- ultimately this goes to trial. he goes to this hospital. deemed sane. connect the dots for me, ann marie. how does he go from being this mental patient and killing his family to being a pretty well respected psychology chair of a department? >> sure. when he was at rus k, rusk had a partnership program with steven f. austin university in texas. we presume he took some courses. he was releasted in 1974. in 1976 he received a bachelor's degree as james wolcott. we found he received a master's degree as james st. james...

We've had major prison breaks by members of al qaeda within the last several days. for instance, in iraq several hundred al qaeda militants were sprung from a jail outside baghdad. we've also seen a similar very large prison break in benghazi, libya, where 1,000 prisoners escaped on saturday. >> peter bergen, dana bash and chris lawrence. thank you all very much. coming up next, a professor hiding a dark secret from his school and his students. dr. james st. james is the chair of a psychology department as a private university. 46 years ago he killed his sisters and his parents. he was relea...

He's done exactly what he's supposed to do, rehabilitate himself. >> brian, you could say legally system the system worked. st. james spent time in a psychiatric hospital, rehabilitated himself, he got out, managed to become a professor at a college. is that something we should be impressed with in society? >> i don't know if we're impressed with it or not impressed with it. it does seem like the system worked. remember, he was 15 years old when this happened. the justice system treats minors who were prosecuted as minors opposed to those prosecuted as adults very differently. if he was 15 and...