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I didn't. >> 11-year-old was killed. that's tragic. murder should never have happened. but you don't have a smoking gun. you don't have what a lot of people demand in a case. >> from a legal point of view, he really should never have been convicted. it's a good thing that he was because there would probably be other dead kids out there. >> you know, i'm not a fry 'em all, fry 'em sooner, that sort of thing. i feel the weight of the state deciding to take someone's life. but if the death penalty is appropriate for any case, it's appropriate for this case. because what he did to teresa mcabee. >...

Lime green bag with a stuffed animal inside the night she disappeared. >> i got call one day from duckett's wife out of the blue, and she said, mr. hurm, i think jimmy may have had something to do with that case. i say why do you say that? because i remember him coming home with a bag with a little stuffed animal, and she said the reason i remember it is i was mad at him because we had two boys, and i said why wouldn't you bring two toys, because you know they'll fight over it. i get goose bumps thinking about this. >> police never charge duckett with the weldon murder, but they have said they...

When i walked into the room it was like seeing some old friend. he was so happy to see me. >> i believe it was on father's day he showed up here. and i thought we had a good conversation. ate a hamburger, had a conversation, we talked about the case, this and that will. >> i asked him about the three girls and he said that never happened. it was all a lie. well, i don't know those girls but i didn't believe him when he said that. because if one said it, it's a lie. if all three said it independently of each, other it is not likely they were all lying. that didn't prove anything about murder. s...

With the killing -- >> and she saw that. she called a female corrections officer over. and told her, i was there. i know something about that case. >> the sheriff's department of lake county come talk to me. the inference was, we can give you a break if you saw something that we should know about. hint, hint. >> gwen testified against duckett and was let out of jail having served less than six months of a two-year sentence. a year after james duckett was sentenced to death gurley recanted her testimony and said she never actually saw duckett with teresa mcabee. in a sworn affidavit, she clai...

1988. >> wroi duckett a letter. tell me more about this situation. well, i got a big letter back. >> he reached out to me. he said i'm a retired detective from the miami police department. he said i want to help you out. i want to see what your case is. i told him, i walked in this building scared to death as a young man. never been inside a prison. never been in any trouble before. and here i am going to death row. i had a career going. i had a beautiful wife, i had two young sons, i had a future that i was moving towards and all of that was taken for no reason except to satisfy somebody's id...