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Robbery, but was released after serving only seven- years. by july 2000, three months before the camm murders, he was out on parole and the defense maintains he still had the old compulsion. >> kim camm fit the profile. >> yes. he -- has a foot fetish and so when they thought at first that it was not a sex crime, we kept saying well, not everybody targets the same place in sex crimes. >> reporter: kim camm had bruising on her toes. her shoes were on top of the bronco. her pants had been removed. and boney's sweatshirt with his dna was at the crime scene. and it turns out, that dna had been in ...

>> reporter: but why so few spots? bevel said it's because most of the blowback hit the inside roof of the vehicle. like much of the other evidence, the blood spatter testimony was essentially the same as in the other two trials. what would be enormously different this time was the star witness. the jury was going to hear from charles boney himself. a huge risk for prosecutor levco. >> so you gotta wonder how good this witness boney is gonna be for you, right? >> yes. certainly his credibility was gonna be in question. >> why put him on the stand then? >> i felt like i didn't have a choice. if...

>> we tried to find reason to this. and when i personally am hurting, i have to find my way to resolve so i can carry on my duties to leave this family through this tragedy. >> officer gannon was 32 years old. leland: the bashar al-assad's forces are on the ground again. the lone survivor of the arab spring civil wars. despite his repeated use of chemical weapons. julian turner joins us now with how assad has defied all the odds and to help along the way. >> syrian president bashar al-assad rose to power in july 2000, 1 month after he ruled the country with an iron fist for 30 years passed awa...

All. and that is what bill clinton said to us in july 2000. the problem is if you fail repeatedly, than trying and failing is not better than trying at all. because it undermines american credibility. and the reality is he's right. it is not the u.s.'s fault. the reality is the guy in the middle has an impossible job. because israelis and palestinians are not yet ready or able or willing to make the core decisions necessary to allow a mediator to broker and bridge the gaps. >> arguably moving further away. carl in terms of the politics of the speech today, i'm sure they didn't imagine they w...

>> translator: i cannot remember anything about the accident. i thought i was sleeping, but when i woke up i was not in my bed. >> remarkably he and the truck driver suffer only minor injuries. grateful to be alive, he says, life is beautiful and considers february 25th, the day of the accident, his new birthday. in a small iowa town, an exciting day turns tragic when a water tower comes tumbling down. leaving three lives hanging in the balance. >> it happened so quickly. it was such a shocking moment. >> july 2000, reporter brian schultz is dispatched to new providence, iowa, to cover the i...