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She helped him. josh mankiewicz: for five months, bill hill says he struggled under the weight of that confession. then, in late july 2004, his conscience finally got the better of him. i decided to make my first call. your first call? to whidbey island. to the police. yes, to the island county sheriffs. i felt guilty i was giving up my friend. but i knew something had to be done. josh mankiewicz: within days of that call, detectives mark plumberg and mike beech were sitting face-to-face with both their tipster, bill hill, and their suspect, the artist formerly known as buck naked. [music play...

Detectives they say those themes come up all the time. all the time. any of that seem to fit? we did find that russell had several hundred thousand dollars in life insurance on him. obviously, like you said, money is a motive. love is a motive. pride is a motive. josh mankiewicz: for the detective, those factors seemed to point in the direction of russell's wife, brenna douglas. not only had she been cheated on and publicly humiliated by russell, but she was the main beneficiary of three life insurance policies he'd taken out on himself. the problem was, brenna's alibi was solid. there were pl...

I think it was an older couple said they heard someone say, "let's dump the body in the basement." >> joe and his lawyers believed that at the very least the withheld evidence provided reasonable doubt the crime could have happened differently than the state presented at trial. in july 2004, joe's team went before judge o'malley to obtain a new trial. >> we put up all our witnesses. the newly discovered people, the newly discovered evidence. >> by far the most powerful witness at the hearing was chris longenecker, stoney lewis' alleged rape victim, who had been found living in florida. neil co...

Dutch, russian, english and french and today is facing american imprisonment in a u.s. federal prison. prosecutors are holding his passport and refusing to leave the d.c. area except to meet with his own expensive new york lawyers. you should me victor yushenko. at that time he was a candidate for president and he was considered to be a dashing and fairly charismatic opposition figure in his country. that's him in july 2004. here he is six months later. same guy. that is him in december that same year. july on the left, december on the right. almost not recognizable as the same man, right?

Syllania, as young as she was, might have been entangled in a prostitution circuit that shuttles women from city to city. >> what we see very often is the women involved in prostitution work in what's called the circuit. so they'll move from albuquerque to phoenix to las vegas to los angeles and maybe not return on that circuit for several years. >> reporter: it was in denver, another city on the circuit, that detective todd babcock hit paydirt. >> at one point syllania had been arrested up in the denver area for prostitution, going by a different name at the time. had been booked. they were a...