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Minorities and homeless people were doing time for crimes and the santa ana police department was just closing out their cases. you know, to make the public happy. so they would find what i call disposable people and they would convict them. kenneth clair was homeless. he stayed at different places with different people. >> i was on the streets. i can remember just sleeping, you know, on the sidewalk, finding a doorway to try to get an hour or two of sleep. sometimes, you know, i ate. sometimes i didn't. >> clair does not dispute that he broke into kai and peggy's home a week before the murder...

So kenneth assaulted her, punched her in her abdomen. and she ended up losing the child. >> i was pregnant by him. and then he hit me in the gut and i miscarried that evening after he had hit me. and personally, after a certain amount of beatings, face swollen, busted lip and everything else, i just wanted to have a citizen's arrest on him. >> clair was convicted of murder without a jury ever knowing about his beatings of pauline, which may have impacted her testimony against him. finally, looming over every appeal filed by kenneth clair's team and every court ruling was his supposed confessio...

Traumatized that she did not want to come to california and testify. she didn't want to be put through the ordeal of being on the witness stand looking at her rapist. for him to say that he's not a violent person is ridiculous. >> two months before linda rogers' murder, a man tried to intervene in an argument between clair and his then girlfriend, pauline flores. clair allegedly slashed the man in the chest with a bayonet. >> pauline said straight out, i'm scared of him. i'm scared he's going to hurt me. i said, pauline, he's been hurting you. >> pauline discovered that she was pregnant. she i...

Explanation consistent with innocence. it's very clear he's the killer. >> clair's defense argued that no physical evidence tied him to the murder. but clair's own words were impossible to discount. on july 28th, 1987 the jury found kenneth clair guilty. he was sentenced to death and sent to san quentin to spend his remaining days. despite a seemingly clear-cut case, kenneth clair has always maintained his innocence. >> anybody and everybody who has looked at this race one of the things they ask me is why are you locked up? why are you still locked up? since 1985 i've been stating that i'm inn...

You murdered a girl. >> you don't have to rub that in my mother [ muted ] soul. come on. don't make me mad. >> pauline flores had secretly recorded a damning conversation with kenneth clair. but just before the murder pauline suffered a traumatic accident that left her in a hospital for a week. >> me and pauline had left my mom's house on bicycles. i was maybe five or ten feet from her and the back tire flipped over. and when she hit that ground it sounded like somebody had taken a watermelon and just slamming it down to the ground. she went from 20 to 2 years old in 30 seconds. >> it wasn't l...