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Outgoing sheriff sidney dorsey was arrested and charged with ordering the ambush and assassination of brown. the man that defeated dorsey in the sheriff's race and with promising promotions to four of his deputies in return for the killing. >> did you do it? did you do it? >> innocent. innocent. >> two of those deputies, melvin walker and david ramsey, were also arrested. unable to crack the case for nearly a year, prosecutors agreed not to charge the other two admitted co-conspirators, patrick cuffy and paul skyers, with any crime related to brown's murder in return for their agreement to tel...

An ambulance. people just could not believe it. >> and it was just holy smokes, how did that happen? >> and the jury could not wrap themselves around understanding why these people would do such a horrible act. >> nor could the jury believe patrick cuffy, an admitted liar, or find a clear motive for the murder. >> cuffy's story deserved skepticism anyway because he conveniently flipped on sid dorsey when he got into trouble. >> how could anyone kill a sheriff-elect for nothing more than a promotion in a sheriff's department? >> now the four men accused of carrying out the assassination were fr...

Triggerman and as long as he wasn't the master schemer then she was willing for us to go ahead and make deals with him and skyers so that we could convict the others. >> the indictment charged melvin walker and david ramsey with murder. walker for shooting brown and ramsey, who also worked at ex-sheriff dorsey's private security firm, for being the armed lookout ready to kill anyone who intervened. >> walker was the triggerman. and skyers got rid of the gun. and cuffy drove the getaway car. >> cuffy's plea changed everything. >> i will accept your plea of guilty as to counts 12, 13 and 14. >> ...

Interview hundreds of people. >> anyone who was going to be affected by the new administration now needs to be interviewed and accounted for for their activities that evening. >> two grand juries were impanelled. one who investigated the charges of corruption in the former sheriff's office. the other, the murder of derwin brown. >> i can't speak to what's going on in the prosecutor's head or primarily what his motives are. my statement to you is that i am not guilty of any form of corruption and i had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of derwin brown. >> nine months after brown's death,...

Into the political corruption. they went to the local library. and with the help of the librarian that they went through the stacks and figured out where i lived. and i said, well, mr. cuffy, why didn't you just look in the phonebook? he said, you're in the phonebook? i said, yes, i'm the only j. tom morgan in the phone book. he said, well, damn, we wasted all that time. right then i knew who am i dealing with? >> but perhaps the most stunning footnote to this story came late in the summer of 2007. from inside his isolation cell in the georgia state prison at reidsville prisoner 1148460 said h...