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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, the case was at a standstill. >> the investigation was dead in the water. we kn...

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 tell the whole story. >> we needed their testimony. as much as i hated it. but this was the type of crime that had no one come forward we would ...

-- he had the same evil within -- in his heart as i did. >> dorsey told the prosecutor that cuffy replied, quote, we are way ahead of you, and ate the note. >> he thinks he made a mistake and wanted someone to say whether his mistake made him a murderer. >> to me that's not really a confession. it's not the bearing of the soul. it's, well, i did have something to do with it but not really as much as i really want to admit to. >> attorneys say dorsey's confession does nothing to reduce his life sentence. meanwhile, walker and ramsey plan to appeal their life sentences to the u.s. supreme court....

Dorsey's private security firm and he was one of the deputies that derwin brown planned to fire. police had been watching cuffy for months. >> cuffy was, himself, kind of like a mini cult leader within the sheriffs office. when the police were able to fixate on cuffy, that led to them being able to see if they could solve the derwin brown assassination by making cuffy uncomfortable. >> the bond between cuffy and dorsey was very, very, very strong. cuffy describes it as a father/son relationship and that they would do anything for him, including commit murder. >> cuffy steadfastly said, i didn'...

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 he wanted to talk to the current dekalb county d.a., gwen keyes fleming. >> sidney dorsey, the man convicted of ordering the hit against derwin brown, has now confessed. >> almost seven years after...