happened. like, please look at the evidence. i will do this to to free our dad of these accusations. reporter: on a beautiful blue sky day, the remains of elizabeth ratliff were exhumed from their resting place in texas. ratliff s bodies reporter: julia sims, of nbc s raleigh-durham affiliate, wral-tv, has been covering the story since the beginning. and the bells started tolling right as they started pulling that casket out of the the ground. hmm. a lot of people were very antsy about that, about what they were gonna find. reporter: her body was driven to north carolina where it would be studied by the same medical examiner who d ruled kathleen peterson s death a homicide. there was a risk here wasn t there? if you opened that coffin and found that the authorities in germany had been correct in ruling it a death by natural causes. we just decided that it needed to be done. roll the dice, basically. exactly. reporter: the detective peered through a morgue
of elizabeth ratliff s coffin. it was so air tight, it was hard to use a krask to get the casket open. you could see part of elizabeth ratliff s face and hair. it was remarkable. they were stunned. the body was practically intact. her fingernail polish was still on. her dress was still perfectly in place. the m.e. took a closer look to the injuries to elizabeth s head. she was finding lacerations, deep gouges in the scalp. seven of them. seven? the lacerations were very sim laor to the ones that had been perpetrated on kathleen peterson in her findings she made a decision that ms. ratliff had been murdered. investigators thought they had hit pay dirt in death they thought kathleen peterson and elizabeth ratliff could have been twins. i m thinking that my case is
do you see a pattern developing here, david? i got an anger problem, i guess. each fight i have been in, i have not started it. walker, daniel, i m back! as ratliff begins his next 30 days in segregation, jail a digital camera to record his thoughts. what s up? i swear, they hand out 30 days like [ bleep ]. 30 days hurt. i don t care. i don t care what anyone says or how hard or how tough man i m [ bleep ] telling you it hurts. i m telling you, man. these walls start to talk to you in your [ bleep ] mind, man. god put me in here for a reason, you know. shape me up.
i didn t start it. i finished it. you got to. you got to fight if you re in here and someone calls you out, you know. come on. staff reviews surveillance footage which shows ratliff did not throw the first punch. this is ratliff hanging around the pillar a couple of times. officer breaks it up. seconds later, another fight breaks out. a different camera angle shows ratliff joining the fight, which quickly escalates. this is where all six get involved. the punishment will be the same for all the combatants, extended stays in disciplinary segregation where they will be locked in one-person cells 23 hours a day and lose most of their privileges and possessions. we going to talk. we going to talk. all right. we give you 30 days.
we kind of broke up and then i knew i was going to 1a anyway so i went back at him. again, i didn t start it. but i finished it, as i always do. the other inmate involved in the fight is kevin russell. have a seat in that gray chair. both men are taken to the infirmary for examination. how are you feeling, man? are you all right? talk it over, man. you don t hit females! obviously you heard him say that about hitting a girl. any truth to that or is he just making up stuff? no. me and my old lady got in a little scuffle. i held her back from hitting me and that s what that s all about. after the investigation and another hearing, ratliff and russell both get 30 days in disciplinary segregation. 30 days. it will be 80 days i ve done this whole entire trip. that s more than half my time i ve been here. so