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Days of delivering her second child into the world when she delivers the bomb package to the post office. >> rock phelps was in prison with doug gustafson and r.d. cheely when the bombing occurred, and he knew they wanted revenge. >> he was wanting to kill george, little george is what we called him. >> we had actually a number of inmates who told us that they had seen a list of names that raymond cheely had with him at the jail, and that cheely had told them that in fact this was a hit list. it was a list of people that he wanted to kill. and they were able to describe the list, that the firs...

Kerr testified against his two friends, but continued to insist their car was 200 yards away from the victim's car when the shot was fired. >> it's just not a first-degree murder. >> and you base that on what? >> because he was shooting out at the car, not to kill. >> but the forensic evidence proved they were less than 15 yards away, which meant the shot was intentional. based on this evidence, the driver, r.d. cheely, was convicted of second-degree murder. doug gustafson, the shooter, was convicted of first-degree murder. both were sentenced to life in prison. since george kerr had immunity ...

Go oh, how terrible this was, and this kid didn't deserve to die. on the other, turn talking about these are his best friends, you know, and we would die for each other. >> there wasn't any proof that all this happened other than what george was saying. see what i'm saying? so they couldn't just run in and make an arrest at that time. >> to confirm kerr's version of events, police asked him to wear a hidden microphone and meet with cheely and gustafson. the meeting took place in a restaurant at the anchorage international airport. two undercover policemen sat nearby. the recording device was i...

Well, there are lots of radio shacks, but at least we knew there were radio shacks in anchorage. >> but both cheely and gustafson were incarcerated at the time. >> how could they have done it from jail? how could they do this? how could they do that? which was all of our questions. you know, how could somebody do that from jail. >> since prisons routinely record all inmate conversations, investigators found this coded conversation between gustafson and his sister peggy. it took place shortly before the bombing. >> yeah, now this is to fix your car, remember? as soon as you find out which way i...

Were pacing the victim vehicle until they could get the best shot possible. >> the next morning, news of the shooting appeared in the local newspaper. and when 19-year-old george kerr saw it, he felt he had no choice but to call police. >> can i explain my situation here? >> sure. >> these guys are -- these guys are friends, okay friends, i would say. and i usually wouldn't rat out my friends, but this is just so severe, i got to do it. >> kerr said he and his two friends, r.d. cheely and doug gustafson, bought an assault rifle earlier in the day. later, when they were driving home, a car cut ...