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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 is on and which one is off on t...

Where he hid the gun. nevertheless, police arrested r.d. cheely and doug gustafson and charged them with jeffrey cain's murder. george kerr accepted a plea bargain and agreed to testify for the prosecution in exchange for immunity. without the murder weapon, he was their entire case. >> george kerr was very important to the prosecution. without george kerr, it would have been very difficult i think to put them at the scene, and to actually have an eyewitness who not only the shooting but what happened before and after. >> but as the trial was to be begin, george kerr changed his story. "i've s...

>> okay. >> george testified. >> michelle thought the bomb had to have come from the two men her stepson put in jail, doug gustafson and r.d. cheely. >> the bomb was not meant to frighten someone, to intimidate someone. this was meant to kill. and it succeeded, killing the wrong person. >> but could the forensic evidence prove it? at david kerr's autopsy, investigators found a tiny metal post in his chest, the kind used in a switch. >> ultimately, our crime lab was able to determine the type of switch that that post would be a part of, a manufacturer, and to whom did the manufacturer provide t...

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 first person on that list was geor...

>> 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 in a car outside. >> george kerr said words to the effect of, you know, doug, why did you have to kill that guy? and gustafson responded with words to the effect of well, ...