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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 them off on the highway. >> just pissed r.d. off. so he turned to gustafson and said shoot that mother [ blee...

>> 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 george kerr. >> other names on the hit list included the judge and prosecutor at...

Immediately confessed. >> this bombing was totally preventible. it never should have happened. the department of corrections failed dave and failed me. their job is to protect the public and not simply house prisoners. >> michelle kerr sued the state of alaska and won more than $11 million in damages. peggy and craig gustafson both were convicted for their role in mr. kerr's murder and will serve a minimum of 22 years in jail. r.d. cheely and doug gustafson received additional life sentences. in the end, a half dozen families were destroyed and prosecutors believe there would have been more vi...

Radioshack. well, there are lots of radioshacks, but at least we knew there were radioshacks 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 w...

Pregnant. she is, in fact, within three 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 ...