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The Pensacola area is home to some of the most shocking criminal cases in Florida. Here's five that garnered nationwide attention.

>> what does it say? >> alex w. king loves ricky marvin chavis so so much always and forever. >> larry: in a bizarre and sensational trial that captivated the nation, alex and derek were tried and convicted as adults for second-degree murder and faced 22 years to life in prison. >> we, the jury, find as follows as to count one of the indictment. guilty of second-degree murder. >> larry: but the judge threw out the verdict, ordered a mediation, where the two boys pled guilty to a lesser charge of third-degree murder. alex received seven years in juvenile detention. derek was sentenced to eight....

Was that chavis had been tried just the week before for this murder. so the prosecutor went into courtroom one and told the jury that chavis committed this crime and took the bat and bludgeoned terry king. and then the prosecutor sealed that verdict. nobody knew what it was except he and the judge. and then they went back into another courtroom for alex and derek a week later and they told that jury that derek and alex had committed this crime. i mean, it was unfathomable that a prosecutor could do that. there were two different theories. you can't convict two people of one act like that on tw...

In november of 2001, 40-year-old terry king was murdered, his head smashed with a baseball bat and his house set on fire. his two sons, 12-year-old alex and 13-year-old derek, eventually confessed to the brutal crime. >> i hit him once and then i heard him moan, and then i was afraid that he might wake up and see us, so i just kept on hitting him. >> okay. >> hit him somewhere around ten times. >> derek took the hits, but i was the one that gave him the idea. >> larry: but later they changed their story and blamed this man, rick chavez, their father's friend, with the killing. the boys also sa...