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They can't bring themselves to face the fact that the person that they love may also be a monster. and in this case, was of course a monster. >> reporter: her support of her husband never saved to waiver. taking the stand, defending her husband of 45 years, critical of the accusers, saying she didn't know why the boys would lie. and then learned one of her own six adopted children, son matt, was ready to testify that he too was victimized. >> now she has to look herself every day in the mirror and admit that her own son, her on adopted son, was being victimized right under her nose, and she di...

Sandusky in its case in chief, that it would reserve the right to call him as a rebuttal witness depending on what evidence we presented. that created a real dilemma for us because if we called jerry sandusky now as a witness it would almost certainly and we looked at all of the different ways we could avoid it but most certainly would have resulted in the commonwealth being permitted to call matt sandusky in rebuttal. reluctantly and i say relucta t reluctantly because jerry sandusky still wanted to testify. he denyd that had ever inappropriately had contacts with his son matt and in fact and...

Testified during the trial. i think what is also significant is that when the defense attorney made his ope opening statements he told the jury, he told the jury you are going to hear from jerry sandusky. there was a great expectation not just in the courtroom but throughout the entire community that jerry sandusky was going to say loud and clear from the witness stand i did not do th t that. at the end of the day that did not happen. many have suggested possibly one reason it didn't happen is because he discovered his ado t adopted son matt was planning to testify against him as a rebuttal wi...

It would not call matt sandusky in its case in chief. that it would are the right to call him as a rebuttal witness depending on what evidence we presented. that created a real dilemma for us because if we called jerry sandusky now as a witness, it would almost certainly and we looked at all the different ways we could avoid it, most certainly would have resulted in the commonwealth being permitted to call matt sandusky in rebuttal. so reluctantly, and i say reluctantly because jerry sandusky still wanted to testify. he denied that he had ever inappropriately had contact with his son matt. and...

Did the threat of his adopted son matt as a rebuttal witness, did that impact the decision do you think? >> well, look, joe amendola didn't put jerry sandusky on the stand because he didn't want to be sued for malpractice. joe put him up with bob costas early on because he knew he would never put him on the stand. that was how he was going to get him to testify indirectly to the jury that he was innocent. he was never going to take the stand. and he couldn't for reasons i think we can all appreciate. this was a monumentally strong prosecution case. jerry sandusky made unbelievable bad damning ...