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To you that he had an alcohol problem? >> yes, i would say when he was 16. 17. >> his battle with drugs. >> did you know that he had occasion to make purchases from places other than drug stores? >> he got some prescriptions from the internet. >> she told the court she and her husband tried to straighten him out sending him to rehab several times beginning in 1999. >> how long was he in hazelton for? >> a month. >> now to describe toolan's state in the days before the murder -- >> did you at some point receive a phone call from your son? >> yes. >> she described a conversation with her son two...

Gentlemen. 52 days from the time elizabeth beth lochtefeld met thomas toolan until he stabbed her to 23 times until she died. he told the jury what he said the first time. >> he said that tom toolan knew what he was doing the day he killed beth lochtefeld. >> a choice he made knowing it was wrong and he understood that at the time and he still chose to do it. that's what criminal responsibility it. >> this time the trial was considerably shorter and this time when the jurors went out to deliberate, they were back the same day. >> the defendant thomas e. toolan is charged with murder. is he not...

Dangerous man can never harm another innocent person. >> tom toolan was sentenced to life in prison and that is where things stood for four years but in august of 2011, everything changed. the massachusetts supreme judicial court overturned tom toolan's conviction. the court said there were flaws in the jury selection process and ordered a new trial. the trial got under way in june. this time at a courthouse on the mainland. for the lochtefeld family going through it a second time was deeply disappointing and worrying. >> all of a sudden he wasn't convicted of killing my sister anymore and he ...