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Trial was district attorney johnmann. he was a larger than life figure. he wore big cowboy boots and had a deep, booming voice. and he was a very commanding presence in the courtroom. >> the forensic evidence at the scene was very damning. there was a lot of blood, bloody hand prints in the doorways leading to twyla's son's bedroom were found to be mr. skinner's hand prints, his fingerprints. >> the front and the back of mr. skinner had blood that was consistent with twyla buzz by's. other bloodstains were determined to be a mixture of both twyla and elwin's. >> skinner claimed he'd been so hi...

Belly. he had earphones in his ears and had a walkman there beside him, and he was dead. there was three wounds there. one went into the heart. and that was the death blow. >> for sheriff stubblefield, the grizzly murders hit close to home. >> twyla and her sons, i had known them through church. twyla's kids were special needs kids. they were god's kids. even though they looked like grown men, mentally they were not. it was hard to take for everybody. >> the door that leads to the outside, i believe that's blood which leads out into the backyard. >> stubblefield knew that twyla's boyfriend, 31...

For aggravated assault and one for injury to a child. and his response was, is that all? >> skinner was charged with three counts of murder. he would face the death penalty. >> the family will never be the same. twyla thought she was in love. the police department, they apparently couldn't figure out a way to get him when they was told he was there. they've got him now. >> local attorney harold comber was appointed to defend skinner. >> people feel offended in this kind of town when something like that happens to a woman and children. we didn't have things like that. but the consequences of be...

Going to head down there. >> happy 1994! >> police discovered 22-year-old scooter kaler on his neighbor's front porch with knife wounds to his torso, kaler died shortly after reaching the hospital. police followed a blood trail to the home where scooter lived with his brother randy and mother twyla. >> blood smear on the glass of the front door. >> when i walked in, first thing i saw was a female laying on the floor there. and she's on her back. her face was beaten off of her, an ax handle. >> bloodstains down the wall. >> i went to the back bedroom. randolph was laying in the top bunk, set of...

Going to have to let you go. >> one month after the nancy grace show john mann changed his mind about the dna. >> he decided on his own to do some dna testing but he did it without the involvement of the defense. he boxed up some items and sent them off for testing and told the lab what to test. >> the first items mann sent for testing included a set of human hairs found in twila's hands. >> and the mitochondrial dna on those hairs comes back to twila busby's mitochondrial line. >> this meant the hairs belonged to someone on twila's mother's side of her family. >> they didn't like hairs from e...