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In the dark, alone with a monster. >> hurm called an eyewitness glen gurly to the stand. he testified that she saw teresa talking to duckett. moments later she saw duckett leave the scene with a small person in his police car. >> were you able to see the car? >> yes. >> were you able to see inside the car? >> yes. >> how many people did you see? >> two. >> prosecutors also called three women who each testified that officer duckett had made sexual advances while he was on duty. >> they were all acosted by duckett when he was on duty in uniform in his patrol car on the midnight shift and taken b...

Detectives and you had an alibi. did you tell them about it? he said no. he said why not? and then he said, you know, i don't know why i didn't tell them that. >> i didn't even think about it as far as being an alibi. i never even thought about the notebook during trial. never even dawned on me. >> the blood seeped from my head. i felt cold. someone is questioning you and you have an alibi for where you were at the time of a murder somewhere and you don't tell authorities that alibi. that's for a reason. the reason has to be, there is no alibi. i knew then this was a guilty man. i knew then. >...

Cell. >> as publicity grew around duckett's case, marshal frank was finally able to convince beth wells to show him a key piece of evidence. >> i wanted to see a copy of the note pad that duckett told me about. >> according to the defense, duckett's police notebook from the night of the murder contained his alibi. >> the notebook should have been in the trial record and it is not. the jury never sees it. and when you see it, you look at it. you go there is evidence right here. >> beth faxed me copies of those pages. and i looked at them. and that began to give me some doubts. i could be wrong ...

Myself i wouldn't do, i said i'm going to look more into this. i'm not a bleeding heart. i don't fall for people saying i'm not guilty. i put a lot of people in jail for murder. i don't think i was ever wrong. so i pull out all the files. i read every report. when i started assembling all the evidence, it is like a mosaic. you get a little piece of this time, a piece of that tile, you get a picture. the picture was innocent. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? a...

And mentored duckett held fast in his belief that investigators were focusing on the wrong man. >> my confidence in him had not been shaken. i was of the opinion that the truth was going to come out and he is going to be exonerated as a suspect. we're going to get to business and find out who murdered this child. >> last time i seen her she turned the corner and was headed home. >> you want to know something? you're not telling me the truth. >> yes, sir. >> no, you're not, james. >> james duckett was arrested and charged with first degree murder. duckett's trial began on april 25th, 1988, assi...