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pardon more than two dozen criminals. dr 300 criminals. and four convicted killers, all worked at the governor's mansion as part of a long standing program now suspended along with the pardons. before the court put the pardons on hold, those four killers walked away. three since checked in as required by the judge and expected to show up at a hearing this friday. last night, mississippi authorities tracked down this man, joseph osment and served him with papers ordering him to be in court as well. they found him in laramie, wyoming and tried to flee. he tried to get away in his girlfriend and they served them with a sympathy. the pair were planning to get married and invitations gone out. there were hints of thinking of living on the land and not settling down. and there were hints they might have a small private ceremony to take place at an undisclosed time, date and location. in. >> a moment, mississippi

attorney general jim lahood is joining us and no love lost between him and haley barbour. and calls it politically motivated and blamed the department of corrections f s f not blocking the pardons. making several claims that keeping them honest does not stand up to the facts. first, about the murders. >> they live in the mansion or on the mansion grounds. for decades, our governor's mansion has been served primarily by inmates by the state penal system. almost all murderers, because experts say people who have committed one crime of passion in their life after they served 20 years and these served on average 20 years, are the least likely to commit another crime. >> there are two false statements. first, these killers all committed so-called crimes of passion, not true. certainly not true in the case

of joseph ozment, who with a friend stuck up a convenience store and struck the clerk three times and then twice again. >> they said he was begging for help. they can't imagine how that feels. >> he was begging ozment? >> and then for him to shoot him in the head, to know that he was all alone, that's the worst feeling to know that you can't help somebody that you love. >> not a crime of passion. that's murder while committing another serious felony, a capital offense. joseph ozment pleaded guilty and testified against his partner and got life, then he got a trip to the governor's mansion and then got a pardon. let's say he had commit one of those so-called crimes of passion, whatever that means, say he shot his wife, like this man, anthony mccray. of course, he shot her in the back after first leaving to go get a gun.

even there, it's hard to argue crime of passion, heat of the moment. just to say it did fit the governor's description crime of passion, would that make anthony mccray highly unlikely, as governor barbour claims, likely to commit another crime. i recently asked our psychiatrist. doctor, people say the experts say people who commit a crime of passion are unlikely to commit another crime. is that true? >> no, absolutely not. because passion is essentially equivalent to rage. if someone is rageful, they will commit a homicide. >> point one, the killers who made it first to the governor's mansion and then out the door, did not all commit crimes of passion, some as cold-blooded as they come and experts say the notion that a hot blooded killer will not kill again is not absurd. that's not all governor barbour said in his own defense that doesn't stand up to a simple fact check. he said they consulted with families of the victims, people

like tiffany brewer who lost a sister. >> he was in jail 18 years and 20 years old when she died and had her child laying in her arms when he shot her in her head. and he's pardoned? >> is governor barbour going to pardon us for our aches and pains and heart ache we have to suffer? is he going to pardon a child that had to grow up without a mother? >> what do you say to those people who have come forward? >> this family came and met with my lawyer two years ago, because theyed up if any of these men, including that one, successfully served at the mansion, they'd been serving almost 20 years, and on average, they serve 20 years. and if they successfully completed, they would be pardoned. >> "keeping them honest," brewer and ellis, joining us in a moment, said that meeting never happened.

they said despite repeated requests, neither governor barbour or anyone else ever met or consulted them in any way about pardoning. this man, gatlin, who shot and killed his estranged wife, tammy ellis gatlin in 1993. joining me now mississippi attorney general jim hood. the papers served on joseph ozme ozment, missing for days, compel him to show up for a court hearing and check in with the mississippi department of corrections, how will they enforce that given he's in another state and no longer in your custody? >> that's such a difficult part of this process, kind of like being on a manhunt with one arm tied behind my back. can't use the criminal justice process of apbs and warrants. all we have is a civil document we served him with. that is the most we can do.

we can't treat him as an escapee. he has a document that says he's a free man as of now. if he doesn't show up in court, we will move to hold him in contempt. we have now served all five of those originally released and the court's order, the injunctive relief requiring all five stay in prison until the court is able to make a decision in this case. >> ozment killed ricky montgomery over $60 while robbing a convenience store and shot him between the eyes and then shot him again and when the governor calls it crimes of passion and least likely to re-offend, what do you say to that? >> i've been a prosecutor for 20 years. crimes of passion -- manslaughter is what that's considered, not cold-blooded murder. many of these murders plan these murders. that's not a crime of passion as far as what the definition is under mississippi law. >> is the pardon system stacked in favor of convicts who have well-connected families and

political connections or in the case of these killers, however they were able to do it, got a job in the governor's mansion and had contact with the governor? >> as far as trustees in the mansion, i'm not sure about that. if you look at the rest of the list of those who were pardoned, it does come from influential families, those that contributed to the republican party and to haley barbour in particular. he ran the office of governor as if it were mississippi in the 1950s. and used the office and the trustees and its just a throwback to the 1950s, the way he handled his administration and the way he released all these prisoners. >> the prison population in mississippi is about two-thirds african-american. according to reuters, about two-thirds of this people pardoned by governor barbour were actually white.

do you believe is race a factor here? >> they didn't have as much influence, the african-american community and they didn't support haley barbour when they ran for governor both times. like some old political hack would call and ask and write a letter on behalf of somebody. some of them probably deserved pardon if they lived and exemplary life after they were released. some of them have horrendous records while they've been in prison. there were many undeserving. there's not any logical explanation other than it was just a whim and that's -- by doing it on a whim, at the last moment, that's how he violated our constitution, which requires 30 days publication in the piper in the county in which the crime occurred. >> i know you're not a fan of the governor, you're a democrat. he's a republican. he keeps saying all our experts say people who commit crimes of

passion aren't likely to do it again. do you know what experts he's talking about? we haven't been able to find any? >> i think he's making this -- it's the first time i've seen him in desperate dire straits. he tried to blame the lawyer that worked at the department of corrections. he's assistant attorney general. i released e-mails and texts our lawyer, november 28th, advised the governor's people they had to look at our section of the constitution and comply with the publication requirements. then our lawyer sends an e-mail to the department of corrections. we released all this to the media today, it's documented back to november 28th, told them what the law was. and somehow he's trying to spin it so hard he's in the area of false hoods. it doesn't matter. our constitution says the

convict has to be published for 30 days and that didn't happen in 170 of his pardon dons. >> we will bring in the mother and sister of one of the victims. first, i want to bring in jeffrey toobin. you and i have talked about this. this whole crime is a passion notion. what do you make of this? >> it's rooted in the idea a wife is a husband's property. in the old days, you would never prosecute a husband for raping a wife, never prosecute a husband for assaulting a wife. those crimes were considered private family matters. one of the ways the legal system has improved in recent years, we take those crimes seriously again. the idea that a perpetrator of a domestic violence homicide is somehow better or less dangerous than someone that kills someone in a convenience store is false. >> this guy ozment found in a hotel room in wyoming and not happy to have been served because he tried to escape in his girlfriend's car. this is a civil case. >> he probably could safely

ignore that piece of paper. the attorney general is going to court in mississippi, and he's trying to get an order that says these pardons are invalid because of the unusual provision in the mississippi constitution that says you have to publish notice for 30 days. it seems like many of the pardons will probably be invalidated. once they're invalidated, his pardon is no longer valid. then the attorney general can get an arrest war lanrant b. and if he can find him at that point, bring him back. but until the pardons are formally invalidated and no longer in effect, i think ozment and these others are safe in just ignoring the court. >> i want to bring in the sister and mother of tammy gatlin. thank you for joining us and i'm so information for your loss and all of this new horror you're facing.

governor barbour claims lawyers met with your family two years before david glenn gatlin's release. is that true? >> no. that's absolutely false. we have had no contact with the governor or his lawyers, any of his people. no one has made and attempt to contact us. >> betty, when you hear the governor refer to this as a crime of passion, what goes through your mind? >> rage. i mean, this is not a crime of passion, when somebody rents a car in georgia, buys a gun, drives to mississippi, stalks my daughter, and then shoots her. i don't believe that is a crime of passion. to me, that sounds like he thought about it a long time before he decided to do it, and that he had it well planned. >> did you know that he was working in the governor's mansion? >> we learned about it just by going on the internet and looking at his status from time-to-time is how we found out

he was a trustee at the governor's mansion. at that time, the walkers and i attempted to have that trustee status revoked, but they didn't want to talk to us then either. >> and -- do you clearly believe that the governor broke the law when he pardoned these men? >> yes, i do. >> tiffany, due as well? >> yes. most definitely. he completely ignored the amendment, the law in there, 124. it says it plain as day. any idiot can read it. he ignored it, when chose to ignore it. so, yes, he broke the law. >> when you think that this man now is out there and on the loose in wyoming, wherever he may be tonight, what do you want

people to know about him? how does that make you feel to know he's out there? >> david is actually in alabaster, alabama. so i want them to be aware, he is a murderer. he -- you know, whoever tammy would have been with that day, he would have killed or attempted to kill. he came to kill tammy, and i believe, in my heart, once a person has murdered somebody, they have that power. you know, if somebody makes him mad enough, he'll do it again. >> you're obviously hoping david gets sent back to prison? >> yes. most definitely. >> most definitely. >> this man -- >> go ahead. >> he got life plus 30 years. you know, and he served 18 of them. my sister lived 20 years. it's ridiculous, you know. it almost makes you -- haley barbour obviously did not even open the case to look at the detective work and the things that were said. i mean, he actually told somebody before he came to do this, that he was coming to kill her. >> betty, why do you think the governor did this? >> my real gut feeling is that it was a power thing with him. he did it because he could do it, and he wanted to. i don't know if it made him feel good that he was helping inmates get out of jail or what, but i think it was a power issue with

him, just to show that he had that power and he was going to use it. >> miss ellis -- >> he didn't think about the -- >> go ahead. >> -- the victims and everything that was going to be affected by this or anything. >> he didn't think about your daughter? >> no. he didn't think about my daughter, that had been gone and none of us will ever be able to see her or hear her or talk to her ever again. he didn't think of any of that. you would have thought that being a father, that might have crossed his mind. >> miss ellis, we're going to continue to follow this, continue on this, miss ellis brewer, thank you so much. i know it's not an easy thing to talk about. thank you for talking about your daughter and sister tonight. jeff toobin, thank you as well. add us to your circle, on google and facebook. i'll be tweeting tonight. up next, with the florida primary just hours away, breaking news, a possible shift

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his father was governor and he won that state in 2008 over john mccain by a substantial margin. in nevada, romney has been organizing there a long time as has ron paul. again, tough states for gingrich there. he tried to shift the emphasis to arizona, which is a winner take all state, along with michigan, the only winner take all state in february and this spokesperson told me they think this is a state that has a strong tea party grassroots conservative presence that can really play well for them. february is a tough month for them. ultimately looking to march, michigan and nevada not ranking very high on the gingrich priority list right now. >> but he's still standing by the notion, he will stay in it until the convention? >> reporter: absolutely. their rationale here, they're looking toward march. march is when you have the states where delegates are awarded proportionately. if you win 30%, you will get 30% of the delegates. the gingrich campaign put out a

memory low -- memo last night looking ahead and pointing to march and saying even if romney wins florida, he will have barely gotten 5% of the total delegates you need to win.even will have barely gotten 5% of the total delegates you need to win. you need 1,441 delegates, a long hall and reminds me of hillary clinton's campaigning against barack obama in 2008 and suffered a lot of loss and had to wait until march until she was competitive in places like ohio and pennsylvania more friendly to her and gingrich is looking at a lot of southern states for him in march where delegates will be rewarded proportionately. >> peter, i appreciate it. >> reporter: and make a run at it for june. >> now, the fight for florida. on the eve of the primary, with 50 winner take all delegates at stake, romney and gingrich are both campaigning heavily. obviously romney is way ahead in the polling there. a new quinnipiac survey shows romney ahead in the polling at 43% among likely republican

primary voters, gingrich trailing behind 29%. the latest national gallup poll, a different story showing gingrich and romney tied for the lead. let's talk about it with political contributor, ari fleischer and democratic strategist belcher. how do you think it looks for romney and gingrich? >> anderson, i think it's looking great for mitt romney because of the debates. that's been the driver for the primary election so far, opened up a lead after his big south carolina loss. i think mitt romney will win florida by nine percentage points, a good-sized win, not as big as other polls indicate because there's nagging conservative questions about mitt romney but it will be a very good night for mitt romney

in florida tomorrow. >> cornell, a smart move for gingrich to cede nevada and michigan to romney? >> i think it is. one of the beauties about the obama campaign early on how we were able to establish as the candidate early on, we took the grassroots and turned it into fund-raising. if newt gingrich can turn his grassroots conservative tea party network into fund-raising and match mitt romney where he's being out-spend, 4 or 5-1, he has a chance, particularly when it moves south. if mitt romney didn't like south carolina, wait until he gets a load of alabama, mississippi, tennessee, georgia, texas, et cetera. it's a smart move for newt gingrich and playing the long game here and makes sense especially when you look at national polls, he's basically tied. >> ari, do you agree with that? >> another reason especially

nevada. four years ago, nevada republican turnout, heavily mormon, 28% property accident and 26% mormon. what you will see is opposite in the south, questions raised about can he do well in the south. arizona also has a significant mormon population. 11% of arizona's primary four years ago were mormon, a clear romney advantage there. it is smart for newt to narrow the playing field. newt will have a difficult february and mitt romney about to have a very good february because of states that vote in feb. it comes down to march. where mitt romney remains vulnerable, if this becomes a one-on-one contest, those nagging doubts conservatives have about his core convictions. with rick santorum staying in and newt gingrich staying in, you have a different race. i also think you could flip it. if newt gingrich dropped out, i think rick santorum would become a very formidable candidate against mitt romney. >> and santorum is hoping that might happen. looks like mitt romney is making progress with evangelicals, and even tea partiers.

what numbers do you think the obama campaign will be watching tomorrow night? >> i mean, florida is an awfully important state. we're more concerned about what's happening with independent voters in some of these battleground states and the national poll is showing this battle is actually hurting romney with independent voters. the evangelical numbers, fascinating to me, you look, partisanship aside as a pollster, you look how newt gingrich was able to run up a 20% advantage among evangelicals in south carolina, the fact he's now splitting evangelicals evenly with mitt romney in florida is a real interesting number. sometimes i think there's outliers in some of the internal numbers. that is a real interesting number, if that is true and he can compete with evangelicals with newt gingrich, this race is over. i look for him not to win by 14 or 15 points. although fred thompson said if he doesn't win it by double

digits, the expectation game. look to see if the evangelical number holds up. if it holds up for mitt romney, it's a very good story line for mitt romney. >> we have to leave it there. thank you. fascinating. quick reminder, the complete coverage tomorrow night and special edition from john king usa special edition at 6:00 a.m. and complete coverage 7:00. horrific traffic accident killing massive amount of people. 12 cars and seven semis, a look how this happened. also, a medical mystery that left a group of teenagers in the same school in high school with uncontrolled ticks. could this be an environmental connection or all in their head, as some people are saying. erin brockovich thinks there

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some new details tonight on that horrific multi-pile pileup in florida that left 20 people dead, and seven semis involved.

they had closed the section of interstate 75 for three hours because of heavy fog and smoke from a brush fire but they reopened it half an hour before the crashes began. 911 calls released today captured the horror of it all. >> oh, my god! what is going on? >> okay. we are getting help out there. >> ma'am, ma'am, this was the 10th one. we just had five in a row. >> okay, is anyone pinned? >> we can't tell. >> was that another one? >> yes, ma'am. >> how many vehicles now? >> 16. >> okay. >> get away from the car! >> dough -- do you see any fire? anything like that? >> no fire. we have on the hazards. >> here comes another one. there he goes. that one was a bad one. i am hearing people crying on the other side.

that is northbound. >> they were witnessing a chain reaction of crashes in both sets of lane, southbound. this accident claimed ten lives. do we know exactly what happened here? >> we know what happened. there was a fire in the swamp in the forest, only 60 acre, not that big. but a fire goes up and keeps going up. in florida, it didn't keep going up. the reason why? there was a layer of warm up up here. as soon as the smoke tried to go up, it hit the warm air and came back down, called inversion. the most famous is in pennsylvania many years ago where people died because they suffocated from the smoke that just wouldn't leave the valley. suffered from the smoke that wouldn't leave the valley. allegheny, monongahela valley near pittsburgh. people were hitting cars that were already stopped in the roadway. >> a lot of survivors, they were

saying the smoke was so thick, they couldn't see the hazards. this isn't that common, though, is it? >> it is not. what happened is, this smoke and fog got in a bowl just south of gainesville. i've driven through this bowl many times on i-75, the prairie right through here. it looks like you're driving through the serengeti. you look to the right and left, all around you is hills. you look for giraffes, you think you're in africa, crazy. high elevations here and there and a swampy area. that smoke settled into that low area, into the bottom of that bowl and that's what caused the visibility down to literally zero. >> one thing investigators will be looking into, could this have been avoided? were there road closures? >> there were road closures. and then it cleared and the wind blew. and a half hour after they

opened the road, the crashes happened and ten people died. i guess you could think the road probably should have stayed closed. not much you can do. once you are in this smoke, you are in it. >> isha. >> 100 people were killed across syria today, more than three-quarter of deaths in homes. the u.n. security council says it will take up a resolution this week calling for bashar assad to step down and hand off power. police arrested 400 protesters. in washington, park police began enforcing a ban on camping in two washington parks protesters occupied for month. in one place they ignored the order and set up a large blue karp they're calling the tent of dreams. meantime,

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tonight on "360," a medical mystery we first told you about earlier this month. more than a dozen teenage girls at a state high school in new york had developed strange ticks, stuttering, flailing, out-bursts, one of the girls has epilepsy and says her seizures were well controlled before the ticks started and now they're much worse. in fact, she had what appeared to be a seizure during an

interview during dr. pinsky's television interview. >> feedback is good. >> oops. she is having a little bit of reaction there. let's get back to her so i can see what's going on here, please. help me. are you all right? mom, what's going on there? >> no, she's not. she's having a seizure. >> is she? >> she's are seizures she's had since she was a kid? is that what we're looking at? >> no. no. these are from the ticks. >> these are a different kind of seizure she develops? >> these are a different kind of seizure. >> her airway okay? need to call paramedics? >> yes. no. they -- it's okay. it's okay. >> dr. drew on hln. thera was apparently okay after she came to after the seizure but her mom isn't satisfied with the answers she's getting. the state health department said they found no cause for the symptoms.

some doctors say the ticks could be stress related. something called conversion disorder. we'll have more on that in a moment. actress erin brockovich is getting involved and some of her associates collected soil near the school and looking at a chemical that spilled during a 1970 train derailment about four miles from the school. i talked to dr. drew. you interviewed some of the women exhibiting astonishing symptoms. as a doctor, and what you know, what's your assessment? >> my concern was that it was being dismissed as a conversion reaction with possible mass hysteria, that the group was really having a psychiatric event together. >> what is conversion reaction. >> without an explanation. >> conversion reaction is in the old day, people get paralysis or blindness, a way of expressing emotional turmoil from physical symptoms. it can be contagious and some speculate it's the basis of the

salem with trial, that was having mass hysteria. it didn't pass the sniff test for me, particularly some like thera, it seemed so clearly biological. it didn't feel like a psychiatric event to me. my concern is they were being dismissed as conversion without things being completely and fully evaluated. many questions in my mind were left unanswered. i wanted to see to it resources were brought to bear to get to the bottom of it. there may be some with conversion out there. i'm convinced some have a biological problem. >> fascinating to watch the interview you did. one of the young women sitting there, her arm is moving a lot. the other young woman had what seemed to be a seizure. how common is that? is that related to what she is going through now? >> she and her mom reported she had an increase in these seizure-like event.

while hooked up to an eeg brain way monitor and it did not confirm this was seizure. that means it's something called a fictitious seizure, which suggests it's something of a psychiatric nature but it doesn't confirm that. there could still be an underlying tick-type syndrome merely flaring in a seizure-like activity. i thought they were awfully dismissive of this girl without a complete explanation. >> as you know, health officials said they found no environmental factors at play. that doesn't satisfy you. why not? >> no, it doesn't. because upon listening to what community members are reporting, we have done our own investigation, in 1971, there was a train derailment with a very large tce, trichloroethylene spill they were not able to capture nobody attended to for over 20 years. the agency for toxic substances and disease registry in 1999, states that this plume had already gone four miles of the original derailment site east

and southeast that places the school in close proximity to this contamination that has yet to be defined, that is in the bedrock, that epa has entered into negotiations to get a soil vapor extraction system in, which still isn't in place, could with confirmation that the school is built on a swamp and confirmation there are six gas extraction wells underneath this ball field. so there is concern that this tce plume could be in close proximity to the school. no one's done testing to see if it is at the school. they have done no soil testing and no soil vapor testing. and yet there are reports from parents at this athletic field where all the children have been, there is an orange yellow substance oozing up from the ground. we don't feel environmentally

anybody should have sounded and all clear. >> dr. drew, what do you make of erin's concerns? how real? >> for me, it's a dream come true. i was hoping somebody with expertise in toxicology and environmental toxins could potentially cause symptoms like this could be available. i have talked to several physicians with concerns this cowl be a post infectious process and several other theories. the point is these theories are flying around and aren't being systemically marked out and you have girls in distress. they're getting conversion reaction and getting systematic treatment even for that. there's all kind of missing pieces that need to be nailed down for these poor girls. >> if there had been widespread contamination in the early '70s, as erin is questioning, why would problems just now be showing up in a specific unusual way and such limited focus?

>> right. a couple possibilities. one is that this was some in-utero exposure. one thing i would look for the period of time there were a series of infant deaths or premature pregnancies terminated prematurely from infant demise. we don't have that information yet. if you see that, it's possible this ways in utero exposure and erin is suggesting there may be something emerging now in the soil for some time exposing these girls to a toxic reaction. >> how do you take care to avoid fanning what's clearly a panicky and uncertain situation in that community? >> we don't want any panic and we're certainly not here saying this is going to be the cause of that. i think the panic has already started because some disorder without further investigation in the absence of a lot of data was tagged on these young girls.

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time now for the "ridiculist." and we're adding adventures in state government. i have a new favorite tv show. forget the housewives, i will kick back and watch the goes on of the kentucky state legislature. >> senate resolution number 92, a resolution honoring the newport aquarium for its outstanding contributions to the ecology of our world and economy of kentucky through tourism and honoring the newport aquarium for its penguin exhibit known as the pepg win -- penguin paloosa.

>> yes. he did say penguin paloosa. i know what you're thinking. some boring penguin resolution. this isn't just any party, a kentucky state senate party. there ain't nothing like a kentucky state senate party. it's byob. >> welcome to the penguin. yeah. they brought a penguin. the good people of kentucky, your government at work. you just know this is not going to end well. to use a poker analogy, when you raise the stakes by bringing a live penguin to the table, nature calls. >> this chamber supported the tourism development act and also amendments there to over the years and amended the -- >> are you talking about the penguin that just defecated on the floor over there? is that the penguin you're talking about? >> actually, senator, i believe that's your desk. >> thankfully, the camera did

not zoom in on whatever the penguin passed on the senate floor and the real work of government was allowed to continue. >> let's see if miss kentucky can top that. >> that's right. next on the agenda, miss kentucky. >> i would move that we adopt the senate citation 03 and introduce to you this fine young lady from bowling green, kentucky, my constituent, miss kentucky from 2011, miss blair thornton, welcome her here today. >> is the kentucky state legislature directed by david lynch, a beauty queen, a penguin out of nowhere, throw in a dreamy keyboard soundtrack and it's twin peaks. >> two penguins walking across an iceberg and one penguin turned to the other and said, you look like you're wearing a tuxedo. and the second penguin said to the first penguin, you look like you're wearing a tuxedo. and the second one said, maybe i am. >> anyway, since miss kentucky went to the trouble of showing up, let's hear what she had to say.