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illustrated by ukrainian kids. in an animation workshop they drew president putin being beamed up by aliens. the spacecraft took off, after putin was abducted by the ufo, peace and calm came over the earth. but knowing putin, he would have been riding that spaceship. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> all i'll say is his face in that appearance today, it looked puffy. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news. robert durst has officially been charged with first-degree murder that makes him eligible for the death penalty. that is the latest development in a case that is so full of drama and tragedy, the fact that he was arrested over the weekend in connection with the cold case murder of his friend 15 years ago, isn't even the most extraordinary detail to come out in just the last few hours and days. for more than three decades, there have been questions about this man, durst, the millionaire son of a new york million real
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estate mogul. there were questions whether he killed his wife or his friend. and about why he was acquitted in the 2001 murder of his neighbor in texas, even though he admitted to shooting the man and then dismembering him. durst has never been convicted in these cases. the questions never answered. last night the season finale of an hbo documentary series called "the jinx" aired. he was found talking to himself after the filmmaker showed him evidence that seemed to implicate him in his friend's death. here's what that microphone captured. >> here it is.
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>> what did i do? killed them all, of course. durst's attorney said on fox news today that people say things under their breath that they don't mean. that episode aired last night, just a day after durst was arrested in new orleans. this murder charge that was just filed, what are you learning? >> reporter: well they just filed it as you said minutes ago. it really shows the state of mind of the los angeles county district attorney's office. they want robert durst extradited now to california. but they also allege some special circumstances. and anderson under california law, you have to have special circumstances if you want this to be a death penalty case. number one, they say murdering a witness. now, we have heard for a long time that new york authorities were just about to come to los angeles to interview susan berman who is the woman that was killed in the year 2000 to
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interview her about the disappearance of durst's wife. before the los angeles investigators got there, she was dead. number two, the los angeles district attorney's office is saying that he was lying in wait. in other words he was waiting, lying in wait premeditating to kill susan berman. very serious special circumstances, and the l.a. district attorney's office says that potentially this is a death penalty case. they will determine later. but they want him, and they want him now. anderson i want to tell you, this is the hotel right behind me where he was arrested on saturday night. and a law enforcement source close to cnn just confirmed that when he was arrested they found a large amount of cash in his room. they found a .38 smith and wesson revolver and an amount of marijuana which may lead to why the prosecutor said in court today that before he's extradited to california they may want to bring some local charges. the defense said they're very upset about this.
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they want to give him to california. we can see now so does the los angeles county district attorney. >> do we know why this arrest happened now? because authorities have been investigating him for quite some time in connection with the case. the movie brings out an interesting number of details. one, that he probably confided in susan berman perhaps details of his wife's disappearance which has never been solved. perhaps she was having money troubles. and he felt she might sell his story, or give his story up to investigators. and also a letter was sent an anonymous letter was sent to police saying that there was a cadaver at her house. and that's what actually led police to go and find her body. the writing on that letter appears to match the writing on a letter robert durst had sent her previously that these filmmakers discovered. but do we know why authorities moved in now? >> reporter: well i think the defense would say it's all timing. because of this hbo documentary, that's why he's arrested now. and it's unfair and it's
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unconstitutional. but the other side is, a law enforcement source has told cnn that they were tracking robert durst, they won't say how, but they believe that he was about to leave the country. bound from new orleans to cuba. and they say that last week he drove from houston to new orleans, last tuesday, march 10th, checked into this hotel, and was making plans to leave the united states. >> the other question of course and we don't know the answer to this is do investigators have more information. have they been able to collect more information. because in the past they were only able to show that durst had flown to california. they couldn't necessarily show that he was in los angeles at the time of susan berman's murder. jean appreciate the update there. durst's arrest is just the latest development in what is -- it's an understatement to say it's a long history of bizarre disguises, fake names, rumors of ne narefarious activity. >> i think he has the ability to be a sociopath, but i think he's
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also a narcissist. if you put the two together it's basically the bottom of the barrel. >> jim mccormack mincing no words about robert durst. they were brothers-in-law, durst marrying his baby sister. he said his sister wrote in her journal that she feared her husband. she was planning to divorce him. january 1982 they have a fight and she vanishes. immediately mccormack suspects durst. we spoke last week just two days before durst's arrest. >> it's circumstantial evidence that's getting up to a preponderance of you're guilty. >> reporter: one of those subtle clues, durst takes four days to report her missing to mike struck. struck never nails his prime suspect. >> it keeps coming back to the fact that we never found her body.
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we never had a crime scene. >> no evidence. >> no evidence no crime scene. >> reporter: the case grows cold until 2000 when investigators reopen it. this time the millionaire flees new york to this rundown apartment in galveston, texas, hiding out, cross-dressing and posing as a mute woman. for months he's speaking to virtually no one except this woman, susan berman. durst and berman were decades-long friend corresponding by letter and phone. new york investigators decide to interview her. but before she could be questioned around christmas 2000 someone shoots berman execution style in her beverly hills home. the killer sends police this anonymous handwritten note obtained and shown in the hbodocu-series "the jinx." when she died what did you think? >> in my heart, i thought, bob is eliminating the witnesses.
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and people who have knowledge of kathy's passing. >> reporter: in the jinx a new stunning revelation by the stepson of susan berman. in a storage box he comes across a letter shortly before berman died. durst's handwriting, berman's note to police. they bear similarities. >> the address on the front is exactly like the cadaver note. >> reporter: remember durst is living as a mute woman in texas. but police are able to track him to california at the time of berman's death. so what says durst on "the jinx." >> california's a big state. >> reporter: police never managed to place her at berman's house at the time of her murder. the house has changed over the years. but the mystery ber cysts. susan berman's murder remains unsolved and the man police
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suspect most still free. less than a year later, october 2001 at durst's texas apartment building his neighbor morris black, goes missing. black's dismembered body parts begin washing ashore in galveston bay, 22 of them a torso, limbs, but no head. >> the fact that the head never showed up that's his home run. that's his luck process. >> reporter: and that ghoulish luck actually becomes his legal defense. durs the admits he chopped up black's body, but only after shooting black in the head in self-defense. no head no bullet, the jury buy it is. >> robert durst, not guilty. >> do you think he's teflon? >> no. no. i think he's been well protected by others. and enabled by others financially. >> are the walls coming in on robert durst? >> i would think so. >> reporter: in the final
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episode "of "the jinx," he appears unphased. he walks away to the restroom his mic still on. the camera records as he talks to himself. >> here it is. i killed them all. >> reporter: killed them all, of course. do you have hope? >> i have a lot of hope. i think kathy's coming home is a good way to describe it. kathy will come home. >> is this the closest you've felt to that over the years? >> oh yes. >> reporter: retired cop, mike struck also carries that hope that the elusive justice he sought will finally arrive. but he warns, do not underestimate robert durst. >> i think they'll hopefully pull it out. >> if they don't, will you be surprised? >> no. bob durst seems to be a lucky
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guy. some walk free from it. it kind of sucks, but it's the truth. >> reporter: families in multiple states searching for their truth for decades, hope that luck may have finally run out. >> unbelievable case. there was another bizarre incident involving robert durst last year in houston. what happened there? >> reporter: very bizarre case. really unexplainable as far as we can tell. he went to a drugstore in houston, a cvs, and for some reason exposed himself and he chose to urinate in the candy aisle. we don't know exactly why. we do know he ended up paying a fine $500. his attorney at the time alluded to medical issues. here's the important takeaway. that attorney is also his defense attorney in this case in los angeles. will that medical issue resurface? at this point, anderson we just don't know. we'll have to see what happens
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with the extradition. >> i watched the documentary, i think in six parts. to say the least, he is a complex character, and that's being polite. you heard from mike struck in reporting, thank you for being with us. you investigated the disappearance of kathleen durst in 1982. still an unsolved case. what do you make of all this? the arrest the stunning remarks that durst made on tape in the final moments of the documentary. did you see this coming? >> first of all, hello, anderson. thank you for having me. did i expect it? i was hoping something like this would take place. he's been -- bob durst has been very fortunate in his travels. especially being linked to these three episodes with -- >> that's the thing. >> with kathy missing. >> as a police officer, have you ever heard of somebody linked to three separate -- i mean a
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disappearance and two separate murders, one murder we know he committed. it was just declared self-defense even though he chopped up the body afterward. i think someone might have said this in the film he's either the unluckiest guy in the world, or there's -- it's not a coincidence. >> no. i think he's the luckiest guy in the world. basically up until two days ago, if you look at the galveston case -- >> where he dismembered somebody. >> that's correct. they found the majority of the body parts, but they never found the skull. if they found the skull, or the head so to say, probably they would have determined the trajectory of the bullet into the head and it would have refuted the defense case with their self-defense issue that they raised in the galveston trial. if the bullet is coming in from the back of the head, or top of the head or any other angle not consistent with an altercation, i think that would have sent him
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into the can. >> and what's criminal about that this came out in the film it's at least according to some theories is that after throwing the body parts, which were put in garbage bags into the bay in galveston galveston, he actually went back and fished around and got the head and it's unclear whatever happened with the head. at least that's one theory. that he actually went back because the body parts started to wash ashore and he realized how important the head would be. what kind of a guy is he? in your interactions with him, is he as odd as he appears on camera? >> yes, he is. he's a strange individual. to say that he's bizarre, i think is an understatement. so the fact of him returning to the crime scene, or at least to the bay and retrieving a head if that is true in fact i don't put that past him.
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i don't think anybody should be fooled by the fact that he stutters and blinks and appears to be nervous. i consider him a very cold and calculating individual. he's a lot smarter than people think. >> mike struck i appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. incredible developments in the last 10 or 12 hours. much more on the robert durst case. will what he said in that bathroom as stunning as it is will it actually be admissible in court. >> also ahead, an arrest in the shootings of two police officers in ferguson what the suspect is saying what police has to say about his comments, next.
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it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. breaking news tonight. robert durst has been charged with the murder of his friend
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susan berman back in 2000. last night a bombshell in the hbo documentary series "the jinx," new evidence and what some take as a confession by durst muttering to himself in a bathroom unaware his mic was still recording. >> what the hell did i do? i killed them all, of course. >> the question to add to the pile of questions in this case is whether that recording would even be admissible in court. randi kaye reports on other cases with similar issues. >> reporter: a victim's own words weren't enough to make it into the o.j. simpson trial back in 1994. just nine days before she was slashed to death, nicole brown simpson wrote in her diary about threats from her husband. she wrote, when she was pregnant o.j. demanded she have
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an abortion. and pointed a gun at her. prosecutors said it showed a pattern of abuse. but judge lance ito ruled them hearsay. >> not guilty of the crime of murder -- >> reporter: o.j. simpson was acquitted. when george zimmerman was on trial for killing trayvon martin in 2012 an audio recording of the struggle between the two was played in court. listen carefully as it was captured in a 911 call. >> is it a male or female? >> it sounds like a male. >> you don't know why? >> i don't know why. i think they're yelling help. but i don't know. >> reporter: the judge allowed that but refused to let a forensic voice analyst testify who believed trayvon martin could be heard on the tape saying, stop. also in this case the judge refused to allow trayvon martin's text messages about marijuana and a gun into evidence. the defense argued martin's text the day of the shooting show the
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teenager was in a hostile mood but the judge still rejected them. >> you have no further business with the court. >> reporter: george zimmerman was found not guilty in the teenager's death. remember casey anthony's trial following her daughter's 2008 disappearance? her defense team argued these pictures of anthony going clubbing while her daughter caylee was missing, should not be shown in court. the judge said the pictures vilified casey. the judge allowed the pictures in court. >> juror number 12? >> yes. >> reporter: still, in the end, casey anthony was acquitted of murder. randi kaye cnn, new york. >> there's plenty to talk about tonight with jeffrey toobin and mark geragos. the director of the movie said they gave the audio to the california authorities months ago and they hoped durst would be arrested sooner.
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>> did you ask me? >> yes, jeff. >> i don't know. but surely the film had a lot to do with this. remember this is a story about a competent journalist and incompetent police across three states. so the fact that the lapd and the l.a. district attorney's office is whining, or saying things that oh we had him all along, where the heck have they been for the past few decades? the fact is andrew broke this case and the police are finally catching up. thanks to these filmmakers' outstanding work. >> now, mark the two big pieces of i guess evidence to be considered by the court, one is this handwriting sample which matches the anonymous note that was written to police after susan berman was found, saying go to that address, there's a cadaver there. according to their handwriting analyst and just about everybody, it looks the same.
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is that admissible? is that real science? and then there's also the question about the audiotape. >> well the audiotape, i think, is going to come in. what it actually means, that will be up to dick degaren to talk about. i think he's going to have a field day with the idea that it wasn't an answer in response to a question, which is meaningless. the other piece of evidence is more troubling. i've actually defended a case where ironically enough it was the -- the prosecution ar gud the same thing, the beverley hills, the particular way it was spelled is damning against the accused. i think that will be much more meddlesome than the audiotape, believe it or not. >> dick degaren is the attorney who represented durst, and got durst a plea bargain. >> acquitted. >> yeah acquitted -- not a plea bargain, but on self-defense even though after killing this guy in galveston, he chopped him up and threw his body parts in
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the water and went on the run. jeff you have a problem with the handwriting analysis? >> the only thing i have a problem with is the way it was characterized in the film. the expert in the film said it's definitely the same person. handwriting analysis is not dna. it is not the kind of science that can be rigorously tested. all you can say is that the handwriting is consistent with one another. and the jurors can make up their own minds. >> exactly right. >> it certainly looks like the same person. but i just object to the use of certainty, when it's an uncertain science. >> wait jeff i do want to tell everyone what we're looking at on the screen those are the two versions of the words beverley hills, which are spelled wrong. one was written by robert durst on his stationery when he wrote to susan berman. the other one ended with police informing them there's a cadaver
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at her house. to most of our viewers, i think it looks exactly alike. jeff you were going to say about the audio? >> i was just going to say about the tape in the bathroom the audio in the bathroom. that is definitely admissible. he has no expectation of privacy against a journalist. that whole theory of law enforcement -- of the constitution is that you have an expectation of privacy under certain circumstances when you're dealing with the police. but here he's dealing with filmmakers. the police are not involved at all. second he's wearing a microphone. you can't have an expectation of privacy when you're wearing a microphone. so yeah he maybe forgot. but that's not good enough. sure the defense can argue that it's not a confession by the way, good luck with that but it's certainly going to be admissible. >> mark i don't know about good luck with that. degaren the attorney who got him the self-defense ruling --
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>> the acquittal. >> -- the acquittal in galveston, let's think about that. robert durst killed somebody chopped him up threw his body parts in the water and went on the run and the jury was convinced it was self-defense. >> right. anderson i was going to say the same thing. if you're given a set of facts here. one is where they can't even prove he's in beverly hills, or that part of the state on the day that the murder happened. the other one where you've admitted to dismembering -- shooting and dismembering somebody i'm going to run with the case where he's -- they can't even prove he was in beverly hills. >> he's mumbling under his breath. watching it i was like he just confessed. but in a courtroom he's mumbling under his breath. >> anderson you also showed prior to us getting up here the package about him urinating in a convenience store -- >> the candy aisle. >> the candy aisle, things like that. look if you don't think that somebody's going to start talking about, degaren's not
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a 20-year-old man from the st. louis area has been charged in the shootings of two officers outside the ferguson police station. he's confessed. the shots caught on video there were fired as protesters were demonstrating outside the station. as you know two officers were wounded. neither worked for the ferguson police force. witnesses say the shots appeared to come from a hill in the distance. ed lavandera has the latest. >> reporter: the gunfire set off a frenzy of fear just outside the ferguson police department. now prosecutors say jeffrey williams admits he fired the shots that wounded two police officers during protests last
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week. but the 20-year-old insists he wasn't aiming at officers. prosecutors say williams might have been shooting at someone else in the crowd. but williams' attorney tells cnn police have arrested the wrong person. >> any statements that he made i'm not confident that those were voluntary statements. one thing that i can be clear, from my conversation with him, was that this was no police ambush. as it was stated earlier. there was no intent of any to target out any police. and that he's not part of the protest community. >> reporter: but prosecutors say they found a 40 caliber handgun inside williams' home that matched shell casings found at the shooting scene. he's been charged with first-degree assault and three counts of armed criminal activity. williams was already on probation on a charge of receiving stolen property. the st. louis county prosecutor is skeptical of williams' story. >> he may have had a dispute with some other individuals, or
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felt some dispute. we're not sure we completely buy that part of it. >> reporter: the prosecutor says investigators are still trying to interview witnesses and learn more about the altercation which led to the shots being fired. bishop robinson also accuses law enforcement officials of mistreating williams since he was arrested saturday night. >> he was brutally beaten by the police and he was sore still had bruises all around his neck his back and his entire body. and also was denied medical attention. and also he was placed in isolation. >> reporter: the st. louis county police department called the allegations completely false. and added in a statement that every person who enters justice services is seen by a nurse, who evaluates each inmate to see if they are fit for confinement. the nurse released williams as fit for confinement. >> what's the mood been like since last week's shootings?
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are there still protests? >> reporter: the protests lasted for a few more days. out here tonight, it's quiet. it's really slowed down dramatically since last wednesday since the police chief announced his resignation. so far tonight, out here very quiet. >> ed thanks very much. just ahead tonight, justice delayed. a rapist whose dna is turning up in untested rape kits aren't getting prosecuted for lack of money. dramatic video of baby lily's rescue showing step by step how the rescuers found her inside the car. can you hear the mystery voice that they say called out for help?
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welcome back. in a state police lab in maryland vice president joe biden announced $47 million to help clear a huge backlog. >> if we're able to test these rape kits more crimes could be solved more crimes could be prevented, and more women would be given back their lives. >> we've been reporting on this issue for years. nationwide there are more than 400,000 sexual assault kits that have never been tested. 400,000 instances where women have gone through the humiliating process of providing dna samples for investigators allegedly after being sexually assaulted only to have the samples sit unused and uninvestigated. imagine how that would feel.
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obviously the new funding can't come soon enough but it will not guarantee the rapists will go to prison. in detroit, another backlog is growing, just as maddening. here's randi kaye. >> reporter: january 23rd, 2011 the night paula perry thought would be her last. >> i was so afraid that he might try to do something else, like kill me. >> reporter: it was about 5:30 in the evening, paula was on her way to the post office. she was walking down this street when she says her attacker pulled up alongside her, telling her he had just been released from prison. that's when she said he jumped out of his car, pulled his pants down, and exposed himself. paula froze. next thing she knew she was in the man's car. >> he parked his car in the alley. the next thing i know he gets on top of me.
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i could not move. i remember the windows fogged. >> you must have been terrified. >> i was. >> did you say to him, get off me? >> i just kept saying, please stop. please stop. >> reporter: paula says the man raped her repeatedly. then by some miracle agreed to let her go. shivering and alone, paula made her way here to henry ford hospital. she told a nurse she had been raped and agreed to an exam. doctors photographed and swabbed her, a humiliating experience. but necessary to collect evidence for a so-called rape kit. doctors collected dna evidence so the police could catch the man who raped her. she couldn't have been more wrong. it turns out that rape kit, the one with the rock-solid evidence of who attacked her, just sat on a shelf. so did thousands. that's right, thousands of other rape kits in this warehouse. never processed, never investigated never any arrests.
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>> you have women going through these four to ten-hour exams and have their evidence sitting on a shelf is not right. >> reporter: wayne county prosecutor kim worthy sounded the alarm back in 2009. that's when her office discovered 11,341 untested rape kits in a city warehouse. the kits they later realized, went back 30 years. all that time the women who the kits belonged to expected police to be using that evidence to help catch their attackers. detroit has completed testing on 2,000 of the rape kits. another 8,000 are in the process of being tested. of those that are done worthy says they've identified 188 serial rapists. 188. sadly, she expects to find more. >> rapists rape on average of 11 times. so again, anytime you stop one rapist by getting their dna into the database and prosecute them
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you're stopping many more rapes from occurring. >> reporter: it's all led to a unique and desperate situation. cash-strapped detroit has run out of money to take the next step prosecute the rapists. you heard right, they don't have enough money to keep these rapists off the street. so worthy's office along with the michigan women's foundation and the detroit crime commission have started a new campaign called enough said. the goal is to raise $10 million. detroit has already prosecuted 15 cases. but worthy says she's expected to indict as many as 3,000 more men. >> it's morally degrading to have someone who assaults you, to rob of you your dignity, your pride. and they just said we'll put it on a shelf. >> reporter: turns out paula perry's rape kit wasn't processed either. about nine months after she was raped october 2011 a man matching her attacker's description was picked up in ohio for attempted abduction.
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she identified him in a lineup. that's when she learned her rape kit had never been tested. while his dna and paula's kit sat on a shelf, alondo steel was out there, lurking stalking, maybe even raping. >> this guy was out there continuing to assault people. >> yes. yes. >> and you had done a rape kit. >> yes. and they just said we'll just store it. >> went on a shelf. >> yep. just like the other kits. >> reporter: two and a half years after she was raped, paula finally met her attacker in court. and testified against him. he was stepsed to up to 15 years in prison. at least her attacker is behind bars. but still, thousands of women in detroit are left wondering if their case will ever be prosecuted. >> this is such an important story, randi. the thing is detroit and other cities they've received federal money to fix this backlog before right? >> they have. but it's still not enough.
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congressional lo indicated $41 million last year. now they're doing that again. also in 2013 michigan alone gave another $4 million to try and get these rape kits tested. but it costs about $1200 to $1500 to test each kit. and detroit is broke. so to go back and do this and really reinvestigate the entire case it takes a lot of money and a lot of time. a lot of the cases go back 30 years. and before 2001 there was a statute of limitations on rape cases. that went away after 2001. it's not retroactive. they're trying to move as quickly as they can to get as many of these guys off the street. >> we've got to keep following this. randi, thank you very much. just ahead, rescuers say a voice called out for help. the toddler they found inside was unconscious. her mother was dead. so whose voice did they hear? new body cam video is out now. does it solve the mystery? we'll show it to you ahead.
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tonight we have new video to show of you lily grossbeck who survived the harrowing car crash. take a look. that's lily singing with her dad over the weekend. she seems to be doing great. the fact that she is alive, after what she's been through, is incredible. she was trapped for 14 hours
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upside down after the car of her mom was driving plunged into a river. her rescue was captured on a body cam worn by a rescue worker. we now know how the rescue unfolded. there's still an unsolved mystery, where was the cry frr help the rescue workers swear they heard, where did the cry actually come from. you're watching body cam footage from officer jared warner of the spanish fork police department speeding toward an emergency. a car is upside down in the river, but the officers don't know if anyone is trapped inside. >> what have we got. what have we got. >> get it? >> reporter: and then they think they hear a faint voice. >> get over here, meadows. we're coming!
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>> reporter: officer meadows was also on the scene. >> we heard someone saying help us help us inside. at that point we thought, we have to get in that car now. the four of us were able to push the car on its side. >> come on! >> that's when i looked inside and was able to see the child infant strapped in the back seat. >> oh god, there's a baby in there. >> [ bleep ]. >> there's a baby. >> reporter: the baby is lily grossbeck. her mother jennifer is strapped in the front seat submerged in water. both had been there for 14 hours. lily is upside down in her car seat above the water line. they fear no one has survived. echo is a code for the police department for appears to be fatal. >> anybody got scissors? >> you got it? pass her up!
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pass her up! pass her up! right here! >> go, go, go! >> come on baby. she's definitely hypothermic. she's freezing. >> reporter: officer warner rushes lily into the waiting ambulance. >> do you get a pulse? >> i don't feel any. >> come on sweetie. >> reporter: for nearly six agonizing minutes, officer warner and the others worked to save lily's life. lily survives. her mother jennifer died before help arrived, according to police. and with lily only 18 months old and unconscious at the scene, officers wrestle with who called out to them for help. >> for two nights, i've laid awake trying to figure out exactly what it could be. all i know is it was there. and we all heard it.
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and that just helped us to push us harder and do what we could to rescue anyone inside the car. >> reporter: whose voice was it? officers can't say. but each is convinced they heard somebody calling for help. incredible to finally see that video from the body cam. i want to show you the picture of lily we got over the weekend of her and her dad. a lot of good work by a lot of brave officers. a group of teenagers arrested apparently trying to join isis. and a pastor is asking for, get this $60 million in donations for a new jet. the details next.
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welcome back. several british teenagers thought to be steps away from crossing into syria to join isis were stopped and sent home. >> reporter: a tense moment at the airport in istanbul. three teenage boards from
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northwest london grabbed by turkish intelligence. they were moments away from trying to make their way to syria to commit terror they say. >> it was fortunate that the families realized very quickly what had happened. that we had time to understand and work out their travel route. >> reporter: it appears the boys had help from someone turkish officials call suspicious. >> it's a very good chance that the individual is a fixer. they're known by the people who run the checkpoints on the road. that's what it comes down to. and, you know, a fee is of course, passed off to the people on the checkpoints and they're able to make their way. it happens every day. >> reporter: in recent days turkish intelligence had apprehended this man that they say was a fixer for three girls who made it into syria to allegedly join isis. it turns out the man was a double agent, the turks say, working for a coalition country fighting against isis. what attracts teenagers to the vicious, murderous band of
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terrorists? analysts say for boys it's a lure of adventure, mixed with some grievance they may have in their home countries. >> for girls, increasingly we're seeing romance as a pathway. where they look at these fighters make for a dashing figure, and some of the girls have wanted to go over and marry these warriors on the battlefield. >> the parents of these kids are often first generation immigrants. they certainly don't understand you know the ins and outs of youtube and facebook and twitter and all that. >> reporter: the flow of teenagers from britain is disturbing. an 18-year-old man was just arrested on suspicion of preparing to join isis. he was picked up before trying to leave his hometown of birmingham england. there were the three teenage girls seen at the turkish border seen in this video who got to britain from syria without their parents' knowledge. in the past year, 22 women and girls have been reported missing by families who fear they traveled to syria. >> the british definitely have a problem. they've been trying to look at
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ways that you can find the danger signs. >> reporter: officials wouldn't comment when we asked them about the idea they may have a specific problem stopping teenagers from defecting to isis. but they are admitting they need help from parents. police there have just launched a radio and tv ad campaign targeting mothers and immigrant communities, pleading with them to talk to their children especially their daughters, about the dangers of defecting to syria. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> there's a lot more happening tonight. amara walker has more. anderson at least 24 people are dead after cyclone pam hit the pacific island nation of vanuatu. three police officers involved in a shootout with the tsarnaev brothers in watertown days after the attack told jurors about a tense showdown involving pipe bombs and a hail of bullets. they also said the defendant tried to run them over but instead hit his brother, killing him.
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jurors and the defendant traveled off site this morning to see the bullet-riddled watertown boat he was captured in. and a controversial mega church pastor near atlanta is praying followers will bless him with about $65 million in donations to buy a private jet. dollar made the plea in a nearly six-minute-long video posted online. and that has since been taken down. anderson? >> wow. he could fly commercial. amara, thanks very much. inside the case against aaron hernandez starts now. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. tonight, aaron hernandez. he was a rising nfl star racing toward greatness. >> what's the meaning on your forearm? >> it is up to me. basically saying my life is in