you don't know me. and here i don't want to be. on this episode of "death row stories" -- a mother's throat is slashed and her two young sons are murdered. >> it was a bloodbath. and when a crime like that happens, someone in the house did this. >> no motive, no explanation. >> by god, somebody is going to pay for these two boys being murdered. >> buxom blonde, materialistic, a temptress. >> we will seek the death penalty in this case. >> it didn't seem real. i know that i'm innocent. >> there is a body in the water. >> it was butchered and murdered. >> many people proclaim their

innocence. >> in this case there are a number of things that stink. >> this man is remorseless. >> needs to pay for it with his life. >> the electric chair flashed in front of my eyes. >> get a conviction at all costs that the truth fall where it may. >> going to florida in two days. can't wait. >> taking the camera with you? >> yeah, i'll take the camera with me. >> darlie lynn and darren were high school sweethearts from lubbock, texas. they married when he was 20 and she was 18. they were the proud parents of three boys. >> what's your name? >> evan. >> do something special, do a cartwheel. wow. way to go, devin. >> that hurt. >> you okay? say hi, damon. >> hi. >> can you do a flip? >> no. >> the family moved to an upscale neighborhood in dallas

after darren's computer business took off. >> oh, no, damon's driving. >> by all accounts, they were living the charmed life. but that would all change on june 6th, 1996. >> it was an average day. it was an ordinary day. i remember going to sleep. >> that night darlie fell asleep in front of the tv with her two sons devin and damon. >> 911, what is your emergency? ma'am? >> they just stabbed me and my children. >> who did? >> darren routier was upstairs, asleep with their infant. and he said he heard darlie yell for him, he heard a glass break and that's when he came downstairs to find a bloodbath. >> coming downstairs, running

straight over to devin and there was blood all over. >> 6-year-old devin routier had two devastating wounds to his chest. they went through his body. he was impaled by a large knife. >> darren tried to perform cpr. >> first thing that happened is air came out of his chest and blood just sprayed all over me. >> oh, my god. hold on. hold on. >> ma'am, is there anybody in the house? besides you and your children? >> my husband is helping me. oh, my god. >> darlie routier had also been injured with stab wounds to her neck and arms. >> there is blood everywhere, and darlie is bleeding and she's telling darren that some men came in here and did this. >> you need to let the officers in the front door, okay? >> the first two officers who

arrived, i think, essentially were just shocked. one of the boys was dead. the other was alive. >> damon was found near a wall and he had been stabbed multiple times in the back. he was barely alive. and he put down a bloody palm print to help himself up. >> when paramedics arrived, 6-year-old devin was already dead. as they tried to revive 5-year-old damon, he gasped his final breath. >> i got a phone call that 3:00 in the morning. devin and damon are dead and darlie lynn might be dying. and i just started screaming. >> darlie was rushed to baylor university medical in dallas. and immediately taken into surgery. the necklace darlie had been wearing at the time of the attack was so deeply embedded in her throat, it had to be surgically removed. but it also saved her life,

stopping the knife less than two millimeters from her carotid artery. >> the surgeon who treated darlie, he took my hand and he said that she was lucky to have survived this. >> when darlie awoke from anesthesia, two detectives from the police department were waiting to interview her. >> the story was an assailant was in there, she woke up and a man was over her and she started fighting with him. and she really wouldn't give any type of description because she said she couldn't remember. couldn't remember his face, couldn't remember anything about him. >> at the crime scene, detectives tried to gather pieces to a murky puzzle. >> i think the police department was entirely overwhelmed. and they didn't know what to do. the way they were handling evidence, the way they were trying to take pictures, they have a camera guy going through there while others are picking up evidence. and it was just absolute chaos.

>> the rowlett police department had only handled one other multiple homicide in its history. so they called for help from retired dallas county lieutenant james crom. within minutes of his arrival, he came up with a theory that ruled out an intruder. >> there was numerous items, watches and rings, all laid out on the island in the kitchen. nothing was taken. darlie said the assailant dropped the knife and she picked it up in the utility room, which led to the garage. the knife was covered with blood. they found evidence where it was laid on the carpet, they found what was laid on the counter in the kitchen, but they didn't find any evidence of the knife being dropped in the utility room. that's where she said she picked it up, which didn't correlate with the evidence. darren hears glass wreak and the troubling thing about that is there was broken wine glass there and it was on top of her bloody footprint, which proves it was placed there after she

was walking around down there. red flags were so startling. like this isn't making sense. when a crime like that happens in the home, experienced detective goes someone in the house did this. >> as word of the murders spread, news crews descended on the routier home. >> she said take care of my babies. take care of my babies. >> one neighbor says her son michael just spent the night tuesday. >> i'm just so glad he wasn't there last night. >> after darlie was released from the hospital, she and darren were driven directly to the rowlett police department where they were questioned separately. according to police in this critical home, darlie's story shifted. instead of awakening to face an intruder, she claimed her son damon had had woken her, calling mommy, mommy. she saw a man with a knife and followed him into the utility room. >> i do not think that those two

stories are mutually exclusive. darlie could have been awoken by a burglar, and momentarily have a memory lapse or a blackout or whatever and then also have some perception she was awoken by the baby. >> i was thinking about trying to save the babies. darren and i tried to save the babies, but it was too late, my babies were gone. we tried. we tried. and we have to live with that forever. >> 12 days after the murders, darren and darlie returned to the rowlett police department for more questioning. they walked in voluntarily. but only one of them would walk out. >> at approximately 10:20 p.m. this evening, investigators from the rowlett police department arrested darlie routier. as for the father darren routier, at this point we do not believe he was involved in the murders. we believe that the white male

suspect described by darlie routier as the man that attacked her and murdered her children never existed. >> i watched it on the 10:00 news. my daughter being arrested. had no clue. had no idea. i looked up and there is darlie in handcuffs, crying. >> darlie was charged with capital murder, and taken to the dallas county jail. >> it just didn't seem real. like it just couldn't be happening. i was just in a place of deep hurt, trying to survive, still in shock that my babies were gone. if you have moderate to severe

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before being arrested for the murder of two of her sons, darlie routier was a 26-year-old mother to three boys. darlie was known as a doting mother who baked cookies for her boys and their neighborhood friends. >> it is terrible to think a mother would do something like that, but it is good to know that they caught the murderer. >> darlie's arrest came less than two years after susan smith claimed an assailant had taken her two boys before smith herself confessed to driving them into a lake in south carolina. >> as with susan smith, there were two young boys involved, pretty quickly darlie was called dallas' susan smith. >> she is not a susan smith and we're going to prove this. >> concerned that darlie might be released on bail, child protective services came to take her son drake away from darlie's mother.

>> i said, you're not taking drake. we haven't done anything wrong. and she said, well, you think darlie's innocent. so we can't be sure you'll protect him. and i said, my daughter is innocent until proven guilty or has it changed now? >> drake was temporarily placed in a foster home. and with darlie's trial approaching, the media spotlight only intensified. >> sources say the routiers may have been in financial trouble and had recently taken out large insurance policies on the two boys. >> the routiers tried to fight back. >> there were two $5,000 life insurance policies. that was not enough to even bury the boys. >> i'll stand behind darlie 150%. i know she didn't do it. i know all the millions of the little pieces of this puzzle that will come out in the trial. >> after their radio interview, darlie's mother and darren were handed subpoenas for violating a gag order against talking about

the case. to represent them, they hired legendary dallas attorney douglas mulder who also agreed to take on darlie's case. >> it is an interesting case and i'm going to look forward to trying it. >> i'm very happy. he's the best. >> mulder's fee was $250,000. and the routiers scrambled to raise all the money they could. >> we started selling everything in the house. all our family members started taking their children's college funds, we sold everything. >> greg davis was the lead prosecutor assigned to the case. >> the only real announcement to be made today is the state will be seeking the death penalty in this case. >> davis would only try darlie for damon's death, since victims under age 6 qualify for the death penalty. >> the reason the state tries for only one murder is if she's found innocent, they can try her for the second one. and that's a way for the state to load up a double barrel

shotgun. >> given the media circus in dallas, the trial was moved to kurville, texas. >> why that was agreed to is unfathomable to me. >> richard mosty, second chair on darlie's defense, was raised in kerrville. >> he says, mosty, if i ever get murdered, i want you to promise that my murderer will get tried in kirk county. >> on january 6th, 1997, darlie's trial began. her family who had all been called as witnesses were banned from the court. but darren's aunt sandy slipped under the radar. >> darlie asked me if i would go to the trial. i've never been to a trial my entire life. i really did not know what to

expect. she had no one in that courtroom other than me that she could turn and look to. >> true crime novelist barbara davis who would later publish a book about the case was also in the courtroom. >> greg davis is an extremely dynamic prosecutor. he had a way of making you believe what he said was the god's truth. he began painting darlie as materialistic, a buxom blonde, worried about her own self and how she looked and a temptress so to speak. greg davis constantly portrayed her as a psychopath. >> on the stand, retired lieutenant james kron laid out his case for a staged crime scene. jewelry left on the kitchen counter, the murder weapon suspiciously moved, and a slashed window screen in the garage. >> burglars, intruders don't usually cut a screen because they know you can just pry a screen off very easily. it is just a part of staging. >> next, the dallas county

medical examiner described darlie's winds as superficial and potentially self-inflicted. >> they didn't go deep. just a straight slice across this way, that's why we call them superficial wounds. if there was a killer, he would have stabbed darlie routier multiple times through the chest like the boys and she would be dead. >> they also focused on blood spatter from the two boys found on the back of her night shirt. >> our expert was able to demonstrate how that happens, if you're kneeling over someone and stabbing them. just showed you come up and when it comes up is when the cast off happens. but obviously that's the manner that had to be stabbed. >> and stabbed and stabbed and stabbed and stabbed. that remained in that jury's mind. >> for darlie's defense, doug mulder called two doctors, one who said darlie was suffering from traumatic amnesia, and another who felt darlie's wounds had had not been self-inflicted. mulder also focused on the 911

call from the night of the murders. >> the 911 tape, when i heard it, i was very convinced that she was a hysterical mother. all of a sudden, darlie was worried about touching a knife. >> what grieving mother would think of that. she went from being a victim in their eyes to a murderer of two little children. >> finally, prosecutors showed the jury a news report shot eight days after the slayings. ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday to you ♪ >> for some, this may seem a strange thing to do in an odd place and time. ♪ happy birthday dear devin ♪ >> singing happy birthday in a cemetery to a son that was

brutally stabbed to death just over a week ago. >> love you, devin and damon. >> it was one of the strangest things i had ever seen. not how you would expect a mother whose boys had been brutally murdered to act, shoot silly string. >> my gut reaction is what a majority of the public was, how can a mother who just lost her two sons do something like that. the cameras were there to capture it and i think that sealed her doom. >> during deliberations, the jury asked to see the silly string videotape nine times. and after only eight hours, they returned with their unanimous verdict. guilty. night had fallen when darlie arrived at the texas department of corrections. considered a suicide risk,

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after darlie routier was sent to death row, her family quickly ran out of money to pay her attorney douglas mulder. >> we had to sign a paper even after she was convicted that for

two years if we did any movies or books or whatever, we owed him the balance. >> the courts appointed jay steven cooper to lead darlie's appeals. >> as an appellate lawyer, you get the transcript of the trial, and work from the transcript. and it is strictly from what's on the page. and in this case, what was on the page was erroneous in large parts and we had a lot of issues on reconstructing the trial transcript. >> darlie's trial transcript had over 30,000 mistakes. >> it was very serious. the difference between yes and no. the difference between, you know, up and down. and i never had seen that before in 25 years of practicing law. >> when sandra hallsy, the court reporter for the trial was questioned, she pled the fifth amendment. cooper felt competent the flawed transcript could earn a new trial for darlie, preferably in

a courtroom away from kerrville. this drew concern from prosecutors. >> when all this came to life, the state offered her a life sentence and all she would have to do is admit she killed her children. >> and what did she say? >> no. >> what does that tell you about darlie? >> she's strong. she's brave. and she's innocent. >> but just hours before the scheduled hearing, the judge denied darlie's motion. >> these demonstrators protested a decision to cancel the case. >> the issue with the court reporter literally changed the court reporting industry. and there are many people to this day who are astounded that that trial record did not result in a new trial for darlie routier. >> darlie's defense now faced the uphill battle of appeals. but as cooper dug through

evidence, he came across a second videotape, never shown to the jury, which casts the silly string incident in a very different light. >> the silly string was a major factor in her conviction. from the jurors' own mouths. what was not shown the jury was this two-hour memorial video that took place before the silly string incident. >> the second video was secretly filmed by police, attempting to capture any guilty comments made at the boys' memorial. >> the preacher was there. the family was there. prayers. crying. emotion you would expect, all appropriate behavior. >> i got you silly string. >> her sister brought the silly string. wasn't darlie's idea. >> this was my son's birthday. devin's birthday. and my sister and her boyfriend went and got silly string. he loved silly string. we did for them what devin

didn't get to have and what we knew that he would want and enjoy. they took that and they twisted it and they turned something that was supposed to be beautiful and tried to make it into something very ugly. >> when doug mulder brought up the tape during the trial, the detectives who were asked about it pled the fifth. >> we had a lady on death row in texas, who in the course of the litigation, the only three people who took the fifth amendment were the two lead detectives and the court reporter. >> the question for cooper was, why hadn't mulder shown this second videotape to the jury? >> i don't know why they didn't show the tape. greg davis said you put it in, if you want, but they never did put that portion of the tape in. >> i think it was a huge mistake not to show the jury this

memorial service. i think it would have effectively nullified any impact the silly string video had. >> as he continued to build darlie's appeal, he was confronted with another question. why had mulder never raised darlie's husband darren as a possible us isuspect? >> there are two adults in this house and two dead children. and darlie is sliced and cut and beat severely. well, the most logical culprit of that, if it is not an intruder, would be the husband or darren. >> in addition to defending darlie, doug mulder had represented darren in his gag order case. >> well, we alleged in several appellate pleadings that mr. mulder was suffering from a conflict of interest. at the time that doug mulder represented darlie, he had a continuing duty to protect

darren. >> i was in the room when mulder and darren had that conversation. darren had said, you know, well, i don't want them going after me because i didn't do anything. and mulder said, well, you didn't do anything, i don't see any reason to go after you. and that was that. >> it would be very difficult to point a finger at darren when the person on trial said my husband is not involved. >> at that time, that was just absurd to me. it was -- i didn't even want to hear anything like that. what you didn't really hear about at the time was the life insurance on darlie of which darren was the beneficiary. it was $250,000. >> this insurance policy raised questions, even with one of darren's own family members. >> this is my nephew. i don't know if darren was involved. i know that that is a big

question. everybody has their answer to that. in my heart, i say no. in my head, i have a few questions. >> to answer those questions, sandy contacted multimillionaire brian pardo. he supports the death penalty but funds investigations for inmates he thinks are innocent. >> i felt that it was extremely important to exclude darren and the only way he was going to be eliminated as a suspect was to pass a polygraph. that's what the police like to do. >> can you name the person that stabbed your son? >> no. >> the results of pardo's investigation were about to uncover dark secrets that darren had kept hidden for years.

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darlie routier had had been on death row for 15 months when brian pardo began raising questions about her husband darren. darren adamantly denied any involvement in the murders of his sons and to prove it, he submitted to a polygraph test. >> the polygraph examiner was with the police department. he came around the other side of the table and sat down. and he said, darren, you have utterly failed this examination.

it looks to me like you perpetrated this crime. >> because you were involved in the murder. >> no. >> yes, you were. >> in what way? >> in what way? you were aware when it happened and you helped carry it out. and you stabbed your wife. >> no, i did not. >> yes, you did. you can sit here and smile. >> when brian bardo came back a and pointed a finger at darren, the family went ballistic. even darlie lynn wrote me a letter and said you need to think about what you're doing. i have to admit, i wrote back and said you're the one on death row. you need to think about what you're doing. >> the polygraph wasn't the only revelation about darren. pardo hired a private investigator. >> darren had come up with a screwball scheme, he had already

done one insurance scam. he admitted that to darlie. that was with a car. and he got the money for the car. >> in a signed affidavit, darren admitted to both the car scam and his plot for a home robbery. >> i've known darren since he was 15 years old. possibly you could get me to believe that he set it up for robbery because he talked about that. he would never hurt his children or hurt darlie, never. i will never believe that. >> but the results of pardo's investigation differed. >> darlie had no motive at all. darren had $250,000 worth of motive. i met with darlie and told her that we were very persuaded that darren was a participant in this act. >> when darlie was told of some of the facts regarding darren,

she totally lost it and for the first time in her mind she thought maybe darren was involved in it. >> i felt betrayed. here's the person that i had been with since high school, that i had three children with, and a good marriage, so i thought. and whether or not that had anything to do with this or not, to know that that had been plotted behind my back hurt. it hurt. >> did it make you think maybe he could have been behind this? >> it made me have a lot of questions. >> while any case against darren would have been purely circumstantial, that didn't explain why doug mulder hadn't fended off some of the

circumstantial evidence against darlie, who was facing death row. >> really the biggest failing was the failure to use any forensic testing to advance a defense on darlie's behalf. >> probably the strongest forensic evidence that the state had had. >> the state contended that fibers found on a bread knife in the routier's kitchen matched the slashed window screen. >> they didn't do any testing to exclude other sources for that particular fiber or even to pin it down, really to the screen and only the screen. >> the bread knife had been dusted for fingerprints with the brush that raised questions for cooper. >> my experts tested seven random fingerprint brushes and four of them had the same chemical consistency and appearance as this one fiber that was found on the bread knife. >> it is typical in a criminal case that the defense is not satisfied with the state's case.

so if there was any dispute, certainly you would have heard from that evidence. >> if the defense had had any experts, where were they? where are they? why aren't they speaking out? >> the d.a. at final argument says the only evidence before you is what our experts said. >> cooper's team also learned about three fingerprints at the crime scene that police had marked as unidentified. but to match these to a potential intruder, they first had to rule out the family. and police had failed to get prints from devin and damon's bodies. that left darlie and her family with only one very emotional choice. >> we had to have them exhumed. and have a specialist come in to take their fingerprints because they footprinted them but didn't fingerprint them. >> just couldn't believe this nightmare had gotten to that

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three years after darlie was sentenced to death, her son's bodies war exhumed in an attempt to rule them out as a source of the unidentified fingerprints found at the crime scene. >> the boys were buried together, holding hands. so where the hands were together, the vault had flooded. and that totally destroyed the fingerprints. >> the only other option to identify the fingerprints was dna, but cooper's request for testing was denied by the courts. >> dna would help. but there is other aspects of

the case that i think are very helpful to us, so we're not just limited to the dna. >> cooper felt the prosecution's timeline of events also had flaws. >> the timeline that is drawn by the state, it was remarkable that they were able to sell it to this jury. because of the long time that she was on the telephone with 911. >> darlie's call to 911 lasted five minutes and 44 seconds. >> damon could only have lived for eight or nine minutes after those wounds were inflicted. this is according to courtroom testimony. so since she was on the phone with 911 for five minutes and 44 seconds, she had a lot to do real fast. >> the biggest wrench in the timeline was the discovery of a bloody sock found in an alley 75 yards away from the routier home. >> that sock is the most important piece of evidence in this entire case. >> there is no way that it fits

into the timeline. one of the things that had to happen after the boys was stabbed was the blood on the sock. both boys' blood was found on the sock. >> they hadn't figured out what to do with the sock. there is not but a couple of minutes for her to stab and kill the children, cut the screen, get this sock and run it down the alley, in the dark, through a gate that doesn't really work very well, come back, then the state claims she stood at the kitchen sink and injured herself, staged the crime scene. it really defies common sense to believe all that could have been done within that time frame. >> but during closing arguments, greg davis asked the jury, what loving mother sleeps through the murder of her two children and then told the jury, the last thing each of these two children saw was their killer. >> everything pointed to darlie. nothing pointed to anyone else. and i had a hand in convincing a

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after the publication of two crime writer barbara davis' scathing book, a secret office is within the d.a.'s office showed her evidence she had never seen. >> when i saw the photographs, this was a small police department, never handled a murder case like this, and the pictures were taken out of sequence. major evidence was picked up and moved around because i saw him here one picture, you know, they were here in another, contradicting any testimony of staging. i learned an hour before the silly string happened they had a video showing the prayer vigil, before the celebration. but the jury never saw the

solemn, appropriate celebration of the boys' lives. i began to see other photographs, throat was cut where her dominant here wouldn't do it, her left hand would have had to have done it. she had bruises up and down her arm. the picture began in my mind, the horror of the injuries she had. if the juries had hy jurors ha would have been a different o outcome. they didn't look at the evidence. the last thing they played was the silly string case. now do you think she's guilty? and a freezing, tired, wore out charlie sanford said okay. >> charlie sanford was a jury at darlie's trial. >> when you do something and it is right, after a while it will be settled. just never would settle. it never would leave me alone. >> like barbara davis, charlie sanford was shocked to learn

about the surveillance tape and the photos of darlie's extensive wounds. >> there is a lot of evidence that we and the jury never did see. if i would have seen those pictures before, that would have made a lot of difference what i thought. >> he says he wasn't shown all the evidence and the evidence he wasn't shown was actually evidence he was shown. >> when the prosecution gets on their high horse and said the pictures were right there, they sure were, with thousands of other things. and they made sure they were mixed in. and the jury was not going to sit through those pictures. >> have any of the other jurors had a change of heart? >> yes, but they don't want to -- they don't want to do this. they see me coming down the aisle at walmart, they run the other way. >> in june of 2008, steven cooper finally got the break he was looking for when the texas

courtle criminal appeals granted dna testing. >> it is good news. we have been fighting for it for five or six years. we're trying to get some proof of some male dna in the house that is connected to the crime scene. the infamous 85 j is a fingerprint on a couch table, and that bloody print would certainly be one. >> if dna ultimately shows that there was in fact an intruder that night, how can darlie ever be repaid for all the years of her life that have been spent in a nine by six cell on death row, and how can she ever be repaid for the years she's lost with her sole surviving son. >> darlie's son drake is now 19 years old. he's never before given and interview. >> i usually won't talk about it. a lot of people kind of knew that, yeah, this is drake routier, his mom is on death row, it is part of my life, it

is something i had to live with for 19 years. >> he's been coming up here since he was, you know, pretty little. he was a little baby. so this is all he really remembers. >> drake lives with his father darren in lubbock, texas. darlie and darren were divorced in 2011. >> darren has done a good job of raising drake. he didn't get the hugs that a mom gives. >> i don't have contact, so i've never gotten to hold him or hug him since i've been in this place. >> there is just a glass right there in between us. can't do anything about it. >> in the summer of 2013, drake was forced to deliver devastating news to darlie. >> i was diagnosed with cancer. a year ago june 26th. >> drake was diagnosed with acute liaku acute lymphocytic leukemia.

i said, mom, i have cancer. it is probably one of the hardest things i've ever done in my life. >> not being able to hold him, that was extremely hard. i didn't want to break apart for him. i wanted to be strong. >> drake's cancer still requires monthly chemotherapy. but his prospects for remission are positive. >> his body is healing. and he's -- he helps keep me fighting for sure. >> darlie, will you ever admit to having killed the boys? >> i'm innocent. >> even today i can't believe that i have a daughter who is innocent on death row. i mean, it is just -- it changes your whole life. that's what you think about when you wake up. that's what you think about when you go to bed. >> darlie's case is currently on hold pending dna testing.

cooper believes that the results specifically those of the bloody fingerprint will finally prove that there was an intruder at the home on the night of the murders. >> if we get it reversed by the appellate court, they have to try or dismiss it, with all the evidence that has been established over time. they're not going to retry this case in my opinion. well prepared attorneys with a good strategy will eat the prosecution alone. >> but time is not on darlie's side. >> in texas, if you've been sentenced to death, you have three appeals. darlie routier's lost her direct state appeal and lost the writ appeal from the state. if her federal appeals are deni denied, then the trial judge from that court will set a date of execution. >> i fully expect her to be put to death one day and i think at that time, you know, we can finally say that justice was done in this case and this case is now closed. >> this must be really hard for

you. what would you say to your mom? >> i mean, i love you. i always will. i hope you get out soon. that's it. >> darlie is unique in the fact she maintained her innocence from day one. she was convicted in my mind partially because of susan smith and what happened there. it became apparent because of the publicity. that mothers kill their children. >> it created a perfect storm. and that perfect storm swept up a 26-year-old housewife and mother with no prior criminal history and landed her on death row. >> i'm at peace. i'm at peace. i know i didn't do this. it gives me that peace inside, i can look people in the eye. i've done nothing but tell the truth. my innocent blood will be on their hands. and they will have to answer for

that one day. it may not be here. they'll have to answer for it. a crime against any of us is a crime against all of us. that's what the law says and that's what i believe. that's why i spent 30 years working to bring fugitives back to justice. here are the fugitives profiled on the hunt so far whose run has finally stopped. after our segment on alleged pedophile charles mosder aired, two viewers called our hot line and helped the marshals track them down in new york city. >> one officer went inside and identified mosder, he was lone police say inside the smoke shop when members of the task force entered, that's when the shooting began. >> a cowardne