we don't normally have these type of things happen in this community, fortunately. >> it was a nasty divorce from one of america's most famous playgrounds. >> east hampton is maybe one of the wealthiest pockets of new york with vast, old money, huge estates. >> on one side, a multimillionaire. >> sort of a small town kid who made very, very good. >> and the other, a woman scorned. >> it would be the stupidest thing in the world for generosa to have been at the house that

night. >> then a brutal murder. at one point, someone probably was doing drop-kicking with a knee to crush his rib cage. >> and now, an msnbc exclusive with the man convicted of the crime. >> my reaction to the verdict? i was floored. >> in this hour, "death in the hamptons." dannemora, new york. the locals call it little siberia and this concrete behemoth is the town's claim to fame, the clinton correctional facility, home to some of new york's toughest cons. inside sits one of its more notorious inmates, daniel pelosi, a working class guy who met a rich, married woman and was convicted of killing her multimillionaire husband. >> no, i did not kill ted ammon. i swear on my children. >> it's a familiar argument from inside prison walls, but pelosi

refuses to confess. >> hello? confess to what? confess to what? to killing ted ammon? you will -- until i day i die, you will never hear that. i did not do it. >> so how did he get here? it's a long and complicated story. it starts in manhattan during the summer of 2001. danny, a 38-year-old guy from long island, has met generosa ammon, the wife of millionaire ted ammon. >> i'm hooking up with a woman that's going to be worth at least $20 million. danny, the electrician, the blue collar worker from long island has hit powerball. >> he was a stud, a boy toy even though he was still married, a father of three. his two oldest children, rachelle and daniel were shocked at their father's sudden good fortune. >> that was a big change for us because, he used to always mock, like, oh, look at that rich person, the suit, and then the

stuffed up. then he comes over in a pink shirt. >> i used to laugh at him. now you're dressing like them. what's going on? >> what was going on was this. his father had gone from an unlicensed electrician to supervising a multimillion dollar construction project, all thanks to generosa. the lovebirds spent their evening in the posh stanhope hotel, with monthly bills as high as $30,000. pelosi was delirious. >> this multibazillionaire woman serving me, danny pelosi, eggs benedict, coffee, fresh-squeezed orange juice, a half a grapefruit, in bed, silverware and everything. walking out of the room, i look down to her dog and i said, wow. >> okay, freeze the picture. this is danny being danny. just a guy from long island.

he's got a certain kind of charm which he used to balance the demands of a wife and kids at home while romancing a rich woman in manhattan. he even introduced his teenage children to his new girlfriend. >> when i met her, i thought she was great. she handed me $2,000 and sent me on a shopping spree. >> generosa was capable of great warmth and generosity, but if provoked, she could be vicious. >> author kieran crowley wrote a book about the case. >> she brought him to the opera one night. he felt uncomfortable in his monkey suit. she told him not to talk because you know how danny talks. >> so, i screwed up in the first five minutes because she introduces me to this guy. i said, well, yeah, i'm danny pelosi. how are you? that didn't work. >> it was an odd relationship. born out of spite between generosa and her husband, ted.

they'd been going through a bitter divorce and were nearing a settlement, but ted hadn't signed yet, had not made out his will. those two facts were important because in three months' time ted ammon would be dead. generosa would get all the money. four months later, she married danny pelosi. two years after that, she, too, was dead, a victim of breast cancer. one year after her death in a case that dominated the new york tabloids, danny pelosi was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 27 years to life. now, in his first major interview since his conviction, danny pelosi is insisting he didn't do it. >> you've met me, seen the guy i am. would i go the distance for my own family? yes. if it came to life and death between you and my children? yes. huh?

but would i mercilessly beat you to death? no. would i put one in your head to get it over with? yeah. >> pelosi has a different version of the events that led to ted ammon's death. it all begins in manhattan on saturday night, october 20th, 2001. pelosi says he was in the city with generosa. later that night, he drove to long island to get ready for his son's birthday party the next day. >> i have cell phone records and sites that prove the locations and whereabouts of me to a "t." for saturday night, october 20th, through sunday morning october 21st. i arrived at my sister's house and turned on the video screen to see what was going on out in east hampton. >> danny's sister lived in center moriches, 40 miles from east hampton. while at her house, pelosi claims he logged onto a laptop and downloaded a file of secret

security camera footage taken of ted ammon in the east hampton house. pelosi says he had the system installed at generosa's request. >> i saw a woman coming out of the bathroom. there was a man down by the door and i rewind it and reviewed it and saw a couple of different clips of different people on this laptop computer. >> right around that time, says pelosi, his close friend christopher parrino arrived. danny had helped put parrino on generosa's payroll. even though it was 2:00 in the morning, danny says he and parrino headed out to get some beer. the timing in pelosi's story is crucial. the medical examiner estimated the time of ted's death between 1:00 and 5:00 a.m. pelosi says that chris parrino dropped him off in danny's truck and left in another car. monday, the day ted ammon's body was found, pelosi was in the

truck again with parrino. according to pelosi, they were driving back to manhattan and something unexpected appeared in parrino's hands. it was the digital video recorder torn from the secret hiding place in the ammon house. >> i said, what the [ bleep ] are you doing with that? what happened last night? tell me what happened last night. he says, "you don't need to know. i'm under orders, you don't need to know." i pull the truck over by a creek. i jump out. i walk over to chris and i say, "give me the [ bleep ] thing." i take the unit and i wing it from the passenger door. >> the unit has never been recovered. gone is any video evidence of what happened in the house where ted ammon was killed. as for christopher parrino, he was never charged with murder. instead, he watched his friend pelosi take the rap. after pelosi's conviction, parrino copped a plea.

he admitted he drove pelosi to ted ammon's house, that danny came out of the house looking disheveled. he had blood on him and said he had had a fight with ted. parrino says pelosi told him, "i think he's dead." after serving six months in jail, parrino was released. he moved out of state. he turned down our request for an interview. but from his prison cell, pelosi has a message for his old friend. >> this man got up and went to court. and he said he drove me, danny pelosi. chris parrino, if you're watching this right now, i'm praying for my day in court with you. all right? because you're going to get used to this place. you're coming here, chris. >> coming up, the war of the tulips. >> she was ripping them all out in a fury, saying it wasn't quite the right shade. >> and a new york media frenzy. >> there was a headline to that effect. it's, "pelosi the gigolosi." ♪ ♪ walk, little walk ♪

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a bitter divorce. a wealthy businessman whose wife has fallen in love with a tough guy from the wrong side of the tracks. it was late october, 2001. generosa ammon and danny pelosi were living large in a townhouse in manhattan. >> generosa fell pretty hard for danny. she was very happy and went around bragging about her young stud boyfriend. >> as for the businessman, ted ammon, he was spending the weekend in his luxury home in east hampton. he made a phone call on saturday night. all day sunday, the house was quiet. monday morning, back in new york, ammon's business partner became concerned when he didn't show up for a meeting. then when he learned that ammon, a doting father, hadn't made after-school arrangements for the children, he became alarmed enough that he chartered a

helicopter to fly out here to the hamptons to see what was up. when he got to the house, he discovered the front door was unlocked, the burglar alarm was off, and then he made the ghastly discovery of ted ammon beaten to death. >> at this point in time there are no signs of forced entry. the house is generally neat. it's not ransacked. >> thousands of dollars in cash lay untouched on the countertop. robbery was not a motive. east hampton police arrived on the scene and quickly turned the case over to detectives from the suffolk county homicide squad. the police reported ammon's body was found nude, sprawled on the floor. blood stains had soaked through the carpet onto the pad underneath. whoever did it was brutal and thorough. >> a great deal of effort was put into cleaning up and corrupting and, in some sense, staging the crime scene. >> investigators eventually determined that ammon had been

immobilized before the murder possibly through the use of a stun gun. >> the medical examiner believed that in addition to the stun gun injuries, at one point someone was probably doing drop-kicking with a knee to crush his rib cage. someone wanted to obliterate ted ammon, and they did. >> at this point in time, everything's a motive. and his stature, his financial status, is certainly things to be taken into consideration. >> during his life, ted ammon certainly earned that stature. born into a comfortable, middle class family in pittsburgh, he seemed destined to do well in business. he graduated from bucknell at the top of his class, but initially turned his back on a business career. >> ted ammon was sort of a small town kid who made very, very good. >> michael shnayerson is a writer for "vanity fair," he charted ted's rise to success.

>> very smart guy who then ends up in the early '80s working for kohlberg, kravis, roberts doing leveraged buyouts. >> he was kind of a financial buccaneer. and he wanted to make a lot of money, and he did. >> wealthy and fresh off of a divorce from his first wife, ted was popular on the new york dating scene. in 1983 he met genera rand, a real estate agent. blond and attractive, generosa looked as if she jumped off the pages of a society magazine. instead, she had a more humble background. >> very modest upbringings. and after her mother died, apparently she was shunted from, you know, foster home to foster home. she did go to college at irvine, california, but then came to new york pretty much on her own. >> despite their differences, generosa and ted hit it off. they were married in 1984 and lived in a townhouse on the upper east side. they eventually bought a modest nondescript house in exclusive

east hampton. generosa, who was trained as an artist, poured all of her energies into the renovation. >> she turned it into this extraordinary kind of english cottage -- cottage meaning really mansion, and it looks like something right out of surrey. >> but along the way, according to reports, her temper would flare up and overwhelm the people who worked for her. >> one contractor told me about planting 600 tulips for her in their east hampton house in a shade agreed upon by her. and the next weekend she was ripping them all out in a fury saying that it wasn't quite the right shade. and this is the kind of rage she would have at outsiders. so, one can only infer what went on behind closed doors. >> the ammons kept up appearances. ted and generosa bought more property, including this enormous 45-room estate in england. and in 1992, after years of

unsuccessfully trying to have children, the couple adopted twins alexa and gregor from the ukraine. >> they were literally adopted by american millionaires, and they were flying on private jets. they were going to all the resorts. these kids were given every advantage. they had a whole staff, nanny, butler, cook, chauffeur, and for a while, also security. >> outward appearances hid an increasingly troubled marriage. ted and generosa gradually grew apart. generosa suspected he was having an affair. as for ted, he grew frustrated with generosa's behavior. >> generosa would blow up, you know, dynamite friendships. a perceived slight, very often mistaken, and she would never have anything to do with that person again. she detested them. >> so, in august 2000, generosa filed for divorce. ted tried to make arrangements for generosa and the children.

>> he actually bought an apartment at 1125 fifth for generosa thinking that that would be the one that she and the kids would move into when they separated. then she decided she didn't like that and that's when she decided to buy the townhouse on 87th. >> it cost $9 million. under generosa's orders, the townhouse was completely gutted. over the next year, she would pour millions of ted's money into its renovation. >> generosa had been told by some people that the judge will freeze your level of living. so, she ratcheted it up until she was living like a queen. >> she was a queen without a king. but one day, while she was patroling the job site, an electrician from long island named danny pelosi caught her eye. >> she called me up and told me she wanted me to check the telephone to see if it was bugged by her husband at the hotel. so, i knew it was an excuse just to get me over there. >> once inside that door, danny

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in the fall of 2000, danny pelosi, an unlicensed electrician, met generosa ammon, a wealthy woman in the midst of a bitter divorce from her millionaire husband ted. danny and generosa hit it off. she called danny her tool belt guy. right away, it was clear who was calling the shots in their relationship. >> she started bringing me to court. this was the knife in ted's back. she comes to the job and she tells me, "from now on, you only work from 8:00 to 10:00 in the morning, from 1:00 to 3:00, and you come back at 5:00 to shut down the job. the rest of the time you spend with me." >> there was a headline even to that effect. it's, "pelosi the gigolosi." he was being a gigolo.

he did it consciously, some say with the acquiescence of his wife, but, of courseat eventually ended. although for someone who's estranged from his wife, he's putting a lot of money into his wife's house, where his kids live. >> until now, pelosi's children rachelle and daniel never talked about their father to the media. but they remember the effect that generosa's money would have on their father. >> he would splurge with his money. he would give it out to anybody and everybody. he would -- i guess he didn't want to leave it. i guess, he wanted -- that's kind of what kept him with generosa. >> danny pelosi reveled in his newfound wealth. >> i loved to have the power. i loved the power and authority to fire who and hire who, and use this trade and use that trade. but when i was given that power, it took the person who i am away. >> pelosi had a tough guy

persona, but he didn't learn it on the streets. he was born in queens, the fourth of six children. his father, bob, was a banker and ex-marine. in the late 1960s, bob and his wife janet moved their family to the long island town of center moriches. it was a middle class suburb. >> we were a close family. >> barbara is danny's older sister. >> he always seemed to find all the activity. he always knew where things were going on. whenever something was happening, you knew danny was close by. >> and that could mean a bit of trouble. in school, danny got into fights with other boys. to toughen him up, his father taught him to box. and if danny stepped out of line at home, his father would let him have it. >> we kind of all were afraid that, you know, oh, no, dad's going to find out. he wasn't unusually strict. i thought everybody's father was like that.

>> as danny got older and ran a little wilder, he started to get in trouble outside the family's reach. danny's run-ins with the police embarrassed his father. >> he had a series of dwis and things like that. and his father, his family, would stand behind him. they'd bail him out of jail. they'd get him a lawyer. he'd get off. and then he'd get on the wagon for a while. then he'd screw up and get caught again. you know, this was a pattern for his whole life. >> danny's father bob would not appear on camera, but he told us the whole ordeal with his son has been difficult. and that's all he had to say. >> my father, that ain't so tough. i despise him. >> danny, on the other hand, has plenty to say about his father. >> my father was a man who made you work for anything you got. i got married at 18 years old. my father offered me $4,000. didn't want me to get married. so i defied him right then and there.

the wars began. >> in his mid-20s, danny sobered up for a few years and worked a series of jobs to pay the bills for his young family. >> he broke his back every day just to keep food on the table. times weren't easy back when we were kids. >> danny's kids recall the constant arguments he had with his wife. even the string of extramarital affairs. >> he had his cheating ways, you know, with all his other women and, like, we know all about that. >> still, his kids choose to recall another side of his personality. >> i remember all my friends thought he was like the funniest guy. we used to go on trips. he was just like a big kid. >> he was just fun. that's -- i guess that's the best way to explain it. good guy. >> things got much easier in the fall of 2000 when danny met generosa. suddenly, he was spending his nights on the egyptian cotton sheets of the stanhope hotel in manhattan. during the day, he was now in charge of the entire renovation

on the upper east side townhouse. even by manhattan standards, the construction site was posh. >> all of a sudden we got these sandwiches coming wrapped in this hot wrap plastic stuff with little napkins and towels and stuff -- food we have never eaten before in our life, you know? one sandwich, which is like three bites, is $30, you know? and we got a buffet. >> danny and generosa were regulars at the tony stanhope bar, where they entertained scores of danny's pals from long island. >> it was the perfect revenge mode for generosa, because she was spending all her husband's money having the renovation get more and more elaborate and the money was going to her boyfriend. what could be better if you really wanted to stick it to your ex-husband? >> coming up, a lethal combination. sex -- >> i remember the first time i saw them kiss. i was like, oh, my god. >> -- and money.

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msnbc now. i'm alex witt. a large crowd in happy valley as penn state is playing its first game since 1966 without former coach joe paterno. paterno was one of several officials to lose their jobs amid a sex abuse scandal. he was reportedly at home today when people were seen outside kneeling and praying. fans walked by shouting things like, "we love you, coach." i'm alex witt. more news later. in the summer of 2001, generosa ammon and her boyfriend danny pelosi were living the high life. each month, they would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on expensive home renovations and just plain indulgence.

>> spend, spend, spend. casinos, vacations. he was giving the gifts, spreading money around. the prosecution believed that he was spreading money around because he was hiding it. he had never had this kind of money. this was his dream come true and he was living large. >> generosa's husband ted was well aware of his wife's boyfriend and how the new couple spent money like water. ammon's lawyers were offering to settle the divorce for $24 million. generosa kept fighting for more. >> she always feared poverty. and it seems amusing to regular folks that, oh, $24 million wasn't enough for her, but she was operating on an edge here. >> on top of that, generosa suspected ted was carrying on an affair at the east hampton house. >> he had an affair with a very attractive banker. some say it looked like generosa but younger.

of course, generosa was convinced that ted had fathered a child, a child that she could not provide ted, out of wedlock. >> according to danny pelosi, news of this baby sent generosa over the edge. she asked pelosi to kill her husband. >> yes, she asked me. when she asked me, i went right to the people who i was around in my crowd the most and said, she's whack, man. she offered me 50 grand to [ bleep ] tune-up ted. huh? she wanted him hurt. >> ted ignored advice about his own security, but he was worried about his kids, especially when he found out about danny pelosi. >> he'd already had a couple of dwis at that point. he wasn't someone you necessarily wanted shepherding your young children around. >> ted hired detectives to follow pelosi. generosa retaliated, hiring her own private eyes to spy on ted. it was getting ugly.

so, in the summer of 2001, danny pelosi, acting on orders from generosa, contacted safeguard alarms, a company that installs surveillance systems. >> this is basically a very similar unit. >> the owner is john candul. >> danny was big on security. basically, he wanted to make sure they were protected. >> pelosi asked him to install a surveillance system in the east hampton house while ted was away in europe. candul placed a total of eight cameras around the house, many hidden in movement and smoke detectors such as these. all of these cameras were fed into a single dvd recorder hidden on the second floor. ted had no idea about the system. >> no one off the street will figure it out because it was hidden in a private room that you had to enter through a closet. and inside that little room was another room that was boarded up with roughly about eight

three-inch sheetrock screws into the wood, which you couldn't access. >> generosa hired danny's sister barbara to monitor the house from a laptop computer, and informer of ted's comings and goings. >> at one point -- i don't remember the exact time period, but it was in the month of september. there was somebody just briefly i saw in the kitchen with ted. >> ted was spending weekends at the east hampton house, partly to get away from his messy divorce and to distance himself from the events of the 9/11 terror attacks in manhattan. still, by october, things were looking better. >> he felt actually optimistic. you know? he was through that worst part. the papers were going to be signed. >> the prosecution would later argue that if there was a perfect time to kill ted ammon, this was it. and if there was motive, it hinged on one crucial detail that had not been ironed out in the divorce proceedings. >> as it turns out, ted's will had not been updated since 1995.

it gave his entire estate to generosa. >> on saturday, october 20th, 2001, ted drove his porsche to east hampton. later, he ate dinner alone in a local restaurant. then, he took a walk on a secluded beach. he made a cell phone call to his girlfriend. he told her he wandered onto a gay beach and he was fearful of some strange men in the vicinity. >> then, the question was, how could ted ammon not know it was a gay beach? this was a notorious gay beach in the hamptons and it does happen to be the beach closest to ted ammon's own house. but what was he doing on a beach at 9:40 at night? >> kieran crowley says it's possible danny and generosa had devised a plot to lure ted to the beach. once there, they could frame him with photographs alongside other men. it could explain why ted felt afraid while walking on the beach. >> they were looking to level the playing field. and i think, quite frankly,

blackmail was where they were going. >> after his walk on the beach, ted ammon returned home and went to bed. >> that's the last we heard from him. we don't know what happened to him after that. >> we do know that he was bludgeoned to death. when the police arrived to survey the crime scene, they noticed the security cameras. they contacted john candul. he told them about the secret hiding place for the unit that recorded the video. the trap door was open. the hard drive was gone. the police wondered, what was on the hard drive? >> everything. all the recording video from before the murder and to the day that the police showed up. since it's missing, only a few people know where it was. >> the day after the murder, one of those people, danny pelosi, had a strange question for his father. >> danny approached and said, "if you had something and you wanted to put it somewhere no one would ever find it, how would you do it?" >> the nanny f.

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with all respect to the press and your diligence, we have no comment at this point. >> ted ammon's murder was a new york tabloid reporter's meal ticket. a rich man dead. his widow in love with the prime suspect, danny pelosi, an electrician from long island. >> are you danny pelosi? >> you know i'm danny pelosi. get out of here. >> pelosi, against the advice of his lawyers, could not avoid the

lure of cameras. >> who could have killed ted ammon? >> if i had that answer, i'd give it to you, because there's more pressure on me than anybody here. >> my client's danny pelosi. >> it didn't help in the court of public opinion that he and generosa had retained a high-priced attorney just days after the killing. but what really set tongues wagging was their marriage in january 2002, just three months after the murder. >> staggering. at least you would have to say she recovered quickly from her grief for her former husband. >> to escape the media spotlight, danny and generosa moved with the children to england. that didn't last long. danny was forced to go back to new york within a month to face a felony drunk driving charge. fearful that he'd flee the country, authorities suspended his passport. three months later, generosa began to suffer from a series of fainting spells. she was diagnosed with breast

cancer and returned to the states. the couple bought a decidedly down market ranch-style house in danny's hometown of center moriches. the house was surrounded by reporters. danny's kids were filled with questions. >> i never actually said, dad, did you kill ted ammon? i never thought, like, he was my dad. i would never think that he would do that. he told us, he said, i did not -- you know, whatever you read in the papers, i did not do this. >> generosa underwent chemotherapy and brought in a full-time nanny to take care of her and her children that she'd adopted with her late husband ted. the nanny's name was kaye mayne. according to danny, she was responsible for slowly squeezing him out of generosa's life. >> the nanny from hell. the british bitch. i despise her. i hope she -- i really hope and pray that god gives her everything she deserves in life,

huh? >> kaye mayne was a naral while he was busy dodging the cops and the lawyers, she was gaining generosa's trust. in the summer, pelosi pled guilty to the drunk driving charge and was sentenced to a year in jail. his sister barbara was still on generosa's payroll. if things changed between her brother and generosa, she didn't notice. >> i was the only one there with generosa and kaye. i was always told from generosa, there's nothing for anybody to worry about. nothing's going to happen to danny. >> a grand jury was convened in june of 2003, but the case against pelosi was weak. investigators had no murder weapon, fingerprints or any physical evidence tying pelosi to the crime scene. >> as you know, we have pretty consistently taken the position that we're not going to make any comments about this case.

>> but as the months rolled on, the d.a.'s office began to get the type of evidence to build a solid murder case. the evidence came from danny pelosi's own mouth. a year before the murder, pelosi talked to a co-worker, nick nicolino, saying he would get a way to get generosa's money and deal with her husband ted. >> and danny expressed his, you know, desire to have ted off the scene. perhaps he just thought ted maybe deserved to have his, quote/unquote, brains bashed in. >> in a story with many twists, the next one is tough to fathom. just three days after ted's murder, in the midst of intense police suspicion, danny broke away from generosa and started a brief affair with a woman named tracy rebenfeld. she would later recall how danny bragged about doing the murder. >> at one point she said, why did you do this? and he said because -- and he became very emotional and thumped his chest and said,

because i got a monster inside me. >> pelosi says rebenfeld was pressured by the police to make these statements. danny says he never used the word "monster" to describe himself. >> i've been described by a psychiatrist who did a report that there's monster inside of me. but "monster" ain't one of my words. "animal"? yeah. i got an animal in me, yeah. that's me. "monster"? "monster" don't fit. >> just as these admissions began to surface, generosa's health began to give way. on august 27th, 2003, at lennox hill hospital in manhattan, generosa died. she was 47 years old. in her final will, she left everything to her adopted children and, ironically, the ammon foundation, a charity ted had started. she named the children's nanny kaye mayne as their guardian and gave her the mansion in east hampton. >> the minute generosa ammon

died, kaye mayne goes and talks to the district attorney and says, "oh, by the way, danny pelosi told me he killed ted ammon." well, that was two weeks after generosa died. "when did he tell you this?" "oh, he told me this a year and a half ago." and the police came to you how many times? >> kaye mayne later testified she didn't come forward because she was convinced pelosi was showing off. she changed her mind when news reports surfaced about how the murder was committed. armed with all of the statements, the police made their move. on march 22nd, 2004, danny pelosi was indicted, charged in the beating death of ted ammon. >> the day he got indicted, he came over in the morning and came into the kitchen and he was just like, this is it. this is real. i'm going to go in and be home before christmas.

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>> our case can defeat their case, period. >> october 13, 2004. the state of new york versus daniel pelosi. the trial opened nearly three years to the day after ted a americas mond was murdered in his east hamptones kate. his wife, generosa was a victim of breast cancer. before she died generosa's lawyers arranged for a post-nuptial agreement which pelosi used to pay for his defense. >> danny pelosi had the best murder defense that ted ammon's millions could buy. he hired one of the top best

attorneys in the country. >> this case was unique for several reasons. there was no murder weapon. there was no direct evidence in the case. the prosecution's case was argued by janet albertson, a tough assistant d.a. from suffolk county, new york. on the first day at trial she had a surprise announcement. >> two additional witnesses that we expect to testify and that those witness hess a direct admission from the defendant in this matter. >> the prosecution had 40 hours of secret jailhouse recordings between danny and a prison informant named clayton moultry. >> albertson explained to the jury that danny told moultry that he was trying to break every bone in his body and he hit him with a baseball bat. >> in 40 hours' worth of recordings, these were one blurb

of i did it, i will sit in prison for the rest of my life and i will not even go for an appeal. >> the opening day set the tone for the rest of the trial. the prosecution proved that pelosi had owned and even playfully used a stun gun on co-workers and danny's sister barbara testified that she felt something hard underneath danny's jacket when she hugged him good-bye on the night of the murder. >> yes, i felt something, and like i said, maybe it was his cell phone. i don't know. >> john testified about the secret surveillance system. >> there were a few people who knew. obviously myself and a girlfriend of mine and dane, of course. >> pelosi's convoluted timeline was picked apart. >> the medical examiner left open a large window of time at which time ted ammon was killed and that window is wide enough

that danny pelosi could have gone to the house, could have committed the murder. >> then the star witness took the stand. it was danny pelosi's father. the jury leaned in to hear him say that on the day after ammon was killed his son asked him where to hide something. it was a reference to the missing dvd recorder. a father testifying against his son is certainly dramatic. the jury was not prepared for what came next. during the cross-examination by the defense, jerry shardel took bob pelosi back, back to the time when he raised his son with an iron fist. he asked him if he'd taught dan toe box, he wanted to know if he had ever broken his son's nose. bob pelosi's reaction was one of shock. >> he says how could you say that i broke your nose and danny started to get out of his seat and he said you couldn't. and he said it with such anger

meaning i'm tougher than you, and the jury literally did this, they went -- they sat -- they moved away from danny. it was downhill after that point. >> his defense team continued to fight. they made a great deal out of the fact that ted's last phone call came from a gay beach. they even produced a witness who testified he had sex with ted on the night of the murder. >> i had no idea who this man was that i was with, but when i saw his photograph in the newspaper, i knew it was him. >> the media had a field day. >> literally, it was laughed out of court. >> pelosi's defense team called few witnesses and then made a motion to rest. pelosi was outraged. after hearing dozens of witnesses put words in his mouth and reading headline after headline pointing to him as the killer, he was determined to talk. he was about to be disappointed. >> they gave me five minutes to

make up my mind, and when i did he asked me five questions, did i do it? what i there? was i in the town? was i in the village? that was it. that was it. >> pelosi had opened the door to cross-examination. and when the prosecutors got eir turn they ripped into him. albertson introduced a 20-year-old psychological report which was done when danny sued an insurance company over work-related injuries. the report painted pelosi as manipulative, narcissistic, violent-prone and a menace. after three days of deliberations, the jury returned a guilty verdict. >> my reaction to the verdict, i was floored. i was -- i was, like, you've got to be kidding me. you've really got to be kidding me. >> gut punched. he looked gut punched. he really believed that he had done a great job on the stand,

and he really believed that he was walking out of there. >> pelosi was sentenced to 27 years to life to serve in upstate new york. ted and generosa's children, alexa and griego were adopted by ted's sister in alabama. one surprising twist in the story is that a few months after his wife generosa died and before his trial, pelosi started a new relationship with a 28-year-old bank teller named jennifer. >> he has his faults. nobody's perfect, but he's a good person in his heart. he would never want to see anybody hurt. >> in january, 2006, danny and jennifer were married. she gave birth to a son, nick, and now she has to prepare him for the obvious questions about his father. >> well, you know, there's no real way to prepare, but i

think, you know as long as he knows that his father loves him and -- i don't know. >> pelosi filed his appeal in late summer of 2007. he has issues with the quality of his defense team. says key witnesses were never called and claims he has evidence which will prove his friend christopher perrino was hired by generosa to kill her husband. pelosi pictures the day when he can walk out of danamora as a free man. >> he says he's an innocent man, but because he's been convicted it's now flipped. he's been proven guilty. he's guilty until he can prove himself innocent. >> i'm not a celebrity up here. i'm an inmate. i'm dan pelosi,