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you're a man. you're grown. you shouldn't have to do this. >> an inmate with suspicious tax forms becomes a problem for the jail. >> don't be treating me like i'm
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stupid. i don't have time to -- >> a murder ends with the victim burned alive in a dumpster and pits friends and family against each other. >> this case is interesting because they all have a different story. >> i witnessed them stab ibing him. >> they're saying i'm the wing leader. i think they thought he was dead already and took him to burn him. >> i saw casey pouring the gasoline on him. >> different stories with different people. >> i guess a lot of it has to do with the company you keep. once a year, tampa, florida, undergoes an invasion complete with pirates and blasting
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cannons. the gasparilla festival is one of the biggest events of the year, celebrating tampa bay's buccaneer past. when debauchery and fantasy goes reality, there's a place eight miles outside downtown more than willing to accommodate defenders. the hillsborough county jail is actually comprised of two sprawling facilities with an average daily population of more than 3500 men and women. >> it takes a bit walking from one point to the other so we like to utilize golf carts. depending upon where i'm going and what my function is when i get there, if i have to be there in a hurry, i definitely use the cart. it's smarter. if i'm going two housing units down, i'll usually walk and get
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exercise. >> four miles away is the orient road facility where up to another 1700 inmates can be housed. both are led by a secret service agent who learn ed traveling wih the vice president. >> traveling around with vice president cheney taught me a lot of self-discipline qualities i need to succeed here. much of what i learned there has helped me running the jails. >> we run a pretty orderly operation here. the inmate behavior for the most part is not to a level we're concerned. we look at jails around the country, violence is pretty widespread, not what we typically deal with on a regular basis. >> here, 140 arrestees are processed at the orient road facility and the potential for violence is always present.
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>> you can't ever let your guard down. if you let your guard down here, as soon as you do, that's when something bad happens. that's what makes booking unique. it's the fact that you are dealing with them right as they are coming in. they are agitated, scared, you know, confused. you'll have a room with 40, 50, 100 people. just by looking, you never know what they in here for. you never judge a book by his cover. the guy who looks like he is in here for murder and might be here for a joint and the little old lady sitting in the corner that looks like she's in here for nothing might be the one who just stabbed her husband. >> most of the men and women in intake are here within hours of arriving. unlike prison where all the inmates have been convicted, most jail inmates are standing accused of crime and are being held while their cases are making their way through the legal system. but once a day a bus load of state prison inmates arrive most
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appealing convictions or sentences and will remain here until the appeals are settled in nearby courts. >> some of these inmates come from state prison and they have boxes and boxes of legal materials that we have to search through for contraband. >> the search process angered one of the new state prisoners. >> he is agitated because we are going through his property and legal materials page by page. >> the inmate became threatening when they found suspicious documents in his legal paperwork and confiscated him. >> he is a state prisoner serving 30-plus years. he's aggravated. i'll put extra staff on him. >> the jail takes no risks with new arrivals especially from the state prison system. nearby, in housing unit 6f, sergeant sarah herman has just learned that the agitated inmate is headed her way. >> i'm getting a new arrival from the booking area.
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my sergeant just called me and told me that this gentleman is not happy. taking one, two, three, four, five, six. >> once he is out of their custody we bring it down emotionally so he doesn't cause any disruption in my area. >> thank you, we appreciate it. >> we'll talk when we get you secured in a cell. >> here it is. >> bring your hands forward. >> thanks, sarge. >> the inmate is brian singletary serving a 30-year prison sentence for crimes including assault on a law enforcement officer, carrying a concealed firearm and intepossen with intent to sell. >> what is your complaint? >> i have been getting treated bad since i got here. i have been singled out. >> what happened? >> my legal stuff that went through and tore up. you know what i mean. i don't know what has been taken
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and not been taken. >> we have no interest in taking your legal stuff. you understand? >> it is taking me out of my -- out of your element. you're here early. your number came up. exactly. >> i had deadlines. i need my legal stuff. >> right now, it's clear you are very frustrated and angry, right? >> yeah. >> get me an opportunity to get with your booking sergeant and get you your legal stuff. we'll be done with it. okay? >> master deputy steven gray is one of the jail's internal investigators. he knows singletary from his prior stays at the jail. >> what i've got here is the paperwork that was confiscated from inmate singletary. i suspect it's the reason why he is upset. we have income tax forms, the 1040 ez forms that he has filled out all different individuals. they have all their social security numbers on here. on his homemade spread sheet we have a refund due anywhere from 4,000 all the way up to $6500.
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there's a lot of money here and i suspect he is not doing income tax paperwork for the guards or anything like that. you would only think he is up to no good as far as filing fake returns to obtain money. it could be huge. >> so huge that it doesn't take long for word of the tax returns to reach the top of the hillsborough county jail system. they don't know why singletary has the returns or that he is involved in anything wrongful but the possibility of misconduct concerns them. >> one of the things i did during the time i was a secret service agent in tampa was investigate bank fraud and identity threat. i dealt with people who were ruined. it is the most underrated crime in this country. he arrives with that kind of information and personal data about what could be potentially be dozens of innocent people we take that seriously. >> coming up. >> all of it is a part of my case. >> brian singletary continues
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his disruptive behavior. >> relax. bring the tone down a little bit. relax. let me take a look. and three former roommates implicate each other in a gruesome crime. >> they are saying i planned it, i made everybody do it. ♪ vo:wiplus wireless speaker,rhead bold is the proud sponsor of singing in the shower.
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there are nearly 500 women incarcerated at the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida. most live in dormitory style housing units. but another portion of the female population lives in cells with far more restrictive conditions. >> this is a lockdown unit. we deal with several types of inmates. we have high profile inmates. we have psych inmates. we have disciplinary.
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it is usually an inmate in the news recently because of their charges. >> rosanna dimauro's case is high profile with enough media coverage. >> you are helpless. you can't fend for yourself or get a roll of toilet paper when you need it. anything you want done you have to ask to be done for you. dimauro is allowed at of her cell one hour a day. >> this is the hour we get to schedule our outside visits. and this is the hour we get to shower. >> it's also a chance to socialize with the other inmates on the unit who are out at the same time. >> i braid her hair and do her eyebrows. >> i feel good. i feel alive because i have human contact.
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>> she has been on this unit for seven months earlier for alleged ly playing a role in a sadistic murder in tampa. reports say the victim was beat beaten, stabbed and burned alive. i'm being charged with murder after the fact. i guess it has to do with the company you keep. >> it has to do with the four men who lived with her and her 4-year-old son who lived in the apartment. all four men have been charged with various roles in the murder. >> this case is interesting because there are four or five defendants and they all have a different story about what happened the night or the morning of the crime. so it is a very tangled web of things. it is something you would see on a tv or movie. there are a bunch of moving parts to this crime.
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it will be something to see how it plays out in court. >> one of those co-defendants is kasey ackerman who was dimauro's live in boyfriend at the time. at 20, he is 18 years her junior. >> i'm implicated as the alpha dog of the house. the man of the household. they're saying that i was the ring leader saying the one that was over it all, i planned it. i made everybody do it. >> ackerman is currently less than 100 yards away from his former girlfriend in the men's confinement unit. he pled not guilty to murdering 26-year-old robert brewer. brewer was living on the streets of tampa when he became friends with dimauro's other male roommates and was invited back to the apartment for dinner. >> i was thinking not another free loader around here.
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>> prosecutors say ackerman grew angry because of the attention brewer was giving to her. >> the whole time he had his shirt off showing off his tattoos to the guys and then to me. >> would you describe kasey as a jealous person? >> yeah. >> dimauro claim that not long after brewer's arrival she went out for the evening. >> the next thing i know, the police were knocking on the door in the morning. and i answered the door. when i answered the door, they said that we need to come in for questioning for murder. and i was really surprised. and i was like where? who got murdered? >> prosecutors say dimauro knew about the murder and helped to clean up the blood afterwards and then covered for some of her roommates who committed the murder. if convicted ackerman, the alleged ringleader, could face the death penalty. but he says he had nothing to do
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with it. >> we're drinking and doing pills, smoking pot just different stuff inside the apartment. and i fell asleep on the couch watching a movie. i didn't hear a commotion or nothing going on. >> if ackerman and dimauro are found guilty, it may be due in part to the testimony of dimauro's 19-year-old son, david li link. he accepted a plea deal and is cooperating with the prosecutors. >> i'm charged with accessory after the fact to first degree murder. and they're going to give me 35.5 months with five years probation. i told them everything i knew from my perception and everything i saw happen in order to help them realize what happened, i feel like i did the right thing. >> link is a separate housing unit at the hillsborough county jail to serve out his sentence. he said his mother was not out as she claimed,
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but in the apartment during the entire ordeal and that ackerman initiated the attack after the victim fell asleep in the bedroom. >> i heard banging around. i didn't know exactly what was happening. at one point kasey came out and i tried to ask what is going on. he said, you don't kneneed to k about it. it's better if you don't know. >> link say that ackerman ordered him to buy gasoline and bring it back to the apartment. when he returned, things were worse. >> he had stab wounds in his neck and chest and i witnessed them stabbing him and they had taken his clothes. at that point, kind of everything hit me what they were doing. >> link says he assumed the gasoline would be used to burn brewer's clothes but instead he claims ackerman and their two male roommates stuffed brewer inside a duffel bag and carried him out to the dumpster. >> i thought he was dead because he wasn't moving or doing nothi nothing. i saw the duff fell bag was
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moving in and out and kasey was starting to pour the gasoline on him. i couldn't -- i was kind of just stuck at that moment. i didn't know what to do. i was just taken aback by the image. >> within seconds the dumpster was in flames and brewer was incinerated. >> were you afraid of kasey that night? >> yeah. >> of what? >> of getting stabbed. i didn't have anything to protect myself. >> since link is already convicted and sentenced for his part in the murder he is eligible to serve his time in a generale population dorm. with far fewer restrictions than the confinement unit. that frustrates kasey ackerman. >> he is in general population right now. it's not right you know what i'm saying? i feel like i'm being punished and at that point all i can do is prepare my mind for the worst and hope for the best. >> you going to be all right? >> in the next cell over brian
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singletary is also frustrated with being in confinement and it's only been a little more than a day now. when he arrived at intake jail officials confiscated suspicious tax forms that he claimed were part of his legal paperwork. now, he wants them back. >> the only thing she did not put in there is some type of tax form. is that what you are talking about? >> the tax stuff all that stuff is part of my case. i got a lot of my stuff in here already. >> relax singletary. i will go down there myself. >> i got more of the same stuff right here. all this is part of my case. this is my federal case. i have more stuff down here. what i'm saying is i have a motion and some more pertinent documents that i need that i talked to my lawyer about. >> relax. bring the tone down a little bit. just relax. let me take a look. >> as the deputy looks into his
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complaints he continues his disruptions, eventually banging on his cell door and drawing the attention of sergeant herman. >> a lot of times they are not thinking about their actions afterwards, the consequences. the people are so angry, they will bang on the window so hard they don't realize their fists are swollen. we have to protect them, even when they don't snknow any bett. >> and singletary is about to find out just what that means. coming up -- >> not fun. >> not fun. >> brian singletary learns about the chair. >> looks a little relaxing until you get into it right? and pepperoni breath fast with tums freshers. concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. ♪ tum...tum...tum... tum...tums! ♪ tums freshers. fast heartburn relief and minty fresh breath.
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at the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, brian singletary's continuing disruptive behavior has not gone without notice. >> i'm calm but i'm numb.
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i can't really feel my legs or my arms. >> it's been 24 hours since singletary arrived from a florida state prison and intake officers searching his paperwork found suspicious documents they believe are linked to a tax fraud scam. singletary denies that. >> i needed to have that legal wor work. >> he has been demanding the return of his paperwork. but his aggressive behavior has prompted him to be put in the restraint chair. >> they are telling me it is confiscated. i'm entitled to my legal work. i wanted someone to talk to me. that is the way to get them to talk to me. but they didn't have no understanding. so it is putting me in the chair for banging on the chair. i don't like the chair. i can say that much. >> it is a time-out. can go anywhere from a few minutes up to four hours. but it's very effective. >> singletary has been in the restraint chair for three hours. sergeant sarah herman will
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determine when he is calm enough to be released back to his cell. >> if it says calm across the board for 30 minutes i go in to have a talk with them to bring it back to this is why you're here. this is why you are placed in the chair. this is not the way to get things done here in the jail. when we talked last time you said i was going to be doing this all day. >> i don't do this. i was upset. >> how do i know your character when you got here yesterday? >> i'm a man of my word. >> you saying that. i do not play. when you decide that you want to be disruptive, consequences are to follow. okay? zero tolerance for negative behavior. >> absolutely. >> you can't destroy things or bang on the windows. it is going to hurt you in the long run. that's why we use the chair. if they are compliant and going in agreeance with what i'm saying, absolutely they'll come out.
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but again it depends on their demeanor. >> you're a man. >> exactly. >> you're grown. >> exactly. >> we should not have to do this. >> exactly. >> did i not give you instructions and tell you when the captain was going to get with you regarding that legal work? >> exactly. >> but you decided to force the issue. >> no. >> we're not going to have that anymore. i want to make sure. >> i gave you my word. >> i need confirmation yes or no? >> you will not have any trouble out of me. no. >> i need confirmation we're not going to have more problems? >> and i said no. >> thank you. >> deputies will now release singletary from the chair and escort him back to his cell in the men's confinement unit. >> your first time in the chair. what did you think? >> not fun. >> not fun. looks relaxing until you get into it, right? >> i'm relaxed all the way
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through it but it's uncomfortablible your whole body be numb. >> absolutely. >> changed his behavior. let him get his feet stable on the ground first. get his bearing. go. >> the nurse is here. going to check you out to make sure everything is okay. >> just get out of the chair. do ankle check. there was no force. you know, compliant. >> not close to the door. >> all the way back. >> okay. >> we're done for the day. i'm just asking, sir. are we done for the day? tell me what i need to do because i have to move on. >> i'm sorry? oh, no. absolutely not. we're there. we're in the same lane. good deal. >> coming up. >> i see her get put in shackles and stuff was not the highlight of my time. >> a jailhouse triangle in which a son could send his mother to
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hello, everyone. here's what's happening. the u.n. secretary general expressing grave concern over the grave sites near damascus and calling for restraint. after eight weeks of decline, gas prices might be headed back up. the price of regular is up a penny over the last two weeks to $3.54 a gallon. now, back to lock-up. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. at hillsborough county jail
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in tampa, florida, inmate david link discovered a creative way to spend his time. >> i'm about to color this picture. i'm having to do it with mm-m &. i put them in water on the spoon. i wait for the color to come off that. i have a pencil without any lead in it i have folded over with wood and i dip this in it and paint the picture. i got the basic colors from the m & m. the chocolate is left and i'll eat that. link is the son of rosanna dimauro whose ex-boyfriend is kasey ackerman. all three are in the custody of the hillsborough county jail on various charges related to the stabbing and incineration murder of 26-year-old robert brewer. the crime made local headlines and like all such incidents, caught the attention of master
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deputy stephen grey. >> what we have here is our high profile board. anything that makes the paper. they will make the board. this is an interesting case. an older female is dating a younger male who is friends with her son and they are now locked up in our facility awaiting trial. >> ackerman who prosecutors say was the ring leader of the murder has been held in the men's lock down unit where he is confined to a cell 23 hours a day since his arrest eight months earlier. >> the finger's been pointed. you know what i'm say iing. i've been implicated in it. this is where i got to sit. >> thoughts of dimauro occupy his time. >> this is her sitting on the back of her mom's couch. that hears on the beach of the coast of california. she took that part of my heart. just something, you know what i'm saying. >> but dimauro doesn't share
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ackerman's passion. >> it wasn't on intended on being a relationship. it was intended on being one night thing. we weren't together that long. just a couple months. so it wasn't something i was planning on going forward with. >> as ackerman awaits his murder trial in jail he writes love poems. >> it's called my wondering love for her. here i am wondering if i will ever get to see the light of day because i have this love for her that will never go away. but not that day. all she did was be crazy and run away and i will never leave again and i will -- and i love you so, so much, man. so much. so much that i -- that i want to stay. so now it is our very lucky day. i love rosanna, so much. i'm saying, i spent my days thinking about her, what we should do, what we can do.
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i wish that i could write her but she don't write back. >> in jail, inmates in different housing units are not allowed to correspond but someone else has been writing to dimauro. >> there is a lot of letters. >> she recently reconnected to a former co-worker and they have forged a bond. >> love you and hope you like the card. >> he takes care of me in here. he gives me money for canteen and visits me every day. he writes me letters every day. i am locked in this cell 24 hours a day. and he is there with the caring words somebody needs to hear. >> i probably done lost my chance, you know what i'm saying. she will probably move on and find another person to be with. it hurts in some ways but there is nothing i can do about it if she wants to be with me or someone else. >> i wanted to spend the rest of my life with her and still do.
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>> but dimauro is concerned about her son, david link. >> this is my son david. this is when he was 16. when i look at the photograph, it makes me think of the good times we had together. he's funny. he's always -- he's always making me laugh. and that's what i miss most about him. >> since they were arrested dimauro has seen link only once during a court hearing. >> when i went to court, my son, david, did a heart motion, like this. he put his hands like this in a heart shape and said that he loved me. he couldn't speak out loud but he just motioned his lips, i love you. it made me burst out crying. >> link accepted a plea deal for his role in the murder and could be called to testify against his mother and ackerman. >> i don't really want to testify against no one. i've always been a believer that truth will set you free and everything. this crime was against my morals. the easiest way tore me to fight
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that in my mind was to tell them the truth about exactly what happened. >> his testimony could send his mother to prison for years. >> i could lose my whole entire life. my biggest fear is not getting out until my kids are grown and my grandchildren are grown. i'm upset but i love my son. he's blood. he's family, no matter what. and i love him to death. but you know, i really feel sad that he would do something like that. >> her trial potentially months away dimauro copes with her time in confinement by sleeping 16 hours a day. >> i like to sleep if i can. it takes away all the pain. i don't want to feel anything right now. if i did i'd break apart and i can't allow that to happen for my kids. it's better to sleep it through than to sit here and think and think and think. it's not fun. it's not fun.
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>> coming up. >> what's going on brian? >> brian singletary faces an interrogation from authorities. >> i don't have nothing to hide. i'm not guilty about anything. >> you need to cut your hair. >> i ain't cutting my hair. >> and kasey ackerman faces a different sort of interrogation from his little sister. >> i told you you don't need to have a wife with a sister like me.
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at the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, master deputy stephen grey notice as story in the paper that hits close to home.
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>> the headline is inmates stole $39 million from the irs in 2009. and that is only what they caught in the audits. taken cover story continues on the second page. that is a huge article. you go to the list and the number one is florida. >> according to the report prison inmates in florida accounted for $12.6 million in fraudulent claims, almost a third of the national total. >> not only are we number one we are pretty ahead of the game as far as number wise. it's actually amazing what they can do from behind bars. what they do is they might file five or ten. they might nile 30 and it's just hit and miss what goes through and doesn't go through. they do a lot of homework and have people on the outside that actually help them, friends, family. it is a big organized crime deal if you look at it. premeditated obviously. it's pretty sinister. >> it's been two months since deputies uncovered what they believed was just such a scam
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when state prison inmate brian singletary came through booking. >> we took a bunch of suspicious paperwork off of him that looked like it might be used for tax fraud. >> about $70,000 worth of tax refunds were listed in the ledger of documents confiscated. he maintained that the documents were part of his legal case and changed his story saying they belonged to another inmate. now deputy gray wants to find out more. >> what's going on, brian? been all right? all right, bro. told you i'd come back down and talk with you over that stuff we confiscated off you when you came in. going to be honest with you, you know, it's going to be confiscated. you're not getting any of that back. >> i told you it's not mine anyway. it doesn't much matter. >> they treating you okay? you ain't been in the chair
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since that second day? >> no. i'm all right. >> i figured you'd calm down. you ever get the rest of your legal? >> they gave me some hard times. >> you got it though? >> yeah. >> i've known him on and off far few years. i'm hoping he will open up to someone like myself. i have been studying the whole tax fraud thing that goes on in prison. are you aware that that kind of stuff goes on in prison? >> i've read up on it. >> i've seen it on the news. >> you know the 1040 forms and the 1040 ezs and they use other people's names. i was wondering if there's other angles that they take. >> i don't know known that does it. i don't get into. that. >> all right. >> it's frustrating for me to talk to brian singletary. he is intelligent and well-read on the law. he wants to beat around the bush never wants to give you full
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truth answers. and you have to extract a little bit of truth from what he is telling you. between you and i you have to know when somebody looks at that paperwork, how it looks. >> i was just holding it. i didn't know what it was. i stuck it in my stuff. >> you think that guy you were holding it for, your buddy is that what he's into? >> i guess. >> you're an educated guy. >> but it would be an opinion. >> i'm saying educated guess. >> if that's what he do that's what he do. >> one plus one is equaling two. >> i'm saying as far as i'm concerned. >> i'm not saying you have any -- i already know. my gut feeling is if he's not running the tax scam he has close associates up in state prison that are doing this. >> you want to know about the tax forms. make it easy for me. >> he's willing to give us information but of course with brian singletary he wants something in return and what
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he's wanting is something i can't give him and that's help on his current appeal, is why he's up in state prison right now. and that just can't happen. as of right now it's pretty much a dead issue with brian singletary unless i'm hoping he gets second thoughts and maybe in two or three days he puts in the word he wants to talk to me again. >> i've always shot straight with you. i'm not going to lie to you. that's not how i run my game. it's not going get me anywhere, not going to get you anywhere. if you need anything, you know what i mean. you want to talk about something, we'll talk. >> okay. >> all right? >> all right. >> this guy was in prison and he's got people's personal information. we put alarm systems on our cars and houses but we sometimes tend to dish our personal information out freely. from my experience the one thing you should protect more than anything is that kind of
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information and for this guy to have it is a wakeup call. for any who sees this story. they are out there and have your information, they can ruin your life. >> one cell over from singletary's, 21-year-old kasey ackerm ackerman, awaiting a trial on a murder charge is confined to his cell for 23 hours a day. limiting times for visits from family, including the person he is closest too, his half sister tara. she has come to see him today. the jail requires the inmates to stay in their housing units and the visits are conducted via telephone and tv. >> hey woman. >> hi, hot stuff. can you see me? >> how is it going? >> i cussed your sister out last night. >> yeah. >> have you heard about rosanna? >> she's just right across the hall. >> is david link still in there? is he still in county?
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are you worry about what he is testifying? >> i not worrying about any of them. i will smile and grin at them. cheese. >> are you going to testify? >> my lawyer said it's not in my interest to take the stand against them. don't do it. >> you know i'll be there. >> yep. >> what are we going to do with your hair for trial? >> i'm going to put it up. >> you need to do something with your eyebrows. they're getting really really bushy. you need to cut your hair. >> i ain't cutting my hair. >> it looks nasty. >> you going to shave it off? >> i told you you don't need a wife when you got a sister like me? >> i don't need a wife because i have a sister like you? >> yeah. i'm your real bride. you better not replace me. >> who said i will replace you. >> i have mixed emotions. it's happy because i get to see him but i leave and he stays. i was trying to get him off the
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streets. i was letting all of them stay at my house rosanna, david, all of them. i used to cook all of them dinner. i think rosanna, what a scam artist. >> you don't lie rosanna anymore? >> i hate that -- she chokes. i shouldn't say that. >> she'll be all right. >> i don't believe he did it. me he might have participated after the fact. what they say, how he stabbed a man, how he broke his skull, no. he probably helped put him in the dumpster but he is not the ring leader. i know he's not the ring leader. never. coming up -- >> good morning. >> rosanna dimauro takes a turn for the worse. >> i have a concern about her. i think she needs to be evaluated. >> while her son dreams of a brighter future. >> my dream would be to be big with music or be an actor.
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in the hillsborough county jail's number six housing unit the corporal keep as close eye on the cleanliness of the inmates in her supervision. >> i go around to each room every day. it is something they expect. they see me and they jump to it. you will see them get up and mocy on upstairs. they know what they expect. you got your bed made? it looks good. you keep it nice and neat in here. i appreciate that. >> it's important to keep the jail clean. it keeps down illnesses. people are here from all walks of life. they come from places that -- homeless with no medical care and they bring a lot of disease and germs and in order to keep that down we maintain a clean atmosphere.
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i want their beds made. i want the room picked up. i don't want trash on the floor. it's important to have uniformity here. if you don't things get crazy. >> in the confinement unit, the corporal notices a problem in the cell of rosanna dimauro. it's a mess. >> i saw paper on the floor and a toilet unflushed. not good. >> good morning. you sleeping by the light today? >> yeah. >> i want to talk to you. i notice you like to sleep here next to the light. is that why you put your mattress there. you scared of the dark? >> i was watching tv actually. i fell asleep. >> and you fell asleep there. what happened to the rest of your room? you have pads there on your commode and it's not flushed. >> i'm sorry.
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>> that's not going to work. why don't you do that now. and pull those pads off the commode. >> there were maxi pads stuck to the toilet seat which is beyond disgusting. >> what's going on with you? your room is a mess lately. i just moved. >> i haven't put it back together. >> how long since you moved? >> a couple days. >> does it take a couple days to clean up your room. i'm being honest. >> not if i started it right away but i put it off and didn't do it. >> what are we doing now? >> i'll clean it up today. >> a messy cell is a concern not only for sanitary reasons but what it might indicate about an inmate's state of mind. >> she normally keeps her area really clean. but it is not. it's not common to be in a disarray. when they change their patterns like that you wonder if their mind set is still the same. maybe going into depression. the first thing i'm going to do
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is contact our medical team. >> this is corporal mimms. i have a request for you rosanna dimauro. i think she needs to be evaluated. >> what is going on with her? >> i believe -- i have some -- a little bit of a concern about her. she used to keep everything so neat and tidy. now, she is not cleaning up. the room is a mess. she is sleeping a lot and she just doesn't seem to be herself anymore. and i just am just concerned about it. >> i'll talk to her today definitely. >> thank you so much. bye-bye. >> minutes later, the nurse practitioner from the jail's psychiatric unit arrives to assess rosanna's condition. >> hi. i came by to see you because they said they were concerned about you.
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you had too much stuff in your room and your room is not clean and anything like that. >> no. it's just fine. >> you getting depressed or something? >> i was depressed about a week ago. but i was just depressed. >> nurse-practitioner matthews says dimauro's symptoms could be more than depression. >> she was displaying classic symptoms like in ptsd, nightmare flashbacks mood swings. >> i had nightmares. i pace back and forth. i couldn't go to sleep. if i did, i would wake up with night terrors. >> what were your nightmares about? >> the murder. i was seeing everything they told me happened in the dream about them stabbing him, dragging him down to the dumpster and burning him. >> nurse-practitioner matthews plans to closely monitor her in the coming months. >> we will make sure she doesn't get worse or going downhill
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again. >> over in general population, dimauro's son david link is looking forward to a fresh start. he accepted a plea deal for testimony against his mother and her former live in boyfriend kasey ackerman about their roles in a gruesome murder. he could be out in two and a half years. >> my dream i guess would be to get a band and be big with music or else to sit there and become an actor or something because i like acting. >> link's experience has not only changed his perspective on the company he keeps but on the company his mother has kept. >> i wish she never would have went out with kasey and stuff. it would have saved us both from being in this position. hopefully she learns from her mistakes and this will be in the past one day. >> i just want to do my time and get out and put this behind me and move forward.
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