and gagnon might go free. hill flatly refused.e. >> the first piece of good news i'd had in a long time. you know? i was excited to see what god was getting ready to do. >> and there were developments. >> yes, sir. >> namely, the arrival of a new inmate. >> i was in the chapel at the time. it was my job assignment. he was brought into the chapel. >> one day the man opened up and stunned rick. he said he had known a guy in jail named -- wait for it -- robert mullens, the very same who testified against rick. the man then said that mullens had shared a secret. he had lied about rick's involvement in the murders. >> i mean, i already knew it. but to hear somebody else say it you know -- >> that mullens had lied. >> yeah. >> proud of what he was able to do. >> yeah. >> now the snitch on snitch story had the appeals judge's attention. >> the judge had to make a determination that the result of the trial would probably have been different. >> because mullens' story was that important in getting the conviction? >> right. >> the judge vac

. >> just one year in the gagnon 's care, and isaac improved beyond recognition. >> the physician walked in, looked at the file, walked back out, and came bac like, this can't be the same kid. i don't see outcomes like this ever. >> they went on to adopt joel, elie, and most recently israel, a five-year-oldwy with spina bifida. they recently discovered him through a nonprofit that helps families find children with special needs. >> in eastern europe, children born with special needs at birth if not adopted, between 4-6 are transferred to an adult mental institution, and within five years 80% of those kids died. >> she flew to a place she called a hell hole, a cold sterile building where disabled children are locked up to die. >> they take me to this back section, and it's baby after baby with large heads and sores everywhere dying, and i thought, oh, my medical care. can we get them? let me help. and they are like, no, no, no. they are laying rooms for them to die. there is no value for the handicapped children. they actually consider them a curse from god. i was grilled for an hour when

not everyone is strong enough to fight, but royal gagnon who teaches krav maga, a form of self-defenseffers this tip. >> when i have the moment to react when he's not expecting it when he looks left or right my goal is to go sideways. >> the correct answer is a. watch for the right opportunity and then get away from the gun barrel. don't discount decisions b and c because they're the next steps to surviving an armed assault. >> number two, i have to remember the weak spots of the body. i have to strike to the weak spots. in this case i can do a knee to the groin. bill's technique isn't textbook. like many of us, he doesn't have formal self-defense training. >> i wasn't letting up. i wanted that gun, i need it, and i'm going to have it. >> acting on instinct, bill fights for the gun and his life, but it's a battle he fears he might lose. >> it was an insane pandemonium. it seemed like forever. you never want to get in a struggle for that long. >> true or false? each year nearly 1 million burglaries happen when someone is home. the answer is true, and of those incidents, 25% of occupants