he tried developing a claim in westerwestern missouri and gaven that after just a year or two. and decide to head to california, which was then still mexican territory. he helped organize what became known as the bidwell bartleson party, and again, great claim to fame is the first party of overland tours to california. bidwell like a lot of early american got his first job working for john sutter at sutter scored. and there he's learned firsthand california's rich potential asset agricultural producer and as a place to raise livestock. sutter had herds of cattle and large wheatfields, and bidwell went to work for sutter and kind of got some good on-the-job training for what would later become his own operation of years later at rancho chico. in 1846 when john c fremont and a small group of armed american explorers were moving up and down california, their presence in the state encourages american settlers who were interested in separating from mexico and kind of imitating the example of the texas rebellion of 1836, they with fremont encouragement took action and seized the mexi

also, keep in mind a lot of people go to television shows and movie, due to them, they think dna is gaven that it will be used in court. that's not true. in my case, we had to pay every single penny to get this dna testing done. we had to pay over $200,000 because the state would cover none of it. they were going to kill me and never even test this dna. we didn't have that kind of money. i was poor white trash from a trailer park. if it wasn't for people like johnny andout. >> , ewe would have never had the money to get this dna testing done. most people on death row don't have that kind of money, they don't have family or friends with that kind of money, so they may very well die even though there is dna at the the crime scene that could be tested that would common rate them. >> and they also likely don't understand the law. was there a moment when you were going to be executed because your lawyers didn't even realize they had to file a stay? >> absolutely mix original execution date was may 5, 19 19, and i got close to that because i had ineffective public defenders who didn't realize t