his name was omar abdul ballard. the letter ended with a stunning admission-- that he, ballard, killed michelle bosko. >> "you remember that night i went to mommy's house, and the next morning, michelle got killed? guess who did that. me. ha, ha." ballard had been in prison for two years after viciously beating a woman in the same apartment complex where michelle was murdered. he also raped a 14-year-old girl less than a mile away. both crimes were committed within three weeks of michelle's murder. ballard's dna, which had been stored since his arrest a year and a half before, was quickly analyzed. it was a match. >> he was in custody shortly after michelle moore-bosko was killed. he had these convictions, his dna was in the databank, and nobody did anything to try to run it through the databank to see if there was a match. >> interviewer: because if there was a match, the whole case wouldn't have happened? >> their theory would have fallen apart in a big way, but if they had done it, and they'd learned of the match

i think that i see ms ballard. i wanted to acknowledge jake, a wonderful section manager that oversees dolores park. i would hazard to guess that it is the most challenging part in the city for good and challenging reasons. a very popular park. let's thank you. -- >> thank you. >> perhaps mr. anderson can start with an overview? >> i am the parks service manager for rec and park. dolores park is our major facility. but there are other devotions in a number of facilities. briefly i wanted to talk about the impact on the park itself and the operational impact of maintaining the abandoned station. so, i am going to wing it in terms of overall, this station, which has close to follow, is really the definition of an attractive nuisance. not only is it the graffiti that you have seen, it is illegal encampments, public latrines, shooting galleries, you name it. the maintenance burden put on us in the past has been quite high. so, overall in the scope of -- ok. you will see, as this comes up on the overhead, briefly, dolor

our war dollars home the united states conference of mayors has said the same thing that the war ballard's need to rebuild u.s. citizen cities and that we need to bring those war dollars home i cannot reiterate more the need for us to rebuild our city so that we don't have gary indiana as replicated across the american landscape that is the situation if you go to gary indiana detroit michigan you go to benton harbor i just came from newburgh new york where the people are languishing and government is not servicing their knees people everywhere i stopped are asking for health care something as simple as providing the means to live of a quality of life that is one of the responsibilities of government not to go out across the world and rattle sabers and other countries and then also deal in the death and destruction that is engaged in war and congresswoman i really don't like to leave bill o'reilly hanging there and i wanted to respond to the last last last question that he seems to be struggling with let me play that one last thing then. she's obviously not paying her airfare to these count

earlier, i spoke to warren ballard, who defends the rights of a man to marry a woman.y people to marry each other. >> i believe that marriage should be defined between one man and one woman. that law is being challenged in the court. it could be decided by one judge rather than a reflection of the value system that is reflective of our entire society in in minnesota. the people of minnesota should have a right, and it's their right to define the moral code, the value code that goes into their law. and given this decision to the public to decide in the next election is absolutely the best way to do it. >> i also spoke with jeff and laurie willford about why they believe the ballot initiative is a mistake. >> we have a budget problem in minnesota, and all these people were elected to create jobs, balance the budget, they were not asked to legislate on gay marriage and these guys pushed it through, pushed it through, and they aren't listening. yet, they want the people to vote. well, now the people are going to vote, and we're going to do whatever we can to -- to change t

thomas ballard mattel. he was married and had a child.arted stocking here and immediately saying, i want to marry you. i will divorce my wife and marry you which was unserved. at that time that did not even allowed divorce. so he's dr. elaine. in the meantime he has tried to hire his brother as a hit man to kill her father-in-law and then kill her. actually, he will poison his wife. so there is all this drama going on. and dawson gets wind of the fact is she is seeing somebody unsuitable. >> and so he goes over to the doctor's office, he knocks on the door, introduces himself because they have never met before. he says to my understand that you are making improper advances on someone in my household. i insist that you stop. he rapped him on the head with his cane. the doctors staggered back a few steps, recent his pocket, pulled out a gun that he continually was carrying and shot him dead in his office. freaked out when he did that and immediately coverage of the hat, get rid of the cane, threw them down into the privy, took dawson's body

thomas ballard mcdowell, who was married and had a child but who started stalking her and immediately saying i want to marry you. i'll divorce my wife and marry you which was patently absurd because south carolina at that time did not even allow divorce. so he stalks elaine, and, um, in the meantime he has tried to hire his brother as a hitman to kill her or wealthy father-in-law -- her wealthy father-in-law and then kill her. actually, he's going to poison his wife. there's all this sort of farcical drama going on, and dawson gets wind of the fact that she is seeing somebody unsuitable. >> and so he goes over to the doctor's office, he knocks on the door, introduces himself because they've never met before. he says, i understand that you are making improper advancements on someone in my household, and i insist that you stop. he wrapped him -- rapped him on the head with his cane. the doctor staggered back a few steps, reached into his pocket, pulled out a gun that he conveniently was carrying and shot him dead in his office. freaked out when he did that and immediately, um, got rid o

thomas ballard mcdowell, who was married and had a child but who started stalking her and immediatelyg, i want to marry you. i'll divorce my wife and marry you. which was patently absurd because south carolina at that time did not even allow divorce. so he stalked elaine, and in the meantime, he has tried to hire his brother as a hitman to kill his wealthy father-in-law and kill her, actually, he's going to