. >> announcer: weeks before smitty's 1983 trial, he married his girlfriend bridgett in a jail house>> smitty was about to stand trial for his life. if he lost, he had a very good chance of going to death row and he wanted and she wanted to be able to formalize their relationship before that happened. >> i bought a nice dress, did my makeup and hair. to me it was a celebration of life. >> she brought in a cake, had a nice white dress on, flowers. she looked good. >> announcer: now a married man, smitty took an active role in his case. >> smitty was intelligence in his approach to the evidence, and he wasn't talking like somebody who was just trying to attack the state's case. he was talking like somebody who was trying to figure out what happened, you know, who actually did it. >> announcer: at smitty's trial, prosecutor rick garfield called penny reed, the sole survivor of the murders, to the witness stand. >> i found her to be a very courageous person. she could have just maintained that she did not know who the person was that did these killings. >> announcer: penny testified that