dana cooper was sentenced to 17 years for armed robbery and third degree murder. charity casey received ten years for armed robbery and third degree murder. of those arrested, only heather wendorf went free. a grand jury deciding that she knew nothing of rod ferrell's murderous intentions. after three years, the death sentence was commuted by the florida supreme court on account of ferrell's youth. >> i sat in my cell on death row and i questioned myself. i realized how far into the pit i had fallen. and i took that moment from then on. i said from this point on, i will be--i became a man who became a monster. i will become a man again. whatever it takes. now that i pieced my mind back together, i've had time to reflect, contemplate over every single moment, every single day. the murders had absolutely nothing to do with the occult or the vampiric subculture or any such thing. >> i'm candice hawthorne. i'm an attorney. i came to represent rod. there were two witnesses who overheard heather wendorf opining to rod ferrell that she wanted her parents dead. >> heather

. >> reporter: cooper eventually gives in, meeting the teen student near his home in her car where they have sex. detective chaz balogh later investigated the case. >> we're at the dana, which is one of the locations that harrington-cooper brought victim number one to have a sexual relationship with. there's another one where they were in a church parking lot. >> reporter: the boy would later admit to at least three sexual encounters with mrs. cooper. >> it wasn't just a physical connection. >> what is it that an 18-year-old could -- could do for you besides the physical? >> as crazy as this might sound to some people, he's very intelligent. i could have real conversations with him about real life issues. >> but it didn't somehow occur to you, this is wrong. this is a kid. >> it did. but it was hard to, uh, break away from it. >> reporter: but that bond would be short-lived as the whirlwind six day romance came to screeching halt when the boy's parents found sexually explicit messages between him and the teacher. >> the stepmother was a wreck, absolute wreck. >> reporter: school officer gina kotowski questioned the married teacher. >> she told us everything that happ

cooperating in another investigation, but they wouldn't give details about what that investigation is surrounding. >>> the husband of a delaware state senator who is up for re-election turned himself into police yesterday morning. dana long is facing a misdemeanor charge of theft. bethany long seen here at an event in september. caught on video here stealing the campaign signs of the republican party in delaware. nobody answered our knocks at the door of the family's home. >>> now to decision 2014 and heading into the final weekend of campaigning before tuesday's election in the race for pennsylvania governor, democratic challenger tom wolf continues his fresh start bus tour. today making stops in phoenixville and wolf will get some star power this weekend. president obama making a campaign stop in philadelphia on sunday to make a final push for candidate wolf. meantime, republican tom corbett will be in pennsylvania and making several stops and attending a gop luncheon with rand paul. the eelection, again, four days away, tuesday. voters will head to the polls. count on nbc 10 and nbc10.com for complete coverage leading up to the election as those results roll in tuesday evening. >>> new information this morning in

pointing to cooperation between the iranians and the obama administration, former ambassador christopher hill will join us to access. and former defense secretary leon unloading on the president. danains us. the supreme court has cleared the way for five new states to begin recognizing five same-sex marriages. the justices turpitude down appeal requests seeking to prohibit same-sex marriage. virginia began issuing same sex certificates this afternoon. we turn to shannon for our story. >> day one of the supreme court's new remember it and the impact of a new decision is republicanneling across the country by declining to take up any of the seven cases the court stayed out of the debate for now. which means lower court decisions striked down same sex bans goes in he came. i'm surprised about this and disappointed. i believe the people have this hearing taking place at the supreme court level to determine what is a significant issue of our time. >> in a number of states including virginia, officials immediately began issuing licenses and conducting weddings. >> this is the outcome. this is the outbelieve that we have hoped for. it is the outcome we have fought for and it is the outcom

dana corporation. mario talked about that earlier as well. just tells you the power of the guest host. joe? >>> toyota selling some of the stick in tesla. toyota said it will continue to study possible cooperationa in the future. it had sold 4% stake in tesla for $780 million. i don't know what any of this means. why would they sell? >> maybe it says something. facebook announcing its latest project. it is a throwback to the early days of the internet. facebook rooms is an app that hopes to revive the idea of internet forums on mobile devices. no identifying information is collected. users can create an anonymous user name and share ideas. it is available with apple and there's an android version in the works. >> what is it called? >> rooms anonymously. >> i'm still a myspace guy. love it. no. i've never gone on either one of those things. i've tweeted. but now i'm souring on tweeting. i am. are you? >> i soured a long time ago on tweeting. >> did you really? >> yeah. >> there are many people on twitter for just one reason. just to be obnoxious. >> i've been tweeting this morning. i caught one of those this morning too. really obnoxious tweeter. >> it's like, weird. they're sitting there waitin