we have the explosive closing arguments in the dunwoody day care trial, where he claims voices made him do it. but how loud was herds? >>> god's army. a 19th child. and they're not done. this megafamily believes jesus, homeschooling and certainly not birth control. they claim they are following god's plan. but are they also relying on help from science? >>> and mean girl moments. courtney from "the bachelor." madeline, "from revenge." theresa, from "real housewives." why americans love to love the women they claim to hate. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, from terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city. this is "nightline," march 13th, 2012. >>> and good evening. i'm bill weir. for court-watchers it is a case like no other. a young father, executed after dropping his child at day care. a killer who says he was just following the orders of angels and demons who look and sound like pop stars. after riveting closing arguments today, one question remains in the dunwoody day care shooting case. was the killer crazy? or just crazy enough to trust his alle

we've been talking for about this dunwoody daycare trial.aylight in the atlanta area. this case is by dar and involves an alleged love triangle. the widow was kicked out of the courtroom a couple weeks back. we're going to keep a close eye on this picture. live pictures thanks to wxia. as soon as we have a verdict, we'll bring that to you live. i do want to move to a story we have been covering out of florida. a neighborhood watch captain trying to prevent a crime is now being accused, by some, of keeng being a killer. but florida prosecutors have yet to decide if george zimmerman's action were criminal. he says it was self-defense when he shot and killed this young man, 17-year-old trayvon martin. there are now new details of the the accident from two witness who's spoke with david mattingly. first we're going to take a look at the shooting scene. >> trayvon martin walked out of this convenience store buying a bottle of iced tea and candy, goodies in preparation for watching the nba all-star game. he would have easily made it back to the co

just last hour here in this dunwoody, georgia courtroom.'s sorry to all five children of the family of the man he was just found guilty of killing and also to his own family. we're going to talk a little bit more about this case and where it could move next right after this quick break. we always hear about jobs leaving america. here's a chance to create jobs in america. oil sands projects, like kearl, and the keystone pipeline will provide secure and reliable energy to the united states. over the coming years, projects like these could create more than half a million jobs in the us alone. from the canadian border, through the mid west, to the gulf coast. benefiting hundreds of thousands of families throughout the country. this is just what our economy needs right now. your hair mixes with pollen and dust in the air. i get congested. my eyes itch. i have to banish you to the garden. but now, with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. ♪ i can breath freer with zyrtec-d®. so i'll race you to our

. >> reporter: the couple had moved to dunwoody, an affluent suburb of atlanta, after rusty, a harvard mba grad, accepted a job with a software company. >> they had a great house in atlanta. they had a summer house out at the lake. they had a boat, they had two great kids. they were living the dream. >> reporter: a dream that was violently shattered that morning in the parking lot. the virtual execution of a young husband and father was in no one's frame of reference. the irrationality of the violence making it all the more terrifying. local attorney esther panach. >> it put fear into the whole community. >> reporter: the fleeting thought, was it a hate crime? was the gunman targeting jews? the other line of speculation had to do with rusty's work. he'd once handled money, major amounts of money for some high net worth individuals. had an investment portfolio gone horribly wrong? here's a guy dealing with serious amounts of money. >> the initial thought was it was a professional hit by somebody who had lost a lot of money. >> reporter: and if so, was it someone the dunwoody sicklecircl

the promotion of general ann dunwoody, the first female four star general in our history, soob to be followed by the recent nomination of len lou ten naent janet wolf en burger to air force comment and rear admiral sandy stokes selected to become the superintendent of the u.s. coast guard academy, by the way, the first woman to lead a service academy. these are all perfect examples. these women have obviously risen to the top. but there are still lingering disparate at the higher echelons. in the three components of the army, for example, although the ratio of female soldiers is 17%, for general officers, 10% of us are female. that's in part due to the restrictions that remain in place. so as we look to the future, the coming years promise to be very exciting for women in the military as additional barriers are removed and women continue to assert themselves and are afforded opportunities in positions critical to our nation's defense. the good news is, flag officer selection rates along with other selection and promotion rates for women continue to increase. although we must ensure t

. >>> we have cell phones often the root of a lot of modern problems but a woman in dunwoody, georgia, said she dropped her cell phone in the trash chute at her apartment complex so she was trying to get it out and fell into the chute. not so funny at the time because this chute leads to a trash compactor. she was stopped by a bag of trash before see got that far. >> oh. >> she was very lucky. firefighters were eventually able to rescue her. her phone, however, didn't make it. >> that got gobbled up. that's okay, she's okay. wow. >>> 5:20. the 49ers sticking with their quarterback. no peyton manning coming this way. >> the deal to keep alex smith around for a while. >>> maybe you should stick to football. andrew luck has a great arm of the baseball, though, not his sport. in coming up. ,,,, [ teen ] times are good, aren't they, kids? it's nice having u-verse, isn't it? see back in my day, we didn't have these newfangled wireless receivers. fangled? no, we watched march madness in the living room... that's where the tv outlet was. what is he talking about? and if mom was hosting her bo