-- george wythe sweeney? >> that was the nephew. 17-years old, he was always in trouble. >> related to george wythe how? >> he was his sister's grandson. >> what did he want to kill him? >> money. the kid had fallen prey to an epidemic of gambling in richmond. richmond had become a colonial sodom and gomorrah. gambling, drinking and prostitution. wythe's house was three blocks up the street where all the casinos were. the kid had gone down every night and run up huge gambling debts and began to steal from wythe. he stole a precious global of the world and valuable books and sold in downtown to pay off his gambling debts. he forged checks under george wythe's to get hundreds of more dollars to pay off debts. he came up with a scheme to murder george wythe to give his estate from his will. under the terms of the will, he was entitled to half. >> why was that? >> when he was a little boy, his dad was the manager of george wythe's plantation. he was very friendly with his dad and the boy. he used to buy him a voic

things took a different turn. >> george wythe sweeney is where during this time? >> he was in jail for forging the checks against the bank. then when george wythe died, he was charged with murder. rrandolph and worth served as the mayor -- edmund randolph served as the mayor and went to the constitutional convention and was an aide to general washington. he was one of the youngest governors in the country when he was 33. he became the attorney general of the united states. he had a story career. >> was ran off one of the three that did not sign the constitutional convention document? what's he did not. there were a lot of guys that did not sign it. 19 of the 55 delegates did not sign. >> of george mason and randolph are prominently ones that were there and did not sign it. who was the lawyer on the other side? >> a fellow named philip nicholas, one of the most aggressive prosecutors in the country. in addition to that, he was a close friend of thomas jefferson. he was on the committee to elect him. if anybody wanted to have the killer executed, it was nicholas. tha