>> i would like to think so. >> but there was another side to captain hazelwood. >> captain hazelwoodly has a history of alcohol-related driving offenses. >> a few days after the wreck, reporters revealed he had a record, two drunk driving convictions. >> four years ago, the company became aware that captain hazelwood had a problem with alcohol abuse. >> turns out, four years earlier, hazelwood came here for 28 days of rehab. >> i didn't drink excessive amounts at work. but my drinking was ratcheting up at home, and i was trying to find out why i was doing it. >> hazelwood says he was torn between life at home and life at sea. were you happy? >> i was satisfied. i'm not sure what happiness is. that's a philosophical plane i haven't reached yet. >> he took a short leave of absence and attended aa meetings. did you have to stand before the group and say hi, i'm joe hazelwood and i'm an alcoholic? >> i did, yeah. >> so you told them you were an alcoholic? >> in the context of the meetings, yeah. >> did you consider yourself an alcoholic? >> no. i abused alcohol, yes. but i wasn't addicte

>> it's still pretty gut-wrenching. >> captain hazelwood has maintained a stoic silence for years.lking about the details of that night. >> why did you decide to talk to me? >> well, just to show that i'm a human being. i think i probably just wanted to be heard. >> a thoughtful and private man, accustomed to a solitary life at sea, hazelwood flies home to find his picture on the front page of "the new york times." >> what were you thinking at that moment? >> it's going to really suck. >> captain, is there anything you'd like to say to us at all? >> when word got out that the captain of the exxon valdez had been drinking that day, the target was on his back. >> how much did you drink that day? >> three drinks. >> and you carried so much responsibility, a crew, millions of gallons of oil. why have even one drink? why take that risk? >> i didn't think it was a risk. i thought i was drinking moderately. >> we're all extremely disappointed and outraged that an officer of such a critical position would have jeopardized the ship, crew, and the environment. >> exxon fired him by telegram.

>> i think maybe you're talking about the lee hazelwood song that i changed the lyrics for, "these bootsade for walking." at that time, i was a lot younger. the things that motivated me were different. i was single about the times are talking about sex like it was cheerios was not a big thing. looking at it now, we had to go back to that song and beep out a bunch of words that i changed. when mr. hazelwood was alive, he was cashing the check and when he read the lyrics he said i turned the song into a violent offensive lyric. >> but he didn't give you the money back. >> no. people were saying what was violent and offensive is that he took your money. i said i am not that uptight about money. >> tell us about the business of megadeth. you're doing the symphony but you're going on tour. tell us about the business. >> we have got this great opportunity right now. there is a renaissance of heavy metal in america. as the west does, so the world follows. we got back from playing in india and zoomed over to new zealand and came right back to get ready for this symphony performance. we have a co

. >> hazelwood believes the perpetrator had never killed before. >> in this particular case, we feltwas panic stabbing. he had not expected to encounter gary at that particular point. >> the fbi created an entire profile of the person they believe perpetrated this crime. >> we estimated his age to be between, i believe, 22 and 27. his education, we said he had graduated from high school. he lived within walking distance of where the crime had been committed. >> hazelwood predicted that the killer would be so traumatized that his weight would fluctuate, and he would look for a legitimate reason to leave the area. >> this was a frightening experience for this person, because in our opinion, he'd never killed before, and he did not intend to kill when he went into that residence. >> but if the killer had left town, how would police find him? ♪ what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together the fastest internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system. it looks like the future! we must have encountered a temporal vortex. further a

fbi profiler roy hazelwood came down to help.his' neighborhood. >> as soon as we turned on to that street, everything stopped. a guy cutting the grass stopped. guys playing dominos on the porch stopped. i said, what's going on? everything stopped. they said, laughingly, that's because we have a honky in the car. >> john glover, who took over as fbi chief in atlanta that summer, said that's why he and hazelwood decided the killer had to be black. >> the killer is someone who is invisible in the black community and who is invisible in the black community but another black person? >> malcolm harris was one of the first task force detectives. he knew it had to be someone who went unnoticed. >> we felt like it was somebody who could come in the neighborhood and get these children and not draw attention to themselves. >> the question of which race struck a raw nerve. it had been only a dozen years since the murder of dr. martin luther king. on the surface, atlanta was a well integrated city. beneath the surface, it remained separate an

hazelwood flies home to find his picture on the front page of "the new york times." >> reporter: whatthat moment? >> this is gonna really suck. >> reporter: the captain of the exxon valdez had been drinking that day. the target was on his back. >> reporter: how much did you drink that day? >> reporter: i had three days. spilling millions of gallons of oil. why take that risk? >> i didn't think it was a risk. i thought i was drinking moderately. >> we are all extremely disappointed and outraged that an officer in such an important position would have jeopardized his ship, crew, and the environment. >> reporter: exxon fired him by tell he graph. if you could rewrite history, would you have had a drink that day? >> the only thing i would have changed, if i could rewrite the whole script, i wouldn't have left the bridge. that's what i should be faulted for and nothing else. >> reporter: not the drinking. >> it had nothing to do with it. >> just a quick question. we are going to have to get to the next hour. was he drunk that night? >> he says absolutely not. the jury made the decision. i

this comes almost exactly 25 years to the day after captain joseph hazelwood, who had allegedly beenall off the remote part of alaska. >> exxon valdez, over. >> valdez traffic. >> yeah. it's valdez back. we should be on your radar there. we've fetched up hard aground north of goose island off bligh reef. and evidently, leaking some oil and we're going to be here for a while. >> leaking some oil. in 1989, 11 million gallons of oil leaked out of the exxon valdez. at the time it was worst oil spill in the country's history. exxon was initially supposed to pay $2.5 billion in punitive damage to victims until the u.s. supreme court cut that number to $500 million. by the way, the same year of the spill, exxon made $3.8 billion profit. in the 25 years between the exxon valdez spill and what happened in galveston over the weekend, there has been just about one oil spill a year of more than 100,000 gallons. in this country, alone. this is just a partial list. it doesn't count the scores of smaller oil spills. the largest oil spill in u.s. history was the bp deepwater horizon spill in 2010. t