until his defense lawyers delivered the word. >> joel courtney was not interested. not return a counteroffer. he outright rejected our offer. >> feels like holding her family hostage in some ways, you know. >> courtney's sister dina watched all of this unfold, knowing a trial would mean she would have to testify about the times joel tried to rape her as a teenager, about his unexpected visit to her oregon home just before brooke's abduction, and about his incriminating, presumably drug-induced statements. dina knew her testimony could help put her own brother on death row. >> my mom and i actually talked about this before she got sick and talked about, you know, we've always said that we believe in the death penalty and here it is -- >> your brother. >> -- my brother, her son. and so if you believe in it for some person that you don't know, does that still hold true if it's your loved one? and we did a lot of thinking and praying about it and we came to the conclusion that, yeah, we still did. >> you would have been okay with him getting the death penalty? >> i thin

until his defense lawyers delivered the word. >> joel courtney was not interested. he did not return a counteroffer. he outright rejected our offer. >> feels like holding her family hostage in some ways, you know. >> courtney's sister dina watched all of this unfold, knowing a trial would mean she would have to testify about the times joel tried to rape her as a teenager, about his unexpected visit to her oregon home just before brooke's abduction, and about his incriminating, presumably drug-induced statements. dina knew her testimony could help put her own brother on death row. >> my mom and i actually talked about this before she got sick and talked about, you know, we've always said that we believe in the death penalty and here it is -- >> your brother. >> -- my brother, her son. and so if you believe in it for some person that you don't know, does that still hold true if it's your loved one? and we did a lot of thinking and praying about it and we came to the conclusion that, yeah, we still did. >> you would have been okay with him getting the death penalty? >>

joel courtney was 38 years old. this albuquerque suburb, rio rancho in this home with his wife and three young children. he had worked as a mechanic and fisherman and had worked all over the united states. a fluent spanish speaker, he also lived in mexico. but the man who appeared in family photos as the ever-smiling attentive father also had a dark side. six months before, his wife had taken out a restraining order against him, reporting he had choked her. >> the first time i saw him, i remember thinking it was as strong a reaction that i had had to richard ramirez. >> ramirez is the notorious night stalker, convicted of murdering more than a dozen people in the 1980s, now awaiting execution on california's death row. prosecutor theresa watley once crossed paths with ramirez in the courtroom. >> he actually made the hair on my arms stand up because he was so evil. the only other person that has done that to me was joel courtney. >> when you first read the reports about this case, what went through your mind as a pr

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