did she murder model juliana redding? newly released 911 calls released of the murder of 9-year-old leila fowler, her brother heads to court today. >>> and against all odds. a young woman survives for 17 days in the ruins of a collapsed building in bangladesh. she speaks exclusively to cnn. >> amazing. >> it is. >>> welcome back to "early start," everyone. i'm john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin at 20 past the hour. >>> the trial of an accused killer being call add female james bond begins today. california prosecutors say model and actress juliana redding was a victim of a murder for hire scheme in 2008. stephanie elam has a look at the case. >> reporter: more than five years after aspiring actress and model juliana redding was found strangled and beaten to death in her santa monica apartment, her accused killer will finally stand before a jury. >> the first case i've heard of where a woman is accused of especially being a hired glean to go beat somebody up. >> reporter: redding was 20 years old pursuing her dreams

defense lawyers argue the real killer is juliana redding's boyfriend, john gilmore. >> they're tryingo point the finger at gilmore, saying he had one time allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend. >> reporter: but investigators cleared gilmore as a suspect, insisting he had several alibis. the defense will likely bring up other persons of interest, as they fight for park's freedom. park will be free to enter and leave the courtroom and walk anywhere she'd like because she's free on bail. and legal analysts say that could work in her favor. that image, they say, is likely to create a better impression on jurors. dan and bianna? >> akiko, thank you. twisted and bizarre, the accurate adjectives for that case. the trial starting tomorrow. we'll stay on it. >>> now, we'll check the other overnight headlines. and for that, mr. ron claiborne. >> new video shows the moment that cleveland police burst into that house of horrors where three women had been held captive for a decade. the women are out of the hospital. their accused captor, ariel castro is behind bars. >>> 108 miners were underground

park is accused of murdering magazine beauty juliana redding in cold blood. or her life, however, park's defense team says their client is innocent. let's bring in former prosecutor and criminal defense attorneys. good to see you both again. tomming, i'm going to -- tom, i'm going to start with you. when the jury asked to hear readbacks, is this typical, or does it signify trouble in the deliberation room? >> well, you know, look, as a defense attorney anytime you have the jury thinking, especially on a case like this where the forensic evidence is very strong, you know, that's a good sign. the longer they deliberate, the more likely it is, they enhance the possibility that there may be one holdout juror that could at least end in an acquittal. so i think that's at least some positive sign for the defense. arthel: fred, who do you think has the most compelling case at this point? >> well, i mean, you know, it may be positive for the defense, but it would be the first positive thing for them throughout the entire trial. i think the physical evidence is overwhel

strikingly good-looking, her name is kelly sue park and she's on trial for the murder of 21-year-old juliana reddingg model and actress seen in this music video. ♪ she was found dead in her santa monica home back in 2008 strangled to death. court documents allege park used her bare hands. >> typically women use cars, knives, guns, that type of thing. but strangling is a power assault and that would be unusual for a woman. >> reporter: police called the case a possible murder-for-hire plot. prosecutors say dr. munir uwaydah hired her as his debt collector. a position in which she allegedly threatened and intimidated people. they say uwaydah referred to her as the female james bond. prosecutors allege he ordered the hit on redding after her father backed out of a business deal. they say park received $250,000 from uwaydah. but uwaydah has not been charged in the case. they claim while park has also been linked to redding's murder through dna evidence, john gilmore, redding's boyfriend is really the killer. >> one of the defense tactics is to sort of cloud the issue. and they're trying to point the fin

prosecutors say they believe kelley soo park killed juliana redding with her bare hands. based on dna and a fingerprint found at the crime scene matching the defendant's. >> you will hear, a sample was obtained from the defendant and matched to the samples from julian julianna's tank top, obtained from julianna's neck from the sample obtained from the cell phone. >> reporter: when the defense had its opportunity to present its opening statement to the jury, it did so in just over a minutes's time. there was no motive for killing redding, and forensic evidence did not prove that she was response i believe for her death. >> dna evidence doesn't prove when it got there or how it got there. >> the defense took a hit when the judge didn't allow certain evidence. >> we are deprived of being able to milwaukee a defense. we're not making this up. we will file papers asking for an immediate stay. can the court give us a day to do that? >> no. >> seeing that the court of appeals will look at that? >> no, you can file whatever you are wanting to file. i'm not continuing this matter

. >> reporter: more than five years after aspiring actress and model juliana redding was found strangledten do death in her santa monica, california, apartment, her accused killer will stand before a jury. >> this is the first case i ever heard of where a woman is accused of being a hired goon to go beat somebody up. >> reporter: redding was just 21 years old when she left tucson, arizona, to pursue had her dreams of stardom. she had some success. but her dreams were cut short, prosecutors say, by this woman. 47-year-old kelly sue park. they assert park was hired by a physician to kill redding after her father, a pharmacist, pulled out of a business deal with him just five days before she was killed. court documents also allege that the doctor made payments to park totalling more than $250,000 just weeks before redding was killed. however, the doctor who left the country shortly after parks' arrest has never been charged in this case. park remains tree free on a $3. million bond. her lawyers say she's innocent and that prosecution should look at a former boyfriend of redding. they have a

and she is on trial for the murder of 21-year-old juliana redding, an aspiring model and actress seena home in 2008, strangled to death. court documents allege park used her bare hands. >> typically women use cars, knives, guns, that type of thing. but strangling is a power assault. that would be unusual for a woman. >> reporter: police call the case a possible murder-for-hire plot. prosecutors say dr. munir-uwaydah fired her as his debt colle position in which she threatened and intimidated people. they say uwaydah referred to her as "the female james bond." prosecutors allege uwaydah ordered the hit on redding after her father backed out of a business deal. they say park received $250,000 from uwaydah, but he has not been charged in the case. while park has also been linked to redding's murder through dna evidence, the defense says john gilmore, redding's boyfriend is really the killer. >> one of the defense tactics is to sort ofloue. they're trying to point the finger at gilmore. >> reporter: investigators have cleared him as a suspect. dr. uwaydah and park both say they're innocen