make deals with him and skyers so that we could convict the others. >> the indictment charged melvin walker ramsey with murder. walker for shooting brown and ramsey, who also worked at ex-sheriff dorsey's private security firm, for being the armed lookout ready to kill anyone who intervened. >> walker was the triggerman. and skyers got rid of the gun. and cuffy drove the getaway car. >> cuffy's plea changed everything. >> i will accept your plea of guilty as to counts 12, 13 and 14. >> the trial in the state murder case against ramsey and walker began in the spring of 2002. it was held right in dekalb county. cuffy was the state's star witness. >> i do, sir. >> paul skyers testified that derwin brown was assassinated to pave the way for sidney dorsey's comeback. the four co-conspirators, he said, were all promised promotions for killing brown. >> it was a very demented understanding and very irrational. but he believed that there would be a special election in which he could retake his office. >> full weight of the evidence against these two guys brought in the conspiracy that sid dorsey or

a dog walker found the head of herrby melvin earlier this week. found his severed hands and feet.s an airline employee who lived in the area. don't have any motive for the murder mystery yet. >>> the death toll rising in the costa concordia. 12 people now confirmed dead. 20 others still missing. a maryland woman and her daughter are survivors. she's blaming the ship's captain for the wreck. >> my daughter said that the ship is sinking. we love you, in a text. >> she said she's blessed to be alive. they were some of the last passengers on the ship to get off to a lifeboat. >> we said we have to get out of here. >> the nightmare started when they felt the ship sway violently and their cabin filled with water. it was supposed to be unforgettable but not the way it was. the horror they saw and felt in the last hours of the trip will stay with this mother forever. enormous fear quickly set in for someone who doesn't even know how to swim. >> i told my daughter if something happens, you have to jump for the water. swim, go to the shore. >> a week later, she's still in shock and sufferin