mr. vernon actually benefited from what my client did.e glad -- >> reporter: he knocked down the house and benefited from it? >> that can be made to sound terrible, and normally i assume it would be. >> reporter: well, if it was your house, you would think it was terrible. >> surely. surely. but the city had told mr. vernon months before this to either get a permit to fix this house up or to demolish it. my client just hastened what was probably inevitable. >> reporter: but that's not your client's decision to make. >> he can't undo it. you can't unring the bell at this point. >> reporter: but vernon says he was planning to repair the house to rent it out. vernon went to a city council meeting to try to get justice. >> good evening, i'm jessie vernon. >> reporter: no luck. >> mr. vernon's and the city's interests are not aligned. >> reporter: file that under legal talk for "sorry, chump." we had to ask a few questions. is it really not your fault? you have no responsibility for this? the people you hired knocked down the wrong house. >> y

he confessed to shooting civil rights activist vernon jordan because he said he saw mr.ar a white woman. that was in indiana. again and again, he specifically sought out interracial couples to attack and murder. and when he saw that interracial pornographic feature in hustler magazine, the neo nazi serial killer decided hustler magazine publisher larry flynt also had to die. so the neo nazi serial killer essentially stalked larry flynt, tried to find a place where he might be able to kill him. he learned he was going to be in a courthouse in georgia, appearing in one of his many, many trials for obscenity. and joseph paul franklin went to that courthouse and laid in wait. when he had larry flynt in his sights, he shot him with a hunting rifle. he paralyzed mr. flint from the waist down for life. that was 35 years ago. when police finally caught up with the killer, they tried and convicted him for eight different murders. although he says he killed many more than that, upward of 20 people. they never prosecuted mr. franklin specifically for shooting larry flynt, but he co