(crowd cheering) >> narrator: her final text was sent to her brother scott. >> narrator: jeremy banks later tell investigators that michelle broke up with him on the way home from the concert. >> narrator: a little over an hour later, michelle o'connell was dead. >> the day after michelle died, i called the sheriff's department because i wanted to talk to someone and let them know that the suicide thought was wrong. >> narrator: theresa woodward knew michelle as happy and motivated. but michelle's life had not been trouble-free. as a teenager, she was put under the supervision of juvenile authorities for anger issues and depression, according to court records. but the records also show that with medication and counseling, her schoolwork and attitude had drastically improved. and then at age 20, a life- changing event: motherhood. >> good job! >> michelle was all about alexis and where she could take her and experiences she could give her and what she could do with her. she would never leave her daughter. she wouldn't do that. i don't know what happened, but that's not what happened. >

you got it. >> narrator: of course, in prison, there's also a practical side to staying in shape. >> if you ever come against somebody who wants to approach you in a negative way, attack you in a fight or something, you don't want to be the person that's going to run out of air first. the person that runs out of air first is the person that gets hurt. >> in the combat zone, you have to be combat ready and we all know that any minute this yard, in two seconds, can explode into violence. >> narrator: bill hankins, a long-term inmate at colorado state penitentiary knows about sudden explosions. during a routine strip search, hankins snapped. >> i used to get real frustrated behind these doors. it used to drive me to where i'd be worked up, ooh, wanting to get out. >> narrator: hankins is serving life without parole for killing a grocery clerk during a robbery. in this super max security he is not allows contact with other inmates but released for an hour for daily solitary exercise. it's what keeps him going. >> being locked down every day for 23 hours a day and coming out in a little r

>> narrator: july 59, 2013.er, california. 72-year-old lynn lyons has always wanted to fly. >> i had wanted to fly ever since i was young. >> narrator: but it wasn't until he was 70 years old that he made the leap. >> you're flying. here i've gone to heaven, and i haven't even died yet. >> narrator: lyons has made more than 80 flights since. on this day he is going out on the edge, planning to fly at 1,000 feet, higher than he has attempted before. a gopro camera sits on his wing to record the flight. >> sets up the glider. get the harness on. got to be my turn. i attached. when you are going, you stomp your foot a couple of times, and it can pull you off the ground. >> narrator: 76-year-old harold johnson operates the tow rig. the electric powered rig use a wench to create tension to pull the wire cable. once lyons reaches altitudes, he can release the tow line and fly free. >> i went ahead and towed him. he is airborne. everything seems to be going well. >> i'm fine. i'm going higher and higher and higher. >>

i do. >> narrator: an investigation by the u.s.inds the explosion is the result of a burst pipe that spraz hydrogen gas on to a nearby heater. the refinery is shut down affect explosion, but reopens several months later. may 7th, 2009. a gas leak has firefighters from prince georges county busy evacuating a strip mall in forestville, maryland. a camera on board a fire truck shows two firefighters walking in front of the building when suddenly it explodes. the powerful blast blows out several store fronts and causes the ceiling to collapse on it firefighters still inside. >> i know i had injured firefighters that would clearly hurt laying in front of me. >> narrator: battalion chief kenneth mcswain isn't sure how bad the injuries are or if any in his company are missing. >>ed commander is one of those caught in the blast. he is blown to the ground when the gas ignites. >> it knocked me to the ground. it's almost like being in a rush of air that went past your ears. >> prince georges county, 911 is it center. what's the location of t

narrator: but sterols do more than tell us what kind of life was present. they provide evidence for its environment. this complicated maze of lines, circles, and arches is a road map of the metabolic pathways of living cells, molecular biologists' current knowledge of the sequence of reactions involved in creating compounds, like the sterols in pearson's rock sample. the chemical pathway for sterols is on the bottom of this chart down here, and the very first step in making a sterol consists of taking a precursor molecule and adding oxygen, or o2, to it. so, when we see these sterols in the ancient rock record, we can infer that they must have been formed by this pathway that requires oxygen. so in addition to being a good marker for the presence of eukaryotes, we, also, at the same time, have a tracer, or a record, that there should have been some amount of oxygen, or o2, present in the ocean system or in the atmosphere at that time. and so these are great classes of biomarker molecules because they can tell us something both about the biochemistry of the

>> narrator: the price for the new furniture is $3,942. the $562 fee for the returned furniture is figured in, it brings their design budget to $4,504, leaving a budget balance of $2,533. just as the furniture makes its way back to the truck, new logo samples arrive for gavin and jessica's review. >> how about we start with you taking a look at some of the ideas. >> these are awesome. >> i really like that. >> okay. >> i really like that, just very natural, very simpleness of it. >> okay. that's great. it looks like we have a logo. tim and joe i think are really gonna love the new logo, and we really took to heart what they said about a food centric logo. i really think they're going to see that we paid attention and listened. >> narrator: the total cost for the logo and signage is $1,100, leaving $1,433 remaining in the budget. as gavin's food order comes in, gavin and jessica begin working on their business plan. >> babe, i'm trying to figure out the monthly amount for staff. how many servers? >> we need ten servers. >> okay. >> budget,

>> narrator: she doesn't realize the train is on the opposite tracks.s and tells her mom to hurry, then walks ahead to hold the door. >> i was just -- i just walked. >> narrator: in an instant she falls oft platform. >> i just stepped down, and straight right down. >> narrator: crish hits the ground hard. >> i saw my son hitting head over. >> they miss the potentially fatal third rail, but they are trapped in a perilous spot. the next train is arriving at any moment. they desperately need help. >> there was no support there to come out of of the tracks. you really needed someone to pull you out from there. >> then from out of the crowd a man leaps to the tracks. he grabs crish, while other passengers pull mira to safety. >> my son was taken right away by that guy who jumped for us, so -- which was absolutely, like, incredible. i have no words for it. >> narrator: with no time to spare, all three are back on the platform, but it's the beginning of a long night. immediately we were taken to mass general hospital. >> narrator: mira escapes with only a swol

(narrator) a melody is a succession of pitches.can be composed like the melody of a song, or it can be improvised like a solo in a jazz performance. rhythm refers to the time element in music such as the steady pulse of australian aboriginal clapsticks. rhythm can also be free without a regular beat like the solo shakuhachi music of japan. [resonating, airy pitches] timbre is the tone color of a musical sound. the same pitch sounds different when it is played on different instruments. this is because each instrument has its own unique timbre. harmony refers the simultaneous sounding of two or more notes. [ensemble playing early music] composers of western classical music have developed a detailed harmonic system rooted in the musical practices of medieval europe. texture is the way all of these elements are combined into a musical fabric. textures can be complex, like the overlapping rhythms of a west african drumming ensemble... or as simple as the sound of a single human voice. we can analyze and compare different musics by looki

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the first person narrative, but rappers who go the extra mile to signal that they are inventing a narrator with their use of a stage name, we still revert back to this idea that they're the same. we conflate the two. >> reporter: david labahn, a former gang prosecutor and c.e.o. of the association of prosecuting attorneys, believes rap lyrics can be a very appropriate tool for law

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... >> narrator: the power of like. >> companies know how to turn "like" into money. >> narrator: the kids who are liked. >> i put it on my instagram and i was so happy i started getting views, which i didn't think was going to happen. >> this is my first bite into the cool ranch dorito taco. >> narrator: and the advertising machine spinning likes into gold. >> your consumer is your marketer. >> this is the biggest transformation that we've had in our lifetime. >> if you don't have a zillion hits, then you generally wouldn't get noticed by a sponsor. >> narrator: author douglas rushkoff examines the culture of like. >> a million people took an action to say, "yes, i like that piece of content. that piece of content speaks to me." that's profound. >> narrator: the fame... >> they need to stop worrying about their followers and start worrying about their money. >> narrator: the fortune... >> they can reach their friends, their peer networks, and be your own evangelists. they can sell your product for you. >> narrator: ...and what it all means for the way we interact with each other and

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to find job in my profession. [ narrator ] john waco was caug in the layoffs... that devastated the aerospace industry. he had been ouof work for two years when he heard about a retraining program... for engineers who had lost their jobs. i was contacted by the redeployment center at northrop, and they told me about the education for teachers... at cal state dominguez. [ narrator ] the program provides both training and support... for men and women at a difficult time in their lives. typically, a participant is someone in their midforties, and so they have a number of family pressures: mortgages and kids in college and those types of things. it's helping that individual look at a different occupation... and a different set of requirements, both physical and intellectual than what he or she has experienced in her former work. [ waco ] every day is a new experience with the kids. it's just something about teaching young people. it makes the whole new experience worthwhile for me. [ narrator ] as for victor valenski his job as a delivery man is only the begiginning.

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." >> narrator: in this episode of "american greed"... bold scheme to get rich quick. >> the opportunity was there for them to make easy money. >> narrator: albert talton puts a modern twist on one of the nation's oldest crimes -- making counterfeit money. >> this one was different because it was just a computer and several printers that were utilized to print this large amount of counterfeit. >> narrator: talton circulates more than $7 million in phony cash around the globe... >> he was almost proud of what he'd done -- his perverted version of the american dream. >> narrator: ...and launches the u.s. secret service into the largest manhunt of its kind.

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. >> narrator: in this episode of "american greed"... hail to...the thief.r bobby thompson. >> this story went from a dilapidated, rundown duplex all the way to the white house. >> narrator: thompson's a harvard-educated lawyer claiming to run a $100-million charity for veterans. >> this organization had collected millions of dollars, promising to give that to veterans who needed it and, in turn, doing far from that. >> narrator: veterans get pennies, and the commander uses the proceeds as a political slush fund. >> is it just politics as usual? is there something deeper going on? i still don't know the answer. >> narrator: when his crime is uncovered, thompson dares investigators to find out where he is...and who he is.

they took it from me. >> narrator: and later...lett wants to see his name in lights in nashville, tennessee. >> he saw himself being the next edward jones. >> narrator: he takes $5.5 million into his investment funds, but his clients don't see the dark soul behind this shining facade. >> unfortunately, the best crooks are also

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. >> narrator: in this episode of "american greed"... the brooklyn family business that saved an iowa town... >> there's money flowing into the community. >> narrator: ...but there are whispers of threats, extortion, and shocking child-labor abuses. >> the only way to make that business work was to exploit the workers. >> narrator: propping it all up -- a massive $26 million financial fraud. >> it's dizzying watching the money go around. i mean, it's a very complicated shell game. >> narrator: the man at the center of it all, sholom rubashkin -- dutiful son or corporate crook?

. >> ♪ the land is parched and dry ♪ ♪ the reservoirs are shrinking ♪ ♪ no rain female narrator: theprice wars are on the mattress price wars are on at sleep train. we challenged the manufacturers to offer even lower prices. now it's posturepedic versus beautyrest with big savings of up to $400 off. serta icomfort and tempur-pedic go head-to-head with three years' interest-free financing. plus, free same-day delivery, set-up, and removal of your old set. when brands compete, you save. mattress price wars are on now at sleep train. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ the murder of american journalist james foley. u.s. officials stacey create rescue -- say a secret rescue mission was launched in syria, but they were never found. foley's bosses at the global post told abc news they tried to negotiate his release, but last week received an e-mail saying folej would be executed foley's parents say they are proud of their son. >> we just pray that jim's death can bring the country together in a stronger way and with the values that jim holds dear. >> u.s. and british authorities are

narrator: when the lights go down in cities across north america, another world is revealed. an underworld populated by shady characters that live alongside us, but exist in the margins. we think of them as little garbage cans. we think we know them. man: there's many things about raccoon behavior that we just don't understand. what we know is just the tip of the iceberg. narrator: with special cameras, we enter the hidden, intimate world of a young raccoon family

i'm jim >> narrator: bacardi rum.a time-honored tradition, combining science and technology. >> that bottle's going to spin a few times to get labeled. >> narrator: art and passion. >> you cannot imagine how much fun we have making rum. >> narrator: a multibillion-dollar industry owned by one family. and today, some family members reunite to create their best rum yet -- a new blend celebrating their 150-year history. now get an exclusive look behind the back door at bacardi's ultimate factory.

>> narrator: tonight frontline, america's retirement crisis. >> it's tough to really worry about retirement right now. i guess plan b would be to keep working. >> my retirement plan is fingers crossed and pray, basically. >> narrator: even if you have a 401(k) or ira, will you have the money you need to retire? >> if you make $100,000 a year, you need one and a half million to be okay. >> a lot of 401(k) programs are lousy. >> you put up 100% of the capital, you take 100% of the risk, and you get 30% of the return. >> narrator: correspondent martin smith investigates. >> smith: make it simple. >> that's a question that can only be answered on what your risk appetite is. >> smith: but this isn't making it simple. >> well, i... i wish it was simple. >> if you want to gamble with your retirement money, be my guest. >> narrator: tonight frontline, "the retirement gamble." >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur

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. >> narrator: in this episode of "american greed"...es martin owns a lucrative currency brokerage but lives like a hollywood big shot. >> i think that was his goal in life -- to become a superstar. >> narrator: it's a game of make-believe with a very high price tag. >> he dropped $1 million on private-jet travel, a 2006 bentley, ferrari, bmw, land rover, hundreds of thousands of dollars at a strip club. >> narrator: and when the credits roll, he and his partners stick their clients with the bill. >> what dawns on me is nobody's gonna get a dime back ever. >> narrator: and later, miami accountant juan carlos rodriguez promises to make