that includes david ratliff jr.s currently in the jail's disciplinary segregation wing for his role the night before. >> i had a little altercation -- actually a big altercation with a few amigos yesterday. apparently i used to date one of his girlfriends. it's a small world. this is charleston. you know, everybody knows everybody around here. i didn't start it. i finished it. you got to. you got to fight if you're in here and someone calls you out, you know. come on. >> staff reviews surveillance footage which shows ratliff did not throw the first punch. >> this is ratliff hanging around the pillar a couple of times. officer breaks it up. >> seconds later, another fight breaks out. a different camera angle shows ratliff joining the fight, which quickly escalates. >> this is where all six get involved. >> the punishment will be the same for all the combatants, extended stays in disciplinary segregation where they will be locked in one-person cells 23 hours a day and lose most of their privileges and possessions. >>

well, the reality is that elizabeth ratliff died of a stroke.d by an autopsy at the time and it was never suspicious until kathleen died. >> peterson's brother agrees. investigators had been called to the scene in germany and found no indications of foul play. >> two dead women at the bottom of a stairwell. >> 17 years apart? coincidences do happen. >> then there were those ghastly lacerations on kathleen's head which the state's medical examiner attributed to a beating. defense attorney rudolph countered with an expert of his own, a neuropathologist who noted what he didn't find, no skull or bone fractures. >> kathleen peterson's injuries were the result of a fall and not the result of a beating. >> there was absolutely no fractures anywhere, no fractures to her fingers, to her arms, to her skull, and there was absolutely no injury to the brain, and that's just almost an impossibility if what you're doing is beating something with a metal object. >> just as unlikely, rudolph said, was the prosecution's contention that the brutal attack took pla

. >> elizabeth ratliff was the michael was raising. and elizabeth's relatives had an eerie story to tell of what peterson's life on another staircase. let's leave the house on cedar street for a few moments and go back in time almost 20 years across the atlantic to germany. frankfurt in the early 1980s. michael peterson was living with his first wife, patty, and their two sons near a u.s. air force base. michael was working on a novel while she taught grade school to children of the military. margaret and martha's mother elizabeth ratliff worked alongside patty. >> michael and patty were our parents' best friends. i remember actually patty was saying that our birth mother was >> when the girls' father, an air force officer petersons and the rest of the to help. it took a couple of years for the overwhelmed widow to pull herself together. the ratliff family again. it was november 24th, 1985. elizabeth and her young daughters had gone to the petersons for dinner. later, michael peterson brought them home. the next morning, another good f

what would their father haveg elizabeth ratliff? >> he would have gotten two screaming little ragamuffin kids out of it. like there's nothing -- there's no reason for it. >> for the investigators in north carolina, though, the death in germany became a strong >> i'm just thinking that my case is getting a whole lot better. >> and what's more, detectives n had a secret life. secrets, tawdry ones, were about to spill out in the durham courthouse.male escort. >> what types of services did you perform? >> oh, well, that's pretty broad. peterson's walk on the wild side. >> what compelled me about this story is the notion that you never know who you're married to. to. since whening to hide? i say we own it. lose all that negativity. just let it go. it's just bad energy. oh, and lose those terrible black balloons they give you on your 50th. what's up with that? hey we hear you.ur members love aarp the magazine. it celebrates you. with fun and provocative content, from lifestyle and entertainment to in-depth reporting.of the great benefits

according to leslie ratliff, this is the future. the region' s first agr i-community, with an organic farm serving as avalon springs -- aberlin springs' s centerpiece. farming, education, and togetherness hope to be its focus. leslie: one of the things i have seen in the homebuilding business is that i hear a lot of communities. people pull up into their shut see them again. erik: this farm has been in leslie ratliff' s family for generations and with leslie' s background in homebuilding, this plan has turned into a perfect fit. leslie: our belief is that it is important to know where your food comes from. it is important to have good, solid, healthy foods, and that is why we have meat as well as vegetables. erik: each home will have their own area to plant and harvest food. however, the brunt of the work will be taken over by a professional farmer. more than 40 vegetables will be crowned with cattle, pigs, rabbit all on-site with sold -- on-site and sold fresh for the community' s dinner table. sheree: new tonight at 5:00, c world

we talked with air travel expert jay ratliff. he says they can bring in more bomb sniffing dogs, but outside of checking baggage outside the terminal somewhere, there' much they can do to build another layer of security in the pre-check areas. travelers today are telling us incidents like brussels always gets their attention. david volnier: it' s let us revisit our security policies. that has helped. we' ve got new things like the tsa pre to ensure that we have quality travelers and they' ve checked backgrounds for travelers. i think those things have been bonuses. brian: this isn' t unprecedented. l.a.x. in los angeles had a gunman in the terminal back in 2013. the same talk about increasing security in those areas came up then, but there were no major changes live, brian hamrick, wlwt news 5. mark: brian, thank you. we will continue to lead the way on this breaking news throughout the day on the air, and online, on wlwt.com, and the wlwt mobile app. lisa: a mother local mother, who pleaded guilty to putting something into her s

is 700 w-l-w aviation expert jay ratliff.... breaking now.... two explosions ripped through at brussels airport. this is video shows people running away from the blasts... we;re now hearing 13 people were killed... all planes have been grounded. in response to the explosions ... the country's terror level has been raised to the maximum level. the attacks also coming just days after the prime suspect in the paris attacks was arrested in brussels we can expect a gusty southern flow with winds gusting upwards of 30 / 35 mph. skies will remain sunny as temperatures will reach 63 degrees. look for a sun and cloud mix on wednesday with a high of 65 degrees. the next chance for rain will arrive after midnight into thursday morning with rain and isolated thunderstorms thursday afternoon. this will be a cold front that will bring in dry and cool air on friday with highs near 50 degrees. easter weekend looks a bit warmer with a dry saturday and highs of 60 degrees. we do have rain chances easter sunday but as of now they look late day into the evening as

producer ricky ratliff asked people who said it, donald trump or hillary clinton? >> i hate the concept of guns. who said that? >> hillary. >> you would be wrong. this teco the economy is better under the democrats than under republicans. >> it was donald trump. hillary are trump? i believe in universal health care. >> hillary just said that in the last debate. >> hillary. >> who said it? hillary are trump talking about illegal immigrants and a matter of deportation? the people that have been here for years and are hard workers, have good jobs and are supporting a family, how do you throw somebody up as lived in this country for 20 years? you just can't throw everybody out. >> hillary. >> donald trump said that? it sounds like hillary. >> you are a total loser. >> and maybe we are all total losers if we don't understand the appeal of trump has little to do with what he actually says or believes. >> who are you voting for? >> drum. >> it doesn't matter if he is democrat or republican you are still voting for him? >> i dislike trump. >> as a conservative he is an unk

the law enforcement they' re also the security for the pre-screening areas, air travel expert jay ratliff says upgrading security in those areas has been a topic on the radar before brussles, in 2013 a gunman in los angles opend fire in the terminal at lax, but no major changes were put in place. >> not a big fan of flying to begin with so you have to put it out of your mind and go on with your life or they win right. reporter: it all leaves some like bernadett rose placing their faith in a different level >> it' s in god' s hands. reporter: the dept of homeland security just sent out a release saying, no similar credible threats in the us, they' ve been in contact with fed and local law enforcement, tsa has deployed security to major airports, live brian hamrick, wlwt, news 5. mike: meanwhile the front-runners in the 2016 presidential race are reacting to the terror in belgium. democrat hillary clinton says international powers must defeat isis. but the u.s. must embrace muslims as allies. republican donald trump talked about interrogation strategies for terrorists. would be fine, and if