to you, renee rockwell, how many times have you had a client that yaks behind bars? i couldn't be happier. you know, before every trial, renee, i would make it a point to visit, myself, not an investigator, to the cellblock where the defendant had been housed to find out if he had been talking. any casual conversations about his guilt. now we hear that there are 50-plus handwritten letters to a female inmate. thoughts? >> and, you know what, a nightmare. because all of those jailhouse rats that are going to talk about what the defendant said, that's one thing. you can challenge their credibility. but nancy, when you have notes, all they have to do is establish that the notes were written by anthony and then they're coming in. >> mickey sherman, i was wondering. a lot of us were speculating, i had never heard of the state saying look, judge, we've got some evidence that is so volatile, so explosive we can't reveal in open court what it is right now. we're investigating it. we want to go in camera, in the judge's chambers in secret to tell you what it is, because we wan

eleanor odom, renee rockwell, peter odom. what about it, eleanor? >> i think so, with child neglect at the very least, nancy, because she knew this guy had a bad background. beat her other child, and she left her baby with him. >> renee? >> i'm going to agree with that, nancy, but the focus needs to go on the system. why are they letting him remain in the house? why is he not on probation? >> peter odom, what about it? >> no one has been charged with anything yet, nancy. first we have to identify the victim, then we have to find out who did it. it's a little quick to be convicting people of murder. >>> as part of our ongoing investigation, the city of newburgh police department resumed the search for marc bookal. >> they searched the frigid waters of the hudson river. >> he doesn't wander off. >> they searched in the woods by the shore. >> he doesn't go to strangers. >> and through the dirt near a sewage treatment plant. >> i want my son to be found. >> a search for 4-year-old marc bookal that grows grim. >> the remains of what appears to be a child

eleanor odom, renee rockwell, peter odom. and attorney for tommy croslin joining us tonight out of jacksonville, florida, james werter. first to you, eleanor odom, polygraphs, hypnosis, can they come into court? >> it depends. a polygraph can if there's a stipulation by both the state and the defense -- >> an agreement. >> an agreement. exactly. and then it could come into evidence. but hypnotists and hypnosis, that has not been allowed in courts as of yet. >> and when she says stipulate, renee rockwell, typically the way it's done is that before you take the polygraph you agree, we're going to do a poly, this is who's going to give it, and you don't know the results when you agree up front. are we going to let it come into court. right? >> that's right. but you don't know the results, nancy. i wouldn't let one of my clients take a polygraph unless i had gotten a polygraph previously by a private polygrapher. and i'll remind you of the case, nancy, you and i had together when you were tracking to crack the red rapist case in