but shawn schaeffer's interview was one of the more unusual ones we conducted.regation unit of prison haselt, a maximum security facility. >> on 30 december, i killed my wife. >> okay. why and how? >> i killed her with a big knife. >> why? >> because i had no gun with me. >> okay. but why did you kill her? >> oh, why? i was very, very angry that she want to leave. for her, no problem, huh? but she wants to take my son. and she wants to move with the son to germany. >> schaeffer, a korean adopted by a dutch family, said he had outstanding charges in germany, that could have led to a two-year sentence if he followed his wife into the country. after arguing, he stabbed her numerous times. >> three times in the neck. two times in the back. two, three, the total was ten stabs with a big knife. >> how big? >> kitchen knife. >> in the middle of the interview, something unusual happened. >> we're in the middle of this interview with shawn and i noticed a distraction coming over my right side, and it was actually an officer. he was holding a wrist watch that apparently s

rick schaeffer purchases a home in foreclosure in a remote lakefront community. >> it's a bunch of oldges that get converted into homes. kind of in the middle of nowhere. >> not much is known about the previous owner. but for schaeffer the price is right even though the house appears to be in shambles. >> i've seen people save things and collect things. but i think in this case, the individual was cleaning the neighborhood, so to speak. >> armed with a video camera to document the scene, schaeffer visits his new property with a friend, david lang, and lang's neighbor ryan lamere. >> you want to see hoarding? you're going to see it. >> looked like a typical house that had neglect. the neighbors had put up a fence on the one side because of what had been there. >> the trees were all overgrown, the bushes. so they were overgrown on the house. there was a car parked outside. it was completely packed with stuff. >> that was overflow from the house. basically when you opened up the door to the car, it was filled to the ceiling. >> shut the door and locked it. i'm sure if you opened it up, it

. >> reporter: the schaeffer residence in newton massachusetts outside boston. fraternal twins becky and naomi both went away to college in canada, graduated last year, both worked part time. both are so-called boomerang kids, back home with their parents. >> can you tell us a little bit about what your high school friends are doing now? are many of them back in newton as well? >> most of them are. i would say that only one of our high school friends, one or two of them have really gotten good full-time jobs. >> reporter: the fifth person in the schaeffers' kitchen? sociologist and johns hopkins dean catherine newman demonstrating her field work skill. >> i didn't want to move somewhere random. >> i kind of wish i did it. not that i don't have living at home. >> why do you say that? >> i just feel like when i first moved home, i was like okay, becky, six months and you won't be here anymore. i feel like i'm getting a little bit complacent. >> reporter: the schaeffers could have sprung sfrat from newman's new book the accordian family which chronicles a worldwide

reporting for good morning maryland, christian schaeffer abc2 news. >> opening states are expected in the shooting death of an off- duty state trooper a jury was seated in the trial of surel williams. trooper brown off duty at the time was working at a security guard at an applebe's. >>> police are searching for suspect. a man was shot several times on greenmount avenue. the victim is believed to be in the late teens or early 20s was rushed to the hospital in critical condition but didn'tsurvive the shooting. >>> today police may release more details about the person who died from a park lift in towson that happened yesterday morning at palisades towson apartment. it chris a state of the art system that parks the car. and investigators are trying to figure out what happened to lead to the accident. >>> the walletmore county council will -- baltimore county council will hold a hearing on gender eye dente protection. they are proposing discrimination base on sexual orientation or gender identity. >>> today the governor omally will testify on a bill for onshore wind energy. he will testi

christian schaeffer tells us what to expect later today in court and has been there reporting all week from charlottesville. >> reporter: after a nearly full week of testimony from the prosecution witnesses we could hear the defense's case today. in court we have seen the large hole in the bedroom door and now a dna expert testified that hairs found on that door match george huguely's dna profile. she testified that huguely's blood was found under love's fingernails. earlier a toxicologist said love's blood alcohol level at the time of the death was .14 more than the legal level for driving. but not nearly enough to dil her -- kill her. and two experts on brain pathology testified that there was bleeding inyeardley love's brain and say the injuries had to be caused by blunt force trauma and the damage to love's brain was enough to cause a heart arrhythmia which killed her. the defense doesn't dispute the events the prosecution presented here over the past week but they dispute is the intent. they say george huguely didn't intend to kill yeardley love. reporting from charlottesville for

schaeffer was the man convicted of 2009 killing of 9-year-old melody during a drunk driving incident. in return for the guilty plea suzanne received a life in prison without the possibility of parole, but it does spare him the death penalty. >>> today guilty plea in 20 million-dollar fraud case. ahead in just 8 minutes why you might call it a family affair. denied san francisco near the request to visit with his 2- year-old son. he's been banned from having contact with his wife and son since he was charged with missing domestic violence three weeks ago. he separately asked the court to allow her husband's visit a drawing by their son was introduced as the court exhibit. >> i tell you how much i miss my family. e can't wait to hug my son. i'd like to hug my son and wife and get back to some level of normalcy. >> the judge set another court date on the visitation issued for next wednesday. near the trial on domestic abuse charges was set from three weeks from today. a federal judge set a trial date today accused of stealing cocaine and was part of evidence in drug cases. 61-year-old de

and for the up-to-the-minute updates following christian schaeffer who is in charlots covering the -- chartsolville. he is covering the trial. you can find the timeline of everything you need to know at abc2news.com. >>> if you are heading out today, baltimore city, there is no trash or recycling pickup. convenience centers will be closed. and all city building will be closed with the exception of the police headquarters. keep in mind, parking meters are in effect. >>> a big celebration in rome during the weekend. edwin o'brien became the 15th archbishop in baltimore and this weekend he became our fourth cardinal. we have had cardinal she and and gibbons and keeler and now cardinal o'brien. we have never had back to back archbishop become cardinals and that's a first for charm city. here at home the catholic community is proud and we caught with up parishioners at cathedral of mary our queen. listen. >> i am very proud that rome -- we have a presence in rome and that he was considered by the pope and it feels very i think it's wonderful. >> cardinal o'brien will be back in baltimore m

colonel schaeffer, what about our troops? >> that is the problem.'re serious in negotiations, jenna, we should demand the taliban stop saying that and back off. you know, the idea here we're going to try to get them back in the political process. this is not helpful. frankly as i said yesterday, saying again today, the more we apologize we endanger our troops. we have to come at position of strength and not weakness. make sure we will defend our troops any way we can, at the same time we're going to negotiate we need to get something back in negotiations. not continue to give stuff away. jenna: nice to see you. we'll talk much more about this. thank you. jon: republican race for the white house, four candidates are still in it and doesn't look like anyone is going to be leaving the race anytime soon. are primary voters having trouble making up their mind? what impact could it have come convince time? plus, gun laws in our nation's capitol, coming under the microscope even after the supreme court ruled folks can own firearms for lawful purposes like

thanks for coming out and schaeffer school of journalism at texas christian university.lost a couple, great, great journalists. i wanted to remember them, anthony shdid had a relationship with csis. anthony's cousin worked here as a young man. just left to go to business school. there is a great, great essay at csi s.org by our middle east program director, who is a friend ever anthony's for 20 years. i urge all of you to watch it. this will also be tweeted live tonight. csis underscore org with the hash sign. sheave fear series. with that i give to bob schieffer. >> thank you, and drew. welcome back on tcu and journalism school there at csi s boy, do we have a good one today. we try to stay on top of the news because we're right on top of it because we're going to talk to today iran. what could be done about it, what should be done about it, what does the future hold there. jim cartwright, united states marine corps retired. holds the csis harold brown chair in defense policy studies. he served as commander u.s. strategic command before being nominated and appointed as