. >>> in 1987 ray and tanya reid along with their two children had just moved to urbandale, iowa. it was ray reid's fourth job transfer in three years. >> every time we moved it was an advancement for him. and i was ready -- any time he wanted to go, i wanted to go. >> tanya reid was a housewife, who stayed at home to care for her children, 6-year-old carolyn and 2-year-old michael. just two days after moving to town, their youngest child, michael, stopped breathing. fortunately, tanya was a nurse and knew exactly what to do. she performed cpr and immediately took him to the emergency room of iowa methodist medical center. >> it was fever of viral etiology, dehydration, and vomiting. that was a pretty standard diagnosis and situation. >> after he was stabilized, michael was given a complete physical examination. he had a prior history of neurologic seizures, but doctors could not determine what was causing them. a few months later, the reids moved into a larger unit in the same complex. ray was working extremely long hours, and tanya was lonely. >> i think in the beginning the rel

. >>> in 1987 ray and tanya reid along with their two children had just moved to urbandale, iowa.eid's fourth job transfer in three years.

were in danville for a little while, through the airline carolinas, he was captured on may 10 near urbandale georgia, and was taken to for lynn wrote down on the virginia peninsula, as many of you know where he was kept in jail for two years. a medical early-onset and unequivocal message to society. he desperately wanted to be put on trial. he believed that a trial would vindicate him, and there is potential federal prosecutors thought about it, and in the end they decided not to do it. he had a really good defense lawyer from new york city, an irishman, incidentally harold. [laughter] mr. holzer: who sweated profusely. professor gallagher: he would have to be tried where the crime was committed, which they said was in richmond, and it was perhaps a chance he would not be convicted, which would be a problem because then the blood really would be on the hands of the people who had prosecuted the union war. but he is there for two years and he becomes a sort of -- he takes on the characteristic of a martyr to some degree. his reputation actually went up because of that. he sort of suffered for