. >> one day i was having a conversation with whitlow.told me he had one time worked in a circus and that was his favorite job which was kind of ironic considering his nickname is bozo and the wild laugh he had. just out of nowhere you would hear him. just, you know, ha-ha-ha. >> other than his hairline douglas "bozo" whitlow had little in common with his namesake and his crime was no laughing matter. when we met him, he was in his 13th year of a 65-year sentence for rape and criminal confinement. when he saw his scars, it was evident being a sex offender made his time anything but a circus. >> i was burned with baby oil and hair grease. it got all over my arm. it burned my stomach. it burned my back, too. i healed up good. >> whitlow claimed to not know who exactly attacked him, but he offered multiple possibilities for why it happened. >> whitlow constantly changed his story about what happened and why he was attacked. at one point he told us he was actually defending a nurse who was the actual intended victim of this attack. >> someone