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Interrogates him. Nothing sexual went on . Nothing sexual. Gathering physical evidence in that tiny room to convict him. Tonight on 20 20, were taking you inside the case that made national headlines. Coming to us from oklahoma. Former Police Officer. Women terror itz edized duri night traffic stops. She begged him, please dont do this, are you going to kill me . Attacks nobody would report. This is the face of courage. Except one fearless grandmother. He picked the wrong lady to stop that night. 13 accusers in all, coming out of the shadows. But will a jury buy what theyre saying. How difficult is it to mount a case where you have witnesses showing up high on pcp . The verdict is coming down. Heres whats going on right now. About 100 people cramming, elbowing and pushing their way into the courtroom. He never spoke in court. But hes talking now, to 20 20. What the dash cam never saw. Good evening, im elizabeth vargas. David is away tonight. How many of you have ever felt the dread of being pulled over by a policeman while driving . Maybe youre going too fast, a taillight is out. It could be anything. But now, a group of women are taking legal action, saying they had a very different reason for being afraid. Someone wearing a badge, someone sworn to protect them, and doing anything but. Heres juju chang. Whats your first name . Daniel. Daniel. Daniel, have you sit in here. Okay. And you can sit there. Reporter youve seen the Good Cop Bad Cop routine. But never one quite like this. In a tiny overheated Interrogation Room in Oklahoma City, the good cop, detective kim davis, 28 years on the job, is very good. This is going to make the rumors go away. Reporter and the bad cop, patrolman Daniel Holtzclaw, is, allegedly, very bad indeed. Hes not here to solve a crime, hes the suspect. You have the right to remain silent, do you understand that . Right. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Reporter Oklahoma City has a hard core cowboy culture and a state capital with its own oil wells. But at night, beyond the blur of traffic and the neon rainbow glow of the skydance bridge, there is a dangerous side of the little city on the prairie, the northeast. Police chief bill citty knows it well. Theres a lot of gang activity. Its a lowerincome area and there has been, in the past, a lot of crime in that area. I am willing to make a statement and answer any questions at this time. I do not want an attorney present at this time. Reporter officer holtzclaw is accused of sexually assaulting a woman he pulled over on the night shift just hours earlier. Its a stunning tumble for the hulking former football hero. Holtzclaw in on the tackle. Reporter his loving family says hes always been a gentle giant. His dad, eric, and mom, kumiko, and sister, jenny, have many mementos of his gridiron glory. This is eastern michigan. Reporter holtzclaw, nicknamed the claw by teammates, was a football star in high school and an allamerican at eastern michigan university. What a story holtzclaw is, young man out of enid, oklahoma. He excelled in football. He became an allstate player at enid high. He was recruited to a divisioni school. Reporter he wanted to go play in the nfl . He wanted to be a pro football player, and that was his dream. The 2009 nfl draft reporter the lifelong dream dashed the night of the nfl draft. The Kansas City Chiefs select tyson jackson. He just didnt make the cut. Its really competitive. Reporter its the disappointment of a lifetime. Holtzclaw turns from pro football dreams to his second career choice, police work. Here we go. Come on. Reporter he continues to stack muscles on his lineback e physique. Endless hours in the gym, pumping iron. Thats where he meets his girlfriend, who asked us not to use her name. They bond over barbells and body building. My best words to describe him is a big teddy bear. I mean, hes really sweet, hes really kind. Good night, baby. Reporter and religion, too. She says they attended church every week. Daniel would send her bible verse selfies. Romans 12 10. Love one another with brotherly affection, as members of one family. Reporter holtzclaw even had a verse tattooed on his arm. I can do all things through christ that strengthens me. Reporter theyd only been together six months, but were already thinking about forever. Do you think this was leading to marriage . Definitely. Reporter holtzclaw is little more than a rookie, just three years on the job, but already getting a reputation as an aggressive officer. A pair of brass knuckles in his patrol car. A local newspaper says he enjoys chasing down the bad guys as much as opposing running backs on the football field. His dad, eric holtzclaw, is a Police Officer, too, in the familys hometown of enid, oklahoma. I would say he was a Proactive Police officer. He liked to get in the mix. He wanted to catch the bad guys. He was very proud of that. He wanted to make a difference. Ive never been in trouble like this before. Ive never got accused of anything like this. Reporter but holtzclaw is a cop in a tight spot. We told you that there was a traffic stop right. That somebody made some allegations against an officer. Right. Reporter its 2 00 that morning, offduty, driving home in his police car, which many officers do in Oklahoma City. Holtzclaw made a traffic stop. Do you make traffic stops normally after work . I dont, but in that case i saw her swerve and what not. Reporter holtzclaw describes a routine stop. No ticket, just a warning about her expired drivers license. Im like, okay, im im just off work. Im tired. Get your license taken care of. And i cut her loose after that. Then where did you go . I went straight home. Reporter he admits he never bothered to call it in, and in another violation of procedure, had shut down the communications and gps tracking system in his patrol car, something he says he always did after work. So, did you run her on your mdt . No, i didnt. All my all my stuff as far as that, because i didnt call it in and say i was on a traffic stop. My computer was off and everything as well. Reporter but that female driver is telling police a very different story. She says the officer made her expose herself and sexually assaulted her right there in the back of his patrol car by the side of the road. Well, was there anything, an accidental touch, anything . If she thought it when i pat searched her. But i didnt. It was nothing as far as, i felt like i didnt do anything as far as sexual or anything like that. Reporter detective davis had met with the woman earlier that morning. What was your First Impression of her . Her makeup was smeared because shed been crying. I mean, i can see her face right now, and the fear in her eyes, and in her facial expression. And nothing sexual went on during that 15 minutes . Nothing sexual. Reporter holtzclaws sister says all she sees is a man telling the truth. When you look at the interrogation video, what do you see . Thats daniel. Daniel being honest, straightforward, he had nothing to hide. Reporter detective davis disagrees. I just thought he was very robotic. Reporter he didnt express any shock. No. If i accused you of doing Something Like this, or if i was accused of Something Like that, my voice would probably go up ten octaves and id be like, what, i didnt do that did your pants come unzipped, unbuttoned, anything, while you were standing right there . No. Reporter but after more than two hours cornered in that stifling Interrogation Room i dont know if this shirt is going to be big enough for you. Youre a big old boy. Reporter hes stripped of his badge, his gun and humiliatingly, even his uniform. Standing there in borrowed clothes in that tiny room, holtzclaw calls his girlfriend. Hey, baby. Babe. I need to i need to tell you whats going on. Its crazy. Reporter youve just witnessed the end of Daniel Holtzclaws short career in law enforcement. Hey ah, until this investigation gets all completed with whats going on, were going to put you on administrative leave with pay, okay . Okay. Reporter not only is he no longer working for the police, now the police are working against him. When we come back, well meet the woman from that nightmare traffic stop. He just picked the wrong lady to stop that night. Reporter and later, the invisible evidence found on holtzclaws uniform, the pivotal clue detectives find on those confiscated pants. Was that a smoking gun, in a sense . Reporter stay with us. Whoa thats amazing. Hey, im the internet i know a bunch of people who would love that. The internet loves what youre doing. So build a better website in under an hour with. 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Reporter the force rocked by allegations against one of its own. Officer Daniel Holtzclaw is preying on those he is sworn to serve and protect. But now hes the one being pursued by sex crimes detective kim davis. And it is personal. For someone to use the badge and the gun to just do the most demeaning thing to a human being, its infuriating. It was my main focus. I i was going to put him in prison. Reporter the alleged victim, Oklahoma City native Jannie Ligons. She runs a daycare center, is 57 years old, a mother of four and a grandmother of 12. I looked at my Rearview Mirror and i noticed those lights and it was a police car. Reporter she recalls the night she was pulled over along a section of 50th street. The officer told her she was driving erratically. I opened the door, he came to my car and he said, i stopped you because i saw you were swerving. Reporter he starts questioning her about a cup of koolaid seen in this police photo, and whether shes been drinking. She says she had not. But when the cop starts searching her, ligons says the traffic stop gets weird, and scary. She says he orders her to expose herself. And im like, what . You want me to take my pants down . Then he was like, yes. I said, oh, no sir. I said, youre not supposed to do that, sir. Reporter ligons says holtzclaw then forced her to commit a sex act on him as he stood by the open rear door of his police car. She was scared to death she was going to die. She didnt look at his face. She didnt look at his nametag. She said all she could stare at was his gun. Reporter in his police interview, holtzclaw acknowledges ligons was afraid of him. Did she ever ask you if you were going to shoot her . She did. She was talking about pistol all the time and talking about guns and whatnot. And im like, calm down. Im not. Im not going to shoot you or anything like that. Did she think you were going to shoot her . Maybe. Its disgusting, and this is my mother, who is a grandmother. Reporter ligons daughter, latoya riffa, sat by her mothers side during our interview. And he assumed that he could do this because theres no way shes going to report him, theres no way nobodys going to believe her. Reporter and did he say anything . He just backed up and he zipped his pants up and he moved back and i just got out of his police car and walked towards my car, thinking he was going to shoot me in the back. He let me live to tell the story. Big, big mistake. Reporter two hours later, encouraged by her family, ligons reports the assault to the police. If i could have went and found him myself, i would have gladly done so. Reporter do you want to take a moment . Are you okay . No, im fine. Reporter did you believe her . Yes, i did. There was no motive for her to make this up. Reporter detectives scour holtzclaws car for evidence, but find nothing more than fast food wrappers, muscle supplements and a Justin Timberlake cd. But when they examine holtzclaws uniform, hoping to find Jannie Ligons dna, they get a shock. They find dna all right, but its not hers, and its not from holtzclaws girlfriend either. There was unknown dna, female dna on the inside of his pants. Reporter detectives now deduce two things, the unknown dna may be another victim, and holtzclaw, a serial predator. The hunt begins for a match to the mystery dna. We werent going to stop until we found it. Juries today want dna because everybody watches csi. Reporter everybody wants the dna moment. Right. Reporter they begin checking the records of holtzclaws encounters with other women on his beat. I think we handsearched six paper boxes full of those, trying to find everybody he ran. Reporter so, thats, like, thousands of names, is my assumption. Oh, thousands. We just made a list of black females that he stopped and ran and started going door to door. Reporter behind those closed doors, and as the investigation widens, just what they feared, they find more women who say they too were attacked by a cop. And when the story leaks an officer has been placed on administrative leave. Reporter still more women come forward. Take the case of 22yearold shardayreon hill, who was handcuffed to this hospital bed high on drugs after an arrest when she says she was sexually assaulted. I didnt know what to think. I was scared, because i was just like, this is a Police Officer. I didnt know what to do, and then im handcuffed to the bed, so, im just like reporter youre powerless. Yes. Im in his custody. I dont know what he might do next, so, i just didnt even say nothing. Reporter and then theres carla raines, a 45yearold mother of two, who says she was forced to expose herself by an officer supposedly checking for drugs or weapons. So, it got to the point where i raised up my shirt. Okay, can i go now . Can you let me go . Reporter why didnt you report it . I didnt think that anything would happen. Reporter and then the police track down this woman. 39yearold sherry ellis. She tells a now familiar story. She was walking down highland drive when she was stopped by a cop in a squad car. And thats when he started doing things that he shouldnt be doing. Reporter what kind of things did he do . He was when he searched me, he searched under my clothes. He patted me down up under my clothes. Reporter ellis says the officer ran her name and found she had an arrest warrant and multiple unpaid fines. Hes like, well, okay, what do you think we need to do about this, miss ellis . And i said, i dont know, are you going to take me to jail . And i was looking down, because i was saying in the back of my mind, oh, my god, im going to jail, you know . And when i looked up reporter when she looked up, she says the officer forced himself on her, but her ordeal would not end there. Afterwards, she says he drove her to this abandoned schoolyard. He drove me to to a school. And outside of the school in the back and he opened the door and told me to get out and pull my pants down. And reporter and allegedly assaulted her again. When it was over, he said i was free to go. Reporter and now, police are connecting all those cases. The women, africanamerican and mostly middleaged, to that young, allamerican cop, Daniel Holtzclaw. An officer allegedly leading a double life on the night shift. Two months after his interrogation, he is arrested in the parking lot outside his gym. A Police Officer arrested officer Daniel Holtzclaw is in custody tonight, with several women coming forward claiming to be his victims. Reporter they have holtzclaw. They also have a growing list of accusers. But theres a problem. Not one of the women is a match to that critical clue, the mystery female dna found on the uniform. We kept going and kept searching, because we had to find a match. 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Why in the world would she make this up . I dont know. I was she was cooperative. She was nervous. You know what . If this is a bunch of false allegations, then i want it cleared up, too. Right. Reporter from that claustrophobic Interrogation Room, where officer Daniel Holtzclaw insisted on his innocence, to the urban Oklahoma City neighborhood called the northeast, detective kim davis and her colleagues were working furiously to investigate a ballooning number of Sexual Assault allegations against the policeman. Three, six, 12 and finally, 13 women. What was the pattern of behavior when he would stop a woman, a potential victim . He would check their background first, and if it was convictions, drug use, prostitution, then he would target them. He would say, well, i need to search you. I need to make sure you dont have and it would kind of start from there. Reporter as holtzclaw begins preparing a defense, his family hires private investigator brian bates. I can confidently say, daniel did not do the things he was charged with. Reporter bates is wellknown in Oklahoma City as a video vigilante for posting videos of prostitutes and their customers caught in the act. Hey, debbie. What are you doing . Running off prostitution going on. Reporter he says, because nearly all holtzclaws alleged victims have a history of drug abuse, prostitution or outstanding warrants, theyre not to be believed. Were dealing with a lot of people that their entire life is spent committing crime. Its just a simple fact. Lying is Second Nature to committing these crime. Reporter so i know that you have a criminal record. Yeah, but i dont really want to talk about that. Reporter you dont want to talk about it. No. You know, theyre the perfect victim. Nobodys going to believe them. If you believe them, who cares . Theyre prostitutes. They cant be believed. Yes, they can. Yes, they can. So thats why he was picking these kind of women. Because thats the perfect victim. Reporter perfect victims, but far from perfect witnesses. The holtzclaw private eye, brian bates, plays me several Police Interviews he says prove the women are not credible. Remember carla raines, the woman who says she was forced to expose herself . In her police interview, at first, she repeatedly denies shes a victim at all. Have you ever come to any contact where an officer as been inappropriate . No. You ever had to expose yourself to him . No. Five times, she says shes not a victim. Reporter another alleged victim cant pick holtzclaw out of a lineup. Thats him. Okay. I think. Okay, well let me oh, wait. Ive got several photographs to show you, so i dont know. Im not really sure. Reporter she couldnt identify holtzclaw in a photo lineup. Right. They dont look at their face. Reporter perhaps the most bewildering inconsistency holtzclaw is 62 with white and japanese parents. But sherry ellis tells detectives the man who assaulted her in a school yard was a short black man. Tell me your description of him. Hes black. Hes okay, hes a black male. Muscular. Muscular. Is he taller than you or shorter than you . He was like right here, maybe, like that. So you think hes shorter than you. Yeah. Reporter you describe him as being like this to you . Right. Reporter and youre about 510 . 511. Reporter 511 . Yeah. Reporter Daniel Holtzclaw is like 62. Oh, see . I still didnt know that. Reporter thats kind of a big difference right . I really didnt pay any attention. I really didnt. I just know what was being done to me. Reporter does this trouble you at all, that the descriptions are so far off . No. Can you imagine going through that trauma, and then trying to remember how tall he was, how much he weighed, what did he look like when youre being sexually assaulted . You know, thats the last thing on your mind. Reporter among their many other problems, most of the 13 accusers never reported the Sexual Assaults. Why do you think all the other women stayed silent . Because their lifestyle. And their relationship with the Police Department. Reporter but one woman did not stay silent. Remember Jannie Ligons . Daycare worker and grandmother . She went to police right away within hours. How did she describe the attacker . She said that he was big. Muscle bodybuilder big. She thought he had blond hair. Once he started doing the things he was doing, she was afraid to look at his face, and she was afraid to look at his nametag. Because she thought if he saw if he saw her doing that, that he would kill her. Reporter she may have gotten the hair color wrong, but the not the color of his car. She describes an allblack squad car which turns out to be an important detail. At that time, we were in the process of converting over to allblack. Most of our cars were still black and white. 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Reporter in his boyhood home in enid, oklahoma, hes still the hero, with his own personal hall of fame in a corner of the living room. His biggest fans, his parents and sister jenny. Hes such a loving brother. He has such a big heart. Reporter to them, he is forever the pistol packing birthday boy, the perfect prom date, anything but the prime suspect in a series of notorious crimes that revolted the country. Officer holtzclaw, do you have anything to say . Reporter whats it like watching your son be portrayed as a monster, a serial rapist, a predator . Its very hard. Hes just like you and me. Hes just a man. And hes not the villain that they portrayed him as. Reporter to fund their sons defense, the holtzclaws say they have emptied bank accounts, and asked for donations. Eric holtzclaw has indefinitely delayed plans to retire. Hello . Will you take a call from an inmate a correctional facility . Hello . Reporter on a scratchy phone line from behind bars, its the accused calling. Daniel holtzclaw. Officer Daniel Holtzclaw. Sexually abusing several women while he was on duty. Reporter the object of so much public scrutiny and scorn, about to speak publicly for the first time. Daniel holtzclaw had told 20 20 he wanted to talk oncamera, but authorities will not allow it. They say, for his own safety. A former cop behind bars is a target. What made you want to talk to us . I want people to hear from me. How do i respond to these questions . So they could see the truth. I have nothing to hide. Reporter you say youre not guilty. Youre telling me you never raped any of those women . Absolutely. Reporter have you ever sexually assaulted any woman . I have never sexually assaulted anyone. Reporter holtzclaw says not only did he not commit these crimes, there were no crimes. He insists the women, all 13 of them, are lying. He claims none of them were sexually assaulted by anyone. Why would 13 women lie . Detectives approached these women and said, we have a tip that youve been sexually assaulted by an Oklahoma City Police Officer. Thats basically giving them a Lottery Ticket to say yes. They went out and sought these people and planted in their idea the idea that, oh, were investigating this officer that we think may have assaulted you. Reporter could it be that you reverseengineered the investigations . And put the power of suggestion into some of these potential victims heads . You could do that. I mean, i guess, but i didnt. Reporter in our interview, holztclaw freely admitted that he did have interactions with all of the women. But he wasnt committing crimes, he says. He was trying to solve them. Develop sources, locate drug houses and help some of the women straighten up. Why were you putting these women in the back of your car . Because investigators say thats not only Bad Police Work but its dangerous. Thats good police work. You can run warrant searches, you can talk to them, you can find intel based on what their stories are and see if they matched up. Reporter police also point out that holtzclaw violated protocol after one of those traffic stops. After holtzclaw allegedly assaulted shardayreon hill, he actually friended her on facebook. These are some of his messages. Making sure youre doing okay and staying out of trouble reads one message. And on at least five occasions he asks her to call him. We dont facebook friend people we put in jail. Thats just stupid. Reporter and when his girlfriend found out about it later, even she wondered about that. Did you think it was weird that he facebook friended one of the women . Yeah, i didnt understand that at first. When i asked him, why would you do that, he said he was just trying to help her, just being a good guy and make sure that she was okay. Reporter but its not just that you facebook friended her, you went to her house in your personal car. Why would you do that . Basically just check up on her, make sure shes okay. And like i said, i should have not done that. I was wrong. I did not do anything to her. I did not come on to her. Reporter that is not what shardayreon says. When he got there, he was trying to get me to have sex with him. Reporter Police Continue hunting for the most incriminating evidence of all. That elusive mystery victim, the dna from holtzclaws uniform pants. Kim davis and other detectives search through records of every person holtzclaw had checked for outstanding warrants. So, it was gumshoe detective work. Yeah, it was just hitting the streets. Putting on our tennis shoes and going. Reporter and then the tennis shoe detective work pays off. Detective kim davis will kaloca girl who may be the most important witness of all, a 17yearold holtzclaw had given a ride home just hours before pulling over Jannie Ligons. The teenager tells police holtzclaw assaulted her too. He started like touching me like this, and he put his hands up under my clothes, and he started feeling on me. Did he say anything then . He was like, well, you know you got warrants, and i dont want, i dont want to have to take you to jail today, so, this is what youre going to have to do. Reporter davis then swabs the teens mouth, collecting a dna sample. To compare to any dna that weve got on his clothing. Reporter they send it off to and lab, and bingo its a match. Confirming that her skin cells were found inside the fly of holtzclaws pants. He says there is an innocent explanation. He may have picked up the girls dna searching her and then transferred it to his pants during a bathroom break. But the police are certain that dna is going to put him away. When you got that dna match, what went through your head . Well, i said i was going to do a backflip off my file cabinet, but i didnt. Oh, i was just ecstatic. Because that was the dna moment. 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We believe you we believe you reporter outside the courthouse, protests. Sometimes so loud juror dan speaks says everyone inside the courthouse could hear them. At one point, the judge delayed the hearing and told us to basically ignore it. We have a problem when it comes to africanamericans and the Police Officers. Its important to note the officer was a white officer. Reporter in the wake of the recent riots in ferguson, missouri, and the black lives matter protests, the racial overtones in the case are only heightened when the jury is selected. Consisting of eight men, four women, all of them white. Reporter theyre all white. You started to get concerned. About, here we go again. Here we go again. You had an allwhite jury and the only things black in the courtroom was the 13 black women and the judges robe. Hello . Reporter hey, can you hear me . Yeah, i can hear you. Reporter holtzclaw tells me his theory on the phone. That the Police Department manufactured a case against him to satisfy the public outcry. We want life. 36 counts reporter why do you think that police intentionally railroaded you . If they didnt convict me, there would be the next ferguson deal happening in Oklahoma City. And so far, we have heard from three of the alleged victims, but there are still ten more that we havent heard from. Reporter as expected, holtzclaws defense attorney scott adams attacks the credibility of the 13 accusers. Some of the women were in jail on other charges during the trial, and testified in their orange jumpsuits. Some changed their stories. And then, there was the one who came to court to testify, high on drugs. We know that she tested positive for pcp and other drugs. He knew this. He patrolled those streets, day in, day out. Reporter he knew they might not stand up in a court of law. He knew they would not stand up in a court of law, and thats what he was banking on. Reporter how difficult is it to mount a case where you have witnesses showing up high on pcp . You have witnesses with a history of lying to the police. These are not easy witnesses to put on the stand. No, it was horrible. And plus, it gives the defense just a million things to attack. Reporter but the first woman detective kim davis interviewed, the grandmother, jannie was not like the others. No long criminal history, no record of addiction or prostitution. Let me ask you about Jannie Ligons. She immediately reported the event after it occurred. Why would she make that up . Lets get the factual facts out there. Shes not innocent the way people think she is. She had a bust in the 80s. But we couldnt present that to the jury. Reporter yeah, but how does a 30yearold drug bust how is that relevant to a rape case . Its credibility. Its her credibility. This is not a woman thats, you know, a soccer mom or someone thats credible in society. Reporter Jannie Ligons says she wasnt even charged in that arrest in the 80s, and shes never been in trouble since. The thing is, hes been stopping a lot of prostitutes and drug users, and i guess apparently he thought i was one of them, but big, big mistake. He just stopped the wrong lady that night. Reporter he stopped the wrong lady that night. Exactly. Reporter before the trial is even over, well known civil rights Attorney Benjamin Crump is already planning the next case. I will be representing them in civil litigation for them to get whole justice. Reporter lawsuits on behalf of the alleged victims. Even before the trial ended, they all lined up. They all were looking for the money trail on this. The detectives were approaching these women, saying, you know, basically giving them a Lottery Ticket, and all you had to do was just say yes. Reporter what do you mean by, they handed them a Lottery Ticket . Because all they have to do is go throughout the court case, cooperate, go on the stand, and then now theyre going to be, you know, billionaires for something, you know, that i didnt do. He has nothing to hide reporter the defense called only one witness. Holtzclaws girlfriend. Why would he do it with these people . You know, if he wanted to go out and sleep around with people, he could go find people on the north side or people where hes from. It just doesnt make sense. Because its not about sex. Its about power and control. Its all about, look what i can do to you. And you cant do anything about it. Reporter the trial runs six weeks. As the jury goes into deliberations the jurors have been told to make arrangements today for a possible sequestering. Reporter the holtzclaw team is feeling confident. We had good feelings in our hearts that he was going to be acquitted. Reporter coming up, his friends and family believe him, but what are those jurors thinking . He didnt look like the monster that some people were saying he was. Reporter marathon deliberations. My heart just dropped and i got nervous. I just started crying. Reporter shes not the only one. Look at holtzclaw. And this is before the verdict. We are the jury on the panel find as follows. Reporter watch what happens hes a nascar champion whos shes a worldclass swimmer whos stared down the best in her sport. But for both of them, the most challenging opponent was. Pe blood clots in my lung. It was really scary. A dvt in my leg. I had to learn all i could to help protect myself. My doctor and i choose xarelto® xarelto®. To help keep me protected. Xarelto® is a latestgeneration blood thinner. Thats proven to treat and reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots from happening again. In clinical studies, almost 98 of patients on xarelto® did not experience another dvt or pe. Heres how xarelto works. Xarelto® works differently. Warfarin interferes with at least six bloodclotting factors. 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Reporter juror dan speaks says, for all the talk of race and the threat of riots outside the jury room, it did not come up inside. He says at first, a number of them were ready to set Daniel Holtzclaw free. They just didnt believe some of those women. There was some jurors that, due to the fact that who these victims were, had a hard time believing believing them. For the last five weeks, Daniel Holtzclaw has walked into this courtroom, and his face has remained expressionless. Reporter finally, the jury returns. They have verdicts on all 36 counts. The judge silently scans each page of the jury form. Daniel holtzclaw is visibly shaking in his boots, seemingly paralyzed with fear, despite claiming he anticipated a favorable outcome. Were you convinced that they were going to find you not guilty . I absolutely 100 , all in my heart, within my family, within everyone that was on my side, they all said, theres is no way you should be getting convicted. Reporter and then, the judge begins to read out Daniel Holtzclaws fate. The defendant is guilty of the crime of Sexual Battery and set punishment at eight years. The defendant is guilty of the crime of procuring lewd exhibition and punishment is set at five years. The defendant is guilty of the crime of forcible oral sodomy and punishment is set at 20 years. Reporter and as the guilts pile up, physically pushing down on Daniel Holtzclaw, the powerful former football star, the aggressive rookie cop, collapsing before the eyes of the courtroom. The defendant is guilty of the crime of rape in the first degree and punishment is set at 30 years. Reporter his family, stunned. His tearful reaction to the verdict made some people think, oh, well, those are tears of an innocent man. No, those were tears of a man who got caught, and hes not remorseful. Hes just sad that he got caught and hes being punished. The defendant is not guilty of the crime of procuring lewd exhibition. Reporter but the jury did have doubts, finding holtzclaw not guilty on 18 counts, fully half the charges against him, including the allegations involving carla raines, shardayreon hill, and three other women. Even so, holtzclaw is sentenced to 263 years behind bars. He makes eye contact with the jurors sending him to prison for the rest of his life, something he calls a slow death sentence. He has a message for them. I looked at them. I looked in every single one at their eyes and i told them, i did not do this. Reporter holtzclaws last day of Freedom Falls on, of all days, his 29th birthday. In the halls of the courthouse, gleeful supporters of his victims celebrate with a sarcastic serenade. Happy birthday to you yes reporter the woman who did more than anyone to make this day happen, sex crimes detective kim davis, says she will never forget the other woman, Jannie Ligons. Jannie ligons says youre a hero. No. I just did my job. Shes the hero for coming forward. If she wouldnt have come forward, i dont know where wed be today. Daniel holtzclaw has now appealed his conviction, claiming, among other things, the discovery of unknown male dna on his uniform. A fact his Attorney Says calls into question all of the dna evidence at his trial. And 11 of his accusers have filed civil suits against holtzclaw and Oklahoma City. That is our program for tonight. Thank you so much for watching. Im elizabeth vargas. For david and all of us here at 20 20 saturday, good night and enjoy the rest of your weekend. Next at 11 00, two fully loaded minivans collide in the east bay. Children are among the game night is our daughter allies favorite night. And knowing that her favorite General Mills big g cereals are glutenfree, like honey nut cheerios, rice chex and lucky charms, she can enjoy it her way. Try new very berry cheerios. The taste of real fruit in every bite. So berry good

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