i couldn t inhale. you were accused by cati smitty of getting violent. that was a lie. did you kill carrie? i did not. there are a lot of coincidences going on? terrible coincidences for you? i know. what do you say to the people watching right now? i know i did not kill carrie. she was a beautiful person. a wonderful friend. a lover. a confidant. she meant the world to me. at the end of a long trial after more than two weeks of testimony and argument, judge meersman was ready to give his verdict. timothy mcvay i m finding you guilty of count one murder and count i jumped out of my seat. i was so happy. tim mcvay was stoic showing
explanation for how carrie died, the state presented something called burking, a method of suffocation designed to leave no marks by sitting on someone s chest and covering their nose and mouth. to support that scenario, the state called one of mcvay s ex-girlfriend, cati smitty. why are you nervous? i m scared of him. cati described an incident one night in 2013. she was startled awake by mcvay sitting on her chest. i couldn t breathe. he cut off my air. he is a big man and i m not a very large woman. i couldn t inhale. the evidence in prosecutor mcgehee s case was circumstantial but he felt it was strong. he believed mcvay was the last one to talk to carrie, he had her car, used her debit card and
admitted, as many politicians are saying, hey, i smoked pot. i smoked pot in college and it s really not more dangerous than alcohol. we know the president said he did and olympic president clinton said he tried to but couldn t inhale. we don t know how much eric holder smoked, when you that book that was written about the president s use as a young man, he smoked a lot of pot. i think it was the day it talked about how they called the car they drove around in the chume room because they would get so much pot smoking, you couldn t see out the window. it would be curious i wond for that would have impacted the president of the united states. brit hume has a great observation from last night on the kelly file regarding whether or not this changes anything politically in the march to decriminalize pot. we understand what the surgeon general has to say.
and it wasn t politics that put ted poe in danger. it was popcorn. brian todd is here to pick up the story. congressman poe laughs about it now, but a single piece of popcorn nearly killed him just a few days ago. it would have been an unworthy ending for a congressman who s taking on some pretty frightening characters. reporter: ted poe is a former county judge from texas. he s stared down murderers and drug dealers, ordered offenders to carry signs admitting their crimes. but what was it that almost did him in recently? i was choking on a piece of popcorn. reporter: nothing but the truth. poe, a republican congressman from houston was in the capitol hill club. he threw a few grains of popcorn in his mouth and one was lodged in his throat. i couldn t inhale. several people noticed that. i don t know how long it was. reporter: fellow congressman and another person tried to give