anchorage school girl when bonnie was murdered. i remember very vividly how much this impacted the community. everyone s sense of security when you know that somebody was kind of literally snatched off the street. reporter: here in anchorage they were under intense pressure. the courtroom was packed, standing-room only. then on the second day of the trial arc new problem. the defense attorney told the jury in his opening statement that the initial investigation at mchugh creek was inadequate and, in fact, the crime scene video was missing and had been for years. confirming karen s worst fears about the troopers. it just made us sick. reporter: which made the news that came the next day all the more shock. out of the blue, somebody at the alaska state trooper s office found the crime scene tape. good news? well, you think. but my concern was that it threatened the trial itself. we immediately took a recess.
and prove that, you know, she had been murdered and she didn t fall off the cliff. reporter: his co-counsel jenna gruenstein was a 13-year-old anchorage school girl when bonnie was murdered. i remember very vividly how much this impacted the community. everyone s sense of security when you know that somebody was kind of literally snatched off the street. reporter: here in anchorage they were under intense pressure. the courtroom was packed, standing-room only. then on the second day of the trial, a new problem. the defense attorn told the jury in his opening statement that the initial investigation at mchugh creek was inadequate and, in fact, the crime scene video was missing and had been for years. confirming karen s worst fears about the troopers. it just made us sick. reporter: which made the news that came the next day all the more shocking. out of the blue, somebody at the alaska state trooper s office found the crime scene tape. good news? well, you d think. but my
arrested in the shoot outlast may. now cnn has obtained exclusive video, 2,000 pages of documents and crime scene video from weapons to guns to brass knuckles littering the parking lot of a twin peaks restaurant. let s get right to cnn s ed lavandera in waco, texas. grand jury really getting some shocking, shocking evidence here. [ technical difficulties ] reporter: this was the scene inside the twin peaks restaurant in may just before the violent shootout that killed nine people and ended up in the mass arrests of 177 bikers. a fight and shootout erupts just off camera between a group of motorcycle clubs called the bandidos and cosax. members of the club sitting on
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with the crime scene video. we approached it much, much differently. we embraced the video and didn t run from it. we decided we were going to make the video our ally, a giant picture of the intruder and put it next to him and said this is not our guy. it s a case of mistaken identity. you definitely have the wrong person. and we talked about how law enforcement manipulated and tricked and pressured people. they also showed payments to an anonymous person who called seth the pent lover. clemesco and police both denied payments of a reward. the detective denied it under oath twice in front of a jury. and john clemenco, i asked, did you ever get a reward, no.