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telling the jury, how after the first run to michigan was a bust, doug called ricky again. and he said, hey dude, it s done. i killed her and her dad. and i was like, what? and he says, no, i m just kidding. and i told him that wasn t funny. so he said he was kidding and you told him it wasn t funny? yeah. reporter: ricky s second day on the stand as the star witness. prosecutor mcdonough picked up his questioning with ricky s description of mission number two, the assault on venus stewart. did you attempt it again? yes, we did. reporter: it was deja vu all over again. this time, sunday, april 25th. i went down to virginia. he was heading up back up to michigan. reporter: later that day, ricky said he made a call to doug s boss, pretending to be doug, under the weather. and i said in a sick voice, like, hey bobby, this is me doug. i m feeling like [ bleep ], dude. i can t get to work. he said, all right. so doug didn t have to come to work on monday.
yeah, doug s driving us into court trying to get his girls back and there was no way he was getting custody of those girls. reporter: doug s claim is he s the father, he s around but the mother isn t so he should have custody of his children not venus parents. hanging over the hearing of course was the strong suspicion that doug was the reason why the children were motherless. venus s father didn t pull any punches. i asked him if he d murdered anybody lately and it was something that popped out of my mouth. reporter: the judge scheduled another hearing for three weeks later. but in the meantime, denied doug custody and even visitation rights with his young daughters. relieved. i feel really relieved. that s about all i have to say. reporter: while the court was delaying a final decision on the children, detectives in michigan and virginia were stepping up their investigation. in newport news, detective todd filer now suspected doug s
of the trump era was when i laugh now but it was when bill barr came out quickly with his memo which, you know, shocked robert mueller. it misrepresented the findings that he d put together. it didn t shock him enough to have him not come out immediately like he should have and said, the attorney general of the united states used his position to deliberately undermine the authority of the special counsel and all of the investigators who went to work on behalf of the justice department. it is a disgrace. he didn t do that. so the symmetry is there, which is going out quickly and affirmatively with the memo, and mueller taking a day or whatever it was to respond, with a letter of two bars saying, i m a little worried you may have misrepresented my findings. by that time, the narrative has already been set for half the country. the only thing i would say is it s not totally without cost. we re measuring it against a