we ve had major prison breaks by members of al qaeda within the last several days. for instance, in iraq several hundred al qaeda militants were sprung from a jail outside baghdad. we ve also seen a similar very large prison break in benghazi, libya, where 1,000 prisoners escaped on saturday. peter bergen, dana bash and chris lawrence. thank you all very much. coming up next, a professor hiding a dark secret from his school and his students. dr. james st. james is the chair of a psychology department as a private university. 46 years ago he killed his sisters and his parents. he was released. changed his name. was hired at this university without ever revealing his criminal past. now an investigative journalist put the pieces together and tracked him down. we ll talk to her live, next. s four course seafood feast. choose your soup, salad, entree, plus dessert all just $14.99. come into red lobster, and sea food differently. right now, go to redlobster.com
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he s done exactly what he s supposed to do, rehabilitate himself. brian, you could say legally system the system worked. st. james spent time in a psychiatric hospital, rehabilitated himself, he got out, managed to become a professor at a college. is that something we should be impressed with in society? i don t know if we re impressed with it or not impressed with it. it does seem like the system worked. remember, he was 15 years old when this happened. the justice system treats minors who were prosecuted as minors opposed to those prosecuted as adults very differently. if he was 15 and his record was sealed even though a very public case, he went about his life, rehabilitated. there s not even any grounds to fire him. remember, he would have to lie somewhere along the way to lose his tenure and be fired from the university.
long time psychology professor shot and killed his parents and sister nearly 50 years ago. some of the town of decatur are calling for james st. james to resign. more now from meghan of our affiliate wcia. reporter: how many of us really know our professors? reporter: tasha has realized just how much she didn t know about hers. james st. james was her first professor at millikin and she learned a lot from him. i have this mental image of who i learned from and have a mental image who i learned from. reporter: now she has a different image. bloody photographs where he shot his sister in the chest and and others in the face. the georgetown newspaper, the georgetown advocate had been trying to figure out where st. james was after nearly 50 years of this horrific crime.
when they found the once deemed insane man was a professor here, they broke the story. i cried because i m a student but i m also a mom. i can t even imagine. my son was 14 and he was 15. i just can t imagine anybody going through that. reporter: even now knowing his bloody path, she and dozens of their classmates agree they ll still recommend st. james classes to any. he has done what our court system is set up for him to do and he did it and he has went above and beyond to, i think, used that experience to teach us students and to improve other people s lives. so we have received a statement from millikin university that reads in part. we have only recently been made aware of dr. st. james past. given the traumatic experiences of his childhood, dr. st. james efforts to build his life and obtain a successful professional career have been remarkable. the university expects dr. st. james to teach at millikin this