and would you look at this? all right. i can t snowboard but apparently this opossum can. one week ago today, robert bai bales shot and killed 16 civilians. he s currently being held in ft. levenworth, kansas. we re also learning about blog details. we ll have some of her words later on. and finally, reaction from those who are closest to the accused soldier. his family. sarge bales family is stunned in the face of this tragedy, but they stand behind the man they know as devoted husband, father, and dedicated member of the armed services. let s bring in casey wian from tacoma, washington. his defense team is now starting to speak out. what are you hearing from them? reporter: well, part of that statement thaw just red was received by us late yesterday afternoon. his civilian defense team saying that they will travel to ft. leavenworth, kansas, to meet with their client for the first time this week. public reports that sergeant bales supervisors, family and friends descr
does bob durham think that the bobby bales he knows could be capable of this action? reporter: he says he absolutely cannot fathom how this possibly could have happened. he said the man he knew was a caring young man who he knew through adulthood and when he worked in the business world and then went to the military after 9/11. he said that if something somehow caused him to snap, for example, no one knows what happened, he said if doctors are able to find out and get him to understand in actuality that children and women had been killed, that he doesn t think his friend, sergeant bales, would ever be able to come to grips with that. don? the last time he spoke with him was back in december. it s been fairly recently, correct? reporter: that s right. he called him because sergeant bales called mr. durham from afghanistan to console mr. durham about the loss of his own father. and so he felt very badly about it. he said they still have a very special bond. he s clos
children in afghanistan, while he wore a u.s. army uniform. we have a picture of him as a senior in high school, years before he took his military oath to serve our country. you ll see it in moments. the military brass say that he walked house to house in the middle of the night, opening fire on afghan villages. when it ended, 16 people were dead, and the u.s. mission in afghanistan had been shaken to its core. tonight, cnn s susan candiotti has gotten exclusive access to some of the people who know robert bale the best. susan is standing by for us in ohio. susan, you ve been talking to a man who had a special relationship with robert bale. who is the man and how did he know bale? reporter: this man s name is bob durham and he goes way back to know this family. he knew sergeant bale since he was a baby. he said that sergeant bales, when he was a teenager, always took care of mr. durham s very special son. he s a special son because he s severely disabled. even though bales
and newt gingrich, gop contender or spoiler? we ll talk to someone who knows him best, his daughter jackie. and would you look at this? all right. i can t snowboard but apparently this opossum can. one week ago today, robert bai bales shot and killed 16 civilians. he s currently being held in ft. levenworth, kansas. we re also learning about blog details. we ll have some of her words later on. and finally, reaction from those who are closest to the accused soldier. his family. sarge bales family is stunned in the face of this tragedy, but they stand behind the man they know as devoted husband, father, and dedicated member of the armed services. let s bring in casey wian from tacoma, washington. his defense team is now starting to speak out. what are you hearing from them? reporter: well, part of that statement thaw just red was received by us late yesterday afternoon. his civilian defense team saying that they will travel to ft. leavenworth, kansas, to meet with their c
i would say this is one of the worst capital murder cases i would say this is one of the worst capital murder cases that anyone could ever talk about or deal with. reporter: kelly siegler should know; she s sent 19 men to death row. you will hear from the evidence in this case. reporter: so, in february 2010, she was ready, willing and eager to make it an even 20 when she was appointed to retry anthony graves. did that scare you that she was coming after you? no. reporter: why not? i was standing up for what was right, so it didn t make no difference who was on the case. the fact that i was innocent was unchanged. reporter: by the fall of 2010, pam colloff s investigation of the case had produced one of the longest articles in the history of texas monthly magazine. there were so many things about this case that fascinated me, beginning with how weak the evidence was. i wanted to understand how someone could be sent to death row on so little evidence.