Away to get some oxygen tanks. It felt good being able to help out, you know. Teri greenland lived right next door, stood beside robert, watched the fire. Worried about the pretty young mother trapped in there, ann charles. She would come outside, play with the kids. We would talk here and there. But she was a really nice person. And something good. Anns two daughters, katie and wendy, escaped unharmed from their downstairs bedroom. But that left ann and little thomas, just 3 years old, unaccounted for. Somewhere upstairs. We put the fire out and then we started checking the bedrooms for occupants. Nothing good after that. Upstairs firemen found little thomas on the floor beneath the window, dead of smoke inhalation. Chief gentry steeled himself for what might be next. He felt his way through debris and lingering smoke to anns room. I crawled over to the bunk bed and thats where we found a victim in the bunk bed and that person was secured in the bunk bed, both hands and both legs. Tie
Happened during that Police Interrogation . The evidence shows you were there. I cant lie about the evidence. Reporter i cant lie to you about this, but the officer is lying about lying tonight, an extraordinary look inside the interview room. You dont talk to me, i cant keep you from the worst i was scared. I was shaking. Reporter this is one of the most intense interrogations that ive ever seen. Welcome to dateline. Im lester holt. How could you confess to a crime you didnt commit . It seems to defy logic and common sense. And yet it does happen. Advocates say far more often than any of us realizes. Heres keith morrison. A freak snowstorm like an omen. Smothers the little town in the blue ridge mountains. February 19, 2003. Just before 9 00 a. M. Winter or no, they were not used to this. Through the white deadening blanket that buried the town, a piercing sound. Fire alarm. Now the snowstorm was the last thing on fire chief preston gentrys mind. The tone went off for a fire with occu
Than any of us realizes. Heres keith morrison. A freak snowstorm like an omen. Smothehe the little town in n e blue ridge mouains. February 19, 2003. Just before 9 00 a. M. Winter or no, they were not used to this. Through the white deadening blanket that buried the town, a piererng sound. Fire alarm. Now the snowstorm was the last thing on fire chief preston gentrys mind. The tone went off for a fire with occupants possibly trapped inside. That ramps everything up to full force. The alarm was on a quiet start. There were a lot of kids in that nabtd. Youre running a lot of things through your mind. Who are the occupants s u have to rescue . Theheire trucks raced to the home of a recently separated woman of anne charles and thick black smoke poured from the second story eaves. Part of the roof burned away. We were concentrating on getting up the steps and getting to the rooms where we were pretty sure we had victims. Neighbors crowded in behind police barricade. One was an 18yearold who
Most intense interrogations that ive ever seen. Welcome to dateline. Im lester holt. How could you confess to a crime you didnt commit . It seems to defy logic and common sense. And yet it does happen. Advocates say fafamore often than any of us realizes. Heres keith morrison. A freak snowstorm like an omen. Smothers the little town in the blue ridge mououains. February 19, 2003. Just before 9 00 a. M. Winter or no, they we not used to this. Through the white deadening blanket that buried the town, a piercing sound. Fire alarm. Now the snowstorm was the last thing on fire chief preston gentrys mind. The tone went off f f a fire with occupants possibly trapped force. The alarm was on a quiet start. There were a lot of kids in that nabtd. Youre running a lot of things through your mind. Who are the occupants you have to rescue . The fire trucks raced to thth home of a recently separated woman of anne charles and children. Thick black smoke poured from the second story eaves. Part of thro