judge make a decision about sentence. normally just arguments. recommendations from both sides. but not this time. the prosecution called 35 witnesses to tell the judge a hair-raising story about reginald potts. reginald was not quite the gold plated success story he appeared to be. he lived a life of a lot of smoke and mirrors. he s a con man who fooled a lot of people. and when the con man was challenged, everybody, even law enforcement, was a target. he would kill me. he would kill my family, my family would never be safe. when he was struck three times by mr. potts in the face. he spent much of his adult life in prison where he assaulted guards. i was struck in the right eye by mr. potts. all of that was too prejudicial to present at trial but now absolutely relevant. and he took her in back by the elevator and i heard slap. this guy has been an absolute
there was a hearing to help the judge make a decision about sentence. normally just arguments. recommendations from both sides. but not this time. the prosecution called 35 witnesses to tell the judge a hair-raising story about reginald potts. reginald was not quite the gold plated success story he appeared to be. he lived a life of a lot of smoke and mirrors. he s a con man who fooled a lot of people. and when the con man was challenged, everybody, even law enforcement, was a target. he would kill me. he would kill my family, my family would never be safe. when he was struck three times by mr. potts in the face. he spent much of his adult life in prison where he assaulted guards. i was struck in the right eye by mr. potts. all of that was too prejudicial to present at trial but now absolutely relevant. and he took her in back by the elevator and i heard slap this guy has been an absolute
this guy fit the profile? he does. the serial killers generally fall into kind of the con man, slick ted bundy type. they get they answer ads and they are on facebook and they can make arrangements. if you remember, he wasn t being followed by police. it wasn t apparent that he was a serial killer. it is a just he happened to be caught. they have what is the cooling off period. it separates them from mass murderers and spree killers who kill everyone at once or spree killers in succession. they will kill, dispose of the evidence, move on maybe geographically. they are very hard to catch. i remember ted bundy very well growing up. they are more psychopath than mentally ill. here s the question then that i m sure most people want to know. how exactly do you treat a serial killer? you can t. what you do, we treat serial killers who are mentally ill, we
himself, this time in the courtroom. a jury awards him $800,000, the difference between what the museum paid the con man and the con man paid him.tc ed is thrilled at first. i received a jury verdict against russ pritchard for $800,000.oo of which my attorney took his portion of the cash. how much?ja close to $100,000. d but the law s not done with russ pritchard yet. p fbi agent robert whitman is paying very close attention. he s very smooth. he dresses well. it turns out pritchard and his partners had been running the same scam on others who had civil war artifacts. they were appraising it for
now, back to strange inheritance. in 2001, ed pickett wins a second legal battle over his civil war artifacts. past down from his great great grandfather, confederate general george pickett. ed feels it s a hollow victory, as those artifacts go on display in harrisburg, pennsylvania, whose mayor wrote pickett endorsing the con man who had swindled him. what s most unfortunate is harrisburg is willing to take items taken by fraud and keep them. fbi agent robert whitman investigated the case. ultimately the museum paid $880,000 for these artifacts, so they paid what they re supposed to. i think a better result would have been the city and the national civil war museum to