disappearance. in 2001 a judge declared patz dead and held a convicted child molester responsible. susan candiotti is responsible right now in new york. she ll be joining us in about two minutes from now. john edwards fraud trial begins tomorrow in north carolina. the former presidential candidate is accused of breaking campaign finance laws by allegedly using nearly $1 million to cover up a sexual affair with filmmaker rielle hunter. he denies any wrongdoing. still unclear whether george zimmerman will be released from jail. he has to come up with 10% of the $150,000 bond. zimmerman is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. chuck colson, a major figure from the watergate scandal, has died. colson was the first of richard nixon s aides to be convicted, and sent to prison for seven months. he had been the president s special counsel. but was also known as nixon s hatchet man. after leaving prison in the mid-1970s, colson founded
view of human evolution and your family tree. that and more right here, right now on cnn. good evening, everyone. i m don lemon. is he a mass murder, accused of massacring sleeping children in afghanistan while he wore a u.s. army uniform. it is robert bales we are talking about and 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. military brass say bales a u.s. army sergeant walked house to house opening fire on afghan villagers. when the rampage ended 16 people were dead. tonight, susan candiotti has gotten exclusive access to some of the people that know robert bales best and the image they paint of the man is not that of a mass killer. susan is standing by in ohio, the soldier s home state. you have been talking to a man who had a sperp relationship with robert bales. who s the man and how did he know bales? this man s name is bob durham. he goes way back to know this family. in
hello i m don lemmon. 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 sp
i think she s stuck with the network because of the attacks. we ll is more in the next hour. live from studio 7, i m drew griffin in for suzanne, who s on assignment in dangerous conditions in afghanistan. let s get you up to data on this tuesday, september 13. taliban fighters attacking the u.s. embassy with rocket-propelled grenades and guns. u.s. troops trying to flush these guys out. they re in an abandoned building where the attack was launched. fewer than ten taliban are believed to be involved. republic saying two americans could be released in days. that is if the men s families pay bail of $1 billion. josh fattal and shane bauer have been in custody since they went on that hike in 2009. iran sentenced them to eight years for spying and illegal entry. the americans say they were just hiking in iraq, accidently straying into iran. texas governor rick perry may feel like he is a punching bag this morning. seven republicans who trailed perry in the polls, they roug
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