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craig melvin: the story gripped the nation in the series making a murderer. so many americans have learned about it. laura nirider: it s being heard by people around the world. craig melvin: steven avery and his nephew, convicted of murder and the haunting killing of a young photographer. but were they really innocent? andrea canning: did you have any kind of vendetta against steven avery? absolutely not. craig melvin: for the first time on television, a lead investigator defends his interrogation which led to a conviction overturned. andrea canning: this was seen by many as a false confession. i feel it was a real confession. he knew right from wrong. laura nirider: those officers wanted that information in the worst way, and they got it in the worst way. craig melvin: the prosecutor fights back with an explosive book. people are going to hear the other side of the story. craig melvin: and a promise from steven avery s high-powered, new attorney. andrea canning: do y ....
Dental records don t match. later that year, during an appearance on the montel williams show, a television psychic makes a grave prediction to amanda s mother. you don t think i ll ever see her again? yeah, in heaven, on the other side. meanwhile, yet another neighborhood girl goes missing. plucked off the same street as amanda and michele. gina dejesus disappears while walking home from wilbur wright middle school in april 2004. she is 14, a seventh grader in special education classes. that same month, gina and amanda s stories are featured on america s most wanted. two attractive teenaged girls. they disappear in similar circumstances along the same busy avenue. what does it mean? reporter: in march 2006, amanda s mother dies of heart failure. relatives say she died of a broken heart. a couple of years later, hunters find a body in a wisconsin creek ....
Amanda and michelle. gina dejesus is taken while walking home from school. she is 14. a seventh grader in special education amanda s stories are featured on america s most wanted. two attractive teenage girls. they disappear along the same busy avenue. what does it mean. reporter: in march 2006, amanda s mother dies of heart failure. relatives say she died of a broken heart. a couple years later, hunters find a body in a wisconsin creek matching amanda s description. it s another false lead. and last year, an inmate at lucasville prison, claim amanda s buried in a field. police find no evidence of the missing teen. with all three girls still missing, police get a hot tip in december 2006. they dig up a cleveland garage ....
Speech against the agony of a grieving father. terry moran has more on the debate. reporter: in march 2006. members of the tiny westboro baptist church picketed the funeral of marine lance corporal matthew snyder killed in iraq. he was 20 years old. i m sorry they raised their son for the devil in hell. reporter: fred phelps founded the church, 60 members, he and they preach and proclaim a dark message, god is killing american troops because the country tolerates homosexuality, abortion and many other matters. matthew snyder wasn t gay and it was all too much for his father, albert snyder. all we wanted to do was bury matt. with dignity and respect. reporter: he sued the church. the supreme court wrestled with whether to carve out a funeral exception to the first amendment. justice sonia sotomayor challenged to the argument that ....