1 00:00:03,303 --> 00:00:04,871 [producer speaking] 2 00:00:06,506 --> 00:00:07,874 [Derek] I just knew that, 3 00:00:09,943 --> 00:00:12,078 you know, this is bad. 4 00:00:15,382 --> 00:00:18,418 I've never located a body that was sitting upright, 5 00:00:18,518 --> 00:00:19,652 it was really unnerving. 6 00:00:19,753 --> 00:00:21,755 [Derek speaking] 7 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:24,858 [Mollye] People looked at those angelic faces and thought, 8 00:00:24,958 --> 00:00:26,126 "Did they really do it?" 9 00:00:26,226 --> 00:00:28,128 [Alex speaking] 10 00:00:28,228 --> 00:00:30,597 As we dug deeper, it became clear that there was 11 00:00:30,697 --> 00:00:33,867 a sinister puppet master at the heart of all of it. 12 00:00:33,967 --> 00:00:37,137 It's crazy, a 12 year old and a man his age. 13 00:00:37,237 --> 00:00:39,539 Then we find this trap door. 14 00:00:39,639 --> 00:00:41,808 The boy had written love notes. 15 00:00:41,908 --> 00:00:45,145 They explained to us what a pedophile was. 16 00:00:45,245 --> 00:00:48,281 He was sort of a pawn in this terrible story. 17 00:00:54,721 --> 00:01:03,997 [theme music playing] 18 00:01:14,007 --> 00:01:17,544 [theme music playing] 19 00:01:17,644 --> 00:01:19,345 [theme music ends] 20 00:01:24,184 --> 00:01:25,952 [Derek] I haven't seen a lot of these before. 21 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:30,156 I'm glad that they're all here. 22 00:01:31,357 --> 00:01:34,027 Here's my dad with my brother and me. 23 00:01:37,896 --> 00:01:41,000 I Was so glad to see there's so many of us, 24 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:44,670 of my brother, uh, Alex and I. 25 00:01:46,606 --> 00:01:48,508 If I could go back and change things, 26 00:01:48,608 --> 00:01:50,310 what would I have done different? 27 00:01:50,410 --> 00:01:52,312 Questions like that, 28 00:01:52,412 --> 00:01:53,979 I can't change the past. 29 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:59,586 I can't undo anything that's been done. 30 00:01:59,686 --> 00:02:04,023 I have to continue to grow and move forward. 31 00:02:04,124 --> 00:02:08,394 There's got to be a reason bigger than me that I have been 32 00:02:08,495 --> 00:02:10,763 given a second chance at life. 33 00:02:12,298 --> 00:02:15,568 [Janine] People started covering this story nearly 25 years ago, 34 00:02:15,668 --> 00:02:17,704 and it shocked our readers. 35 00:02:17,804 --> 00:02:20,573 It's a story about two young brothers facing hardships 36 00:02:20,673 --> 00:02:23,943 most children and adults can only imagine. 37 00:02:24,043 --> 00:02:26,346 But it was the violent death of their father that would 38 00:02:26,446 --> 00:02:29,349 define their lives more than anything else. 39 00:02:29,449 --> 00:02:32,118 It happened in a small Florida town called Cantonment, 40 00:02:32,218 --> 00:02:34,254 just 10 minutes from the Alabama state line. 41 00:02:37,023 --> 00:02:42,562 Terry King was a quiet, thoughtful person. 42 00:02:43,630 --> 00:02:45,031 He had a great smile. 43 00:02:45,131 --> 00:02:50,770 And I really respected his devotion to his children. 44 00:02:50,870 --> 00:02:53,273 [Mollye] Terry King was a man of faith. 45 00:02:53,373 --> 00:02:55,241 He was very involved in the Pentecostal church. 46 00:02:55,341 --> 00:02:57,043 He had grown up in the Pentecostal church. 47 00:02:57,143 --> 00:02:59,546 His dad had been a preacher himself. 48 00:02:59,646 --> 00:03:03,550 So those conservative values -- that work hard, pay your bills, 49 00:03:03,650 --> 00:03:06,786 take care of your family -- that was very important to him. 50 00:03:06,886 --> 00:03:10,423 In 1985, 21-year-old Terry King meets 51 00:03:10,523 --> 00:03:13,359 and falls in love with 17-year-old Janet French. 52 00:03:14,494 --> 00:03:18,331 When Janet first brought Terry home, they were so in love. 53 00:03:19,465 --> 00:03:25,038 All of us wanted Janet and Terry to be together and be happy. 54 00:03:25,138 --> 00:03:29,008 Terry and Janet have two boys together, Derek in 1988 55 00:03:29,108 --> 00:03:31,211 and Alex a year later. 56 00:03:31,311 --> 00:03:33,880 Derek and Alex were adorable children. 57 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:35,682 They were just beautiful. 58 00:03:37,083 --> 00:03:40,954 Derek was so loving, always giving you a hug, 59 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:42,822 saying, "I love you." 60 00:03:42,922 --> 00:03:48,428 Derek also was kind of a handful when he was little, 61 00:03:48,528 --> 00:03:51,264 and Alex was a little more reserved. 62 00:03:51,364 --> 00:03:56,135 I guess he was more like Terry. Very quiet and thoughtful. 63 00:03:56,236 --> 00:03:58,103 Just two very different children. 64 00:04:01,207 --> 00:04:03,076 Terry was a good father. 65 00:04:03,176 --> 00:04:06,913 He didn't make very much money, but he worked long hours 66 00:04:07,013 --> 00:04:09,282 to try and provide for his family. 67 00:04:09,382 --> 00:04:11,417 Friends and family that we spoke with 68 00:04:11,517 --> 00:04:16,189 paint a picture of Terry as an intelligent young man. 69 00:04:16,289 --> 00:04:18,257 He was struggling to pay the bills, 70 00:04:18,358 --> 00:04:19,524 but he did what he could. 71 00:04:20,526 --> 00:04:22,895 [Lisa] Financially, it was difficult. 72 00:04:22,996 --> 00:04:28,735 So Janet decided to try and help Terry with the income. 73 00:04:28,835 --> 00:04:32,672 And so she got a job outside the home. 74 00:04:32,772 --> 00:04:36,643 Janet started working at a club as a cocktail waitress. 75 00:04:36,743 --> 00:04:38,911 Being very young, I think she thought that was 76 00:04:39,012 --> 00:04:42,081 more interesting and more fun than to be a stay-at-home mom. 77 00:04:43,082 --> 00:04:44,617 Janet was in and out of the home, 78 00:04:44,717 --> 00:04:47,220 and then eventually she just left for good, 79 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:48,888 and she left those boys behind. 80 00:04:50,256 --> 00:04:52,592 [Janine] Terry is raising the two boys on his own, 81 00:04:52,692 --> 00:04:54,594 and struggling financially. 82 00:04:54,694 --> 00:04:56,929 And in 1995, he makes the painful decision 83 00:04:57,030 --> 00:04:59,098 to give up six-year-old Derek 84 00:04:59,198 --> 00:05:02,201 and five-year-old Alex to foster homes. 85 00:05:02,302 --> 00:05:04,537 Derek and Alex were both placed into homes, 86 00:05:04,637 --> 00:05:08,708 but Alex cried so much and just was inconsolable. 87 00:05:08,808 --> 00:05:11,544 And the family finally reached out to Terry and said, 88 00:05:11,644 --> 00:05:13,813 "You've gotta take him back. This can't go on." 89 00:05:15,048 --> 00:05:19,252 Terry wound up getting Alex back, and Terry continued 90 00:05:19,352 --> 00:05:22,388 to work very hard 'cause it was his goal 91 00:05:22,488 --> 00:05:24,757 to get both his children back. 92 00:05:24,857 --> 00:05:27,660 Despite Terry's best efforts to get Derek back, 93 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,063 years go by without any contact. 94 00:05:31,531 --> 00:05:34,734 I was very blessed to be in the home that I was at. 95 00:05:34,834 --> 00:05:37,403 It was a great opportunity for me to 96 00:05:38,604 --> 00:05:41,908 learn a lot of different things. 97 00:05:42,008 --> 00:05:45,345 I was very, very sheltered growing up. 98 00:05:46,379 --> 00:05:50,116 But as Derek's teenage years approach, his relationship 99 00:05:50,216 --> 00:05:52,618 with the foster family begins to fracture. 100 00:05:52,719 --> 00:05:55,621 It was a vicious cycle with, uh, 101 00:05:57,190 --> 00:06:02,495 bad grades and restriction and homework. 102 00:06:02,595 --> 00:06:04,731 [Lisa] Derek had ADHD. 103 00:06:04,831 --> 00:06:09,569 He was so easily distracted and so mischievous. 104 00:06:09,669 --> 00:06:12,772 I feel like they should have gotten him some help. 105 00:06:13,740 --> 00:06:16,309 Derek needed that help, and I don't think he got it. 106 00:06:17,410 --> 00:06:20,580 [Derek] As much as I wanted to be a member of this family, 107 00:06:21,814 --> 00:06:25,051 it was always like I was a spectator, like I 108 00:06:26,219 --> 00:06:28,087 didn't really feel like I was 109 00:06:29,122 --> 00:06:30,390 part of them. 110 00:06:30,490 --> 00:06:33,092 I was trying to figure out who I am. 111 00:06:34,193 --> 00:06:37,430 I just wanted to be reunited with my family. 112 00:06:37,530 --> 00:06:40,099 There were a whole slew of incidents where Derek was 113 00:06:40,199 --> 00:06:42,435 acting out and the family was frustrated, 114 00:06:42,534 --> 00:06:45,471 and eventually they were just overwhelmed. 115 00:06:45,571 --> 00:06:48,541 By now, Derek's father is working a steady job 116 00:06:48,641 --> 00:06:51,344 at a printing company, and he jumps at the chance 117 00:06:51,444 --> 00:06:53,279 to bring his son home. 118 00:06:53,379 --> 00:06:56,382 Terry was very excited, but it was seven years 119 00:06:56,482 --> 00:06:59,786 of separation with no contact. 120 00:06:59,886 --> 00:07:02,688 So when they finally got back together, 121 00:07:02,789 --> 00:07:04,157 they had to kind of reacquaint. 122 00:07:05,324 --> 00:07:08,261 I had just gotten reunited with my dad, but it was 123 00:07:08,361 --> 00:07:09,896 a huge culture shock. 124 00:07:11,697 --> 00:07:15,802 By November of 2001, 13-year-old Derek has been 125 00:07:15,902 --> 00:07:18,304 under Terry's roof for almost two months. 126 00:07:18,404 --> 00:07:20,740 Everyone is hopeful that Derek and Alex King will have 127 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,811 a fresh start with each other until it all goes up in smoke. 128 00:07:32,784 --> 00:07:35,455 [Brandon] It was November 26, 2001. 129 00:07:35,555 --> 00:07:36,756 At one to two o'clock in the morning, 130 00:07:36,856 --> 00:07:40,193 we received a report of a possible structure fire 131 00:07:40,293 --> 00:07:42,094 in District 4 in Cantonment. 132 00:07:43,496 --> 00:07:45,865 Headed to the fire, arrived on scene. 133 00:07:45,965 --> 00:07:48,401 I went to the assistant chief, and he stated that bystanders 134 00:07:48,501 --> 00:07:51,237 on scene said that there's possibly several people 135 00:07:51,337 --> 00:07:53,072 trapped in the house. 136 00:07:53,172 --> 00:07:55,475 Myself and a firefighter from Engine 4 went 137 00:07:55,575 --> 00:07:56,808 through the front door. 138 00:07:56,909 --> 00:07:59,078 The hose line was already inside fighting the fire, 139 00:07:59,178 --> 00:08:01,714 so we start searching rooms for possible victims. 140 00:08:01,814 --> 00:08:04,484 We got to what appeared to be a living room. 141 00:08:04,584 --> 00:08:06,819 We noticed a body in the corner sitting in a chair 142 00:08:08,521 --> 00:08:11,090 with his legs crossed on the edge of a couch. 143 00:08:12,758 --> 00:08:15,228 I mean, I've never located or found a victim or a body 144 00:08:15,328 --> 00:08:17,263 that was sitting upright. 145 00:08:18,698 --> 00:08:20,867 Then we noticed that he had a lot of blood on his face, 146 00:08:20,967 --> 00:08:22,568 and then there was red blood splatter 147 00:08:22,668 --> 00:08:24,070 on the wall behind the body. 148 00:08:25,538 --> 00:08:26,739 It was really unnerving. 149 00:08:41,587 --> 00:08:44,790 I get there probably a little after 5 in the morning. 150 00:08:44,891 --> 00:08:48,060 I knew we had a victim in the house, and at that time, 151 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:49,228 I entered the house. 152 00:08:50,396 --> 00:08:52,865 The victim was sitting in his chair 153 00:08:52,965 --> 00:08:56,002 with his legs crossed, propped up on a couch, 154 00:08:56,102 --> 00:08:59,772 and he had his hands crossed like he had been sleeping. 155 00:08:59,872 --> 00:09:02,174 And he had a cup between the chair and his leg. 156 00:09:03,509 --> 00:09:06,546 The victim had trauma to his head, 157 00:09:06,646 --> 00:09:09,448 and there was blood spatter above him, on the roof, 158 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:12,018 on the sides, on the walls. It's all around him. 159 00:09:13,319 --> 00:09:15,421 At that particular point, my thoughts was 160 00:09:15,521 --> 00:09:17,690 blunt force trauma, like he was beaten to death. 161 00:09:18,791 --> 00:09:21,127 He obviously was dead before the fire. 162 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:25,364 It quickly became apparent that it wasn't an accidental 163 00:09:25,464 --> 00:09:27,600 fire that had just flared up. 164 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:31,003 It appeared that an accelerant was used, and we found 165 00:09:31,103 --> 00:09:33,573 what appeared to be a melted aluminum baseball bat 166 00:09:33,673 --> 00:09:34,674 in the bedroom. 167 00:09:36,108 --> 00:09:38,811 By now, several neighbors have arrived on the scene, 168 00:09:38,911 --> 00:09:40,780 and they tell law enforcement about the family 169 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:42,448 who lives in that house. 170 00:09:42,548 --> 00:09:44,750 [Brandon] That's when they advised that there was two children 171 00:09:44,850 --> 00:09:47,086 that lived at the house, and they were missing. 172 00:09:47,186 --> 00:09:48,621 We're looking. We're searching under beds. 173 00:09:48,721 --> 00:09:51,424 Most people, children especially they'll hide under beds. 174 00:09:51,524 --> 00:09:53,392 They'll hide in closets. They're scared. 175 00:09:54,460 --> 00:09:56,362 But we did not find anybody. 176 00:09:57,530 --> 00:09:59,832 Of course, everything's running through your mind. 177 00:09:59,932 --> 00:10:01,667 You're thinking, you know, "Are they dead? 178 00:10:01,767 --> 00:10:03,736 Is somebody holding them against their will?" 179 00:10:03,836 --> 00:10:06,906 We were major concerned about the boys and their safety. 180 00:10:15,581 --> 00:10:18,718 -[phone ringing] -[Lisa] It was early in the morning, 181 00:10:18,818 --> 00:10:22,455 and our phone rang, and we're like, 182 00:10:22,555 --> 00:10:24,924 "Who's calling at this hour?" 183 00:10:25,024 --> 00:10:27,526 And my husband Jimmy answered the phone, 184 00:10:27,627 --> 00:10:29,829 and then he came back in the room and said, 185 00:10:29,929 --> 00:10:33,899 "Terry's dead." And I went, "What? What? 186 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,168 What do you mean Terry's dead?" 187 00:10:36,268 --> 00:10:40,806 He said, "there was a fire, and he burned in the fire." 188 00:10:40,906 --> 00:10:44,610 I couldn't believe everything that was happening, 189 00:10:44,710 --> 00:10:47,013 and I said, "Where are the boys? 190 00:10:47,113 --> 00:10:49,949 "Are they OK? Did they get hurt? 191 00:10:50,049 --> 00:10:52,785 Did they get burned in the fire?" 192 00:10:52,885 --> 00:10:55,921 While police get a search underway to find Derek and Alex, 193 00:10:56,022 --> 00:10:58,790 a man arrives at the crime scene and introduces himself 194 00:10:58,891 --> 00:11:00,426 as a family friend. 195 00:11:00,526 --> 00:11:03,896 40-year-old Ricky Chavis says he knows the missing boys. 196 00:11:03,996 --> 00:11:06,499 This guy apparently had heard that there was a fire up there 197 00:11:06,599 --> 00:11:09,935 on his scanner, and he comes up there that night 198 00:11:10,036 --> 00:11:11,804 to Terry's house in the middle of everything, 199 00:11:11,904 --> 00:11:14,874 and he inserts himself into the investigation. 200 00:11:14,974 --> 00:11:18,844 [Mollye] Ricky Chavis was a friend of Terry King. 201 00:11:18,944 --> 00:11:21,981 He had a big personality, very gregarious. 202 00:11:22,081 --> 00:11:24,283 He was also well known around the neighborhood 203 00:11:24,383 --> 00:11:25,951 as a fix-it-type guy. 204 00:11:26,052 --> 00:11:28,721 Like, if your refrigerator breaks down, you have a problem 205 00:11:28,821 --> 00:11:30,623 with your car, you go to Ricky Chavis. 206 00:11:32,224 --> 00:11:34,727 [John] He cooperated. He came on into the office. 207 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:37,697 He started telling us a little bit of background, 208 00:11:37,797 --> 00:11:39,899 that him and Terry had been friends for a long time, 209 00:11:39,999 --> 00:11:43,569 and then he's talking about the boys that were missing. 210 00:11:43,669 --> 00:11:46,906 He said he didn't know where they were, but he thought 211 00:11:47,006 --> 00:11:48,774 the boys ran away. 212 00:11:48,874 --> 00:11:52,078 I asked Ricky, "Why?" and he said that Terry was 213 00:11:52,178 --> 00:11:56,148 abusing the boys, not abuse physical-like, 214 00:11:56,248 --> 00:11:59,985 but more mind games he was playing with 'em. 215 00:12:00,086 --> 00:12:02,988 [Johnny] Ricky said, that Terry had some rather odd 216 00:12:03,089 --> 00:12:05,658 parenting techniques. 217 00:12:05,758 --> 00:12:08,961 When the boys would misbehave, he'd do what was basically like 218 00:12:09,061 --> 00:12:12,965 a sort of staring therapy where he would sit and make the boys 219 00:12:13,065 --> 00:12:15,367 stare straight into his eyes for hours at a time. 220 00:12:16,368 --> 00:12:18,738 [John] Ricky said, that Terry didn't let 'em watch TV 221 00:12:18,838 --> 00:12:20,840 or play video games and all that. 222 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:22,475 Wanted them just be locked up in the house 223 00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:24,276 whenever he wasn't around. 224 00:12:24,376 --> 00:12:27,179 Chavis says, they ran away a couple weeks earlier 225 00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:29,949 and they called him and left a voice message. 226 00:12:41,060 --> 00:12:44,029 The fact that the boys had just recently ran away is 227 00:12:44,130 --> 00:12:46,632 an intriguing lead, so Sanderson travels 228 00:12:46,732 --> 00:12:49,602 to their middle school to find out more about them. 229 00:12:49,702 --> 00:12:51,971 [John] I went to the school that the boys attended, 230 00:12:52,071 --> 00:12:55,141 and they started telling me about Ricky Chavis. 231 00:12:55,241 --> 00:12:59,411 They said Ricky had permission to pick 'em up 232 00:12:59,512 --> 00:13:00,813 at school." 233 00:13:00,913 --> 00:13:03,582 Well, then, for some reason, Terry changed that. 234 00:13:03,682 --> 00:13:07,553 Terry told school officials, "Under no circumstance are 235 00:13:07,653 --> 00:13:12,758 "you to let my boys go home and be taken from school 236 00:13:12,858 --> 00:13:14,193 by Ricky Chavis." 237 00:13:14,293 --> 00:13:18,230 Seemed like they had fallen out. So, in my opinion, 238 00:13:18,330 --> 00:13:20,399 that was definitely of interest. 239 00:13:20,499 --> 00:13:23,669 But before they can reach Ricky, Inspector Sanderson gets 240 00:13:23,769 --> 00:13:26,005 a surprising phone call. 241 00:13:26,105 --> 00:13:28,974 [John] The next afternoon, we get a phone call. 242 00:13:30,009 --> 00:13:34,380 We were told Ricky has the boys and he's bringing them in. 243 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,182 First time I saw the boys when they were brought 244 00:13:36,282 --> 00:13:39,618 into our office, I mean, Alex, instead of 12, 245 00:13:39,718 --> 00:13:42,254 he looked more like he was, you know, eight years old. 246 00:13:42,354 --> 00:13:45,825 They came in and they were happy-go-lucky. 247 00:13:45,925 --> 00:13:47,426 Matter of fact, no big deal. 248 00:13:47,526 --> 00:13:49,795 You know, they were cutting up with each other. 249 00:13:49,895 --> 00:13:52,598 It made me think of my sons who were about the same age. 250 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:55,634 We interviewed Derek first. 251 00:14:08,747 --> 00:14:11,116 [Derek] I didn't understand all this stuff when I was a kid. 252 00:14:12,251 --> 00:14:15,087 I didn't really --- I just knew that -- 253 00:14:17,122 --> 00:14:19,258 you know, this is bad. 254 00:14:27,299 --> 00:14:30,202 Once you go beyond a certain point, I mean, 255 00:14:30,302 --> 00:14:31,503 there's really no turning back. 256 00:14:33,105 --> 00:14:34,173 And... 257 00:14:36,075 --> 00:14:39,345 I understood that point was days earlier. 258 00:14:56,362 --> 00:14:59,465 I said that my dad was beating my brother. 259 00:15:01,166 --> 00:15:04,536 I stepped in and hit him, and he fell down on the chair, 260 00:15:04,637 --> 00:15:05,804 and I kept hitting him. 261 00:15:07,406 --> 00:15:08,908 [John] Well, there's no way. 262 00:15:09,008 --> 00:15:12,411 No way he's gonna hit him and knock him into that chair, 263 00:15:12,511 --> 00:15:14,546 and he's sitting there with his legs crossed 264 00:15:14,647 --> 00:15:16,048 and his hands crossed and everything. 265 00:15:16,148 --> 00:15:17,716 I mean, I knew that wasn't true. 266 00:15:19,485 --> 00:15:20,653 [Derek] The detective's like, 267 00:15:22,554 --> 00:15:23,555 "Well, son. 268 00:15:25,157 --> 00:15:27,326 "Crime scene tells the story. 269 00:15:27,426 --> 00:15:28,961 "The story you're telling us doesn't match up 270 00:15:29,061 --> 00:15:30,496 with the one the crime scene's telling us." 271 00:15:33,032 --> 00:15:36,001 After that, he changed his statement. 272 00:15:36,101 --> 00:15:40,239 We didn't know what to do. Kind of felt just trapped. 273 00:15:40,339 --> 00:15:43,309 [Janine] Derek changes his story and says they made a plan 274 00:15:43,409 --> 00:15:45,844 to kill their father because they were afraid 275 00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:48,147 that he was going to punish them for running away. 276 00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:30,622 [John] After we talked to Derek, then we talked to Alex. 277 00:16:30,723 --> 00:16:33,826 Well, Alex comes in with the same story as Derek, 278 00:16:33,926 --> 00:16:37,596 but Alex, he described it even more graphic than Derek, 279 00:16:37,696 --> 00:16:39,064 describing each blow. 280 00:17:06,992 --> 00:17:08,961 I mean, I was like, "My gosh, man!" 281 00:17:09,060 --> 00:17:11,730 And it bothered me because of my sons being that age. 282 00:17:21,773 --> 00:17:24,410 Investigators were thinking these boys were saying things 283 00:17:24,510 --> 00:17:25,577 that were rehearsed. 284 00:17:34,686 --> 00:17:37,289 They were thinking this was not necessarily the language 285 00:17:37,389 --> 00:17:39,058 that a child would use, that perhaps they were 286 00:17:39,158 --> 00:17:41,326 repeating what somebody had told them to say. 287 00:17:47,566 --> 00:17:49,935 Based on their confessions, 13-year-old Derek 288 00:17:50,035 --> 00:17:53,539 and 12-year-old Alex are booked into the county jail. 289 00:17:53,639 --> 00:17:56,475 [reporter] 12-year-old Derek and his brother Alex are charged 290 00:17:56,575 --> 00:17:58,777 with first-degree murder and arson. 291 00:18:00,546 --> 00:18:05,617 They gave us jumpsuits. I really didn't know 292 00:18:05,717 --> 00:18:08,754 what I -- what -- what kind of, um... 293 00:18:10,422 --> 00:18:12,324 chain reaction, what kind of serious events 294 00:18:12,424 --> 00:18:13,759 I put in motion. 295 00:18:13,859 --> 00:18:16,328 Inspector Sanderson and his team let Ricky Chavis 296 00:18:16,428 --> 00:18:20,899 return home, but an air of suspicion just surrounds him. 297 00:18:20,999 --> 00:18:23,168 Police ended up running a background check 298 00:18:23,268 --> 00:18:28,941 on Ricky and quickly learned that in 1984, he'd been arrested 299 00:18:29,041 --> 00:18:32,878 for assaulting two young boys, sexually. 300 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,916 [John] He's molested two boys, and he's a convicted felon. 301 00:18:38,016 --> 00:18:40,586 With all of that in mind, we're like, "Hey, 302 00:18:40,686 --> 00:18:41,820 we gotta check him further." 303 00:18:44,389 --> 00:18:46,325 Chavis is quickly going from a witness 304 00:18:46,425 --> 00:18:48,026 to a person of interest. 305 00:18:48,127 --> 00:18:49,928 Detectives subpoena his phone records, 306 00:18:50,028 --> 00:18:53,432 and right away they see evidence of a very suspicious call 307 00:18:53,532 --> 00:18:54,666 on the night of Terry's murder. 308 00:18:56,068 --> 00:18:58,770 There was a phone call made from a store 309 00:18:58,871 --> 00:19:01,406 a quarter to a half-mile from the house. 310 00:19:01,507 --> 00:19:03,809 It was a collect call to Ricky Chavis. 311 00:19:03,909 --> 00:19:07,579 That happened 1:39 in the morning. 312 00:19:07,679 --> 00:19:10,249 And the fire call came in about the same time. 313 00:19:10,349 --> 00:19:13,185 We believe that phone call was from the boys. 314 00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:17,656 We get Ricky Chavis back in, and we talked to him 315 00:19:17,756 --> 00:19:19,191 about these phone records. 316 00:19:19,291 --> 00:19:22,327 He tells us that he did get a call 317 00:19:22,427 --> 00:19:24,329 that night from the boys. 318 00:19:24,429 --> 00:19:27,199 And he said Alex was on the phone 319 00:19:27,299 --> 00:19:30,102 and Alex sounded real distressed, 320 00:19:30,202 --> 00:19:31,370 mumbling and everything. 321 00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:33,505 He knew something bad was going on. 322 00:19:33,605 --> 00:19:37,176 He said he took off up there, told 'em to get in the trunk 323 00:19:37,276 --> 00:19:39,778 of his car, he takes them to his house, 324 00:19:40,812 --> 00:19:43,916 and he tells us the boys said they killed their father 325 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:45,150 and set the house on fire. 326 00:19:47,753 --> 00:19:51,423 Ricky said when he got home, he had 'em take showers, 327 00:19:51,523 --> 00:19:54,092 and he washed their clothes. 328 00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:56,228 The statement is enough for police to claim 329 00:19:56,328 --> 00:19:59,097 probable cause to search his property. 330 00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:01,033 [John] We got the search warrant for Ricky's house, 331 00:20:01,133 --> 00:20:03,969 and eventually we went out there to find 332 00:20:04,069 --> 00:20:06,038 any evidence possible. 333 00:20:06,138 --> 00:20:09,341 When we get there, we noticed he's got 334 00:20:09,441 --> 00:20:11,243 a privacy fence around this yard, 335 00:20:12,411 --> 00:20:16,448 and on top of the fence is electric wiring, 336 00:20:16,548 --> 00:20:19,918 and he's got signs all over about this electric fence 337 00:20:20,018 --> 00:20:21,687 and surveillance equipment. 338 00:20:22,654 --> 00:20:23,689 It wasn't normal. 339 00:20:24,823 --> 00:20:28,493 In Ricky's bedroom, there was a picture of Alex, 340 00:20:29,861 --> 00:20:33,165 and then there was some letters from Alex to Ricky. 341 00:20:33,265 --> 00:20:35,234 They found evidence that there was 342 00:20:35,334 --> 00:20:38,203 an inappropriate relationship between Alex and Ricky Chavis. 343 00:20:38,303 --> 00:20:41,139 [Sharon] There was a whole lot that Alex had written, 344 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:46,411 and some of it was love letters to Chavis. 345 00:20:46,511 --> 00:20:49,514 It's crazy, a 12-year-old and a man his age, 346 00:20:49,615 --> 00:20:52,484 I mean, can't comprehend it. 347 00:20:52,584 --> 00:20:56,288 Then we find this trap door underneath the trailer. 348 00:20:57,456 --> 00:21:00,726 Chavis had cut a hole in the floor of his trailer, 349 00:21:00,826 --> 00:21:05,330 and he had enclosed an area underneath his trailer 350 00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:07,566 with plywood and things, so you couldn't see 351 00:21:07,666 --> 00:21:09,134 in from outside. 352 00:21:09,234 --> 00:21:12,537 We think when the boys ran away the first time, 353 00:21:12,638 --> 00:21:15,574 that's where he had been hiding the boys from their own dad. 354 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:44,336 [Mollye] The first time they ran away, Terry is frantic, 355 00:21:44,436 --> 00:21:46,171 and he's looking everywhere for these boys. 356 00:21:46,271 --> 00:21:48,273 Well, little does Terry know that Ricky knows exactly 357 00:21:48,373 --> 00:21:50,008 where they are because they're staying with him. 358 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:53,445 The investigators are going through the rest 359 00:21:53,545 --> 00:21:54,646 of this compound. 360 00:21:54,746 --> 00:21:57,215 They found the clothes that the boys had been wearing. 361 00:21:57,316 --> 00:21:59,451 Not only did Ricky hide the boys out 362 00:21:59,551 --> 00:22:02,154 after their father's death, that he had also contributed 363 00:22:02,254 --> 00:22:03,755 to destroying evidence. 364 00:22:03,855 --> 00:22:06,458 So we charged him with accessory after the fact 365 00:22:06,558 --> 00:22:07,559 and tampering. 366 00:22:09,728 --> 00:22:13,031 By December 11th, 2001, the two young boys, 367 00:22:13,131 --> 00:22:16,568 Alex and Derek King, and 40-year-old Ricky Chavis, 368 00:22:16,668 --> 00:22:19,504 are all behind bars awaiting trial. 369 00:22:19,604 --> 00:22:21,139 [Mollye] It was shocking. I think, first of all, 370 00:22:21,239 --> 00:22:23,375 people looked at those boys and saw angelic faces 371 00:22:23,475 --> 00:22:25,544 and thought, did they really do it? 372 00:22:25,644 --> 00:22:29,014 [Janine] As the Grand Jury proceedings for Derek and Alex King begin, 373 00:22:29,114 --> 00:22:32,384 the whole case suddenly gets flipped upside down. 374 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,288 [Mollye] Alex and Derek testified before a Grand Jury, 375 00:22:36,388 --> 00:22:38,623 saying they were outside their home last November, 376 00:22:38,724 --> 00:22:40,425 the night their father was killed. 377 00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:43,061 They say Chavis went back inside, killed their dad, 378 00:22:43,161 --> 00:22:45,464 and later confessed to them what he had done. 379 00:22:45,564 --> 00:22:48,300 [John] The boys changed their story, and now they're saying 380 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,869 that they didn't do the murder, 381 00:22:50,969 --> 00:22:54,740 that Ricky Chavis put 'em in the trunk of his car, 382 00:22:56,975 --> 00:23:00,345 killed their father, and then he took 'em to his house. 383 00:23:00,445 --> 00:23:03,081 [reporter] Before a Grand Jury, the boys changed their story 384 00:23:03,181 --> 00:23:05,951 and implicated 40-year-old Ricky Chavis. 385 00:23:06,051 --> 00:23:08,186 [Johnny] They claimed that Ricky told them that, 386 00:23:08,286 --> 00:23:11,656 "Look, confess to this murder. You can say it was 387 00:23:11,757 --> 00:23:15,227 "in self defense, you're young and you're juveniles. 388 00:23:15,327 --> 00:23:16,928 "You're not gonna get into trouble, 389 00:23:17,028 --> 00:23:19,998 "and eventually, when this all blows over, 390 00:23:20,098 --> 00:23:23,268 you can come live with me and we can all be together." 391 00:23:23,368 --> 00:23:25,303 The entire case just blew up 'cause there were 392 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:27,272 so many people that are wanting to believe 393 00:23:27,372 --> 00:23:28,907 in the innocence of these boys. 394 00:23:30,909 --> 00:23:33,645 This case and the trial quickly devolved into 395 00:23:33,745 --> 00:23:35,414 a bona fide media circus. 396 00:23:35,514 --> 00:23:39,251 There were those who believed that Ricky Chavis was 397 00:23:39,351 --> 00:23:41,386 totally responsible for everything. 398 00:23:41,486 --> 00:23:44,389 There were those who believed that Alex and Derek were 399 00:23:44,489 --> 00:23:46,425 totally responsible for everything. 400 00:23:46,525 --> 00:23:49,294 [Ann] The image of those little boys standing before a judge 401 00:23:49,394 --> 00:23:51,463 set off alarm and debate. 402 00:23:51,563 --> 00:23:53,999 [David] Based on looks alone, the possibility that these 403 00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:56,868 young brothers with choir-boy faces could plot and murder 404 00:23:56,968 --> 00:23:59,304 their own father seemed inconceivable. 405 00:23:59,404 --> 00:24:02,774 Based on the boys' news story, the head prosecutor makes 406 00:24:02,874 --> 00:24:05,911 the unusual decision to charge all three individuals 407 00:24:06,011 --> 00:24:08,914 with first-degree murder in two separate trials. 408 00:24:09,948 --> 00:24:12,984 The media and everybody talked about how odd that was. 409 00:24:13,084 --> 00:24:16,254 [reporter] In back-to-back trials, two juries would hear 410 00:24:16,354 --> 00:24:18,190 two conflicting theories. 411 00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:21,193 One jury would hear evidence that Rick Chavis had wielded 412 00:24:21,293 --> 00:24:23,028 the bat that killed Terry King. 413 00:24:23,128 --> 00:24:25,897 And a separate jury would hear evidence that his own sons 414 00:24:25,997 --> 00:24:26,998 had done it. 415 00:24:27,098 --> 00:24:29,267 Essentially, the prosecution's take on it was, 416 00:24:29,367 --> 00:24:30,502 "Well, this is what the boys said. 417 00:24:30,602 --> 00:24:32,170 "This is what Ricky's saying. We're just gonna let 418 00:24:32,270 --> 00:24:34,739 "the jury hear the evidence, see what we've got 419 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,675 and let them decide." 420 00:24:36,775 --> 00:24:40,712 The case against the boys and the case against Chavis 421 00:24:40,812 --> 00:24:43,715 were traveling parallel paths. 422 00:24:43,815 --> 00:24:46,384 Basically, it was the same evidence 423 00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:48,753 against all three of them. 424 00:24:48,854 --> 00:24:52,290 Chavis's trial was set to occur before the boys' trial. 425 00:24:53,758 --> 00:24:57,229 This is a very unusual set of circumstances. 426 00:24:57,329 --> 00:24:59,631 [Mollye] This will be the moment everybody had been waiting for. 427 00:24:59,731 --> 00:25:01,399 Is it gonna be Ricky Chavis that takes the fall 428 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,268 for murdering Terry King? Is it gonna be 429 00:25:03,368 --> 00:25:06,204 Terry King's own sons? What really happened? 430 00:25:17,549 --> 00:25:19,584 I tried to, like, behave myself as much 431 00:25:19,684 --> 00:25:20,685 as I possibly could. 432 00:25:22,587 --> 00:25:25,624 It was very hard to sit still. 433 00:25:25,724 --> 00:25:28,026 All day long, in the same seat. 434 00:25:30,061 --> 00:25:32,564 It was very difficult for me. 435 00:25:34,499 --> 00:25:36,401 At our age, it's like a different language. 436 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:42,107 Yes, sir. 437 00:25:43,408 --> 00:25:46,811 As the trial for Ricky Chavis begins, the star witnesses are 438 00:25:46,912 --> 00:25:49,614 Derek and Alex King, who would later face 439 00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:52,050 the same charges themselves. 440 00:25:52,150 --> 00:25:54,052 [Mollye] The whole courtroom was packed. 441 00:25:54,152 --> 00:25:56,087 Everybody was there to see what was going on. 442 00:25:56,187 --> 00:25:58,557 And then just to see these two angelic-looking boys, 443 00:25:58,657 --> 00:26:01,226 it was difficult to reconcile what they were 444 00:26:01,326 --> 00:26:03,562 accused of doing to what you saw standing there 445 00:26:03,662 --> 00:26:04,729 in front of you. 446 00:26:21,313 --> 00:26:24,349 [Lisa] I was able to attend every day, and it was 447 00:26:25,850 --> 00:26:29,821 heart-rending to watch it happen, especially 448 00:26:29,921 --> 00:26:32,390 when they asked Derek about Terry. 449 00:26:47,205 --> 00:26:48,206 [Judge] That's fine. 450 00:26:49,374 --> 00:26:51,977 Derek's time on the stand is unsettling, 451 00:26:52,077 --> 00:26:54,980 but it's the testimony of younger Alex 452 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,681 that has everyone in dismay. 453 00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:28,747 So many people felt like maybe this is the chance 454 00:27:28,847 --> 00:27:30,649 that these boys will be able to get off. 455 00:27:30,749 --> 00:27:32,651 Maybe Ricky Chavis really did do it, and we're gonna 456 00:27:32,751 --> 00:27:34,152 find the truth. 457 00:27:34,252 --> 00:27:37,489 [Johnny] After a three-day trial, the jury came back 458 00:27:37,589 --> 00:27:41,159 with a verdict, but in yet another stunning first, 459 00:27:41,259 --> 00:27:44,029 the judge says, "We're gonna seal the verdict." 460 00:27:44,129 --> 00:27:47,165 [Sharon] The judge ordered Chavis's verdict sealed 461 00:27:47,265 --> 00:27:51,202 because he didn't want that to impact the jury pool 462 00:27:52,203 --> 00:27:53,738 for the boys' case. 463 00:27:55,206 --> 00:27:57,342 [Janine] When the trial for Derek and Alex begins, 464 00:27:57,442 --> 00:28:00,445 they are among the youngest children to be tried as adults 465 00:28:00,545 --> 00:28:02,047 for first degree murder. 466 00:28:02,147 --> 00:28:05,150 And like Ricky Chavis's trial, it will be broadcast 467 00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:06,885 on national TV. 468 00:28:06,985 --> 00:28:10,255 There were so many people who said if they commit 469 00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:13,024 an adult crime, they should be punished as adults. 470 00:28:13,124 --> 00:28:16,428 But kids, they don't see consequences the same way 471 00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:18,096 that adults do. 472 00:28:18,196 --> 00:28:21,633 The consequence may be life in prison. 473 00:28:21,733 --> 00:28:24,869 That means nothing to a child. 474 00:28:24,969 --> 00:28:29,874 At the age of 12 and 13, the thought of living in prison 475 00:28:29,974 --> 00:28:34,045 for your next 70 years, it just, it doesn't even register. 476 00:28:34,145 --> 00:28:35,847 It doesn't compute. 477 00:28:35,947 --> 00:28:38,950 The defense chooses not to call Derek to testify, 478 00:28:39,050 --> 00:28:41,486 but they do bring Alex to the stand. 479 00:28:41,586 --> 00:28:45,290 We defense attorneys felt like Alex would be a much 480 00:28:45,390 --> 00:28:48,593 better witness because Derek just could not focus. 481 00:28:48,693 --> 00:28:51,963 I don't think Derek realized 482 00:28:52,063 --> 00:28:55,667 what was coming. He just didn't understand. 483 00:28:55,767 --> 00:28:57,969 [Janine] Alex repeats the claim that Ricky Chavis 484 00:28:58,069 --> 00:29:00,038 had actually killed Terry King 485 00:29:00,138 --> 00:29:02,407 and manipulated the boys into taking the blame. 486 00:29:21,693 --> 00:29:24,963 But again, the most shocking part of the trial was hearing 487 00:29:25,063 --> 00:29:29,167 Alex's story of how 40-year-old Chavis groomed and seduced him. 488 00:29:42,847 --> 00:29:46,151 We made the argument that the boys were subject 489 00:29:46,251 --> 00:29:49,454 to manipulation by Ricky Chavis. 490 00:29:49,554 --> 00:29:54,092 Chavis was a real driving force in Alex's life, 491 00:29:54,192 --> 00:29:57,962 and Derek was very easy to manipulate 492 00:29:58,062 --> 00:30:01,533 by pretty much anybody. He was just a wide-open target. 493 00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:05,703 Our lawyers, they explained to us what a pedophile was, 494 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,840 like, the strategies and techniques, 495 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:11,075 and explained how we were... 496 00:30:14,712 --> 00:30:17,448 used and taken advantage of. 497 00:30:17,549 --> 00:30:20,285 But the audio recordings, with the boys confessing 498 00:30:20,385 --> 00:30:23,721 on them, are extremely hard to overcome in open court. 499 00:30:35,567 --> 00:30:40,939 The parts of the confession that stood out to me was 500 00:30:42,006 --> 00:30:45,143 the description of 501 00:30:45,243 --> 00:30:49,047 Terry's condition after the first swing of the bat. 502 00:30:49,147 --> 00:30:51,115 And that was -- 503 00:30:53,618 --> 00:30:55,320 That was really bad. 504 00:31:04,295 --> 00:31:07,298 [Johnny] Alex said that he was making a gurgling sound, 505 00:31:07,398 --> 00:31:10,001 and he was describing it, and it sounded like the death rattle, 506 00:31:10,101 --> 00:31:13,238 and most people wouldn't have an idea of what that sound is. 507 00:31:14,806 --> 00:31:17,275 So no matter what, you were definitely there. 508 00:31:17,375 --> 00:31:20,645 [Sharon] But our argument was that they had been with Chavis 509 00:31:20,745 --> 00:31:23,081 when people came looking for them. 510 00:31:23,181 --> 00:31:25,617 He had taken them to the sheriff's office, 511 00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:29,921 So it seems very possible that these confessions were coached. 512 00:31:44,736 --> 00:31:48,473 After three days of disturbing testimony, the jury is 513 00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:50,108 sent to deliberate. 514 00:31:50,208 --> 00:31:53,111 They take the boys back to the holding cells, and we go, 515 00:31:53,211 --> 00:31:54,612 and we just wait. 516 00:32:05,156 --> 00:32:07,892 When I was first incarcerated, I understood that I was gonna 517 00:32:07,992 --> 00:32:09,227 be there for a little while, 518 00:32:10,461 --> 00:32:14,165 but the permanence and severity of the whole situation 519 00:32:14,265 --> 00:32:18,636 didn't strike me until the verdict was read 520 00:32:18,736 --> 00:32:20,271 on the last day of my trial. 521 00:32:21,339 --> 00:32:24,442 And that's when I realized that 522 00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:28,846 it was gonna be a very 523 00:32:30,014 --> 00:32:32,317 cold and lonely road ahead of me. 524 00:32:43,561 --> 00:32:45,730 When they opened the verdict and read it. 525 00:32:45,830 --> 00:32:46,831 Oh. 526 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,768 Like, it just hit me like a truck. 527 00:32:50,868 --> 00:32:52,804 That was just... 528 00:32:52,904 --> 00:32:55,340 'cause I had just done a year in jail, 529 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,208 and then thinking to myself, 530 00:32:57,308 --> 00:32:58,409 I gotta do this 531 00:32:59,444 --> 00:33:03,214 over and over and over again for at least the next 20 years. 532 00:33:03,314 --> 00:33:05,183 I was like, "Oh, my god." 533 00:33:06,317 --> 00:33:08,753 [Johnny] When the verdict came back, everybody was stunned, 534 00:33:08,853 --> 00:33:11,255 in the courtroom and across the nation. 535 00:33:11,356 --> 00:33:14,959 And the judge, apparently, was stunned, too. 536 00:33:15,059 --> 00:33:18,763 And he ends up announcing that he's throwing out the verdict 537 00:33:18,863 --> 00:33:22,066 and wants the court to be resolved by mediation, 538 00:33:22,166 --> 00:33:24,602 which is another head-scratcher. 539 00:33:24,702 --> 00:33:26,037 That's, you know, something that happens 540 00:33:26,137 --> 00:33:29,474 in a divorce case or a child custody case. 541 00:33:29,574 --> 00:33:33,111 I think it's fair to say that we were all taken aback. 542 00:33:33,211 --> 00:33:35,313 For the years that all of us had been practicing, 543 00:33:35,413 --> 00:33:37,882 we had never seen a murder case go to mediation. 544 00:33:37,982 --> 00:33:41,686 But eventually, we did reach a resolution. 545 00:33:41,786 --> 00:33:43,021 I was... 546 00:33:43,121 --> 00:33:46,924 resigned to the fact that I was gonna be doing some time. 547 00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:48,459 But then 548 00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:49,560 my lawyers were, like, 549 00:33:50,895 --> 00:33:52,897 beside themselves, they were, like, 550 00:33:52,997 --> 00:33:54,298 all excited and stuff. 551 00:33:54,399 --> 00:33:56,701 I'm like, "Man, what's going on?" 552 00:33:57,969 --> 00:34:00,605 They explained it to me, and I was like, "Oh, wow." 553 00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:03,908 Derek and Alex plead guilty to third-degree murder 554 00:34:04,008 --> 00:34:06,310 and are sentenced to eight and seven years 555 00:34:06,411 --> 00:34:09,112 in juvenile detention, respectively. 556 00:34:09,213 --> 00:34:13,851 The boys were facing adult prison time of 20 years. 557 00:34:15,353 --> 00:34:20,158 And two little boys going into an adult prison was 558 00:34:20,257 --> 00:34:25,096 just unacceptable. So juvenile prison came as 559 00:34:26,164 --> 00:34:27,632 a little bit of good news. 560 00:34:30,001 --> 00:34:32,503 Now that Alex and Derek's case is adjudicated, 561 00:34:32,603 --> 00:34:35,672 the judge releases the verdict in Ricky Chavis's case. 562 00:34:43,981 --> 00:34:45,917 [Johnny] Everybody was shocked. 563 00:34:46,016 --> 00:34:48,820 Ricky Chavis was acquitted of murder. 564 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,987 But the state isn't done with Ricky. 565 00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:55,025 And after the first trial, he's charged with kidnapping 566 00:34:55,126 --> 00:34:58,663 and 10 counts of molestation against Alex. 567 00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:01,299 [Janine] In a second trial, despite Alex's testimony 568 00:35:01,399 --> 00:35:03,167 about their relationship, Ricky is found 569 00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:06,471 not guilty of molestation and kidnapping. 570 00:35:06,571 --> 00:35:08,706 He's only convicted of the much lesser charge 571 00:35:08,806 --> 00:35:10,708 of false imprisonment for hiding the boys 572 00:35:10,808 --> 00:35:12,477 the first time they ran away. 573 00:35:12,577 --> 00:35:15,313 He's given a prison sentence of just five years. 574 00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:26,524 But prosecutors don't give up. 575 00:35:26,624 --> 00:35:29,060 They put Chavis on trial for a third time, 576 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,497 as an accessory after the fact and for evidence tampering. 577 00:35:32,597 --> 00:35:35,433 This time, he is found guilty on all counts. 578 00:35:36,901 --> 00:35:40,204 On March 5th, 2003, Ricky Chavis is sentenced 579 00:35:40,304 --> 00:35:42,607 to 30 years in prison. 580 00:35:42,707 --> 00:35:46,010 I believe that Ricky Chavis orchestrated this. 581 00:35:46,110 --> 00:35:49,280 I think he planted the idea that they could come 582 00:35:49,380 --> 00:35:52,817 live with him forever if Terry was not in the picture. 583 00:35:52,917 --> 00:35:55,553 I don't think this ending had to happen but for the fact 584 00:35:55,653 --> 00:35:57,388 that the devil was at the door. 585 00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:01,492 When Alex is released in 2008, the public is 586 00:36:01,592 --> 00:36:03,194 still hungry for answers. 587 00:36:03,294 --> 00:36:06,397 This man, Chavis, who's doing time in prison, 588 00:36:06,497 --> 00:36:08,199 he caused this, did he not? 589 00:36:09,634 --> 00:36:13,437 Well, I can say that had he not been around, 590 00:36:13,538 --> 00:36:15,406 um, my father would... 591 00:36:15,506 --> 00:36:16,974 I would believe my father would still be alive. 592 00:36:18,042 --> 00:36:19,810 [Johnny] Derek gets out a year later, 593 00:36:19,911 --> 00:36:22,313 and the two brothers finally get to reunite. 594 00:36:22,413 --> 00:36:25,583 And it seems like maybe this horrible story is 595 00:36:25,683 --> 00:36:28,586 just a chapter of their lives that they can put behind them, 596 00:36:28,686 --> 00:36:30,555 and they're gonna move forward. 597 00:36:30,655 --> 00:36:32,456 But that... 598 00:36:32,557 --> 00:36:34,592 unfortunately, it doesn't happen. 599 00:36:34,692 --> 00:36:37,361 Alex ends up having a parole violation 600 00:36:37,461 --> 00:36:39,230 and goes back to prison. 601 00:36:39,330 --> 00:36:43,267 He gets out, but in 2024, he ends up overdosing 602 00:36:43,367 --> 00:36:44,569 on drugs and dies. 603 00:36:47,905 --> 00:36:50,775 Being involved with a convicted sex offender, 604 00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:54,478 that's bound to have effects on somebody. 605 00:36:54,579 --> 00:36:57,582 He was never given any tools to deal with that, 606 00:36:57,682 --> 00:37:00,351 and at some point, there was a crash and burn. 607 00:37:06,424 --> 00:37:08,526 I wish my brother was still here. 608 00:37:10,461 --> 00:37:14,365 I hadn't really thought about how much time has gone by 609 00:37:14,465 --> 00:37:17,768 since everything has happened. 610 00:37:17,868 --> 00:37:18,869 And 611 00:37:19,904 --> 00:37:22,139 I always kind of had him in my mind, 612 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:26,010 some of the stuff that we had planned on. 613 00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:29,280 Like when we got together, we had planned on staying 614 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:31,215 close and having, 615 00:37:33,217 --> 00:37:36,354 like, done hardly any of those things, 616 00:37:36,454 --> 00:37:41,459 that really, like, hit me hard, where, like, the reality of 617 00:37:43,227 --> 00:37:44,462 him never being there. 618 00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:47,265 And that really, really hit me. 619 00:37:50,301 --> 00:37:53,971 It's a tragic end to a tragic story. 620 00:37:54,071 --> 00:37:56,574 But decades after the crime, there are still 621 00:37:56,674 --> 00:38:00,411 so many questions, including who really killed Terry King. 622 00:38:13,524 --> 00:38:15,259 I didn't wanna do it. 623 00:38:15,359 --> 00:38:18,262 I just wanted to protect my brother, make sure he's safe. 624 00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:21,732 Derek maintains that he and Alex were afraid 625 00:38:21,832 --> 00:38:23,968 of being punished by their father, Terry, 626 00:38:24,068 --> 00:38:25,970 after they returned home from running away. 627 00:38:27,571 --> 00:38:32,643 [Derek] He threatened to do some violent stuff to us, 628 00:38:32,743 --> 00:38:33,778 so... 629 00:38:37,782 --> 00:38:38,883 Did what I had to do. 630 00:38:41,819 --> 00:38:43,054 I went up to him, hit him. 631 00:38:46,791 --> 00:38:48,993 First time, he kind of, 632 00:38:49,093 --> 00:38:50,127 you know, 633 00:38:51,696 --> 00:38:53,564 his muscles and everything clenched up. 634 00:38:58,002 --> 00:38:59,070 Second time... 635 00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:02,306 freaked out, just went wild. 636 00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:04,842 After that, 637 00:39:06,911 --> 00:39:07,912 I just... 638 00:39:11,882 --> 00:39:12,950 kept going. 639 00:39:17,722 --> 00:39:18,823 And I... 640 00:39:23,227 --> 00:39:24,228 kind of blacked out. 641 00:39:26,797 --> 00:39:27,798 My brother and I 642 00:39:30,234 --> 00:39:31,569 broke down in tears, 643 00:39:32,670 --> 00:39:35,473 grabbed each other, held each other and cried. 644 00:39:36,507 --> 00:39:38,476 [soft nostalgic music playing] 645 00:39:49,153 --> 00:39:50,721 Terry Lee King, 646 00:39:50,821 --> 00:39:56,894 April 17th, 1961, November 26th, 2001. 647 00:39:56,994 --> 00:39:58,596 I love you, Alex and Derek. 648 00:40:01,332 --> 00:40:03,167 [exhales softly] 649 00:40:06,971 --> 00:40:08,339 It's the first time I've 650 00:40:09,774 --> 00:40:10,775 been able to 651 00:40:13,778 --> 00:40:14,779 come out here. 652 00:40:16,814 --> 00:40:20,251 I don't really have the words to express. 653 00:40:23,954 --> 00:40:24,955 Makes me think of 654 00:40:26,190 --> 00:40:28,926 how far I've come and what all has happened. 655 00:40:38,636 --> 00:40:39,503 Please forgive me. 656 00:40:39,603 --> 00:40:48,779 [somber music plays] 657 00:40:48,879 --> 00:40:58,889 [music continues] 658 00:41:19,210 --> 00:41:21,212 I could see blood splatter. 659 00:41:21,312 --> 00:41:24,515 [newscaster] 37-year-old Robin Lawrence stabbed to death. 660 00:41:24,615 --> 00:41:26,317 [man] There was a lot of passion involved with this. 661 00:41:26,417 --> 00:41:27,551 She was tortured. 662 00:41:27,651 --> 00:41:29,620 The detective are thinking this affair has got to have 663 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:31,589 something to do with this murder. 664 00:41:31,689 --> 00:41:34,358 [man] I cannot imagine anyone that could have done this.