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Astronaut Accused Of Kidnapping; Bone-Chilling Cold; Friendly Fire On Tape
Aired February 06, 2007 - 10:00 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everybody. I'm Heidi Collins.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Tony Harris. Spend a second hour in the NEWSROOM this morning and stay informed. Here's what's on the rundown.
Classified tape. A tabloid's website makes it public. U.S. pilots apparently firing on British troops early in the war.
COLLINS: Stun gun discipline. A young Oregon father in court. He is accused of using a stun gun on his 18-month-old toddler.
HARRIS: Space odyssey. A love triangle in the shadow of the shuttle. An astronaut accused in an odd plot against a romantic rival.
It is Tuesday, February 6th. You are in the NEWSROOM.
COLLINS: Serious charges for a shuttle astronaut. She is accused of planning a bizarre attack on an alleged romantic rival. Lisa Nowak in court this morning. CNN's John Zarrella is joining us now live from Orlando.
Good morning to you, John. I don't remember a story quite so strange.
JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Heidi, no, exactly. I think that's the word, strange, bizarre and, of course, very, very sad for Lisa Marie Nowak, a space shuttle astronaut, who appeared in court just moments ago here in Orlando. Set the stage for what happened.
In the overnight hours of the 5th, apparently Ms. Nowak came to Orlando, according to the police reports. She was at the airport. She was waiting for another woman, Colleen Shipman, to arrive from Houston.
Now when Ms. Shipman got here, she was followed by Ms. Nowak to her car and eventually Ms. Nowak got Ms. Shipman to pull down her window, at which point the astronaut pepper sprayed this other woman, who also works over in the Kennedy Space Center area, at Patrick Air Force Base. So what apparently happened is that Ms. Nowak actually drove here, and very bizarre circumstance, wore a diaper when she drove from Houston to Orlando so she wouldn't have to make stops and could get to the airport in time to catch that flight that Ms. Shipman was on. She wore a disguise. And when police eventually found her, they found her with -- trying to dispose of some of those items.
Now in court today, the chief of the astronaut office appeared in support of her, Steve Lindsay, and that's what he did, he supported her.
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STEVE LINDSAY, CHIEF OF NASA OFFICE: We're here representing NASA and our primary concern is Lisa's health and well-being. Make sure that she's safe. Make sure we get her through this and we get her back to a safe place with her family. This is a private, personal matter. It's a legal matter that she and her family have to deal with. And our primary concern is again her health and well-being and safety. And we're down here supporting her like we would any employee at NASA if they were to get into this situation. We're a close family and we try to take care of our own.
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ZARRELLA: Now Nowak is charged with attempted kidnapping, attempted burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery. She is being released on bond at this time. But she will have to wear a GPS tracker, which will be put on her leg, before she is allowed to return to Houston. She cannot come back to the eastern part of Florida. She cannot go to the Kennedy Space Center or to Patrick Air Force Base and cannot have any contact at all with Colleen Shipman, according to the judge. Can't even send flowers, the judge said, to say she's sorry.
Heidi.
COLLINS: John, what about her personal life here? I mean she's married with three children, I believe?
ZARRELLA: That's correct. She's married with three children. I believe two of them are twins. Back in the Houston area. You know, no other issues ever, according to the astronauts here today. She was terrific on the spaceflight, Steve Lindsay said. And again, they're not really saying much other than what Steve Lindsay said in that statement, that they're here to support her and to take her back to Houston. It's personal matter and a matter that has to be dealt with at the courts. Don't know when the next court date is scheduled, if there even is one yet, for her to appear back here in Orlando.
Heidi.
COLLINS: Boy. All right. CNN's John Zarrella coming to us live from Orlando this morning.
Thank you, John.
HARRIS: Water pipes frozen solid, cars that won't start, homeless shelters packed. From the Dakotas to New England, a deadly blast of arctic air is causing problems. In some places it is not just below zero, it is way below zero. Right now at least seven deaths blamed on the frigid weather. CNN's Keith Oppenheim braving the cold in Chicago.
And, Keith, CNN here with about 35 networks all asking for you to file reports for them. Are you able to get a break and get in and get warm here? Should we switch you out here pretty soon?
KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Tony, I go inside as often as I can, but it's not easy given the fact, as you look at my thermometer here, I'm dealing with temperatures that have been hovering right around zero degrees. But that's just part of it because there's a bit of wind out here. So it's likely that the wind chill right now around me is a good 10 degrees below zero.
Take a look at the river behind me. This is the Chicago River and, man, it's solid as a rock. You can see all those chunks of ice. It's sort of emblematic of the stretch of ice that is lingering across the northern United States.
And also a sign of the danger that we are facing. Because here in Chicago, the Cook County medical examiner has told us that at least three people have died because of exposure to the cold in just the past few days. And, get this, we're also being told that this is the longest and coldest stretch of weather we've had in this city in the last 11 years. So even by Chicago windy city standards, that's pretty chilly.
Back to you.
HARRIS: Have you seen any cutters out there to break that up a little bit?
OPPENHEIM: In this river, they just let it be. There's no ice cutters going through this.
HARRIS: OK. Keith, hang around. I've got about five more questions for you. No, no, no, just kidding. Go get warm. Keith Oppenheim for us in Chicago.
Keith, thank you.
COLLINS: That was so mean.
HARRIS: I just couldn't resist.
COLLINS: Chad Myers joining us now to give us a bigger picture, if you will, across the entire nation of all this cold.
Do we have any purple because, you know, you don't have to tell us twice, purple is not a place you want to be.
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COLLINS: Coming up next now, the fog of war and a clear image of a deadly friendly fire mistake. A British tabloid has released this cockpit video from the first weeks of the Iraq War. It shows two U.S. fighter jets opening fire on an apparent enemy convoy. The vehicles and the men, British. CNN's Robin Oakley is our European political editor. He's joining us now.
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ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Britain's "Sun" newspaper has revealed the cockpit video of an incident in which two U.S. planes attacked a British convoy in the early stages of the Iraq War, killing Lance Corporal Matty Hull and injuring four other British soldiers. Rarely has there been such a dramatic illustration of the difficulty of taking rapid decision in the war that two American pilots in the tankbuster (ph) aircraft managed to convince themselves that the orange panels they saw on these vehicles were not the traditional sign that they were allied vehicles and not to be attacked, but were orange colored rocket launchers. And they urged each other into the attack.
POPOV36: We got a visual. OK, I want to get the first one before he gets to that town then.
POPOV35: Get him. Get him.
POPOV36: All right, we got rocket launchers. It looks like number two is rolling in from the south to the north and two's in.
POPOV35: Get it.
(GUNFIRE)
POPOV35: I'm off your west.
Good hits.
OAKLEY: Good hits, they said, but alas they were good hits on the wrong side and very soon there was confirmation from ground controllers it was indeed a British convoy which they had attacked.
LIGHTNING 34: Roger, POPOV. Be advised that in the 3122 and 3222 group box you have friendly armour in the area. Yellow, small armoured tanks. Just be advised.
POPOV35: Ahh (BLEEP).
Got a -- got a smoke.
LIGHTENING 34: Hey, POPOV34, abort your mission. You got a -- looks like we might have a blue on blue situation.
POPOV35: (BLEEP). God bless it!
POPOV35: POPOV34.
OAKLEY: There was instant remorse and regret from the pilots. One of them saying that he was sick in the cockpit. The other saying to his colleague, "hey, dude, we're in jail over this." A recognition of the enormity of the mistake that had been made.
And meanwhile, British authorities have made it plain, they're pressing the U.S. to reveal all the facts in this tragic accident for the sake of the families involved. Harriet Harman, the British constitutional affairs minister, making it plain she feels the U.S. could do more on this front.
Robin Oakley, CNN, London.
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COLLINS: The view from the cockpit. A friendly fire accident in Iraq. Four years later, though, as you just heard, new questions arise. We'll talk with a retired Navy fighter pilot with a closer look.
HARRIS: Kentucky house fire and a startling death toll. Ten dead, dozens of questions in the NEWSROOM.
COLLINS: He oversaw early rebuilding efforts in Iraq. Now tough questions on Capitol Hill ahead for Paul Bremer, up next in the NEWSROOM.
HARRIS: His undercover work is done, but he's not out of danger.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the threats included threats to like find and torture my daughter.
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HARRIS: From the Hells Angels to needing an angel in the NEWSROOM.
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HARRIS: And just into CNN. The vote is going on right now to confirm General George Casey to become the next Army chief of staff. That is the process that you see going on right now. Let's listen for just a moment.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mrs. Dole.
SEN. ELIZABETH DOLE, (R) NORTH CAROLINA: Aye.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Cornyn.
Mr. Thune.
SEN. JOHN THUNE, (R) SOUTH DAKOTA: Aye.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Martinez.
SEN. MEL MARTINEZ, (R) FLORIDA: Aye.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Chairman.
SEN. CARL LEVIN, ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Aye.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Lieberman.
SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN, (I) Connecticut: Aye.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fourteen aye and three nays.
LEVIN: Fourteen ayes, three nays. The motion carries. The record will be kept open for those who are missing.
Finally I ask in the motion . . .
HARRIS: And there you have the vote, 14 ayes, three nays, out of committee now, General George Casey, the nomination to become the next Army chief of staff.
More tough questions on Iraq expected in the House today. They'll be directed at Paul Bremer, the man who oversaw Iraq after the U.S. invasion. Bremer served as the head of the coalition provision authority. He left Baghdad two and a half years ago but now questions and criticism about what happened on his watch, including the decision to disband the Iraqi army and fire members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party. Bremer is also expected to be asked about his oversight of Iraqi oil profits. We are monitoring the hearing before a House Oversight Committee.
COLLINS: An eye in the sky and a witness to a horrible mistake of war. A British tabloid has released this cockpit video from the first weeks of the Iraq War. It shows two U.S. fighter jets, A-10s, opening fire on an apparent enemy convoy. The vehicles and the men turn out to be British. One soldier killed, four others wounded. And now sobering questions on how the investigation has been handled. Joining us now to lend some expertise, veteran Navel aviator and retired Lieutenant Commander Jack Liles.
Thanks for being here Commander Liles. We appreciate it.
First I want you to hear some of the cockpit exchange. This is the forward air controller informing the pilots for the very first time that there has been a friendly fire incident. Go ahead and listen.
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LIGHTNING 34: Roger, POPOV. Be advised that in the 3122 and 3222 group box you have friendly armour in the area. Yellow, small armoured tanks. Just be advised.
POPOV35: Ahh (BLEEP).
Got a -- got a smoke.
LIGHTENING 34: Hey, POPOV34, abort your mission. You got a -- looks like we might have a blue on blue situation.
POPOV35: (BLEEP). God bless it!
POPOV35: POPOV34. (END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS: The obvious reaction is just devastating to them. Blue on blue, meaning friendly fire. What is your reaction to this as a former fighter pilot yourself, F-14s?
LT. COMMANDER JACK LILES, U.S. NAVY (RET.): Well, it's really just an extremely tragic incident, obviously. I mean a blue on blue or bombing the wrong target or striking an incorrect target is professionally one of the most damaging thing that can happen to an aviator like that, both personally and professionally.
COLLINS: And emotionally.
LILES: Exactly. So you can tell by the tone of their voice and you can tell how the tape transpires, or the conversation that we hear transpires. They're very upset about this. And it was, obviously, a huge error in situational awareness. Kind of your typical fog of war type misunderstanding and lack of awareness of where everyone was.
COLLINS: But we do talk a lot about fog of war and we certainly talked a lot about it the last time you and I spoke during the beginning of the war right around this time. Talk to us a little bit about how it works. Where is the video that we're seeing? There's not some control tower set up in the middle of these operations. Explain what the forward -- the fact. The forward air controller really does. That's a person who we're hearing, right, coordinating everything in the sky?
LILES: Maintains -- right. We think some of these voices could be a forward air controller on the ground. At least once they referenced someone on the ground, a controller. The actual controller we hear leading up to the firing could have very well been some type of awax (ph) type controller, an airborne controller, who really had, you know, sitting in a tube somewhere really is just working off of data they have.
And then, in the end, when the tape we just heard a minute ago, when they're getting the news that those were friendly, that was yet a third voice we heard from, a third controller. So as you can tell, there's a lot of information flowing around about where everyone is. A lot of people have different amounts of situational awareness of where friendlies are, where hostiles may be. And then you've got these pilots who've been sent out and briefed maybe three, four hours prior that those two box they were to patrol were free of any friendlies or could possibly have hostiles in them and that's why they would be patrolling that area. The situation changed.
LILES: So the situation's changed in the three or four hours since the briefed, and it's changed entirely. And it's just really difficult to get all that information spread out amongst -- you know there may have been eight or 10 other sections of A-10s out there working that day. The control responsibilities for a big chunk of southern Iraq that day could have been huge with friendlies in certain areas, hostile targets in some areas. So it's just -- it's a tough picture. The pilots kind of have to make the call on their own based on what they're seeing. They don't necessarily always have to be clear to fire from a controller. They have the authority to fire if they see something hostile. And in this instance, they, obviously, came to that conclusion, that they were looking at hostile vehicles.
COLLINS: And again, to give a little bit of perspective of what type of aircraft they're talking about here. This is an A-10. This flies very low and slow by way of other fighter aircraft.
LILES: Right.
COLLINS: So lots of times the target is a visual target.
LILES: It usually is. It has to be. And they are designed just for this type of ground support work and attacking trunks and tanks and vehicles and things like that on the ground in support of ground troops. Big cockpit. One of the most visible cockpits made so that they can see very well and can actually see down pretty close below their aircraft from their cockpit seat. So they've got a good view.
COLLINS: They always say in the military, there's a very big difference between crime and action. Rules of engagement. Anything violated there.
LILES: Well, again, we're listening to a very brief little snippet of what happened that day. From what I can tell, no. This was, again, a very innocent but lethal mistake. And kind of your typical fog of war type misunderstanding and lack of situational awareness that led to a blue on blue engagement like this.
COLLINS: Yes, it is very rare that we ever see pictures like this or hear those voice recordings.
LILES: Right.
COLLINS: So we appreciate your insight today. Lieutenant Commander Jack Liles, retired Naval commander, thanks so much.
LILES: Thank you, Heidi.
COLLINS: Six children, four adults. A Kentucky house fire taking a tragic toll. The story coming up in the NEWSROOM.
HARRIS: Who would use one of these on a child? Their own child? An 18-month-old child? A father accused of stun gun discipline, coming up in the NEWSROOM.
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HARRIS: Hey, want to show you the president in action this morning, following up on yesterday's budget release, all $2.9 trillion of that spending plan. The president making a morning address on fiscal responsibility -- yes, that's what I said -- at Micron Technology in Manassas, Virginia. If you want to follow the entire address, hear it for yourself, we want to direct you to pipeline, cNN/pipeline, and you can follow the president's address this morning.
COLLINS: Just want to remind you about a story that we have been following today. There has been a court appearance for the astronaut, Navy Captain Lisa Nowak. Her bond has been set for $15,500. Three different charges that stuck. They are battery, attempted kidnapping and attempted burglary. This is in a very strange love triangle, if you will, with two other people. Obviously, Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman. Apparently both of the women were claiming to be involved with Navy Commander Bill Oefelein, who also works for NASA as an astronaut. Those are the charges.
Again, that bond set at $15,500. Nowak will also have to wear a GPS device so that she cannot travel east of Orange County. That is where the alleged victim lives. A really unbelievable story that we continue to follow here today.
Meanwhile, want to get you to the Dow Jones Industrial averages.
HARRIS: OK.
COLLINS: Opening bell about an hour or so ago. Want to let you know yesterday the Dow went up only about eight points or so, resting at 12,661. So today we are up about six points or so from that. So there you have it. We'll continue to watch this and get some more of our business headlines coming your way in just a few minutes.
HARRIS: A deadly fire sweeps through a home. It happened in the early morning hours in the central Kentucky town of Bardstown. Authorities say 10 people are dead, two others hospitalized. It is not clear what started the fire, nor do we know the relationship of the victims.
COLLINS: Marching orders on Capitol Hill. The administration's top defense officials taking a stand on funding the Iraq War. Hear what they had to say in the NEWSROOM.
And as we just mentioned, a shuttle astronaut in court. She is accused in an odd space triangle
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SGT. BARBARA JONES, ORLANDO POLICE: The fact that we recovered a wig and a trench coat, the disguise certainly was alarming to us.
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COLLINS: Alleged attack on a romantic rival. It's love at warp speed, in space, in the NEWSROOM.
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HARRIS: Good morning, everyone. Let's see, 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time, 7:30 a.m. for our friends on the West Coast. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back into the NEWSROOM. I'm Tony Harris.
COLLINS: And I'm Heidi Collins. A wig, a BB gun and pepper spray, not exactly standard equipment for space shuttle astronauts, that is for sure. But police say that was part of a bizarre kidnapping plot in Orlando, Florida. Astronaut Lisa Nowak made her first court appearance in Florida this morning. She's charged with battery and attempted kidnapping. Police say Nowak drove 900 miles from Houston to Orlando. There she allegedly confronted a woman she considered a rival for another astronaut's affections. At the hearing today, the judge set bond at $15,000 and ordered the married mother of three to wear a GPS tracking device.
HARRIS: We'd like to look forward to what's next in this investigation, but to look back is so compelling, we can't resist.
We get more now from David Waters from Central Florida News 13.
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DAVID WATERS, NEWS 13 REPORTER: Space shuttle astronaut, Lisa Nowak, who waved the flag before her July 1st launch last year, is now in jail. Orlando police arrested her, charging her with attempting to kidnap her romantic rival.
SGT. BARBARA JONES, ORLANDO, FLORIDA POLICE: We were able to locate the arrestee, who, it's my understanding, is an astronaut with the NASA space program.
WATERS: Police say Nowak disguised herself and was armed with weapons, a brand-new steel mallet, a brand new four-inch folding blade, pepper spray and a BB gun. Nowak told police she was involved with the same space shuttle pilot the victim was seeing. She told police that she drove from Houston to confront the victim. Police say the plot was more sinister than that.
JONES: The fact we recovered a wig and trench coat, the disguise certainly was alarming to us. And we have requested a no bond for the safety of the victim in this case.
WATERS (on camera): The victim works just down the road from the Kennedy Space Center at Patrick Air Force Base. Her job is supporting space shuttle launches. According to police charging affidavits, Nowak knew the victim was returning home to come back to the base. And according to these documents, astronaut Lisa Nowak admits wearing diapers so she could drive non-stop from Houston to Orlando to confront the victim without stopping for a bathroom break.
JONES: That's pretty extensive, to make a motor trip all the way from Houston, Texas, to Orlando, you know, in this case, to speak to somebody.
WATERS (voice-over): Police say Nowak followed the victim onto a parking lot bus and got on when she did, running after her. The victim got in her car when Nowak asked her to roll down her window.
JONES: There was apparently an incident between the victim and the astronaut, where spray, pepper spray apparently, was dispensed inside the victim's vehicle. WATERS: Police say after Nowak pepper sprayed the victim, the victim got help. Police say they saw Nowak trying to dump the evidence in a trash can. Nowak is charged with attempted kidnapping, attempted burglary, battery and destruction of evidence.
David Waters, Central Florida, News 13.
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HARRIS: From Oregon, man, an unusual claim of child abuse, a father accused of using a stun gun on his 18-month-old.
Details now from Dave Northfield of CNN affiliate KGW.
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CAPT. ERIC CARTER, ALBANY, OREGON POLICE: It delivers 100,000- volt charge, is what this one runs off a nine-volt battery.
DAVE NORTHFIELD, KGW REPORTER (voice-over): This is the stun gun that Albany police say a father used on his own young son
CARTER: You're just talking about an 18-month-old child, so it just has to be excruciating, that this would cause extreme pain to you or I.
NORTHFIELD: Twenty-three-year-old Ryan James Whitman (ph) is the man police say used the electrical shock on his son. He was arraigned on three counts of second-degree assault and criminal mistreatment. Neighbors say Ryan Whitman is a long haul trucker who isn't home much, but has trouble controlling his temper when he is around.
AMANDA SUNSEI, NEIGHBOR: Jennifer seems pretty nice. Ryan is gone most of the time, but when he is, he's usually drinking and they're fighting.
NORTHFIELD: Both neighbors we talked to said they thought the use of a stun gun for discipline is appalling?
JOHN MASBARBER, NEIGHBOR: No use for it on kids. That's just plain cruelty, I think.
NORTHFIELD: Police say this stun gun is similar to ones officers used on adult suspects, and that the child showed the telltale signs
CARTER: Kind of like burns, or welts and marks where the metal prongs had made contact with the skin.
NORTHFIELD: Detectives say Whitman used the device over a three- week period. They're hoping to learn why a father would subject his own son to this.
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COLLINS: His undercover work is done, but he is not out of danger.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the threat included threats to like find and torture my daughter.
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COLLINS: From the Hell's Angels to needing an angel, hear his story coming up on the NEWSROOM.
HARRIS: Come on, come on! Saving Duchess, trapped in an icy lake, left to die by her owner. How Duchess survived, that story coming up in the NEWSROOM.
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COLLINS: Coming up next, a dog in danger, and a stranger who helps.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was saluting the dog, as she was struggling in the water, and I thought, he's just letting her die.
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COLLINS: A good samaritan and what she had to do to save this dog's life. Don't miss it.
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HARRIS: When he was undercover in the Hell's Angels, his agency couldn't protect him. Now, he's out and he says he still can't get help.
CNN's Kelli Arena reports.
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KELLI ARENA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Shot in the head at close range, his body dumped in a shallow grave, the killing caught on tape. The murder of a member of the Mongol motorcycle gang was Jay Dobyns' ticket into one of the ruthless crime organizations in America, the Hell's Angels.
JAY DOBYNS, ATF AGENT: Even other people in the criminal world, they know that if you get sideways with the Hell's Angels, you have taken on 2,500 members from across the world.
ARENA: He entered a secret world of violence, intimidation, and complete loyalty. And pictures from that videotaped murder along with the bloody vest of a rival gang member was what it took to close the deal. Dobyns was in. DOBYNS: I had committed, like, the ultimate deed, the ultimate act of loyalty to these guys. They took a Hell's Angels vest with a full patch on it. They draped it over my shoulders like a robe being put over a king's back.
ARENA: But look again. If it looks like a scene from a movie, that's because it is, complete with special effects. That's not real blood; it's fake. It's not actual brain tissue; it's cow guts.
DOBYNS: You take an oath as a law enforcement officer to protect the public.
ARENA: Dobyns is no aspiring criminal. He's an agent for the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. The rest, though, is all too real. Once he lied his way into the Hell's Angels, Dobyns knew that his fellow ATF agents couldn't do much to help them.
DOBYNS: Really, the best they're going do is to come in after the fact, capture the people that hurt you and hose your blood off the porch.
This is a Hell's Angels vest.
ARENA: For nearly two years, Dobyns abandoned his life, his family, his friends, to wear that vest and build a case against the motorcycle gang.
DOBYNS: I regret abandoning the family. I regret the heartache I put them through. I regret the mental anguish and torture on my kids in exchange for that.
ARENA: Dobyns even had to fake a relationship with a biker chick, really a female agent, to have an excuse not to sleep with other women.
DOBYNS: We were having women put on us. We're having women offered to us. As an undercover operator, there's only so far that you can go.
ARENA: To understand why the government was so anxious to get inside the Hell's Angels, you only need to look at what happened at Harrod's Casino in 2002, a deadly brawl caught on camera.
The Hell's Angels were suspected of all kinds of criminal activity: gun running, drug trafficking, extortion, rape, murder. One of those alleged murders happened right here on Dobyns' home turf.
(on camera) I'm standing in front of the Hell's Angels clubhouse in Mesa, Arizona, where Cynthia Garcia spent her last night alive.
(voice-over) Cynthia Garcia partied with the Hell's Angels and apparently said something that one of them didn't appreciate. According to government records, she was beaten unconscious, driven to the desert, and stabbed more than two dozen times, her head nearly severed from her body. Dobyns testified about it in court. With his undercover work done, Dobyns left the Hell's Angels behind, but he was in just as much danger. Inside the gang, there was loyalty, protection. They had his back. Outside, they wanted to put a knife in him.
DOBYNS: And he tells me, we know who you are. We know where you live. You're going to spend the rest of your life running from the Hell's Angels.
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COLLINS: A shuttle astronaut in court she is accused in an odd space triangle.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The fact that we recovered a wig and a trench coat, the disguise certainly was alarming to us.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLLINS: Alleged attack on a romantic rival. It's love at warp speed, in the NEWSROOM.
HARRIS: Biting cold putting fire crews on ice, daily life complicated by unbelievable temperatures. What a bone chiller, in the NEWSROOM.
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COLLINS: Want to bring you news just in to us. T.J. Holmes working on it. This is the Coca-Cola trade secrets trial, T.J.
T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: Kind of a strange story here. Julia Williams is the name of the former Coke employee who tried to sell those secrets from Coca-Cola to Pepsi. When she was convicted Friday, and now facing up to 10 years in prison. Well, Friday was a bad day in more than one way we're learning now, because on Friday, about 90 minutes after she was found guilty, her home was destroyed by a fire. Again, this was just 90 minutes after that verdict was read. Her apartment burned. Several other apartments were damaged in this fire as well. But because of that fire and some other things, prosecutors are now asking that she be jailed immediately.
They say she doesn't have a home, doesn't have money, has nowhere to go. And after this fire, according to prosecutors, she behaved somewhat suspiciously. Also has been ruled an accident, that fire. However, prosecutors kind of scratching their heads, think something may be up here as well, and now asking that she be jailed immediately. She's facing 10 years in prison.
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