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Pre-Indictment Hearing for Atlanta Shooter; Reward Posted for Missing Florida Girl; Cardinal Conclave to Choose New Pope
Aired April 15, 2005 - 10:00 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN CO-ANCHOR: And we'll get started. Here's what's happening right now in the news.
Firefighters say there may be more bodies in a Paris hotel after a deadly fire raged through upper floors overnight. Some people jumped. Some threw their children through windows as the flames engulfed rooms. At least 10 children are among the 20 people known to have died so far in the blaze. The cause was apparently accidental.
In Baghdad, two roadside bombings of military convoys today, one U.S. the other Iraqi. At least one person was killed and eight others wounded. One attack was on a task force Baghdad Patrol. U.S. soldiers quickly secured the area.
Amtrak has canceled its Acela high-speed northeast corridor service. Inspectors found cracks in the brake components on most coaches of the trains. Amtrak says no break failures or other safety problems had occurred. Most other Amtrak service is scheduled to operate normally. The high-speed trains will remain out of service until the brakes are fixed.
It is tax day. And if you haven't started on your forms, you might be too late. A taxpayer's group figures it takes nearly 27 hours to finish filing. Actually, that time includes keeping records, learning the law, preparing forms, copying and mailing. However, you do have until midnight to complete the tax.
Good morning on this Friday morning. I'm Daryn Kagan.
In Atlanta, the accused courthouse killer returns to the scene of last month's shooting spree. Security was extra tight this past hour at the Fulton County Courthouse, as suspect Brian Nichols returned to the building where the March 11 attacks occurred. Police say it was here that he attacked a deputy, seized her gun, and went on to kill four people.
Our Tony Harris is at the courthouse just a few blocks from us here at CNN Center.
Tony, good morning.
TONY HARRIS, CNN CO-ANCHOR: And good morning, Daryn. Just a bit of a scene center. As you mentioned, we are right in front of the Fulton County Courthouse here in downtown Atlanta, Georgia; the scene of so much heartbreak and tragedy just a little over a month ago, as you mentioned on March 11, a tragedy. We want to go right now to pictures. The first pictures of Brian Nichols in court today. And as you look at these pictures you'll see that he is in a business suit, open collar. And that is a bit of a surprise to us. We expected that he would be jump suited and shackle this is morning. This is not the case.
Contrast these pictures today to the pictures of his last court appearance on March 15, where this was at the Fulton County Jail in a little courtroom, very cramped that day. You remember, he came into that courtroom and he was jump suited, orange prison jump suited and shackled down, escorted by teams of Fulton County Sheriff's Deputies.
Come back today and what exactly is going on in the courtroom today? Well, Judge Hilton Fuller is hearing a defense motion to -- and here it is, to voir dire the grand jurors and record all of the proceedings. What is going on here is that the defense is trying to ascertain whether or not it can receive a fair trial for Brian Nichols with the jury pool in Fulton County. They're trying to determine if the jurors have been tainted by all of the coverage of the events of March 11.
Will the judge in this hearing today issue a ruling today? The answer is no. How do we know that? The judge essentially told us just a couple of days ago, saying that he is going to take his time with each and every motion in this trial. And if you look beyond that, that will give you a bit of a sense of how long it is going to take for this case against Nichols to actually come to trial.
First of all, there needs to be a new grand jury seated. We will likely not get an indictment of Nichols before next month at the earliest, and possibly as late as June. And at that point, there will be a flurry of motions that will go back and forth. The judge has indicated he will take his time with each and every one those of motions. And then at that point, some of those decisions will, no doubt, be appealed up a judicial ladder. From there, a trial date will be set, and then jury selection. And the then trial in chief will begin.
We asked a judge, Judge Fuller, can he give us any kind of a ballpark as to when the trial will start in this matter? He would not, Daryn, even play the game. So the hearing that's going on in one of the courtrooms behind me now is just the first step, the initial stages of what is going to be a very long process -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Tony Harris live in downtown Atlanta. Tony, thank you.
The conflict with the current grand jury; these grand jurors were sworn in by Judge Roland Barnes who was killed last month in the killing spree.
The courtroom killings of Judge Barnes and a court reporter raised safety questions of a new Gallup poll. Here's the question. Should judges carry guns? Forty-three percent of the people are saying yes, they thought courtrooms would be safer if judges were armed. But more, 50 percent thought they would be more dangerous. Gallup also posed a question about airline pilots. To that almost two-thirds of people say airplanes would be safer with armed pilots. One-third said airplanes would become more dangerous.
Another story for you. Here in Georgia, a 16-year-old girl fought back tears for a half hour as she testified how and why she and a friend stabbed to death her grandparents. Holly Harvey and Sandy Ketchum entered a plea deal that sentenced them to life in prison. Each could be free within 20 years.
As part of that deal, Harvey described through choking sobs the gruesome murders of her 74 and 73 year old grandparents.
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JUDGE PASCHAL ENGLISH, FAYETTE SUPERIOR COURT: So you thought about hiding the knife. Is that right?
HOLLY HARVEY, TEEN KILLER: No. No, sir.
ENGLISH: You closed your eyes and you stabbed HER. Do you know where you stabbed them?
HARVEY: In the back.
ENGLISH: Do you know how many times you stabbed them?
HARVEY: Maybe three times.
ENGLISH: All in the back? Well, when you stabbed her in the back what happened the first time?
HARVEY: She made -- she screamed.
ENGLISH: And then she screamed?
HARVEY: Yes, sir.
ENGLISH: And then what happened?
HARVEY: My grandfather turned around. He had the phone in his hand. I had pulled the cord out of the wall. Then he grabbed the knife and I thought he was going to stab me. But I put the knife on my grandpa and I closed my eyes. And I just started stabbing my grandpa like that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Shortly after the hearings, Georgia authorities charged an Atlanta area man in the murder for allegedly giving the teen killers drugs that they used on the day of the killings. Calvin Lawson allegedly provided them crack cocaine and marijuana.
A $10,000 reward is now posted for the return of Sarah Lunde. She is the Tampa area teenager who disappeared last weekend. The Hillsborough County sheriff who is heading the investigation says there are no new leads, and describes the tips what he calls surprisingly low.
CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti has been following the story and joins us now with more.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn. A plea for help with a mother, a $10,000 reward, and now five days of searching, and so far, no sign of 13-year-old Sarah Lunde. However, police now releasing a new detail in their search. Authorities are looking for Bud or Bud Lite beer bottles in the area. Police confirm they might be linked to David Onstott, who used to have a relationship with Sarah Lunde's mother.
He is a convicted sex offender, who is now being held on an unrelated charge. Sarah's brother has said Onstott was at their home early Sunday and picked up a beer bottle.
Among the searchers here yesterday, some who are familiar with the agony of a lost child and sex offenders living in a small town.
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CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Among the 100 plus volunteers searching for Sarah Lunde, a familiar face, Mark Lunsford, still reeling from the murder of his daughter, Jessica, allegedly at the hands of a sex offender.
MARK LUNDSFORD, JESSICA'S FATHER: People who I've never met before helped me. So you know, it was just another way for me to give back and show my appreciation.
CANDIOTTI: Like Lunsford's hometown of Homosassa Springs, population around 12,000, Ruskin, about 100 miles away also is home to about two-dozen registered sex offenders. Among Ruskin's 8,000 residents those 24 sex offenders are well scattered around Sarah Lunde's home, circled in blue.
When children are reporting missing, sex offenders are among the first possible suspects. Police so far have not linked her disappearance to any of them.
(on camera): When Sarah Lunde was reported missing, one of the 24 sex offenders police tracked down lives right there in that trailer. He was convicted of sexual battery on a child under the age of 12. Now, it's not known how many people in this community are aware of his background, but we did find one woman there who does know about him.
JAN MCCORMICK, NEIGHBOR: He doesn't really bother anybody, mostly works and stays around his place.
CANDIOTTI (voice-over): The man who lives here served three years of an eight-year sentence. For another seven years, he has to wear an ankle monitor as part of his probation. Yet, one neighbor's comfort is another's fear. We stopped by another address listed by the state for another offender in the area, and again, no one was home. This man was convicted of lewd and lascivious behavior on two children, and is out on probation without an ankle monitor.
This young mother of two, with one on the way found out about him from us.
LUISA ARIAS, NEIGHBOR: No, I did not know that. I didn't have a clue.
CANDIOTTI (on camera): What do you think about it?
ARIAS: Oh, God. Scares me.
CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Luisa Arias moved here only a month ago, and says she wouldn't have if she knew about her neighbor.
ARIAS: Oh, my God. Oh, I'll be more careful, you know? Or probably find somewhere else to live.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
CANDIOTTI: Sarah Lunde attended a church outing over the weekend and was last seen at home late Saturday night. Her family reported her missing on Monday when she did not show up for school. Meantime, a small army of volunteers and police say they're confident they will find her.
Back to you, Daryn.
KAGAN: Susan Candiotti joining us from Florida. Susan, thank you. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hillsboro Country Sheriff's Department. The number: 813-247-8200.
Another crime story, this one just in to CNN. Prosecutors planning to make an announcement this afternoon about a break in a Massachusetts murder case. Fashion writer Christa Worthington was stabbed to death more than three years ago in her Cape Cod home.
Published reports say that a trash hauler has been arrested and could appear in court later today. The case gained national attention in January, when authorities started collecting DNA evidence from men in the area.
Elsewhere on the police blotter, the 13-year-old Little Leaguer accused of killing a friend with a baseball bat goes to court in two hours. The unidentified teen will face a murder charge, but under California law cannot be tried as an adult.
Some witnesses say the boy grabbed the bat and started swinging when his pal, 15-year-old Jeremy Rourke, teased him for pitching his team's first loss of the season.
And now a flash of violence from a professional ball field, Fenway Park and a game between Boston and its archrival, the Yankees. Take a look. New York's Gary Sheffield fielding a ball and a fan apparently takes a swing at him. Well, Sheffield swung back before throwing the ball back in the infield. He then yelled at the fan but did not touch him. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GARY SHEFFIELD, OUTFIELDER, NEW YORK YANKEES: It's just a baseball game. You're trying to go out here and represent the game in the right way. And to get punched in the mouth, you don't expect that at a baseball game.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: The fan was ejected from the stadium but the fan was not arrested.
The process to pick a new pope begins Monday. The Conclave of Cardinals conducts its business behind closed doors. But that's not stopping public speculation. And that includes betters getting in on the action through European bookies and Internet gambling sites.
To Rome now and more on the official process with CNN's Jim Bittermann.
Jim, hello.
JIM BITTERMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Daryn. In fact the expectations and the atmosphere of expectation is definitely growing. And certainly got a boost this morning, when workmen put the finishing touches on the stove pipe that comes out of the Sistine Chapel and runs upwards to the roof, where thousands of pilgrims will be able to see the results of the voting each day. Black smoke for no pope, white smoke when a pope is elected, as the ballots are burned down in the Sistine Chapel.
Now, also adding to the air of expectation is the fact that the cardinals themselves have been meeting all this week. They have only one more meeting left, that's the meeting tomorrow morning. And basically, there have been a couple of things that emerge, a couple of common things that emerge.
One of the that things we understand from talking to cardinals is that they all now are pretty much in agreement that the next pope has got to have the same sort of charisma. Or at least be media-savvy in the same way that Pope John Paul II was, that that's almost a job description requirement these days for a pope.
The other thing is they seem to have pretty much agreed on is that the key thing for the church these days is evangelization. That is to say missionary work out in the real world. The question is, of course, how to approach that work. But there's the feeling that church attendance is dropping off, the number of ordained priests is dropping off in many areas of the world, Western Europe and the United States in particular. And because of that, that is a key issue that the next pope is going to have to address.
Now, after you get beyond that, the cardinals say they've talked about just about every other issue -- church issue under the sun, both issues of faith and issues of social justice. So there are a lot of individual opinions being expressed there. But basically, there's nobody -- according to this cardinal -- one of the cardinals that I talked to this morning, there's nobody that has emerged who is really a front-runner there. There are a couple of people who might be considered front-runners who will be going into the conclave with a lot of support.
But he also reminded me that in fact, many people have gone into elections in the past, including the election for John Paul II, have gone in as front-runners and have ended up coming out as cardinals -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Jim, what's the old saying, "You go in as a pope, come out as a cardinal?"
BITTERMAN: Absolutely. It certain happened in the voting for John Paul II. He went in and only got in the first round of the voting, only got five votes out of 111 cardinals voting back then. It took until the eighth round before he was finally elected pope. And the two, three front-runners, actually three front-runners in '78, actually were eliminated by about the third or fourth round.
KAGAN: Hmm. Lesson learned. Jim Bittermann, thank you.
And we're going to have more on the selection of a new pope in the next hour. Vatican analyst John Allen will join me.
The family of Monaco's Prince Rainier was joined by heads of state and royalty for the funeral today. Palace guards carried Rainier's coffin to the cathedral where he and movie star Grace Kelley were married. The prince will be buried next to his wife, who was killed in a 1982 car crash. Rainier died las week of lung, heart and kidney failure. His son, Prince Albert, succeeds him now as monarch.
Well, there's trouble on the line. A mother caught in the middle of her fighting daughter, called 911 for help. But what she got is a rude operator won the other line. Stay with us.
Plus, a deadly fire rips through a hotel in central Paris. We'll have a live report coming up.
And 125-pound woman musters the strength to save a 6-foot, 200- pound man from a burning car. How did she do it? That story is coming up.
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KAGAN: Let's look at other stories making news "Coast to Coast" on this Friday morning.
We start in Watauga, Texas with a distraught mother who called 911 after her teenage daughters got into a fight and the 12-year-old killed a hole in the door.
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CALLER: The 12 year old is completely out of control and I can't -- physically if she's as big as I am, I physically can't control her.
DISPATCHER: OK. Did you want us to come over to shoot her?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Yes, all right. The dispatcher said he was just joking. He later apologized. The woman isn't laughing and he thinks -- she thinks that the man deserves a reprimand.
A New Jersey woman discovered hidden strength when she managed to pull a 200-pound man out of a burning car shortly before firefighters arrived. Elisa Orsini said she and her cousin saw the driver lose control while avoiding a deer. Orsini weighs only 125 pounds but was able to drag the man through the window and away from the vehicle. Amazing!
And in Palm Beach, Florida, time, yes, I think to get out of the water? Hundreds of sharks are seen on Thursday circling just offshore, chasing schools of baitfish. Some were as close as 25 to 50 feet from shore. No beaches in the area were closed.
Talking about gas prices, is it costing you an arm and a leg? There are other options out there. Still to come, you're going to find out how one man is making a profit buying and selling hybrids.
And after tax day, well, then what? How about Gerri Willis? Hi.
GERRI WILLIS, CNN-FN PERSONAL FINANCE EDITOR: Hey, Daryn. Good to see you. Here's a club you don't want to be the member of, the 1 million Americans that get audited this year. Stay tuned. We'll have details.
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KAGAN: Is there something that's even worse for taxpayers than an April 15 deadline? Turns out the monster lurking in the shadows, the big, bad audit. We have a secret weapon for you to help you, CNN personal finance editor Gerri Willis. She is going to come and slug it out with the IRS.
WILLIS: Ah, I'm telling you, it can get ugly. And a lot of secrets here, Daryn, that I didn't realize until we did some investigative reporting on this. You may get a phone call rather than a letter from the IRS, saying that things aren't what they should be. Be sure not to share your secrets when that happens.
You may be tempted to say oh, no I thought I shouldn't have done the X, Y, Z and I did. Don't do that. Make sure you keep the details to a minimum. and also, watch out for those red flags that may send the IRS your way, complicated returns. If you own your own business, you're more likely to be audited. Also, if you take that home office deduction, that could get you in trouble, too.
KAGAN: Hmm. Mums the word if the IRS comes a-calling. Meanwhile get your case ready to go. WILLIS: Yes. You should get some professional help. That's for sure. You might want to hire something called an "enrolled agent." A lot of people don't know about these folks. They have lots of experience with the IRS. They've worked for the IRS. You could also get a CPA. Check out these websites, naea.org to find an enroll agent. You can go to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to their website, to find a CPA.
But this is something you don't want to mess around with, Daryn. Even if you did your own taxes, go get a pro.
KAGAN: Yes, you might need some other professional help as well preparing your case. I got one step ahead there, how do you prepare your case?
WILLIS: Well, you just gather the documents that are going to prove what you're saying on your tax form. And that could be anything from receipts to your credit card statements, whatever it is that you had in mind when you were filling out that form. Be sure to have that stuff.
Listen, worst case scenario if you own your own business, the tax people can come into your work, your office and start looking at your documents. So it gets pretty serious here. You want to make sure you prepare that case.
KAGAN: Lovely. So how do you know do you fight the IRS or do you just pay up and settle?
WILLIS: Well, I'm telling you if the error is yours, the oversight is yours, settle. These agents, these auditors are paid, rewarded for the number of cases they close, as well as the money they collect. But it's very important how many audits they get through. So finish it fast. You're likely to get a better deal.
Also, check out Publication 556 on the IRS website, irs.gov, if you want to fight. And let me just say, good luck. You could have a hard time. You know, Daryn, we try to get numbers on how many people fight the IRS and win. The IRS isn't sharing that.
KAGAN: Yes, they want to see our numbers but we can't see their numbers. This was interesting. You should pay with a credit card for so many things these days. But don't pay the IRS that way.
WILLIS: Yes, it's not a great idea. And here's why. Your credit card company will charge you a convenience fee. It's more convenient for them than for you because it's going to be about 2.49 percent of the settlement of the amount you owe on top of the bill you already have. Why? Well, in the normal world, when you're using your credit card at a mall or somewhere else, the retailer pays that fee.
But you know, the IRS is a little stingy. They are not going to pay that fee and you'll have to. So try to write a check for it, borrow the money but don't use a credit card.
KAGAN: Gerri, are you done with your taxes? WILLIS: Oh, yes.
KAGAN: Oh, yes. Good girl.
WILLIS: How about you -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Oh, yes. A little close this year but I'm done. You have a great weekend. Thank you.
WILLIS: Thank you.
KAGAN: Well, see you next week.
Still to come, one man has found a way of getting around the high prices. But how long will his plan work? That story coming up.
Plus, passengers who pack banned items. Don't say we didn't warn you. We have been warning you. The lighter collection, when we return.
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN CO-ANCHOR: And we'll get started. Here's what's happening right now in the news.
Firefighters say there may be more bodies in a Paris hotel after a deadly fire raged through upper floors overnight. Some people jumped. Some threw their children through windows as the flames engulfed rooms. At least 10 children are among the 20 people known to have died so far in the blaze. The cause was apparently accidental.
In Baghdad, two roadside bombings of military convoys today, one U.S. the other Iraqi. At least one person was killed and eight others wounded. One attack was on a task force Baghdad Patrol. U.S. soldiers quickly secured the area.
Amtrak has canceled its Acela high-speed northeast corridor service. Inspectors found cracks in the brake components on most coaches of the trains. Amtrak says no break failures or other safety problems had occurred. Most other Amtrak service is scheduled to operate normally. The high-speed trains will remain out of service until the brakes are fixed.
It is tax day. And if you haven't started on your forms, you might be too late. A taxpayer's group figures it takes nearly 27 hours to finish filing. Actually, that time includes keeping records, learning the law, preparing forms, copying and mailing. However, you do have until midnight to complete the tax.
Good morning on this Friday morning. I'm Daryn Kagan.
In Atlanta, the accused courthouse killer returns to the scene of last month's shooting spree. Security was extra tight this past hour at the Fulton County Courthouse, as suspect Brian Nichols returned to the building where the March 11 attacks occurred. Police say it was here that he attacked a deputy, seized her gun, and went on to kill four people.
Our Tony Harris is at the courthouse just a few blocks from us here at CNN Center.
Tony, good morning.
TONY HARRIS, CNN CO-ANCHOR: And good morning, Daryn. Just a bit of a scene center. As you mentioned, we are right in front of the Fulton County Courthouse here in downtown Atlanta, Georgia; the scene of so much heartbreak and tragedy just a little over a month ago, as you mentioned on March 11, a tragedy. We want to go right now to pictures. The first pictures of Brian Nichols in court today. And as you look at these pictures you'll see that he is in a business suit, open collar. And that is a bit of a surprise to us. We expected that he would be jump suited and shackle this is morning. This is not the case.
Contrast these pictures today to the pictures of his last court appearance on March 15, where this was at the Fulton County Jail in a little courtroom, very cramped that day. You remember, he came into that courtroom and he was jump suited, orange prison jump suited and shackled down, escorted by teams of Fulton County Sheriff's Deputies.
Come back today and what exactly is going on in the courtroom today? Well, Judge Hilton Fuller is hearing a defense motion to -- and here it is, to voir dire the grand jurors and record all of the proceedings. What is going on here is that the defense is trying to ascertain whether or not it can receive a fair trial for Brian Nichols with the jury pool in Fulton County. They're trying to determine if the jurors have been tainted by all of the coverage of the events of March 11.
Will the judge in this hearing today issue a ruling today? The answer is no. How do we know that? The judge essentially told us just a couple of days ago, saying that he is going to take his time with each and every motion in this trial. And if you look beyond that, that will give you a bit of a sense of how long it is going to take for this case against Nichols to actually come to trial.
First of all, there needs to be a new grand jury seated. We will likely not get an indictment of Nichols before next month at the earliest, and possibly as late as June. And at that point, there will be a flurry of motions that will go back and forth. The judge has indicated he will take his time with each and every one those of motions. And then at that point, some of those decisions will, no doubt, be appealed up a judicial ladder. From there, a trial date will be set, and then jury selection. And the then trial in chief will begin.
We asked a judge, Judge Fuller, can he give us any kind of a ballpark as to when the trial will start in this matter? He would not, Daryn, even play the game. So the hearing that's going on in one of the courtrooms behind me now is just the first step, the initial stages of what is going to be a very long process -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Tony Harris live in downtown Atlanta. Tony, thank you.
The conflict with the current grand jury; these grand jurors were sworn in by Judge Roland Barnes who was killed last month in the killing spree.
The courtroom killings of Judge Barnes and a court reporter raised safety questions of a new Gallup poll. Here's the question. Should judges carry guns? Forty-three percent of the people are saying yes, they thought courtrooms would be safer if judges were armed. But more, 50 percent thought they would be more dangerous. Gallup also posed a question about airline pilots. To that almost two-thirds of people say airplanes would be safer with armed pilots. One-third said airplanes would become more dangerous.
Another story for you. Here in Georgia, a 16-year-old girl fought back tears for a half hour as she testified how and why she and a friend stabbed to death her grandparents. Holly Harvey and Sandy Ketchum entered a plea deal that sentenced them to life in prison. Each could be free within 20 years.
As part of that deal, Harvey described through choking sobs the gruesome murders of her 74 and 73 year old grandparents.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JUDGE PASCHAL ENGLISH, FAYETTE SUPERIOR COURT: So you thought about hiding the knife. Is that right?
HOLLY HARVEY, TEEN KILLER: No. No, sir.
ENGLISH: You closed your eyes and you stabbed HER. Do you know where you stabbed them?
HARVEY: In the back.
ENGLISH: Do you know how many times you stabbed them?
HARVEY: Maybe three times.
ENGLISH: All in the back? Well, when you stabbed her in the back what happened the first time?
HARVEY: She made -- she screamed.
ENGLISH: And then she screamed?
HARVEY: Yes, sir.
ENGLISH: And then what happened?
HARVEY: My grandfather turned around. He had the phone in his hand. I had pulled the cord out of the wall. Then he grabbed the knife and I thought he was going to stab me. But I put the knife on my grandpa and I closed my eyes. And I just started stabbing my grandpa like that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Shortly after the hearings, Georgia authorities charged an Atlanta area man in the murder for allegedly giving the teen killers drugs that they used on the day of the killings. Calvin Lawson allegedly provided them crack cocaine and marijuana.
A $10,000 reward is now posted for the return of Sarah Lunde. She is the Tampa area teenager who disappeared last weekend. The Hillsborough County sheriff who is heading the investigation says there are no new leads, and describes the tips what he calls surprisingly low.
CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti has been following the story and joins us now with more.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn. A plea for help with a mother, a $10,000 reward, and now five days of searching, and so far, no sign of 13-year-old Sarah Lunde. However, police now releasing a new detail in their search. Authorities are looking for Bud or Bud Lite beer bottles in the area. Police confirm they might be linked to David Onstott, who used to have a relationship with Sarah Lunde's mother.
He is a convicted sex offender, who is now being held on an unrelated charge. Sarah's brother has said Onstott was at their home early Sunday and picked up a beer bottle.
Among the searchers here yesterday, some who are familiar with the agony of a lost child and sex offenders living in a small town.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Among the 100 plus volunteers searching for Sarah Lunde, a familiar face, Mark Lunsford, still reeling from the murder of his daughter, Jessica, allegedly at the hands of a sex offender.
MARK LUNDSFORD, JESSICA'S FATHER: People who I've never met before helped me. So you know, it was just another way for me to give back and show my appreciation.
CANDIOTTI: Like Lunsford's hometown of Homosassa Springs, population around 12,000, Ruskin, about 100 miles away also is home to about two-dozen registered sex offenders. Among Ruskin's 8,000 residents those 24 sex offenders are well scattered around Sarah Lunde's home, circled in blue.
When children are reporting missing, sex offenders are among the first possible suspects. Police so far have not linked her disappearance to any of them.
(on camera): When Sarah Lunde was reported missing, one of the 24 sex offenders police tracked down lives right there in that trailer. He was convicted of sexual battery on a child under the age of 12. Now, it's not known how many people in this community are aware of his background, but we did find one woman there who does know about him.
JAN MCCORMICK, NEIGHBOR: He doesn't really bother anybody, mostly works and stays around his place.
CANDIOTTI (voice-over): The man who lives here served three years of an eight-year sentence. For another seven years, he has to wear an ankle monitor as part of his probation. Yet, one neighbor's comfort is another's fear. We stopped by another address listed by the state for another offender in the area, and again, no one was home. This man was convicted of lewd and lascivious behavior on two children, and is out on probation without an ankle monitor.
This young mother of two, with one on the way found out about him from us.
LUISA ARIAS, NEIGHBOR: No, I did not know that. I didn't have a clue.
CANDIOTTI (on camera): What do you think about it?
ARIAS: Oh, God. Scares me.
CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Luisa Arias moved here only a month ago, and says she wouldn't have if she knew about her neighbor.
ARIAS: Oh, my God. Oh, I'll be more careful, you know? Or probably find somewhere else to live.
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CANDIOTTI: Sarah Lunde attended a church outing over the weekend and was last seen at home late Saturday night. Her family reported her missing on Monday when she did not show up for school. Meantime, a small army of volunteers and police say they're confident they will find her.
Back to you, Daryn.
KAGAN: Susan Candiotti joining us from Florida. Susan, thank you. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hillsboro Country Sheriff's Department. The number: 813-247-8200.
Another crime story, this one just in to CNN. Prosecutors planning to make an announcement this afternoon about a break in a Massachusetts murder case. Fashion writer Christa Worthington was stabbed to death more than three years ago in her Cape Cod home.
Published reports say that a trash hauler has been arrested and could appear in court later today. The case gained national attention in January, when authorities started collecting DNA evidence from men in the area.
Elsewhere on the police blotter, the 13-year-old Little Leaguer accused of killing a friend with a baseball bat goes to court in two hours. The unidentified teen will face a murder charge, but under California law cannot be tried as an adult.
Some witnesses say the boy grabbed the bat and started swinging when his pal, 15-year-old Jeremy Rourke, teased him for pitching his team's first loss of the season.
And now a flash of violence from a professional ball field, Fenway Park and a game between Boston and its archrival, the Yankees. Take a look. New York's Gary Sheffield fielding a ball and a fan apparently takes a swing at him. Well, Sheffield swung back before throwing the ball back in the infield. He then yelled at the fan but did not touch him. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GARY SHEFFIELD, OUTFIELDER, NEW YORK YANKEES: It's just a baseball game. You're trying to go out here and represent the game in the right way. And to get punched in the mouth, you don't expect that at a baseball game.
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KAGAN: The fan was ejected from the stadium but the fan was not arrested.
The process to pick a new pope begins Monday. The Conclave of Cardinals conducts its business behind closed doors. But that's not stopping public speculation. And that includes betters getting in on the action through European bookies and Internet gambling sites.
To Rome now and more on the official process with CNN's Jim Bittermann.
Jim, hello.
JIM BITTERMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Daryn. In fact the expectations and the atmosphere of expectation is definitely growing. And certainly got a boost this morning, when workmen put the finishing touches on the stove pipe that comes out of the Sistine Chapel and runs upwards to the roof, where thousands of pilgrims will be able to see the results of the voting each day. Black smoke for no pope, white smoke when a pope is elected, as the ballots are burned down in the Sistine Chapel.
Now, also adding to the air of expectation is the fact that the cardinals themselves have been meeting all this week. They have only one more meeting left, that's the meeting tomorrow morning. And basically, there have been a couple of things that emerge, a couple of common things that emerge.
One of the that things we understand from talking to cardinals is that they all now are pretty much in agreement that the next pope has got to have the same sort of charisma. Or at least be media-savvy in the same way that Pope John Paul II was, that that's almost a job description requirement these days for a pope.
The other thing is they seem to have pretty much agreed on is that the key thing for the church these days is evangelization. That is to say missionary work out in the real world. The question is, of course, how to approach that work. But there's the feeling that church attendance is dropping off, the number of ordained priests is dropping off in many areas of the world, Western Europe and the United States in particular. And because of that, that is a key issue that the next pope is going to have to address.
Now, after you get beyond that, the cardinals say they've talked about just about every other issue -- church issue under the sun, both issues of faith and issues of social justice. So there are a lot of individual opinions being expressed there. But basically, there's nobody -- according to this cardinal -- one of the cardinals that I talked to this morning, there's nobody that has emerged who is really a front-runner there. There are a couple of people who might be considered front-runners who will be going into the conclave with a lot of support.
But he also reminded me that in fact, many people have gone into elections in the past, including the election for John Paul II, have gone in as front-runners and have ended up coming out as cardinals -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Jim, what's the old saying, "You go in as a pope, come out as a cardinal?"
BITTERMAN: Absolutely. It certain happened in the voting for John Paul II. He went in and only got in the first round of the voting, only got five votes out of 111 cardinals voting back then. It took until the eighth round before he was finally elected pope. And the two, three front-runners, actually three front-runners in '78, actually were eliminated by about the third or fourth round.
KAGAN: Hmm. Lesson learned. Jim Bittermann, thank you.
And we're going to have more on the selection of a new pope in the next hour. Vatican analyst John Allen will join me.
The family of Monaco's Prince Rainier was joined by heads of state and royalty for the funeral today. Palace guards carried Rainier's coffin to the cathedral where he and movie star Grace Kelley were married. The prince will be buried next to his wife, who was killed in a 1982 car crash. Rainier died las week of lung, heart and kidney failure. His son, Prince Albert, succeeds him now as monarch.
Well, there's trouble on the line. A mother caught in the middle of her fighting daughter, called 911 for help. But what she got is a rude operator won the other line. Stay with us.
Plus, a deadly fire rips through a hotel in central Paris. We'll have a live report coming up.
And 125-pound woman musters the strength to save a 6-foot, 200- pound man from a burning car. How did she do it? That story is coming up.
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KAGAN: Let's look at other stories making news "Coast to Coast" on this Friday morning.
We start in Watauga, Texas with a distraught mother who called 911 after her teenage daughters got into a fight and the 12-year-old killed a hole in the door.
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CALLER: The 12 year old is completely out of control and I can't -- physically if she's as big as I am, I physically can't control her.
DISPATCHER: OK. Did you want us to come over to shoot her?
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KAGAN: Yes, all right. The dispatcher said he was just joking. He later apologized. The woman isn't laughing and he thinks -- she thinks that the man deserves a reprimand.
A New Jersey woman discovered hidden strength when she managed to pull a 200-pound man out of a burning car shortly before firefighters arrived. Elisa Orsini said she and her cousin saw the driver lose control while avoiding a deer. Orsini weighs only 125 pounds but was able to drag the man through the window and away from the vehicle. Amazing!
And in Palm Beach, Florida, time, yes, I think to get out of the water? Hundreds of sharks are seen on Thursday circling just offshore, chasing schools of baitfish. Some were as close as 25 to 50 feet from shore. No beaches in the area were closed.
Talking about gas prices, is it costing you an arm and a leg? There are other options out there. Still to come, you're going to find out how one man is making a profit buying and selling hybrids.
And after tax day, well, then what? How about Gerri Willis? Hi.
GERRI WILLIS, CNN-FN PERSONAL FINANCE EDITOR: Hey, Daryn. Good to see you. Here's a club you don't want to be the member of, the 1 million Americans that get audited this year. Stay tuned. We'll have details.
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KAGAN: Is there something that's even worse for taxpayers than an April 15 deadline? Turns out the monster lurking in the shadows, the big, bad audit. We have a secret weapon for you to help you, CNN personal finance editor Gerri Willis. She is going to come and slug it out with the IRS.
WILLIS: Ah, I'm telling you, it can get ugly. And a lot of secrets here, Daryn, that I didn't realize until we did some investigative reporting on this. You may get a phone call rather than a letter from the IRS, saying that things aren't what they should be. Be sure not to share your secrets when that happens.
You may be tempted to say oh, no I thought I shouldn't have done the X, Y, Z and I did. Don't do that. Make sure you keep the details to a minimum. and also, watch out for those red flags that may send the IRS your way, complicated returns. If you own your own business, you're more likely to be audited. Also, if you take that home office deduction, that could get you in trouble, too.
KAGAN: Hmm. Mums the word if the IRS comes a-calling. Meanwhile get your case ready to go. WILLIS: Yes. You should get some professional help. That's for sure. You might want to hire something called an "enrolled agent." A lot of people don't know about these folks. They have lots of experience with the IRS. They've worked for the IRS. You could also get a CPA. Check out these websites, naea.org to find an enroll agent. You can go to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to their website, to find a CPA.
But this is something you don't want to mess around with, Daryn. Even if you did your own taxes, go get a pro.
KAGAN: Yes, you might need some other professional help as well preparing your case. I got one step ahead there, how do you prepare your case?
WILLIS: Well, you just gather the documents that are going to prove what you're saying on your tax form. And that could be anything from receipts to your credit card statements, whatever it is that you had in mind when you were filling out that form. Be sure to have that stuff.
Listen, worst case scenario if you own your own business, the tax people can come into your work, your office and start looking at your documents. So it gets pretty serious here. You want to make sure you prepare that case.
KAGAN: Lovely. So how do you know do you fight the IRS or do you just pay up and settle?
WILLIS: Well, I'm telling you if the error is yours, the oversight is yours, settle. These agents, these auditors are paid, rewarded for the number of cases they close, as well as the money they collect. But it's very important how many audits they get through. So finish it fast. You're likely to get a better deal.
Also, check out Publication 556 on the IRS website, irs.gov, if you want to fight. And let me just say, good luck. You could have a hard time. You know, Daryn, we try to get numbers on how many people fight the IRS and win. The IRS isn't sharing that.
KAGAN: Yes, they want to see our numbers but we can't see their numbers. This was interesting. You should pay with a credit card for so many things these days. But don't pay the IRS that way.
WILLIS: Yes, it's not a great idea. And here's why. Your credit card company will charge you a convenience fee. It's more convenient for them than for you because it's going to be about 2.49 percent of the settlement of the amount you owe on top of the bill you already have. Why? Well, in the normal world, when you're using your credit card at a mall or somewhere else, the retailer pays that fee.
But you know, the IRS is a little stingy. They are not going to pay that fee and you'll have to. So try to write a check for it, borrow the money but don't use a credit card.
KAGAN: Gerri, are you done with your taxes? WILLIS: Oh, yes.
KAGAN: Oh, yes. Good girl.
WILLIS: How about you -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Oh, yes. A little close this year but I'm done. You have a great weekend. Thank you.
WILLIS: Thank you.
KAGAN: Well, see you next week.
Still to come, one man has found a way of getting around the high prices. But how long will his plan work? That story coming up.
Plus, passengers who pack banned items. Don't say we didn't warn you. We have been warning you. The lighter collection, when we return.
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