Debra Milke released — Transcript

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1. 0:00Out of the big valley news in the
2. 0:01national spotlight. Inside this gray
3. 0:04car, Debra Milke, the one-time death row
4. 0:07inmate, making an unprecedented move
5. 0:09back into the real world. Her supporters
6. 0:12helped her come up with the money for
7. 0:13bail.
8. 0:14even found her a house to live in.
9. 0:15ABC-15's Elizabeth Erwin tracking Milke
10. 0:17since her release. She's live tonight.
11. 0:20And Elizabeth, her conviction was
12. 0:21overturned, so she's of course presumed
13. 0:23innocent, at least until her retrial.
14. 0:25got to think that with the seriousness
15. 0:27of these charges, she's going to face
16. 0:28plenty of critics during this
17. 0:29transition.
18. 0:30Absolutely, Steve. Katie, the biggest
19. 0:31critic of all is the man who is the
20. 0:33father of the little boy she's accused
21. 0:35of killing. Tonight, I sat down with
22. 0:37Arizona Milke to talk about the son he
23. 0:39lost and the woman he says he's
24. 0:41convinced had something to do with his
25. 0:43murder.
26. 0:44That's one of my main jobs is to live
27. 0:47the unfinished life of my child, to
28. 0:49touch as many hearts as I can, and help
29. 0:52as many people as I can.
30. 0:53It's hard to imagine the pain Arizona
31. 0:55Milke feels every day knowing his son
32. 0:59was murdered 24 years ago, shot three
33. 1:02times in the back of the head in the
34. 1:04Arizona desert.
35. 1:05He's the best thing in my life.
36. 1:07You have 4 years in heaven with him
37. 1:10is worth
38. 1:12the balance of my 52 years in hell.
39. 1:14Hell is the only way Arizona can
40. 1:17describe the time since his son was
41. 1:18killed. He was in court all but one day
42. 1:21when his ex-wife, Christopher's mom, was
43. 1:24found guilty of murder and sentenced to
44. 1:27death.
45. 1:27She's a sociopath, plain and simple.
46. 1:30Do you think she's sorry?
47. 1:32She's sorry that she's spent this time
48. 1:34in the
49. 1:36in the hoosegow.
50. 1:37But Arizona will always be sorry. Sorry
51. 1:40he didn't get to see his little boy grow
52. 1:42up, to see the man he would have become.
53. 1:45He'd be 27 and next month he would be
54. 1:4728. The same age as I was when he died.
55. 1:51He was a rough boy like me. He was
56. 1:53adventurous, loved to dance, curious.
57. 1:56And as he waits for Debra Milke's
58. 1:58retrial, going through it all over
59. 2:00again, his biggest fear is the outcome.
60. 2:03Do you think Debra will walk?
61. 2:05Um if if Arizona has their way, yeah.
62. 2:08Arizona says he'll be in court every day
63. 2:11for the retrial, and he hopes he'll be
64. 2:12called to testify. I asked him if he
65. 2:14thought Debra Milke deserved the death
66. 2:16penalty, and he said yes. No word yet on
67. 2:19when that retrial will begin.
68. 2:21Yeah, difficult case so many years
69. 2:22later. Thank you, Elizabeth.