d.a. lieck could not believe what he was hearing -- she was hearing. >> that was new to me. we were looking it up, googling it, dinner that night going, how do you hug somebody to death? >> when it went to the jury, they thought an outright acquittal seemed unlikely. a hung jury was a distinct possibility. >> just one. that's all it needs. if one believes his story, we are cooked. >> sure enough, one of the jurors asked to see the confession tape again. does that make you nervous? >> it always makes me nervous. >> after re-watching the confession, the jury came back with a verdict. guilty. now came the penalty phase when the jury would decide if it was a premeditated killing are one of sudden passion? how stressful was is for you? >> it was real stressful. when you get a case like this where you have the perpetrator who can convince even some members of law enforcement that he might've been the victim, and all of this, then you worry about what will the jury thing? >> forgive the thought, but i do not get seen as a hard woman? >> i don't know. >> you could be judged. >> abso