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[Music] this week's 48 hours investigates the murder of a texas man out on an early
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morning walk with his wife and dog this was october 2020 jamie faith gunned down
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just moments after leaving his home in dallas after the tragedy their neighbors rallied to raise money to help his wife
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jennifer faith 48 hours correspondent peter van sant shows us how authorities now say there
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was a money link between jennifer faith and her husband's alleged killer it was the morning of october 9 2020 and
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a security camera captured this haunting photo of jamie and jennifer faith heading out to walk their dog moments
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later they came under fire and neighborhood cameras captured the audio [Music] jennifer faith was unharmed but her
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husband jamie an american airlines manager died at the scene shot seven times three times to the head three times to
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the chest and once to the groin christy jack is a prominent defense attorney we asked to review the case and
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as soon as i saw it i thought that's a hit home security cameras captured images of
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the killer's getaway truck it had a white t sticker on the back window oh my god
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if you know what happened i need i need that for closure i need to make some sense out of this
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jennifer faith publicly asked for help and neighbors raised 60 thousand dollars in a gofundme account
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but authorities became suspicious when they discovered jennifer was having an emotional affair with daryn lopez her
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high school sweetheart and they actually conducted aerial surveillance of darren's house
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and lo and behold there's this truck with the tee on the back window the white tea the white tea
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when investigators searched lopez's house they found a gun with jamie's blood on it they also found evidence
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that jennifer was showering him with cash and gifts using some of the money from that gofundme account neighbor
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jenna wilson was heartbroken do you feel that you were taken advantage of it's hard not to feel that way
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but if you think this is a simple murder for hire story you'd be wrong there is no question that jennifer faith
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was the puppet master and daryn lopez was her puppet peter van sant joins us now wow peter
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so she's getting money through a gofundme and giving it to the alleged killer uh who is the puppet according to
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that expert there we heard at the end um how so what was the the dynamic between
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the two well the experts that we consulted during the course of our investigation say she is one of the most
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brilliant psychological manipulating people they've ever dealt with in their career she would create false identities
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uh false email accounts send out emails to this ex-boyfriend from from high school claiming she was being physically
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and sexually abused send out graphic photos turned out of injury turned out those photos were from a traffic
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accident she'd had years earlier and other images from the internet and over the course of months and emotionally
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appealing to him because he was a lonely guy he had some psychological problems she
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weaponized him to murder her husband clearly he had some psychological problems it's astounding to me that he
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would do that with no physical contact with her i mean this is that caught up with her it's a remarkable thing we were
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talking about this and you mentioned how it can be more powerful sometimes emotional affair these distance affairs
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well that was the case here was there any evidence that she had been abused by him by her husband there was no
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she never went to a hospital never told a friend no police reports and she later admitted that he never
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touched her he was a beloved member of this why did she do that why did she well people think it had to do with
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money because she could inherit as much as a million dollars from this guy but one of the one of the experts that we
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spoke to he thinks it was the game it was the game this psychological game she got such pleasure from it wow peter van
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sant you can see the full report and i clearly you're going to want to it's called the plot to kill jamie faith on
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48 hours tomorrow night 10 9 central right here on cbs and streaming on paramount plus