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[Music] Sheriff's communication dispatcher 5538 well I've got a situation Last Night A
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friend of mine asked me to come over she said that she had possibly killed her stepdads I don't know if she really did
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this what exactly are you trying to report it sounds like she killed this guy it was the first day of a new year
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the sheriff's department received a call from a guy that said she confessed to drugging him suffocating him and
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strangling him to death Jade was very cool very popular I could not believe what they were saying
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that Jade did Tom marman is Jade's stepdad and 100% she loved Tom she took care of him they lived next door to each
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other she made him dinner she was always there for [Music] him detectives knew they had a phone
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call from her good friend that she confessed to murdering Tom marman so they got a search
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warrant we don't have to prove motive but we want to show a motive the photos the
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photos she accidentally bumped his computer and the screen saver came out the screen saver is a nude photograph of
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her in the shower she was able to find a lot more nude photos of her hundreds hundreds
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it was the most violating just awful gut-wrenching feeling ever I felt sick I I couldn't even touch my own
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skin she was beyond freaked out she's sleeping with a knife she is scared for her
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life did you love Tom Tom love you yeah I mean did you want your stepfather dead did you see stand over him with a
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plastic bag and pull tight to keep him from breathing to wrap a cord around his neck
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and did you strangle him no so you have this supposed confession of her saying she she strangled him but
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no evidence of strangulation your own strangulation expert said it's not strangulation that's right so your big
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bomb fizzled it was gone [Music] [Music] San Diego County California an idilic Place most of the
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time I stewed on this all night I apply slept and I'm scared to death I don't want to be a part of this I didn't have
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anything to do with her that frightened phone call came in New Year's Day 2021 the caller said his one-time girlfriend
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may have committed a murder the sheriff's department received a call from a guy that said my friend confessed
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to me last night that she murdered her stepfather San Diego County Deputy da Jorge Del Portillo he told deputy is hey
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I I don't know if what she's saying is true I didn't see him but this is something I had to tell the police the
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alleged victim was a 64-year-old man named Tom maramman he lived here I liked him I thought he was very nice Ramona
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Hamilton and her husband George were Tom's neighbors Ramona knew him better and she found out Tom also ran an
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unusual business more milked more milked more milked a butterfly farm I'm a gardener and I love uh
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butterflies Pat Flanigan also likes butterflies he was Tom maran's business partner out at the farm he was my best
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friend did he become kind of a butterfly expert oh he is a butterfly expert you say he
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is yeah you still talk about him in the present tense yeah I do it was right here on December
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31st 2020 that Tom maramman was last seen alive Ramona and George saw him in his stepdaughter's SUV in the driveway
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and he was sitting on this side the passenger side with his feet out and this walker out in front of him and he
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looked like hell Tom had just spent more than two weeks in the hospital and a rehab center after a bad fall he also
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had heart and liver problems he looked awful I don't even know if he knew me but at the time it just seemed like
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maybe he got sent home from the hospital heavily drugged heav that's all we knew
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that's all we knew hi sweetie and then George saw Tom's stepdaughter 37-year-old Jade jenss Tom maramman had
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come into Jade's life when she was 14 marrying her mom Jade and Tom were apparently close she lived right next
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door on this day Jade had just driven him home and he called her his daughter he called Jade his daughter right they
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seemed close and they seemed very close she was fixing dinner for him every night she seemed to take care of him
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what' you think of Jade I thought she was a very pretty woman Jade had done some work in Ramona's apartment she was
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an interior decorator that's Jade she can be a tomboy and a girly girl all in the same
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day she can get herself dirty for work carrying rocks and concrete in her pickup truck and we're dressed up ready
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to go to like a nice fancy dinner Heather Pierce grew up next door to Jade in San Diego County Jade was very cool I
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loved being around her Jade was 13 years older she's definitely a little more than a big sister and a little less than
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a mom her energy is just very strong Ling and caring and genuine and so when you're around her like you feel good she
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also knew Jade's stepdad Tom maramman I think she always just loved him and cared about him back at Tom place in
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salana Beach it was now January 1st the day after he'd gotten back from the hospital the day after George and Ramona
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had seen him looking so poorly in the driveway this time they only saw Jade in the driveway she was standing by a pile
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of trash and boxes I saw her out at the side here with the boxes and cartons a little while later there was a knock on
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the door and she come to the door to tell me that she'd made a mess down here but she cleaned it up later where was
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the pile what about right here see where that dirt is right there yeah like right
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in this area here right there it was a few hours later when law enforcement pulled into their driveway I'm scared to
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death I don't want to be a part of this they came to investigate that strange phone call the one that claimed Tom
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maramman had been murdered they were trying to find Tom where is Tom they walked by this pile of trash in the
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driveway they knocked on his door they went inside they didn't find Tom but they did see his stepdaughter when they
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saw J Jinx driving out of her driveway they pulled her over brought her in for questioning and ask that very question
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where is Tom Jade said she was cold so they gave her a blanket we're trying to find Tom do you know where Tom is no his
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family hasn't seen him for over 48 hours so he's he just got released from a hospital yesterday okay did you see him
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yesterday yeah I picked him up from in the hospital okay do you know where he went no well can you tell me other than
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he's just missing we don't know where he's at we're trying to find him eventually they let Jade go but there
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was still no sign of Tom officers spent all night combing through his apartment looking for Clues then just after the
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first morning light one of the officers was walking down the driveway toward Tom's apartment when she saw that pile
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of trash it was just about here I have a picture of it here there's a wheelbarrow
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there some boxes some bags she moved a trash bag from that trash and immediately saw the silhouette of a man
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and there he was Tom maramman Tom marman laid dead and buried [Music] [Music] never seen that I've never seen a case
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where a body was buried under a pile of trash in the driveway the apparent crime scene was
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smack in the middle of the driveway of this Lush compound just a mile from the beach he was wearing the hospital
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bracelet that he was just in the hospital the same t-shirt and the same pajamas that he was discharged as soon
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as they found that body they knew we have our suspect and they may the arrest on the morning of January 2nd
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2021 Jay Janks was arrested and charged with Tom maran's murder but things were about to get complicated she lawyered up
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and didn't want to answer any more questions so authorities continued to work the case starting with that phone
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call it sounds like she killed this guy that call had come from that friend of Jades a man named Adam zlac he told
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police she'd called him to her apartment and then she asked him for a favor and asked me to move the body with
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her I can't help you and I never saw the body Adam cipac may not have seen the body that night but
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eventually he did tell police that Jade confessed to him that she knocked out with an overdose of medicine and then
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strangled him it was a pretty dramatic story and authorities were confident that the autopsy would confirm it that
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there'd be physical evidence that Tom maramman was strangled to death but that's not what happened I was actually
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there for the autopsy assistant DA Teresa fam who led the investigation talked to the medical examiner so what
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they found was unfortunately not a lot of physical evidence right so you have this supposed confession of her saying
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she she strangled him but no evidence of strangulation that's right the final autopsy report created even more of a
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challenge for the prosecutors it said that the cause of Tom maran's death was acute zulem in toxication zadam is the
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generic name for the sleeping pill ambian is it possible that Tom marman died by accident he was in poor health
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it's not that many pills that he took certainly it's possible but the evidence belii that notion this was no accident
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but even if the autopsy didn't point to strangulation investigators say other evidence clearly pointed to murder
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Jade's cell phone was a gold mine it was a gold mine Jade's phone was full of texts how would you categorize those
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text messages suspicious incriminating a plan according to prosecutors that plan
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was to get rid of Tom maram one way or another investigators say it all started on December 23rd that's about a week
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before Tom's body was found Tom was in the hospital after that bad fall Jade says she was cleaning up his apartment
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when she found something so she's at Tom's apartment and his laptop I guess it must have been in sleep mode or
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something like that but she knocked into it and it woke up and on the screen saver is a nude photograph of her in the
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shower and there was more much more she must have had his password so once she was able to get into his laptop with
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when she was able to find a lot more nude photos of her hundreds hundreds these were photos that she took
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willingly with her partner at the time somewhere of her in the shower naked authorities don't know how
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maramman got those pictures but Jade says she never gave them to him and prosecutors say she panicked in her
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words she was beyond freaked out that's what she wrote to a friend that she couldn't shower alone that she was
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vomiting at just the idea of looking at a shower based on what she had discovered she's sleeping with a knife
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on the nightstand just in case he comes early home from the hospital according to prosecutors that's
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when Jade launches her plan how one of her friends connects her with a guy a guy the prosecutors called the
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fixer there's a text message where he tells Jade if you have a problem I can fix it for you and that's how we came up
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with the label the fixer the so-called fixer was a man named Alan roach who is Alan
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roach Alan roach is a guy he's a security guard that's what he does but I think he makes himself out to be someone
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else that he's not we were thinking Jade views him as the character in Pulp Fiction someone that you reach out to
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when you want one of your problems fixed and that's what he was he was the fixer
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he was the fixer is Ellen a Hitman he is not a Hitman what's important is what does Jade think Allen
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is prosecutors say Jade wanted her fixer to help her get rid of Tom she had a plan that she stuck to the plan was
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murder the plan was [Music] murder it was December 2022 2 years after Tom maran's body was found under
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that pile of garbage and Jay jenss was about to stand trial for his murder and let me just ask you flat out did Jade
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jenss murder her stepfather Tom marman Jade has maintained her inocence throughout this entire uh incident
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Jade's attorney Mark Carlos he insists this was not a murder and says Jade had no reason to kill her stepfather finding
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nude photos of yourself on a stepfather's computer would make you angry you know might make you break off
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relationships with him but enough to kill somebody I don't think so he says Tom's death was an unfortunate accident
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brought on by his poor health and self-administered prescription drugs I think he took the medication himself he
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had multiple substances in his system I think he made a cocktail of the drugs that he had with him and had a bad
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reaction to it and caused his his death at trial Jade was supported by family and friends including her biological
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father Steve jenss and her longtime friend Heather Pierce Tom was a mess an absolute mess for a long time there's no
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way that she had like a plan and first degree and all of that I was like there's no way because that's not Jade
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prosecutors Jorge Del Portillo and Teresa fam were worried the jury might feel that Jade herself was the victim
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she's a sympathetic defendant she is I mean she found naked photos of herself on her stepdad's
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computer called J Js Jade takes the stand to tell the jury what happened in her own words my name is Jade JS Jade
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says that ever since she met Tom when she was a teenager they maintained a strong bond it's hard to come by
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somebody you just feel that you can trust completely and I did feel that way I referred to him as my father and he
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could call me his daughter and then which is why Jade tells the jury it was so devastating to find those photos on
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December 23rd while Tom was in the hospital and she was cleaning his apartment I bumped the mouse on his
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desktop computer and it it shook the screen awake and I looked and there's a picture of female
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breast on the screen and I look I those those are my press I I just I couldn't believe it I I
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was in complete shock Jade describes finding even more on Tom's computer after that there was a rolling
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screen like it's SL show of pictures of me that I've taken over the years what type of pictures were they um they were
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naked photos do you did you ever give naked photos to uh to your stepfather no did you ever show him make get photos of
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yourself no how did he get these photos Jade doesn't know these were photos that
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Jade had taken of herself Jade and boy various boyfriends have you ever made any uh sexual toward your stepfather no
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no did you tell him that you had uh nude photos of yourself no and you never showed him anything similar to that
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corre no he was my dad Tom was still in the hospital but Jade says she didn't feel safe and you were afraid that he
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was going to come back and find out that you had found the photos yes yes and you were worried
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about how he might react toward you yes right and he lived next door to you yes and that's why Jade says she got in
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touch with Alan roach who worked in security the day she found those photos so why did you think that you needed
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somebody like alen roach I I was I was scared I mean when I first saw the photos
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I I couldn't even use the bathroom I just felt so disgusting I couldn't show her either um I was just I I was scared
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I was scared of being you know nude and vulnerable and um I just I wanted somebody to just look
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out for me and make sure that you know I was safe over the next few days Tom was
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moved from the hospital to a rehab center and Jade felt she had to act I can't continue just living next
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door to him and not feeling safe or just feeling like there I me I have to do something when you say I needed to do
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something I mean you did you need to kill him no I wanted Tom to just go away and leave me alone according to Jade
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Allan was planning to come over after she brought Tom home to help her confront him I wanted Ellen to basically
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you know explain to him this this is not okay or I can explain it but Ellen just
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be there just in case your plan was to Jade says that on December 31st in spite of her feelings she was doing everything
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she could to help Tom who she says seemed preoccupied with finding medic he started calling at about 6:45 in the
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morning and he's asking me to get him coding which I don't really understand he says that he hasn't nothing slept and
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he wants to rest Jade took Tom out of the rehab at a little after 11:00 a.m. he had a bag of medication with him
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including ambian and remember the autopsy says ambian is what killed him Jade says almost as soon as Tom got into
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her car he also helped himself to her prescription medicines he kept saying like did you have any pain colors like
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is this it oh here and then he just kind of took it Jade says Tom seemed fine when she stopped at this shopping plaza
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and texted Alan roach to come meet her she went into a couple of stores while she waited to hear back I was just
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getting started on um a house project so I just went to go figure get supplies and kind of shop around Jade bought
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gloves towels and a nylon cord and some spray paint she says these items were for a painting project
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typically I lay plastic down and kind of enclose it so that I'm not getting pains
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on all the the foliage Jade still hadn't heard back from Allan and took Tom home
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she says Tom was now too groggy to walk on his own and she couldn't get him out of her car I parked in the parking lot
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but she says she was worried about him and drove him back to the rehab for help I just explained you know my dad's just
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been released and something's wrong you need to bring him back um they wouldn't they wouldn't let me inside though
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they're pretty adamant with Co I couldn't go inside Jade returned home with Tom but says she was still not able
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to get him out of her car Allan had finally texted back to say he couldn't make it over after all but sent his
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friend a man named Brian Solomon to help her get Tom inside have you ever met Brian Solomon before no Jade says Brian
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wouldn't help her with Tom and left right away so Jade reached out to her friend Adam zlac and asked him to come
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over Adam arrived later that evening I had just said um I mean I I was just in tears I had said that you know I I want
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to get him into my house or into his house Jade says Adam quickly got upset and left without helping her and this is
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where Jade's story doesn't line up with Adam's remember Adam was the person who called police on New Year's Day
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she said that she had possibly killed her stepdad Jade says she didn't confess to anything she says Adam was distressed
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by how sick Tom looked and that's why he wouldn't help her after he left Jade says she didn't know what else to do and
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tried to get Tom situated in her car for the night so he could sleep off whatever
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he had taken I made sure he was comfortable yeah he had pillows and I'm trying to
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remember yeah I mean he had a blank in the next morning in The Cold Light of New Year's Day Jade says Tom was still
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still in her car when she realized the worst had happened did you touch Mr marman
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yes what did you feel I I tried to pull his leg and his pajama pant lifted and his leg was
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cold Jinx did you did you think Tom marman was dead at that point I knew he was how do you think Tom died chat now on
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Facebook and X after Jade told the jury how she found Tom's body her own attorney challenged
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her did you think about calling 911 um I was scared too why were you scared I don't want to get bled I mean I
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just I was some that picked him up and I didn't want to get blamed for for killing
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him and she tried to explain what she did with his body I continued to to fall out I still wanted to get him into his
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house I I mean I didn't I didn't know what else to do Bic so I put the blanket over room and I got um empty boxes and
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just kind of stacked it made it look like just like a pile of debris Jade may have left Tom's body in
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the driveway but she says she never meant him harm I mean did you want your stepfather
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dead shank did you grab him with your own two hands and did you strangle him would you would you ever done that to
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Tom I do and then the prosecutors told their version of the story We lied to the
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police about where Tom was I didn't I just asked for an attorney and I kept asking for one you didn't want the
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police to know that Tom died in your car I wasn't trying to hide it but I didn't
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want to go alone and tell them that prosecutors said Jade was lying to cover up her plan the plan was to drug
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him suffocate him and steg it to look like an overdose Del Portillo says after she picked Tom up from the rehab Jade
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used his own prescription sleeping pills to knock him out and he says he has proof Jade's DNA is on those packs of
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pills the package of zulam which is the ambient sleeping pills that had the defendant's DNA on it but not Tom's and
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I think it's a important that the jury heard that that it was Jay jinx's DNA on that Z impack and according to
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prosecutors there's much more evidence too Jade they say left a realtime trail of clues that day remember her cell
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phone the one they called a gold mine turns out it was packed with texts messages that they say outlined her plan
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to kill we're talking 11 12 minutes after being discharged she sends a text message to Allan the fixer saying I just
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dosed the hell out of him if someone says I dose the hell out of them you would agree with me that
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that means someone gave another person a whole lot of drugs right I guess it's a
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poor phrasing Del portio thinks Jade's explanation is nonsense he says first she drugged Tom and then she needed to
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stall for a bit and her texts even say that stopping at Dixie Land to stall so she was stalling for the drugs to really
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kick in and make him asleep and unaware of what she was about to do she's stalling to see if this guy Allan roach
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can come by and help her commit the murder and remember those supplies Jade said she'd picked up for a painting
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project according to the prosecutors they were actually Jade's murder kit she go goes to the store and buys this
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murder kit zip ties gloves rope and towels prosecutors say up to that point Jade's plan was on track but by a little
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after noon things started to go wrong you could see from the text messages that she was in a panic she
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writes he's waking up Jade's texting her so-called fixer Alan roach and she adds
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can you come over but the fixer is not responding this plot was a total mess and it fell apart right away finally the
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fixer texts her back he says he can't come but he's sending someone he knows that guy named Brian
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Solomon okay so the plan is Brian will bring Tom into the house Brian Solomon later told us that
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when he went over to help Jade that she told him something that he'll never forget I want you to bring him inside
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strangle him and I'll take care of the rest Brian Solomon quickly left the house without doing anything and soon
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Jade is back texting the missing fixer again at 300 p.m. you texted Allan he's waking up and I'm not sure how much
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longer I could control my temper that right yes us to Allan you texted Allan he's waking up and getting way more
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aggressive so it's way more real true true I think again I was just panicking and trying to urge Alan to come over you
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would agree with me that this looks very suspicious this text message oh yeah Jade texts Allan again I can't keep
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a kicking body in my truck now that we know Tom was found dead in his driveway under a pile
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of trash that you put together that this text message looks very suspicious you'd
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agree with me right I mean no yes it's now around 400 p.m. Allan has disappeared at 4:08 p.m. you texted Alan
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he's up I guess I'm on my own true true how do you think she killed Tom we believe that the evidence shows that she
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put a bag over his head when the bag's not working fast enough she has to strangle him and she has no other choice
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it's too late to back out now investigators even found a plastic bag in Jade's car it had her DNA on the
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outside and Tom's on the inside but there's a huge problem with the prosecution's case and that's the
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autopsy the autopsy never said Tom was strangled there weren't any marks on his neck so what happened how could Jade
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possibly have strangled him to death that presented a big difficulty for us strategically of going forward in trial
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right so you have this supposed confession of her saying she she strangled him but no evidence of
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strangulation right right turns out the prosecutors had an answer for that they say it's totally possible to strangle
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someone to death without leaving marks if the victim is already knocked out I think that is part of the plan is to
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dose him just enough to where he incapacitated so if you're unconscious your breathing is already depressed when
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someone is already unconscious it does not require that much pressure and would not leave bruising it would not leave
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breakage of the cartilage that's inside the throat we will not leave physical evidence it only takes 4 lbs of pressure
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to kill to cut off the blood supply to your head and when you and I shook hands earlier today that was about 11 lbs of
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pressure pressure so it's less than a handshake to kill after she murdered Tom prosecutors say she left his body in her
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car overnight and the next morning Jade had to do something about it in a story full of strange twists this may be the
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oddest prosecutors say Tom's body was still in Jade's car and she wanted to make his death look like an accident
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like he'd overdosed on his own medicine but she couldn't get his 180 lb body out
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of her car and into his apartment and no one would help her so they say she drove
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to a hospital with Tom dead in the back of her car picked up a wheelchair put it
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in her car and drove back to Tom's Place how'd you get the wheelchair in your car if Tom was still in there um
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it's it's big U the trunk was uh Tom was kind of you know his legs were a Kimbo when he was laying down and I kind of
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hoisted it up into the back window of the Forerunner can roll down when you were doing this at this point did you
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know Tom was dead I did but I didn't want to know it yet so you suspected Tom was dead and you're at scrips
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hospital and you don't tell anyone at the hospital that Tom might need some help and there was just one more thing
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on the day the cops came by looking for Tom they didn't know anything yet just that Tom might be missing Jade jumped
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into her car 4:30 when she was pulling out of her driveway when they were getting ready to do the welfare check
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she was pulling out of her driveway and she was getting detained after being pulled over the very last text message
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on her cell phone was to Alan roach saying lose my number what does that say to you get rid of the
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evidence what do you make of Jade's text messages see more evidence from the case
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at 48 hours hour.com that was the biggest hurdle in our case we feel was the jury might
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dislike Tom irman so much that they would vote to either acquit or reduce the murder to something else as Jade's
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trial is drawing to a close prosecutor Jorge Del Portillo wants to make sure the jury's attention is on what Jade
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jenss has done and not on Tom Tom was not on trial this wasn't his trial he didn't get a trial she was his judge
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jury and executioner and so it all comes back to J Mr Carlos she wish make in his
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closing argument to the jury Mark Carlos emphasizes what he says are the weaknesses of the prosecution's case
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what type of evidence do we have we have a lot of speculation it's speculation upon speculation upon speculation he
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argues Adam cac's story that Jade confessed is a lie mrl no credibility he wants to get out of something that he
00:35:32
thinks might have happened and he says Brian Soloman who also claimed Jade confessed to him that day can't be
00:35:39
telling the truth he claims that immediately and this was his testimony immediately upon entering she says he's
00:35:47
in the car go strangle him this is somebody that JS had never met before neither Adam zlac Brian Solomon nor Alan
00:35:55
roach was charged with any crime in this case and Mar Carlos urges the jury to stick to what he calls the truth and the
00:36:03
truth is they have zero zero evidence to support a murder her DNA was on the blister P but Jorge Del Portillo gets to
00:36:14
make the last argument the jury will hear it starts with I just dose the hell out of him the plan is starting and with
00:36:23
Allen it ends with lose my number I'm getting pulled over and buried in between all of those text messages is a
00:36:33
murder plot finder guilty of murder because the evidence proves it the law requires it
00:36:41
and Justice demands it the jury went out that afternoon and was back the next morning to continue their
00:36:49
deliberations jury comes in at 9:00 a.m. we get the call at 9:30 a.m. we have a verdict we were shocked we were a little
00:36:56
bit nervous the quickest verdict I've ever had was 15 minutes and it was a not guilty so I don't put a lot of stock in
00:37:03
quick verdicts Tom's business partner Pat Flanigan got a text about it I was very anxious my hands were sweating I
00:37:11
was nervous we have your own we the jury in the above entitled cause find the defendant Jade Sasha Jinx guilty of the
00:37:20
crime of murder in violation of Penal Code SE guilty of first deegree murder subsection a a felony as Char Jade
00:37:31
appears J number one yes number two yes number three yes number four yes number five yes number six yes number seven yes
00:37:42
number eight yes it was a huge relief Rel it was an absolute relief and when you heard that word
00:37:49
guilty um it it it felt right guilty of the crime Pat Flanigan says he saw Jade's
00:37:57
reaction to the verdict later online I still go back and watch that sometimes why cuz I feel bad for Tom he died
00:38:06
buried in trash now she gets to feel a little of that pain that we've all been feeling for years but there's still the
00:38:13
matter of those photos Jade said that she found nude photos of herself on Tom's computer do you believe that I I
00:38:23
can't disprove it I find it I I don't want to believe it it's interesting you say you don't want to
00:38:31
believe it yeah Tom's hard drive was not recovered after his body was found but prosecutors who spent two years
00:38:40
investigating this case believe Jade is telling the truth at least about this did you have any doubt that these photos
00:38:48
actually existed we talked about that but we had no doubt we found that photo on Tom's
00:38:54
laptop showing that it had been used used as a wallpaper showing that it had been on his laptop since August of 2019
00:39:03
so we had no doubt that these photos existed in March of 2023 3 months after she was convicted of Tom's murder Jade
00:39:12
was in court for her sentencing and listened as a local Pastor shared his memories of Tom and the Butterfly farm I
00:39:20
still remember Tom and wish I could drop by for a smile to ask a question about plants or
00:39:27
butter flies or just to recharge those batteries that keep seeming to to wear down as I get
00:39:32
older I believe my Life is Richer because I knew Tom Steven DRS Jade's biological father who had not spoken
00:39:43
publicly since she was charged put the focus back on Tom's betrayal firstly I can only imagine what she went through
00:39:51
when she found out that Tom her stepfather a person she trusted that she called Dad was a sick perverted
00:40:00
individual all I can say is this fight is not over I truly believe that an injustice has taken place Jay JS spoke
00:40:08
that day too t came into my life when I was just a little girl and exerted influence during that early stage of
00:40:15
development when I was still figuring things out unfortunately that influence manifested itself into appropriate touch
00:40:20
coercion Reckless Behavior and complete violation of what I now realize is years
00:40:25
of psychological manipulation all of this came crashing down on me when I found hundreds of naked photos of
00:40:31
myself and his computer felt chattered Jade did not tell this story during trial and we can't verify it Jade still
00:40:39
insists she didn't kill Tom and only admits to covering up his dead body I'm still picking up the pieces and it's my
00:40:46
sincere fa that over the next few years I can put the pieces back and heal from this trauma I'm sorry I didn't act the
00:40:52
way I was supposed to that day I think about it every day then she will be committed to the Department Corrections
00:40:58
the judge sentenced Jade to serve 25 years to life and as the prosecution looks back
00:41:05
on a difficult and emotional case they say it could have easily turned out very differently she could have gone away
00:41:13
with murder had she carried out her plan and the police did a welfare check and found Tom laying in his in his bed she
00:41:20
would have got away with murder [Music] CBS next Saturday 48 Hours brings you back-to-back episodes all summer long
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until you have to come here for a murder trial case 2011 CR 3314 people versus Daniel
00:42:48
dewal the last time I was in this room was to uh make a determination whether Daniel the wild was guilty of murder
00:42:56
from the very beginning it was clear that it was a confusing case it was old and that uh this was a murder case
00:43:05
involving identical twins Dan and David de wild the prosecution's theory was that the two brothers conspired together
00:43:12
to kill Daniel's wife Heather and kept it a secret from pretty much everybody it was a case that went cold
00:43:25
in 2003 [Music] my name is Robert weiner Chief Deputy district attorney Jefferson County
00:43:32
Colorado lead prosecutor on the de wild homicide July 24th of 2003 Heather de wild was going over to her strange
00:43:44
husband's house Heather had two young children Hannah and Jacob and she would do anything for her kids she was
00:43:50
supposed to sign a check she also went over to pick up a set of insurance cards for her children the check was never
00:43:57
endorsed the cards were never picked up she apparently arrived at the house and then after that she was never seen
00:44:05
or heard from again so um there's no evidence that she ever left the house you don't have any kind of murder
00:44:14
weapon correct you don't have any kind of fingerprints from any suspects correct you don't have any of Heather's
00:44:23
blood in the house where you believed she was murdered correct there was no proverbial Smoking Gun to
00:44:30
tie Daniel to Heather's murder during testimony we had learned that they were watching crime
00:44:38
shows such like CSI and other forensic shows to figure out how to get away with murder we got nothing nobody cleans a
00:44:47
car this good there is no evidence Daniel and David would watch those shows and formulate their plan and then they
00:44:54
certainly did not leave any forensic evidence [Music] 12 of Us coming here we're getting along
00:45:01
just fine then once we had to dig into the evidence things changed dramatically because the nature of the
00:45:11
case was so circumstantial and there wasn't any real hard physical evidence you spend your time trying to piece it
00:45:18
together and we went backwards we went forward and then we started putting it up on the walls surrounding ourselves
00:45:24
with it I had no idea how the deliberation were going it was really difficult people were emotional people
00:45:31
were getting on one another's nerves there's a lot of pacing there's a lot of just nervous anxiety there was some
00:45:39
crying there was some some yelling that went on you start thinking okay what are
00:45:43
they thinking about what are they hung up on why are they taking so long we took a poll you know six and
00:45:49
six and where do we go from there [Music] [Music] this is basically the route I took in
00:46:54
the evening to come over here to look for her Dave Springer is driving the same route he did on July 24th 2003 and
00:47:03
I was looking between the houses but on that day the retired Denver cop was in a frantic search for
00:47:11
his own daughter when you were just driving around what were you hoping you'd see maybe I would see my
00:47:17
daughter's car mov and see her somewhere 30-year-old Heather de wild thought she'd be safe going to her soon to be
00:47:24
ex-husband's house in Edgewater Colorado if she took along her two children Jacob
00:47:29
and Hannah she planned to just stop by to take care of the insurance cards in the check I told her not to go there and
00:47:38
I didn't think she would but she did and then she vanished as you're driving around you
00:47:44
have a sinking feeling yeah I really had a bad bad feeling about it Dave Springer
00:47:50
says he had been worried what his son-in-law Dan de wild might do as the final divorce approach approached he
00:47:57
wanted to keep things under control his control and uh that was slipping away from him and I think he was getting more
00:48:05
and more desperate and more and more uh hostile so when Heather didn't return after going to Dan's house her anxious
00:48:12
mother Carol Springer thought the worst and called him he told me that she went shopping I
00:48:19
says well that's not true that's what I told him I says no that's not true we knew immediately that was a liee why cuz
00:48:31
she before she left the house she didn't take any money with her or a credit card
00:48:36
and he said she went shopping right how much sense did that make to you well it didn't make any sense and Heather would
00:48:43
never leave her children behind even with their dad says her sister Rebecca Barger there's no way she would leave
00:48:52
without her kids no way I just instantly knew he did something to her you were sure it was Dan
00:49:01
mhm Heather's mother rushed over to Dan's house to pick up her grandchildren and what was going through
00:49:08
your mind at that point let me get the kids and be gone I wanted to get out of there the kids only 3 and 5 years old
00:49:16
couldn't say where their mother had gone local police stopped at Dan's house and
00:49:22
looked around but didn't find anything suspicious but Heather's father the veteran cop was
00:49:30
convinced something terrible had happened Dave was obviously extremely concerned the next morning Mark krider a
00:49:39
detective with a Denver PD was pulled in to assist the Edgewater police Heather was now officially a missing person it
00:49:48
was a little unusual because it was a Denver police officer's daughter who was missing and that does personalize a
00:49:54
little bit more krider learned that after a Rocky's six-year marriage Heather and Dan DW were just days from
00:50:01
finalizing their divorce I had learned that the divorce was getting a little nasty and that Dan was upset when
00:50:07
Heather was awarded temporary custody of Jacob and Hannah and he was ordered to pay child support he was very angry over
00:50:15
that because he thought he was going to lose his home he couldn't pay all his bills that's when twin brother David
00:50:22
came to the Rescue by moving in along with his girlfriend Rosanne to help Dan pay the bills born a minute and a half
00:50:32
apart Dan and David were in separable even working as Mechanics for the transit authority so the first stop for krider
00:50:42
was the de Wild's house Heather's husband Dan answered the door quickly into our conversation he had mentioned
00:50:49
that he had had an attorney which I thought was a little odd and his attorney told him that he shouldn't talk
00:50:55
to the police what lights in my mind is why do you have an attorney this is a missing person we're trying to help find
00:51:01
your wife and when David Dew pulled into the driveway Dan made sure his twin brother didn't talk to the police either
00:51:10
Dan walks over it as if to physically grab his brother and as he's walking over he's yelling for him not to talk he
00:51:17
doesn't have to talk to get inside I'm thinking now we don't have a missing person we have a murderer
00:51:30
but without the de Wild's cooperation krider couldn't search their house by the time police got a warrant Heather
00:51:38
had been missing for 6 days was there any sign of a a murder weapon in the house no there was not any
00:51:47
blood no there was not any sign that Heather had been in there or been killed in there no there was no sign of that at
00:51:55
all but investigators soon learned that David was taking his Suburban 15 miles away to be
00:52:04
repaired why he's a mechanic his brother's a mechanic did it Peak my interest absolutely investigators wanted
00:52:12
to check out the vehicle what were you looking for uh some form of decomposing human scent in
00:52:20
other words had there been a body in there deputy sheriff aln Nelson and his dogs searched the Suburban they HD on
00:52:30
the rear and I believe it would be the driver's side rear door area and that's the first s that maybe Heather's body
00:52:38
had been in there something had been in there right krider's Next Step was to confront David de wild we said hey
00:52:45
there's the decomposing body in your vehicle and he talked around things he talked around things and at one point we
00:52:51
put it to him directly and said did you kill Heather his head's kind of down he's a little emotional he says he needs
00:52:57
to talk to an attorney and he walked into his house kryder now believed that both brothers had killed Heather and
00:53:05
what convinced him even more was when one day later David suddenly married his longtime girlfriend Roseanne suddenly
00:53:13
you know Dave says to you let's get married doesn't that seem strange it um at the time it didn't really it didn't
00:53:22
because I've been hounding him and then Heather went missing and it wasn't a happy time so you know we didn't do that
00:53:28
and um so I I griped a lot and then all of a sudden you know it's like well let's go get married then so it didn't
00:53:36
it didn't seem strange at all to me it never occurred to you he might be thinking well she won't be able to talk
00:53:42
to the cop she won't be able to testify against me if I marry her no I I don't know the law we're looking at the rear
00:53:49
of a white fordor Nissan Sentra two weeks after Heather disappeared her car was found in
00:53:57
this apartment complex just 5 miles from the dewi home but no Heather inside the
00:54:05
rear back seat there are two baby car seats crime lab investigators searched the Nissan but found nothing helpful
00:54:14
each and every hour it's out in the environment in the elements we lose a little bit more
00:54:20
evidence when the car was found did that make things worse yeah worse yeah that was
00:54:28
a that was a major breakdown for me right there why you knew at that point for sure she
00:54:36
was [Music] gone one month later Curtis Johnson was moving dirt on this Canyon Road this is
00:54:46
ex identical to what I was doing that day when he uncovered Heather's body basically the body body would have been
00:54:57
on that side right there this is where the body would have been sitting Heather had been wrapped in
00:55:03
trash bags there was tape on her face her hands and neck were bound with rope her death was ruled a homicide but her
00:55:12
body was so decomposed the cause of death was undetermined and investigators still
00:55:19
didn't have enough evidence to arrest either of the brothers and let's be honest detective it really does does
00:55:26
look like they're going to get away with this oh [Music] [Music] absolutely the police were saying that
00:55:49
they were doing what they could and they were looking into it after a while you just think is
00:55:56
anything ever going to happen the Springer family couldn't understand why the police were dragging
00:56:03
their feet in arresting the primary suspect in Heather's death her husband Dan de wild here you are a member of the
00:56:11
Denver Police Department how much were you allowed to know about the investigation and absolutely nothing at
00:56:19
times I would think well they're really not doing anything they're just telling me they're doing something and they're
00:56:25
just letting it slide you do start to lose hope but you try to stay in there I did their prayers were answered in 2005
00:56:35
nearly two years after Heather's murder when Scott story became Jefferson County's new district attorney they just
00:56:43
poured their hearts out about how frustrated they were uh how they yearned for justice for Heather story promised
00:56:52
to reopen the investigation when you made that promise did you realize what you were getting yourself into did you
00:57:00
have any idea not entirely he assembled a task force and put investigator Russ Boatright in
00:57:07
charge what was it that drove you drove all of you to try to get this case solved it just at first blush I think
00:57:16
you knew what what the case was um and it just it seemed solvable it seemed like it was right there at your
00:57:23
fingertips but after combing through 1,500 pages of reports and retesting all the forensic
00:57:33
evidence I don't even know how many times we went back through things and double checked things and we had no DNA
00:57:38
we really had no physical evidence not that DNA would have helped remember Dan and Dave are identical twins they could
00:57:47
have the same DNA so if we would have found you know one of the dwi's hairs in that car you know that was not going to
00:57:54
be the Smoking Gun piece of evidence along with the brothers the prosecution team was also convinced that Rosanne who
00:58:02
was living in the house had to be involved we really believed that that she had to know what went on she
00:58:09
couldn't just be in that house she just couldn't be totally ignorant of what what happened there was that
00:58:15
suspiciously timed marriage to David it was the day after David is confronted on
00:58:22
the front porch and told that the kadab dog hit on on his suburban and what Russ
00:58:29
Boatright says Roseanne told others was the real reason they tied the knot she had made the statement um she had to
00:58:37
marry him so she couldn't testify against him and I really I don't know what else that means other than what it
00:58:41
sounds like it means I mean it sounds incriminating [Music] yes incriminating or not investigators
00:58:50
still didn't have enough evidence to arrest any of the de Wilds and as the years passed David Springer's
00:59:01
frustration grew how angry were you very angry I would be screaming angry at times after
00:59:10
pleadings from the family in 2009 6 years after Heather was murdered Russ Boatright was assigned to
00:59:20
the case fulltime and that really was the turning point the file would grow to 30,000 Pages
00:59:30
filling more than 15 boxes as Boatright and his team methodically built a circumstantial case piece by piece but
00:59:41
clearly the killer or Killers have been careful how would you describe how this car was found it was clean at the time
00:59:50
Heather's car was so clean there was no evidence that she had ever been in it we
00:59:56
didn't find any evidence of Heather's DNA being present inside or outside the vehicle uh nor did we find any
01:00:02
fingerprints or anything else to indicate that that Heather um used that vehicle what he did have was this this
01:00:10
DVD is a copy of a videotape um that we recovered from the residence a sex tape that Dan and Heather made years earlier
01:00:21
showing Dan's fascination with bondage and ropes what we end up seeing in this videotape um are images of Daniel tying
01:00:32
Heather up in a very similar manner to how she was found and this discovery what we have here is Daniel's dating
01:00:40
profile from an online dating service he described himself as a widow widower the
01:00:45
trouble is Heather's body had not been found yet what did that say well that said he probably knew he was a widower
01:00:54
at that point while the pieces of the puzzle clearly pointed at the de Wilds prosecutor
01:01:02
Robert Wier still couldn't answer some important questions we didn't know how she died and you know the autopsy report
01:01:10
didn't say how she died we you don't even know where she died no you don't know exactly who killed her we
01:01:19
didn't but when Wier took what evidence he had to a grand jury he got an indictment and so on December 14th 2011
01:01:30
more than 8 years after Heather's body was found on that canion road Dan David and Rosanne de wild were finally
01:01:38
arrested for her murder you still have a pretty weak case yeah I me you have enough to indict these three but now you
01:01:46
got to you got to prove these three right and that was kind of my my thought is now the work
01:01:54
begins Dan's attorney iys Tom Ward and Fran simonet were feeling very confident as they prepared for trial was there any
01:02:04
physical evidence that tied Dan to the death of his wife not a shred none until they were hit with a bombshell and how
01:02:15
did that change the case for the two of you it completely flipped it upside down
01:02:22
[Music] [Music] as prosecutors prepared for trial district attorney Scott story worried
01:02:40
about their purely circumstantial case in today's world f with like the CSI shows and those
01:02:49
kinds of shows jurors want more than just circumstantial evidence their best hope to to somehow get one of the de
01:02:57
Wilds to turn on the others investigators say it was just a matter of finding the weakest link did you
01:03:05
think Roseanne was going to turn against her husband and her brother-in-law I thought there was a possibility Roseanne
01:03:13
would and did she no instead in a stunning turn of events it was Roseanne's husband David who suddenly
01:03:22
broke down 9 years after Heather was killed David de wild admitted that he hit her body after his twin brother Dan
01:03:32
killed her I just fell the pieces Rosanne claims that until that moment she never guessed the two brothers were
01:03:40
involved in Heather's death it's hard to explain my feeling um denial no it's it's not true but it was true with David
01:03:51
finally ready to talk it fell to Russ Boatright to UNC cover all the details according to David Dan began
01:04:01
planning Heather's death in April of 2003 after he was ordered to pay child support and that's when I started to
01:04:08
realize that this was actually a wellth thought out plan but why would David go through with us and help his brother I
01:04:16
think David describes it as I'm trying to talk him out of it most of the time but he said when um Daniel told him look
01:04:23
I'm doing this with you or without you he said at that point he made a decision to help his brother he said he knew if
01:04:29
his brother did this on his own he would get caught I'm investigator Boatright today's date is August 4th 2012 presid
01:04:36
is David the wild he's going to U walk through what occurred um during the time that Heather was murdered a clean shaven
01:04:45
David de wild agreed to take investigators back to the scene of the crime the de Wild's
01:04:52
garage to show exactly where and how Heather was killed you could tell it impacted him you could tell he was upset
01:05:00
going back in there again it start at the beginning with where you talk a warning some of what David is about to
01:05:06
tell is disturbing to hear we're going to jump ahead to the point where uh you're waiting for Heather's arrival
01:05:13
okay okay according to the plan Heather and the kids arrived at noon on July 24th
01:05:20
2003 as Dan went to meet them David says he tried to stop his brother and I I stop him right when he's walking up and
01:05:29
I'm in his way and I say Dan don't do this but he was very calm as the children played in the house Heather
01:05:38
followed her husband Dan into the garage prosecutor Robert Wier believes Dan lured her there with a promise to return
01:05:46
the sex tape the couple had made he knew he had to use something to get her into that garage and that was
01:05:53
that tape cuz she wanted that tape back the door opens Taylor walks through and she says what did you want
01:06:03
to show me out here and my brother walks through closes the door grabs her by like both
01:06:13
shoulders throws her down hard and she it just hit her like like PR where she didn't know that was going
01:06:22
to happen and then she go to get up like this and she looks at me and I look at her at that moment David could have
01:06:33
stopped Heather's murder but he didn't she knew something was going to happen was just about to happen and kind of
01:06:41
looked to him to say you know help me here and he said I didn't do anything I didn't do a thing to help
01:06:48
her takes a mallet off the counter and this she's trying to get back up wax her she drops he tosses a hammer
01:07:03
down he takes his moose puts it around her neck Dan then hanged Heather from the rafters I guess
01:07:13
cches it up comes over and pulls on the Rope my jaw dropped are you kidding me at that
01:07:22
point he began to Stage her body by by tying her and making it look like it was a bonded sex act gone bad Daniel
01:07:31
proceeds to place her body in trash bags as Heather's children continue to play elsewhere in the house David abandoned
01:07:39
Heather's car at the apartment complex parking lot by the time David returned Dan had already placed his wife's body
01:07:48
in the back of the suburb look in there and I just just make sure she's not breathing or anything you know just I
01:07:54
put my hand on her this what I remember okay as David tells it the brothers were
01:08:05
Bound by their terrible secret and he revealed how he and Dan managed to erase all evidence of Heather's brutal murder
01:08:14
they were watching crime shows the CSI type shows any any crime shows that they could watch and
01:08:23
learn so they double gloved had two sets of gloves on cuz they didn't want to leave any trace evidence they didn't
01:08:29
want to leave blood I'd say it was a single strike to the Head explains the lack of spatter at the scene first Hits
01:08:34
free killer knew what he was doing and Heather's body might never have been found if David had made it to a
01:08:41
pre-planned burial site instead transmission problems with his Suburban forced him to Hider along that Canyon
01:08:50
Road where Curtis Johnson discovered her the prosecution believed they finally knew how Heather had been killed
01:08:59
but could they trust David I mean David's lied for 9 years um he's a liar he is a liar and he's certainly capable
01:09:06
of lying so before they gave him a deal David had to pass a polygraph how did he do he passed on the
01:09:17
issues as far as killing Heather but were there some areas that he he failed or that were in he had he
01:09:25
had issues on some other questions primarily the involvement of others on the issue of Roseanne yes but Roseanne
01:09:32
will not go on trial after all although prosecutors maintained she was not part of any deal after spending more than 8
01:09:40
months in jail all charges against her were dismissed for lack of evidence do you have any regret about putting her in
01:09:49
jail for eight months oh no I was uh very uh confident that uh after the fact that she had some knowledge and that
01:09:58
very likely she had some participation of one degree or another um we just couldn't prove Beyond reasonable doubt
01:10:05
it's hard to believe that a woman who was in the house when Heather was killed and was married to one of the killers
01:10:12
would know nothing see nothing but that's exactly what Roseanne says rosan did you have anything to do with
01:10:21
Heather's death and her disappearance did I did not I had nothing to do with it I didn't know
01:10:27
anything you think there's still some people who think you do I'm sure as they head to trial the
01:10:35
prosecution is counting on David to convict his twin brother I mean it's kind of like dancing with the devil in
01:10:43
this situation we I guess had agreed to make a deal with the devil's twin [Laughter]
01:11:02
n and a half years after Heather de was murdered her husband Dan finally goes on
01:11:08
trial at the Jefferson County Courthouse defense attorney Tom Ward there was a kind of tension in the air
01:11:16
that I've never felt in a courtroom before there are no cameras allowed but the courtroom is packed I was worried I
01:11:25
didn't know what I was gonna find out the state's most important witness David de wild is about to testify against his
01:11:34
identical twin brother without forensic evidence the whole case rides on David I
01:11:40
watched him come in and I was um holding my fingers and crossing my toes and prosecutor Robert
01:11:48
Wier you saw him look at his brother yeah and you're wondering oh my gosh will he lose his nerve that's exactly
01:11:56
what I was thinking and then I asked him who killed Heather and what did David say he pointed to his
01:12:04
brother David tells the court that it was his twin brother who killed his wife in the garage and that he just went
01:12:10
along with it but Dan's defense attorney claims his client is completely innocent
01:12:17
that Dan never knew where Heather went after she left his house on July 24th 2003 she didn't say exact where she was
01:12:25
going he expected her back in a couple of hours and she never came back and he didn't know what happened to her the
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story Dan told was always consistent it never changed in fact Dan's defense is that
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it's David who killed Heather just look at David's actions that day David by his
01:12:46
own admission uh is responsible for getting rid of the car he's responsible for getting rid of the body all of those
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things are very hard to believe that someone would do if they weren't the perpetrator but why would David kill his
01:13:02
brother's wife David de wild uh says that he always felt that Heather was attracted to him that there was a
01:13:10
possibility that after Dan and Heather's divorce was Final that he and Heather would be able to get together there's no
01:13:17
other evidence of any of this besides uh what David dewi says about it so I question whether he had some some sort
01:13:25
of an obsession with Heather and he killed her because she wouldn't respond to him it's possible
01:13:32
but prosecutor Wier says that's absurd I don't think there's any way David could
01:13:38
have done it by himself and looking at the Dynamics it became pretty clear that uh David was set up by Daniel Daniel is
01:13:46
the controlling one David wasn't going to lose his house Daniel was losing his house David had absolutely no motive
01:13:53
none whatsoever to to kill Heather what's more says Wier why would a man who got away with a murder for almost a
01:14:00
decade suddenly tell investigators a story where he implicates himself he throws himself under the bus more than
01:14:08
anybody else does he could have very easily fashion a story that made this look like an accident but defense
01:14:14
attorney Tom Ward claims David turned against his brother Dan because he got a great plea deal instead of life he got
01:14:23
just 12 years he was able to give a statement that completely pinned the entire murder on his brother Dan and at
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the same time completely exonerated his wife Roseanne whose case was dismissed what's more Ward says it's David who has
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a history of violence he was married once before and attacked his wife David at one point tried to choke his wife and
01:14:49
had his hands around her neck until she passed out and said next time I'll kill you [ __ ] the JY won't hear the most
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shocking claim David makes against his twin brother he says that Dan proposed teaming up to kill each other's
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Ex-Wives that in Dan's mind committing murder beats paying child support I was shocked when David told me that I
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thought you have got to be kidding me apparently Daniel according to David had had worked the whole thing out in his
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head the judge rules that information is just too prej judicial instead it's left to prosecutor
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Wier in his closing to remind the jury which twin he's convinced was pulling the strings Danel wild is a cool
01:15:37
calculated killer on Friday November 16th 2012 after a 2we trial the case goes to
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the jury one of the first things we did was take kind of a STP hole there were six people who voted the they weren't
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sure and six people who thought straight away he was guilty as time goes I'm getting more and
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more nervous are you worried that the jury is just going to not know who actually
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killed Heather yes that occurred to me in the courtroom it's going to be a problem and
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it was [Music] on the second day of deliberations the vote is now 10 guilty two not sure the
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two jurors came back and they were completely shut down they said we don't think that there's enough
01:16:47
evidence the hold outs wouldn't talk to us but the others say it all comes down to David de Wild's credibility
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did he downplay his own involvement in Heather's murder to get a plea deal and get his wife Roseanne out of prison they
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felt that David had too much to gain so David could have done it and I think the
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point that the other 10 of us had arrived at was it didn't matter at that point in time because they were both
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involved I think they must have felt like they needed to know exactly what happened and they had to have a piece of
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direct evidence of that happening yeah and the rest of us didn't it wasn't their job to the dots the prosecutors
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had to do it for them I was incredibly frustrated because I had committed to think for myself and I felt that they
01:17:34
didn't do their Duty the jurors are able to agree on two lesser charges they all believe that Dan
01:17:42
de planned to kill his wife and that he helped cover up the crime but they're hopelessly deadlocked on whether Dan is
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the twin who murdered Heather Darren how heated did again I walked out and I said
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if you guys are truly done then we need to go back and tell them that we're done
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how did you all feel when you went into the courtroom I was angry discouraged danda wild is
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convicted only of conspiracy an accessory to murder jurors failed to convict him of first-degree
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murder what was your reaction we're doing it again oh right away oh absolutely what were you feeling pretty
01:18:26
disappointed yeah he was convicted on two counts he's going to prison for a while mhm yeah but he'll get out and
01:18:34
that's a problem you want him to go away for life right we've been fighting this long
01:18:41
we'll keep fighting the plan is to retry Dan DWI on first-degree murder but just
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one month later fearful of ending up in prison with no chance of parole Dan takes a
01:18:56
deal and pleads guilty to second degree [Music] murder on February 28th 2013 Dana wild is back in judge
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Christopher Munch's courtroom let's call Kea versus Daniel DW this time cameras are allowed today we're here for
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sentencing Dan de wild comes as close as he ever has to admitting he killed his wife I pled guilty to knowingly causing
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the death of another person he also agrees not to appeal you're giving up the right to appeal you understand judge
01:19:37
Munch has nothing kind to say about the father who destroyed so many lives including the children he claims to love
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he killed their mother he did it rudely and then he lied about it for years i' just like to say that Daniel he
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destroyed the life of his children he destroyed the life of his own family members all for an unnecessary greed and
01:20:05
ego that accomplished nothing come on you guys not in the courtroom are the children Jacob and Hannah are now
01:20:17
teenagers living with their grandparents who are raising them the way they think
01:20:22
their daughter would de you sometimes think about how much she missed out on with her kids of course of course yeah
01:20:29
all the time I always think you know how proud she'd be after almost a decade Heather's
01:20:38
family wonders if they'll finally hear from the man who caused so much heartache you have the right to say
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anything you want me to consider now if you don't want to say anything you don't
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have to Dan de wild has a chance to apologize much like his twin brother did in the same same courtroom weeks earlier
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you know David did apologize to the Springers I feel horrible about the pain I I can say is I'm sorry I'm just sorry
01:21:04
for all the pain of cost Daniel never did never did is it true that you do not want to exercise that right that's true
01:21:13
it would have taken nothing for Daniel at sentencing just to turn to the Springer family and just say I'm sorry
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it's just not in Daniel's character to do that do you think Daniel feels any remorse no
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in fact David de wild told investigator Russ Boatright he believes Dan enjoyed inflicting pain on Heather's family he
01:21:34
thought Daniel went to bed every night knowing that Dave Springer thought he killed his daughter and couldn't prove
01:21:40
it and he said Daniel I know got satisfaction from that the defendant then is remanded to be delivered to the
01:21:47
Department of Corrections to serve his sentence judge Munch sentences Dana wild to 74 4 years in prison I'm glad he got
01:21:57
the length of sentence he did and he deserved more but that's it it is taken Scott story eight years
01:22:05
his entire two terms as district attorney to get Justice for Heather was it worth it yes absolutely worth it many
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times politicians can't can't fulfill their promises this is one promise that was
01:22:19
kept but the question remains just how close did Dan Dew come to getting away with
01:22:32
murder if David had not testified if he had not turned on his brother could you have convicted Dan based on the evidence
01:22:39
we saw without that I don't know that I could have I don't think any jury would have probably found him guilty those two
01:22:47
men would have gotten away with murder probably probably yeah [Music] CBS next we talk about our physical
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health she was just little Spitfire there are 17 impact wounds it's passionate it's premeditated it's
01:23:20
cold must be some mad man out there 48 Hours Crime Time double future continues next on
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[Music] CBS stand bye POS up what is cowboy action shooting cowboy action shooting is a shooting discipline
01:23:54
based on the guns of the old west the days of Wyatt her and Doc Holiday we dress for the most part in Period
01:24:02
accurate clothing Spurs and chaps it's full competition shooting steel targets with
01:24:09
lead bullets sounds like a blast it is literally a blast every time these are some very competitive
01:24:20
shooters [Music] some top shooters in the world now everyone has an alias right correct a cowboy name my name is George
01:24:35
man and my alias in cowboy action shooting is Angus McNasty my Alias is high cotton Kitty Pony James sassy
01:24:44
Hammer Ray was known as docar Grand and how about Danny what was her name Danny Oakland she was Danny Oak like Annie
01:24:51
Oakley yeah like Annie Oakley I taught them how to do cowboy action shooting Danny was more
01:24:59
proficient more driven and focused Ray he was there just for the fun Ray was funny you looked at him and
01:25:13
you see Cowboy put on your horse's range right yeah she was just the All-American type
01:25:22
cowgirl and she had the long pigtails they seemed like to me the perfect couple but you know you never
01:25:29
know what's going on in a relationship there was problems in the marriage especially Financial issues
01:25:37
they had money and then they lost everything Sheriff's Department had received a call to investigate a
01:25:49
complaint and it was in regard to the residents of Ray green and Danielle Green Danny said that her dog killed
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[Music] Ray we drove back through the Barns and as I got closer to the trailer I observed multiple police cars
01:26:12
different agencies and there were probably 15 guys that were out moving about the property and what were they
01:26:19
doing they were looking for Ray Green she was sitting in a lawn chair she said she had given consent to search
01:26:29
for Ray and that she did not know where he was she said you can search anywhere you want except for that box
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[Music] [Music] on May 28th 2014 police were called to this remote piece of property in
01:27:34
Dillsboro Indiana the home of Dany and Ray green I need to get some information on
01:27:42
my son the sheriff's department had received a call from ry's 84-year-old mother Betty my daughter-in-law called
01:27:50
this morning and said he was killed Yesterday by German Shepherd dog the dog jumped up and graad the
01:27:58
stroke Danny had called other family and friends too saying it was Jazzy the couple's own pet who had attacked Ray
01:28:08
police drove out to check but when they arrived neither Ry nor Jazzy could be seen and they say Dany seemed to be just
01:28:15
going about her day she's interested in feeding her horses and just engaged in conversation like nothing else is going
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on prosecutor Aaron Neen guard says Dany then gave an entirely different story saying Ry who sometimes worked as a
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truck driver was out on the road the problem with that there was a big truck in the property the officers were
01:28:39
suspicious that something was up so the officers pinged his phone and his phone came back to that piece of
01:28:47
property and there was this that padlocked toolbox sitting on the property Danny refused to let anyone open it so
01:28:57
authorities set off to get a search warrant my grandmother had called me at work and told me that Danielle had said
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that the dog killed him Tracy Abbott is raised daughter with his first wife Maggie animals like him how can a dog
01:29:16
kill him Tracy remembers her father's special way with all kinds of animals growing up
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on their 200 acre San Antonio Ranch my dad was a real cowboy Ray began his career riding bulls and beback Broncos
01:29:36
he served two tours in Vietnam but it was the simple Country Life where he felt most at
01:29:43
home he always wore his cowboy hat and Boots never went anywhere without them Ray was a renowned horse breeder and
01:29:52
trainer had he developed a successful business yes he did we had like 70 something
01:29:59
horses friends like Dave War remember Ray as a real straight shooter when you shook his hand you knew you were shaking
01:30:08
a man's hand he was very powerful and very strong Bob Stevens another friend of Ray's remembers a time when Ray
01:30:16
captured a 12-ft alligator with his own two hands we contacted Animal Control they set up traps and this Gator was so
01:30:24
big it would break the traps Ray trapped it himself and put it in the barn Tracy says her parents Ry and
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Maggie had a loving relationship they were best friends they known each other my mom was six and he was
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11 we were a close-knit family but that all ended in May of 2002 when Maggie was killed in a bridge
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collapse in Oklahoma she was on her way home from a barrel race with her horses a barge slammed into a bridge along
01:30:58
Interstate 40 punching nearly a dozen Vehicles 75 ft into the water among the dead horse trainer Maggie
01:31:06
Green Ray who had called Maggie his Rose was left devastated he kept saying I miss my rose
01:31:15
I miss my rose his light went out a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the victim VI as a result the Green family
01:31:26
received a large sum of money there was a pretty big settlement that he had gotten a little over a million dollars
01:31:34
when did Danielle come into your father's life abruptly she came in the picture maybe two months after my mother
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died Danielle who went by Danny was a longtime client of Ray a skilled horsewoman herself Danny hired Ray back
01:31:52
in 1996 to train her horses soon after Maggie's death Tracy says a newly divorced Dany started hanging around the
01:32:01
ranch every day Ry didn't chase her she came into Ray's life and you know said the things that Ry wanted to hear so uh
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that blossomed into a relationship Danny 22 years younger than Ry seemed to provide the companionship
01:32:20
he needed after losing his wife and helped him move gone they took a vacation and came back
01:32:30
married I was happy that he was [Music] happy but Tracy was not happy with Dany she would come out wearing my
01:32:42
mother's cowboy hats and her nice cowboy boots and some of my mom's jewelry after Dany solidified her place
01:32:51
in Ray's life she set her sight on her equestrian dreams her goal in life was to get into
01:32:58
the Olympics iners so she did some research and Ground Zero for D in the Olympics was
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Palm Beach County the Newly Weds decided to move to Florida using the million dooll
01:33:13
settlement from Maggie's death this was the property owned by Ry and Danielle Green they owned this 5 acre lot and the
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5 acre lot to the uh um east of us the house was near the Stables where Dany could train the US trials for the
01:33:30
Olympics were held in dear run and she wanted to be a part of that and was she talented she was very
01:33:37
talented Ray built her a workout room in the house that uh she'd get up at 5:00 and she'd spend all day just uh doing
01:33:44
horse trainings she would be on the horses from sun up to sun down and when she wasn't in the saddle they discovered
01:33:52
that fun and un usual hobby after Danny and Ray got married and moved here to Florida they got
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interested in cowboy action shooting part Target competition part costume fun they would travel to events like this
01:34:09
one howdy yall having a good morning all right start off with the pledge Don Owen runs the event I pledge
01:34:18
allegiance to the flag we have competitors from every walks of life we have attor attorneys we have surgeons we
01:34:25
have electricians the people are what makes [Music] [Applause] it Danny Oakley and doar green were both
01:34:39
beloved here they were a huge part of the family an amazing Cowboy great part of our family these
01:34:47
big matches are like a reunion it's fun to see everybody again and catch up friends Karen and Jerry olir say Dany
01:34:55
was a natural on your horse R right yeah and she quickly became the top shooter at the
01:35:02
club she really could handle a gun oh yeah and at the time I was the the top shooter of the club and she just soared
01:35:09
right by me she wanted to win life in Florida seemed like a winning proposition for both Danny and
01:35:18
Ray but that was about to change [Music] [Music] this is like a little piece of heaven
01:35:40
it's quiet surrounded by Woods Bob Stevens says Danny and Ray's neighborhood near West Palm Beach had
01:35:48
become a perfect Refuge when they arrived in 2004 all these houses were designed so you couldn't see a
01:35:55
neighbor's house it has 22 miles of uh horse trails that don't intersect with any
01:36:01
[Music] roads after the Dow dropped 18% last week and the S&P 500 EX but the dream
01:36:10
died in 2008 when the economy collapsed it was just devastating for Ray the horsing Market fell apart gr fell apart
01:36:19
they were using the second mortgage to pay the first mortgage and it was just a disaster for a while Danny and Ray
01:36:27
struggled to keep up their lifestyle still attending their cowboy action shooting matches but now trying to make
01:36:34
a bit of money on the side off the livestock they kept at the ranch the chickens would lay eggs and she would
01:36:41
bring eggs for everybody the people would buy the eggs Danny and Ray caught a break when they were hired by their
01:36:47
own neighborhood to become landscapers had the contract to take care of the rideways mow the grass take care of the
01:36:55
ditches did you get any sense that Danny felt like that was a real step down in their lives that he's now cutting grass
01:37:02
I don't think so I don't think she was like that she was not materialistic she was not status driven Ray's daughter
01:37:10
Tracy disagrees I believe the only reason why she wanted to marry my father was for his
01:37:17
money Tracy didn't know her father had lost all his money after he moved to Florida Tracy mysteriously couldn't
01:37:25
reach him he would ask me how come you never call me I miss you turns out Ray and Dany shared a single cell phone and
01:37:34
Dany blocked Tracy's number I got this message saying this phone is no longer taking calls from this number she had
01:37:44
blocked my emails and letters I sent him a certified Christmas card with pictures
01:37:51
of his grandbabies when I came back denied why would she do that that seems cruel very cruel um it really broke my
01:38:01
heart not to have my father in my life anymore but that was her way of keeping all the money to
01:38:11
herself the money now all gone the million dooll settlement Ry received after Tracy's mother was killed in that
01:38:19
bridge collapse to lose my mother the way I did and then now being separated from my
01:38:28
father it was very heartbreaking heartbreak spilled over to Danny's side of the family as well while
01:38:36
she'd achieved some success on the local Horse Show scene her Olympic Dreams remained elusive then in 2012 Dany
01:38:46
received devastating news from her Indiana Family Home both of her parents were terminally ill they both had cancer
01:38:53
at the same time yes I think she felt that that was her place to go up and take care of them and besides there was
01:39:02
no place for them down here anymore so Danny and Ray sold their Florida property at a big loss with the
01:39:09
Landscaping contract their only source of income Ray stayed behind mowing grass and living with a friend Dave War
01:39:17
remembers the day Dany headed north Ray had asked a couple of his friends to come over and help them load some of the
01:39:25
big items out of their house into a moving van he had misplaced the box that had his personal items in it Dave says
01:39:33
Ry asked Danny if she'd seen the box and she went off on him berating him belittling him in front of everybody I
01:39:41
made the comment to my friend this comment haunts me to this day it wouldn't surprise me if she doesn't kill
01:39:47
him one day Dave says raised paychecks got sent directly to Danny back home in Indiana I
01:39:57
seen him literally live off of Cold Cereal uh he would make a a meal out of bread and water if he had to cuz he had
01:40:06
no money to live there was one bright spot during this troubled time Tracy was able to
01:40:13
reestablish a relationship with her father who at last got his own cell phone we finally got to talk almost
01:40:21
every day we were able to finally have a relationship again Bob Stevens gave Ry a
01:40:27
special gift an airplane ticket and the chance to reconnect with his family in Texas I gave him the trip on his
01:40:34
birthday and he flew out there and he had a great time with his daughter and granddaughters I felt like I could not
01:40:39
let him go I just would hug him forever and happy tears happy tears I was so glad to see
01:40:49
him in 2013 both of Danny's parents passed away and Ray's Landscaping contract expired Danny was poised to
01:40:59
come into an inheritance the parents owned 300 acres up in the in a mountain there was three
01:41:07
children they were each going to get 100 acres it had a farmhouse on it that needed to be
01:41:12
renovated so Ray moved to Indiana and joined Danny living in a trailer on the large property she was in control
01:41:20
anytime she's around my father so moving back to be with her I felt I was never going to hear from him again Dany
01:41:30
planned on running the property as a horse farm Ray found work as well Ry decided to get his trucker license so
01:41:37
they would have a form of steady income by the end of 2013 Ray and Dany were together again but they were about to
01:41:45
break apart at least on paper he qualified for Social Security with his first wife who died in the bridge
01:41:51
accident Ray would be able to collect Social Security as Maggie's widower but he'd have to divorce Dany to do it so
01:41:59
they got divorced for more income not that he didn't want to be with his wife anymore but to get Social Security money
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yes in the spring of 2014 Ray and Dany had started a new chapter together in Indiana but it all ended with that
01:42:15
shocking message to family and friends Dany said that her dog killed Ray [Music]
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[Music] in May 2014 Ray Green's mother Betty made that call to an Indiana Sheriff's
01:42:47
Department near Dillsboro saying she'd heard the strangest story from Danny said the dog killed my son yesterday a
01:42:57
German Shepherd dog why would she call me with such a story if it didn't happen when police arrived neither Ry
01:43:08
nor Jazzy could be found that set off some red flags State detectives were called in
01:43:17
after local police concluded there was something not quite right with this remote Indiana property
01:43:23
what started out as a missing person wellness check would soon become something far
01:43:30
worse as an allout search got underway detectives say Dany cooperated fully except for that one thing she said you
01:43:41
can search anywhere you want except for that box that box being this box one of those
01:43:50
big tool boxes that you put in the back of a truck large made of metal sitting several
01:43:56
yards away from the entrance to Ry and Danny's trailer she said it was Ray's Box and she couldn't give consent for
01:44:03
anyone to look in it it had a padlock on it but it wasn't completely closed on one end and there were flies and then
01:44:11
there was an odor of [Music] Decay within hours Baxter and Trester obtained a search warrant for the Box
01:44:23
when it was opened Ray green was found dead inside it detectives returned to Dany telling her they were done with
01:44:32
their search and when you told her we found him how do she react she really had no reaction she was like
01:44:40
okay that's when detectives say dany's story of what happened to Ray changed yet again now saying she'd been forced
01:44:48
to shoot Ray dead two days before in self-defense she began to explain that there were instances of abuse that this
01:44:57
had began in Florida wound up here she kind of quickly glossed over the actual shooting of Ry and went right to why she
01:45:07
had to do it the detectives recorded an interview with Dany on the property she told them Ry had been physically abusive
01:45:16
for years and tried to force sex on her several times in the days leading up to the shooting he walked around naked
01:45:23
slept naked walk around naked all the time he's pulling me to him he's like let's go lay down he's trying to force
01:45:28
himself on me I don't want this but I don't know what to do she claimed Ry retaliated each time she refused him
01:45:36
he'd come up behind me and put his arm around my neck and he was squeezing me incredibly hard I couldn't breathe Danny
01:45:43
told the detective she slept on the living room couch alone that led to another confrontation he came in and he
01:45:51
laid right on top of me he had his forearm pressed against my neck pushing on me and I was like what
01:45:57
are you doing I'm kind of gasping for air and he's like I just wanted to hug you you don't hug people with your arm
01:46:05
in their throat like that Danny said it all led up to a fatal Clash early on Monday May 26 Memorial
01:46:14
Day 3 days later she went on tape with investigators offering a unique demonstration in a calm matter of fact
01:46:23
way I'm just going to uh uh play the role of Ray so you've offered to place your body in various positions as as she
01:46:33
takes us through what happened yes I had come in the bathroom it was Danny says it was around 6 a.m. she just used the
01:46:40
bathroom off the master bedroom and was headed back to the couch so I'm tiptoeing and I'm being really quiet and
01:46:47
Ray gets up from the bed and he says I'm going to kill you you need to die Danny
01:46:54
says Ray kept a loaded 38 on the nightstand she says he started to reach for the
01:47:01
gun I grabbed the gun and I took his shoulder like this and I grabbed him like this and tried to get him off
01:47:08
balance and threw him on the bed like this he fell more on his right side actually totally on his right side his
01:47:17
legs were up and as I fell on him like this my hand I don't know if you can see my hand was
01:47:23
like this at that moment Danny shot Ray five times he took five bullets to the Torso
01:47:33
and I don't remember pulling the trigger I don't remember pointing I don't remember hearing gunshots but Danny says
01:47:38
the struggle continued he started sliding down the bed and his legs were here on this side of the bed facing the
01:47:46
wall sitting yes and then I got really scared cuz he said I'm going to kill you but he's whispering that's when Danny
01:47:54
says she ran to the back bedroom of the trailer and grabbed five more bullets and I unloaded the gun and I said what
01:48:02
do I do I'm scared to death I'm in fear for my life she returned to Ray who she says
01:48:10
somehow was still sitting upright at the foot of the bed and he started to kind of Crouch
01:48:16
over and leaned towards me so I put my hand out and he started get up a little bit but I I don't
01:48:25
remember pulling the trigger and hearing the gun but I remember him going down Danny says Ray collapsed on the
01:48:39
bedroom floor dead five bullets in the head she reenacted every step of that morning in the location where it
01:48:51
occurred to the detectives delmare welen is Danny's attorney that is incredibly compelling evidence that she was telling
01:49:00
the truth the volcano that exploded on those early morning hours that's what led to Raymond
01:49:07
attacking Danielle and that's what forced Danielle to use lethal Force to protect
01:49:15
herself what do you make of Danny's account go inside the investigation of Ray Green's death at 48 8
01:49:32
hours.com as a cowboy action shooter Danny Green learned to quickly shoot five rounds reload and shoot five
01:49:49
more a skill she put to use on on that remote Mountaintop in Indiana on May 26th
01:50:00
2014 detectives confirmed her father's death to Tracy telling her raised body had been found in that
01:50:10
toolbox my heart was in pieces and I just prayed that he didn't suffer 8 days after after the shooting
01:50:23
after the medical examiner ruled Ray Green's death a homicide Dany was arrested and charged with his
01:50:32
murder an autopsy found that all 10 bullets the lower velocity kind used in cowboy action shooter competitions were
01:50:41
still in his body it was a shock it blew me away cuz they're you know two good people in my
01:50:50
mind word of Ray's death quickly spread in the cowboy action shooter family including Dave
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War Ry was more than just a shooter I mean he was a personal friend of mine it was pretty devastating what state of
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mind she was in that to let her that led her to do that who knows this man delmare Welden believes
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he knows Weldon is Danny's defense attorney Danielle was attacked she was in danger I'm in fear for my life she
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had to act to save her own life unloaded then reloaded Wen says it's clear from just looking at the tape I remember
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seeing blood Danny cooperated with investigators did not appear to be breathing recreating what happened that
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morning proving she had nothing to hide her description of what happened really never changed it was very very very
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consistent compelling evidence that she was telling the truth and what about Danny's changing stories of where Ry was
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saying the dog killed him saying he's at work when he when clearly he's not having him in a
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box feet away from their home these actions were so ridiculous they were not evidence of trying to hide the crime
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they're evidence of trauma [Music] but investigators disagreed they comb through Danny's emails texts and Skype
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conversations and concluded she may have had another man in her sights a well-healed cowboy action shooter that
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she and Ry knew quite well my name is George man and my Alias and cowboy action shooting is Angus
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McNasty George man had known the grp for years but when Danny moved to Indiana in
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2012 to help take care of her sick parents she started a secret internet relationship with George who was married
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at the time and one day out of the blue I I get an email we ended up calling and uh we just kind of kind of
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clicked off investigators learned that George and Dany communicated nearly every day sometimes multiple times a day
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it wasn't x-rated explicit it was sexually suggestive curled up by a fire under a blanket with nothing on
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underneath the blanket sipping on hot chocolate can you top that and you replied nothing can top that wish I were
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there well you have to understand attractive women I I tend to to be a little bit more flirtatious than I
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should be even though George had never traveled to Indiana to visit Dany the investigative team wondered if the two
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had fallen in love online and whether that relationship played any role in dany's decision to shoot her
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husband do you think a part of you was in love with Dany no I mean Danny is a is a nice
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person in love with Danny no I don't think so and I recall asking him specifically about his feelings for her
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and he admitted in his own words that he loved her the he loved Danielle yes George says Danny dreamed of leaving
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Ray and raising and selling horses in Okala Florida in early 2014 Danny and Ray divorced did you know that was coming I
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knew that was coming yes she saw that as a way to get away from from Ry eventually she want a new life without
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Ry so the motive is she needed to get rid of Ray because he was standing in the way of her dream she believed George
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man was the person who would help her fulfill her dreams I say he made that up well I'm
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just going to say it's a complete lie when investigators searched Danny's computer they believe they found
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evidence that she was using Google to research how she would kill Ray what happens when you shoot a guy in the head
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with a 38 which was pretty daming considering she shot a guy in the head with a 38 she's on a remote property you're a
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mile from the nearest person no one's going to hear you scream so we were talking about about
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self-defense she was doing research on things that we had discussed as Danny Green's trial for murder was about to
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begin her defense team finds a witness who could be a GameChanger someone they believe will back up her claim that Rey
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had physically abused her did you ever witness anything out of the ordinary when you delivered mail I
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mean other than her wearing a sling occasionally limping at times black eyes yes really shallow up the field thank
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you we rollers we're speaking now with a woman we're going to call Carol tell me
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about when you learned that Ray green had died and had been shot by Dany he got what he
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deserved this woman whose face and name 48 Hours has agreed to conceal claims she is certain Ry physically abused Dany
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in Florida how did you know Ry and Dany I delivered their mail Carol and Dany became friendly over
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the years she was a gentle person that loved her animals Carol says Danny never told
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her that Ry was abusing her but Carol saw the injuries on dany's face I saw three to four different times when she
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had the black eyes and did you see bruises in other places you couldn't see bruises cuz she was so covered up Carol
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found it unusual usual that despite Florida's high heat and humidity Dany covered every inch of her body she would
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try to tell me that she had fallen or that one of the horses had done it what were you thinking that she
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was being abused physically and the ray green Carol got to know was not the gentle Cowboy
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described by others I asked him to sign something he told me no he said go see d
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and he called me a [ __ ] so from that point on I avoided him George man Danny's online friend
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says she once told him that Ry had attacked her they had an argument in Florida and he grabbed her and and threw
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her against the wall I think she truly feared Ray but other friends who were close to
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the couple say they never witnessed any signs of abuse I never seen any personality trait that
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would show me that Ry was an abusive husband at all no black eyes or bruises or anything but what about Danny covering
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every inch of her body with clothing Bob Stevens who is working on a book about the case says he knows why
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she was very very worried about sun damage and cancer I know from a fact that she wear long sleeve shirts to
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protect her from the Sun in August of 2015 Danny's murder trial began at the Ohio County Indiana
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Courthouse No cameras were allowed in the courtroom we have some of the key pieces
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of evidence you have the revolver a 38 which was the weapon that was used prosecutor Aron nean guard says
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some of the bullets fired passed through this blanket before striking Ray there were three
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bullet holes and this one actually went in there and out here it showed that he was sleeping at the time and that's
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significant because she is claiming self-defense correct but Danny's attorney Delmore
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welen says the blanket tells a very different story it wouldn't be uncommon for someone to get out of bed and have a
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blanket around them I I think that'd be highly unusual he's about to attack her he was lunging toward her wrapped in a
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heavy blanket Danielle said exactly what happened I remember him going down onto the floor onto the
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floor with his head in this area what Dany didn't tell police was that she cut out a piece of carpet from the trailer
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floor there's clear blood here and this and put it in the toolbx where Ray's body was
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found how is itself to defense if you're cutting carpet out putting a body in the
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box and trying to destroy or hide evidence and if Danny killed in self-defense why didn't she call 911
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after shooting Ray 10 times to second guess the things that happen in a moment like that this life
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or death moment it is very unfair to say why wouldn't you do this she believed that he could come back and get her even
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after he was obviously dead like some horror movie rise from the dead and come after her she was living in a horror
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movie Carol the mail carrier gave a deposition that was read to jurors but investigators said they found no
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evidence supporting dany's claims of abuse do you have any proof whatsoever beyond your belief
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that he actually laid a fist on her face no Danny never took the stand but jurors
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watched her version of what happened on that deadly morning I'm in fear for my life after 2 weeks of testimony the jury
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got the case and deliberation stretched on for 8 hours so they come in what's the
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verdict guilty Danny Green was convicted of murder and sentenced to 60 years in prison I
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believe the jury got it wrong I believe that Danielle Green is innocent and do you think Justice was
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served by him being killed yes by her being in prison no an niis man that would do anything
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for anyone suffered execution Style [Music] she was a [Music] monster Jazzy the family dog who Dany
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once said attacked and killed Ray has never been found Dave War's world without his
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friend Ray is just not the same I think you go through live with very few true friends there's a big void in that
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Circle that'll never be replaced how do you want your father to be remembered a wonderful loving caring
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man a great grandfather he was a great husband to my [Music] mother Ray and his first wife Maggie
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both died on May 26th exactly 12 years apart Bob Stevens think that's more than just a coincidence a
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message from God I think it was a sign from God that they're back [Music] [Music]
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together a son accused of having his parents killed the motive money for a house and
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cosmetic surgery I got a text you're getting a boob job for Christmas LOL so why doesn't his sister believe it I
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think there's a lot more to this story 48 hours Saturday at 109 Central on CBS [Music]