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this week's 48 Hours investigates the mysterious death of an Alabama woman in 2017 Tiffany Crawford was found dead in
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her van with a gun in her hand but when investigators realized the gun was in her non-dominant hand they became
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suspicious of her husband our lead National correspondent and 48 Hours contributor David begno sat down with
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the husband Jason Crawford for an exclusive interview it was the night of May 2nd 2017 when
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37-year-old Jason Crawford called 9-1-1 from outside of his home in Coleman Alabama
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body camera footage shows what sheriff's deputies found when they first arrived on scene what happened tonight we were
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arguing and last thing I remember I was going in the house and I heard a shot scream and then another shot
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Jason's wife 32 year old Tiffany Crawford was found dead in the driver's seat of her own van there was a gun in
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her left hand to at least one of the deputies on the scene it appeared as though it was a
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suicide but once investigators dug deeper that theory started to crumble and Jason had some tough questions to
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answer to believe that she did it to herself you have to believe she used her non-dominant hand very impulsive and
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then shot herself twice yes most suicides don't involve Two Shots yes most not all
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Dr Valerie Greene conducted Tiffany's autopsy and ruled her death a homicide she noticed something about that van in
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which Tiffany was shot I remember looking at pictures of the driver's side door and I didn't
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see any blood on that door that makes me think that the door was not closed and I think that
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that door is open because he was standing there but Jason insists he is innocent did
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anything about your relationship with Tiffany lead you to believe that she was suicidal not at the time looking back
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just seeing how depressed she actually was and reading some of her journal makes me think she was hiding a lot of
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stuff David begno joins us now David good morning so what made investigators believe that it was Tiffany's husband
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Jason who was responsible and not someone else well so he was at the scene that night
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Vlad he called 9-1-1 and what is really interesting one of the many things of this hour that's very interesting is
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that in the 9-1-1 phone call the dispatcher asks Jason I want to say three times maybe more who shot your
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wife and every time she asks that question there's no response from Jason Crawford
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hmm wow what did the forensic show because he seems pretty uh adamant that he didn't do it he's very calm when he's
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talking to you yeah so here's here's the deal Gail the forensic showed that there was male DNA
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on the gun but they couldn't say for sure that it was Jason Crawford's it appeared to some as though the gun had
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been wiped possibly wow anything that works in his favor then David since he says I didn't do
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this yeah at the end of the day there's no direct physical evidence pointing to Jason's Guild in fact Jason says Hey
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listen Tiffany had some journal entries on the day she died that said she was struggling what to struggling with what
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to do with herself right so he pointed he and his defense team to those entries saying that's proof that she was
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thinking about taking her own life but you are going to hear from a juror named Megan who sat on that case and she is
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going to tell you in the final moments when they went to that jury room they sat down and they looked at each other
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and they said let's go back and listen to that 9-1-1 call and watch the body camera footage again and when they did
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that something happened and there's a moment she says that was it we all decided boom
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here's what we think all right that's how they made their decision right it's like to know what the jurors are
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thinking yeah exactly what we're looking forward to your report David thank you very much you can see David's report the
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mysterious death of Tiffany Crawford on 48 hours tomorrow night at 10 9 Central right here on CBS and on Paramount plus
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David is such a good storyteller