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states and situations. Tonight on the season premier of deadline.

a nan was out walking his dog with his wife, and he was gunned down.

He turned around and I saw up this person shoe and.

Shot three toes in the heat through towin the chest and went time in .

the grown IT seems like overkill.

There's got to be something more to this than me.

The guy, a black pick up truck, left the murder.

Seeing this individual was walk around the resident.

he told me about a kiss that they share in front of the iphone tower over thirty years ago.

just unfolded and unfolded and unfolded like out of a movie.

The text messages, the fictitious email addresses, the level of manipulation was extraordinary. Canada definitions .

who faced aren't three or four faced. It's hard to keep up everything like this.

no. And I hoped to never see you again.

Maybe some people are Better left in your past.

Did a kiss in paris lead to murder in dallas thirty years later? I'm lester home, and this is deadline.

Here's josh.

Mako is with losing face.

Most people never know when their last day on earth will come what their last act will be for jammy faith IT was october ninth, two thousand and twenty, a Sunny morning in dallas, walking his dog, Maggie. Here's jennie leaving his house right behind his wife Jennifer, so much of a routine, his neighbors knew their daily route and then.

Jimmy faith was dead at only forty nine, gun down in front of his home, his neighbors, his wife. Friendly, funny. Jenny faith, who hadn't had an enemy in the world.

This is wanted to, like I say, the crazy stores.

There's going .

down .

a history. I, sir sazonof, the first reporter on the scene to his million plus followers on facebook. He's Better known as smashed the topic.

As you find out about this story.

I was listen to the scanner, and when I was listed, as I heard the street and I heard a shoe go on on right away, smash. Found an eye witness.

I have guns, five gun, 棒棒棒 棒棒棒。

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that morning and I checked for oak with ladies club page and smashed the topic, was reporting that there had .

been a shooting gennifer fAiling, didn't know the face, but SHE lived in the same occurs neither or hood in dallas.

so immediately posted on that page. Show the ladies to let them know. Hey, be careful. There was a shooting nearby.

Genie Smith Wilson was in her backyard with her dogs and her mourning coffee.

And I noticed the police helicopter, which ordinarily wouldn't draw my attention, but that was unusual, how long IT was hovering and how close and the low elevation. And so of course, I grow up my phone, and I look on my neighbor od page, which I go to is our ladies club page. And there was already some post saying there had been a shooting nearby.

Why another man be the very, very other place, like he was up to know. good. His eyes were really big and black. We come out. The man was still standing in front where the dude .

got shot. So we .

still got.

sounds like I could have been an arrival, but on a day so but I didn't think like, how would somebody to know these people walk a dull everyday?

Then I was pd.

Homicide detective Chris walton was wondering the same thing. You can see him right there on smashes feed. The detective went straight to his best witness, the victim's wife gennifer faith.

when our rab mrs. Faith was sitting right here on the porch area of a residence, there were others around her.

They were coughed in her trying .

to get her the treat is he needed SHE telling what .

happened while you were here .

um what was here when I make contact with her? Uh SHE informed me that a there was an individual who came up behind them he pointed the gun at her husband, mister faith and and sham so didn't say anything. No fire that's create Jennifer .

described the gunman as medium build with black eyes and a blue surgical mask, the kind you saw everywhere during the pandemic. I'm guessing he was probably shattered SHE was .

uh SHE just a served her husband to kill shut several times than the individual who committed in our crime to take her risk and try taking her property as well.

try to get her wedding right.

I really. So yes.

sir, cartridge casings from the killers, gunn s still littered the street. Some of those stun neighbors turned out to be helpful. They spot the gun and drive away in a black pick up.

We have to get a photo of the vehicle for one.

The witnesses. I had a picture of the tea sticker in the back.

The team made sense. The local baseball team is the texas rangers. So now the question was, who in dallas wanted Jenny dad? Police wanted to talk further with jane, her faith, but he was so distorted he had to be taken to a hospital. Once doctors gave the all clear, SHE handed police her phone and headed to the station where he added vital details .

to this awful .

got ranching story. Six, five days, maybe I IT was .

a neighbor's security camera that recorded those horrific sounds.

And you just get going to. shop. And he saw liberals in turn. And what IT just dark eyes is coming toward me, SHE said.

The killer then turned on heart.

I can't tried to turn me over and and he had my side, their back and hitting. And then I obviously I saw a flash of that. He was silver. The guy was silver.

Later in the interview, jennie and detective walton used her phone to access the family's home security system, which had a camera that face the empty house next door. They saw this image. It's a man walking alone around that abandoned property in the predal hours before the killing.

No, that constantly. That's certainly .

something to pursue. Detective walton alert of his fellow investigators and continue the conversation. Were there any problems lately? Would .

anyone never had any developed nice community and an I love her, I love her.

Jennifer er confirmed what everyone else had said, that Jimmy was well liked, a nice neighbor, loving dad and husband. Whatever this was, he had to be random, a robbery that became murder, and then autopsy results came back.

That does not feel like a robbery that feels like something else.

What details there were of Jenny faith murder hit the news pretty quickly.

about nine gunshot. The victime, James faith, shot multiple times.

Maria gero covered the story for nbc five in dallas.

We knew that a man a was killed while walking his dog with his wife.

And this sounds like what robbery?

That's exactly what we thought I was. And that's what police were initially looking into, this case, a robbery.

Then the autopsy results came in, and suddenly Jamie's killing didn't seem so random.

We learned that he was shut three times in the, he three times in the cheese and went in the grow.

That does not feel like elaborate. That feels like something else.

He was overkill to me. IT was very personal.

So how could Jamie faith generate that kind of rage? The killing made even less sense when police took a closer look at him.

What kind of guy was he? What do you do for a living?

I used to want those guys who you want to be neighbor's. Whit, I learned that he was from a wisconsin. He also loved the Green back packagers. He was, he was very, he was a natilie director for a milk and outlands. And he was on those guys where everybody just loved play video games on thursday night.

Jamie also played pool and really like bowling. Nobody knew that Better than twin sisters Monica and Monica florus. They'd known jammy for more than twenty years from when they all lived in.

Ariza was jammy as good as you guys are. no.

Oh yes, yes, he Better, Better. We like him so much that we had so much in common that he ended up getting on the team with us when when we needed a player.

but not diving either of you. no. Now what maybe may?

He was like .

one of those friends, friends, yeah, he was a good guy.

like a nice guy. He was always happy.

Jimmy. Like, always look up the bowling. Ali, and so that's what god is like him. And then, of course, me in her and our personalities.

he look up the boling, not up my here very.

Yeah, you know.

he did.

Police learned Jimmy was smart, resourceful and corky, this is his friend to rea jenson.

When we were in college, we would go to the dog track, and he had a whole computer set up where he would take the information for the dogs and plugged into his computer. And that would be how he would make his bets. And he go up to the window with the big lot of money and head win.

So, not nerdy at all.

No, not at all, but just little nerdy.

Body made money.

He made enough money where i'm pretty sure he ended up buying his own catalog with his winnings. You know, here's a twenty one, twenty two year old guy driving around in a catalog. C, what color IT was like? A maron.

maron red. He wore her shirts and gold jeans.

He did. He did. He did. He .

wouldn't listen a big. The investigators learned jammy was living in phoenix in two thousand five when he met Jennifer on a blind date and something clicked. Janie started working at U.

S. Airways in two thousand and eight. Four years later, he and Jennifer, mary Jennifer, was working as a speech therapy, a good one, according to her friend and colleague.

rob smidt. She's a very intellect. She's a great speech therapist. And SHE just kind of fit in with our group. I guess.

been a speech there. Post me. You know, you've got to have a lot of patients and you've got to be sort of really caring with other people.

right? right?

And then when we met, just never really, oh my god, you got so cute together. Like, they were so just so cute. And like, I mean.

I love duvet, and I just like, I love me. I love her like you. That's a keeper for you.

He goes, all I know. I know. Jennifer had been married twice before with a daughter, Amber, from her first marriage.

Jamie adopted Amber in two thousand sixteen. By two thousand seventeen, U. S.

Airways had been swallowed by american airlines. Jimmy accept that a promotion. And then the family relocated to dallas.

Or Jamie started working as an IT executive and american. Now flash forward to october nights two thousand twenty. And the news no friend wants to hear.

I got a call and I seeing I was from Jennifer, automatically picked up and she's trying and, you know, uh, having trouble speaking and you let me know that a Jimmy .

had been shot had .

Jimmy at any time .

in your relationship I mentioned being afraid of anyone or concerned about his safety in.

anyway, not one time days into their investigation, police scramble for more details about a murder out of the blue. The biggest clue so far, that truck was what looked like a texas rangers decal.

Everybody, I mean, everybody was on the lookout for the black track.

so find the truck and find the killer.

Hours after janie faith murder that as detectives were pursuing their biggest lead, a black me on truck caught on a witnesses the phone camera. Police were sure that in the driver seat was the killer.

The biggest club was that I had a tea decal on the back. When shield police .

put out an alert for the truck. Before long, they dissembled multiple shots of the pickup moving out of the neighborhood.

We checked out the residences. We saw some. That camera on in and from there is like a puzzle. So if one camera showed the vehicle at seven thirty four, uh, we receive, uh, another camera at seven thirty five and seven six. You put a little movie. Yes, sir, we did that process three miles until we were able to cash the vehicle heading north on I thirty five from ilan oise. And that's .

really lose IT. yes.

Or on how we at any point.

you can get a plate number and you can see who's inside. No 点。

Everybody was on high alert that there was a killer in our neighborhood walking.

Your dogs are now looking behind you and watching to see who's coming down the street and your, you know, watching up your neighbors and and you know, even more so everybody.

I mean, everybody was on the lookout for the black truck and we knew that was a niece on titan black with a tea in the rear window. Um and so there were many pictures of trucks being posted online, even without any kind of A T. M. Is this the truck? Could this be the .

truck the faith neighbors wanted to pitch in and help genre reached out?

Everyone had that same sense that I had, which is, you know, this could have been me. So I texted jenner her faith, and said, I know you don't know me, but there's a lot of people that want to help if we can. And SHE almost immediately respond to d and said that he would love that.

And could I come over tomorrow to talk? So I was over there the day after the murder to meet her jenner for faith. Was there their daughter, amer faith, as well as Jamie's extended family.

When geno saw all those people at the faith's home, he thought they're gonna need some food.

You've got to eat every day, but you're dealing with that kind of trauma. You might not the APP for cooking for a while. So we began delivering lunching dinner every day for however many people we're gonna at the home.

Dozens of people, from neighbors to high and chefs, delivered meals for months. They wanted to do more because a widow with a daughter would have bills to pay.

The go family was set up. I think the next day we're already headed up and going. The idea was just to help with any expenses, funeral expenses, daily living expenses.

SHE was very grateful.

Detective Chris walton wanted to help too, because when he's not chasing killers, he's a back test minister.

You went to pray with the family.

Yes, I did. We want to make sure that, you know, we, we let generation er know that we were here for you.

You do that allow investigations.

I do. I do IT quite, quite often. I ong believe in the glow and strong and faith, also want to make sure to see a film. Then we will try to do everything that we could to find out who did this to our husband.

Police were learning a lot about jammy, his life as a family man and his life as a boss.

Jamie, and selling one of those guys who is sort of countdown down the hour till the weekend, like, he liked his work.

Yes, yes. Pressure one hundred person. He loved his work. He loved the people who .

work for here. A problem with anybody you know of IT work absolutely anywhere else.

Now that I know well, there was one problem, jennie told detectives jie had recently laid off. Some people in amErica wouldn't be the first time and x employee got angry enough to kill.

I'd met with the american airline director, who was, I would give me access to the employees that were laid off. I was covering the next time.

right? And so a, so a lot of people .

losing their jobs in .

the plan was talk to all those people. Yeah.

the detective was also looking at something else that man they spotted on Jennifer security camera walking around the empty house next door.

This individuals was walking around that residence around by two thirty eight in the morning.

So who was that guy? Maybe one of those just fired employees. All of a sudden, police had as many new leads as a company picnic.

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What I create IT as we celebrate this light, i'll be all right. On a week after Jimmy faith was gone down, friends and family gathered in dallas for a funeral, one of two services Jennifer had organized. Thank you for .

the gift of this amazing man.

The service was live streamed from the funeral home, friends and family from across the country we're watching, along with dallas neighbors, Jennifer and genre. I remember .

at one point, you know, we both were talking about how emotional IT was, and we were right tears when the camera went up to the front and just capturing everything, all the emotion that was taking place there. yeah.

Rick coward had never heard of Jamie faith before the murder, but he was also launching. Rick is a federal prosecutor in the northern district of texas. Dall's detectives asked him for help on the case. The .

description that Jennifer faith gave of her husband during that funeral basically is consistent with what every individual that we talk to, how they described jammy faith. He was the best husband that you could possibly ask for. They had the perfect marriage where other couples were jealous of their relationship because they were so close.

Jami's old friend Teresa jenson was watching the funeral service too. SHE was struck by the attention devoted to a book Jennifer had given jammy for valentine's day a love, but they call .

the every valenti's study. This is from Jennifer .

to jammy pack with memories of the couples good times together.

This love of was very elaborate, many pages, and they went through pages .

by touching as IT all was. There were moments went. Teresa tried not to roll her eyes.

and IT would say, I love you everyday when I wake up. I love that you're the first person I talk to. I love that we travel together.

So I mean, okay, maybe that's a little over over the top, but a .

little over the top plus, you know and and just the simple fact that and maybe this is just me, they have been been together for fifteen years. I've been with my husband for eighteen years. He's not getting a the .

people interview with us was to be more signal than I.

Sorry.

Jamie and Jennifer's friends and neighbors noticed how expensive the service was.

I guess I D ve never seen anything like that where you had, you know, coasters and match books and memorable ia and IT was almost like A.

I mean, you to say I was .

almost like a party where you have take away gifts like party, like party favors is a great way to put IT like party favors to take away .

from a funeral. The woman knew those extras weren't cheap, but at least Jennifer had that go fund me. IT could help cover costs and that fund IT just kept growing. We were .

shocked that he went up to over fifteen thousand and a less than twenty four our period and less than a week. IT was over sixty thousand. So I think i'll take away from that really a test to how much Jimmy was loved. Yes, I think initially a lot of the support that for the go fd me came from the occident community, but I think a whole bunch of that came from the american lines community.

While Jamie's friends and family grieved, investigators were working hard. Remember the guy caught on security camera next door hours before Jamie was shot? Jennifer er first told detectives SHE didn't know who I was, then he called them back.

D told me that neither informed her that there was another neighbor who had often gun into a with his wife and gud drawn and would walk around the neighbor od like that.

And what about the theory that a former american airlines employee might have had a infor jami after that round of layoffs?

So indications that anyone was blaming him for layovers, we could not find any suspects that would have an extra ground with him.

By then, the investigation had taken off in a whole mood direction.

And all of you're not really looking at american airlines employees anymore.

No, all of a sudden they're taking another look at that marriage, the one that was so far less IT made other couples jealous.

That was the first evidence that there was a crack in the facade of this perfect marriage.

Jamie faith had been dead for two months when his widow Jennifer, decided to speak out. SHE talked with nbc five and dallas.

Her fear was that this case was going cold, and he really wanted to finally come forward.

My hope is that someday perhaps the person will realize the gravity of what they've done, what they've taken for myself and my daughter.

During the interview, SHE said that based on witnesses and what he remembers, a big clue will be this black pick up truck. He said.

a black non titan extended cab has a taxi ranter sticker in the back window. Any information leading to the arrests would be fantastic, and that would help give me the closure that i'm really looking for.

What jennie didn't know was that all this time, investigators had actually been moving ahead with evidence that might not provide the kind of closure SHE was hoping for. And IT all started with her phone.

I believe without that phone, the problem wouldn't seen here today.

That's because something on that phone at least, appeared to refute everything Jennifer had said.

What kind of marriage do you have?

It's perfect, perfect. Yes, that's what says and that's that's the Jimmy and Jennifer, we win into this investigation. Believe ing was the case.

Well, that was before now investigators read a series of text dated April two thousand, twenty six months before janie was killed. Jennifer and a friend named tina were chatting. Included was this stunner from Jennifer.

So I am pretty much having a football on emotional affair.

an emotional affair. You know, the kind that's just text and calls.

It's been crazy. And I know i'm so stupid for doing this, and I know you're at work, and I am probably blowing your mind right now.

L then a surprise admission about her perfect marriage.

Tina, we haven't had sex in four years.

Tina, ask, why? Gennifer s answer.

I told him, I feel like we love each other, but we are not in love with each other. I don't know. I consistently try to initiate.

I gave you credit for being up front.

I finally gave up about a year ago. I couldn't lie to him. He deserves Better than that. He won't give me a reason. I thought he was having an affair for a little while, but no had .

a question, does Jimmy say he's in love, or is he content to? How can a person be in love? But no sexy passion.

He says he is in love. That was my question. He says IT is a timing thing, whatever, for four years.

That's just IT. No passion, very little physical affection at all, past a hug and nothing romantic from him. Flowers on valentine's day, typical stuff. But I don't feel wanted by him at all other than to be his partner.

Well, that kind of changes things doesn't yes.

jennie had never mentioned .

to you that he was having an affair, emotional or otherwise, with anybody. No, SHE was not even going to fear.

neither was her husband. He said the relationship was good, only thing that they were timid as SHE would like. But other than net, he was a great man provider now, so a lover father.

So maybe this flame was just an innocent online diversion, a harmless way out of the middle age doldrums. Nothing in person, nothing physical. After all, as Jennifer r told tina things with Jimmy, we're still kind of good.

They are super great friends and a good team and great parents to Amber. And honestly, I would have been content living out the rest of my life that way.

And then this .

no issues until this guy came back. And O, M, G. The emotions and the connection, I feel like I am being torn to.

So who was this mystery man? Detectives had to find out jaa helpfully had sketched in his background for tina.

This guy dated in high school and college. We broke up because I was spinifex school. And after he got out of basic training, he was deployed to south korea.

He ended up going special forces and served twenty six years, just retired and founding. We were going to get married at the time. Then I met ember's biot read .

after he left at the end of the thread. Tina, send hugs. Jennifer responded.

thank you, but I am also not making any moves or doing anything rash anytime soon, but i'm not going to stop talking to their either.

So now investigators had a name, darren. They also knew from other text between Jennifer, tina, that darn had mentioned what he called a five year plan to start a new life with Jennifer. Then about two months before janie was murdered, came this text exchange.

You still talking to that guy?

I put the breaks on with him so hard. I was such strong emotions for gearing.

How to darren feel about her foot on the break? Investigators had no way of knowing they did know this. Darren had been dumped and he knew his way around a weapon.

The Jamie faith murder investigation had taken a surprising turn. Police learned the rieving winter was involved in what he called an emotional affair. By then, detective eric barns had joined the case. He and detective walton were drilling down on Jennifer's text messages about a guy named darren.

The main thing that stuck out to me was that he had a five year plane on how I would be to get.

I guess, one part of that I could be getting .

jay correct for five year plan. And s that's a very long term patient plan. Somebody has to be pretty dedicated to wait for something over five years.

Logic suggests a love struck guy with a five year plan might become, with the very least unhappy and at the very worst, furious if his belova decided to change the schedule. And for sake him, for the sake of her husband, he talks about .

this full blown emotional affairs SHE something with this guy, but he also at some point says she's cut them off. It's quit. We're there. Any text you there on the phone?

No, no, that I could .

find they did have jenners phone contacts. That's where they found a darren whose last name was low as along with his phone number, a search warrant later, they also had gennifer cell records from the phone company. Police still didn't have the actual text, but now they could see the textile call logs showing how often Jennifer and darren had been in touch.

There was a tremendous on a contact between her phone and his phone, and her phone .

records that they ever almost five hundred communications a day through phone calls and text.

Believe a total about thirteen thousand love, thirteen thousand context.

more than thirteen thousand calls and text in just one month around the time of the murder. For an emotional affairs, that's a lot of emotion. It's also a lot of deletion. None of those calls or text were on Jennifer's phone when police sought one more thing da lob has lived in tennesee. An inter state investigation now brought the feds on board.

So now we come up with an address for their and low peas in a town call. Comber in furness, tennessee.

Andrew sharey is a supervisory special agent with the atf. He learned a lot about darren Lopez, a forty eight year old retired army special forces metic who lived about six hundred forty miles northeast of dallas.

He has got quite an extensive military record. He had six deponents to iraq. He is a purple heart recipient, has a brand star. So this is a man who is a highly decorated war veteran. And then we also find out during the investigation that he was injured in combat and suffers a traumatic brain injury.

They learned daron loops, was separated and living with two of his teenage daughters. Investigators started tracing his activities in the days leading up to the murder.

Parents banking records tell you a little bit about where he's been.

That's great. And that's biggest thing we to do trying to place him in dallas from tennesee .

the day before the killing. Daren't debit card put in here buying gas about twenty minutes south of his home.

That debit card was used in dick and tennessee early an afternoon on october. Several hours later, that same device car was used at a pollo gas station in west month is argensola, which would have been him travelling in the .

direction of douse west men's arkansas is two hundred miles southwest of darns home. Now, two months later, detective Barnes wondered if there were any photos of that pitstop.

I reach out to the polar ga station just in a long shot chance to see if they still have video.

because nobody has video that long after the .

now if we have video for two weeks, we're doing well, right?

But in this case.

you've got lucky. You sure did.

What do you seen in the video?

In the video, a dawn is wear a dark color polo shirt, a blue jeans, but he also has a blue mask that matches the description of geneva gave on the .

day at a murder. More important is what there in Lopez was driving, how big black non pick up? Okay, but who could say for sure where darren was heading? Well, actually, google. good.

We saw that he typed in the victims address while he was in tennessee and got map directions to around a dallas.

This feels like you're moving closer and closer to an arrest. Yes.

okay. But what about that? Td out the one clue everyone had been focused on.

we were able to reach out to the thinnest I bureau investigations, get a fly over over dance property. And we are hoping that we'll be able to find this truck and get a good look at his knees on tight to see if I .

actually had the deco.

And you did, yes, we did. And I did a did .

just one pass. You're not circling. You're not do anything. It's going to tract attention. No.

that's what they hoped anyway, except a couple of weeks after they spotted their rent truck from the sky, something changed on the ground.

Agents and nash bill were doing surveilLance and they observed dance, pick up truck and in no longer edit on the world.

which suggests he's all to you guys.

That's right. Wondering if daron loops had gotten wise to them. Agents wanted to move in quickly. That came with some difficult questions, like, how do you arrest rambo without the hollywood body count?

These, a trained military Operative. This is not some guy who spent couple years the army filing forms.

That's correct. And the fireman was used in the murdered of amy faith. One would assume that that was his weapon.

and he probably still has IT.

So planning that would not typically take place in a Normal Operation.

Also, daron Lopez was more than a special forces veteran with a very particular set of scales. His twenty acre home also gave him an edge over anyone approaching on the ground.

He may have hobby traps, clean test and devices and sensors. He may have his own cameras on the property .

creeps up and not going to door is not going to happen exactly.

Also annoying at agent cherami was the memory of that called etas ninety ninety three RAID on the branch Davidian sect in wao, texas.

We think about the tragedy that happened in wao, where four of our agents were lost. Not a this similar approach.

and he's got his two daughters living in there within. So worse kiss scenario is he is a bargain, that house worst .

case scenario.

And the worst case scenario was not an acceptable one. Someone would have to blink.

IT was early two thousand twenty one, and an alphabet soup of law enforcement agencies was gearing up for a full scale Operation to arrest don Lopez.

You can tell here from the Ariel photographs that this is a very wide open piece of property, and that would make any sort of covert approach to the house extremely dangerous.

How many people we talking about here?

I would say a problem with seventy five people. Wow, that was pretty the resources of the federal government.

On an icy january day, agents were preparing to launch their take down when a surveilLance team reported their and loops was in a toyota, leaving his compound with one of his daughters. The order came back, grab in the team, blocked his truck and moved in with gus drawn. Daron Lopez was arrested without incident.

He was taken in the custody safely. He was an injured, his daughter was an injured, and none of our agents were injured.

So not a shot fire .

and not a shot fired in this business. That's a great day.

Detective Barnes made sure darrin's daughters were taken in by family friends. Barnes had more than one role in this investigation. He's also in atf task force officer.

That's why he joined the arresting and barn served with the U. S. Army sixteen signal battalion in iraq. So when he sacked down across from darren Lopez in a tennessee lockup, he was able to talk with darn soldier .

to soldier and.

Then Barnes got to the point you have.

Been that I think I been to and you know that's not true.

I knew that wasn't true.

Do you say to him? No, we know you're .

in dali no I let him ck himself into their story darren .

admitted knowing jenner er and shared some missie de memories of his youth.

We are grow up together and high school friends and we contact each other. Almost year ago I look there up and like I got a email and dressed and a quick eye and should go out. So the times he talked.

About how they met in high school. He told me about a kiss that they share in front of the iphone tower pairs over thirty years ago.

To your daron talk about that his relationship, the past.

not the present, right? He said that they communicate now just because he's going through a divorce, and SHE recently lost her husband, and so I can to help each other through their .

hard time SHE convents to me and I I can never vent and then makes you feel Better. And so she's been using that a lot more.

help. Get through things so marry.

but you know and and I cool so I mean, we never reached .

you know that I never .

that we crossed like, you know a thresh worries people accident ever been down there. So like I ve never had any .

more contact, just more you don't believe all of that? no. Then Barnes asked darn about the tea sticker. Only pick up.

They will have a team the back of IT. IT doesn't have one on today, but they did have one on IT yeah at the time of of this. And yeah so. Once I started confronting him on some of the last day, he told he immediately shut interview down and ask for in a turning.

Three months after Jimmy faith was shot seven times, the detective told there in Lopez he was going to be charged with that murder.

Is rain in one of the journey .

and death now? With daron behind bars, officers descended on his chaotic, massive home, searching for evidence.

In my twenty two years on the job, I don't know that i've ever seen a house that was in that deplorable of a living condition. This man is here with these two teenage daughters, animal hair, food on the counter, you know, sometimes is not right here.

The condition that place suggested to you, more than just messy. This, or poor house cafe.

yeah. So we do our best to search. The home. I noticed on the front porch was a large fx box.

What's in this huge box? IT was A A big screen TV. And the label on the fx box was addressed as there in low pair. And the return address was gentle .

for faith in A T, V.

and then admits the trash, the old food. And at fifty five inch T, V, the investigators landed on a piece of evidence, almost too good to be true.

One of the agents call out and said, hey, I found something. And IT was a military style rock sack backpack. Inside the backpack was a forty five calibre semi automatic pistol .

that's the same calibre as the murder weapon.

And upon closer examination, we could see on the slide of the glen, wood appeared to be A A small smear of blood. It's like a get IT back.

Dallas IT took just a couple of days for the dallas crime way up to process and test, fire the blood smear gun and then compare those casings to the ones recovered from the crime scene. And the gun matches the Carter.

just, yes.

And that blood comes back .

to jammy fy. So in your view.

anyway, game over. And convicting there of murder. We thought that we .

had a solar case. What happened .

on the story and what coverage does IT receive here in town? generally?

All said, there's this announcement of an arrest made of daring Lopez out of tennesee in your left stand.

When Jenny's friends heard someone named darren had been arrested, they were stumped.

They didn't know who he was.

You never heard that name.

No, never heard that name.

We just try figure out who darn was then, like why he did that to jt jammy, why they keep talking about this. I shoot jammy down ah you know, in front of his home, in front of his wife. Now investigators needed to know if Jennifer and darren were more than just a couple of long distance shoulders for each other to cry on and who Better to answer that question then, jennie faith herself.

have you ever heard of a name?

Investigators were certain daron Lopez had murdered Jamie faith. Now they were wondering why jane, her faith, have never mentioned darren's name. Maybe there was a reasonable explanation when .

you have a husband or wife whose spouse has been murdered and you know they're having a fair and they won admit to IT. It's pretty plausible that that's because I don't want to want to do affair at all. And second, I particularly don't want to want to do IT now because now going to look like I did something about absolutely.

absolutely.

So did he do something about IT? Investigators weren't sure. On the same january day, daron Lopez was arrested in tennessee detectives and dallas as Jennifer to come sit down with them.

we're playing cat, mouse, dare and Jennifer. And I wanted to see there was anything that baby Jennifer say that that I can use against .

daring we put together of game plan. And the game plan was to talk to Jennifer.

Federal prosecutor rick calvert appreciated IT to you are watching that .

interview outside watching the television. You're trying to get some kind of read on her I am and he gave the same story that he had been given for the past two or three months.

All I can really remember our his eyes, black eyes, I knew.

I will tell you.

I drive me crazy then.

well, ask a question that seemed to hit a nerve.

Have you ever heard of a name I. Ask her who was there? I hold a minute change.

He is one of my best friends. We dated in high school, but he doesn't know.

Jane told me that he was guy used to dive back in high school and college. And then that's when I asked, why didn't you .

tell me about now?

What's your answer? SHE paused, 呃， in the shoes you got love IT A I love IT angry.

Why do you even bother listening to me about all these other people? 和 wifi might have something to do with that。 You know how much i've been wrapping my .

brain if you knew .

this all along OK, let's see. I I lost contact with them and ninety three we go at SHE says that we haven't .

seen each other in over twenty five years, which is true that they talk all the time.

but I haven't met, correct?

And that's .

the truth. Detective wolton .

needed more, more. So you were there. Like.

I don't talking about .

persons in my, I believe that you knew what happen that day. I tell you, like this general, I know that they are commit this office. I know that they are here. You, he told you, we have a five year point.

We were, like, caught up in all emotions. But I put the brakes on IT didn't put the on.

How could you talk to somebody? I didn't know .

he killed my husband. I still don't know that he killed my house, but I wouldn't do that. Why would I do that?

And that's the .

interview became even more tense when the detective accused Jennifer of giving him false needs. Like those american airlines employees.

what do anybody have a je? Why do anybody want to kill .

him if you were so in love with you? I bless in. I was in love with my husband. I was selling you the truth.

So SHE claimed her digital footprints, said he was lying. Her calls and text with darren had continued at a crazy rate even .

after Jenny was murdered. Every day. Six is the cost.

two and four thousand. I don't work. He's retired. We talked through out the day, this guy. Q jose, how do you know that?

Because I have proof. And guess what? There right now is currently in jail right now.

Oh my god, SHE had .

already been maranda ked and SHE logged IT up SHE don't want .

to talk anymore. Geneva story seems to be falling apart. But investigators wanted to know what he would do next, so they let her walk out the door instead .

of locking her up. On the same day the daring gets locked up is there's some value to letting genever kind of continue to play. The part of I no idea was not happening.

absolutely. What a cute build in the case there. A lot of things that we didn't know.

like maybe jie wasn't the nice guy. Everyone thought he was .

James emails tell them .

and i'm .

punishing Jennifer because she's talking to you again.

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Jennie faith was back on the street, but not off the hook. Evidence against her was piling up. So were her communications with darren. By the time he was arrested, phone record showed more than one hundred thirty thousand text and calls between darren and Jennifer in less than eight months. This was a couple with a lot to say to each other, except during a couple of days in october.

one period of time where more than a ten hour period relapsed, where Jennifer and during low pest, we're not text in each other. And that this happens to fall on the day before the man murder and the day of the murder. That was the only period of .

stone that wasn't all. Remember that appeal on T. V.

Who has a truck like that? Is a black non titan extended cab, has a taxi ranter sticker in the back windows .

on darns phone, investigators found a text from Jennifer. From that same day, SHE made her heart felt appeal.

SHE text him, you need to get that tea off the truck. He responds back, I will. SHE goes, you need to get IT off right now. He responds back, tea is gone. I've removed the sticker and her response is, yeah, I fill so much Better time .

to arrest and of her faith.

Well, at that point, you have text message clearly obstructing justice.

And so detectives arrested jennie faith for obstruction of justice. Reporter maria gera was as shocked as anyone.

I tested Jennifer and I said, please tell me you did not know about this. Do you want to clear your name and SHE texted back, please contact my attorney and gave me his name and number. That was the last time that he spoke with me.

Almost try feels to me like you, ga says, are getting to the end of the .

road at that point. IT seems to be A A love trial that they did know, of course.

in jami's live at first maybe it's Randy m, then maybe it's connected to somebody who's got a grade agains jam me because of the way he's shot. Then the affair comes out. Maybe darren wants Jennifer for his own and he's acting to make that happy. Then maybe genever ers in on IT with him and they're gonna be happily ever after. What you find after that, i'm pretty sure you've never seen before.

No, the case takes a dramatic twist for sure. absolutely.

IT happened five months after the murder, while darren and Jennifer were both in jail.

Early march of a twenty one dx wife told me that he was taking care of someone, the financial affairs, and he needed to access some of his account information from his email.

As there and x looked through the files, SHE realized James seemed to have known about the affair with Jennifer.

and SHE saw several emails coming from jammy faith and a detailed information about an abusive relationship. IT was going on between jammy and Jennifer.

Those mails showed the victim jammy faith started emAiling darren. Jimmy was also texting darren using Jennifer phone. IT started six months before .

the murder. Jamie faith is advising darn that Jimmy is abusing sexually and physically his wife as a punishment for them reconnecting.

Jay museum mails tell there, and i'm puni shing Jennifer, because she's talking to you again.

Yes, in some of the most statistic ways you can possibly imagine, yes.

there was x sexual acts of gang rapes and torture. There were the crowd to be Carried out by jammy through these emails.

Ripes of Jennifer, right by other men in front of jammy. That's great.

In case daron had any trouble believing that Jimmy sentient photographic evidence of the abuse, multiple injuries, burns, bruises, Jennifer cut lip and Jamie actually seemed to be bragging .

about IT that is, that respond to darn responds that he's going to go to police. He responds that he's going to tell, uh, James employer .

jennie offered another solution asking darn to contact her friend rob shit.

we actually saw the original email that dare in cent to rob chmidd saying, hey rob, I got your email address from Jennifer SHE asked that I reach out to you for guidance jammy is abusing Jennifer .

and has rob respond?

Rob response, this is terrible. I will do whatever I can to assist you in this to make sure this .

abuse stop roch says in the emails that .

he spoke to jammy .

multiple times yeah and maybe maybe things have turned to corn.

correct and and things started to slow down as far as the abuse for a period of time.

For a while things seemed to calm down, but that didn't last. Jennifer er told darren the assaults had resumed by then. Darren was already considering a more permanent solution to genevese problem. He wrote a rob, I still feel he is very ept p in the head. I know I won't feel Better about her situation until SHE is out the house away from him or SHE lets me put a bullet in ji's head and rob wrote back.

thanks for the update. I'm also very concerned and for up to me, I would tell you to go for IT with your idea. Well, i'll give you .

an area by then. Just weeks before the murder, darren received another email from Jimmy. He was threatening a sexual assault that could kill Jennifer. IT was something Jimmy said he was planning for october knights and the couple's fifteen th anniversary. That was also the day Jamie was killed.

If darren really is this guy who sort of save Jennifer from this horrible abusive relationship, that's a little easier to understand why maybe he wasn't too ancient for you guys to arrest dara because he's Albert out.

right? And IT IT, also a IT, also could explain why someone who had never broken a law in his life had never been arrested that would be willing to possibly drive dallas to save someone that he believed was being abused.

Suddenly everything look different, seen through a lens of pain and abuse. Maybe jennie faith was a victim of sexual assault. And daron loop is a soldier on a mission to rescue his long lost love.

And the inner is a general gave SHE ever talked about her husband being anything others than a wonderful guy?

Absolutely not.

Before investigators found all that sickening evidence of abuse, all anyone had known about Jamie faith was sunshine and rainbows and the .

energy the geneva gave to you to other stations. SHE ever talked about her husband being anything other than than, no wonder, absolutely of problems in the marriage.

Not one word.

Now, when investigators hold over those graphic emails, everything they'd believed about jammy faith seemed dead wrong. The ultimate nice guy, IT geek with the cheesy haine shirts appeared, after all, to be a would act that out his darkest impulses on his wife. Maybe that's why daron loops wanted to killing, and why Jennifer friend rob schmitt seemed to be offering darren an ali. We ask Brown to explain himself.

I GTA reach some emails. Es, here. Okay, this once dated about five months before Jimmy is murdered. Darn, is emAiling rob sheet. I still feel jam is very ft up in the head. I know I won't feel Better about her situation until SHE lets me put a bullet in jami's head and robisch .

t writes back. If I were .

up to me, I would tell you to go for IT with your idea. L, well, i'll give you an ali.

yeah. It's very funny to have words be put into my mind that never existed, that I never typed.

You didn't write that email. You didn't communicate with there. And by email, never.

That's exactly what rob told investigators when they asked their next question was if he didn't write those emails, who did detective's had sent Jennifer computer to the FBI and when he came back, the feds analysis left little doubt IT was gennifer all of IT.

We knew that junior er faith had created those false accounts and that gave us a clear picture of what was going on.

Well, just a second. What about those photos of geneva's injuries?

SHE was involved in a car accident phenix arizon and those photographs were taken in two thousand and twelve. SHE sent him to dar and claiming that that was abuse that Jimmy was inflicting on her.

That picture of the Bruce lip that's not genevese lip.

No SHE upload added that off the internet at shutter stock dot com.

So all her claws of abuse are invented. All of them. James wasn't abusing her.

never.

That feels like the mall, you stop taking of jennie as victim of the murder and victim of abuse and start talking to her as perpetrator of everything.

I think I was wanted to define a moment they just clearly hit us that the only true victim in this case was jammy, that Jennifer's hands were just as dirty as das were, and mark.

or maybe dirtier. Under the guys of helping darren, Jennifer had convinced him to give her his psych records. Those would have shown her darn suffered from ptsd and a traumatic brain injury, both from combat using .

his war n injuries made there any easier to manipulate.

Do I do? And I think that once Jennifer learned that, that's probably something that you took advantage of.

The more you learn about this case, the world SHE .

sounds absolutely.

absolutely. And if the phony abuse story didn't work, investigators said Jennifer had another plan. Their emails were filled with fifty shades of t mi.

About phone sex, bondage and other things we don't really talk about on network TV. Investigators say IT was all designed to twice darn into Jennifer's, willing assessing whatever IT was. Jamie never saw any of .

IT come on. No, how did he not notice Jennifer on the phone constantly.

my wife on the phone constantly, but my mind does not go to. She's playing .

and to kill me.

Nobody would think that without significant warning and significant reason to think that right here.

SHE is living a double life.

But IT was really a triple or quad group life on that. IT was because SHE win as being herself. SHE was also being rob sh. mitt. She's also being jammy was like a brought away one person show.

IT was he lied to everyone. She's lying to her husband. She's lying to darren. She's lying to her best friend. She's lying to jami's parents.

Sitting in a texas jail, daron loppers refused to believe that he was convinced killing Jamie had protected the woman he loved. Even his court appointed attorney, one sanchez, had trouble getting through. IT was really hard. He almost didn't trust me because I was trying to confront him with the truth. The world he was living in was napped.

The reality you'd say to him, by the way, SHE made this up. Those emails weren't from her husband. They were all from Jennifer exactly, and he would say no.

He was just adamant that Jennifer was being abused clean sexually. IT took sanchez azz months to convince the former soldier he been used as a remotely controlled weapon in a murderous scheme, daren't eventually agreed to speak with investigators again, and this time gave them a detailed confession of what went down. They recorded the audio.

He told me that he had her tied up in the closet and he was going to a do different things with her.

Prosecutor or rick calvert asked about the messages. Daring thought were from Jimmy.

that text message you're talking about was that a from Jennifer found.

yes, he had told me that he would take her phone. He was like, mad that I was back with her. And because of that, he was started churches. And she's like, I think I was going to kill him and I was just like, you can do that, you know and so such words is like a the idea I can't started.

This son of the volunteer state says he made her mission. His own dad told me that, and a whole lot more when I asked him, was IT .

harder for a drink ger.

Their high school romance fizzled in the early ninety eighties, and from then on, darn. Lopez thought of jennie faith, there's no one that got away.

You really never stop thinking about her.

did you? No, I did IT.

I met daring of the dallas county jail, his home, for thirty months while he waited for trial.

Hello, can you hear me? OK, yes.

again. In our interview, darren was by turns remorseful, reflective and regretful about his relationship with Jennifer, one that started with a kiss by the apple hour on a high school trip to europe.

And what the last .

uh we grew apart. I mean we last ted for three four years I try to go to college um I drop off and after a year and then during that time frame is when I joined the reserves.

Sounds like maybe SHE stop talking about you, but you did not stop thinking about her.

No, like I said, because before each deployment ts that I had to take, you know what to fill out these forms questions where if I would get captured, the you know rescue force can ask me to civic questions that only i'm going to know something .

personal that no one would be .

able to guess, look up exactly so I use before each deployment.

SHE was with me along the way. Darren, married, helped to raise five doctors. He says his life grew bleak after he left the army. Then in march two thousand twenty came that reconnection with Jennifer, and a short burst of happiness, followed by a descent into hell.

IT was her telling me these things over and over again after the stuff that happened, her crying about everything. That's what I believe I trusted her.

Dyn told me he finally decided to do what soldiers are trained to do, take out the enemy, the mission, protect Jennifer and her daughter Amber.

Jennifer in danger, she's going to be heard possibly killed friday night.

If you don't do something.

if I didn't do something.

SHE was gone to die, even if you believed every single thing he said and were fooled by all the emails. Why not go to the police?

Amber jane, every single time I tried to bring him up, he wanted to protect andress memory of Jamie has a good father.

Do that is killing them .

at the time? Yes, I truly believe, if I believed in here, know I was trust in her.

So he got in his truck, drove ten hours to dallas, he said. Jennie told him to hide in the yard of the vacant home next door. Yes, that was darren. On the video, Jennifer showed police the day of the murder.

but SHE knew all along.

daron waited until morning.

Was IT hard to .

pull a drink.

Er well, yes, I mean, there was I mean, I was on like on on missions in the military, but I was on the same type of mindset with IT. But I was still want to have .

to .

do to protect Jennifer. Keep doesn't mind after the shooting when he shot Jennifer onto the pavement as a stage robbery. That was the first time darren had touched her or even seen her in close to three decades. IT was also the last time you .

think he was ever in love with you.

I don't know, when I got arrested, I went to jail, truly believe. And I save Jennifer. And amer turney .

showed you the evidence that genera wasn't abused. Yeah, Jamie wasn't this monster. He wasn't beating up.

The threats weren't real. You said that's not true. You didn't want to solve that.

No, no. When my lawyers told me, know he was just that thought never registered in my mind that SHE could use me this way. He told me that we were so made. Why would he put me through all this torture?

Good question. Months later, as they're and CoOperated with the U. S.

Attorneys office, Jennifer was charged with a federal crime of murder for hire. Darren was left a restful with the awful truth. He had assassinated an innocent man. He used me.

I became her weapon. I understand that, and I want to have to live with what I need to the rest of my life, no matter on me here or from out.

IT might be easy to write off down and loops as another casualty of war, a damaged veteran turned stone cold killer, his band of brother says. It's not that simple.

Couldn't believe .

that here's somebody that we trust with everything, and it's not the person that we know that we do this. Filho and greg and would know a different dark after serving alongside him as Green berries in the iraq war. They witness darren's courage and kindness as a medic who cared both for his fellow soldiers and for injured iraq.

Kies, he was always out there with the children and talking them in their parent and making sure everything was good, everything you do for them. They remember a day in two thousand five when twin truck bombs exploded just outside their base south of baghdad. Dan took a serious hit to the head and then saw greg was out cold and in real danger.

Darn, pretty much brought me back to life. He saved my life. And I mean, he was a close friend and brother before that, but after that, I can never, I can never repay dining for that.

They also know how daron himself suffered the brain injury, the ptsd, the breakup of his marriage. Then, in the late spring of two thousand and twenty parents, friends say they caught a glimpse of the man they used to know. He said, I reconnected with old girlfriend, said, i'm just talking to her.

This was something that just really gave him that glow of, you know, okay. Well, this is good for you. Thank you. Share if you're maybe seek SHE wasn't in the courtroom, but jennie faith presence hung over the trial as darren faced a jury in the summer of two thousand twenty three and while he'd confessed to pulling the trigger, he pleaded not guilty.

Here's why darin kill James fake, but dynan did that because Jennifer LED him to believe that he was being abused, beaten. James is gonna kill me is like jennie told daring in texas is called the third party defense dan's lawyer laid out for the jury he felt at that time in order to say her, he had the act immediately and take care of the threat. You can use deadly force to defend someone if you believe that there an immediate harm, or you can do IT to prevent them from committee men murder or an agreed sexual .

assault in texas. Doesn't that have to be true for you to raise that?

Not necessarily dare in.

Lopez testified that he believed Jennifer lies about Jamie's abuse. Did you feel SHE was in danger?

That danger? Yes, I did. Mortal danger.

maybe and maybe not a prosecuted branding mital. Even if Jennifer was manipulating daring, SHE said he was all in .

that he is pursuing her. He wants her to come visit him. These tax emails get increasingly sexual in nature and increasingly graphic in nature.

How graphic? Well, those emails were red read allowed in court, resulting in a deeply grindum ing two personal command performance by prosecute Mitchell and detective boards. There's a pg sample.

I love you.

I so love you totally in love with you later.

a steamer exchange glad to .

see you are wearing clothes 哈哈哈哈。

look in .

any so my sexy .

bread .

i've just been you over my lap and give you a quick banking .

IT gets way racier just take my word for IT by the .

end we all kind of honestly， we kind of needed a shower IT was not good.

More important was the question of third party defense. The prosecutors said under the law, killer would have to believe the action was necessary to save a life and the danger imminent.

That means now, right this moment, action is needed. Beer of future danger is never enough, ladies and gentlemen, there and low power had so many options that he did not take.

Deliberate, long.

they weren't very long. We.

the jury animal sly, find a defended their Lopez guilty of murder as charged in the entirety. Daren't defense had always been a long shot, you know, a matter fact. I think if they would have come back with acquittal, you party would have to pick me off the ground. And the day that .

I happened celebrated. We all celebrated his .

life together.

We all got together, had some .

drinks.

and IT was a good time. Don Lopez was sentenced to sixty two years in prison. He's appealing the sentence .

he's a murder but maybe he wouldn't be a murder if he had hung on to that memory of generation er faith.

It's very possible it's a cautionary retail that maybe some people are .

Better left in your past and someone in Jennifer past as a story that will sound very familiar, SHE specifically said.

I wish my husband was .

dead yeah .

and what would happen when Jennifer face justice for jami's murder?

General faith, wife, mom, speech therapist, and maybe the biggest mystery in this whole tale of murder. And remember what the twins said about her.

I who love her. Tammy, I who loves her like you.

That's a keeper for you. Jamie, faith, love her too, probably still did, even at the moment he was murdered.

Here's .

someone else who love Jennifer. His name is rick or lab.

I feel. Like a fool.

I know you were a little reducent to sit down here because of that.

Sure, you don't look bad in front of the world.

When rick heard about Jennifer's role in the murder, he says he was horrified. Back in two thousand, he and Jennifer had an affair while he was still married to husband number one. Rick says he pursued him.

Not your plan, but there you are.

Yes, now stopped .

me if you've heard this, but he says Jenny told him her marriage was halliss and her husband a monster.

He would have friends come over in raper. He would torture her with implements.

So this was a woman in a terrible place. yes. And you could help her. yes. Was that your idea or .

her idea? It's her idea.

Until SHE makes .

you think that is, your idea should tell you about IT and just say, you know, I wish I could get out. I H wish he was dead. Or SHE specifically said.

I wish my husband was dead.

yeah.

Together he says they came up with a plan.

I was supposed to shoot him when he was tending his garden. IT. Was to that point.

Was this a real plan? Or was this some kind of like fantasy that the two of you were talking about?

What if that was close? I think IT was close.

He says the talk of murder ended abruptly when Jennifer got a divorce, and then rick became husband number two. Before long, he says he started receiving emails from a couple of strangers. One was a surgeon, the other an airline pilot. Each man talked about how hot Jennifer was and how rick didn't appreciate her.

You never at the surge. No number of the pilot.

no. Finally, rick IT enough and got a divorce today. Rick believes the pilot and the surgeon were phantoms, and Jennifer sent all those emails.

He also believes her first husband was not the monster jennie described. That guy declined an interview with deadline and police, and a izon a told us there is no evidence he ever abused. Jennifer, you got pretty Bruce by that all saying, did you?

I was not hurt physically, but I lost that time that I could you doing something different that really mattered and not be swarming in a see of lies and manipulation and.

Pain maybe shed thought he'd always get away with lying and manipulating. Truth is he almost did until darren reappeared. He pulled the trigger.

yes, but SHE pull the strings yes.

This murder doesn't happen without boat them.

Jennie faith declined our request for an interview, so we're left to wonder why he wanted jammy killed. And right in front of her. Maybe IT was about more than getting him out of her life. Maybe he was also about greed. How much was the life insurance.

I believe, in six hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars, plus additional almost four hundred thousand dollars in benefits from american airline? Ds, so a total excess of one million dollars .

never got that money.

SHE did not. If you're wondering, SHE did try and remember how her nice neighbors started that go fund me. IT raised sixty thousand dollars. A lot of that money went to darren Jennifer, giving two credit cards and some expensive gifts. They're still talking about .

that that he sent money from the golf n me to him to buy, like airplane tickets or something. A, T, V. And I was like, are you kidding me? Because immediately what flashes in my mind when I read that part was remembering her missing me and saying, I don't know how to access to go on me. I can't do IT SHE played the computer illiterate.

yeah. I was able to do so.

I physically went to her house, oh, man.

and I felt like a media. Jennifer, er, ended up draining that go fund me account. SHE never did pay for those .

splashy funerals.

Long after her arrest, Jennifer insisted he had been just a helpless bystander .

in jami's killed.

Then once darren confessed, SHE folded. Jennie pleaded guilty to the federal crime of murder for hire and was sentence to life without parole.

And after that, he sends a note to jami's parents saying he still loves them.

correct? Yes, but he did nothing but love jammy, and he would never do anything to harm. Yes.

he did all evidence that right through.

For those who did love James faith, this remains the final image of him. His last act, a daily routine, walking the dog with his wife, except SHE, was leading jammy to his death, and he knew IT.

What kind of person does that?

I don't know a crazy person, obviously, but it's so much more than that for jammy.

I mean, he really had no idea what he was getting into.

Yeah, sad. He let us her go to her and he took his life.

That's all for this edition of date line. We'll see you again thursday at ten nine central for the premiere of date line thursday. And of course, i'll see you each week night .

for nbc nightly news. I'm lester holt for all of us at nbc news.

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