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deadline IT happens on TV doesn't happen to your family, to your brother. But he does.

No one thought that could happen to him. He was a tough guy prepared for anything .

he always would say if anyone tries to break in here. Om.

instead he was killed. Step in his own home.

H.

his son and daughter in law stumbled into a terrifying scene.

That's when I saw gun.

They said, we're gonna to kill you.

A strange story that only got stranger had purple .

gloves and .

they had blue fuzzy globes.

Something isn't right here.

Could he have killed his own father? What really happened in that house?

I did not do this.

Then a witness came forward and changed everything in this bizarre story. The strangest thing of all was the truth.

He planned for any, except for the .

one .

that i'm later hold. And this is deadline. Here's Keith Morrison with mystery at patient canyon.

There are people on this glorious sun kist planet of hours who get up each morning to the miracle of being alive and worry not other aren't things to worry about. Of course, whether we can do anything about there are not. But some people worry a very great deal indeed, and do try to be prepared for whatever.

And one of those prepared people was a brilliant retired university professor named k. mortenson. Her sister was a woman named firm.

I said, okay, what would happen if i'm not prepared and I i'm hungry or my kids are hungry? Can we come your house? And now I ably to shoot, you know? So adjustors ly, he wouldn't bit, he was definitely willing .

to protect what he had. Yes, he certainly was.

And sure enough, one night, one emergencies.

but we're getting ahead of ourselves. What happened that night was a long time coming. IT was long before that when k became a survivalist with attitude.

you know, exactly what he thought about everything. And even though he knew what he was saying was going to be outrageous, not accepted, he would .

say .

that anyway.

he had a black belt in karate I he owned scores and firearms, kept guns, and just about every room in the house and in all of his cars are fully stocked concrete bunker er outside his home and patient, you dog.

he had food. He had everything there, you know, water, wait to go, the bathroom and magazines, books to read.

Kay was very clear about IT with his wife, darla. And you say.

this is where you and I are going to end up because there's gonna a nuclear war. And i'd say I don't want to live if everybody else is dying. So, so he was a true, he worried about things and want to be prepared for the civil war that was going to be wrapped. And so he was a little over the top.

Dara wasn't thrilled about that, but he accepted him at his radical views. After all, they were still kind of in there a honeymoon face.

IT was all kinda surreal. I think we all felt like we were back being teenagers again. So because we both, you know, hadn't really had love for quite a few years.

they'd found each other late in life. After both had raised families, gay had three adult children by them, one of whom his eldest, Roger, stayed close.

He was my best friend. We did everything together.

Mind you, Roger was not at all like k for one thing, he suffered a brain injury in an accident years ago. So unlike, okay, he couldn't work much, lived on disability, but he liked to hang out with his dad.

We live lesson a mile apart because we did enjoy spending so much time together. If I ever needed help, he was, he'd be there in a minute to help me.

Although said Roger's White, pam was always easy. That's just the way k was wired.

Roger dad was a very strong willed person. IT was his way, or the highway.

So Roger learned early the shy away from confrontation with his father if he said .

something that Roger maybe disagreed, wanted to do IT a different way, Roger would leave. He would come back and everything would be good. Again.

not at all how I was with his new love, darlin. When he was around, they said, gaze, tough, high melting.

We knew then that he really loved her and that he was willing to compromise and do something so that he could make her happy also because soft .

and a map a little bit.

yes.

So, okay, I got married, married couple, and they were as happy as either one of them had ever been to say.

what else do we need to do were retired. E, we have plenty of money. Want just to have fun.

K was a rich man made most of his money buying gold at two fifty, announce, said, darlin.

he just had the first sight. He always, he was know the dollar bills not going to be worth anything.

He put his money into a trust so that Roger and his other children would inherit everything once he was gone. Even knows he wasn't spending IT worth millions.

but he was very frugal, very frugal. And I just, I used to say to him, you know, like, he just, I say, win is that you're going to spend your money. You know, what are you waited for?

Okay, promise dara, you travel with her. See the world. But he made sure his bunker was stocked, had he kept his guns close to hand. Justin case and then IT was november sixteenth, two thousand nine. Darrel was away watching her granddaughters k was alone at his house in .

person nine one one was back to the emergency IT was evening when .

the court came in. I have helped on the way.

but I just need to get some information and you sure that he's said .

dala was on her way home, her cell phone chirped IT was a neighbor and .

he just is what something terribles happened and a pain canyon is. I think it's at your house.

dollars. Mind flashed the k and his guns and .

I thought, oh my god, she's probably shot somebody, invade or something.

Gene found a family friend and Chris Andreas.

I said, I sometimes going on, i'm alone. I just, i'd need to be somebody. Can you come down, be with me.

Chris rushed to meet darla at the foot of the canyon, police said, blocked off the road that LED decay of darl's house. And now darla and Chris thought exactly the same .

thing can really shot someone.

Turned out k never .

got the chance to touch his son.

makes an organizing discovery and stumbles right into a murder scene.

They are the wrong place, wrong time.

Everyone knew that k. Morganson was always prepared, surrounded himself for the variable able arsenal, the just a tough old bird who could defend himself against just about anything .

he always would say, if anyone tries to break in here, all calm.

but life, no matter how well we prepare, is full of rude surprises, as IT was for k. mortenson. IT was november sixteen th, two thousand nine, just before thankyou.

skiving. Hi, this is, have a place on the way to help you there you sure you did your dads called to the touch?

Kay did not shoot summer truder, as he long promised that he was prepared to do. No, somebody killed him without firing a shot.

And the men of the phone reporting the crime Roger mercs out the sun.

a slice the throat.

IT wasn't long before cage wife darla a had made IT to the mouth of the canyon and was LED to the command post that had been set up just down the hill from their home. That's where they gave her the news.

Your life just comes tumbling down. You know, you have IT all planned out, you thinking all what it's gonna be, and then everything's gone.

cut off guard. K, thought dia, impossible. But that seem to be just one happened, at least that's what router and vamp told the police, and later us. And a very strange story, IT, was that began, they said, when pan received a pie at work as a gift.

we knew how much he loved that because on pie, and we decided, as soon as he got home from work, to take him that pie.

So they said they went to his house, intended to drop off the pie and then leave. But when they got there, they said, there was an unfamiliar your car in the driveway. pm. Had SHE knocked on the door, and a Young man answered.

I said, is k here? He said, he is, he's upstairs. I said, we are just here to drop off a pie.

And they said, go head in. I got two about the landing. When I was asked to come back down, I heard the door shut. And when I turned around, that's when I saw the gun.

What was he like to .

see that there was a shock as soon as we turned around and and saw the again, another guy started walking down the stairs. Also, he had in his hand a lot of zip tize. They turn to us and said, you're here at the wrong place, wrong time. Pull out your hands. The intruders .

zip tied their rests, force them down on the living room floor, then zipped, tied their ankles.

After we were tied up, they said that, well, i'm sorry, but you have seen our faces. We're gonna have to kill you now.

pam. Quaking in terror, he said, looked up at a picture of jesus that was hanging on the living room wall.

I kept .

thinking.

have any father, if you really love me and care for me, please make us get through this. And IT calmed me to keep looking at that picture of Christ and to be able to help rather ers stay come.

That really .

had impact on you. I did a why IT just brought me comfort. IT brought me .

peace .

to know that, to know that that my heavenly father loves me and that he would do the right thing for me.

Both men left the room, they said, and then Roger began praying a loud. He was amid sentence, he said, when the men walk back in and something quite amazing happened.

my wife, he says, okay, be quite. They're back, and one of them says, no, that's okay. Keep praying. Go ahead and a boat for their arms in front of them and about their heads. And listen to me as I continued .

this entire prayer.

when I got done with the prayer, we ball SAT down and their demand changed. At that point, one of them looked at us and says, well, we've decided we're not gona kill you. We've decided that we're going to tell you a story that you need to relate to the police.

But was that story that the intruders told them to say, three black men was scheme, masked, invaded the house, three, not two, as they actually were, black, not White, as they actually were, and then, said Roger, they took his driver's license, told him they'd know if her, pam ever told the truth. And if that happened, they are hunted down and they kill him. And then the two men left. Roger pan waited a while, got out of the IP tize, and Roger ran upstairs well and dial nine one one, and was on the phone with the Operator when Roger found his father in the upstairs bathroom.

And I saw my father nearly over the bathtub. His feet were tired, and he was, his head was down in the bathroom.

Inconceivable, tough, resilient, armed to the teeth. K, murdered with his own kitchen knife. What a story. Argerich canute into the u talk out to share us self was designed as one of the lead detectives. He was sitting in the office when, from up of the house, the first officer to talk to pan and Roger and said.

you know, something isn't right here. IT seems from his perception that maybe this is some things were staged, or some things were just not what he would think would be Normal for a crime as hainous or as vicious as this.

Something about that bizarre story didn't sit right. He just couldn't put his finger on IT. But yeah, anyway.

Coming up problem was that bizarre story got weirder by the minute they .

had purple gloves .

on and they had blue fuzz gloves.

really.

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The death of k. Mortenson was horrific, humiliating, help us to defend himself inside his own sacred fortress. The killer had been him over his own bathtub, slashed throat several times, stabbed his neck, all those guns, and not a single one fired. IT seemed so personal. Argenteuil of the u talk county share of office got a briefing from the first officer at the scene who turned on his audio recorder when he met case son Roger and Rogers wife pan Roger had found the body and was already suggesting possible killers.

Me an appointment for lunch on with the guy in my kid discussing twenty five .

thousand mike kip. Mike was case former student Roger .

pan identify him real quick. They say he's involved. He, he oes my dad money. He's the one. Did this.

Roger told detectives that k was holding a collection of my weapons, about thirty of them, mostly pistols and rifles, and some shotguns can put the guns in his bonker. Roger thought there might be a grudge involved when detectives went to look for the guns, they were gone.

So we pull in Michael kp that night too. We interview him and and we can get his allia. It's quick.

Nothing so special about that. That turned out mike had not a thing to do with gays murder. He simply needed money. And k agreed to buy his guns. By now.

tips were coming in, and this female said, it's the Baker boys. SHE said the Baker boys did this.

The Baker boys were brothers who, fairly or not, had developed a reputation as the town's troublemakers. Detectives found them. They had solid alibis. Then the next day, another chip, a woman who implicated her own husband.

he came home last night before the time frame, before the homicide. He grabbed bunch of stuff, including a knife. And he's been looking for for guns. So I know he's involved.

but the woman's husband was eventually eliminated as a suspect. Detect this, hope maybe the stolen guns would lead them to case killers.

And we recovered a lot of a lot of fireproof stolen. Just again, none link.

That's just highlighted another aspect of the mystery.

Kay.

remember collected firearms that close to one hundred valuable guns locked up at his house, yet the thieves just stole the cheaper ones from the bunker. Pretty bizarre robbery to take those guns and not take the far more valuable collection the k had agreed. In fact, the inside of cash house was pristine, untouched.

No sign anybody had stolen anything. If this was a home invasion, IT was an og one. But by then, truth be told, detectives were already coming in on the two people who admitted they were there the whole time case, sun, Roger and his wife pam. That he said.

starting with that .

nine one one goal, they made something odd about IT didn't sound .

how I would think that a phone call should be made to nine one one after discovering your father had just been killed with the throat cotton sip titan about top.

Roger and pam said the detectives appear to be unemotional, uncaring, even calls, even though they claimed that gunman stood over them, kept them hostage romas two hours. At first, pam couldn't seem to describe the man.

the guy that had a gun. What did he looked like? What's the White guy? Black guy? panic? I don't know.

SHE seemed uncertain even about the number of gunman.

How many were there? How many guys were there?

But listen to what happened next. Roger took the phone and change the story.

White, black is panic. White nails, two White. Now, Roger explained .

the reason for all the apparent confusion that if they ever revealed what their capture looked like, they're be hunted down and killed.

Did you buy that? Not really. I didn't. They didn't appear fearful. They were saying IT. They were really .

acting fearful anyway, why would vicious killers not have killed them to night of the birder can not interview.

Them do the same .

nervous, or actually .

really nervous or agitated, just kind of unemotional.

even at times cold toward the victim, Rogers .

father, everybody.

And as they told their stories, detectives started noticing subtle differences.

And they had blue fuzz gloves. They looked like women's winter driving gloves or something, the fuzzy kind they had.

I know they had purple gloves on purple medical. Lots of details on which .

they didn't degree. So surgeon canoes decided to employ a well known police set of you technique. He got tough accusing, quite Frankly.

I think the stories is a bunch crap. I think the stories a bunch of crap that you and Roger have come up with.

下面 一个。 Trying to the sound too rehearsed or yeah.

kay.

I want them to say I had nothing to do with this, you know, detective, you're crazy. I had nothing to do with this. That's what I wanted to hear and never .

came out but listen to what did come out.

Is your husson .

cable killing .

somebody? I .

wouldn't hope. I mean, I wouldn't think he is. I wouldn't think that he's capable, able, his father, a search of Roger .

and pan's home. So they appeared to be in financial trouble, detect the round collection notices and unsent mortgage coupons, suggesting at least that they were behind in their house. And I know .

we're in a lot of that, but we, I personally would not have my father in a kill for his man.

And yeah, as Roger told the .

detective within days .

of the murder, bamba Roger agreed to go back to the house with detectives for a video tape retelling of their intruders story .

at the front door. My wife was holding a pie right here.

That providing any useful information .

IT provided useful information from our standpoint as far as more circumstantial evidence that they're not being one .

hundred person truthful. Once again detected and heard fauga memories SHE.

They are knock on the door or rain the door, but all, I believe he knocked on the door.

They heard dialogue that sounded like a bad crime movie.

He pointed at us and said, you're here at the wrong time. Put out your hands.

Then there was that same strange lack of emotion when Roger described what should have been the worst moment of his life.

Came back and my wife was talking at the time to, I went, want this patch. And I said, he is dead.

Roger and pam took a polygraph. And what do you know? Roger was found to be deceptive, and pam was jumpy.

The Operator couldn't complete the test. But still Roger and pamper swore up and down. They had nothing to do with IT. They were victims themselves. Truth be told, the police needed some real evidence, and out of the blue, something arrived.

And that new evidence, something else that was strange, someone saw the killing in a dream.

So I have a photo line. I'm done up and he puts her finger on IT SHE puts at a and Rogers face.

Within days of k. Morton son's murder, members of his family began hearing deeply troubling reports from the u. Talk county hero's office. The investigation was leading. Shares can be detectives told them to case own sun, Roger and Rogers wife dala said he couldn't believe that.

At first I was just adamant that they couldn't done IT. I was their biggest defender.

But then detective asked her to listen. The Roger and palms recorded statements, and SHE, too, started to wonder.

They told lies. And then I got IT just put more suspicion on him.

Gradually her conviction grew. Same for k sister firm.

I could buy the fact that they were thinking of Rogers involvement.

There were just too many things about Roger and palm story didn't make any sense to firm. And there was something else to a possible witness. Remember that woman who suspected her husband was involved? Police found him here in the like city at a drug binge with some friends. They were high on math. And one of the people there, a woman that cami bills, told the detectives SHE had a story to tell, have about a dreams she'd had.

SHE describes in what he calls a dream while seeing somebody get killed. SHE describes being outside of a room. SHE describes a female after her left crying in, and SHE describes three or four males in the bathroom. And he says, there's one male who I think is related to the female .

that's on the floor screaming. And remember, the woman was on reporting not what he saw, but what he dreamed he saw. Still, you never know if he ask.

So I have a photo line of drawn up and SHE stares at IT and he puts her head down and he puts her finger on IT. SHE puts at a right on Rogers face.

The next day, detectives took cami to case house shoulder, the crime scene. And again, SHE named Roger. I can .

really see Roger just arms. Please hold.

K, you don't hear a story like that and say that piece crap and go on from there now.

Now, when he gives that that amount detail.

the special of Roger and pam was hardening. By the minute detectives get out, the rest of the Martinson family informed of developments.

What are the studio man? IT IT throw me for a loop.

When barron Roger attended case funeral, the tension was thick.

IT was very difficult to be there because everybody wanted to know what happened that night.

but they couldn't say anything, said pam. Detectives told them not to.

and my sister came up to me at one points, tell me what really happened. And I told her, i'm sorry, I cannot talk about this.

Shortly after rogan pam took the polygraph test and we're told about the dismal al results, they hired a lawyer. Few in the mortal in cent family could understand why they would do a thing like that if they were innocent. That is.

I tried to say, what would I do us in this situation? I would do everything I could to help get these people that had cause such hour in their lives and murdered. K.

on the advice of their attorneys, Roger, and have stopped talking, and the lob sided rift in the mountains and family widened from mistrust to anger to outright accusation. Chris Andreas, the woman darlin called the night of the murder, was one of very few people who continued to support Roger and pam.

They were left to hang out and dry.

You feel .

about that so angry. I was just so, so angry. I couldn't believe that that you could love somebody and do that to him. Even if I thought Roger had done IT, I would nor have abandoned him. And they did something, did that not only did they abandon him.

they crucify him months straight by Roger and pam wear headline news in utah. But in the absence of definitive physical evidence leaking them to case murder, they remain free day by day. They went about their business as if their lives were still quite Normal.

Then on july twenty eight, two thousand ten, you talk county prosecutor tim Taylor r. Took a dramatic step to break the log jam. He presented the case against Roger and time to a grand jury.

So why call the grand jury when I just charge? We thought the grand jy was a great tool to force them to come into talk. IT was a secret proceeding.

No defendants, no defense attorney, only prosecutors, police, some members in the mortals and family, even some of palms co workers, all in front of sixteen jurors whose job was to decide whether or not they should charge Roger and pam with case murder. And in just over an hour, the jury decided to, indeed. So what does that idea?

While there was enough to proceed.

it's sort of reinforced to what you .

are already thinking I did.

And that same day, eight months after k. Morganson was found dead in his home, Roger and pan were deposited in the county jail. Chris Andreas, the family friend who still believe they were innocent, went to Roger .

sister Julie. We need some money to hire an attorney for Roger. We think pam family can come up with money for pam, but we've gotta get him a separate tourney.

Can you help me? There's millions of dollars in the trust. SHE told me her words were not run. Red penny will be spent on his defense.

June told us he did not use those specific words, but he said the family was advised by the attorney not to use case money to pay for Rogers defense, which mounted Roger, who stood to in her at a big chunk of his dad's million, but after rely on a public defender where he impaled diabolical killers as detectives and their own family had come to believe, of course, we and everybody else just had to know.

Coming up, Roger and pam face questions from date .

line as the interrogations continued. Your stories didn't stay the same, according to the police, in place when .

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Much of utah county, along with Roger's own family and many of their one time friends, join the line up parade against Roger and pam workers, as they said in jail charged with murdering Rogers father k, and they waited for their day in court. The evidence against them, they're strange. The minor they are, alleged central trouble.

Rogers failed polygraph, but mostly, according to detectives, the bizarre and ever changing story they told about the night of the murder. What was the truth? We asked the only people who knew for sure, starting at the beginning with that strange nine one one call.

who held you hostage.

I don't know wrong there that doesn't. People scream online on one calls. They're crazed. And I .

think I was in a lot of shock too. And I don't know the real reason why I was I could stay as long as I can, but I just that's just my personal l and that's the type of person I am.

And although he didn't sound like IT SHE was terrified, SHE said, their capture said, just threatened to kill them if they told the truth.

And so when the nine one one Operator asked me, how many were there, I was totally confused. What to say? Do I tell the truth? Which what I wanted.

wanted to do? Rogers said he knew exactly what he had to do when he discovered his father in the bathtub.

And I hold her down to her while you were still on the phone. Tell them the exact truth. We are going to get these guys.

But pam said he still couldn't spit IT out. I was kind .

of staggering through what was going on. Well, there was two. Maybe there was three because I didn't know. I was terrified for my life still, and I didn't know what I should have said.

What about their police and interrogations when their stories didn't match?

I thought their gloves were one color. SHE thought their gloves were another color. Other than that, our stories were basically the same.

They both CoOperated fully, said Roger, kept talking for days. Even as police brought up one accusation after another, there was an inheritance involved. Yes, and you talked about that with the police.

I may have I not sure.

Well, according to them, you talked about IT, and I provided one of the classic motivations that children have for killing their parents. Cops want to do IT all the time, right?

They say they do.

And that's clearly what they were thinking when they talk to you. Yes, do they make that clear?

They didn't make very much clear. The stages said that we were not being. CoOperative with them, even though from the very beginning, we told them everything that happened. They just didn't believe that. They didn't believe that two people would kill one person and leave two more alive.

perhaps. But what about Roger and palms? Apparent financial troubles.

we were not having any financial problems. If we were having financial problems, my father would be glad to help us. We had that .

type of a relationship. They were certainly not debt free, they said, but didn't amount to a whole lot. And as for the pile of unsent mortgage coupons, they simply started being online.

They said, like everybody else. And as for that failed polygraph test, Roger said he should never been asked to take IT. Remember, he's on disability because years ago he had a serious accident that left him with a brain injury, which goes, among other things, short term memory loss and confusion. And the sort of thing that would make a polygraph is out quite useless.

I said, how could I have failed? I did not do this.

So was he lying, or did police had IT all wrong? They didn't .

know how to proceed. They could not find fingerprints because the people had gloves on. They didn't find a gun because they took IT with them. They didn't know what to do. And so being confused, they went after the easiest they could find.

I was us. The days piled up a month, two months, four months in jail, waiting for their day at cord, a day for which Rogers lawyer maybe wasn't quite so eager as they were. We had a case that i've believed in when we had a case that I thought we could defend.

At the end of the day, I was scared and no one was prepared. When one gold winter day in the u. Talk county share of office, the phone man.

Coming up the unexpected call, the truth revealed. A surprising ending, you will believe.

Summer turned in the winter again. The family marked the Green anniversary of water murder as case on. Roger and his daughter and long pam cooled their heels in jail, awaiting trial all the while while maintaining their innocence, bams said. He was offered a deal if he turned states evidence against Roger.

If you just tell them what they want to hear, then you could go home. But for me, I was not gonna lie just so that I could be a free person.

I just public defender Anthony hl believed his client was innocent. I was looking for that piece of evidence that would be, that's the thing I can't explain. There just was nothing.

But here was the rob, how new juries and his trial approached. He was deeply unsettled. I was worry. He was gonna convicted regardless of what I try to do.

why? Because this is the kind of case where a jury would be worried that if they didn't convict, that they would be letting a murderer go free. But how didn't get the opportunity to defend his client in court?

The reason was that phone call to the u. Talk county sheriff office, a call from a woman named Rachel binging. And here's what he had to say.

I have just been walking IT out like that. That happened. And I have just watched the new people are gonna to jail. What SHE had been .

blocking out was a bomb show. A rex husband, Martin bond, told her he and a friend, Benjamin, went to his house to steal his guns.

They one and all to put that type on. He said that he wasn't willing at first, but he eventually did.

Bang, SHE said, told her everything .

took into the bathroom over .

the home and cut his throat.

And then he said that, really, that they heard the door, the doing. And, 嗯， 不。

the two were Roger and pam, and we know the rest of the story. Rich l. Beam kept the secret for months until finally her conscience won out, and he told the police one more thing how the crooks got the drop.

And k. Mortenson IT turned out that Martin's dad and k, we're old friends. K, had known Martin as a kid, which is Y, K, armed against intruders, welcomed him in and turned his back to his killers.

He had planned for any worst case in order to to happen, except for the one that happened.

And that there are so many ironies there.

There are so many ironies.

The biggest Roger and pants crazy story about armed intruder was true all along. So surgeon can using, still at trouble.

believing that I can pick up the case, and I can read IT, and I can read through IT, and I can see discrepancy after discrepancy. I can see.

but can you see where maybe that is enough? And for treating is possible evidence the dreams sequence of a girl on math. This is evidence.

Well, it's it's more circumstantial evidence.

It's a lead. You'd even call that circumstances .

all up .

saying he had a dream.

It's a good dream and it's pretty close.

And in the end, the prosecutor admitted he and the detectives got IT wrong. Based upon the new physical evidence that we have located, we anticipated dismissing the charges against Roger and pam mortenson. Tomorrow, Roger and pam were finally freed.

Those four a half months seems like four .

and .

a half thousand years. I felt like I was in there forever.

Palm got a standing ovation from an unlikely crowd .

as I was walking out of that big dorm area. There was ninety women clamping and cheering for me. They knew I was innocent. And for me, having the situation that I, that I be dealt with, with Rogers family turning against us, friends turning against us, to have that support of those people, that people would consider criminals, to have them cheer and and yell and scream, was a very emotional thing for me.

I am one of the prosecuted to issue of public apology that will help make up for what all this has cost them, he said. We offered the prosecutor this forum. Am I sorry? Yeah, I am.

I have no problem was saying that I made sake. We didn't try to define d anyone. We didn't try to lie. We didn't try to fabricate anything. But we made a mistake.

Padman Roger filed a lawsuit arguing that the s and detectives lie to the grand jy, but just a few months later, the U. S. Supreme court ruled that grand jy witnesses and prosecutors were immune from civil litigation, so the judge dismissed the case.

So let me understand this. The police come to your house, arrested your names, your drag through the mud, then somebody gets the right guy, and they say one bye, see you later. Exactly as in so many cases, bond and read ended up blaming each other.

Ready, took a deal, got twenty five alive, born, went to trial, was convicted and is doing life without parole. The star prosecution witness Rachel binging and if he hadn't come forward, would two innocent people be in prison today? It's going to chase you for a .

while um a little but you know, I can put IT behind me. The cases closed down. What i'm happy about for me personally is the family has closure.

but do they IT isn't just case murder, they must learn to live with, but also the records stream for god knows how long. Through the family story.

I had emotions of happiness and and relief. But still there's some regret that I didn't support a Roger and pam from the beginning .

that changes your perspective on the world that really does .

and by the way, said Roger, an pan, a little piece of advice .

if anything happens and there's anything dealing with law enforcement. You don't say a word and you get .

an attorney as a dara who'd finally found the love of her life, what was there to say that moment of sunshine snacks to ap.

you just take what life brings on. It's not always what you'd expected. When you're a Young girl, you have all your dreams of what your life's gonna and somehow IT just doesn't quite work out that way.

That's all for now. I'm letter hot. Thanks for joining us.

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