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Twin, a families, desperate search for justice.

Nothing has turned out right.

A wife and mother murdered .

SHE was in a casca light position.

Her arms were crossed. Who would have a motive to kill .

a lady in world? I will pass her jewelery boxes .

untouched. Did someone have a bigger prize in mind? Family farm worth a fortune.

mom, and never show mom .

two trials.

Every emotion .

hit two vertical.

There are only two people who know what happened that day. One of them is dead, and the other one sitting in that chair.

too much too.

Bar is l on earth.

Father again, son in a small town mystery. I'm letter hold. And this is dateline. Here's denis morphy with return to the farm.

Council bluff ira in a small court room, the new and final scene before year long drama was playing out.

Count one murder in the first degree the defendant did, having that of tour thought wilfully, deliberately and with premeditation and kill surely, dean Carter.

it's a case that ripped the stitches out of a close net family, never to be repared.

The bullet strikes are in the side and cards a path through her chest, shattering rips and punching holes in her lung in harm.

Surely cut shot twice with a deer rifle in the little home setting corn fields that he shared with her husband of fifty years builker.

And pleasant view, iowa, so much of the rythm of life is set by the seasons, turning the average, planting the sea, then bringing in the harvest corn and soy, mostly so that june morning in two thousand and fifteen dawn, with no particular omens, Shirley Carter and her husband, bill, started their day, as they always did, with coffee at the general store.

We went to coffee every morning at mile to cases that was original.

After coffee saying hello to neighbors, they bounce back down the gravel road to home. Bill dropped out surely at the top of the driveway.

I let her out of the pick up and he said, I think i'll finish my coffee before I core. And I said, honey, i'll see you between eleven and eleven thirty.

You never know. Do you build? You don't. Bill headed off to sell a lot of corn at the grainy about an hour away by eleven A M. He remembers being just a few miles from home when he got a call from his daughter.

and he said, dad, mom, dad, Jason founder.

Jason billson had called nine one one. This is what he said.

I'm way here on what? What do? Whatever you you don't know what happened.

Bill got to the house, ran from his truck, passing sun, Jason on the back deck .

my way in, and there SHE lay SHE looked like he was as sleep.

Not long after marion county sheriff Jason sandholes arrived at the farmer. He grew up in mary and county and knew the Carter family. Did you get into the house? And so I did. There are in the itchen. What in the world happened here?

correct? And who would have a motive? Who would have, I mean, the desire to to kill a lady in rural eva?

The share of called for help.

get multiple phone calls from my bus.

Special agent mark ludwig works for a division of the state police department of criminal investigation, the dc. I, this was the first case and pleasant view, about an hour from demand.

So I get here to the driveway, get multiple vehicles in the driveway, uh, long enforcements on the scene, and the famous can gathering around the day. Three.

does any arriving office to tell you that's a husband? That's the sun.

I meet with the shelf and apparent to me that these are family members. Yeah, and I don't know names yet.

As soon as he got a search, one agent last week entered the house with crime scene. Tex IT looked as though someone had ransacked the place. But there, sitting on a chair.

you can see this purse that can be a key aden for a burglary.

It's untouched. Money in IT, money in IT.

cash on IT card cards in IT, give cards in IT was not touched some papers .

restoring about IT as IT.

When we made our way into the bedroom, her jewellery boxes were untouched .

and in the kitchen lay the unlikely victim Shirley card, a sixty eight year old farm wife and mother .

surely his body was line right here on the kitchen floor.

What your best guess is what happened that day.

We know the gun was in this area and was surely was stayed in the ddd. kitchen. The first .

bullet went through Shirley's body and pears, the refrigeration. They thought the weapon was a high powered gun.

perhaps a rifle he like held from A P we know surely will fAllen down to the kitten floor. And the shooter would have moved up towards, in the in fired shot like this.

a cooter gra shot to surely st. chest. How totally are the way sh'd come to rest?

SHE was in a casca light position her arms across as though .

the funeral director had posted for buying.

Yes, and that's not Normal.

There were still test to be done, interviews to conduct. But IT was coming, coming with the relentless fury of an IOS summer twister. No stopping in a family was about to be destroyed.

The investigation starts with a closer look at the family, which didn't make the family very happy when we come back.

They are upset that we are wasting time.

but police have their reasons. The murder weapon may have belong to someone within the family.

So the question is, where is this two seventy reminding .

that correct?

In I, O, corn fields, a warm sun is beating down on the farmhouse where a murder investigation was underway. Shirley Carter was lying dead, shot in her kitchen share of Jason sand hold in his team investigators. We're trying to figure out what had happened when your crime scene text cleared the house.

They really didn't have much for IT, do they? They no forensic, no blood, no D N A, nothing really useful. Nobody walked front of a security camera, right? So to understand Shirley cartier's death, they'd have to learn more about her life, the back story to a murder. Turned out he was a local girl, her dad, a groser, her mother and assistant at a law office in high school. He met bill, where you go on .

your first day, took her to the home coming dance. SHE is quite hit, pretty, saying you ever see.

as bill tells that they were kids in love deeply, maybe careless ously, during her software year, surely got pregnant.

We were married at a very Young age. I was eighteen. I just turned eighteen, and he was sixteen.

Soon daughter Jenna was born. Then came Billy. Eight years later, Jason completed the family with three kids to race bill and surely went into farming on a small plot of starter land. They grew some corn and soybeans, then poured the profits into more prime eyewear. Crich surely loved farming.

SHE did everything you just took to IT SHE was a natural SHE loved loved being in the the tractors long .

time friend and neighbor eyring schultz said, surely brought a little puzzles to the fields when he climb ed into her customer tractor. SHE always put a little bit of makeup on every morning before he went out. Now SHE was, he had rosy cheeks.

He was beautiful inside and out in time. Daughter gene married and moved away to a job in demand. Son billie went into the heating and air conditioning business, but Jason, the Youngest child.

took to the land. I really enjoyed working with him. I was teaching him he is a good farmer.

Jason would Carry on the farming tradition for another generation. And best of all, he and his wife Shelley lived close by bill and surely soon had grandchildren to dote on a happy family picture, suddenly disfigured by the ugly murder of shirly Carter d. ci. Agent mark lubbock took the lead in the investigation.

First, we want to identify all witnesses, we want to separate them, and we want to conduct the face of face, set down interview as soon as we can.

Early on, the most important witnesses were built. The husband and Jason, the sun ludwik assigned deputies to take the two down to the pleasant view pd.

SHE said, you want cook cup?

In an interview room.

bill told investigators the same story. He told us how he drop surely off at home and then ran a load of corn to the grainy, and then he raised home to find his wife still on the floor. Jason, in turn, said his day started pretty much the same.

He'd also taken a load of corn to that same grainy drive. e. Later in the morning, he said he went to his parents house to help with some chores and then discovered his mother.

your life was terrible with their accounts on the .

record deputy said bill and Jason home that night, the farmhouse was still taped off as a crime scene. So bill stated Jason's .

place and I didn't sleep, that I smoke cigaret and I walked that .

in the meantime, crime tax had finished with the sea. And deputy said, seized half a dozen guns they found in the house. Jason took a look at the inventory of weapons they had confiscate, and he noticed one gun was missing, a high powered rimmed in two seventy rival like this one. How did the weapon .

come my oldest sun bottle for me in two thousand and five for Christmas.

bill kept the rival in a gun safe in his basement. So the question is, where is this to seventy remindin? Is that our murder weapon?

That's correct.

The crime scene investigators had examined the two slugs they're collected and IT could be amo used in a two .

seventy remittance IT was a two seventy round. Couldn't say .

absolutely positively, but certainly consistent .

with being they were conscience .

fired from that type of woman that bill store, that rival unloaded deep in his basement. The killer would have to have gotten lucky finding the gun and the mo, our investigators thought maybe the shooter was someone who knew where that gun was, maybe someone in the family. I didn't go overwhelm the Carters.

We go back out of the crime sea.

and the family is mad. Jason, his wife Shelley, bill and daughter jana all gathered in the living room.

And Janet and bill, a lot us. Have IT. They are upset that we are wasting time on this investigation that were screwed up the investigation because we are looking at family members.

Bill and his daughter were write about at least one thing. They were now focusing on the family .

coming up.

We'd found .

out that Jason Carter s. Had an affair.

If Jason was hiding an affair, was he hiding anything else?

I never hurt my mom. If you wanna hold those affairs against me, that's fine, but I never hope I never hurt my mom.

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Surely the farm wife and mother had been gunned down in our own kitchen, and there was no obvious explanation for the crime. As investigators began digging into the Carter family background, though they came across the detail that focus their attention IT conserve the son Jason, the one who found his mother's body.

We had found out that Jason Carter was, have an affair. How do you find that out? A front of his the one interviews.

Jason never mentioned any problems with his marriage when investigators first ask them about that. So who's this girlfriend?

We locate her, we bring her in, and we determine that there's another .

phone in play, another phone.

a phone that they just had.

The lubber's had what they call burner phones going to off books.

burner phones. We call at the sixteen phone.

The girlfriend told the investigators Jason kept the phone stashed away, hidden under the hood of his pickup truck. Jason not only didn't mention the affair and ness first interview, he also never told investigators about that secret phone. Does IT change him where he stands .

in your suspects? absolutely. He gets elevated at that point if .

Jason had tried to hide the affair. Agent ludwik wondered if Jason was hiding anything else about his mother's murder. The investigator called Jason and told him he knew about the affair and the phone.

So he says, I will meet you at the shirts office. He's there and he hands the cell phone over. And so here you go. Here's my sock yourself out.

yeah. Then a surprise. Jason wanted to talk .

some more comes in on very well, no atterley.

In this video, investigators went over his story again in the tail, but timely of that morning. How long? From nine one one phone call till your day? I got .

there five minutes.

Jason was bent on letting them know he had nothing to hide, no matter how long you took. Bring on your questions.

And he sits on the chair, and he precedes to sit in this chair for over ten hours.

Let's do this. Let's step out. We're going to give you a minute. I'm fine.

Doesn't shift, doesn't move, doesn't stand up, no bathroom breaks.

nothing.

We bayed and take bathroom breaks. We bid to bring him food.

right?

You that out. You want internet.

what what's .

out about? He's going to stay here until we believe them.

He admitted to being unfaithful, but said IT was ludicrous. Think he'd killed his mother.

I never hurt t my mom. If you wanna hold those affairs against me, that's fine. But I never, I never hurt my mom. I walked in and found my mom the way he was.

This is about surely .

being killed. I know that. And you're not doing anything about IT because whoever didn't kill her is still out there headed home.

But a cloud of suspicion hung over the Carter family, not only over Jason, but bill, too. Bill kw, agent ludwik was looking at him since he was the last person known we've seen surely alive.

And he said, you know, you could have done this when you brought her back from coffee.

Then for weeks, nothing happened.

We have no leads, nothing going on the investigation.

So the surely card of murder case was adding to the cold case file IT.

Was that that way? yes.

But bill Carter wasn't going to let that happen. He hired his own detective. Nick web is a crime scene analyst and a former homicide detected from texas. Bill instructed him to dig into the case within open mind. If it's the good, the bad, the ugly is are all going to be in your final report.

We are only advocates for the .

truth to aid the investigation we urges. Arrive similar to the missing from bills basement, the remington rival ejects a shell case in between shots, at least one of those would have flown out as the killer at another round in the chAmber to shoot. Surely twice I was never found.

So somebody had the presence of mind to gather IT up. And since web promised to look at every possibility, he examined bills movements the day of the killing phone record show, surely making a call from the house phone at eight forty five A M. After bill had dropped her off. And by nine years, bill was spotted at the grainy fifty miles from the house website. Bills only opportunity to killer was after that.

bill has to leave. The grainy has to get home, killed his wife Shirley, and then leave before Jason can get. There is an impossible for .

build to do all this chewing and growing in the time.

Allot IT would certainly be a very .

time time week to get one that then the private analysts looked at Jason's time line.

Harry puts himself there, so Jason simply has to commit the murder instead of doing the other test that he said he did.

Is your belief that Jason shot as another dears? Painful as IT was, bill had been suspicious of his some early on and remembers a moment when IT all became clear. Not long after the murder, bill says Jason found out he was going to visit his lawyer.

He came barton to the door and he said, what are you going to go see your lawyer about? And I said, I just need to get something straightened. Are some things that don't add up and that's when he slammed his fist on the countertop and he said, my life is over his life.

Jason's life is.

His life is over. I knew that he had .

done IT IT was a shocking realization. You telling me, me, your boy became a monster.

He did. He did. I'm ashamed.

You shoud be hamed. You did everything you could for the boy.

I didn't do something right. Surely I did something wrong.

Bill Carter, tired of waiting for the prosecutor either father would take the almost unprecedented step of bringing his son before a civil jury.

My attorney said, you know, we can file a wrong ful death suit. And that will force .

the county .

attorney to make a move.

Bill was about to sue his son for Shirley's death. If the jury ruled for the father, Jason n wouldn't face prison. But something like financial .

ruin coming up. Father against son.

you became a practice, skilled and chronic life.

Son against .

father card. And it's not Jason Carter.

On the december day in two thousand and seventeen, two and a half years after Shirley Carters murder in this course of knoxville, iwa father faced off against some. Bill Carter had spent almost a million dollars to get to this courtroom. And to this moment.

there is not a more important courtroom anywhere in this state than this courtroom today. Right now.

bill Carters lawyer mark wine heart opened by telling the jury only one person wanted surely dead.

The killer is sitting a few feet from you. That's the killer right there. Jason Carter IT started like .

a burger case. But remember, this was a civil trial, a wrongful death lawsuit. The father, the plant of his son, the defendant, the burden of proof is much lower than that would be in a criminal trial.

The playoff only has to prove the defendant liable by a preponderance of the evidence. Other words, fifty one percent likely that .

you are right. Bill Carters lawyer played Jason's nine one one call the argued. Jason's stated something about the time of death he couldn't .

possibly have known, and you hear him say .

that his mother has been dead for two hours, which medically is absolutely not the fact based upon what we know about the condition of the body. But also, why would he be saying that, other than to already start to create the narrative? Hey, IT wasn't me.

Then bills lawyer attacked Jason's character to show the jury he wasn't a devoted family man. Jason's other woman took the stand. Her name, tera hook SHE, was questioned by another of bills attorneys.

You could hear a pin drop in that courtroom.

Terror recounted her fifteen months of affair with a married Jason Carter. How frequently were you guys having sex? On average, IT would be several times a week. Did you ever tell mister car that you loved him? I did.

Did he ever reciprocate and tell you that he loved you? He did, and bills lawyer said that on the morning of the murder, Jason and terror exchange, more than one hundred text on that secret phone, some of the steam do you were call what your last text message from mr. Carter was IT was something sexual. why? Hard said the conversation ended only when Jason stopped texting as he pulled up to his parents house.

Text, text, text, text, text, until ten thirty A M, at which point the text traffic goes dark.

quiet for thirteen minutes, until Jason made a phone call to his sister, telling her their mother was dead. Why I had argued that that was more than enough time to kill his mother. And stage jarrow's .

y plays called Jason Carter.

Then came the moment so many had been waiting for Jason, the favorite son, in his own words, telling the jury about seeing his mother, dad.

can we like family?

Why in hard confronted Jason about the affair?

You did IT in a friends' residence in cars, even in your own house, correct. You became a practice skilled. And rony life.

correct. Now, bill's lawyer tried to prove motive. IT was, he argued about money. The jury was told Jason was a spend thrift.

He puts money into motorcycles and nice cars and trips and vacations.

At the same time, Jason was expanding his foreign Operation. Where did all that leave him? More than half a million dollars in debt.

Jason was as broke as he had ever been. He had forty dollars in his personal bank account, eighty dollars in his business bank account.

Wine heart said. Jason saw only one way out getting control of his parents farmland worth millions. Jason knew that he's stood doing .

here at all of IT. My dad said that Shelly, I and archives will inherit the ground, and that your sister and brother will inherit everything above ground.

The lawyer mapped out his theory. Shirley had found out about jesson's affair, and if surely knew, then bill soon would know to Jason, worried he'd be disinherited. He had to stop his mother before he disclosed his illicit romance.

I want you to look at the jury and tell them the troops. You shot your mother to death.

Absolutely not the jury.

Listen for seven days to the plenty of case. And then came the defense.

Jason had a loving, close relationship with his mother. Jason Carter's lawyer.

Steve Wanda, chAllenged the accusation that Jason in call was trying to push back the time of surely after morning hours when he'd been accounted for .

on video at the grainy. this.

Is all happening with a matter of minutes. Jason was simply so destroy. And to say in now, you should have done this and you should have done that at this. And that, I think, is just ridiculous.

As for Jason's affair won, ero told the jury IT was irrelevant, a stalactitic distraction. And of course, Jason lied about IT to preserve his family.

If you want to curious him as a bad I for caring on an affair, fine, but that doesn't make the man a killer.

Jason's wife, Shelly, told the jury. Despite everything, SHE still supported her husband every day they were .

going forgiving but never forgetting I love my husband and we have reconciled.

As for the motive, wonderful, argued Jason didn't have one shall conceded that at one point they owe the back more than half a million dollars on their loan, but SHE said that was business as usual for farmers. We paid that off, just like we paid IT off every year, so we could renewal and starting again. And then one row bodily offered the alternative theory of the case .

to wine car is right, the cure a surely Carter is in this room. And it's now .

Jason co.

It's him. The accuser.

bill Carter, he said, was unlikely killer, surely, he argued, complained about him all the time. He had to get permission for everything. Jason's wife testified that surely told her bill was too controlling whether IT been to go get her hair, make a hair appointment or to help with the kids whatever IT was. He had to get his permission before he could do that wander, said IT almost have come to a head on that june morning.

and something happened on that friday that need to snap. And he is the one that killed his wife.

After two weeks of trial and mutual accusations, the battle between father and son went to the jury. The court will now read the verdict. IT took a little over two hours to answer the question.

Did Jason Carter caused the death of his mother? Did defended Jason Carter bat. Surely Carter, causing damages to plant tips, answered yes. Jason had been found liable for the death of his mother. The jury cleared bill .

IT had to come sooner. Lighter IT had to come.

Since this was a civil case, Jason wasn't getting any prison time. What amount of punitive damages, if any, do you award the estate of Shirley Carter? Answer, ten million dollars. Ten million. Bill in his lawyer never expected to see a dime.

The more important thing for bill was simply to have eight people from that county hearing all the evidence and saying, Jason, do IT. Meanwhile.

the county district attorney, ed bull, sitting in the back of the courtroom, had been watching closely. What would he do .

now coming up.

the fates were not quite through. With the Carter family, there would soon be an act to what is the .

biggest thing you have going in your favor in this time.

He was no significant evidence against Jason harder .

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Recovery with the civil case decided against jon Carter finding him liable for the death of his mother, the district atterley decided IT was time to act. Less than forty eight hours after that, civil agent ludwik and sheriff deputy rested Jason Carter for the murder of his mother.

I got right into his face and I said, why did you kill your mother? But you didn't anything, didn't anything. Stoned face cole.

Jason Carter would be brought back in the court, this time accused of first degree murder. If convicted, he could face life in prison. Agent mark ludwig had been convinced of Jason Carters killed ever since that initial interrogation a few days after the murder.

I'm telling you the truth. The god got off truth. I'm telling you the truth.

Tell me the two. Jason.

yes, I am.

That day, Jason agreed to take a polygraph c exam .

regarding .

the death your mom. Do you intending answered each question truthfully?

yes.

Did you physically hurt your mom last friday?

no.

He filed by a big margin, huge margin. So he totally blew the polygraph.

He totally fail the paragraph.

Not evidence, but guidance for .

your strong guidance? yes.

In march of two thousand and nineteen, the curtain came up on the criminal trial. IT was first degree murder. Jason Carter pleaded not guilty as much as he wanted his son to face justice. Bill Carter knew there would be no winners.

I knew there wouldn't be a good outcome. Why do you say that if my sons guilty of first Green murder.

that's not a good out. So that's a bad choice.

You hear prosecutors talk about motive, means and opportunity.

Well.

means to seventy was in the home there. Examination opportunity, thirteen minutes gain this time.

So let's talk about motive.

district attorney ed bowl was telling a jury in council blogs. IO Jason was stressed over his finance as the day he killed his mother.

This case isn't about money, it's about pressure. It's about.

am I GTA be able to .

be a full time former this time around.

the burden of proof would be higher beyond a reasonable down. And that's the prosecutors chAllenge without that rock solid csi style evidence that juries love.

I want three things in a homicide case. I want forensics. I want a confession, al, and I want A, I witness in this case, I had none of those things.

Ed bw. Would pretty much follow the map of the civil trial, but the jury wasn't allowed to know about the civil case or its outcome. And bull hands would also be tied by the judges ruling that the jury wouldn't be allowed to hear about jesson's affair or the steam tax on a secret phone, and that Jason had lied about all of that. At first, tera hook, the girlfriend took the stand, but only to testify to the gap in Jason's timely and to the abot end of their conversation.

Was your conversation that morning without telling us any of the details such that you expected? IT was at a logical stopping point.

no as to motive. In his opening, the da had mentioned the financial pressure on Jason, but in the end he found IT hard to explain why Jason would have shot. Surely in cold blood. There's .

absolutely nothing I can tell you that would make sense of why IT is a son shoots and kills his mother.

Now, what was time for the defense? Jason Carter, attorney Christine brand's dead, had a clear message for the jury, a shot investigation focused on Jason early and never looked anywhere else. And there were plenty .

of people to question theory. Significant parts of this investigation simply weren't completed. 我 把 weren't done。

So war room, Christine, what is the biggest thing you have going in .

your favor in this time? There really was no significant evidence against Jason Carter.

As in the civil case, the defense attorney argue Jason had a loving relationship with his mother, and that is allegedly incriminating. How did they know that statements were taken out of context? And by the way, he wasn't in any financial trouble.

There was a three thousand million check positive that day, and another checked three thousand dollars in the mail and one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars worth of grain in the bands.

and asked to the abot ending to a Jason's texting with his lover on the day of the murder, the defensive tourney asked the girlfriend on the stand.

did you perceive in anyway that Jason Carter was troubled on the morning of je nineteen? no.

Then there was the timeline of that morning to deal with all along based on statements of first responders and crime scene tax, IT was estimated surely had been murdered sometime just before eleven A M when Jason n admitted he was at the farmhouse SE to counter the time of death, one of the nation's most famous pathologist for higher took the stand sero wet veck has been involved in thousands of cases from the J, F, K, assassination to O, J.

Simpson were asked to attempt to determine an approximate of death for surely Carters that correct? yes. Were you able to do that to a reasonable degree of medical certainty?

Ty, yes. WC told the jury that surely may have been killed two hours earlier than anyone had thought possible. If he was correct, then surely he was murdered around nine a year. When Jason was seen on video, clearly still at the grainy, he could not have killed his mother.

So when the state says you all clues, point to one conclusion, it's all the clues that the tunnel vision of the enforcement and one investigator particular when after the defence attorney .

said the tunnel vision investigator with special agent mark ludwik now he reluctantly became her star witness with brinstead rattling off the names of people who had come up during the investigation. Love with fumbled.

You were not very aware of Kelly shines involvement.

That's pretty correct. yes.

Aware of jerrem Morris.

I did become a web J. C. morus. I'm not sure at what point I was .

and that would be jerrem, Morris said. I think he just said Jason.

and that's my mistake .

and that was a big part of the point we were trying to make to the jury.

While Jason's lawyer argued the investigation had been thorough, agent ludwig told us none of the names that defense raised or viable suspects, and they had followed every lead. Even one's deemed not credible.

No, no credible information.

Would the jury see reasonable double? Or would Jason Carter be spending the rest of his life in prison? The attorneys would have one more chance to make their case.

Coming up the verdict.

I ask you to return a verdict of not guilty.

There are only two people who know what happened that day. One of them is dead and the other one sitting in that chair.

The case of the state of IO a versus Jason Carter was about to go to the jury.

There are so many holes in this investigation. There are so much that isn't even explored.

Jesson's defense attorney made one last plea.

and in reality, the forensic evidence says, Jason Carter couldn't possibly be guilty. I ask you to return a verdict of not guilty now.

the county prosecutor argued. All the viable leads were followed, and the defense was just so much smoke.

And mayors, if you believe this is a stage, burberry, then all of the names and stuff they put up on the board is irrelevant.

Both of the jury. Jason just snapped that morning, and in a fit of age, I killed his mother.

There are only two people who know what happened that day, one of them did, and the other one sitting in that chair find him guilty as charged.

IT took the jury less than two hours to reach a vernet about the same duration as the civil jury's deliberation. And remember that jury had found Jason liable for his mother's death. So the lead investigator felt good about things.

We felt this is IT. And I had that feeling and emotion of he's can be found guilty.

Dick assembled a team to take Jason into custody after the verdict. Jason ka conviction could send him to prison for life. Jason Carter not guilty.

Not guilty. Jason had gotten his life back.

I was see my kids. It's a bit wrong time common.

Jason was a free man. The district attorney says he gave IT his best shot. So you're giving the jury this argument of a moment of age, but you can't really play that movie for them and explain what IT was.

It's not a very satisfying thing to say. Something happened. He went down, stars, got the rifle.

killed his mom. I don't disagree with you. I wish that there was a Better story I could tell, but i'm limited based on what the facts are that I can prove to a jury, and that's the best I had.

But that wasn't good enough for bill Carter.

The worst thing I was afraid up with that surely would never get justice. And that happened.

Is this case close?

Yes, we believe that we have the right person accountable, but if new information comes forward, we will continue to investigate this.

That's just what Jason Carter says he wants find the killer. He declined an interview with deadline, but as attorney says, he realizes some people will still believe that he shot his mother to death.

Jason knows that until someone is conclusively proven to be the murder, some people will still suspect him.

The ten million dollars civil judgment against Jason remains in place despite setbacks in court. Jason continues to appeal that verdict, but Jason is what he's always been a farmer and the cycles don't stop. That's planting season emergencies are .

going on the ground. That's exactly. And I know that he was planting on yesterday and and saw his father out planting at the same time.

And what did he he said his thought was, IT just seems wrong. This should have been the time where we were both planting and we both quit and we win in Foster dinner together. And it's hard for him to understand how his family ended up split up like this.

And on his side of that field, bill Carter watched the sun he loves so much, worked the land just as he taught him.

I have to farm right across the fence from me, and you see him. I was from here to that wall from .

yesterday a few feet, but an unbridgeable divide when it's a matter of father there is a sun.

That's all for now. I'm lester hold. Thanks for joining us.

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