discover a naked, bleeding woman standing on his front porch, a woman who said she had just been shot in the head. she said at some point she was afraid that she wouldn t survive and she wanted everything that she knew to be known to me or to the police or to the 911 operator. he most dram and highly anticipated moment in the prosecution s case came when the lone survivor of the soccer field massacre, h.g., took the stand. you ve said it s all right to do your voice, broadcast it live. you do not want your face shown. correct. that s what we ll do. with the unblinking eye of the camera averted to protect her privacy, h.g. was stoic and careful, much different than the frantic victim that called 911 that night. she described how it began. first came the knock. aaron opened the door and the carr brothers forced their way into the condo each armed with a semiautomatic handgun. they were shouting, where s
season s concert and headed for home in a yukon, a big expensive suv. she thought she was being followed. she noticed at that time there are two black males in the vehicle. she pulls up around the corner at this location and then she pulls into her drive. lieutenant ken landweir of the wichita police says a man approached pointing a gun. as she tries to move, he say, don t move, bitch and fires three times into her torso. gravely wounded, she describes him as wearing a wig or some kind of hat. three days later, december 14th, 2000, 9:00 p.m., jason had finished coaching basketball practice at augusta high school where he also taught science. he arrived home to a full house. his roommates, brad and aaron were there, along with aaron s
close friend, heather and jason s girlfriend. we ll call her h.g. she had come over with her dog, nicky. both aaron and heather were interested in the church. heather taught sunday school and loved to sing sacred music. they once dated but their relationship had since become platonic while aaron tried to decide whether to study for the priesthood. heather was thinking of becoming a nun. on this night aaron and heather were in the kitchen and shared a late dinner and a bottle of wine. down in the base. brad, a finance specialist, turned in. while upstairs, jason prepared his gym bag for the next day s practice and switched off the lights. in the bathroom, h.g. washed her face and pinned her hair up with a plastic clip. outside, there were 6 inches of fresh snow on the ground and a
said? just, no, i don t want to i don t want to do this. and he was struck and then complied. could you tell where he was hit and with what? i believe he was hit in the back of the head with something hard. he kind of cried out to where you could tell he was in pain. prosecutors say the brothers struck aaron and the other men with a golf club that was later recovered from the scene. when not being forced to perform for their captors, h.g. says, the hostages were kept in the closet. she says while she was in there the brothers found a diamond ring jason had carefully hidden away in a popcorn tin. jason and i had spoken several times about marriage, engagement, those kind of things. would it be fair to say that it was in your mind that this engagement ring would have been given to you? yes.
i went to jason. i rolled him over. he had blood coming out of one of his eyes. and then i went over to brad to see if he was still alive. and at that point, after looking at aaron and heather, i decided that i needed to go and to get help. wearing nothing, not even shoes, h.g. ran more than a mile through the snowy fields and across a highway, determined that her attackers would not escape. it was the beginning of a two-year odyssey that brought her and the carr brothers face to face in this wichita courtroom. what do you think it is or it was about her that made her act that way under those conditions? she just had the sheer will to survive. she wanted to let other people