molesting sydney and alex. did your son molest his daughters? vutly not. i thought it was a disgre that she would even do something like that. not only did she hurtim and hurt alex, she hurt the whole feel. as the state investigated, steven was allowed visits with sydney, but his family says jennifer continued to keep sydney from him. knowing the skinner family, they were so tight-knit, they would let nothing come in between them and their grandchild. the allegations of sexual abuse didn t stick. the department of children and family services said they were unfounded. but jennifer still wouldn t allow steven to see sydney. to force her to share the baby with steven, the judge ordered visitation. steven was able to see sydney
from his family by publicly blaming jennifer, he still struck a note of us against them. i honestly feel jennifer made this bed, she needs to sleep in it. she knew what she was getting into when she got into that family. and she had to think in the back of her mind that she s going to be with these people the rest of her life. when you say these people, what s wrong with the watkins? nothing bad. they just are a little bit different than what we re used to. i mean, we don t believe in drinking. we don t believe in smoking. but you have guns in the house. yes, sir. watkins was shot in the back of the head. yes, sir. in your faly home? yes. nd somebody in your family did it. that s correct. it s hard for you to be sitting here judging anybody else. oh, exactly. exactly. in the end, it s a murder ed skinner thought might have been planned in a way to get what jennifer wanted but leave the skinner family intact and unscathed. very, very poorly planned out schem
he didn t know what he was getting into. still, their life together unfolded like a storybook marriage. not long after the wedding, they bought a home on horseshoe drive just down the block from where her parents and grand patience lived. not long after that, steven called his mom with more big news. jennifer was pregnant. i was excited for him. i kept thinking, you know, maybe i was wrong and being thankful that i had not said anything, you know, and imposed my feelings on him. i m thinking, they re going to have a baby. they re doing good as a family. but soon after announcement, things seemed to change for steven and alex. jennifer s family suddenly wanted nothing to do with steven s daughter. he said jennifer s family told alex she s not really part of their family. i don t understand how they can love her and make her had a special part and treat her like blood and then all of a sudden just turn and go the other way.
for a few visits. he sometimes invited jennifer to come along because, despite all that had happened, his family said steven was still hoping he could show jennifer how good the life could be with the you four of them together as a family. his efforts were in vain, though. far more often what the than not, jennifer and his family denied steven visits with her family. once steven called a police officer to the skinner home to help him, but the family still said no. steven was becoming more and more frustrated and then with one evening in late november 2008, the whole situation exploded. 911, what is your emergency? my my grandmother needs help. my husband come to pick up my child because we re get ago divorce and he come after her and then tried to come after the baby. coming up, jennifer was calling for her grand history,
thanksgiving 2008, penny watkins son, steven, had gone to pick up his baby daughter, sidney, for a court ordered visit when he was shot to death. steven s ex-wife told police he barged into her home, knocked down her grandmother. why would an elder areally religious woman shoot the father of her great-granddaughter? even as investigators focused on grandma shirley, they began to look more closely at jennifer. for one thing, they learned she had been married before. jennifer s uncle, ed skinner, says that relationship was a sign of things to come. that didn t last long. she just had to have her way all the time and there was never his way. so he didn t stick around. he divorced her? yes, sir. did you blame him? no, sir, not at all. state police say when they talked to jennifer s first husband, he described as us