she seemed worried at all about what was going on? she s been pins and needles ever since this has happened. okay. she s been scared, she s feared for her life and her children s. ok. did they ever say who these people were? no. or where these people were from? or anything like that? no, never said a word about that right there. reporter: later that day, detective stokes says kay ray convinced jessie she should talk to military investigators, tell them what she told local police. it turned out to be a fateful decision. jessie gets in with the the friend and they go to cid headquarters. reporter: with kay ray sitting next to her for support, jessie gave a detailed explanation about why she turned down that deserted road. she said as they were driving home, she was at the wheel, and she started to feel sick. vince suggested they pull over. and he said, there s a road. turn down it. i turn down the road. he told me to drive until there was a spot we could pull
okay. if you do not your whole family s dead. reporter: she said she felt she had no choice but to go through with what the man said, even though she suspected something bad was about to happen. i kind of figured it as we re gonna down here and you re gonna get your ass beat. reporter: as jessie s interview on fort campbell headed into its second hour, sheriff s detectives across town were working on tracking down the truck seen leaving the murder scene, figuring if they could find the truck, they would find the killer. i heard about three or four shots. reporter: walter ferguson, the witness who had described seeing a white colored 4x4 truck speeding down the road, gave police more distinctive descriptions about the vehicle. the headlights were higher than my hood, so they were, like, in my eyes. okay, so kind of a lifted truck. yeah. was it loud?
jessie gosselin spent eight hours with the police after that very day she wasn t going to talk without a lawyer. it was just a different police agency. reporter: bryant argued in front of a circuit judge, since jessie asked for a lawyer, the military police should never have questioned her. the judge agreed. he made a decision that that confession that she made, implicaing our client, should be set aside, because the law enforcement agency for the military police should have followed the same rules that earlier police department in christian county followed during that day. jessie gosselin s statement was thrown out. the news hit vincent s family hard. hearing the news that vince was killed was horrible. but what the justice system did was unfair.
sergeant vincent gos lynn jr., a father of five had served in the army for seven years as a quarter master and mechanic. did vince ever express to you what it meant to serve his country? he loved it. to hamilton, his cousin. as he explains it, they were much more than that. were you like a big brother to vince? yeah. with him, i don t know, weighed bond. he had an outgoing personality. he had a crazy little grin when he was doing something mischievous. and he recalls the mischief they got into in a small michigan town called cadillac. we would be play in the creeks, climbing trees, just anything outdoors. we would leave in the morning, come back at night when it start
it was not, no. everything that witness has said has been true. no. yeah, very true. no. reporter: he told her they knew all about her romantic relationship with jarred. jessie admitted she and jarred hung out together but continued to deny there was anything sexual between them. she said they were friends, and he stayed there on the couch and that was it. reporter: jessie did admit she and vince were going through a tough time, but she claimed they were working things out. i always reassured vince that, i m not just gonna walk i m not that person. i m not gonna leave you. um, we were planning on going to marriage counseling. he actually called friday before we left. reporter: and besides, she said vince knew all about jarred. vince knew that he had been staying in the house. reporter: but investigators didn t believe her. more than three hours into jessie s interview, after repeatedly denying she and jarred had a romantic relationship. we did not have sex.