it s a sweet piece of america, buffalo, missouri. population 3000 or so. where people tend to know each other s business. and where brad could have a best friend he met when they were both in diapers. so of course, dale potter rushed over to see brad that merry christmas morning. he just kept saying, why, dave. why did she do this? he was a mess. all of those guns you see in the background there. dale owns buffaloes only gun and pawnshop. so, when the sun s death was declared to be suicide and the sheriff return ballads gone, the one that killed her. brad called dale. he said i don t really want the gun back. i can t imagine why he. what he said, do you want? it i said yes, i cleaned it up. just put it in the safe and forgot about. it and the family tried to
come home with us, that was amazing. that ride home had to be something? it was. it was weird. it was the first time my dad ever see me drive. i drove him home. brad jennings was a man of few words, when she met us a few weeks later as if he was still afraid to believe that he had been let go. but, we talked a bit about that christmas eve and the mystery of what so upset lisa. she was crying, that s the one thing i asked her, why you are crying? and she couldn t tell you. didn t want to tell you. didn t want to talk, didn t want to say anything. wasn t until years later that he learned she had been having an affair with her boss, and that man had just broken it off, meaning she was also out of the job. if she had told me she wasn t coming back to work the day before this. he didn t understand this, then. but now, maybe that was an
i had no idea. i didn t even know where to start. but she knew she needed a better income. so she found a job that paid more bulb required constant travel. come home on thursday night and leaf thursday, and by the time your home, you wash your clothes, say hi to the kids, go to prison and see brought in the go back on a plane. right. the first acclaimed claim that brad had not good representation. that was a no-brainer. but it failed. appeal court didn t agree, and brad s trial lawyer said he served brad well. anyway, marcia hired more attorneys, but i couldn t get them to talk to me. i couldn t get them to answer a question. i couldn t get him to call me back. did they send you a bill?
began. how shocking was that? it was very shocking. and we hadn t been there an hour until i was getting sick to my stomach just listening. prosecution was just running rampant with it. that is saying terrible things about brad. and i was wanting to jump up and object. because two marcia it seemed like brad s attorney wasn t objecting at all. mister deputy wouldn t say anything in brad s defense. what was it like to be you sitting back there watching that? it was the most miserable time of my life. and i didn t know what i could do. i wanted to stop it but i didn t know how. and mr. deputy would say that it is all going to come together, don t worry about it. maybe the attorney was thinking of the gunshot residue or remember, they found gun rise
was convicted of murdering his wife lisa, he returned to court for sentencing. he got 25 years and they let him away. on a day that would ve been, otherwise, auspicious. that was my first day of high school. did either review other thing, maybe he did killer? not even once. if you know him, even like at all, he is just not that kind of a person. true said brad s big sister marcia. she decided she had to do everything she could to help him. it wasn t easy. because he had two kids who needed to be cured for. he had payments that had to be made on the house, on the farm, on the cars. he had a business that had to be wrapped up, and he had this huge problem of having been convicted of a crime you didn t think he committed. what does a person do in a situation like this?