the violence in the middle east now, back to dateline. michelle and marc, jus children really, when they got married. now marc was dead, gunned down in the family kitchen, and michelle had to plan his funeral. she was barely functioning, sh said i couldn t even tell you wh was at the, you know, who wa there. it was just a blur it all still feels like a blur but there was one thing she was clear about. marc s parents and sister were not welcome at his funeral it was the same at the cemetery she is literally trying t get him in the ground before w
world. i pray and continue to pray that even in doing this it wil bring awareness to other peopl out there about certain type of people and being very cautious and being aware so the lesson is be careful when you get close to. be very careful, very aware very important that s all for this with positive dateline, i m craig melvin, thank you for watching we and this is dateline. i never dreamed somebod could do this. i didn t know why anybody woul want to kill him you re watching on tv, you see it all the time. you just don t think you can happen to you. they were a young couple in a hurry to make their fortune. 50s, hundreds, twenties
michelle s mother kathy, mar asked her for cash to help pay for michelle s birthda present. you know, it s very unusual because usually they go out an buy whatever they want not anymore that summer 2011, jonesbor real estate was far from recovered, many of marc rental properties were underwater, the bank was closing in, tenants were being forced out of their homes. so, - was there was anybody upset with marc, was it his tenants, could this have been somebod like that? and then, an ugly littl surprise crawled out of marc s own troubled family. marc and his parents were lawsuits at each other ove some shared property the prosecutor heard tha marc s dad jack was a hothead. jack was very, very angry a marc for mishandling thi property that they co-owne together yes, but it went deeper tha that, it went to a very dark place as you will see. and because of it, marc hadn t spoken to his parents in years so, when jack showed up at the crime scene, the suspicion was well, lauda
away for lunch yes she says she can. she can and he replies, okay i will let you know the time in my review of some of the text messages is marc wasn t interested in going to eat lunch that day, but she begged him to take her to lunch after lunch, remember, sh asked marc to linger for an ic cream treat. all the while texting her dad, said the prosecutor. tipping him off to marc whereabouts, as carl placed killer in their home it kind of sent chills up m back how what kind of person hav you got to be to let you husband walk away from you knowing what he s going to wal into when he gets home armed with their ne evidence, police arreste michelle she was charged with capital murder, for planning and orchestrating the crime. she denied it, said she coul explain everything