anyone. we didn t try to lie or fabricate anything. but we made a mistake. pam and roger filed a lawsuit, arguing that the prosecutors and detectives lied to the grand jury. but just a few months later, the u.s. supreme court ruled that grand jury witnesses and prosecutors were immune from civil litigation. so the judge dismissed their case. let me understand this. the police come to your house, you are arrested, your names are dragged through the mud. then somebody gets the right guy and they say, well, she later? exactly. as with so many cases, they ended up blaming each other. ready took a deal 25 to life. bond was convicted and doing life without parole. the star witness? rachel bingham. if she hadn t come forward, with two innocent people be in prison today? it s going to chase you for
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uncaring, even callous. even though they claimed the gunmen stood over them, kept them hostage for almost two hours. at first, pam couldn t seem to describe the man. okay. did the guy that had the gun. what did he look like? we see a white guy, black guy, hispanic? she seemed uncertain even about the number of gunmen. how many were there? how many guys were? there could have been three. but listen to what happened next. roger took the phone and changed the story. where they white, black, hispanic? they were white. three white males. okay, how two white males. two white males? roger explained the reason for all the apparent confusion, that if they ever revealed whether captures looked like they would be hunted down and kill. did you buy that? not really. i didn t. they didn t appear fearful. they were saying it. but they were really acting fearful. anyway, why would vicious killers not have killed than, two?
talk about this. shortly after roger and pam took the polygraph test, and we re told about the dismal results, they hired a lawyer. few in the mortensen family could understand why they would do a thing like that, if they were innocent, that is. i tried to say, what would i do if i was in their situation? i would do everything i could to help get these people that had caused such horror in their lives and murdered k. on the advice of their attorneys, roger and pam stopped talking. and a lopsided rift in the mortensen family widened, from mistrust to anger to accusation. chris andrus, the woman called the night of the murder, with one of the few people to support roger. they will have to hang out and dry. how did you feel? i was so angry, so, so angry. i couldn t believe that you could love somebody and do that
where you and i are going to end up, because there is going to be a nuclear war. i would say, i don t want to live if everybody else is. dying [laughs] so, he was a true patriot. he worried about things and wanted to be prepared for the civil war that was going to erupt. so, he was little over the top. darla wasn t thrilled about it. but she accepted him and his radical views. after all, they were still kind of in their honeymoon phase. it was all kind of surreal. i think we both felt like we were back being teenagers again. [laughs] so because we both hadn t really had love for quite a few years. they found each other late in life. after both had raised families. kay had three adult children by then. one of whom, his eldest, roger, stayed close. he was my best friend. we did everything together. mind you, roger was not at all like kay. for one thing, he d suffered a brain injury in an accident