him. it all seemed hard to believe. chief birdsell wanted to ask shirley what happened but never got a chance. about the time i was getting ready to, her attorney was on the phone and said he didn t want me to talk to her. she was already lawyered up? shortly after jennifer also hired an attorney and stopped talking as well. jennifer s grandfather who was in the house at the time stephen was killed wasn t talking either. so what had happened in the skinner home? had stephen watkins finally gotten so frustrated over the child custody battle that he completely lost it and barged into the house on a rampage? with shirley, jennifer and grandpa silent, the evidence would have to tell the tale. did you see signs of a break-in? the door didn t have any damage. any signs of a struggle. not on the door. there was supposedly something on the wall that was broke, it was hanging down. a sconce on the wall of the house.
pick up his baby daughter sydney for a court-ordered visit when she was shot to death. stephen s wife jennifer told police he barged into her home, knocked over her grandmother and was heading for her and the baby when her grandmother shot him. but had it really gone down that way? why would an elderly religious woman shoot the father of her great granddaughter. 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. 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 an us-against-them mentality in jennifer s insular family. they did everything together. you were either a part of their family or y
attorneys. i had no idea she was actually the one who was on trial. why did you think about the police investigation? something to be desired. a lot of holds in it. there was a lot of mistakes made. i would like to have seen pictures of the scrapes on the back of her hand. when it came time to the final vote, how difficult a decision is? it is difficult in the sense you re seeing something as time as it didn t take long. the jury was out a total of 90 minutes, including lunch, before finding shirley skinner guilty of murder. steven s family was jubilant. persecuted. surely s son, ed skinner, was shocked. i was convinced my mom would get off. surely serving a 55-year prison service sentence. she would ve taken nine with a plea bargain. it s horrible to see mother
and the grandmother shot him. it all seemed hard to believe. chief birdsell wanted to ask shirley what happened but never got a chance. about the time i was getting ready to, her attorney was on the phone and said he didn t want me talking to her? she was already lawyered up? shortly after jennifer also hired an attorney and stopped talking as well. jennifer s grandfather who was in the house at the time stephen was killed wasn t talking either. so what had happened in the skinner home? had stephen watkins finally gotten so frustrated over the child custody battle that he completely lost it and barged into the house on a rampage? with shirley, jennifer and grandpa silent, the evidence would have to tell the tale. did you see signs of a break-in? the door didn t have any damage. any signs of a struggle. not on the door. there was supposedly something on the wall that was broke, it was hanging down. a sconce on the wall of the
reported that it was your idea. oh, i would not take credit for it. i think it was a mutually agreed-upon venture. but we used to say what happens in tallinn stays in tallinn. still, mccain s globe-trotting is serious business. he has a rule, you can t have lunch and dinner in the same continent. i mean, john travels a lot to stay relevant and be able to come back and translate the world. traveling with john was great, because if a door didn t open he just started banging on it until it fell. so if we wanted to see somebody and the ambassador or the general didn t want us to see that person, i can guarantee you, after john was done making the case, we would see them. after president trump was elected, mccain took it upon himself to reassure world leaders. in many respects this administration is in disarray and they ve got a lot of work to do. traveling to 26 countries and