long. even though they were clearly suspicious of him, they still had more investigating to do. so, chris was free to go. nothing happened, four months, four years. the whole family tried to let it go as they settled into the hard business of learning to live without jan, and without knowing who killed her, except that they were sure it was not chris. there is nothing to think that chris had any involvement. nobody could fake anything that much and not slip up. what s more, they all said, they never saw chris get violent, or be mean to jan, ever. they truly loved each other, and he never had a harsh word about her, ever. the same with jan towards chris. maybe they will just never know who killed jan. did you have an expectation that this would go away, and they never found out who did it? we were, emotionally, set
our sleeves. i remember looking at chris, and i have never seen chris as devastated as he was. he was in complete, and utter, shock. how did he looked at was different? his eyes were welled up. he was biting on his bottom lip a little, and shaking his head back and forth. i have never seen him so devastated, ever. bailey was there too, of course, also a mess. early at the sheriff s office, she had her turn to share what seesaw, and heard, early that morning. not quite the same story as the one her father told. well chris and bailey have hearing deficits, bailey said that she heard, loud and clear, not one, but two shots. i heard two bangs, i didn t know if i should get out, or stay in bed. i texted my mom question marks causative no supposed to do. you texted your mom? and then i texted my dad.
maybe, said the prosecutor, maybe it was this spider like resort, this dream that they could not let go, and the stream that could not afford, even if they sold all they owned. sell his house, his shop, his business, cash out retirement accounts, you name it. but, about 36 hours before the shooting, chris, alone, presented another offer. much more than the 550,000 that janet thought they could offer if they sold everything. in fact, chris s last offer was 150,000 more than that. this just happened to be the amount of insurance on jan s life. the defense admitted, in their opening statement, that mr. crews had, in fact, offered $700,000 for the purchase of this resort, which i found, to be important. mr. crews had, previously, denied, under oath, ever making
i saw him come downstairs. it was like 2:30 when i heard that, and i could hear my dad upstairs, yelling, and i heard my mom grown or something, i don t know. i don t really know what was going on, i just stayed in bed. what was your daddy yelling? what the hell, then he stormed out of this room because in our house you can hear much of the house. you could tell he was walking out of his room. i don t know what he was yelling down, it was mush together. bailey, who had a digital clock by her bed, had just put the murder at, like, 2:30. chris called 9-1-1 at 2:39. maybe an issue. why the delay? bailey, what do you think happened? honestly, i have no idea. who do you think would want to hurt your mom? no one that i know of. do you know what happened to your mom? did someone tell you? yeah just said that she got shot. how did you find out that
more blood on him? my opinion is, after he heard the shots, he got out of bed quickly. as for chris hearing only one shot when there was two? he thinks the first shot that will come up, he doesn t recall hearing it, but he recalls hearing it on that second shot. why didn t you go back in ten to his wife, see how she was, how to do cpr? she was probably alive for a few minutes. that s one of his regrets. he didn t go back and do more. his attention, quickly, turn to his daughter who is downstairs, trying to figure out if anyone was in the house, to ensure his daughter was okay. i think he realized, fairly quickly, with all of the blood, it was a fatal wound. chris s lawyers far but the shotgun was the murder weapon, saying that the expert said that it wasn t, before they concluded, definitely, it was. that seemed subjective, they told the jury. our expert, who is