when you ve got something that was this bad somebody s got to pay. somebody has got to pay. hello, and welcome to dateline. nona dirksmeyer and kevin jones were a couple with a bright future. she was a self-confident 19 -year-old known for her beautiful voice. he was her devoted boyfriend with big ambitions. then, a brutal attack their shattered their dreams. it was a crime that would shake a small southern town to its core. and pit a family against the community they called home. here s keith morrison with what happened to the beauty queen? look at her. look at the young woman at the heart of our story. you can see how lovely she is. the young beauty queen. can you see her vulnerability? by now your first impression is probably locked in. it s very unlikely to change. and certainly, that s how it was in russellville, arkansas. the town where a first impression hardens like a patch of cement. about her and also about for better or worse, the young man acc
hello, and welcome to dateline. nona dirksmeyer and kevin jones were a couple with a bright future. she was a self-confident 19 -year-old known for her beautiful voice. he was her devoted boyfriend with big ambitions. then, a brutal attack their shattered their dreams. it was a crime that would shake a small southern town to its core. and pit a family against the community they called home. here s keith morrison with what happened to the beauty queen? look at her. look at the young woman at the heart of our story. you can see how lovely she is. the young beauty queen. can you see her vulnerability? by now your first impression is probably locked in. it s very unlikely to change. and certainly, that s how it was in russellville, arkansas. the town where a first impression hardens like a patch of cement. about her and also about for better or worse, the young man accused of killing her. the boyfriend who found the body. the boyfriend found a body. first impre
body, and what they were doing to savor. it is a lie, they are lying, all three of them. all three of the boys? kevin is lying, and his mother? absolute liars, without question. in fact, the defense detainees tried to claim, you cannot keep up with the joneses and all of their lies. even kevin s grandmother, who said she was with kevin in another town, the morning of nona s death, could not be trusted. kevin s mother knows that kevin murdered nona? well, i don t know if they know, but they know they are covering for him. the lawyers say kevin jones cannot explain one thing away, the bloody palm print in nona s apartment. it was his and not garry dunn s. did it work? yes it did. after three days of deliberations, the jurors said they were hopelessly the judge declared a mistrial. but the prosecutor was not giving up. he refiled murder charges, and garry dunn s second trial began in 2011. now, gary dunn was being
deliberations, the jurors said they were hopelessly the judge declared a mistrial. but the prosecutor was not giving up. he refiled murder charges, and garry dunn s second trial began in 2011. now, gary dunn was being tried a second time, after his first trial ended in a hung jury. this time they allow the prosecutor to reveal a very dark fact about gary dunn. he was a convicted felon, before nona was murdered. jurors heard from a woman named kelly jo fitzharris who happen to have the grave misfortune of jogging past gary done on the wrong day, in the wrong place, in 2002. it s a popular trail with runners, but very isolated. kelly came running by herself from that direction, and she saw a man sitting here, on this bench. as she ran up the trail this way, she heard footsteps behind her, turned around and the man had a huge stick. he hit her over the head with it, knocked her down, hit her repeatedly.