jessie goslyn and jarred long we re charged with a death of a jessie s husband army sergeant vincent jarred goslyn. finally she told police that she and jarred had hatched a plan to ambush vince. her convention was a linchpin for the prosecution s case. then the investigation took a stunning turn. there s andrea canning with the conclusion of evil was waiting . prosecutor lynn pryor already felt she had a solid case against jarred long. and after his arrest, police found even more evidence in his truck. there was one spot of blood that belong to vincent goslyn on the backpack of jarred long. this is bingo right here. this is more evidence than most of the murder cases i ve prosecuted. how do you explain the victims blood on your backpack when your hundreds of miles away? you can t. unless you re the person that killed him. but pryor knew the case against jessie was in as airtight. it was very much a circumstantial case because there was no physical evidence implicati
and the face? correct. was this personal? it s personal to me, because that person that shot him nine times wanted him dead. while detective stokes worked the crime scene, about a quarter of a mile down the road, deputies were talking to jessie. she was hysterical. crying. almost sometimes we couldn t understand what you are saying. there s jessie on her knees collapsed on the side of the road. this was a wife who had clearly been through a traumatic situation? she had just watch her husband get shot multiple times, yes. detectives took jessie back to the station to get her statement. her stomach, it seemed, couldn t take the horror she had just witnessed. i m gonna be sick. well let me go get you a garbage can. by now, lynn prior, christian county district attorney at the time, had been
about who was most responsible. i felt that the mastermind of the crime was jessie. she didn t pull the trigger, but without her, this doesn t happen. what bothered me was that the bar got set at 22 years for the mastermind of the crime. so he did what he thought he had to be fair and offered jarred a deal, to. 30 years in prison for pleading guilty to first degree murder. jarred agreed. jarred at times as being portrayed as this kind of victim. a little bit of jessie that, she was the mastermind. but vince was shot nine times in the head and face. i mean, you cannot discount that. no. for anything. no, it bothered me. he should ve gotten more than 30 years. tim, vince s cousin, was torn about jarred s punishment. but jessie, she should ve got more time than he did. because she manipulated him. is that the jessie you knew? this master manipulator? i would see she must of manipulated us because i would ve never paid her. i believe that she should do life. as for
stroyed. was all evidence potentiaence that we to get nds on and that ugh.do so at thatime very tough. ut detecpressed on ane tryinggure out who long why he would want vince dead, the covered new information abou their ness, jessie coming up - jessie s neighbors reveal that they too had seen jarred trucks outside jessie s house. how often would you see tha vehicle over there since vince was deployed maybe two or three times week when dateline continues at fort campbell, [ music playing ] when we first arrived at st. jude, it was just claire and i. she was still recovering from her brain surgery. and side effects of that surgery meant that she had to relearn how to walk and how to speak. [ male announcer ] you can join the battle to save lives by supporting st. jude children s research hospital. two months after we arrived, my three-year-old came to visit, and claire lit up. she was quiet before. and i thought it was just because cancer s hard, but she was really mis
i m still proud of him. with vince s career heading in the right direction. he took another big step and popped the question. jessie said yes. there was a connection between them two tjat they loved each other to death. they would argue, i think they had just argue to make up. some people say that that s the best part? it is. after the wedding, kids soon followed for the happy couple. two girls and a boy. as a sergeant in the army, vince spent a lot of time overseas, so it was up to jessie to handle the home front and take care of the kids on her own. it s not easy having a husband who s away. it takes someone special to be able to endure that and get through that. tim says somehow jessie and vince made of work. when we d see him and jessie,