and jessie had another possible motive. as a military wife, she would receive a big payout from her husband s life insurance policy. $450,000. she certainly could have benefited greatly from the death of her husband. before jessie s eight-hour interview was over, she had admitted to seeing jarred the day before the murder. he wanted to meet me at the motel when he was in town. i said, fine. we had lunch and we talked and we did have sex. but it wasn t the sex investigators were worried interested in. jessie had one more story to tell. she claimed that jarred talked to the drug dealers and if he d roughed up vince, somehow that
prosecutor pryor was getting regular phone updates about all the witness interviews. but to her, jessie s was the most important. jessie gave police a key new detail. she said on the night of the murder, one of those drug dealers contacted her. did you have to talk to the drug dealers directly? she was getting text messages from this man? that s what she indicated. yes. and that he would do harm or kill her and her family, her children, if she didn t comply with what he was telling her to do. that s when jessie admitted it she didn t drive down fidelio road because she was feeling sick. i got a text. okay. that told me to turn on the
received the maximum punishment that he could for this crime. to do that, that prosecutor needed not only jessie s videotape statement, she needed jessie to tell a jury the whole story. she and jarred plan to murder vince. we needed for her testimony about the reasons why they planned to kill vincent, and the way that they planned it out. so the prosecutor made an offer. if jessie pleaded guilty to complicity with murder i will testify against jarred, she would recommend a sentence of 22 and a half years behind bars. she agreed to this plea deal? she did after a long talk and very heated discussions. so, now, with time served, the woman who had played the victim, betrayed her husband and lover, could spend less than 14 years behind bars. some people think the sentence is to light. i don t disagree with that that the sentence was to light. but after discussions with law enforcement, with family members, we determined that it was worth it to have her to be able to say in her
it came back to jessie goslyn and jarred long. they owned a car together. by now, police had had enough of jessie s shifting stories and confronted her with what they knew. jessie, we know there was no black guy. yes there was. no, we know whose truck was there. everything that the eyewitness said has been true. no. yeah, very true. no. he told her they knew all about her romantic relationship with jarred. jessie admitted she and jarred hung out together, but continued to deny there was anything sexual between them.
she said they were friends and he stayed there on the couch and that was it. jessie did admit she and vince were going through a tough time, but she claimed they were working things out. i have always reassured vince that i m not just gonna walk away from you. i m not that person. i m not gonna leave you. we were planning on going to marriage counseling. he actually called friday, before we left. besides, she said vince knew all about jarred. vince knew that he had been staying at the house. but investigators didn t believe her. more than three hours into jessie s interview, after repeatedly denying she and jarred had a romantic relationship.