witnessed the unthinkable, the brutal murder of their mother. the case would be built around what those kids observed, but it wouldn t be so simple. this b crime was as brazen as i was miystifying. here s dennis murphy with what they saw. dennis, i think you re good to go. thanks for sitting down with us. you rein welcome. thanks for having y me. did you take a butcher knife and plunge it into sierra s neck and kill her while the kids were waiting outside? absolutely not. that did not happen? no.ts credibility. the reliability of years old memories. there s a lot of that ahead because this is the story of a murder. june 8, 2012, columbus, georgia. it was an apartment maintenance man who a found her. she d been stabbed to death upstairs in the bedroom. in thee kitchen sink, a butche knife. the victim was sierra ingram, a
mom was still laughing, though. her brother says he got out of the car, too, and he also heard the laughter. or was it something else? what did you hear? laughing, almost screaming. you heard screaming? yeah? tell me, did you hear, were they just saying, like, screaming noises or something else? like, like laughing screaming. yeah? screaming. what in the world was going on inside sierra s home while the children waited outside? coming up. if you ask him, did i think he did it, it was an absolute no. a new relationship for jared, and new questions about those interviews with the children. those statements that come out later are, in my opinion, conditioning. what do you mean? i mean, the police are suggesting something for the children to say. when dateline continues. man: sneezes
about it really. did she ask you? no. she just said, i m leaving? yeah. that was her. after about an hour, the interview took a turn when detectives hit jared with a revelation. as far as they could tell, no one had heard from sierra since jared s visit with the kids. meaning jared was quite possibly the last person known to have seen sierra alive. i feel like you re more than intimating i m responsible for sierra s death. the only thing i know is you re the last one i know of to see her. and so far no one was there. is there something you re not talking about? are you sure about that? i m sure. the detective told jared that as they were speaking, officers were spooling through the video cameras at sierra s apartment complex. what are you feeling right now? i m feeling like i can t wait until you get finished with the
hello, i m dara brown. here s what s happening. protests in baghdad turn violent when security forces killed one demonstrator and wounded 99 others. this is the late of the in the string of anti-government protests in the iraqi capital drawing tens of thousands of people. and thousands of fans gathered in d.c. for the washington nationals world series parade and rally. the team was greeted by a sea of road supported when they celebrated in world series title 59 years in the making. now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m natalie morales. in a taped interview, sierra ingram s young son said he heard his mother both laughing and screaming inside her home on the day she was murdered. police were looking into sierra s ex-husband jared. now a team of supporters is about to rally to jared s
by then he d lost custody of his son and daughter. they had moved to indiana to be with sierra s mom. are the kids taking your phone calls? because i m sure you re trying to reach them. at this point part of my bond agreement is that i cannot speak with anyone in sierra s family, including my children. so so that s a whole area of your life that s gone. no contact. yes. jared says he started attending church and began reaching out to old friends like katie duke, a girl he knew from high school band days. i always had a thing for him, even in high school. it was just not good timing. it never was. this wasn t exactly great timing either. after all, jared was accused of murdering his ex-wife. what did you think? if you ask him, do i think he did it, it was an absolute no. why would they even think this? and how could it have possibly come to this? and you re saying that because of the guy you knew, the character of the man. the character. just how could it possibl