two murder convictions was thrown out. but on the remaining count, the jury s verdict stood. as did isaiah s sentence. we want him to know that we re we love him, and we re going to be there for him, no matter what. we will always love him. regardless of what you, anyone else has to say, he s my son. as long as i m living. this is a very special place for you and halee? yeah, we came here a lot when she was little. heather collins doesn t want to think anymore about isaiah hagan. she comes to this park to think about halee, the good times they had here as a young family and the woman halee could have been. i don t think that we any of us have come to terms with what happened yet. and that she s really gone. you think she s going to come walking back in the door to pick up her laundry, you know. emilee finds herself picking up the phone to call her big sister, only to have the sad
phone. he said that it just happened to catch his eye when is headlights hit it. he s just driving along and there it is? yeah. and does he pick it up? yeah, so that s what he says in that version. are you buying any of this absolutely not. and where was the phone now? isaiah said he d thrown it out of his car window. but that didn t make sense either. he texted her that morning after the body s been found saying, are you okay or something to that effect when he knows she s never gonna get the message because he threw her phone out the window. so you believe he was establishing some type of an alibi? he was trying to lay down an alibi at that point. detective kruse raised the heat again. it does not make a damn bit of sense.
to get pregnant in the future. find it yourself in the family planning aisle no prescription, no id. i ve got this. as his father, i poured everything i could into that young man. and to even be considered to have committed such a heinous act to another person was just inconceivable. isaiah s father wandel hagan was dumbfounded when police told him his son was a suspect in halee rathgeber s murder. he and his wife donna, a corrections officer who worked for the sheriff, said isaiah had always been a good son.
heather collins became less hopeful. there was no direct evidence tying isaiah hagan to her daughter s murder. no gun. no dna. no eyewitnesses. nothing to prove isaiah was a killer. i was at the point where i was prepared for him to be walking the streets. prosecutor michael perry urged patience. we knew that we did not have enough evidence to convict at that point. but that s why you go to the end. there was one person in particular he wanted the jury to hear from donna hagan, isaiah s mom. the prosecutor had no idea what she d say on the stand. but he had reason to believe isaiah had confided in her that day at the police station about the night halee died. so the mom takes the stand, in your words, as a reluctant witness. yes. would a mother actually reveal something in that he told her if confidence? tell us what happened. i don t specifically remember what question was asked. but the answer that she gave was that isaiah had told
he was pretty shy as a kid good-natured, happy easy to get along with, eager to please everyone loved him. the hagans said they raised isaiah to put his faith first, the family went to church several times a week. their other love was sports. isaiah was a gifted soccer player, even scored a partial scholarship to college. he talked about wanting to be a teacher and teach athletics. they didn t know much about isaiah s relationship with halee, didn t realize how much she meant to their son until he told them she died. he was very, very distraught i mean, his elbows, his hips, his knees, his ankles, everything gave. he was collapsing to the floor, and we caught him. but police believed isaiah was a cold-blooded killer, who had shot halee from behind, then robbed her. they hauled