what isaiah didn t know was that more than a dozen investigators were watching his interview remotely from the next room. and they had proof he was lying. they d checked the park s security cameras and there was no trace of isaiah and halee. cellphone data showed where they had really gone to the soccer field where halee s body had been found. we saw him leave her apartment complex on surveillance video. the cell phones are traveling, hers and his cell phones are traveling together. okay, so they re they re definitely together at this point if you go by their cell phones? right. and they re traveling straight to this location right here to the soccer fields. what happens to the cell phones at at that point once they re here? her cell phone goes dark while they re here and remains dark. his cell phone stays on, and we see his cell phone leave here and go back to evansville. isaiah didn t miss a beat when the detective confronted him with that information i just want
same tattoo her daughter once had. the prosecutor went home, humbled by a woman s confession. i don t know that i ve ever had more faith in the words coming out of somebody s mouth than than a mother that would actually say that against her son. you almost look like you re getting emotional. i am getting emotional. i m sorry. the defense attorney, on the other hand, got straight to work. he needed a new plan to save his client. when court reconvened, he called donna hagan back to the stand. his goal, to show the jury that she couldn t be believed. on cross-examination, she admitted that she believed that if the jury heard that isaiah said it was an accident, then they couldn t convict him of murder. so you think that perhaps his mother had said these things, so that her son could get perhaps a lesser sentence? well yes. the problem is the genie s
in the courtroom for the verdict? yes. what is that moment like for you two? i was in disbelief. and yeah. just devastated. just how did we get here? how did we get here? i know this isn t right. i know this isn t right. their pain was compounded when isaiah was sentenced to 60 years in prison. on appeal, the court ruled that three of his four convictions relied on the same evidence in what amounted to double jeopardy. his robbery conviction was reduced to theft, a misdemeanor, and one of his 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.
the young people who had worked with halee at the texas roadhouse were reeling. the shock of her murder. the fear. waiter jake allen was one of them. they were gonna have a candlelight vigil at the soccer field where she was found. and i was just about to leave my apartment and go there. my roommate told me, hey, there s there s somebody at the door. looks like a cop. investigators wanted to talk to jake, about his best friend since eighth grade, isaiah hagan. halee s ex. they asked jake what he and isaiah had been up to the night of halee s death. police had recovered security camera video from the night halee died showing isaiah picking her up at her apartment a little after 10:30. an hour or so later he met up with jake. they played video games and then went to walmart where this camera captured them at about 2:00 am. there was no sign of halee.
so were you thinking, they think i might be involved in halee s murder. yeah. jake told police he hadn t seen halee that night, but isaiah had told him where he d taken her. to a local park, a few miles from the soccer field. he told me he dropped her off and he went on a separate way because she wanted to go there to meet somebody. that didn t sound right to jake. i feel like he wasn t that type of person to let her be there alone at that time of night. he was way too overprotective. something wasn t adding up for you. not at all. and there was something else that bothered him. jake told police that the isaiah he knew had always been a standup guy. but recently he d heard stories about isaiah stealing from people. his roommate was telling me, he owes us rent, he stole my tv. and i said, he did what? oh my gosh. so he was on a downward spiral. something was going on.