use me. did he? or was michelle the clever user? in our interview michelle denied being a master manipulator. she denied she d stoked those sex abuse allegations. or that she engineered marc s split with his parents. for that she blamed jack and tana. i never would have walked away from my kids in the first place. i never would have. in the end they didn t walk away from their kid either. because who was pushing from day one to solve the murder? who kept pushing month after month after month? my opinion on that is their hatred toward me. it wasn t anything to do with marc. it didn t have anything to do with marc. it was all about jack despain s hatred toward me. you seriously believe that? i do. michelle, out on bail, waited for trial.
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present. you know, it s very unusual because usually they just go out and buy whatever they want. not anymore. that summer 2011 jonesboro real estate was far from recovered. many of marc s rental properties were underwater. the bank was closing in. tenants were being forced out of their homes. so was anybody upset with marc? was this any of his tenants? could this have been somebody like that? and then an ugly little surprise crawled out of marc s own troubled family. marc and his parents were lobbing lawsuits at each other over some shared property. the prosecutor heard that marc s dad, jack, was a hothead. jack was very, very angry at marc for mishandling this it property that they co-owned together. yes. but it went deeper than that, went to a very dark place, as you will see. and because of it marc hadn t spoken to his parents in years. so when jack showed up at the
about jack, that he might have killed his own son, detective brooks instincts said no. jack s alibi checked out. he was fixing his roof the afternoon of the murder. and those tears in the interrogation room i did not feel anything as being fake from mr. despain. he appeared to be a broken man at that time. so what to make of the fractured family and all the bad blood now tangled up with so much grief. detective brooks thought back to his interview with michelle s dad, carl. the man who pointed a finger at jack on day one. he told him he didn t want to have nothing to do with him carl said he d been in marc s house not too long before the murder, dropped off some rent money. why didn t they shoot me instead of him? i had the money in my hand. interesting timing. coincidence? or as detective brooks wondered, did carl have something to do