i didn t feel any kinda way about it, really. did she ask you? no. so she just said, i m i m leaving ? yeah. but i mean, that was her. after about an hour, the interview took a turn when detectives hit jarod with a revelation. as far as they could tell, no one had heard from ciara since jarod s visit with the kids. meaning jarod was quite possibly the last person known to have seen ciara alive. i feel like you re more than insinuating that i m responsible for ciara s death. i don t know. right now, i don t i the only thing i know is you re the last one that i know of to see her, and so far you re the last one i know that was there now is there something you want to talk to me about? no. are you sure about that? i m sure. the detective told jarod that as they were speaking, officers were spooling through the video cameras at ciara s apartment complex. what are you feeling right
looking into ciara s ex-husband, jarod. now a team of supporters was about to rally to jarod s defense, taking their own look at what the kids told detectives. continuing with what they saw, here s dennis murphy. in the weeks following ciara s murder, investigators compiled their evidence. there were those police interviews with the children. and they had ciara s cell records showing her phone went silent around the time jarod was at her apartment. there wasn t a single phone call or text after 6:39 p. m. on june 2nd. and the only wisp of a lead, that guy from indiana who was going to help ciara move. she was murdered. you ve got to be [bleep] me. well, his alibi checked out. and that left one person, jarod. so on july 1st, a month after ciara s murder i was leaving to go to work. and then people started getting out of their cars and putting their hands up like this saying, you know, don t move, you re under arrest.
news, samela drove to ciara s home. she just had to see the place with her own eyes. you went to the scene? i went to the scene, cause i i just still did not want to believe that she was gone. so everything s yellow-taped i was in denial and closed off. right? i was in denial that my friend was gone. she spoke to an officer who was there guarding the crime scene. what did you talk to him about? any and everything that i can remember that that she would tell me, and what she was goin through. and what samela said about her conversations with ciara caught the officer s ear, because it certainly didn t match jarod s story. this post-divorce relationship was more than just a little strained. samela says ciara had long confided in her that it was tumultuous. she would tell me how he would break her computers, break tvs just, i m mad at you. bang. here s one for your computer. oh yeah. yeah. the way the stories went, jarod would lash out if he couldn
of it when the army forced them into a quick decision. get married or be stationed apart. when we got in the cab to go get our marriage license, the cab driver mentioned to us that she was also a licensed pastor. so she drove to us her church, we got married on the steps. you got married by your cab driver? we got married by our cab driver. one-stop shopping. yep. the army, as the army does, moved them about. they tried to build a happy home, had another child. but jarod acknowledged they weren t good at living together. once we got married, we actually had our first argument that evening. on the 10 scale, how active an argument was this? a good 8. but that set the tone for the rest of the relationship. that was every night. why don t you guys just shake hands and say, see ya later, it s been nice? the kids, mainly. they decided co-parenting was the arrangement that worked best for them. they divorced in 2009 and shared custody. by then they d both left the mili
jarod was charged with murder and spent the next 15 months in jail before posting bond and being released. by then he d lost custody of his son and daughter. they d moved to indiana to be with ciara 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 ciara s family, including my children. so that s a whole area of your life that s gone away. so no contact. yes. jarod 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. but it was just not good timing, it never was. this wasn t exactly great timing either. after all, jarod was accused of murdering his ex-wife. what did you think? if you re asking did 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