friends called us and said, i think something really bad has happened. they say that they found a body upstairs in the master bedroom. and it looks like it s jason s house. bit by off a bit, and the rest of them heard the details. the body had been hidden under a blanket, another debris. one bullet still lodged in the chest. death was at least quick. the victim was the beloved member of that tall quartet, the neighborhood dad, jason harper. but was terrible enough, but it wasn t all. the kids are missing. julie was missing. and as details unfolded, we are in complete shock. officers continue their investigation at the harper residence. they still have jason is dead. we are flipping out. and we are saying, we see this woman, flashing her plates and her picture, on the news.
sergeant smith. in fact, she filed for divorce, five days before the incident. and that same week, made some unusual financial transactions. miss harper took out about $10,000 in cash out of that dormant account that was under her daughter s name, and she written 4500 checks, two of them, to herself. and it was against the credit card, and mr. harper. julie pulled out nearly $20,000 cash. we found that to be very suspicious. deputy district attorney, keith watanbe was assigned to the case on day one. it s a gesture that she had been hoarding money in anticipation of something? she was preparing for a change in her life. but did the change involved divorce? or murder? julie s father, john, moved here. 13 miles from jason anjolie s house. this is where julie indicates spent the night after the
but could they do? right. it s what heart would have wanted after all. harp, jason harper, sports loving, outdoors loving california boy, with a childhood best friend named paul severns, who as they grew became tall paul. we were always together. you know, i caught up to him after those years. we were both the two tallest guys in school. so, when they got to high school, there was one sport that they were very well suited to play. volleyball. harper is a stud, you know? he was, you know, on the team. yes and went on to play at ucla, where he met jeremy brandt. here they are together on ucla brute stock, on public access tv. everybody came back and was, we re not gonna lose or whatever. and came back and we clicked on
i only wanted to scare him, or to get him to stop, and not hurt me, or possibly worse. this was the smartest woman that i ever cross-examined in my life. dodging and weaving? yes, she was able to think on the spot. those spool bottles, all necessarily for her medical condition described by her doctor, she never abused him, she said. but if, as she said, jason was coming at her when she shot, why then, the prosecutor wondered, did the bullet enter from the back? do you mind stepping down here the prosecutor set up a courtroom recreation. i m gonna have mr. carr stand in for jason but things didn t play out the way the prosecutor hoped. did julia use this moment to advantage? the witness is crying now. do you need a moment, miss harper? it s okay. okay, position your hands
adminstration directors that allow transgender workers and students to use bathrooms in joint sport teams that responded they argue it would make it impossible for states to enforce their own laws. now, back to dateline. le for states to enforce their ow welcome back to dateline, i m not going a california wasn t, shock one of, there s a husband, father and friend was dead. his wife was charged with the murder. she wasn t talking to investigators but she would tell her story to the jury and what she had to say would turn this case on its head. here, once again is keith morrison with the house on badger liam. september, 2014. two years after jason harper s death, his wife julie and the mother of their the children went on trial to first degree murder. she didn t look like a murder. yeah. if there was such a thing. but even though deputy we