corn and soy beans. then plowed the profits into more prime iowa acreage. shirley loved farming. she did everything. she just took to it, huh? she was a natural. she loved being in the tractors. long time friend and neighbor, irene schultz, says shirley brought a little pizzazz to the fields when she climbed into her custom made tractor. she always put a little bit of make-up on every morning before she went on. up on the john deere she s decked out? she had rosy cheeks. she was beautiful inside and out. in time, daughter jana married and moved away to a job in des moines. son billy went into the heating and air-conditioning business. but jason the youngest child took to the land. i really enjoyed working with him. i was teaching him. he is a good farmer. jason would carry on the farming tradition for another generation. and best of all, he and his wife shelly lived close by. bill and shirley soon had grandchildren to dote on. a
that courtroom. tara recounted her 15 month affair with the married jason carter. how frequently were you guys having sex? on average, it would be several times a week. did you ever tell mr. carter that you left him? i did. did he ever reciprocate and tell you that he loved you? he did. and bill s lawyer said that on the morning of the murder, jason and tara exchange more than 100 text on that secret phone. some of them steamy. do you recall what your last text message from mr. carter was? it was something sexual. the lawyer said the conversation ended only when jason stop texting as he pulled up to his parents house. text, text, text, text, text until 10:50 am. at which point, the text traffic goes dark. quiet for 13 minutes, until jason made a phone call to his sister, telling her their mother was dead. the lawyer argued that was more than enough time to kill his
in this case, i had none of those things. would ed bull pretty much follow the map of the civil trial. while the jury was it allowed to know about the civil case or it s outcome, ed bull s hansen would also be tied by the judges ruling that the jury wouldn t be allowed to hear jason s affairs. or the steam is text on his secret phone. and that jason had lied about all of that at first. tara hope, the girlfriend took the stand, but only to testify to the gap in jason s timeline and to the abrupt end to their conversation. was your conversation that morning without telling us any of the details, such that you expected it was at a logical stopping point? no. as to motive, in his opening, the da had mentioned the financial pressure on jason. but in the end, he found it hard to explain why jason would have shot and shirley cold blood. there s absolutely nothing i can tell you that would make sense of why it is a sun shoots and kills his mother.
of make-up on every morning before she went on. up on the john deere she s decked out? she had rosy cheeks. she was beautiful inside and out. in time, daughter jana married and moved away to a job in des moines. son billy went into the heating and air-conditioning business. but jason the youngest child took to the land. i really enjoyed working with him. i was teaching him. he is a good farmer. jason would carry on the farming tradition for another generation. and best of all, he and his wife shelly lived close by. bill and shirley soon had grandchildren to dote on. a happy family picture suddenly disfigured by the ugly murder of shirley carter. dci mark ludwick took the lead for the investigation. first of all, we want to identify all witnesses, we want to separate them and we want to conduct a face-to-face sit down interview as soon as we can. early on, the most important witnesses were bill, the