and also why did washburn call in a tip about michella s murder months before he killed jenni. that s another question we d like an answer to. had he been planning it all that time? i don t know. watching for somebody? certainly possible. after 32 years jenni s case had finally ended but the bastian wade partnership had not. the two joined forces 20 jennifer and michella s law. what would it mean to you to have such a law named after your daughter? it would be great. it would be terrific. to memorialize these two girls that did not deserve this. in may 2019 washington governor jay inslee signed that
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he pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and his trial is still pending. his attorney sent us a letter which reads in part, the defense is pursuing various investigative means. i ask the public accord mr. hartman the presumption of innocence to which he is entight zblld robert washburn was back in court. this was the final step of a plea deal. how do you plead? guilty. washburn pleaded guilty to first degree murder. he was sentenced to 27 years in prison. i had prayed that he would not go to trial. i just want it to be over. as part of the plea agreement washburn had to tell the court about the murder. in a statement read by the judge he said he grabbed jenni by the arm, brought her into the woods and strangled her and that was it. which that was not enough at all.
30 years the tacoma police worked every angle to solve the murders of two little girls, horrific crimes that shook the city to its core and yet jenni and michella s case files passed through three generations of detectives before forensics gave them their first big break. now jenni s suspected killer was behind bars and investigators were determined that michella s would be next. here s keith morrison with the conclusion of evil was watching. it s a hole, big hole that nothing else can fill, no amount of comfort. the loss of her daughter michella hit barbara leonard and the grief there s never an end to it and there won t be, i don t think, until i see her and i have that hope and promise. the bible is true. the bible says the dead are sleeping. they will be resurrected. that s where you find your comfort?
bathing ourselves in the sun. we were talking. all about upcoming camp. all about what she was going to do the rest of the day. we just visited. it s not something we regularly did. we just did it, that day. i think we needed to. a moment, in time, so treasured and so terribly fleeting. coming up there is a knock on the front door. it s somebody with the police department. another missing girl. another anguished family. another awful search. there were, literally, hundreds of people looking through the park for her. everybody wanted to find jenni. when dateline continues. wow, that s a low price. ooh, that s a low price. huh. that is a low price. what s a low price?