they threw petals on the sidewalk. she was smiling ear to ear. her family made several comments about how they were happy they had such a wonderful son-in-law and he was going to be part of their family. the whole family raved about stephen and alex. the whole family, that is, except jennifer s uncle ed. he says he didn t approve of the whirlwind romance. he didn t like that stalker steve became the one so quickly. he did not attend the wedding. i was told within a month after they started dating they was going to get married. and that s just not the way that our family ever did it. you get to know somebody, you date them a long time before you just commit to something in life. i felt she jumped out of the skillet into the frying pan. did you feel stephen was jumping out of the skillet and into the frying pan? yeah. he didn t know what he was getting into.
every time i go to work. he s there sitting in his car until i get out. then he follows me. my two boys looked at each other and said stop or steve. once they found out his name. his mother said stephen wasn t stopping her, but in fact had spoken with jennifer a few times before asking her out and that very same parking lot. they became a couple instantly. this happened so quick, i was shocked. she brought him to church two weeks after they had met and introduced him to my father in law. didn t even know his last name. ed says this wasn t how things usually want and his agenda for his family, which he says was slow to accept outsiders. where i kind of family that every single night for probably 15 years, we met for supper someplace. either at their house or my house or at a local restaurant. we were just a close knit family. the scanners or a religious family, seventh day advantages in the last several years
constantly. this goes beyond annoyance. oh yes, yes. it s not just ed who thinks jennifer might have killed stephen and shirley was trying to take the fall to protect her granddaughter, the young mom. reporter bruce rushton went to a vigil for steven nine months after he was killed which included a walk to the skinner family home. people there were split over whether it was shirley or jennifer who killed stephen. it s a head-scratcher. what s the grandmother s motive here? compare that to jennifer watkins motives? did these folks truly believe sydney was being abused? the prosecution doesn t have you can t help but ask yourself. the jury will be asking. you would imagine. the jury would soon get its chance. more than ten months after stephen watkins was shot to death, an arrest in florida where shirley and jennifer had gone to live with baby sydney. chief birdsell was there. when she saw me there, she appeared to be very surprised. i was happy to be there. but which
her family made several comments about how they were happy they had such a wonderful son-in-law and he was going to be part of their family. the whole family raved about stephen and alex. the whole family, that is, except jennifer s uncle ed. he says he didn t approve of the whirlwind romance. he didn t like that stalker steve became the one so quickly. he did not attend the wedding. i was told within a month after they started dating they was going to get married. and that s just not the way that our family ever did it. you get to know somebody, you date them a long time before you just commit to something in life. i felt she jumped out of the skillet into the frying pan. did you feel stephen was jumping out of the skillet and into the frying pan? yeah. he didn t know what he was getting into. their life together unfolded like a storybook marriage. not long after the wedding they bought a home on horseshoe drive, just down the block from where her parents and
i think at the time she was probably hoping that it would work, hoping he would knuckle under and obey her, but i think later on she saw that that wasn t going to work. she knew she had her child and that s what she really wanted. and ed believed jennifer would do anything to keep sydney from stephen. she just said he couldn t have her. even going so far as pulling the trigger herself, ed says. after all, the murder weapon was not shirley s. it was jennifer s. jennifer has every motive to do it. he says even if his mother was the one who killed stephen, she was probably driven to it by jennifer. so my mom and dad was around jennifer and her mouth 24 hours a day. and she is very annoying when it comes to something that she believes in. and she believed in not giving stephen the daughter. and she talked about it