wrong. he said your family was in an accident. and my world just dropped down from underneath me. the scene told the story why did you find? something i don t want to see again. yuck a deadly crash on a dark road. two gone, one barely alive. to a tragic accident. but look closer. can all of the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? the last thing i wanted to have was to have to take a double fatality and not treat it as a homicide. murder. and no one saw coming. two families in torment. i couldn t deal with it. we were both just a small town trial with big emotions. you took it. you did it. and the verdict that would shake them all. hello, and welcome to dateline. a dangerous highway in big sky country. that was a setting for a deadly crash that would seem to unite to families in shock and heartbreak. except they were about to find out that the truth about what. . ,. happened on that fateful night might b
that they make up votes out of nothing, which would clearly be an improperand nothing, which would clearly be an improper and illegal request and that is why, i think, if this case does go to trial, this case does go to trial, this case does go to trial, this case and the pedal one that was just mentioned part of the issue will be does a iurv of the issue will be does a jury believe that was a legitimate and reasonable request or was it actually a criminal proposal that these officials engage in some type officials engage in some type of fraud to make it look like the former president won that election in 2020 and that is what a jury will have to settle. what a “my will have to settle. ~ ., ., ., what a “my will have to settle. a, ., ., i. what a “my will have to settle. ., ., , settle. morgan, when do you see a u settle. morgan, when do you see a jury coming settle. morgan, when do you see a jury coming down settle. morgan, when do you see a jury coming down on settle.
do is mess up. it shows you would rather me die because i want to kill myself, good by ryan, i love you. then a final message from ryan. you killing yourself is just another way for you to run away. just five or six minutes later prosecutors say justine drove her car into erin thompson s little traveling to commit suicide. instead she killed mother and child and unborn baby. the prosecution had made its case for murder. now the question was what good justine winter s attorney could possibly say to make a jury believe otherwise. coming up, the defense takes on the heart of the case. those text. when dateline continues. dateline continues. it s the most wonderful time of the year it s spring! non-drowsy claritin-d knocks out your worst allergy symptoms including nasal congestion, without knocking you out. feel the clarity and make today the most wonderful time of the year.
where the truth lies. she concluded the most reasonable explanation for cory s arms appearing to levitate, is that cory was dead up to 12 hours before police arrived on the scene. i viewed this material and reviewed it with the eye of a scientist and and what we know about the development of rigor mortis. reporter: what would a jury believe, science, or the words from two of cory s own sons? cory s brother, a dentist, found himself struggling over the conflicting facts. science is my living you know, it s i have to believe in that, but i also have to, you know, believe in the family at the same time. so i m completely torn. reporter: i ve never seen a more difficult case, more closely argued. and there doesn t seem to be middle ground to there s there s none. reporter: parkinson urged the jury to focus on the science and one image. cory in her bed, her body in rigor mortis. he said it proved she d died hours before curtis claimed. it proved he was lying. it proved
i viewed this material and reviewed it with the eye of a scientist and and what we know about the development of rigor mortis. reporter: what would a jury believe, science, or the words from two of cory s own sons? cory s brother, a dentist, found himself struggling over the conflicting facts. science is my living you know, it s i have to believe in that, but i also have to, you know, believe in the family at the same time. so i m completely torn. reporter: i ve never seen a more difficult case, more closely argued. and there doesn t seem to be middle ground to there s there s none. reporter: parkinson urged the jury to focus on the science and one image. cory in her bed, her body in rigor mortis. he said it proved she d died hours before curtis claimed. it proved he was lying. it proved, he argued, that curtis killed her. coming up the defense gets its turn and christine is feeling optimistic. i knew in my heart he was coming home. until christine c