he married the woman of his dreams, beautiful and sweet. she was just angelic. and was folded into her tight-knit family headed by an elderly religious matriarch. you were either part of their family or you weren t. together they had a little girl, sydney. when their marriage fell apart, her family closed ranks. in their view, sydney was their property. one day he went to pick up his little girl for a visit and was never seen alive again. he died right there. dad?ut who would kill a devoted the unbelievable choice, his golden girl wife or the gracious family matriarch? they seemed so loving, but was there another side. it s a monster that comes out of a closet. it s very ugly. how dark is that side? murderous. but which one was the killer? hello and welcome to dateline. he was a man suddenly confronted with something monstrous, evil at the door. this story is a mystery about a father of two young daughters. one night he left to pick up one of them an
their family or you weren t. together they had a little girl, sydney. when their marriage fell apart, her family closed ranks. in their view, sydney was their property. one day he went to pick up his little girl for a visit and was never seen alive again. he died right there. but who would kill a devoted dad? the unbelievable choice, his golden girl wife or the gracious family matriarch? they seemed so loving, but was there another side. it s a monster that comes out of a closet. it s very ugly. how dark is that side? murderous. but which one was the killer? hello and welcome to dateline. he was a man suddenly confronted with something monstrous, evil at the door. this story is a mystery about a father of two young daughters. one night he left to pick up one of them and never came back. the question for investigators wasn t what happened. it was who did it. in the home of a god-fearing family in one of the smallest of american towns, the worst of crimes.
prosecution had no physical evidence to prove she was the shooter, no dna, no fingerprints, no gunshot residue, no blood spatter, no photos of the scripts on shirley s hands. basically, all they had were descriptions of the hands and statements from first responders that surely told them she had shots east even. now it was time for the defense to make its case to the jury, mostly young and female from small town rural illinois. lawyers for shirley emphasized the fact that there was no physical evidence linking her to the weapon, and they argued surely statement to the first responders is he dead, i shot him, were made when she was having a medical emergency. how reliable could those statements be? the defense focus on what they called a sloppy inept investigation by the police chief, pointed at jennifer the innuendo and implications with her ugly divorce and custody battle as the one with the motive to kill stephen. they didn t directly argue jennifer pulled the trigger,
illinois. lawyers wrote emphasized the fact that there was no physical evidence linking her to the weapon. and they argued that shirley s statements to the first responders, were made when she was having a medical emergency. how reliable could those statements be? the defense also focus on what they called a sloppy investigation by the police chief. pointed at jennifer through innuendo and implication of an ugly divorce and custody battle, as the one with the motive to kill stephen. they did not directly argue that jennifer pulled the trigger, only that there was no hard evidence that surely did. and what did jennifer have to say to the jury, nothing. she did not even attend the trial. the defense called no witnesses of its own. what did jurors think of the case? we spoke with three jurors. did she look like someone that could commit this crime? when i first walked in there, i thought she was one of the attorneys.
rural illinois. surely emphasize the fact that there was no physical evidence. they argued surely statements to the first responders, is he dead? i shot him. they were made when she was making a the defense also focused on a sloppy napped investigation by the police chief. jennifer, in no window and are ugly divorce and custody battle, as the one with the motive to kill stephen. they didn t directly argue if general for the pulled the trigger, only that there was no hard evidence. what did jennifer have to say to the jury? nothing. she didn t even attend the trial. the defense called no witnesses of its own. so, what did jurors think of the case. we spoke with three. did surely look like someone who could commit this crime? honestly, no. as a matter of fact, when i first walked in, i really thought she was one of the