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
the attorneys assured them that if justine was found not guilty it would give them a better shot at an insurance company reimbursement later. there was no intent of going for the estate in making that family endure more than they had already endured. but the optics were awful. but the timing could have been, who knows, better? to pick up a newspaper, look at the blocks, hear the radio. what you got were those awful people, those discussing terrible people, what are they thinking trying to sue the victims of this crime. that s what was portrayed but the actual intent was not that. at all. this court is now in session. by the time justine trout started in january 2011 appetite of public opinion had turned as bitter as the montana winter. the hearts of aaron thompson s family, to, had toughened. and justine who showed up in an almost childlike poke it out