going to be through digita evidence the phone records or something like that. for melvin s family, only partial justice has been served i will not give up until we know everybody that wa involved, and what he needs to understand is that it s goin to be a lot easier if they com over instead of police havin to find them the clock is ticking. we are coming we re coming. and we re not giving up. i m craig melvin. i m natalie morales this is dateline . i see her laying there, m dad is kneeling, that was th first time i ve ever seen hi cry. they had a tumultuous marriage there would be yelling, and maybe slamming doors according to him, he sees lisa with a gunshot wound to the head so initially it was ruled suicide. her sister went to the majorit patrol to express their believ that this impact was a murder. she had been having a affair with her boss the pocket cuter says after he sought his wife, he washed his hands and watched his. they call this bac
he just kept saying, why, dave why did she do this? he was a mess. all of those guns you see i the background there dale owns buffalo s only gun and pawnshop so, when the lisa s death wa declared to be suicide and the sheriff return ballads gone, the one that killed her. brad called dale he said i don t really want the gun back i can t imagine why h would. he said, do you want it i said yes, i cleaned it up just put it in the safe an forgot about it. and the family tried to mov on and didn t pay much attention. but lacey began saying odd things you know, mom was murdere blah blah blah murdered? now that it was anything lik an accusation, aggressive or unfriendly she did didn t act an different with that. she still came around. he still helped her. but sometimes, the smalle yorktown, the less you kno
didn t want to talk, didn t want to say anything wasn t until years late that he learned she had been having an affair with her boss and that man had just broken i off, meaning she was also ou of the job if she had told me sh wasn t coming back to work the day before this. he didn t understand this then but now, maybe that was an answer to his long ago question, why did she and her own life once he might ve confronted th other men, now, nothing to b done i don t even know where he at the business shut down, closed down in july 2018, the state attorney generals office announced it would not retrial brad as for the ones close family when we last spoke with him, they remained badly split. lisa sister, sean, and daughter, lacey, still believe brad wa guilty and for brad, it feels like starting over and he clings to his kids
anything in brad s defense what was it like to be yo sitting back there watchin that it was the most miserable time of my life. and i didn t know what i could do i wanted to stop it but didn t know how. and mr. deputy would say tha it is all going to com together, don t worry about it maybe the attorney wa thinking of the gunshot residu or - remember, they found gun ris to do on her hand but not on brad s hand, implying that lis shot herself the prosecutor had a explanation. so the prosecutor says it i a logical inference from the facts of the case that mr. jennings, after he shot hi wife, before he called 9-1-1 h washed his hands and watched his forearms and blood evidence. investigator nash was th expert the state put up and he said that an his expert opinio the way the spotter hit th wall, and brats black road and leases hand, it left no doub that he fired the shot
one look at that file, something forensic seemed off. he was inclined to agree wit sean it didn t look like suicide at all. he was just struck by the fact that if lisa jennings had shot herself using her right hand, there would be more blow back from that, then one dro of blood three months after that christmas eve, investigato nash drove over to brad s farm told him he was looking at the case again and wanted to went into the bathroom that mr. jennings was wearing that the real piano on he said when he said he found this a dead and held her in her arms. why three months later woul a bathrobe be a useful certainly it had been cleane or something i would suspect?