that he punched pravin varughese the night welcome back. accused murderer gaege bethune testified he had punched pravin varughese the night the teenager went missing. gaege s lawyer argued the injuries were not life- threatening and pravin later froze to death to to his own poor judgment. the jury was about to deliver its verdict. then, a surprise that would leave the courtroom stunned. here is dennis murphy with the conclusion of at the edge of town. lovely and her family waited patiently inside the jackson county courthouse is a jury decided whether to find gaege bethune guilty of their son s murder. one hour turned into two. then six and then seven hours of deliberation. we were called back to the courtroom. the jury comes in. several of the jurors were visibly shaken. they look like they had been
seen, pravin had not been drinking all that much. he was standing and talking to me like i would talk to anyone is. he was not leaning on me your couldn t talk or think straight. if pravin was not that drunk, lovely wondered how had the ended up lost in the woods. police had found his body hundreds of yards from the road. you can see them try to retrace his steps in this video. lovely walked the route too. what s it like? they are thick and full of thorns. you have to spread it. there was barbed wire fencing of some of the woods from the highway. that s right found a piece of his clothing? yes. this is where. a piece of his t-shirt snagged on one of the barbs. the lower strand got a piece of his clothing. lovely thought the rough terrain and barbed wire made it unlikely pravin would ve wandered aimlessly into the woods and gotten lost. if he had been lost, why hadn t
crying. when we sat down, i touch my son s picture and i always tell him what is going on. i hear him saying in my heart, mommy, we got it. the jury did not believe the prosecutor s theory that a robbery was behind the death. he was acquitted on the account. they did believe gaege s blows had caused pravin s death after that they convicted him of felony murder. i remember seeing my son hit his hand on the table and then he started throwing up. he yelled mom. as he was throwing up. all i wanted to do was get to him. i was not allowed to even touch him. i could hear crying from the other side. i could hear crying from our side. i was numb. i was thankful.
exactly. we have all been 19 whether you have been to in trouble or not, you have lived about something one way or another. penny said gaege had been honest when it mattered. he told the state trooper that pravin was in the woods and wondered why the trooper hadn t gone to look for him. you put some blame on the officer. i put most of the blame on the officer. why didn t he looked for that kid? whatever he didn t do that night, his mother said he was not responsible for pravin dying in the woods. he had done nothing wrong besides getting into a scuffle and giving the kid a ride. the special prosecutor thought differently. july 2017, three years after pravin s body had been found, gaege was charged with two counts of felony murder. the special prosecutor had a new theory. check out these tweets that appeared weapon posted by gaege. the prosecutor believed that gaege using a racial epithet was bragging about hustling
against the city and the police chief, and waited to see what would happen. but, half a year went by. i said, that s it. were going to the city council meeting and i will get pictures of pravin and put them in their face. any citizen comments? i took a six-hour train drive to be here today and i request your kind attention to me. she didn t cuss them out or threaten him. she said, please, i want answers. common courtesy. then it was monica s turn. i want to show you a few images of what we are being told here are not injuries. she handed out photos of pravin s injuries. one lady excused herself and was crying and this guy was crying. the presentation seem to have an impact. a few weeks later, city officials handed over a copy of the case file lovely and monica