of an ar-15. police notice there was a suppressor, or silencer, attached to the weapon and a brass bag which cashes shell casing so they don t fall through the ground. and the brass back happen to have seven spent shell casings and it. which is the same number of shots that were fired that night in carles bed. you think you found the weapon? without a doubt. but lea had plenty of doubts. he has the skills to do that. but he doesn t have the personality or the hard to do that. police arrested weldon. at the station, he initially denied everything. the gentleman got shot. i m asking you where you were at last week? what s location? have anita soledad. i don t know that location. but when police told him they had some potential dna evidence that would place him at the scene, his story
i believe it will someday. weldon was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. diana 26 to life. did you ever think that your friend diana could ever get wrapped up in a wild story like this? no. no, it s my worst nightmare. greg mulvihill now has full custody of their son. i ve actually had a lot of hard to hearts with greg mulvihill and i do generally think that he is a sweet, nice man and didn t deserve any of this. walden s wife lea is now a single parent to. he shouldn t be in prison. he should be home. well done is a beautiful person, that my son should be able to have in his life. weldon mcdavid, the man who said he just wanted to help, who once empowered a woman caught in an abusive marriage, now, the fallen hero. contemplating life behind bars. perhaps he, sums it up best. there is no winners here. there is no winners at all. this whole situation is a lost. that s all for this edition of dateline , i m craig melvin, thank you for watching.
what jim walk down? that would ve put me out in the open and made me a potential target. so you felt it was safer for everybody concerned for you to be dressing camo within ar-15 touch under the bushes. that was a safer thing to do? based on my training and my experience, yes i thought that was the safest for everyone involved. but remember how dark it was the night of the shooting? the night of the new moon? the prosecutor said that was no coincidence. diana purposely chose a night when weldon could hide unseen. there were google searches that miss lovejoy had made regarding the new moon and what it was. and when the peak point of darkness was, which happened to be at the same time that they lowered him out there. and the prosecution had one more piece of evidence for the jury. a potential financial motive. for murder. as part of the divorce settlement, diana would drag $120,000. the money was do three weeks
came up with a very stupid plan. and brought a gun to it. rafael acosta is weldon s former arc tierney. he did not represent him at the trial. he believes weldon acted out of what he calls a misguided hero complex. but never planned to kill or even her greg mulvihill. there you go. acosta says he thinks weldon s experience with krystal harris had a profound impact on him. that was the first case when he heard nobody was listening to that woman. and ultimately that woman was born to be correct. and now he has a second woman who is saying, nobody is listening to me. so, what do you do when nobody else doesn t want to help? you help. did you yourself have any conversations about a plan to kill greg mulvihill. no. the big question uncrossing is emanation, why show up in camouflage with and ar-15 if the goal was just to record greg picking up the package? could you not have just accomplished the exact same goal by sitting in your car and
after the day of the shooting. however, if he s dead, which would ultimately come right back to his loved once. in closing arguments, the prosecutor said there was no doubt diana lovejoy and weldon mcdavid had conspired to kill greg mulvihill. they didn t planned for jason kovach. they didn t plan for a by bright bike light to light up mr. mcdavid. and they did plan to get caught. no reason to kill, he had 120,000 reasons to kill. what would the jury think? first, let s see what you think. here what weldon and i and i had to say when we visited them in jail. coming up a defendant s biggest regret. not what you might think. if i could only take back one thing, i would take that. and drama in court. when dateline continues.