defense, taking their own look at what the kids told detectives. continuing with what they saw, here s dennis murphy. in the weeks following sierra s murder, investigators compiled their evidence. there were the police interviews with the children. and they had sierra s cell records showing her phone went silent around the time jared was at her apartment. there wasn t a single phone call or text after 6:39 p.m. on june 2nd. and the only whis of of a lead, that guy from indiana who was going to help sierra move. she was murdered. you ve got to be [ bleep ]. well, his alibi checked out, and that left one person, jared. so on july 1st, a month after sierra s murder i was leaving to go to work and people started getting out of their cars and put their hands up like this, don t move, you re under arrest. jared was charged with murder and spent the next 15 months in jail before posting bond and being released.
bleach. everything seems to be consistent with you going in and killing ciara and doing a rough clean-up and then coming out. absolutely not. if i had done a quick rough clean-up, there would have been something on me. there would have been something in the car. the police had the car in their custody. they combed it. inch to inch. they found no blood. they found no bleach. that, that s impossible. jared denied he d ever been violent with ciara. the defense pointing out there s never been so much as a single report to the police. and, no, child support wasn t a problem. he said they were working on it. and he hadn t been upset about the ex s move to indiana, either. his new wife katie watched from the gallery. jared is calm, cool, very intelligent. he s our evidence. the jury went out to deliberate. two days passed without a verdict. then in an odd quirk of the court calendar, everyone took a week off. no decision. what if this jury says,
georgia, was being near her ex. n she didn t want the kids t be without their father. she tried her best to coe parent. she didn t have anybodyhe here. shedi sacrificed her short tm happiness for the kids? es right. for her children. that s the type of mother she was. her friend kendra lived in tennessee, but they were as close as they could be. when did you talk, start of the day, middle of the day? all day. we were single moms dealing with, you know, our x s. she wasou my support system and she thought of me as hers. by june 2012, sierra decided it was time for a fresh start. she made a plan to move home to indiana to be near her family. their kids, ages 6 and 7, would stay with jared for the summer and join her later. was she dating again? yes,ti she was, absolutely. she was young, so of course she didn t want to be alone, you know? in fact, even before the move toen indiana, she d already met guy online who lived up there. he was going to help her move. he was
amicably. jared said the last time he d seen sierra was six days before. he and the kids had stopped by to pickup some toys before her move to indiana. kids went in, give her a hug. they were upstairs and started playing with some of their toys and watching tv and stuff. how long were you there for? seemed like a couple hours. he said they hadn t talked since. that wasn t unusual. we didn t call each other when i had the kids usually. she was one of those to call every day. detectives wanted to know about the state of jared and sierra s relationship, how they had been getting along. they hadn t had any issues, but he admitted things were strained. what was the problem? no problem. just once we broke up, i felt like, you know, there was no reason to have an argument with her any more after that. they also asked jared how he felt about sierra s decision to move to indiana. i didn t feel any kind of way
apartment, all the prosecution pointed to was jared s fingerprint on her cell phone. he was over at that town house quite a bit. it would not have been uncommon for his fingerprints to be all over this place. jared said, sure, he used ciara s phone that day. i just remember my daughter handing me the phone saying it was her older brother in indiana and he wanted to talk to me. and they weren t worried at all about that jail house snitch. he was totally not credible, as most snitches are not. because if you talk with any jurors, they don t believe them. i mean, you don t call somebody and talk about another crime unless you expect to get something out of it. they were right here. but what about the kids and their ever-important stories? the defense questioned the new details. dad changing his shirt. the white bottle of what could have been bleach. you re saying that the cops in this case are seeding the story, they re coaching the