anything to him like that. i mean, what would i be gaining from it? what would you gain? yeah. uh, if vern dies, daniel blizzard as your boyfriend, gets more than a million dollars. well, good for him. that has nothing to do with me. well presumably you might share in that, was the was the thinking. don t you think if i was going to attack somebody that i would go attack somebody worth it!? well, a million and a half dollars is a lot of motive. i don t care about money. i don t get it, why people are so shallow when it comes to money. reporter: jill s story? she didn t want the money. her boyfriend lied to her. the couple that lured vern to the home lied to her. but those claims that daniel blizzard had asked jill to poison vern? well, those according to jill are true. daniel gave you poison? uh huh. i think so. i just dumped it out so do you know what kind of poison it was? mm-hmm. and he said, what? put this in vern s drink? or uh huh.
he kept wanting to retire, and it would get pushed back. and this wasn t because he was living hand to mouth, he had no money. it was because he loved it. he loved it. he liked being the best at it. reporter: so on that saturday in may when vern missed his meeting with terra, she and andrew simply dismissed it as vern being vern until terra got a phone call that night from chad. he s like, have you heard from vern, something s wrong. he s in the hospital or something you gotta go check. then i like, instantly, i m worried. reporter: terra is a physician s assistant and knew memorial hospital well. she was pointed to the e.r. where a nurse delivered the devastating news. she proceeded to tell me that he had been beaten and that his throat was slashed and that they were getting ready to airlift him to harborview in seattle. reporter: and it happened, she soon learned, at that house vern had been showing to clients.
helped jill out with a job, and more. that s the kind of man he was. he helps anybody out, it doesn t matter who they are. big heart? uh-huh. huge heart. reporter: and using that huge heart, to help family members or clients was what seemed to keep vern holbrook young. after andrew s mom died in 2007, vern eventually remarried and kept moving whether he was catching fish or closing deals. he was a machine. reporter: vern had tried to slow down even selling his company in 2008 to an ambitious young agent whom vern had trained and taken under his wing, daniel blizzard, who was buying the business with his two brothers. i think that appeal of daniel and his brothers was that it would still be a family and a local business as opposed to becoming a chain. reporter: but vern couldn t stop selling.
he was just known to be one of the big movers and shakers in the real estate industry in the yakima valley. reporter: the detective had been called to the house where vern was found that saturday night. he d heard from the responding officer, the one who wore this body camera and captured these scenes from the moment he arrived just before 8 p.m. that a colleague had gone looking for vern when vern s wife had become worried that he didn t return from the showing. the colleague had found him here, lying in a pool of blood at this rural home near the small town of cowichie. the last people talked to vern around 11:15 and so we could surmise that he had likely been attacked sometime around noon. so he d been lying there, for what? maybe 7 or 8 hours? yes. not a whole lot of evidence to go on at the beginning? no. reporter: vern s truck, still parked outside offered little.
jill took part in the plot, came from her own lips. if you believe the former family members who pointed fingers at her. enter, once again, chad, jill s ex-husband. he said that six weeks before the attack, jill said something strange when discussing supervised visits with their 3 children. she told me that, um, vern may not be around that much longer to be supervising visits . and i said, well why would you think that? and she told me then that, well y know he makes a lotta enemies. and he s gonna end up making the wrong kind of enemies. reporter: all of this eventually landed jill in the sheriff s office herself. is it okay if we talk about this? uh well, i would rather have a lawyer. i understand. just because it s such a delicate situation i need a professional. i m not trying to not, you know, cooperate. i don t take that personally. i do understand that, but i do need you to know you are under arrest for attempted murder. relief? satisfaction? satisfaction.