next was frank jaramillo. he said that he wouldn t have done it had schockner not threatened his wife and his in-laws. so this was he did it out of fear then? yeah, he said, literally, he said on the stand that he had sacrificed his life for his family, when we all know that he has sacrificed lynn schockner s life for his pocketbook. but that was his defense. it was his defense. ed the verdict, guilty of first-degree murder. and now it was fred s turn. and the man had aged at least ten years. he looked so frail. but this wasn t over just yet. when fred schockner took the witness stand he told the jury he could explain everything. do tell. coming up he was very defiant and completely maintained his innocence. will the jury believe him? i had a moment of just
it, it s like didn t make any difference. reporter: yeah, not gonna bring him back. it is not gonna bring trent back. but still it s why did this happen? you re four years in, five years in, and really no closer to solving it. than from reporter: your first case and it day one. that will make you doubt yourself. reporter: and then one day a particular woman happened to see an anniversary story about the unsolved murder of the football player back in kentucky. a woman who d once sat in a bar in a fog of love. and who now was quite terrified. coming up. a break in the case from out of the blue. an ex-lover reveals all, including a motive for murder almost too absurd to believe. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed because it was something this weird.
reporter: and shane ragland went home on a million dollars bail, paid by his dad, to wait for a whole new trial. it s been a long time, shane. how does it feel to be outside, going home with your father right now? i don t really look at it like that. i look at the long-term goal of fighting a case against me that s fake, that s false. and i know i m innocent. i don t worry about my feelings, creature comforts. reporter: why was the verdict thrown out? it had nothing to do with aimee lloyd or her explosive testimony or the sting tape recorded at the airport. all that was fine. so what was the issue? the bullet that killed trent. an fbi expert had linked the fragments of that bullet found during the autopsy to bullets like these that were found in shane s father s house. but after shane s conviction the fbi realized the test it used was, in fact, bad science and stopped using it. these are things that we have been arguing for years, frankly, shouldn t have been admitted. re
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later. we the jury find the defendant guilty of intentional murder. guilty of intentional murder, the sentence 30 years. to know that he was guilty, know that this guy sitting there smug and non-remorseful is guilty and and, boom, you feel good about that. reporter: mike digiuro thought it was done. okay, this is it. he s going to jail. it s over. reporter: and aimee, she had vanished. aimee was afraid of shane ragland. and we told her that if she testified we would do what we could to let her have a new identity. and law enforcement helped her get a new identity. reporter: and that new identity would be a problem. you talk about something that just blows you away. i mean, i can t even couldn t even grasp that. because this case wasn t over, not even close.