i did not shoot my mom and i would never shoot my mom. two trials. every emotion hit. two verdicts. there were only two people who knew what happened that day. one of them s dead and the other one is sitting in that chair. too much to bear. it s just been a hell on earth. hello and welcome to dateline. bill and shirley carter built a comfortable life and raised a family on their sprawling farm in america s heartland. as their golden years approached the couple fell into a routine. daily coffee, working the fields and spending time with the grandkids. but one morning gunshots rang out, leaving shirley dead and planting the seeds of a mystery that would turn one family member against another. here s dennis murphy with the farm. council bluffs, iowa. in a small courtroom the new and final scene of a four-yearlong drama was playing out. count one murder in the first degree. the defendant did with malice and forethought with premeditation
middle of the night. haunted for more than two decades, he would make a chilling discovery that would unlock this mystery. now you know the whole story. yes, sir. everything kind of clicked. it s just so unbelievable. i knew he was telling his mom s story. hello and welcome to dateline. aaron fraser was only 3 years old when his mom left the house, never to be seen or heard from again. police soon learned that aaron may have witnessed the unspeakable, the murder of his own mother. the boy would become a man before the whole truth was revealed. and though memories faded, the evidence pointing to the killer couldn t stay buried. here s dennis murphy with she never left. she d been gone from his life, unaccounted for, for more than 20 years. his mother, bonnie. it was odd to be the one that found her. because you d spent a lot of your life looking for her, right? yes, sir. there s a poignant video of the mother and child s last christmas morning toget
everybody went, oh, this is mob connected. so why would police focus on her, a beautiful socialite, ex-wife number two? it was very intoxicating. i think she was cold and calculating. maybe her former husband was worth more dead than alive. it s easy to blame the rich, beautiful woman. the person everyone loves to hate. but she is completely innocent. or maybe it was someone else entirely. he is obsessed with gary triano, obsessed with him. it s a case we investigated for more than five years. now a stunning new in. we are going back up under a rollercoaster. spend a little time in tucson arizona and here, in the shadows of the majestic saguaros you will find a thriving metropolis of 1 million people, with a surprising small town feel. it s the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone. and if you ask anyone from tucson where they were on november 1st, 1996, they will tell you it was the day of a murder. so dramatic, so horrific they will never f
the jungle started to infect him, almost like a virus. then came the mystery his neighbor suddenly found dead. there was blood all over the floor. everyone was crying. i said, no, it can t possibly happen. and the millionaire suddenly on the run, taunting authorities, launching a chase, an international hide and seek hunt. it seemed like it s fiction. it doesn t seem real. he may have eluded the police, but he did not elude us. so, neither you nor anybody representing you went over to greg faull s house and shot him through in the head? no, sir. can you possibly get any inkling of the truth? you will not believe the things that happen. get ready for some serious heart of darkness here. hello, and welcome to dateline. silicon valley john mcafee launched a software firm to resign. eventually, he moved to an island off the coast of belize, saying he wants to get away from the rigid business rules in the states. but when his neighbor turned up dead, au
have something to do with her death? what s been going on in this club scene? he did admit to having encounters with other couples there. or was it simple jealousy? are you still intimate with yolanda? yes, we are. threats. say that again. objection. betrayal. he said he didn t love her, he loved me. and finally a verdict. the years of waiting. the years of mourning her. we needed justice. hello and welcome t dateline. wendy trapaga fell head over heels for michel escoto, an older man with a string of admiring girlfriends, though wendy was his prize catch. the couple quickly married. then, just days later, the young bride was found dead in a parking lot. the mystery of her murder would haunt investigators for years. but the truth would prove more cold-blooded than even they could imagine. here s dennis murphy with. mystery in south beach. if you spent any time down here, you probably sensed there are really two miami beaches. you know this one by