Sold Avon Products parttime. They lived and gardened in the same house almost 25 years. They even designed it themselves. Life in missouri was good for the two. They loved each other very much. Daughter, jessica, remembers how extraordinarily close her parents were, joined at the hip. My mother went shopping my dad took her. Talked on the phone several times a day. They really were for the age, huh . Yes. Personalities, gary was the fun outgoing one. He was a very jolly man, kind of like a santa claus. Jan, a little more reserved. It took a little bit more to get to know her. Once she warmed up to you, she was very alive. When gary retired as beloved assistant School Superintendent he suddenly had all the time in the world to visit Civil War Battlefields and scour flea market s and pour over catal catalogs. There was a lucrative sideline for memorabilia. He was big into buying gold and silver. His brother, larry terrell. He constantly bought coins and sold silver drink kets. He did pretty well at it . He did. He was a good businessman. He had it in many safes in the house but many of the artifacts were out on display. He had a lot of rare pieces, indian jewelry, quality pieces he loved. What was his favorite . Probably the walrus tuxes he owned. He had three of those. They were rare 19th century hand engraved and each worth around 10,0 10,000. How would he find these things . Im not really sure. They did go to flea markets and garage sales, any time i would ask him, where did you get this, he would say, oh, in my in 2013, jason murray became one of the family when he and jessica got engaged. He remembers the walrus tuxes as well as the other unusual items in the terrell home. There was so much stuff in that house yet it was immaculate. Everything had a place. It was like an offbeat museum. They lived 300 miles away in Oklahoma City but jessica spoke and texted her parents several times a day. That all changed may 1st. I called my mom on my way to work like i always do. She doesnt answer. I thought, well, maybe shes in the bathroom, maybe shes outside. And i called back and i still didnt reach her. By noon, jessica says she still couldnt reach her so she called the Springfield Police and asked them to go by the house. When the officer did that, what did he report back to you . Nothing seemed out of place. They couldnt see anything inside the house. All the doors absolutely no signs of forced entry or anything appeared to be out of place. Not the officer had no cause to force his way into the house and left. But jessica says she was still worried, so she and jason jumped in their car to make the fivehour drive to springfield. They arrived at the house around 7 00 p. M. As we were coming around the corner to the house, i hit the garage door button and both of their cars were in the garage. That was bad news for you . Yes. What did that imply . That there was something terribly wrong. Jessica called 911 without ever going past the garage into the house. Two officers arrived within minutes. They entered the home and then another officer arrived and then another and then another and then another. And youre waiting outside . Were waiting outside. No one said a word to jessica and jason. And then they noticed police blocking off the a scene tape. I kind of grabbed to the officer and i said, what is going on . Why are they calling for crime scene tape . And he kind of, you know, held me and said, i dont know whats going on. All i know is there are two people in the house that are deceased. Chilling words outside the terrells house. But they were nothing compared to what investigators would find inside. When we come back. It seems to be an element of personal angry this thing, this close quartered killing of somebody with a weapon in your hand . It definitely seemed to be personal, the brutality involved. Dove men care. The strength test. 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Im think this is horrible and hoping its carbon monoxide. Not benign but something expla explainable . Right, right. Inside, officers quickly grasped the cold stomach turning truth. Their deaths were not accide accidental. It was going to be a long investigation. First detectives on the scene. That night he entered through the garage and saw gary first. We could see there was a deceased male in the hallway of the home. His pants were pulled down. What did you make of that . We didnt know. The only thing we could think of was hes trying to get away from somebody, that theyre grabbing ahold of him. Or was the killer rifling his pockets for something, a key maybe, a combination . In garys office downstairs, the detective saw jan. She was on the ground, she was lying facedown but it was obvious that there was severe trauma to the back of her head. So was this a violent Home Invasion . Jan and gary had more than half a Million Dollars worth of valuables in the house for the gr grabbing, so a botched robbery was the likely scenario. In the Garage Police found marks and scratches on a tornado shelter also used as a safe. It pry the lock open. There were marks on the door of the tornado shelter . They did not get inside. It did not appear they did, no. That would suggest somebody is looking for something . Yes. If robbery was the plan, the killer had left the oddball museum strangely in tact. Nothing appeared tossed or out of place. The nature of the killings, gary was shot as well as beaten smoke volumes to the prosecutor ass n assigned to the, todd meyers . There seems to be an element of personal anger in this thing, todd, close quarter killing of somebody with a weapon in your hand. Yes, it definitely seemed to be personal type killing the brutality involved. Investigators determined jan and gary were likely killed the night before but search as they might for the murder weapons, gun and bludgeoning instrument, they came up emptyhanded but discovered some evidence. Small white flakes of a substance obviously either from the murder weapon or on the murders body. There were similar flakes found by the wound to garys head. So they bagged them and sent them off for testing. The crime scene techs discovered Something Else that could be a crucial piece of evidence. A discarded latex glove. A latex glove on the floor jumped out of you . Totally out of place. From talking with everybody, is there no way jan or gary would have left that glove there. Right in the middle of the floor for everyone to see . Did it belong to the victims or killer . No one knew. You collected it. No one knows what it means. Collected, sent to the Highway Patrol lab. No one knew why the couple had been murdered but had a sequence as to the order of dea deaths. It was hard to believe gary i shot upstairs if janice still functioning and mobile and would not have called 911 and not tried to intervene in some way. Speculation and common sense tells you she has the first victim. The first victim. Shes bludgeoned downstairs and gary arrives at some point later . He arrives either while that is ongoing or the killer is waiting for him. It appears she would have been the first to have died. A big question early on for detectives was understanding their crime scene, how did the killer gain entry to the house . There were no signs of forced entry. Window s havent been forced the door is in tact. How did the killer get in . One would be to have their own access device, whether key or garage door opener, some way to open the doors up or upon leaving unlock it that way or let in the house by either gary or jan. It didnt appear to be a the killer or killers was someone the couple knew. Was it a person gary encountered in his antiquing travels or terrible to think about it, was the perpetrator someone much closer to home . Was this all in the family . I was shocked, really confused and baffled. Coming up, who had a motive to kill the terterrells. Investigators have at least one idea. She is the person who could benefit in terms of getting money . She is the only child from parents who are very welltodo with a lot to be left to her. When dateline continues. Your concert tee might show your age. Your skin never will. Olay regenerist. Olay. Ageless. And try regenerist microsculpting eyeswirl. It instantly hydrates to plump and lift. Unless you have allergies. Then your eyes may see it differently. Flonase is the first and only nasal spray approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes and congestion. No other nasal allergy spray can say that. When we breathe in allergens our bodies react by over producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. 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Two deaths, the wife beaten about the head downstairs, the husband shot twice upstairs and Springfield Police had determined this was no random jan guard inry terrells modest home was filled with valuable it items, yet at first glance nothing had been taken. An early sup position was that their killer was likely close to them and no one was closer than their daughter, jessica. She was the one who could benefit from this crime in terms of gaining money. Shes the only child with parents who are welltodo with a lot thats left to her. So shes going to be questioned hard . Yes. That night, detectives asked jessica and fiance, jason, down to the station to answer a few questions. The cops didnt let on they were talking to them not just as grieving relatives but also as potential suspects. Im obviously going to say were sorry to talk to you. Dont let that bother you. The interviewer withheld details about the crime scene, a standard investigative tactic to see if they know more than they shou. Wasnt true, murder suicide. One of the things to look at as to whether or not one of them may have injured the other. Jessica seemed to go with it. Do you think thats a possibility . My dad, since his mom died, has been super depressed and has made comments and my mom called the doctors office. And i told her if he did if he said something stupid before again, she needed to call the police, like get the [ bleep ] away from him and call the police. As they continued talking police had another reason to be suspicious of the daughter. She had driven five hours to check on the parents and then didnt go inside the house. You wonder why she wouldnt do that . People sometimes commit a crime or know a crimes been committed and dont want to see the body in there and call somebody else . The detectives pressed the couple about their movements that day, what they did or did not do at the sc tornado shelter in the garage . You didnt try to get inside. No. I pushed my hand on the locked handled and that was it. Did you think this was a situation we have to call lawyer and be careful what we say . I did a little bit. Neither jason or jessica asked for a lawyer and offered the detective more detail what was in that tornado shelter that had been tampered with. Gold and silver and gold b bars. We actually dont know what alls in there. I dont. He has books there signed by preside president s. He has indian pieces. For the investigators, the entire interview is a test. How are you going to hold up . Will you have answers we can verify. You intend to sweat them . Yeah. That was the detectives intent to the degree to make sure we get the truth. Had they passed the investigators tests . Detectives let them go but hold for potential evidence . Why did they have a reason the look in your car . I dont really know. I assume because my car was there. Now, jessica had to call family and friends to tell them news about her parents. Her uncle was at his Brothers Law Office when he got the call. She said mom and dad are gone. I said, are they out of town . Theyre deceased. I collapsed on the floor. Knew were a mess. I was a mess. The unknown was terrifying because i didnt know what had happened. But larry wasnt shocked or outraged to learn his niece was being looked at as a potential suspect. He was after call a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. I knew she had to be elimina eliminated, i understood that. Due to the fact she was the only child she just had to be eliminated so the case could move on. And the case did keep moving, but after a full week of investiga her fiance were not eliminated. Rather, detectives called them back to the station, this time interviewed separately. Jason first. Cops by now had figured out the murders took place the night before the bodies were discovered. So where exactly were he and jessica then . We went to the pizza hut on i dont know, probably 5 30 or Something Like that and came back home. Stayed home. Home. Five hours away in Oklahoma City. Do you remember how you paid for the pizza hut . On my card. Sure its on my card. Credit card. Then right to the point. Do you have any reason to harm gary or jane . Not at all. Didnt do anything to hurt them or go in the house, anything like that . Everything you tell me the truth . Absolutely. Next, jessica was in the chair, answering questions about her relationship with her parents. Are they paying any of your bills . They pay my at t bill for my cell pay my car insurance. I think thats it. Im just going to ask. Did you have any ill feelings towards your folks . Anything that you would have been mad at them for, any reason to want to harm them or anything like that . No. My parents were my life. To better your financial situation or anything like that . No. If i needed something, all i had to do was call and ask. So youre a suspect. Right. In your parents double homicide . Yes. Yes. How do you deal with that . You havent even buried them yet. I wasnt really dealing with it. It was more going through and saying i you know, i didnt do it. Police asked both jessica and jason for dna samples then set out to verify their alibis. My boss and i took a trip to Oklahoma City and we went to employers and spoke with fellow employees with jessicas boss and went to the pza if we could see surveillance video. Would it all check out or would an unexpected lead send the investigation in a new direction. This was a huge bingo moment . It was. Coming up, garys best friend offers detectives some clues including texts he says he saw on garys phone. He was a guy in a class asking for money. Does someone need cash badly enough to kill . T the need for f. Your concert tee might show your age. Your skin never will. Olay regenerist, olay. Ageless. And try the microsculpting cream you love now with lightweight spf 30. On an early spring saturday on may 2014, the very day Jessica Terrell had planned to go Wedding Dress shopping with her mother burying both her parents. I basically just cried and was constantly ill. What she was going through at that point was unfathomable. She is just broken at this point. The Funeral Service was held at a high school in the Mountain GroveSchool District where gary worked for 30 years sfcht Nancy Latrell was a school board secretary. So hard to believe that something so bad could happen in springfield and double unbelief that its somebody you know. My heart has just gone out for poor jessica. The outpouring of love and support was a huge comfort to jessica at a time when she needed it most. Word had gotten out that the cops were looking at her. Yeah. Lots of rumors that i did it. Its tough to go out everyday and say, i didnt kill my parents. Right. It got very tir the daughter, she did it, she has the most to gain. They did take hard look. Yes, they did. They think the daughter did it and in cahoots with the fiance. You might not have believed it or your circle . My circlemy circle was not believing that. Police and prosecutors came to the same conclusion. Jessica and jason were innocent. Everything jessica and jason were telling the police the police were able to corroborate. They went through everything, the phone records and everything was checked out top to bottom. It was. When the latex glove was checked out neither one was a match. It was an unknown male. Yes. We knew we didnt do it. Now, you need to find out who did it. The couple thought they could help the investigation with their own amateur sleuthing. When jessica went back to her time, he noticed something was missing. There was a display of ivory pieces and walrus tuxes and engraved art, they had been moved. Walrus tux, jason, like so . About this big and the other one not where it was supposed to be and the other not there at all. Jason told police the ivory tuxes could be the murder weapon, the white parts. And her dads desk, too. And coins. He kept them in coffee cans and he would be sorting them or organizing them. And a container that looked like loose parking lot change was missing. Its actual value around 20,0 20 according to her dads records. The killer would have known the real value only if he moved in the same antique circles as gary, at brother suggested. Perhaps gary went to buy gold or s