the gun was a revolver, a smith and wes son .357. it s a very strong gun to pull the trigger. you need 12 pounds of pressure on that trigger. it s not the kind of gun that can easily be fired by accident. i stood in the normal stance in which you fire a weapon. i noticed this weapon was a little bit more difficult as far as firing in the sense that pressure on the trigger was a little bit more you needed a little bit more pounds of pressure to the trigger of the gun. another unusual factor is that burn marks on the victim s face show the gun was fired 18 inches away from her face. one forensic expert said in 20 years of experience he has never come across a suicide in which the gun was fired 18 inches away from the victim s head. shepard? shepard: steve harrigan covering the trial from our florida newsroom. thanks. the military reporting two marines killed in a chopper crash in southern california.
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judge jeanine: when calyx and beau schenecker woke up on the 27th, it was just another day. they had no idea what their mom had in store for them. the afternoon of june 27th. julie schenecker did what thousands of moms do every day. she picked her son up from soccer practice. this day would be like no other. hidden in julie s purse, a smith and wes son .38 that she picked up from the gun store that morning. over the course of several days, julie has written a series of notes to herself. planning in great detail what is about to happen. schenecker has been expressing her feelings of failure and frustration as a parent for months. she is upset about the way her teenagers talk to her and treat her and she will no longer
bullets into her head. [gunshots] judge jeanine: schenecker plans to kill herself, but the next morning tampa police find her laying on the patio next to the pool, covered in blood. she appears to be drugged or drunk. upstairs, in the computer room, a pool of blood. following a trail across the hall to calyx s room police find her dead in bed, covered by a blanket. in the garage, they find beau. still in the passenger seat of the van where he was shot. julie is arrested and charged with murder. detectives canvas the home and make a number of discoveries. there are post-it notes methodically placed throughout the home listing reasons why julie killed her kids. entering the master bedroom, they find the 38 smith and wes son sitting on the dresser next to the box it came in.