Position. Her Jewelry Boxes untouched. Did someone have a bigger prize in mind . A Family Farm Worth a fortune. 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 thems dead and the other one is sitting in that chair. Too much to bear. Its 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 americas 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. Heres 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 defen
Most murders happen for a simple reason greed, fear, lust. There are no little lies in this kind of investigation . A lie is only there to cover something up. But someone thought the sheriff wasnt moving fast enough to uncover things. My life ended that day. I think he just had to know the truth. Reporter a father and son battle for justice. Against each other. It wasnt jason that got everything. Guess who it was . Him. You shot your mother to death. Absolutely not. Reporter a small town mystery. And a family torn apart by murder. You could hear a pin drop in that courtroom. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Dennis Murphy with the farm. Reporter sitting way up in the cab of a tractor can give an iowa corn and soybean farmer like bill carter plenty of time to reflect on just how hard this life can be sometimes. We put this farm together from nothing. Reporter there was the summer when the heat scorched the crops the winter when there wasnt enough snow on the ground and
Most murders happen for a simple reason greed, fear, lust. There are no little lies in this kind of investigation . A lie is only there to cover something up. But someone thought the sheriff wasnt moving fast enough to uncover things. My life ended that day. I think he just had to know the truth. Reporter a father and son battle for justice. Against each other. It wasnt jason that got everything. Guess who it was . Him. You shot your mother to death. Absolutely not. Reporter a small town mystery. And a family torn apart by murder. You could hear a pin drop in that courtroom. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Dennis Murphy with the farm. Reporter sitting way up in the cab of a tractor can give an iowa corn and soybean farmer like bill carter plenty of time to reflect on just how hard this life can be sometimes. We put this farm together from nothing. Reporter there was the summer when the heat scorched the crops the winter when there wasnt enough snow on the ground and
Education, she could only hire herself out as a domestic. That is she went into suburban homes of white families and scrubbed their floors and cooked their meals and washed their clothes and cleaned their homes, things of that nature. My father probably had less than an eighth grade education, was a worked in a laundry. And then he died shortly after they married. I was three years old. Carl was a year old. And so this young bride then had to try to raise two boys as a domestic worker. She sent for her mother and brought her mother up from georgia so her mother could take care of carl and i. She had to spend the entire week working on the job spend the weekend with us and go back. During the week, her grandmother took care of us she found it difficult. Often told us she made 8 a day plus car fare, because at the time car fare was by street cars. She found it difficult to make a living on that amount of money, she also went on welfare. In addition to it in order to try to still make her
Education, she could only hire herself out as a domestic. That is she went into suburban homes of white families and scrubbed their floors and cooked their meals and washed their clothes and cleaned their homes, things of that nature. My father probably had less than an eighth grade education, was a worked in a laundry. And then he died shortly after they married. I was three years old. Carl was a year old. And so this young bride then had to try to raise two boys as a domestic worker. She sent for her mother and brought her mother up from georgia so her mother could take care of carl and i. She had to spend the entire week working on the job spend the weekend with us and go back. During the week, her grandmother took care of us she found it difficult. Often told us she made 8 a day plus car fare, because at the time car fare was by street cars. She found it difficult to make a living on that amount of money, she also went on welfare. In addition to it in order to try to still make her