when you ve got something that was this bad somebody s got to pay. somebody has got to pay. hello, and welcome to dateline. nona dirksmeyer and kevin jones were a couple with a bright future. she was a self-confident 19 -year-old known for her beautiful voice. he was her devoted boyfriend with big ambitions. then, a brutal attack their shattered their dreams. it was a crime that would shake a small southern town to its core. and pit a family against the community they called home. here s keith morrison with what happened to the beauty queen? look at her. look at the young woman at the heart of our story. you can see how lovely she is. the young beauty queen. can you see her vulnerability? by now your first impression is probably locked in. it s very unlikely to change. and certainly, that s how it was in russellville, arkansas. the town where a first impression hardens like a patch of cement. about her and also about for better or worse, the young man acc
hello, and welcome to dateline. nona dirksmeyer and kevin jones were a couple with a bright future. she was a self-confident 19 -year-old known for her beautiful voice. he was her devoted boyfriend with big ambitions. then, a brutal attack their shattered their dreams. it was a crime that would shake a small southern town to its core. and pit a family against the community they called home. here s keith morrison with what happened to the beauty queen? look at her. look at the young woman at the heart of our story. you can see how lovely she is. the young beauty queen. can you see her vulnerability? by now your first impression is probably locked in. it s very unlikely to change. and certainly, that s how it was in russellville, arkansas. the town where a first impression hardens like a patch of cement. about her and also about for better or worse, the young man accused of killing her. the boyfriend who found the body. the boyfriend found a body. first impre
son, hiram jones now argued that dunn was a sexually violent young man, who was stalking the beauty queen whose bedroom we could see across the parking lot. his own wife testified he was violent in bed with her, and that weeks before nona s death, she caught him hanging around known as front door in the middle of the night. so said the prosecutor, the jury could be sure that dunn killed nona after entering her apartment with the intent of forcing a sexual encounter, and the condom wrapper proved it. his condom wrapper that was found, that have the dna on it, that did not have kevin s dna on, it it had his dna on it. so, dna evidence a disturbing background, an alibi that turned out to be no alibi at all, in short, it was hard to see how dunn s public defenders could argue against their clients lies and dna, but that is exactly what they did.
i believe we committed this crime, that is my belief, based upon what i saw. dunn s trial opened in april, 2010. the state had already tried his son, hiram jones now argued that dunn was a sexually violent young man, who was stalking the beauty queen whose bedroom we could see across the parking lot. his own wife testified he was violent in bed with her, and that weeks before nona s death, she caught him hanging around known as front door in the middle of the night. so said the prosecutor, the jury could be sure that dunn killed nona after entering her apartment with the intent of forcing a sexual encounter, and the condom wrapper proved it. his condom wrapper that was found, that have the dna on it, that did not have kevin s dna on, it it had his dna on it. so, dna evidence a disturbing background, an alibi that turned out to be no alibi at all, in short, it was hard to see how dunn s public defenders could argue against their clients lies and dna, but that is exactly what the
cigarettes but, and they had your dna. on the one had my dna? on the one that had you dna on. it that s exactly. right you are in the house. and that s what i want to know. about how does he react to sort of being cornered, caught in a lie? he was getting. scared i mean i never told you that i wasn t. i know, that s my. point i d be over there all the. time that s what i m. saying now, quiz him very was admitting that he had visited his friend aaron. that day but he insisted that he left before anyone was shot. rick says that december and his story were crumbling so he went for the jugular, demanding he come clean. i want to know what you saw inside the house. and it worked. i saw him go in there, and i was i was behind. a pal, pile,, pop. i heard more gunshots. him saying he was in the house, it was critical. that becomes the most unquote thing. detective ronald now had