. . hi, i m craig melvin, and what did you find? this is dateline. all of a sudden i realize, why are they late? there s something definitely wrong. he said your family was in an accident. and my world just dropped down underneath me. the scene told the story why did you find? somebody hit them. a deadly crash on a dark road. two gone, one barely alive. to a tragic accident. but look closer. can all of the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? the last thing i wanted to have was to have to take a double fatality and not treat it as a homicide. murder. and no one saw coming. i couldn t deal with it. two families in torment. we were both just a small town trial with big emotions. you took it. you did it. and the verdict that would shake them all. hello, and welcome to dateline. a dangerous highway in big sky country. that was a setting for a deadly crash that would seem to unite two families in shock and heartbreak. excep
public opinion has turned as bitter as a winter of montana. and justine who showed up in an almost childlike polka dot hair band, didn t look the part of an accused killer facing as many as 200 years behind bars. but there she was. i can see the debris field. with the two families just a few feet away she watched investigators testify to a certainty that it was justine s pontiac car that crossed the centerline. here you can see all this debris from the initial impact of the crash. slamming into erin s subaru so hard that it was driven backward into the highway barrier and crash reconstructionist agree. justine winter s car approached the northbound lane, striking mrs. thompson s vehicle. but what evidence was there that justine had done it as the law says purposefully? investigators pulled the black
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investigators are convinced that justine winter intentionally crashed her car into erin thompson s, killing the pregnant mom and her 13-year-old son, caden. their evidence threatening text messages sent by justine just minutes before the fatal collision. here again is keith morrison. the sorrow ran deep in flathead county in that sum earp of 2009. deep and wide the whole valley, in fact the country, heard about the crash that killed caden and erin and her unborn child and the strange and disturbing story that 16-year-old justine winter
agreed. justine winter s car encroached into the northbound lane striking mrs. thompson s vehicle. but what evidence was there that justine had done it, as the law says, purposefully? investigators pulled the so-called black box out of justine s pontiac, analyzed the data, and found another sign that pointed to suicide. she had taken off her seat belt. the black box also recorded speed, acceleration, and braking and found that justine was accelerating, flooring it so to speak, in the five seconds before the crash, speeding up from 81 to 86 miles an hour before hitting the brakes at the last second. she did not swerve. and she drove head-on into that other vehicle. to back it up, prosecutors pulled the speedometer from