don was not out shopping as he first claimed, he simply gotten his days mixed up. it was, after all, two weeks after the crime when detective zest for a detailed alibi. they asked for receipts, they found receipts, they gave him to the police department. except it was not for that day. he cooperated in fall and he gave them what he asked them to do. the defense soldiers it wasn t garry dunn s alibi that she questioned. if anything, they should take a look at someone else for nona s murder, her old boyfriend. in that moment jones revised realized with dread just where this trial was headed. first thing he hit with his, your son is on trial again, even though he is not on trial, he is. that s part of the defense that they used. how right he was. dunn s attorneys tried to persuade the jury that kevin jones, the first suspect of the case had one shaky story after another.
what would you think? it bothered but kevin s awful when bumper sticker saint justice for four nona started public coming up. the assumption that i formed, and i think many people formed was that justice for nona meant convict kevin. topping our news the police make an arrest in the murder of 19 year old arkansas beauty queen. on march 31st, 2006, not a long after that career article, police finally did announce the arrest of kevin jones for the murder of nona dirksmeyer. whether or not kevin was convicted in the court of public opinion was now apparently irrelevant. he is about to stand trial. quite possibly be convicted where it really mattered, a court of law. coming up a palm print in blood on the lamp used to kill nona. guess who? no question it was his. no question it was his. but on another key piece of evidence the dna was some other males.
airport, after a discharge of a weapon. the transportation security administration says a prohibited item was identified by x-ray. the passenger was advised not to touch the property as he opened the compartment. but the passenger lunged, grab the firearm and is discharged. the passenger fled but has been identified. no one has been injured. now back to dateline. back to dateline welcome back to the dateline. i m craig melvin. kevin jones was on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, nona dirksmeyer. prosecutors painted kevin as a jealous boyfriend whose bloody palm print found at the scene, was evidence he committed the crime. the defense countered that kevin left the print while trying to save nona s life. it was chimed him for the jury to decide the young man s faith. here again is keith morrison with what happened to the beauty queen? .
statewide publicity then a criminal case in many, many years. perhaps ever an arkansas. yet kevin had a right to a fair trial and an impartial jury. his lawyers argued that would be impossible irascible. so the venue was changed to the nearby city of always arc. the spotlight is on always arc as jury selection begins to the prosecutor, the trials location mattered little. what mattered was the evidence. he believed there was enough of that put kevin jones away for years. jeff phillips was the deputy prosecutor. we believed and i believe that the morning of her death, kevin jones came in unexpectedly. when the trial opened in 2007, the prosecutor told the jury the reason for this crime was as old as the bible itself. jealous rage. kevin jones had walked into his lovers apartment that day in december, 2005, and found
deliberations, the jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. the judge declared a mistrial. but the prosecutor was giving up. he promptly re-filed murder charges and gary dunn second trial began in 2011. now, gary dunn being trying to second time, after his first trial ended in a hung jury. this time, the judge allowed the prosecutor to reveal a very dark fact about gary dunn. he was a convicted felon, before nona was murdered. jurors heard from a woman kelly joe fits harris, who happen to have the grave misfortune of jogging past gary was on the wrong day, in the wrong place, in 2002. it s a popular trail, very isolated. kelly came running by herself and saw man running sitting here, on this bench. she heard footsteps behind her, turned around and the man had a huge stick, hit her over the