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Nearly six years after ciara ingram was brutally murdered, jarod ingram entered a muscogee county courtroom in columbus, georgia, to stand trial as her accused killer. but he wasn t alone. you re behind your husband in the uh-huh. church pews there in the courtroom, huh? yep. was it important you had you show solidarity, that you have a lot of people? we felt so, yes. we invited anybody to come and just let the jury see how much jarod is loved, and how much support and love that he has sitting behind him. muscogee county district attorney julia slater and her team hoped the jury would be persuaded not by jarod s supporters, but rather by the cold hard facts of the case. is it your belief that jarod ....
Because of the guy you knew, the yeah. the character of the man? the the character, just how could it how could it possibly anyone think this? their relationship grew from a friendship into something more. how d you decide you re going to get married? we started talking about it, and it was a lot of back and forth. because with something like this hanging over your head, do you wait until everything is over and then get married? that sounds sensible, right? katie disagreed. i basically told him, i m i m ready, i ll marry you, you know. they began their married life together in a kind of limbo waiting for jarod to go on trial. he still hadn t been indicted. what was taking so long? jarod and katie kept their anguish quiet. a lot of people in the church didn t even know his story, right? no. then january 2017, four and a half years after the murder, the indictment came down and a trial date was set. no more secrets now. what did you think when you hea ....
Details. dad changing his shirt. the white bottle of what could have been bleach. you re saying that the the cops in this case are seeding the story? they re coaching the kids? i absolutely think that they were asking leading questions that were leading them to conclusions that they didn t originally have. jarod s attorney was confident the jurors would understand the facts if they heard from jarod directly. i knew that he was going to make a good witness, most particularly because he was well spoken. you took the stand. always risky. rarely advised, but you did it. there was no question. why? why d you take the stand? i d been waiting six years to be able to stand up in front of a jury and stand up in front of a judge and say, i didn t do this. but it exposes you to aggressive cross-examination by the prosecutor. it does, and that was rough. it seemed like he was doing everything in his power to kind of get a rise out of me. provoke you so the jury could ....
I m detective leon. the conversation started amicably and jarred said the last time he d seen ciara was six days before. he and the kids had stopped by to pick up some toys before her move to indiana. kids went in, gave her a hug. they ran right upstairs and started playing with some of their toys and watching tv and stuff. how long were you there for? it seemed like a couple of hours. he said they hadn t talked since. that wasn t unusual. we didn t call each other a whole lot when the other one had the kids usually. she wasn t like one of those who wanted to call every day. detectives wanted to know about the state of jarod and ciara s relationship. how had they been getting along? he said they hadn t had any issues lately, but admitted things between them were strained. what s been the problem? no problem. just once we broke up, i felt like, you know, there was no reason to have an argument with her anymore that after that. they also asked jarod how he felt about ....
Son s hair. i didn t really like that. he had a big puffy afro, and it was really cute on him, and i liked it. but given what investigators had heard, they were now very focused on jarod. did he have any opportunity to murder his ex, what with the kids in tow? jarod said he put the kids in the car and went back inside ciara s place to get the last of their things. two kids, sitting in the backseat of a car, a boy and a girl age 6 and 7. what did they see, what did they hear in the next few moments of their lives, and importantly, what would they say about it? the police talked to the children the day they discovered ciara s body. what grade are you in? um, kindergarten. the kids confirmed that for at least some period of time, mom and dad had been inside the apartment without them. why would daddy leave you and your brother in the car? i don t know. you don t know? he never leaves us in the car. here they are talking to a forensic interviewer a few days later. ....