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 them s dead and the other one is sitting in that chair. too much to bear. it s 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 america s 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. here s 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
a stunning twist in a family s desperate search for justice. nothing has turned outright. a wife and mother murdered. she was in a casket like 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. 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 them s dead and the other one is sitting in that chair. too much to bear. it s 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 america s 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 gunsho
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 them s dead and the other one is sitting in that chair. too much to bear. it s 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 america s 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. here s 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 defendant did with malice and forethought with premeditation
is it your belief jason shot his mother? yes. painful as it was bill had been suspicious of his son early on, and remembers a moment it all became clear. not long after the murder, bill says, jason found out he was going to visit his lawyer. he came barging through the door and he said what are you going to go see your lawyer about? and i said, i just need to get some things straightened out. there s some things that don t add up, and that s when he slammed his fist on the counter top and he said, my life is over. his life, jason s life. his life is over. i knew then he had done it. it was a shocking realization. you re telling me your boy became a monster. he did. he did. i m ashamed. you shouldn t be ashamed. you did everything you could for the boy. i didn t do something right. shirley and i did something wrong. bill carter tired of waiting for the prosecutor. he the father, would take the almost unprecedented step of bringing his son before a civil jury. j
Commit the murder instead of doing the other tasks that he said he did. is it your belief jason shot his mother? yes. painful as it was bill had been suspicious of his son early on, and remembers a moment it all became clear. not long after the murder, bill says, jason found out he was going to visit his lawyer. he came barging through the door and he said what are you going to go see your lawyer about? and i said, i just need to get some things straightened out. there s some things that don t add up, and that s when he slammed his fist on the counter top and he said, my life is over. his life, jason s life. his life is over. i knew then he had done it. it was a shocking realization. you re telling me your boy became a monster. he did. he did. i m ashamed. you shouldn t be ashamed. you did everything you could for the boy. i didn t do something right.