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
In and we determine there s another phone in play. another phone? a phone that they just had. the lovers had, what they call burner phones, off the book. burner phones, we call it the sexting phone. jason kept it stashed away hidden under the hood of his pickup truck. jason not only didn t mention the affair in his first interview, he also never told investigators about that secret phone. does it change him, where he stands in your suspects? absolutely. he gets elevated at that point. if jason had tried to hide the affair, agent ludwick wondered if jason was hiding anything else about his mother s murder. the investigator called jason and told him he knew about the affair and the phone. so, he says, i will meet you at the sheriff s office. he s there and he hands the cellphone over. says here you go, knock yourself out, huh?
shirley, the farm wife and mother, had been gunned down in her own kitchen and there was no obvious explanation for the crime. as investigators began digging into the carter family background, though, they came across a detail that became the focus of investigation. it concerned the son jason. the one who d found his mother s body. we found out jason carter was having an affair. how had you find that out? a friend during the interviews. so who s this girlfriend? we locate her, we bring her in and we determine there s another phone in play. another phone? a phone that they just had. the lovers had, what they call burner phones, off the book. burner phones, we call it the sexting phone. jason kept it stashed away hidden under the hood of his pickup truck. jason not only didn t mention the affair in his first interview, he also