Into the room where monica was. and she was consoling me. and she shouldn t be consoling me. reporter: the brutality of the murder was never far from the prosecutors minds. i think i just thought how painful and how awful the last few minutes of her life would ve been on this earth reporter: how terrifying. and absolutely terrifying. absolutely terrifying. reporter: even that, they said even that appeared to be part of the plan. this wasn t just about robbery, or even revenge, said prosecutor rousseau. it was discussions that carter cervantez had had with people where she expressed certain i guess you would call them fantasies involving killing people. reporter: liza schoenthal remembers one such discussion at work. it was just us. and we were folding clothes, and she mentioned that she had thought about killing someone before and whether or not she could watch them die. reporter: as if the murder wasn t shocking enough,
reporter: prosecutors believe the original plan was to kidnap ashlea, kill her, and put her body in that grave. she was killed in her apartment, the prosecutors thought, because she fought so hard. what is that? this is a glock 19 semiautomatic pistol. reporter: in fact, investigators believe ashlea harris was pistol whipped. so when this glock 19 was found in the black infiniti, prosecutor deener had it tested. the results were both sad and conclusive. it came back positive with ashlea s dna on the gun, so that was very significant. there was blood adjacent to her bed. and blood splattered on the bed. this was not an easy death. reporter: hearing all this was so hard on ashlea s mother monica and loved ones like april. i thought i could handle it. huh-uh, nope. so i went out and i went back into the room where monica was. and she was consoling me. and she shouldn t be consoling
Into the room where monica was. and she was consoling me. and she shouldn t be consoling me. reporter: the brutality of the murder was never far from the prosecutors minds. i think i just thought how painful and how awful the last few minutes of her life would ve been on this earth reporter: how terrifying. and absolutely terrifying. absolutely terrifying. reporter: even that, they said even that appeared to be part of the plan. this wasn t just about robbery, or even revenge, said prosecutor rousseau. it was discussions that carter cervantez had had with people where she expressed certain i guess you would call them fantasies involving killing people. reporter: liza schoenthal remembers one such discussion at work. it was just us. and we were folding clothes, and she mentioned that she had thought about killing someone before and whether or not she could watch them die. reporter: as if the murder wasn t shocking enough, prosecutors were pretty sure ashlea s mu
reporter: prosecutors believed the original plan was to kidnap ashlea, kill her, and put her body in that grave. she was killed in her apartment, the prosecutors thought, because she fought so hard. what is that? this is a glock 19 semiautomatic pistol. reporter: in fact, investigators believe ashlea harris was pistol whipped. so when this glock 19 was found in the black infiniti, prosecutor deener had it tested. the results were both sad and conclusive. it came back positive with ashlea s dna on the gun, so that was very significant. there was blood adjacent to her bed. and blood splattered on the bed. this was not an easy death. reporter: hearing all this was so hard on ashlea s mother monica and loved ones like april. i thought i could handle it. huh-uh, nope. so i went out and i went back into the room where monica was. and she was consoling me. and she shouldn t be consoling me. reporter: the brutality of
Prosecutor deener had it tested. the results were both sad and conclusive. it came back positive with ashlea s dna on the gun, so that was very significant. there was blood adjacent to her bed. and blood splattered on the bed. this was not an easy death. reporter: hearing all this was so hard on ashlea s mother monica and loved ones like april. i thought i could handle it. huh-uh, nope. so i went out and i went back into the room where monica was. and she was consoling me. and she shouldn t be consoling me. reporter: the brutality of the murder was never far from the prosecutors minds. i think i just thought how painful and how awful the last few minutes of her life would ve been on this earth reporter: how terrifying. and absolutely terrifying. absolutely terrifying. reporter: even that, they said even that appeared to be part of the plan. this wasn t just about robbery, or even revenge, said prosecutor rousseau.