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
Killed. i know that and you re not doing anything about it, because whoever did kill her is still out there. he headed home, but a cloud of suspicion hung over the carter family. not only over jason but bill, too. bill knew agent ludwick was looking at him since he was the last person known to have seen shirley alive. and he said, you know, you could have done this when you brought her back from coffee. then for weeks, nothing happened. we have no leads. nothing s going on in the investigation. so, the shirley carter murder case was heading to the cold case file? it was headed that way, yes. but bill carter wasn t going to let that happen. he hired his own detective. nick webb is a crime scene analyst and a former homicide detective from texas. bill instructed him to dig into the case with an open mind.
Carter family. not only over jason but bill, too. bill knew agent ludwick was looking at him since he was the last person known to have seen shirley alive. and he said, you know, you could have done this when you brought her back from coffee. then for weeks, nothing happened. we have no leads. nothing s going on in the investigation. so, the shirley carter murder case was heading to the cold case file? it was headed that way, yes. but bill carter wasn t going to let that happen. he hired his own detective. nick webb is a crime scene analyst and a former homicide detective from texas. bill instructed him to dig into the case with an open mind. if it s the good, the bad and the ugly, it s all going to be in your final report? we are only advocates for the truth. to aide in his investigation he purchased a rifle similar to the one missing from bill s basement. the remington rifle emits at least one of those