she had been having an affair with her boss. the prosecutor says, after he shot his wife, he washed his hands and washed his forearms. they called us back at noon and started the trial. i thought he made one of the worst mistakes i d ever heard of. it was obvious there was something that just wasn t right. the only thing i ve ever wanted was for everyone to hear the truth. i told him that i would fight with everything i had in me. that s the promise i made to him. hello, and welcome to dateline. for many, the holiday season is a special time. but for the jennings family, one christmas eve turned into a waking nightmare. there was an argument, followed by a gunshot, then a frantic call to police. lisa jennings was dead. the question for detectives was, did she take her own life or was this murder? here s keith morrison with a crack in everything. reporter: it was his secret that started it. a secret gift. it was christmas eve in the year 2006, a little farm
messages saying she had quit her job. she had something down in kansas. left behind, a fuzzy computer trail. letters and text messages, still active on social media but no one can find her. a mom turned ghost. was she missing or hiding? i wanted to know. taunts, threats, violence. my pants are soaked with blood. a deadly mystery that would link three moms and one man. you were the last one to see her. it was as if i already had done something and he already knew it. he was drilling me with those policeman eyes. this was almost an obsession to get this solved. a case of jealousy, secret identity and murder. it s like you re on edge. what s going to happen next? back and forth went the chopper as squad cars scoured the park, big lake park, iowa, looking for a shooter. 911 emergency. i ve been shot in the leg. looking for whoever shot her. the woman who had come out here to clear her mind, get that nemesis out of her head. and instead was bleeding
the word help was scratched in the ground. we found two shovels that had what appeared to be blood on them. that just did it for me. i can t even think about how scared she was. a mother s worst panic. there are no signs to get there. just follow the rough, sandy trail from the subdivisions above, turn a corner and there it is, a creek, a low-twisting moving body of water in north carolina, that s nothing less than a garden of eden for teenagers playing hooky from high school. it was like a beach. if the weather was good, her decision was made, go right to the creek and bypass school all together. tell me about an afternoon at the creek, caroline, what would you do? just go swimming. after we were done swimming we would sit by the fire and get dry, and hurry up and go back to the bus and take it home. they would play all day like frisky otters. innocent fun until one day when this secret teenaged world collided with tragedy. i just knew in my heart s
i saw blood everywhere. jodi gonterman : her daughter s laying there. terrified. a yo terrified. attacked. jason morales : blood on the floor, shovel, duct tape, also a knife. unidentified woman : i truly thought brittani would die. andrea canning : you wake up from your coma. brittani marcell : i m just, like, trying to communicate. dr. lori wright : she didn t give up. brittani marcell : it was a struggle. andrea canning : you re not you re the witness. brittani marcell : it s almost like a nightmare. andrea canning : the detective wanted you to do hypnosis? brittani marcell : mm-hm. your mind is in a completely different phase. dr. leon morris (psychologist; recording) : tell me what s happening. brittani marcell (recording) : he he s hurting me. he s hurting me. jodi gonterman : the details that she gave. it was unbelievable. brittani marcell : she goes, you did it. i said, no, you did. andrea canning : route 66 once stretched across the southwest from one horizon to
Our school district’s theme for the 2023-24 academic year is, for the second year in a row, Believe. When I did my annual temperature check last summer to get inspiration