shots. i heard, like, two, maybe three, like, like, popping sounds. and my husband had rounded the edge of the passenger side of the vehicle. he was trying to get in. and the guy was behind him and he kept pulling him back out. he was hitting him. all my husband kept saying was, go drive, go, get out of here. reporter: she described a chaotic scene with a random motorist, but then investigators asked her about vince s involvement with those drug dealers, suggesting perhaps it wasn t so random after all. jessie told them what she knew. he had told me that, he had bought a large quantity of methamphetamines. he said, we are now in debt. to people to bad people.
about $20,000? we had to check into his drug usage, if we could find anything out from friends, family if he was using or even dealing drugs. if this story checks out i mean that s pretty serious. if we could prove that, yes. reporter: while jessie did her best to give the investigators leads, police working the case in the field got a new lead of their own and it sent them in a very different direction. coming up did vince s killer threaten jessie, too? she was getting text messages from this man she said? that s what she indicated, yes. and that he would kill her and her children, if she didn t comply with what he was telling her to do.
gunshots. livin around here, we hear a lot of gunshots. so i didn t think nothin of it. i got in my truck, started to come down the road, and as soon as i crest the hill, i saw the truck s lights came on and he hit just bolted off. reporter: so what did you do when you when you saw this truck? well, i mean, i i went and turned around, and as i came back around, i made sure my high beams were on and i ended up seein his body. reporter: there on the side of the road walter spotted a man, lying face down in the dirt. so, i stopped and i tried yellin at him and talkin to him to see if he was awake, alert, somethin . and i started lookin for my phone and i didn t have it on me, so i had to end up zoomin back to the house to call 911. reporter: christian county detective ed stokes raced to the scene. we were just notified that there had been a shooting on fidelio road and one male, possibly deceased.
seat. it really does. life does not go on. people around you, life goes on. but you re still stuck. you re holding on to the hope. he wasn t my biological child but my heart, you can t tell that to your heart. i loved that boy. that s not fair that he was taken from his children or from his family. jesse fell for vince, a man in uniform holding the fort during his long deployments. my hat goes off to all military wives.
going overseas? you always worry. but there is an lot you can do when your children make decisions, except for support them. i was not going to tell him no, don t do it. i think he did the best that he could. i think he knew what he was doing. with vince career heading in the right direction, he took another big step and popped the question. jessie said yes. there was a connection between them two. they loved each other to death. they would argue. i think they just argued just so they could make up. some people say that is best part. it is. after the wedding, kids soon followed for the happy couple. two girls and a boy. as a sergeant in the earl, vince spent a lot of time overseas so it was up to jessie to handle the home front. it is not easy having a husband who is away. it takes someone special to end