me. so she wrote to them again. i said, all right, i know they re there, i have photographs of it, i know they re there, send me the results, and then they sent them. and? the tests were conclusive, there was no gunshot residue on brad s black bath robe, just as there wasn t any on his hands on the night lisa died, meaning brad almost certainly did not fire the gun that killed lisa. but why didn t lead investigator dan nash reveal that? well, he said he never received those results. plausible? not in a heartbeat. no, i was a prosecutor before this. my spouse is a police officer. dwight is a police officer. we know the care that goes into building a case, and that s not a step that you skip. dan nash had specifically asked for that test to be done. so by now dwight was looking carefully at dan nash. he talked to a retired judge. and he made it very clear
g it is a sweet little piece of america, buffalo, missouri. population 3,000 or so, where people tend to know each other s business, and where brad could have a best friend he met when they were both in diapers. so, of course, dale potter rushed over to see brad that very christmas morning. he just kept saying, why, dale, why did she do this? he was a mess. all of those guns you see in the background there? dale owns buffalo s only gun and pawn shop. so when lisa s death was declared to be suicide and the sheriff returned brad s gun, the one that killed her, brad called dale. he said, i don t really want the gun back. i can t imagine why he would. he said, do you want it? i said, yeah, i do. i cleaned it up. i just put it in the safe and
amanda, 16 that christmas eve. dallas, who was 11 then. lacy, lisa s datughter from a first marriage, was 19 and had just moved into her own place in town and, as amanda said, life was fairly good. we would do lots of things. go on vacation a lot. go out and eat. my dad made pretty good money so we were good on that end. seemed like a very good and stable environment. brad loved cars, especially classic muscle cars, and extra especially the 1970 chevelle super sport he so carefully restored. by the time he was 12 he was redoing motors and helping put motors in and out of different vehicles. so brad opened a used car dealership. he was a great people person. i guess that s what you have to be when you deal with cars and stuff. and their mom, lisa? very pretty. she could be really happy and
not if they had tested that. now, that was interesting and a very good point. after all, if they found residue on the bath robe it would certainly point right at brad. but the moment passed. the case went to the jury. and two hours and 24 minutes later, they found brad guilty of murder. and where else would this happen? they let him go home one last night before the sentencing began the following day. the next morning he asked me to drive him back, and i think that s one of the most difficult things i have ever had to do. did you want to just say, let s go somewhere else, brad, let s just drive to mexico or something? no, that s not who we are. and i told him that i would fight with everything i had in me to correct it. but what could one lone woman
i heard, you know, the yelling and everything, a normal fight like they would always have. and then a door slammed, which meant that brad had gone out to his workshop to cool down, but lacy, home for the holiday, was furious. another fight and this one on christmas eve no less and as usual over some stupid little thing? she was done. and so my sister decided to go downstairs and get into it with her. i think one of the last things i remember my mom even saying was something like, i would never disrespect my parents that way. lacy was just fed up, was she? yes, she just couldn t believe they would fight on christmas. then more door slamming and lacy was out of there. she went back to her house in buffalo. so by the time she left your dad was outside in the workshop, although you didn t really know where he was, right? well, he was outside. he does that a lot. he will go outside and go out to the shop. so amanda sighed and closed her eyes and drifted off.