violation, it is the kind of evidence that makes a difference in a trial. so they elected to shoot for the moon, there one chance to overturn the jury verdict. they claim that with held evidence could ve changed the result of the trial. i don t promise anything to a client other than i ll give you my best shot, and all i told him was this gives you a shot. vanishing still they filed and waited. and against all odds were granted a hearing. we were very excited, but cautious. we it was almost like this little dim light at the end of the tunnel. this was the hearing, in november 2017, almost 11 years after that terrible christmas eve, here brad s attorneys reveal the gsr result that suggested his innocence and the
sister, sean, got busy, soon after that deadly christmas morning. in early january, she went to the office of the missouri state highway patrol to express their belief that this in fact was a murder. she looked into a highly experience detective name dan nash. longtime investigator who has been involved in several high-profile murder cases in the ozarks. and when sergeant nash took one look at that file, something forensic seemed off. he was inclined to agree with sean. it didn t look like suicide at all. he was just struck by the fact that if lisa jennings had shot herself using her right hand, there would be more blow back from that, then one drop of blood. three months after that christmas eve, investigator nash drove over to brad s farm, told him he was looking at the case again. and wanted to went into the bathroom that mr. jennings was wearing that. like the the real piano on
i m craig melvin. lisa jennings had died from a single gunshot to the head, her death ruled a suicide, but the file was now in the hands of dan nash, and to him, the details were not adding up. he believed needs lisa had been murdered and that her husband brad, was the trigger man. now nash was about to pay him a visit and the already fractured family would be torn apart once again here is keith morrison, with a crack in everything. probably everybody at buffalo, missouri knew that brad jennings the apparent grieving husband was now a murder suspect. everybody waiting for something to happen. and in july 2007, seven months after lisa s death, it did.
alternative was quite unthinkable. did you have any inkling, any suspicion, that brad might have had something to do with it? i had none. brad told me on christmas morning, and you could tell he was still still there really distraught. so, that morning i came over. and he told me the whole story. and no, i never crossed my mind. in fact, after all of the lap test results were in, the dallas county sheriff and coroner and prosecutor, all officially ruled leases death suicide. the local newspaper in the buffalo reflex quoted the prosecutor who said, there is zero evidence to show otherwise. so you had no sense, no reason to think that it was anything other than what the coroner and the sheriff said it was? absolutely not. but there were others in the family and they were not so sure. it starts with suspicion.
accident. lisa was gone, dead at 39. killed by a bullet at close range to the head. brad tool local sheriffs deputies how he argued with lisa. then went out to his workshop to cool off. and when he came back in, maybe 20 minutes later, he found her on the bedroom floor. his hand the nearby. so deputies tested leases hands gunshot residue s. they did the same with brad and lacey. that could tell them too far the gun. and lisa s right-hand tested positive for gunshot residue. brad and lacey came out negative. meaning it seemed to the corner, that lisa for reasons unknown, must have killed herself. did it make sense to you that she would commit suicide? nothing made sense to me that night. i bet. i had heard statements. you know? that she was troubled about reaching 40. she had had cosmetic surgery.