but there were others in the family, and they were not so sure. it starts with suspicion. lisa s sister feels compelled to share what she knows. coming up she went to the missouri state highway patrol to express their belief that this, in fact, was a murder. and the investigator s prime suspect? brad jennings. he started asking me questions about brad, and he goes, what did jennings say to you about his wife having an affair. when a crack in everything continues. everything continues. .or officedepot.co. same time next week. yes!
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 like a sort of like the life of the party kind of person. yeah, really fun. while brad ran the farm and his car business, lisa work at a local internet company. she was really good at it. and she became, like, their top employee. at home lisa was the mom who actually liked video games, with dallas mostly. video games and movies. we had a big projector screen that we would put on the wall and like watch movies really big. did it seem like a happy household overall? yeah. but, of course, there is, as leonard cohen used to sing, a crack in everything, and in the jennings house those were the sudden blowups when the mood went dark and the kids scattered. they would fight maybe once every couple of weeks or something. mostly later in the evening, at
told him he was looking at the case again. and wanted the bath robe that mr. jennings was wearing that night. the robe he had on when he said he found lisa dead and held her in his arms. why three months later would a bath robe be of any use at all? surely it had been cleaned or something after this event. apparently it had not. oh. mr. jennings had spent little time going back into that bedroom from where from his perspective his wife had taken her life. so brad gave nash the black bath robe and, sure enough, it still had blood on it. so they ran some tests and kept in touch with brad. he was questioned a couple of
jury verdict. a habeas petition. it claimed withheld evidence could have 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. vanishingly few such petitions ever go anywhere. still they filed and waited and against all odds were granted a hearing. we were very excited. yeah. but cautious. 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 revealed the gsr result that suggested his innocence, and the expert s blood spatter findings that did the same. and witnesses who questioned the honesty of detective nash. i think that his credibility was put at issue for the entire
the way brad couldn t sneak that secret of his into her stocking, which is what started it, the flaring argument, the slamming doors, the sudden silence. before amanda woke up to the sound of her dad on 911. and he s very hysterical, you know. he s he s crying, can t really say anything other than get here quick, get here quick. i heard that two or three times. such a complicated tale with its secrets and lies and shifting loyalties, and here, of all places, this throwback to an idealized past. we hunted mushrooms, we picked up walnuts. they were inseparable children, brad and his older sister marsha. he was my playmate. we depended on each other. marsha became a nurse, brad ran the farm, the center of