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Million to travel 50 miles or more during this memorial day weekend. 20 people were rescued from a rollercoaster at a six flags in texas. the car park spokesman said the rioters were stuck in an upright position. the coastal remain closed. now back to dateline. >> welcome back to dateline. im craig melvin. brett parker was heading to trial, charged with a double murder of his wife tammy and their friend bryan capnerhurst. brett admitted shooting bryan in self-defense, though he claimed it was on...

Leon didnt know anything about the investigation. that she had a gut feeling something wasnt right. she called up the sheriffs department to say she thought brett was lying. >> i reached out to them and wanted to make sure they knew that there were people that had a different side of the story. >> brett continue to insist it was self-defense. but within a week of the shooting, he had gotten a lawyer, david fedor. the sheriffs told us he thought it was a little odd that brett retained a defense a...

Im the boss and its lonely at the top. [ screams ] you havent changed at all. youre still a big baby. suck it, ted. -you suck it. excuse me. why dont you both suck it? im in the family business. and now you work for me, boomers. you want me to be a baby again? [ screams ] what the frittata? im sending you undercover. is this some kind of a ninja boy band? whah! -huh. oh my gosh. oh my gosh! >> police had announced the double murder in ascot estates was a robbery gone very wrong. the unlikely int...

Testified about families fatal injuries. brett said he fell ill and was rushed to the hospital. brett was back however the next day, to hear the prosecution present evidence it said proved he planned the murders and framed his friend and then covered it up. heres how they said he did it. first he shot and killed his wife in that upstairs office. then at 12:25 pm, brats ohm whom security camera catches someone peering through the blinds. prosecutors believe it was brett waiting for bryan to arriv...

All boiled down to money. brett told bryan a good chunk of the profits. $20,000. and he had been slow to pay up. >> it bryan was going to go for their basically until brett i have had enough of this, you only money. >> smith learned that bryan capnerhurst had money problems. so it looked like he went to the parkers to demand money he was owed and take whatever else was in the safe. tammy had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. what do you miss most about tammy? >> her laugh. just h...

A friend of threats, robert bauer says that that is just not true. he wasnt asked to tell the story in court, but says that a month before the killings, he was at the park are home and saw bryan handling one of bretts guns with ease. >> he took all the bullets out, and handed me that, he didnt hand me the revolver he had taken the bullets out, he heard his friends say that he would never hold a gun but i just saw him there. >> he had given him a gun for protection, and in a dramatic move, the de...

Together. they wore blue, tammys favorite color. as a sure of unity against the man they believe murdered both victims. >> there were shots fired in the home. >> in her opening statement, the prosecutor minced no words. brett parker had committed a terrible crime that elaborately covered it up. >> as you listen to the details of this case, you will be firmly convinced that it was brett parker who not only had the motive bag actually did kill tammy parker. and then bryan listen capnerhurst. >> pr...

>> when the prosecution asked him about his infidelities, brett insisted his feelings for tammy never wavered. >> you testified you love tammy, you still love her to this day? >> i do, i will love her till the day i die. >> despite their troubles, brett said the love for tammy was always there. >> you would never do anything to hurt her? >> never heard her. i would never hurt tammy. never have. me >> it was time for closing arguments in the case of the people versus brett parker. >> i ask you, w...

Didnt even think. about >> and brett was not the sopranos baker lake style type of bookie was bright a gentle bookie? >> oh, very, very. everybody says that he delivered his money. brett was a good bookie. >> brett also told investigators that bryan capnerhurst, the man he had just shot and killed, was in the bookie business to. as a matter of fact, he worked for brett. bryan was also an unlikely bookie. a former high school athlete, he was a family man who worked for a county recreational commi...

South carolina, was reeling from the news that brett parker, the only survivor of a tragedy which left two people dead, had himself been charged as the cold blooded killer who masterminded the whole plan. brett ons family and friends believed he was a man wrongly accused. >> we just wanted him to know that he was into nelson. every time he said i did not do it. >> even tammys close friend, former bandmate woody woodward, had a hard time believing brett was guilty. you had no reason to doubt bret...