i believed every word my son said, and i still do to this day. answer for this? a dramatic chapter 2 mothers fighting for their sons. he knows he hurt my son. a missing teenager found dead. his body was laying in the clearing. we want answers. was it murder? or was it something else? how do you get in a scuffle and the next thing you know you re being charged with murder. a trial. i watch my son die every day. and a twist that stunned un everyone. we had to stop and think with the we heard it right. . i, there is nothing more powerful than a mother s love for her child and no greater pain than losing a child. hello, welcome into datelin it has been said there s nothing more powerful than a mother s love for her child and no greater pain than losing a child. both forces collided in a small midwestern town when a mysterious death sparked a search for justice. it divided a community and turn strangers into allies. the outcome left both sides reeling. here
i felt like, how can you trust the justice system anymore? a jury of 12 members found this man guilty and the judge turned around and threw it away with no reason. the special prosecutor promised to fight another day. there was never a question we prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. we are going to retry the case. a few months later he dropped the charges against gaege although he said he is keeping all options on the table. there is no statute of limitations of felony murder charges, but when we contacted him two years later, the special prosecutor had not refiled any charges. if gaege stopped by a trooper for broken tail light, what will they pull up about him? what will they learn about him? they will learn he was charged with murder. that will not go away? it will never go away. she ended up settling her lawsuit against gaege out-of-
ride that i. he was the last person known to have seen pravin alive. puts the character of this kid? what did you learn? at face value, typical southern illinois guy. middle-class family. his name is gaege bethune. just like pravin, he was 19 years old. just like lovely, his mom was also a nurse. gaege was very laid back. a good kid. a lot of dreams and hopes. penny said gaege have fell sorry for pravin walking in the bitter cold. did not have a codon and as gaege free ride. gaege said his. she said gaege had no idea pravin was missing until days later when he saw story about it on tv. he immediately went to his father and they went and took care of things. a statement taken from gaege bethune. he told police he was upset when he heard pravin was
he said those tweets were posted almost one year before pravin s death. they were crude and stupid but that s all they were. words and did not prove anything. they hadn t even been allowed into trial by the judge. what s more dashed when pravin was found, he had his wallet. he had $24 in his wallet. the defense attorney made a bold mood. he called gaege to the stand and it did not go well. gaege s first at cross- examination was tough. shocked. miracle. dream come true. because gaege did something monica had never imagined. he admitted punching pravin and demonstrated to the jurors how he had done it. lovely said, he said it. i hit him right here. she said that s all i need. lovely had fought for years to get her some s case heard inside a courtroom. after nine days of testimony,
i was devastated. nobody wins. is justice done? yes. gaege was led away. s sentencing set for a later day. 20 to 60 years in prison. is a defense attorney filed a motion for a new trial but the judge rejected it. i called up and said i am telling you something is wrong. chicago defense attorney believed the whole case had been an outrage from the beginning and offer to work for the bethune family. when we let someone for a fistfight get convicted for murder, that s a problem. he let the judge allow him to file a new motion arguing that the way prosecutors had charged gaege was flawed. the way the indictment was phrased, the jury did not have to find that gaege ever intended to cause great bodily harm. they just had to find he