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couldn t bring her back, of course, but did the verdict matter? oh, yes. it did really set my mind at ease. it really did help us to move on. every time we get a guilty verdict, the first thing i do is turn to the family. i love for that two or three minutes to look in their eyes, to see the smiles on their faces, to see the joy that they have. for me, that s what it s all about. i ll never, ever probably in my whole career that i will have loved being a prosecutor like i did then. this is where marty larson went to serve his time. crossroads correctional in shelby, montana, up near the canadian border. what did they sentence you to? 110 years. your first parole possibility is what? 2042. that s a long wait. yes, it is. but, of course, it s far more than just a long wait for susie,
is not a very big place. to walk from susie s door to the county courthouse would take less than a minute. five years from crime to trial. five years and one city block where in april 2013 marty larson finally faced a jury. clearly, to me, he was the person that committed that crime. now my chore was to go out and prove it. but when marty walked in, the courtroom gasped. he sure didn t look like the picture that i was shown of him. he had lost like 77 pounds or something like that, so he looked lik a different person altogether. so there was a little shock in everyone s mind. all of us were a little taken aback. wait. was it intentional? more on that in a minute. first, prosecutor light listed what he said were motives for marty to kill susie, motives as old as time, jealousy, pride, rage.
kitchen, her life, an unwelcome house guest that simply refused to leave. my son was 4 months old when susie was taken from us. i don t remember him walking. i don t remember those moments i should remember as a mother. meanwhile, the investigation was stuck in the weeds. i was thinking couple months and we re going to have an arrest, and we just didn t have the pieces at the time that we needed. 2008 went the way of all years. ted kept to himself. marty moved, left billings, went to phoenix, got a job. and at home in glendive, susie s brother, val s husband rusty, was having trouble with the rage. susie s death consumed him. when he went to sleep at night, he told me one night that he just wanted to stop feeling.
when police showed up at marty s door for the very first time he s erasing things on his computer and defragmenting the hard drive. appeared to be getting rid of something. something, yep. the night susie disappeared, phone records revealed that she and marty last spoke at 9:51 p.m. by then, susie was aware that marty had been trying to sabotage her relationship with brad. after the phone call, susie called her daughter marya with a question. she wanted to know how to change a number. okay. i asked her why and she told me because marty was calling and i he was calling ted and saying stuff about her. the phone records showed susie stopped returning marty s calls. that s why at 1:39 a.m. marty was caught on that gas station surveillance camera, leaving billings to head toward glendive. i think when he left billings, it was never his intent to kill her. i think it was his intent to confront her, to find her and