story of two mothers fighting for their sons. he knows he heard my sound bad. i believe every word my son s heads and i d still due to this day. missing tean found dead. his body was laying in the river clearing. we want answers. we want answers. was it murder? i said who beat my baby? or was it something else? he got out of the vehicle, swung on me. how do you get in a scuffle with somebody and the next thing you know your being charged with murder? a trial. i slowly watch my son die every day. heartbreak. nobody wins. and a twist that stunned everyone. it was the first time i ve ever had this happen. we had to stop and think whether we heard it right. hello and welcome to dateline . it s been said there is nothing more powerful than a mother s love for her child. and no greater pain than losing a child. both forces collide in a small midwestern town, when a mysterious death sparked a search for justice. it also divided a community and t
a trial. i slowly watch my son die every day. heartbreak. nobody wins. and a twist that stunned everyone. it was the first time i ve ever had this happen. we had to stop and think whether we heard it right. hello and welcome to dateline . it s been said there is nothing more powerful than a mother s love for her child. and no greater pain than losing a child. both forces collide in a small midwestern town, when a mysterious death sparked a search for justice. it also divided a community and turned strangers into allies. the outcome left both sides reeling. here s dennis murphy with at the edge of town . yards from the chicken place is an unlikely scrap of wilderness in a southern illinois town. a thicket of vines and rumbles. acres of thorns that tear at the flush. for years, people just sped by without a second look. but something terrible happened there one cold night in the winter of 2014. that brought a stranger to town. a mother, looking for answers abo
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this, you need to leave the room right now. lovely assumed he meant gaege s family, but she was wrong. everybody in the courtroom was shocked. so, i ve been doing this over 30 years and it was the first time i ve ever had this happen. rather than sentencing gaege, the judge threw out the verdict and ordered a new trial. he ruled that the evidence had been sufficient to convict gaege, but the wording in the indictment might have confuse the jurors. so, gaege was a free man, for now. when i saw him walk out, and i got to put my arms around him and hold him, it was the most amazing feeling in the world. gaege s best friend says gaege couldn t wait to be reunited with his daughter. he just has these big old eyes, just jump straight into his arms. and it s one of those hallmark movie kind of things. not for lovely. she couldn t believe what had happened. i was shock. disgusted. and i felt like, how can you
anything. they hadn t even been allowed into trial by the judge. lots more when pravin was found he had his wallet on him. he had $24 in cash in his wallet. then the defense attorney made a bold move. he called gaege to the stand. it didn t go well. gaege is, first day of prime cross-examination was. off it was tough. shocked. miracle. dream come true. because gaege did something monica had never imagined. he admitted punching pravin and demonstrated to the jurors just how he d done. lovely said, he s said it. he finally said. i hit him right here. and she s like, that s all i need. lovely had fought for years to get her son s case heard inside a courtroom. after nine days of testimony, it was in the hands of the jury. but what happens next surprised everyone. coming up the jury comes in, several of the jurors were visibly shaking. like they have been crying. a verdict. i could hear crying from the other side.