Page 5 - Uvern News Today

For one of them, jill taylor. jill had been verns daughter-in-law. how could she be part of the plot to kill him? >> how could you do this to someone who cared for you and took care of you and helped your kids? and you were a part of this family. how could you do something like that? >> hard to believe that someone who had been sort of the beneficiary of verns generosity would be involved in any way in a plot like that? >> i dont know what was going on in jills world that she felt she needed to ...

Estate. >> i know a couple people that used to work there. >> whos that? >> daniel? >> what goes through your mind when she says that? >> well the bells and whistles definitely start going off. >> reporter: bells and whistles because after vern had been assaulted, his family had flooded detectives with calls. >> so you sit down and you start thinking to yourselves, whod wanna hurt him? >> one person. his name is daniel blizzard. >> reporter: daniel blizzard. that ambitious agent to whom vern was...

Rural area where the attack took place. >> so she was pretty close to him when that call was made? >> yes. >> you need to tell me the truth. >> reporter: over the next several hours, adrianas story changed again and again until she gave it up. she admitted meeting with vern. said it was the idea of her boyfriend, luis. she told a story backed up by surveillance tape from the sunshine motel of luis, picking up adriana and her three small children that morning at 10:45. she told detectives they dr...

>> we appreciate you coming down here today. >> reporter: and agreed to meet with detectives. >> i didnt mean to take so long in trying to give you a call. >> what kind of vibe you getting off her? >> she seemed excited and nervous. talking fast. >> reporter: adriana admitted calling vern twice the day of the attack. she said she wanted to talk to him about selling a mobile home. but he couldnt see her. >> he told me that he was busy, that he was showing a house and to call him back. >> reporter...

Upon verns death. >> vern knew they were taking that policy out on him? >> he did. >> and he was comfortable with it? >> i wouldnt say he was comfortable with it. >> reporter: the blizzards never missed a payment on the life insurance. but they never made another payment on the business. so in january 2010, just sixteen months after selling the company, vern sent out another email to staff. this time to say daniel is no longer with aspen real estate. vern was taking back the company hed built. >...

Including steroids, without talking to your doctor. are you ready to du more with less asthma? just ask your asthma specialist about dupixent. >> reporter: as the four people now charged with the murder of vern holbrook awaited trial in the yakima county jail, verns family and former colleagues felt a special sort of animosity

Motel." >> reporter: by the fall of 2013, three months after the attack, vern holbrook was in a coma. but somehow still alive. >> did either of you hold out any hope for a recovery? >> i think you always want to believe and have hope that someones going to get better. >> i joked with hospital staff all the time. this guys ornery. if anybody can come out of this, its going to be him. >> reporter: and as the autumn winds rolled into the yakima valley detective sam perrault already had made three a...

It was about in april. i just told her that, uh, i dont care how much money hes already lent you or whatever, youre not obligated to do anything and she says "no, were not gonna, yknow, im not gonna do that" yknow? >> adriana specifically told you she was not going to go through with the attack on vern? >> right. right. yes. >> you must have been surprised when it turned out they went ahead and did it after all. >> yeah i was really surprised. it caught me off guard. >> reporter: we asked jill a...

And you saw him hit vern? >> while i was walking out. through this eye. out of the corner of my eye. and then thats the last i saw him. all i heard was the thump. >> you didnt walk back in there to see what was going on? >> no. i should have. >> reporter: adriana said luis came out moments later. they tossed verns cell phone out the car window on the way home before luis delivered adriana and her 3 kids back to the sunshine motel, again confirmed on video, by 12:31 p.m. to the detective, it was ...

And daniel. from the day vern was attacked. dont be late for shopping. >> whats going on there? >> it appears to be code to me. what theyre talking about is the real estate appointment with vern. >> at 12:04 p.m., presumably was right around when the attack happened, adriana texts daniel, we are going shopping. >> i believe that that is her way of telling daniel that the job is done. >> reporter: and that same afternoon, who pulls up at the sunshine motel to pick up adriana? you guessed it. dani...