statement, prosecutors are confident her dna on both the machete used in the dismemberment and the gunfired into the corpse will convince jurors that laura mutilated her rival for colton s affections. on september 1st, 2007, laura is convicted of tampering with evidence, for cutting up jennifer s body, and hindering apprehension for driving colton to mexico. nonetheless, because of a procedural dispute involving the penalty phase, laura decides to appeal her five year sentence, but this time, bill bishop is prepared to let jurors hear the defendant s words, not from the interrogation, but a series of recorded jailhouse phone conversations. i m pretty mad. there s a lot of people that are going to pay for this. i hate them with a passion. among the targets of laura s anger, jennifer cave s mother. she s going down one way or another, that bitch.
i knew that she had been shady before. how did you know she had been shady before if you didn t know who she was. he had told me about her. look, jennifer, there are other girls he knew. every girl he knew was sketched out. laura hall considered colton pitonyak to be her boyfriend and had a dislike for jennifer cave. once colton revealed to her the body was in the bathtub, we believe laura hall stabbed the torso and face. and he told me that she came in and shot at him and missed and that he shot her. he said in the head. he also said he shot her in the chest. she s trying at all times to outsmart them.
instead, police advise her family to pick her up and take her home. she was still subject to the investigation, but we weren t clear as to her level of involvement. so at that point, she was not a suspect. colton was charged with jennifer s murder and brought to a local detention center to be interviewed. i m pretty sure i need to speak with an attorney. this is serious. that s absolutely your right to do, okay? investigators then drive to laura s parents home. when they turn on their tape recorder, laura appears unwilling to help them build a case against colton. i don t think he did it. i really don t. in fact, laura describes the trip to mexico not as a flight from justice but a romantic vacation.
investigators also suspect laura of dismembering the corpse in colton s bathtub, cutting off the head and hands to prevent identification. didn t say anything about handling the body. i didn t touch the body. didn t say anything about handling things i didn t touch the hacksaw. when did we talk about a hacksaw? we didn t. i read it in the paper. do you believe everything you read it in the paper? no. how did you know there was a hacksaw involved? he told me he went and bought the hacksaw. he confessed that. laura is in the box for more than eight hours tweaking, revising, and sometimes inventing her narrative. he said that three people came into the apartment, one of them was jen, they had guns. they came in shooting at them. he said he killed three people.
continue on without them. to pursue that mission, detective fugate explores the sixth street, the epicenter of austin s night life and the party scene that brought laura hall and colton pitonyak together. laura hall was infatuated with colton, however he was dating jennifer cave at the time. once colton revealed to her the body was in the bathtub, laura hall may have taken part in the mutilation of the body. as far as stabbing cave in the upper torso, the right side of her face and firing a round into the cranial vault of her head. six days later authorities track laura and colton in a hotel room in piedras negras. laura isn t arrested.