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Vincent's cousin, was torn about the punishment. >> jessie, she should have gotten more time than she did. she manipulated him. >> reporter: is that the jessie you knew? >> she was manipulating us. i would never have pegged her. >> i believe she should do life. >> reporter: as for janet, the woman who stepped in as vince's mother, it's hard for her to describe the pain she feels. she watched her surrogate son go from a tough kid to a tough soldier. he became a good and honorable man, only to have it all needlessly taken away. he wasn't my biological child. but my heart, you can't tell that to ...

We thought they were going to get away with it. >> reporter: that was a huge blow. >> it was devastating. without jessie's statement about how all this happened and the planning that went into vincent's murder, our case was circumstantial, at best. we had the physical evidence that jarred was found with in colorado. and we had the neighbors who had seen him at jessie's house. but the connection between the two and the reasoning behind the murder was gone. >> reporter: but prosecutor prior wasn't going down without a might. she filed a motion with the kentucky court of appeals. and jessie and j...