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>> it just felt like something was not right. >> it's hard to explain. that there's something not normal. >> you could set your clocks by their daughter justine, that reliable. but the new driver of two just 16. a home from a date from her boyfriends house. the feelings seeped in with poison. something wrong. >> i called her starting about five after eight and no answer. >> called the house where she was at and they said she had left 15 minutes before that. >> i was thinking she had went off the road between their house and us. not far away another family the other half of our story was on the road. erin thompson was driving her son home. he played the drums. >> i was attending concerts and this was the first time -- >> this is kate instep father, jason thompson. >> my car was in the shop and i

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finally faced and drop me off and that's why wasn't with them. >> soon the poison, the anxiety, seeped to under jason sports through these windows. onto his nerve endings. >> just all of a sudden i realized, what's going on? why are they late? i just struck to me that something definitely was wrong. >> justine winters, the fear would deepen. justine's dad randy was a volunteer firefighter. he was trying to keep his head. knew what he had to do. randi got in his truck, drove out of town to the road coming home for he knew he she would take coming home from her boyfriends house. and then he saw it, a new construction zone on the highway 93 overpass. >> what did you find? >> something i don't want to see again. you could say it's a fireman's worst nightmare. >> someone tried to hold him back. he kept on. >> and then, i saw her over at the side.

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-year-old son, caden. their evidence, threatening text messages sent by justine just minutes before the fatal collusion. here again is keith morrison. >> the sorrow went deep in montana's flatten valley, that awful spring of 2009. deep and wide, the whole valley, in fact the country, heard about the crash that killed caden and erin and her unborn child, and her estranged and disturbing story that 16 year old justine winter-- oncoming car. cross the centerline and plowed right into them. on purpose. shocking? oh yes. as was the reason. justine said the police was trying to commit suicide. how did they know?

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accident happened. >> what events would those be? >> i remember doing stuff to get ready for prom, because prom was supposed to be two days after when the accident happened, but other than that, i don't really remember a whole lot about march. >> what do you remember, the last time you saw your boyfriend? >> i have no idea. i remember that we spent some time together. >> you are inseparable? >> pretty much. >> in love? >> kid love. >> well, that is pretty strong love, that kid love, isn't it? >> yes, i remember, if i was not with him, i was texting him all of the time. >> as for those texts, following the argument with ryan just before the crash, justine says despite what many believe, she would never, ever have tried to commit suicide. knowing if she does, her grandmother, randi's mother, killed herself when her dad was just a boy. in fact, she says the most likely explanation is that she

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>> we the jury enter the following unanimous verdict to the charge of deliberate homicide for the death of erin thompson, guilty. for the death of caden odel, guilty. >> this was absolutely horrible, numbing experience. i put my head into my knees. >> it was like the whole courtroom, i felt like everyone just cried about it. >> how did she look, mary? when she was going off to jail? your little girl? >> she looked very stunned. she did not look back. >> just a week after that verdict, justine winters marks her 18th birthday in a jail cell. and then came sentencing day. and everyone wondered, would justine finally tell erin's husband, her family, while they desperately wanted to hear. in your ideal world, what would you like to hear from justine?

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of deliberate homicide in the car crash death of a mother and son. teenager justine winters was convicted of deliberate homicide from a car crash that killed a mother and son. would the victims family finally get the apology they have been waiting for? here is keith morrison with the conclusion of our story. >> shortly after justine winters walked out of this courtroom in montana, she landed here, more than 450 miles east across the state, at the women's prison in buildings. she sat down with us, quite well aware of how all of this time, she had been the target of so much curiosity and anger. >> i am curious to know what your thought process was, as you went about saying, yes, i think i will talk now.

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that is until they were served with that lawsuit, blaming the crash on aaron. and then watch defense attorneys battle and stufft, twist their facts of the case. you are unusual as victims because of this willingness to forgive justine. it's the adults in her life that are steering her in this direction. is not her decisions. it's these adults. so i had plenty of anger towards them. >> but for justine's family,, there was considerable strain. there was so much that justine 's father randy buckled under the pressure and was rushed to the hospital and not in the courtroom. >> i will ask the court to file the verdict and read it please. >> when after just four hours of deliberation, the jury came back.

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public opinion has turned as bitter as a winter of montana. and justine who showed up in an almost childlike polka dot hair band, didn't look the part of an accused killer facing as many as 200 years behind bars. but there she was. >> i can see the debris field. >> with the two families just a few feet away she watched investigators testify to a certainty that it was justine's pontiac car that crossed the centerline. >> here you can see all this debris from the initial impact of the crash. >> slamming into erin's subaru so hard that it was driven backward into the highway barrier and crash reconstructionist agree. >> justine winter's car approached the northbound lane, striking mrs. thompson's vehicle. >> but what evidence was there that justine had done it as the law says purposefully? investigators pulled the black

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box out of justine's pontiac, analyze the data and found another sign that pointed to suicide. she'd taken off her seatbelt. black box also recorded speed, acceleration and braking and found -- that justine was accelerating, flooring it, so to speak in the five seconds before the crash, speeding up from 81 to 86 miles an hour's before hitting the brakes at the last second. >> she did not swerve, she drove head on into the other vehicle. >> back it up, prosecutors brought up this pedometer and their indicating 85 miles an hour found an orange mark it is known as a slap mark, made the expert testified when the needle smashes against the council of high-speed. and finally, prosecutors revealed the reason, they said, behind it all. justine, like many 16-year-old

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know that justine knowingly cross the centerline. having decided to commit suicide by hitting the other car. a question we put to the prosecutor. >> in order to draw that conclusion, you have to read her mind essentially. you've been a prosecutor for years. you know car accidents happen in the most bizarre ways. people do crazy things on the road. but you clearly said, this was a situation in which i know what somebody was thinking. when they drove across that lane of traffic and into the other car. >> no. >> i just don't know how you can know what she was thinking. >> we can't know what she was thinking. she doesn't know what she was thinking at the time. >> exactly. >> all i can do is base my decision on what the evidence shows. >> did the evidence clearly show that justine winters had made up her mind to commit suicide by driving into an oncoming car? up to the jury now. >> coming up. >> everyone just cried about it. >> a verdict comes quick. but the pain and one final

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