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Family? >> no, we did not. we couldn't find anything that -- that would take us there other than her story. >> reporter: janet, vince's surrogate mom, was horrified when she learned that jessie, the woman who had seemed so good for vince, was now implicated in his murder. >> i was devastated. i was like, "why is she arrested?" >> reporter: did you think she was capable of -- of killing vince? >> never. never. why? there's divorce. why wouldn't she just get a divorce? >> reporter: but even with jessie's story, and the evidence against jarred, the case was far from closed. an unexpected twist wa...

Had. >> excuse me? >> she puts her and vince and you at the scene and the witness puts you and your truck at the scene. but you need to help us out at this point, jarred, and explain to us what happened there. >> i believe at this point, i need to say stop and that i believe i need a lawyer. >> ok. >> because this has gone well beyond what i'm capable of, so -- >> reporter: they now had two suspects in custody. and as for that drug dealer story, detective stokes says that was just a hoax jessie cooked up to throw off police. and she told the story to several people, including her neighbors, th...

Actually committing the murder. >> reporter: that grieving wife, hysterical by the side of the road, getting sick in front of police, was charged with her husband's murder. >> let me see your hands! as for jarred long, because of jessie's admission that she and jarred had a plan to harm vince, police now had enough to arrest him too. they tracked him down again, this time near his home in colorado. >> they did a felony stop, called him out, made him go prone on the ground and placed him in cuffs. >> reporter: they had a warrant to search his truck this time? >> colorado authorities were able t...

I said fine. we had lunch, and we talked, and we did have sex. >> reporter: but it wasn't the sex investigators were interested in. jessie had one more story to tell. she claimed that jarred had talked to the drug dealers and if he roughed up vince, somehow, that would satisfy them. then she said jarred told her what her job would be. >> he told me, "you need to meet me on this road." "you need to pull down to the shoulder where you can pull off." "i'm gonna set your husband straight." >> reporter: but the prosecutor and detectives weren't buying it. instead, without realizing it, jessie had f...

>> reporter: a different prosecutor then took over the case against jarred long. his name was mark blankenship. as he looked over the case, he came to a different conclusion about who was most responsible. >> i felt that the mastermind of the crime was jessie. she didn't pull the trigger. but without her this doesn't happen. what bathered me is that the bar was set for 22 years for the mastermind of the crime. >> reporter: blankenship offered jarred a deal, too. 30 years in prison for pleadle guilty to first-degree murder. jarred agreed. jarred, being played as the victim. but vince was shot n...