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Than attitude. she met her husband at a weekly dance class. every time i came in he slide it up again and say when do i get through my name in the hat? and i was, like maybe never know? there s the door. go away. but he wouldn t go away? no. serena, a sergeant first class in the army and a self-described alpha female, was happy to have met a man who wasn t a pushover. with james and his strong personality and my strong personality, we were on the same page, and we got things were going amazing. in 2010 at james request, they entered into a covenant marriage. what s a covenant marriage? covenant marriage is recognized before god and state, and quite frankly it s a lot harder to get divorced. less than a year into their marriage, james father died, and serena says something in her husband changed. he became, she said, controlling and ....
Evidence, plus serena s testimony, and the firearms analysis evidence, jurors did not need much time, to reach a verdict. we the jury, do you find the defendant james the pan, guilty of the offensive first degree murder. you are not required to offer a motive. but what do you think the motive was? here obsession, and hatred, it s all tied up around nick in jessica. jessica s still well. james la pans mistress. and nick s former girlfriend. here is a woman who seems to hate, nikita bad breakup with him, and is very close with james. and a month before the murder, she breaks off with james, now, is he trying to act like her hero, by killing the man she hates? prosecutor called jessica as a witness. but it his interest in her, was not so much about what she said, as where she might have done. ....
James lapan sat in a pima county jail cell, his wife of seven years sat in a hotel room during a work trip, watching a lifetime movie about an abusive, controlling husband. seeing that made me fully realize the fact that it s a pattern that s going to continue to get worse. and if he had not been arrested, this would probably be a direction in which my life would be going. it took months, but eventually serena found the courage to pick up the phone. she calls and says, i ve got a new story to tell. pima county chief trial counsel jonathan mosher. we bring her in for an interview with recorders running. when you talked to police previously i lied. okay. what did you lie about? the fact that he had left the house, because he did. serena told prosecutors what ....
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serena said james had told her about the affair weeks earlier. they were going through counseling, she said, and working on the marriage. and when detective garcia asked her about the night of nick s murder her statement was exactly the same as james . they hung out together during the day. they went to bed together. they woke up together. yes. so she alibis him. yes. you wouldn t try to be covering up for him for anything? no. okay. if serena was telling the truth, james could not be the killer. as detective garcia pondered that, nick s brothers john kept up his own investigation. he mentioned lapan s name to a childhood friend. remember how tucson can be a big small town? he said, johnny, you re not going to believe this. i just dealt with that guy a few months ago. john s friend owned a machine and fabrication shop. he said james lapan had come in looking for a tool, one he ....