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Ansley, okeydoke, has this cross-examination does so much damage to gates' credibility? >> reporter: i think it puts a dents in his credibility. it remains to be seen if that will put a dents in the prosecution case, though. it seems for a large part of yesterday they were presenting a man shoo would not presenting a life to the jury. this is a man who was able to have a flat in london for his terrorist trysts. and it's unclear, why he kind of still seems squirrelly. and if he was there to fell the truth, as he just put out from that transcript, why wasn't he being more direct? why wasn't he b...

Statements to the first responders that he was dead i shaut him shot him were made when she was having a medical emergency. also focused on a sloppy investigation by the police chief. pointed at jennifer as the one with the motive to kill steve. didn't argue she pulled the trigger, but only no hard evidence shirley did. what did jennifer have to say to the jury. nothing. she didn't even attend the trial. defense called no witnesses of its own. so what did jurors think of the case? we spoke with three. . does shirl sli skipper look like someone who could commit this crime? >> when i first walke...

House. >> on the wall of the house. >> there's no indication the sconce was broken that way and there was no skin tissue or blood found on the sconce. had shirley skinner really been pushed down by stephen? >> did you see any injuries consistent with her being knocked to the ground? >> no, sir. >> any black eyes or broken bones? >> no, sir, didn't see anything like that. >> did she seem like her clothes were out of place? >> no, sir. >> didn't look disheveled? >> no. >> what's more, stephen had been shot once in the back of the head and he did not have a gun or any other weapon on him. the chi...

Would any jury be able to sort out this case, an alleged family conspiracy, two women at the crime scene, one who appeared to have clear motive. the other, 75 years old, neither with criminal records. it seemed such a confused slim case, ed says, he and the family believed shirley would never be found guilty. when she was offered a plea deal, she turned it down and chose to go to trial. >> i was convinced she didn't do it. >> coming up, jurors have their doubts, too. >> does shirley skinner look like someone who can commit this kind of crime? >> honestly no. >> when "dateline" continues.

>> went in large measure to her intent. demonstrated deep content and hatred she had for the father of her great grand baby to offer money to kill him. >> the trial lasted less than four days. the state made its case that shirley killed steven to eliminate a family problem. prosecution had no physical evidence to prove she was the shoot err. no dna. no fingerprints. no gunshot residue. no blood spatter. no photos of the scrapes on shirley's hands. all they had were descriptions of the hand and statements from first responders that shirley told them she had shot steven. >> now it was time for t...