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>> life is stranger than fiction. >> kelly baker pleaded not guilty, denied she had a thing to do with the murder. well, armed with confessions and plea deals from carol baker and her son, griz, chief district attorney anthea graarrasco and a miller looked to prove it. >> randy baker's own wife and sister were plotting with his own nephew to give this woman the day she felt like she had waited far too long for already. >> a little bit byzantine or something. there was some planning at work here. >> for quite some time. >> for three long months. and plan "a" was, well, odd. remember those falli...

Father married kelly, but she was old enough to see her dad's relationship with his sister did not improve. >> it was kind of kelly and carol versus my dad a lot, and it became that way big time once all of us kids were out of the house. >> that certainly caught detective's attention. carol did not like randy, and carol had access to his house. >> who was the last person known to be in the house before the shooting? >> carol. >> she'd gone to the house that night to do some chores for kelly. >> she was, you know, the last person at the house roughly an hour before randy was murdered, she drew ...

Behavior, his life, which betty told them had been rough sometimes. >> he was a counselor since i was 4 or 5. >> what kind of counseling did he do? >> drug and alcohol addiction counseling. >> he had some experience with that. >> yes, he had a lot of experience with that so. >> what did you know about that? >> not a lot. he didn't like to talk about it. just that he almost died. >> when randy was 28, a strapping bear of a man, 6'5" tall, he was a lineman for the local power company. dori baker, betty's mother and randy's first wife could tell that story. >> he was on the line, and he got a jol...

>> and really, what physical evidence did the prosecutors have? well, one little something, a killer's mistake, an excess of impatient greed. yeah, so, they -- the check. >> the $420 check was a huge piece of evidence in the case. >> here was their proof, said the prosecutors, and you didn't need to believe carol or griz for this one. just follow the money and pay attention. >> there were two text messages from randy where he told her that he was coming home with the $420 check. >> that's right. the day he was murdered, randy told kelly he'd have the check in his wallet, $420, when he got home...

>> really? >> yeah. >> there was something else. >> we were learning that randy and carol's relationship was strained, so much so that they preferred not to be around each other. >> betty said the tension between randy and carol went way back to their childhood days. >> and he would talk about how she secretly loved being an only child and once he came she like hated it was his version, and then she would talk about how she would pick on him. >> not the best sibling relationship? >> no, not what i'd want for my kids to have. so yeah. >> once grown, randy went his way, carol went hers. randy en...