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>> he kept wanting to retire, and it would get pushed back. >> and this wasn't because he was living hand to mouth, he had no money. it was because he loved it. >> he loved it. he liked being the best at it. >> reporter: so on that saturday in may when vern missed his meeting with terra, she and andrew simply dismissed it as vern being vern until terra got a phone call that night from chad. >> he's like, 'have you heard from vern, something's wrong. he's in the hospital or something you gotta go check. then i -- like, instantly, i'm worried. >> reporter: terra is a physician's assistant and kn...

Helped jill out with a job, and more. that's the kind of man he was. >> he helps anybody out, it doesn't matter who they are. >> big heart? >> uh-huh. huge heart. >> reporter: and using that huge heart, to help family members or clients was what seemed to keep vern holbrook young. after andrew's mom died in 2007, vern eventually remarried and kept moving whether he was catching fish or closing deals. >> he was a machine. >> reporter: vern had tried to slow down even selling his company in 2008 to an ambitious young agent whom vern had trained and taken under his wing, daniel blizzard, who was ...

He was just known to be one of the big movers and shakers in the real estate industry in the yakima valley. >> reporter: the detective had been called to the house where vern was found that saturday night. he'd heard from the responding officer, the one who wore this body camera and captured these scenes from the moment he arrived just before 8 p.m. that a colleague had gone looking for vern when vern's wife had become worried that he didn't return from the showing. the colleague had found him here, lying in a pool of blood at this rural home near the small town of cowichie. >> the last people...

Jill took part in the plot, came from her own lips. if you believe the former family members who pointed fingers at her. enter, once again, chad, jill's ex-husband. he said that six weeks before the attack, jill said something strange when discussing supervised visits with their 3 children. >> she told me that, um, 'vern may not be around that much longer to be supervising visits'. and i said, 'well why would you think that?' and she told me then that, 'well y'know he makes a lotta enemies. and he's gonna end up making the wrong kind of enemies." >> reporter: all of this eventually landed jill...

Do have the option of refiling at some in the future. but at this point, jill has never convicted of any crime in connection to vern's death. >> if it wasn't for jill putting it all together, helping daniel put the pieces together, this may not have happened. >> i think that's, uh, criminal. it's y'know, shouldn't have happened. she, in my opinion, definitely got away with murder. >> and when you walk out of this interview, she might be standing on the street. >> yeah. y'know never know. it crosses my mind. >> reporter: we wanted to talk to jill taylor. and it turned out, she wanted to talk wi...