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Lack of evidence. >> you will not hear of a single shred of forensic evidence of any kind linking this man or anybody else to that murder. >> reporter: after three weeks, the jury had the case. but it took less than a full day of deliberation to deliver a verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant, daniel blizzard, guilty of the crime of first degree murder. >> yes. y'know, what we wanted and what was right happened. >> it was a huge, huge relief that the jury found the truth. >> reporter: the judge sentenced daniel blizzard to more than 34 years in prison. a month later the trial of luis gome...

It was about in april. i just told her that, uh, i don't care how much money he's already lent you or whatever, you're not obligated to do anything and she says "no, we're not gonna, y'know, i'm not gonna do that" y'know? >> adriana specifically told you she was not going to go through with the attack on vern? >> right. right. yes. >> you must have been surprised when it turned out they went ahead and did it after all. >> yeah i was really surprised. it caught me off guard. >> reporter: we asked jill about the death of a man who'd been good to her and her kids. her answer was that the financia...

No, whatever. y'know. >> he wasn't buying it. >> no he didn't think much of it. >> reporter: and then as the trials of the four suspects wound their way toward the courthouse vern's family was blindsided yet again. prosecutors called to say they were offering deals to two of the suspects. to make sure their cases were rock-solid against accused shot-caller daniel blizzard, and the alleged attacker luis gomez-monges, the state would allow luis's girlfriend adriana mendez, and jill taylor, to walk out of jail if the two women would agree to testify against the two men. >> did they ask your permi...

>> and you said, what? i'm not -- i'm not gonna commit murder? >> no. i figured, just, whatever. i'm not gonna do that. you're stupid. >> and you called the police? >> no. >> you didn't call the police? >> no, why would i? >> well someone had just asked you to commit murder. >> it could've been sugar water for all i know. i come from a world that you don't go to police because someone sneezed wrong, y'know? >> why did daniel think that you would be willing to poison vern? >> i don't know. y'know i did love him and yeah i would have done a lot of things for him. >> so you're kind of a victim he...

Friendship between two nations, and also spoken directly about the pain of a shared history. from the darkest days of our past and the appalling atrocity of slavery, which forever stains our history, the people of this island forged their path with extraordinary fortitude. emancipation, self—government, and independence were your waypoints. freedom, justice, and self—determination have been your guides. an acknowledgement of the past as this island looked forward. that was bridgetown overnight. and this was earlier — president sandra mason swore in the new government. also present was th...