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What Riding for Justice has done is reached out to
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people that knew Jennifer Harris.
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How often do you saddle up and ride?
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Once a month.
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You got a big crowd? Let's keep it safe. Something
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has touched the people of Fannin County about this case. Absolutely.
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Everybody in this county wants to see this case solved.
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To let something like this go on this long is
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uncalled for.
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Jennifer Harris was.
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Well loved here. That's a Jennifer Harris case, everything that's involved.
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This is the whole investigation right here?
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This is it.
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Sheriff, I hope you don't mind me asking, but that
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doesn't seem like a whole lot for 15 years.
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Well, that's all we got to work with.
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It doesn't get any easier.
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There's not one day that I don't wake up and
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think about my sister.
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I wish I.
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Could only have a handful of the friends she had.
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She was.
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Amazing.
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She was the red-haired girl who was the goofball, adorable,
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lovable Lucille Ball type.
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She smothered me with love.
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On Mother's Day, 2002, no different than any other day,
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you take the walk.
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Right.
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I saw a Jeep, but I didn't think anything about it.
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But then when it was here the second day, you're like,
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why is that Jeep still here?
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I get a phone call that her Jeep had been found.
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What did she do leaving her Jeep on the side
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of the road?
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There was a fisherman who was fishing on the Red River.
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He saw a body in the water.
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I remember going to the Red River, to the bridge,
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seeing the police officers, the sheriff.
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There are more up here, y'all.
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And I remember my dad being right there with him.
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And I just, let me see her.
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Let me see her. Let me see. Is it hers?
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It can't be her.
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It has to.
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Why?
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Is it her?
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Is it her?
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Whenever we move her, just move right into a bowl.
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Is it really her?
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The body is completely naked.
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Not a stitch of clothing.
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Not a sock.
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The way she was disposed of like a piece of trash.
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She didn't deserve that.
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The medical examiner listed the cause of death as homicidal violence.
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What is that?
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Were they strangled? Were they shot? Those are the things
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you need to know.
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Jennifer's murder impacted my wife and her family. You can't
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even put it in words.
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Cemetery 01.
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This is unlike anything that I've ever done as a filmmaker,
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but I thought he said it the first time we
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were with him. Finding the killer and actually being able
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to prove where's the physical evidence, who the killer is.
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Let's continue with the timeline.
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This is much more than a passion project because this
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is family. We're going to follow through and we're going
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to get this done.
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You want to know who killed Jennifer Harris? Absolutely.
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I'm a Texas girl.
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I believe in justice. Old school justice.
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48 Hours, Murder on Red River.
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In the northeast corner of Texas, where the banks of
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the Red River touch Oklahoma, you'll find Fannin County and
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the town of Bonham, one of the oldest cities in
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the Lone Star State. And it's where Mark Johnson, who
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had just wrapped up 32 years in law enforcement, decided
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to ditch retirement and run for sheriff in 2016.
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I met Jerry Harris, the father of the young lady,
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on the campaign trail.
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And he made a promise from one father to another
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to continue the investigation into the murder of Jerry's oldest daughter,
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28-year-old Jennifer Harris, a case unsolved for more than 15 years.
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When I came here January 1, I demanded that case
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be brought to me.
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That was the first thing you did?
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Yes, I wanted the Jennifer Harris case.
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Jennifer's father, a Marine and Vietnam veteran, finally has hope.
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I think he's serious about trying to solve this case.
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This is my office.
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And he's not the only one. For the last eight years,
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Darrell Parker has been working with Jerry Harris to solve
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his daughter's murder. First as a lieutenant in the Fannin
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County Sheriff's Office, and now as a private investigator.
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A Marine never meets a stranger if he meets another Marine.
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He too was a Marine, and Parker has never charged
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Jerry a dime.
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I still have a lot of that Captain America justice
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kind of thing going on. I want Jerry and his
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family to find justice.
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In high school, Jennifer Harris was popular and athletic.
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Brilliant red-haired girl, bright brown eyes, played tennis, and was
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a cheerleader.
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Jennifer's younger sister, Alyssa.
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She was a dreamer.
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She was an idealist, and she knew that there was
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a bigger world outside of Bonham, Texas.
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Bonham is probably your prototypical small-town USA. Gossip is on
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an epic scale.
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When Jennifer Harris goes missing, How does that news play
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in Bonham?
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It was a bombshell because this girl was not too
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far removed from high school. To understand that she had
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been murdered, it disturbed a lot of people.
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She was only 28 years old. She was just beginning
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to come into her own right when she was murdered.
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The day that I came in here and looked at
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her cases, it opened in those boxes.
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I wanted to sit down on the floor and cry.
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That's because after more than 15 years, This is all
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they have to work with.
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And what do we have in each of these boxes?
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This is all documentation that's in there. You know, when
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she first came up missing, they're looking for newspaper articles,
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business records. And this is just some case reports. You
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can see that now this was wet. A lot of
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this stuff got wet. They had some pods out back.
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They stored a lot of evidence.
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They leaked. A lot of stuff got wet.
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Contaminated.
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Yes. Some of them got destroyed.
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The file was very light. Duplicates of the same paperwork
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over and over and over again. It was a mess.
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Although the original investigators have said they did their best,
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Jennifer's laptop computer and clothing, a shirt, bra, and jeans
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that might have been hers, were booked into evidence, but
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somehow mysteriously disappeared.
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It's just been mishandled.
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Why would it be mishandled?
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I honestly don't know.
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The only thing I can gather out of it is
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lack of experience, lack of training.
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It was Mother's Day, 2002. Jennifer was visiting her friend,
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Christy Farr, in the early evening. It gets to be
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close to 8 o'clock, and Jennifer's like, I got to go?
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Correct.
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She never told Christy where she was going, but Jennifer
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Harris never returned home that night. The next day, Jennifer's
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Jeep was discovered. parked just down the road from a
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local music spot. While she was still missing, authorities reached
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out to the two men in her life.
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I know I'm not guilty of anything.
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Her former boyfriend and business partner, James Hamilton, and her ex-husband,
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Rob Holman.
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Well, how you doing?
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Pretty good.
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Both agreed to speak with investigators without a lawyer present.
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They had not been arrested, but both men were read
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their Miranda rights.
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So you have the right to make a silence.
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And both denied seeing Jennifer the night she disappeared. According
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to his police interview, Jennifer's former boyfriend, James Hamilton, was
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with a friend more than an hour away from Bonham
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at this McDonald's around the time investigators believed Jennifer disappeared.
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He even took and passed a lie detector test.
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He had an alibi for that evening. Alibi checked out.
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But ex-husband Rob Holman seemed concerned about his alibi.
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I'm just worried and scared because I know that I
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don't have anybody to say where I was at that night.
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Rob told investigators he had gone out that night to
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buy beer and visit friends. But when they weren't home,
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he drove around alone for five hours on the roads
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of rural Fanning County.
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Sunday when you went riding around? Mm-hmm.
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You saw it?
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I didn't see it.
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Or something. I saw a Jeep, but I didn't see,
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I don't know whose it was.
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But when the investigator pushes harder, it sounds like Rob
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is admitting he did see her Jeep that night.
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Where did you see her Jeep?
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By now, Jennifer had been missing for 72 hours. The
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search would continue for three more days.
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I was getting about three or four hours sleep a night.
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Spent the rest of my time searching, driving country roads,
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looking for buzzards.
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That's a hell of a thing for a father to
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have to do.
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That's what I did.
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Until they found her. Things seemed to go in slow motion.
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It was very surreal.
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Finding Jennifer's body six days after her disappearance devastated her father, Jerry.
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But it did little to clear up the mystery of
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what had happened to her. She was so badly decomposed,
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the medical examiner couldn't determine the cause of death. But
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Jennifer's family believes they know the answer. Her sister, Alyssa,
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and her filmmaker husband, Barry Wernick, are on a mission.
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to prove who killed Jennifer and why. In the time
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you've been looking into this, have you gone from, I
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want the facts to shape my opinion, to now having
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a sense of who killed Jennifer? Absolutely.
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To think about how beautiful she was and her red
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hair and just how.
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And to think about how she was found.
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That's what I just can't let go of until justice
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is done.
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There's a prom dress.
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There's that prom dress.
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Filmmaker Barry Wernick married Jennifer Harris' sister Alyssa eight years
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after Jennifer's murder.
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When Alyssa first told me about her sister's murder, the
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first thing that came to my mind was, who did it?
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Do you know who did it? All these things started
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going through my mind.
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Barry and Alyssa are determined to answer those questions by
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making a docuseries.
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Didn't transcribe that?
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Barry, an experienced filmmaker, was a consultant on this broadcast.
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I felt like I could use my filmmaking ability to
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do our own investigating. because it didn't seem like anyone
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was doing it.
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He is working hand-in-hand with Daryl Parker and another private eye,
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Jim Holloway, reexamining everything. We are in a place, this
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is central to your theory of what happened.
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Yes.
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The reason why Daryl Parker is so sure this is
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where Jennifer died is because of a clue that lies
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on the river's floor, a short way down this dirt road.
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She had some blue mud on the front of her,
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according to fishermen. There were only two spots on the
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river within several miles that that mud is on the bottom.
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And this is one of them.
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This is that blue marl mud that was on the body.
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Not far from the riverbank, there used to be a cottage.
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This is where the original, you know, caretaker cottage was.
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And it just so happened to burn down the night
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that Jennifer Harris disappeared. That is a piece of melted
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glass from the original fire.
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Parker suspects Jennifer left her friend Christy's house and met
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her killer here. He believes the cottage was burned to
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hide the evidence. No godly earth reason for that shack
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to burn.
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At the same night, Jennifer comes up missing.
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Parker hoped to find clues here.
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We came here with a crew and excavated the whole
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thing 15 feet that way to another 10 feet that
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way on either side of this foundation.
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I see a well.
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We drained the well. And then we dug down in
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the muck, probably a foot or two, and we didn't
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come up with anything.
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But years of coming up empty hasn't deterred Daryl Parker
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or Barry and Alyssa Wernick. And it hasn't shaken their
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conviction of who killed Jennifer.
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When I think about Jennifer, I think about Jennifer and Rob.
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Rob and Jennifer were together for as long as anyone
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can remember. She was a sixth grader when she began
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dating Rob, a fifth grader. By high school, the teenagers
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were practically inseparable, says Jennifer's cousin, Susan Bowen.
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He was just part of our family from the time
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we were growing up. Jennifer was just in love with him.
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She just adored everything about him.
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Jennifer had big dreams, bigger than could take flight in
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small-town Bonham.
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Jennifer had potential to explore greater horizons than just Fannin County, Texas.
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She moved three hours away to go to college. A
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few years later, Rob followed her there, and the couple
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married in 1996.
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It was gorgeous.
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It was meticulously planned at a very beautiful mansion out
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in the country.
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One year after the wedding, Jennifer's mother died of cancer.
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You could tell she had learned a lot.
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In the few years that we lost our mother, she
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became an adult that was very open-minded.
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In 1999, the couple bought a house in suburban Dallas,
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but there was friction brewing.
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I think that my sister was growing and evolving and
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moving forward in her life, and Rob was stuck.
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And he just wasn't going to change.
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According to Jennifer's family, Rob, who was working in landscaping,
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preferred the slower pace of rural Bonham while she enjoyed
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living near a big city. Jennifer embraced a holistic lifestyle
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and enrolled in massage therapy school.
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She transformed in front of my eyes.
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She said that she had met someone who was like-minded
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and who wanted to change. start a business that was
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a massage and wellness center.
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That someone was James Hamilton, someone she'd met in that
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massage therapy school.
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He was different, but.
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In what way?
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Well, he was new age and.
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Touchy-feely? A little bit. Their relationship was complicated. James was
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living with the mother of his child and had another
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on the way. Jennifer was still married to Rob.
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I told her that it was not a good idea.
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And what did she say?
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She didn't tell me a lot after that. She knew
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where I stood.
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I went up there to see what was going on
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in their lives.
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When Jennifer's father got there, he was shocked to see
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holes in the wall. While no one knows for sure
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how they got there, Jerry seemed certain Rob was responsible.
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He took his fist and knocked five holes in the
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living room wall about as big as a softball.
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Jerry remembers the holes in the wall. Alyssa remembers something worse.
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My sister called me one night and was shaking in
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her voice.
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She says Jennifer told her Rob came home drunk and
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forced himself on her. Jennifer never reported the alleged attack,
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But Rob would later tell police after her disappearance that
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Jennifer was the violent one in the relationship. Rob moved
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back to Bonham, and Jennifer's new love interest, James Hamilton,
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moved in with her. They became partners in a massage
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therapy business in suburban Dallas. but Jennifer's infatuation with James
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quickly faded.
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Well, James wanted to marry her, and she refused to
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marry him, and he was very upset about that.
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The private investigators say Jennifer's relationship with Hamilton was rocky.
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Real fiery, just fussing and fighting at each other all
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the time.
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By the spring of 2002, your sister is leading one
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complicated life emotionally.
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Mm-hmm.
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Jennifer had divorced Rob, and her relationship with James was
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on the skids. To add to the chaos, the massage
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business had failed, and Jennifer was forced to file for bankruptcy.
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I think that everything was catching up to her, and
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she never really grieved my mom's death.
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And I think she was exhausted.
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She said, I'm not happy. I don't care about the
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business anymore.
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With no job or income, Jennifer confided in cousin Susan
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that she'd been back in touch with her former husband,
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Rob Holman, who now had a new girlfriend.
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And she said, I still love him. And she said,
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I want him back. And she said, I even told
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him that.
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In fact, Rob later admitted to police that even though
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he had a girlfriend, he and Jennifer were still having sex.
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So Jennifer was living a little bit of a spellbender life.
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To a certain extent, but James didn't know it. He
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knew nothing about it all.
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Then one day, Susan saw Jennifer outside her apartment with
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a moving truck.
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I said, what are you doing? And she said, I'm
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moving to Bonham. I thought, you're only going to Bonham
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because Rob's in Bonham. Okay, and with that, I turned
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around and left, and that was the last time I
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ever saw her.
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About six weeks later, Jennifer disappeared. On the very day
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she went missing, she called Rob. Rob says she asked
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to see him, but he refused. Rob agreed to take
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a polygraph to back up his story, but for some reason,
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It was never administered. Sheriff's investigators allowed him to go home.
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They had a lot more digging to do, and it
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centered around a secret Jennifer had shared with her best friend,
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Jill Wagner, just weeks before she died.
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You know, we started talking, and she was kind of like,
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you're not going to believe, you know, the mess I'm in.
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And she told me how, you know, that you're pretty
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much a guest.
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I was like, you're pregnant.
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If Jennifer was pregnant, who was the father? Was it
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Rob Holman or someone else? That question became even more
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important after the medical examiner's autopsy revealed a stunning piece
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of information.
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Her uterus was gone.
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When they examined Jennifer Harris's body, investigators were shocked.
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There was a wound that affected some of the internal organs.
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Her uterus was missing.
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Her death was classified as a, quote, violent homicide.
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Her uterus had somehow been removed.
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The question was, what damaged her?
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What would have the motive been?
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That she was possibly pregnant, and that the person who
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killed her was trying to destroy that evidence.
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In Bonham... Where gossip is often taken for gospel, people
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couldn't stop talking.
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The public grabbed a hold of that information and they
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started concocting their own theories as to who did it
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and why.
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But according to the case file, there was no scientific
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evidence to prove Jennifer was actually pregnant at the time
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of her death. Still, Jennifer's best friend Jill Wagner told
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investigators she had talked to Jennifer about being pregnant. And
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that's not all she said.
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You know, she told me that it was Rob's, and
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I was kind of shocked.
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Rob Holman, Jennifer's ex-husband. He had revealed to detectives in
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his police interview that he'd met Jennifer a month before
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she disappeared near a drive-in movie theater.
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She told me that she was pregnant.
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I definitely think that she brought it up with Rob,
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and in my mind, that's what led to her death.
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Daryl Parker had long been familiar with the story of
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Jennifer being pregnant. Eight years after her murder, Parker, then
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a lieutenant for the sheriff's department, dropped by Rob Holman's house.
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It was Sunday, Mother's Day, a calculated move by Parker.
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So it was the anniversary of the crime. I had
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picked out a number of photographs of her and Rob,
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one of those being Jennifer swimming in a muddy body
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of water. And when I gave him the stack of photographs,
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The very first one he picked out was that one
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with the muddy water. He stood there for about five
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or six seconds staring at that photograph.
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But that's the one that caught his attention.
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Like that.
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You know, I said, well, if you want to talk,
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call me. And I gave him my card and I left.
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A few hours later, to Parker's surprise, Holman called and
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wanted to talk. But Parker had wanted to record the interview.
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So he suggested they meet at the sheriff's office the
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next day.
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That's where I screwed up. I should have gone right
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then and there. I think he was ready to talk
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and say something, and I should have just done it.
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This really has you still. Why so emotional, Daryl? You're
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really blaming yourself here.
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Well, the previous investigation had failed in so many ways.
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But he was responding to me. He was responding to
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the pressure I was putting on him. And I let
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it slip away.
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When Holman arrived for the interview with Parker, he had
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a lawyer.
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Did you have.
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Anything to do with the death of Jennifer Harris?
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No.
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Jennifer's pregnancy. Did you believe she was pregnant?
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No.
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I didn't think she was. Did you think that she
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believed she was pregnant?
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No.
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Remember, there was no evidence Jennifer was pregnant. And in fact,
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forensic experts in Dallas would later conclude Jennifer's missing uterus
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wasn't even cut out by the killer. Instead, her uterus
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and other body parts were destroyed by turtles and fish
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in the river. But the rumors persisted, and they had
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plenty of company in Bonham. A year after Jennifer's murder,
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this man found himself In the center of the storm.
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They were saying that I had been arrested for this murder.
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I mean, you hear this, and what's your reaction?
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What are you talking about? Where did this come from?
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That's crazy.
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Crazy, because Miles Porter was also the district attorney at
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the time, overseeing the case. For the record, did you
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know Jennifer Harris?
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No.
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Had you ever met Jennifer Harris?
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No.
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Did you kill Jennifer Harris?
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Absolutely not.
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Porter says locals cooked up the story because they had
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a grudge against him over an unrelated case he tried.
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Did this cost you your job?
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Yeah, no doubt.
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Miles Porter blames losing his re-election on the Jennifer Harris gossip.
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Now in private practice, Porter still lives with the fallout
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from the unfounded allegations.
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I've had, on a number of occasions, random people throughout
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the county say, I can't be fair in this case because...
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You're with the lawyer, and I think you killed Jennifer Harris. Crazy.
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14, 15 years later?
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Absolutely.
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Still happens.
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In the court of public opinion, he was definitely a suspect.
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Meanwhile, there's no shred of evidence that he was connected
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at all. None. Darrell Parker thinks he knows who's responsible.
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Not Miles Porter, not James Hamilton, not a random stranger.
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In my view, the evidence points directly at Rob Holman.
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Filmmaker Barry Wernick agrees.
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We were going to let the facts take us where
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the facts took us. And where it brought us was
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to one person that it had to be.
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But they haven't been able to physically connect Rob Holman
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to Jennifer Harris the night of her disappearance. They're both
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hoping this woman can.
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We need that eyewitness.
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And in your view, Rhonda Fitzwater is that eyewitness? Yes.
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Yes.
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On this rural road in Fannin County, Texas, Rhonda Fitzwater
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could hold the key to Daryl Parker and Barry Wernick's
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theory that Rob Holman met up with Jennifer Harris that night.
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So what do you make of this idea that somehow
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you saw Jennifer Harris and Rob Holman?
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I've not ever heard that until you told me that.
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Rhonda has always insisted that all she saw that night
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was Jennifer's parked Jeep. Did you see anybody following the Jeep?
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No.
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It was already parked. Did you see Jennifer Harris?
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No, not at all.
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But for years, Parker and Wernick have believed there is
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more to Rhonda Fitzwater's story. Only she says they are
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sorely mistaken. After 15 years of investigation by people closely
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connected to Bonham, maybe the best thing anyone can hope
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for is a fresh set of eyes.
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I'm flying out to Dallas, Texas. My job is really
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to look at the facts of the case, study the case.
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Could the questions about a murder in Bonham be answered
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by someone 1,700 miles away in Boston? Meet Joe Mora,
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a private investigator and CBS News consultant. Jennifer's been dead
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15 years by the time you look at it, the file.
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Absolutely, yeah.
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What'd you make of that collection of.
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papers.
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I thought the file was very weak, meaning that the
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investigation that went into it was extremely weak.
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48 hours brought Moore to Texas to take a closer
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look at the Jennifer Harris case.
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You've got to speak to people, and that's what I've done.
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So you got a little time for me?
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I do. Come on back.
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His first stop, Fannin County Sheriff Mark Johnson.
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I can see your frustration where, you know, you're in
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00:29:33.900 --> 00:29:36.680
the job for one One year, you've got the public,
520
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:39.130
and sure, the family still wants to know what happened
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to their daughter.
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00:29:40.190 --> 00:29:43.099
There's no physical evidence. That's the problem.
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00:29:44.059 --> 00:29:47.720
In fact, today the sheriff won't call either Rob Holman
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or James Hamilton suspects, even though detectives did early in
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the investigations. in these documents. How come you can't call
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them suspects?
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You have things that lead up to them, that draw
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your interest to them, that make them a person of interest,
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but you don't have that connection to make them a suspect,
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00:30:05.369 --> 00:30:07.789
where you can tie some physical evidence into them.
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00:30:08.529 --> 00:30:11.670
Filmmaker Barry Wernick took Maura to the location of the
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cottage privatized Parker and Holloway had come to believe was
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burned to hide the evidence of Jennifer's murder.
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This is the shed that burned down that night.
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00:30:21.609 --> 00:30:21.730
Yeah.
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The stuffed gem with a burning shed. There's all kinds
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of theories about that. Now, you just murdered somebody, but
538
00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:31.549
about 200 yards away from where you're disposing the body
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00:30:31.569 --> 00:30:33.970
in the river, let's light up this shed and fire,
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attract people.
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Makes no sense to you.
542
00:30:36.269 --> 00:30:38.849
Absolutely not. It certainly can't tie to this case, but
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00:30:38.890 --> 00:30:40.450
people are trying to make it to tie in.
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Wernick also brought him to the bank of the Red River,
545
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.220
where he believes his sister-in-law's body was dumped.
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00:30:48.619 --> 00:30:51.740
There's nothing on the records of this case or any
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eyewitnesses that will tell you that this is where her
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body was disposed.
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Right.
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00:30:56.940 --> 00:30:58.789
So we're just here basically guessing.
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00:31:01.069 --> 00:31:03.569
Mora sat down with the private eyes who had been
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working the case for nearly a decade.
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To me, I think it boils down to who had
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the most to lose by killing her or not killing her.
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18 years of child support?
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Maybe.
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Maybe not.
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00:31:17.569 --> 00:31:20.339
She told me that she was pregnant.
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Well, I don't think that we need to speculate about
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Rob Holman's motive because he made it clear that she
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was applying pressure to him.
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And there could be no more intense pressure than I'm
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about to have a baby and you're the father.
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00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:40.210
That's right. You have to consider it. However, he disbelieves her.
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00:31:41.069 --> 00:31:43.200
And he admits that in the interviews. Yeah, she said it,
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but I don't believe it. I don't think she is pregnant.
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Did you believe she was pregnant?
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No.
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I didn't think she was.
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For his part, Morrow was surprised authorities seemed to quickly
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disregard James Hamilton, the ex-boyfriend who wanted to marry Jennifer
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before she left him when their business failed.
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00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:03.759
She covered all the finances for the business. She's the
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one that put her name on the loans.
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Jennifer's father, Jerry, made notes that two months after Jennifer's death,
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Hamilton called him asking about her life insurance policy.
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And in my experience, money... insurances, all that stuff is
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00:32:19.890 --> 00:32:22.769
a big deal. Money creates a lot of motive for
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a lot of people.
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What's more, he believes investigators bought Hamilton's alibi that he
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was with a friend at that McDonald's more than 50
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miles away. without thoroughly vetting it.
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And I'm not so thrilled about the checking they did
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on that alibi. The one thing is you go check
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with the alibis, and the next thing you look at,
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00:32:42.950 --> 00:32:44.740
are these alibis lying to me? So you got to
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go check that out. That was never done. Why?
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00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.099
To Joe Mora, the investigation was flawed from the outset
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and had authorities approached it differently, they may have gotten
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more from their interviews.
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Here's what bothers me about this situation. It's a missing person.
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They're calling people and talking to people about a missing person,
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and the first thing they do is they read you
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a Miranda warning. Now, that is unheard of.
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00:33:11.319 --> 00:33:14.500
You're saying that, sure, Rob said, I don't have an alibi,
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and that might be incriminating.
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That was after he already signed the Miranda warning. So
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he's already nervous, and he's already saying, oh, I'm being charged. God,
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I don't have an alibi. Of course he was nervous.
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Most people would be.
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But at the end of the day, the men who've
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been working this case for years see it very differently.
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than the man with the fresh set of eyes.
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Circumstantially, there is a lot of evidence in the case.
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00:33:38.349 --> 00:33:39.380
It is all circumstantial.
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But Daryl, I think me and you are a little
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confused in reference to circumstantial. I'm saying to you, and
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I submit to you, that there's very little circumstantial.
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Evidence, okay?
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We'll have to agree to disagree.
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00:33:51.069 --> 00:33:53.430
Well, because I'm asking you to give me the facts
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on what your circumstantial evidence is, and it's based on theory.
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Theory ain't going to cut it.
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00:33:57.849 --> 00:34:02.309
Like Daryl Parker's theory about Rhonda Fitzwater knowing more.
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Everybody's putting all the weight on this woman, and she
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has nothing to offer to the case. Only that, yeah,
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that Jeep was there. Well, we know the Jeep was there.
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But what Joe Mora does find interesting in the case
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file is one of the least examined parts of the story.
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One year after Jennifer's murder, this woman, Deborah Lambert, who
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had seen a news report about the unsolved case, told
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detectives she saw something when she was driving across the
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Red River Bridge on Mother's Day.
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There was three guys out there and a girl. Two
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guys had the girl by her elbows, and it was
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like she was trying to get away from him, and
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they were restraining her.
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The girl she says she saw... had reddish-brown hair.
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I made eye contact with her, and she was scared, terrified,
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look on her face. My mom seen her, too, and
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she said, that girl's supposed to get raped and killed.
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But Lambert never called police back then. She said she
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was too afraid to get involved. What's more, her story
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didn't fit with the investigator's timeline. She put Jennifer near
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the bridge at 5 o'clock p.m. But detectives believe Jennifer
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left her friend Christy's house around 8 p.m. Deborah Lambert
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saying what she saw, she saw at 5 o'clock, that's
638
00:35:30.619 --> 00:35:31.719
not a deal-breaker for you?
639
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Absolutely not. In the real world, people are not looking
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at their watches and clocks all the time. She may
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be wrong on her time and not wrong on what
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00:35:40.269 --> 00:35:40.869
she witnessed.
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Could Deborah Lambert hold the answer to who killed Jennifer Harris?
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00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:03.179
A year and a half after Jennifer's murder, the Texas
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Rangers launched their own investigation into the case. They re-interviewed
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Deborah Lambert.
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And the story was the same. She was very detailed. Redhead.
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Three guys. Two were wearing jeans. One was wearing shorts.
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00:36:19.579 --> 00:36:21.880
Lambert was asked to look at a photo lineup to
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see if she recognized any of the men the woman
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00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:28.860
was with. She did. She was very clear that one
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00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:32.070
of the men she saw was Rob Holman.
653
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Maybe Mrs. Lambert is believable. Now the situation is, I
654
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worry about how was that lineup done? How many photographs
655
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do they show? In other words, do they have a
656
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good old boy, Texan boy there with his baseball cap on?
657
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:53.039
And then they had three Mexican photos next to him. Okay?
658
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:54.539
Those are the things I worry about.
659
00:36:54.820 --> 00:36:58.360
The way that the lineup was conducted, we don't know
660
00:36:58.409 --> 00:36:58.989
anything about.
661
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No, and that's crucial.
662
00:37:00.949 --> 00:37:04.250
But Mora can't be confident because there are no details
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00:37:04.289 --> 00:37:08.409
in the case file about how the lineup was done. Still,
664
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Mora considers Deborah Lambert a missed opportunity to potentially solve
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Jennifer's murder.
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00:37:15.860 --> 00:37:19.869
There's an open lead there that I feel was enclosed. Therefore,
667
00:37:19.969 --> 00:37:23.989
until that lead is closed, it's problematic to say, I'm
668
00:37:24.030 --> 00:37:26.949
gonna disregard what this woman saw and I'm still gonna
669
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focus on Rob and James.
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Rob Holman, on the advice of his attorney back then,
671
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declined to speak with the Texas Rangers. After working the
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00:37:36.659 --> 00:37:41.239
case for a year, they suspended their investigation. We wanted
673
00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:44.679
to know why, but they wouldn't comment on an unsolved case.
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The conclusion to their report No physical evidence, specific cause
675
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:55.460
of death, or credible witnesses link any particular person as
676
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a suspect. No one can actually follow up with Deborah Lambert.
677
00:38:02.070 --> 00:38:05.690
She and her mother have both passed away. But Alyssa
678
00:38:05.750 --> 00:38:09.230
and Barry Wernick now cling to Lambert's story.
679
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In my mind, I always just believed that she got
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00:38:11.739 --> 00:38:14.079
in the truck with Rob, and it was just the
681
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two of them.
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00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:18.869
This changes everything. there are other people that know. There
683
00:38:18.889 --> 00:38:20.769
are other people that could possibly speak up.
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00:38:21.429 --> 00:38:25.960
Now, knowing that there were two other people involved, oh, yeah,
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00:38:26.099 --> 00:38:26.800
there's renewed hope.
686
00:38:27.420 --> 00:38:30.880
The problem here, I suppose, is that Deborah Lambert's dead.
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00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:34.409
She's dead, but her interview isn't.
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00:38:34.550 --> 00:38:35.130
She's alive.
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You can see what she said.
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00:38:40.989 --> 00:38:44.619
Neither James Hamilton nor Rob Holman have ever been arrested
691
00:38:44.739 --> 00:38:50.489
or charged with any crime related to Jennifer's murder. During
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00:38:50.530 --> 00:38:53.449
our reporting of this case, we made several attempts to
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00:38:53.510 --> 00:38:57.369
contact both men. James, if this is your number, I'm
694
00:38:57.449 --> 00:39:00.130
calling to follow up on a letter I sent you recently.
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00:39:00.750 --> 00:39:01.840
We got no response.
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This is Rob.
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I can't take your call right now.
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00:39:05.619 --> 00:39:07.719
We sent you a letter a couple of weeks ago.
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00:39:08.099 --> 00:39:10.300
So on one of our trips to Texas, we went
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00:39:10.380 --> 00:39:13.869
to Rob Holman's home. How are you?
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00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:15.360
Mr. Holman?
702
00:39:15.969 --> 00:39:17.570
Jim Axelrod with CBS News.
703
00:39:18.389 --> 00:39:20.090
Will you talk to me if I turn that camera off?
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00:39:21.769 --> 00:39:24.969
Holman told us off camera he never saw Jennifer that night,
705
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and he's been advised by his attorney not to talk
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00:39:28.250 --> 00:39:32.329
to anyone. His attorney provided this statement to 48 Hours.
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00:39:32.809 --> 00:39:36.320
Robert Holman has neither been arrested nor charged with any
708
00:39:36.389 --> 00:39:41.699
criminal conduct as it relates to this investigation. This notwithstanding, Mr.
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00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:45.619
Holman has, from the inception of the investigation, been treated
710
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by law enforcement as a suspect.
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00:39:48.489 --> 00:39:48.730
Mr.
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Holman has maintained his innocence from the very beginning, and
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00:39:52.030 --> 00:40:02.320
his position has not wavered. With no resolution in sight,
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00:40:02.780 --> 00:40:07.119
filmmaker Barry Wernick has a new plan. Barry wants to
715
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raise $ 50, 000 under the theory that reward money could shake
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00:40:13.059 --> 00:40:13.780
someone loose.
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00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:17.860
No shot. You can't put money out there in thinking
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that that's going to create evidence for you.
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00:40:20.659 --> 00:40:23.179
Joe Mora said as much to the sheriff.
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This isn't a cold case. This is a frozen case.
721
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It's done.
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00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:27.639
It's over.
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If you have a prosecutor whose worth is weight, he
724
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would never bring this case to trial. He has absolutely
725
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.469
nothing on this case.
726
00:40:38.730 --> 00:40:41.400
But Sheriff Mark Johnson is not giving up.
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I want to solve the case. I want it solved,
728
00:40:44.780 --> 00:40:45.780
and I want it done right.
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00:40:46.460 --> 00:40:49.000
Neither is private eye Darrell Parker.
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When Mr. Harris came to the sheriff's office and he
731
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got me involved, I told him that I would get results,
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and I can't put it down. Until I'm sure that
733
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either the person is held accountable or I can't do
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anything more, I have.
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To carry it. And if it takes another 15 years?
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If it takes another 15 years.
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The sadness is we all have kids, we all have
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family members, and I have a daughter. It's devastating to
739
00:41:17.190 --> 00:41:17.590
not know.
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00:41:21.349 --> 00:41:22.650
I don't know how she was killed.
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I wish I did.
742
00:41:23.489 --> 00:41:24.289
I want closure.
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I'm going to do everything I can to bring justice
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for Jennifer.
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00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:37.400
For my dad, he needs to see some justice done.
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To have walked in my shoes for the last 15
747
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and a half years hadn't been easy. We miss her
748
00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:52.889
every day. We miss Jennifer not being here. I still
749
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have high hopes that justice will prevail.
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Thank you.
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What Riding for Justice has done is reached out to
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people that knew Jennifer Harris.
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How often do you saddle up and ride?
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Once a month.
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You got a big crowd? Let's keep it safe. Something
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has touched the people of Fannin County about this case. Absolutely.
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Everybody in this county wants to see this case solved.
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To let something like this go on this long is
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uncalled for.
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Jennifer Harris was.
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Well loved here. That's a Jennifer Harris case, everything that's involved.
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This is the whole investigation right here?
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This is it.
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Sheriff, I hope you don't mind me asking, but that
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doesn't seem like a whole lot for 15 years.
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Well, that's all we got to work with.
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It doesn't get any easier.
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There's not one day that I don't wake up and
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think about my sister.
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I wish I.
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Could only have a handful of the friends she had.
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She was.
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Amazing.
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She was the red-haired girl who was the goofball, adorable,
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lovable Lucille Ball type.
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She smothered me with love.
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On Mother's Day, 2002, no different than any other day,
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you take the walk.
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Right.
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I saw a Jeep, but I didn't think anything about it.
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But then when it was here the second day, you're like,
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why is that Jeep still here?
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I get a phone call that her Jeep had been found.
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What did she do leaving her Jeep on the side
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of the road?
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There was a fisherman who was fishing on the Red River.
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He saw a body in the water.
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I remember going to the Red River, to the bridge,
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seeing the police officers, the sheriff.
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There are more up here, y'all.
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And I remember my dad being right there with him.
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And I just, let me see her.
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Let me see her. Let me see. Is it hers?
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It can't be her.
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It has to.
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Why?
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Is it her?
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Is it her?
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Whenever we move her, just move right into a bowl.
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Is it really her?
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The body is completely naked.
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Not a stitch of clothing.
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Not a sock.
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The way she was disposed of like a piece of trash.
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She didn't deserve that.
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The medical examiner listed the cause of death as homicidal violence.
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What is that?
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Were they strangled? Were they shot? Those are the things
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you need to know.
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Jennifer's murder impacted my wife and her family. You can't
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even put it in words.
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Cemetery 01.
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This is unlike anything that I've ever done as a filmmaker,
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but I thought he said it the first time we
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were with him. Finding the killer and actually being able
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to prove where's the physical evidence, who the killer is.
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Let's continue with the timeline.
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This is much more than a passion project because this
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is family. We're going to follow through and we're going
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to get this done.
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You want to know who killed Jennifer Harris? Absolutely.
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I'm a Texas girl.
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I believe in justice. Old school justice.
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48 Hours, Murder on Red River.
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In the northeast corner of Texas, where the banks of
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the Red River touch Oklahoma, you'll find Fannin County and
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the town of Bonham, one of the oldest cities in
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the Lone Star State. And it's where Mark Johnson, who
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had just wrapped up 32 years in law enforcement, decided
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to ditch retirement and run for sheriff in 2016.
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I met Jerry Harris, the father of the young lady,
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on the campaign trail.
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And he made a promise from one father to another
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to continue the investigation into the murder of Jerry's oldest daughter,
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28-year-old Jennifer Harris, a case unsolved for more than 15 years.
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When I came here January 1, I demanded that case
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be brought to me.
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That was the first thing you did?
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Yes, I wanted the Jennifer Harris case.
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Jennifer's father, a Marine and Vietnam veteran, finally has hope.
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I think he's serious about trying to solve this case.
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This is my office.
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And he's not the only one. For the last eight years,
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Darrell Parker has been working with Jerry Harris to solve
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his daughter's murder. First as a lieutenant in the Fannin
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County Sheriff's Office, and now as a private investigator.
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A Marine never meets a stranger if he meets another Marine.
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He too was a Marine, and Parker has never charged
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Jerry a dime.
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I still have a lot of that Captain America justice
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kind of thing going on. I want Jerry and his
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family to find justice.
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In high school, Jennifer Harris was popular and athletic.
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Brilliant red-haired girl, bright brown eyes, played tennis, and was
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a cheerleader.
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Jennifer's younger sister, Alyssa.
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She was a dreamer.
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She was an idealist, and she knew that there was
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a bigger world outside of Bonham, Texas.
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Bonham is probably your prototypical small-town USA. Gossip is on
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an epic scale.
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When Jennifer Harris goes missing, How does that news play
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in Bonham?
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It was a bombshell because this girl was not too
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far removed from high school. To understand that she had
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been murdered, it disturbed a lot of people.
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She was only 28 years old. She was just beginning
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to come into her own right when she was murdered.
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The day that I came in here and looked at
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her cases, it opened in those boxes.
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I wanted to sit down on the floor and cry.
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That's because after more than 15 years, This is all
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they have to work with.
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And what do we have in each of these boxes?
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This is all documentation that's in there. You know, when
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she first came up missing, they're looking for newspaper articles,
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business records. And this is just some case reports. You
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can see that now this was wet. A lot of
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this stuff got wet. They had some pods out back.
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They stored a lot of evidence.
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They leaked. A lot of stuff got wet.
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Contaminated.
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Yes. Some of them got destroyed.
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The file was very light. Duplicates of the same paperwork
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over and over and over again. It was a mess.
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Although the original investigators have said they did their best,
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Jennifer's laptop computer and clothing, a shirt, bra, and jeans
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that might have been hers, were booked into evidence, but
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somehow mysteriously disappeared.
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It's just been mishandled.
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Why would it be mishandled?
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I honestly don't know.
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The only thing I can gather out of it is
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lack of experience, lack of training.
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It was Mother's Day, 2002. Jennifer was visiting her friend,
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Christy Farr, in the early evening. It gets to be
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close to 8 o'clock, and Jennifer's like, I got to go?
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Correct.
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She never told Christy where she was going, but Jennifer
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Harris never returned home that night. The next day, Jennifer's
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Jeep was discovered. parked just down the road from a
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local music spot. While she was still missing, authorities reached
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out to the two men in her life.
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I know I'm not guilty of anything.
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Her former boyfriend and business partner, James Hamilton, and her ex-husband,
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Rob Holman.
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Well, how you doing?
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Pretty good.
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Both agreed to speak with investigators without a lawyer present.
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They had not been arrested, but both men were read
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their Miranda rights.
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So you have the right to make a silence.
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And both denied seeing Jennifer the night she disappeared. According
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to his police interview, Jennifer's former boyfriend, James Hamilton, was
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with a friend more than an hour away from Bonham
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at this McDonald's around the time investigators believed Jennifer disappeared.
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He even took and passed a lie detector test.
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He had an alibi for that evening. Alibi checked out.
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But ex-husband Rob Holman seemed concerned about his alibi.
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I'm just worried and scared because I know that I
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don't have anybody to say where I was at that night.
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Rob told investigators he had gone out that night to
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buy beer and visit friends. But when they weren't home,
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he drove around alone for five hours on the roads
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of rural Fanning County.
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Sunday when you went riding around? Mm-hmm.
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You saw it?
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I didn't see it.
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Or something. I saw a Jeep, but I didn't see,
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I don't know whose it was.
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But when the investigator pushes harder, it sounds like Rob
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is admitting he did see her Jeep that night.
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Where did you see her Jeep?
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By now, Jennifer had been missing for 72 hours. The
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search would continue for three more days.
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I was getting about three or four hours sleep a night.
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Spent the rest of my time searching, driving country roads,
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looking for buzzards.
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That's a hell of a thing for a father to
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have to do.
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That's what I did.
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Until they found her. Things seemed to go in slow motion.
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It was very surreal.
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Finding Jennifer's body six days after her disappearance devastated her father, Jerry.
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But it did little to clear up the mystery of
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what had happened to her. She was so badly decomposed,
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the medical examiner couldn't determine the cause of death. But
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Jennifer's family believes they know the answer. Her sister, Alyssa,
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and her filmmaker husband, Barry Wernick, are on a mission.
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to prove who killed Jennifer and why. In the time
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you've been looking into this, have you gone from, I
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want the facts to shape my opinion, to now having
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a sense of who killed Jennifer? Absolutely.
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To think about how beautiful she was and her red
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hair and just how.
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And to think about how she was found.
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That's what I just can't let go of until justice
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is done.
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There's a prom dress.
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There's that prom dress.
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Filmmaker Barry Wernick married Jennifer Harris' sister Alyssa eight years
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after Jennifer's murder.
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When Alyssa first told me about her sister's murder, the
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first thing that came to my mind was, who did it?
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Do you know who did it? All these things started
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going through my mind.
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Barry and Alyssa are determined to answer those questions by
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making a docuseries.
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Didn't transcribe that?
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Barry, an experienced filmmaker, was a consultant on this broadcast.
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I felt like I could use my filmmaking ability to
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do our own investigating. because it didn't seem like anyone
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was doing it.
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He is working hand-in-hand with Daryl Parker and another private eye,
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Jim Holloway, reexamining everything. We are in a place, this
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is central to your theory of what happened.
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Yes.
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The reason why Daryl Parker is so sure this is
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where Jennifer died is because of a clue that lies
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on the river's floor, a short way down this dirt road.
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She had some blue mud on the front of her,
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according to fishermen. There were only two spots on the
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river within several miles that that mud is on the bottom.
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And this is one of them.
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This is that blue marl mud that was on the body.
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Not far from the riverbank, there used to be a cottage.
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This is where the original, you know, caretaker cottage was.
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And it just so happened to burn down the night
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that Jennifer Harris disappeared. That is a piece of melted
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glass from the original fire.
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Parker suspects Jennifer left her friend Christy's house and met
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her killer here. He believes the cottage was burned to
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hide the evidence. No godly earth reason for that shack
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to burn.
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At the same night, Jennifer comes up missing.
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Parker hoped to find clues here.
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We came here with a crew and excavated the whole
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thing 15 feet that way to another 10 feet that
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way on either side of this foundation.
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I see a well.
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We drained the well. And then we dug down in
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the muck, probably a foot or two, and we didn't
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come up with anything.
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But years of coming up empty hasn't deterred Daryl Parker
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or Barry and Alyssa Wernick. And it hasn't shaken their
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conviction of who killed Jennifer.
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When I think about Jennifer, I think about Jennifer and Rob.
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Rob and Jennifer were together for as long as anyone
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can remember. She was a sixth grader when she began
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dating Rob, a fifth grader. By high school, the teenagers
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were practically inseparable, says Jennifer's cousin, Susan Bowen.
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He was just part of our family from the time
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we were growing up. Jennifer was just in love with him.
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She just adored everything about him.
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Jennifer had big dreams, bigger than could take flight in
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small-town Bonham.
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Jennifer had potential to explore greater horizons than just Fannin County, Texas.
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She moved three hours away to go to college. A
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few years later, Rob followed her there, and the couple
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married in 1996.
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It was gorgeous.
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It was meticulously planned at a very beautiful mansion out
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in the country.
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One year after the wedding, Jennifer's mother died of cancer.
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You could tell she had learned a lot.
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In the few years that we lost our mother, she
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became an adult that was very open-minded.
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In 1999, the couple bought a house in suburban Dallas,
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but there was friction brewing.
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I think that my sister was growing and evolving and
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moving forward in her life, and Rob was stuck.
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And he just wasn't going to change.
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According to Jennifer's family, Rob, who was working in landscaping,
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preferred the slower pace of rural Bonham while she enjoyed
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living near a big city. Jennifer embraced a holistic lifestyle
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and enrolled in massage therapy school.
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She transformed in front of my eyes.
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She said that she had met someone who was like-minded
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and who wanted to change. start a business that was
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a massage and wellness center.
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That someone was James Hamilton, someone she'd met in that
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massage therapy school.
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He was different, but.
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In what way?
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Well, he was new age and.
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Touchy-feely? A little bit. Their relationship was complicated. James was
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living with the mother of his child and had another
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on the way. Jennifer was still married to Rob.
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I told her that it was not a good idea.
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And what did she say?
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She didn't tell me a lot after that. She knew
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where I stood.
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I went up there to see what was going on
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in their lives.
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When Jennifer's father got there, he was shocked to see
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holes in the wall. While no one knows for sure
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how they got there, Jerry seemed certain Rob was responsible.
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He took his fist and knocked five holes in the
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living room wall about as big as a softball.
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Jerry remembers the holes in the wall. Alyssa remembers something worse.
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My sister called me one night and was shaking in
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her voice.
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She says Jennifer told her Rob came home drunk and
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forced himself on her. Jennifer never reported the alleged attack,
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But Rob would later tell police after her disappearance that
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Jennifer was the violent one in the relationship. Rob moved
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back to Bonham, and Jennifer's new love interest, James Hamilton,
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moved in with her. They became partners in a massage
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therapy business in suburban Dallas. but Jennifer's infatuation with James
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quickly faded.
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Well, James wanted to marry her, and she refused to
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marry him, and he was very upset about that.
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The private investigators say Jennifer's relationship with Hamilton was rocky.
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Real fiery, just fussing and fighting at each other all
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the time.
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By the spring of 2002, your sister is leading one
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complicated life emotionally.
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Mm-hmm.
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Jennifer had divorced Rob, and her relationship with James was
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on the skids. To add to the chaos, the massage
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business had failed, and Jennifer was forced to file for bankruptcy.
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I think that everything was catching up to her, and
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she never really grieved my mom's death.
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And I think she was exhausted.
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She said, I'm not happy. I don't care about the
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business anymore.
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With no job or income, Jennifer confided in cousin Susan
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that she'd been back in touch with her former husband,
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Rob Holman, who now had a new girlfriend.
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And she said, I still love him. And she said,
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I want him back. And she said, I even told
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him that.
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In fact, Rob later admitted to police that even though
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he had a girlfriend, he and Jennifer were still having sex.
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So Jennifer was living a little bit of a spellbender life.
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To a certain extent, but James didn't know it. He
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knew nothing about it all.
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Then one day, Susan saw Jennifer outside her apartment with
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a moving truck.
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I said, what are you doing? And she said, I'm
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moving to Bonham. I thought, you're only going to Bonham
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because Rob's in Bonham. Okay, and with that, I turned
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around and left, and that was the last time I
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ever saw her.
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About six weeks later, Jennifer disappeared. On the very day
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she went missing, she called Rob. Rob says she asked
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to see him, but he refused. Rob agreed to take
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a polygraph to back up his story, but for some reason,
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It was never administered. Sheriff's investigators allowed him to go home.
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They had a lot more digging to do, and it
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centered around a secret Jennifer had shared with her best friend,
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Jill Wagner, just weeks before she died.
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You know, we started talking, and she was kind of like,
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you're not going to believe, you know, the mess I'm in.
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And she told me how, you know, that you're pretty
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much a guest.
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I was like, you're pregnant.
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If Jennifer was pregnant, who was the father? Was it
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Rob Holman or someone else? That question became even more
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important after the medical examiner's autopsy revealed a stunning piece
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of information.
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Her uterus was gone.
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When they examined Jennifer Harris's body, investigators were shocked.
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There was a wound that affected some of the internal organs.
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Her uterus was missing.
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Her death was classified as a, quote, violent homicide.
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Her uterus had somehow been removed.
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The question was, what damaged her?
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What would have the motive been?
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That she was possibly pregnant, and that the person who
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killed her was trying to destroy that evidence.
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In Bonham... Where gossip is often taken for gospel, people
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couldn't stop talking.
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The public grabbed a hold of that information and they
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started concocting their own theories as to who did it
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and why.
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But according to the case file, there was no scientific
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evidence to prove Jennifer was actually pregnant at the time
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of her death. Still, Jennifer's best friend Jill Wagner told
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investigators she had talked to Jennifer about being pregnant. And
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that's not all she said.
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You know, she told me that it was Rob's, and
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I was kind of shocked.
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Rob Holman, Jennifer's ex-husband. He had revealed to detectives in
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his police interview that he'd met Jennifer a month before
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she disappeared near a drive-in movie theater.
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She told me that she was pregnant.
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I definitely think that she brought it up with Rob,
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and in my mind, that's what led to her death.
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Daryl Parker had long been familiar with the story of
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Jennifer being pregnant. Eight years after her murder, Parker, then
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a lieutenant for the sheriff's department, dropped by Rob Holman's house.
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It was Sunday, Mother's Day, a calculated move by Parker.
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So it was the anniversary of the crime. I had
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picked out a number of photographs of her and Rob,
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one of those being Jennifer swimming in a muddy body
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of water. And when I gave him the stack of photographs,
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The very first one he picked out was that one
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with the muddy water. He stood there for about five
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or six seconds staring at that photograph.
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But that's the one that caught his attention.
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Like that.
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You know, I said, well, if you want to talk,
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call me. And I gave him my card and I left.
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A few hours later, to Parker's surprise, Holman called and
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wanted to talk. But Parker had wanted to record the interview.
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So he suggested they meet at the sheriff's office the
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next day.
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That's where I screwed up. I should have gone right
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then and there. I think he was ready to talk
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and say something, and I should have just done it.
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This really has you still. Why so emotional, Daryl? You're
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really blaming yourself here.
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Well, the previous investigation had failed in so many ways.
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But he was responding to me. He was responding to
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the pressure I was putting on him. And I let
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it slip away.
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When Holman arrived for the interview with Parker, he had
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a lawyer.
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Did you have.
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Anything to do with the death of Jennifer Harris?
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No.
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Jennifer's pregnancy. Did you believe she was pregnant?
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No.
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I didn't think she was. Did you think that she
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believed she was pregnant?
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No.
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Remember, there was no evidence Jennifer was pregnant. And in fact,
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forensic experts in Dallas would later conclude Jennifer's missing uterus
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wasn't even cut out by the killer. Instead, her uterus
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and other body parts were destroyed by turtles and fish
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in the river. But the rumors persisted, and they had
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plenty of company in Bonham. A year after Jennifer's murder,
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this man found himself In the center of the storm.
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They were saying that I had been arrested for this murder.
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I mean, you hear this, and what's your reaction?
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What are you talking about? Where did this come from?
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That's crazy.
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Crazy, because Miles Porter was also the district attorney at
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the time, overseeing the case. For the record, did you
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know Jennifer Harris?
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No.
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Had you ever met Jennifer Harris?
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No.
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Did you kill Jennifer Harris?
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Absolutely not.
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Porter says locals cooked up the story because they had
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a grudge against him over an unrelated case he tried.
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Did this cost you your job?
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Yeah, no doubt.
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Miles Porter blames losing his re-election on the Jennifer Harris gossip.
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Now in private practice, Porter still lives with the fallout
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from the unfounded allegations.
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I've had, on a number of occasions, random people throughout
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the county say, I can't be fair in this case because...
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You're with the lawyer, and I think you killed Jennifer Harris. Crazy.
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14, 15 years later?
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Absolutely.
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Still happens.
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In the court of public opinion, he was definitely a suspect.
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Meanwhile, there's no shred of evidence that he was connected
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at all. None. Darrell Parker thinks he knows who's responsible.
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Not Miles Porter, not James Hamilton, not a random stranger.
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In my view, the evidence points directly at Rob Holman.
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Filmmaker Barry Wernick agrees.
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We were going to let the facts take us where
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the facts took us. And where it brought us was
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to one person that it had to be.
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But they haven't been able to physically connect Rob Holman
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to Jennifer Harris the night of her disappearance. They're both
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hoping this woman can.
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We need that eyewitness.
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And in your view, Rhonda Fitzwater is that eyewitness? Yes.
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Yes.
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On this rural road in Fannin County, Texas, Rhonda Fitzwater
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could hold the key to Daryl Parker and Barry Wernick's
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theory that Rob Holman met up with Jennifer Harris that night.
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So what do you make of this idea that somehow
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you saw Jennifer Harris and Rob Holman?
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I've not ever heard that until you told me that.
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Rhonda has always insisted that all she saw that night
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was Jennifer's parked Jeep. Did you see anybody following the Jeep?
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No.
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It was already parked. Did you see Jennifer Harris?
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No, not at all.
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But for years, Parker and Wernick have believed there is
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more to Rhonda Fitzwater's story. Only she says they are
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sorely mistaken. After 15 years of investigation by people closely
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connected to Bonham, maybe the best thing anyone can hope
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for is a fresh set of eyes.
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I'm flying out to Dallas, Texas. My job is really
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to look at the facts of the case, study the case.
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Could the questions about a murder in Bonham be answered
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by someone 1,700 miles away in Boston? Meet Joe Mora,
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a private investigator and CBS News consultant. Jennifer's been dead
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15 years by the time you look at it, the file.
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Absolutely, yeah.
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What'd you make of that collection of.
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papers.
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I thought the file was very weak, meaning that the
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investigation that went into it was extremely weak.
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48 hours brought Moore to Texas to take a closer
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look at the Jennifer Harris case.
514
00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:21.599
You've got to speak to people, and that's what I've done.
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00:29:24.940 --> 00:29:26.019
So you got a little time for me?
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00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:26.980
I do. Come on back.
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His first stop, Fannin County Sheriff Mark Johnson.
518
00:29:31.859 --> 00:29:33.859
I can see your frustration where, you know, you're in
519
00:29:33.900 --> 00:29:36.680
the job for one One year, you've got the public,
520
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:39.130
and sure, the family still wants to know what happened
521
00:29:39.150 --> 00:29:39.690
to their daughter.
522
00:29:40.190 --> 00:29:43.099
There's no physical evidence. That's the problem.
523
00:29:44.059 --> 00:29:47.720
In fact, today the sheriff won't call either Rob Holman
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00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.500
or James Hamilton suspects, even though detectives did early in
525
00:29:52.539 --> 00:29:56.130
the investigations. in these documents. How come you can't call
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00:29:56.150 --> 00:29:56.829
them suspects?
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00:29:57.150 --> 00:29:59.789
You have things that lead up to them, that draw
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00:29:59.930 --> 00:30:01.890
your interest to them, that make them a person of interest,
529
00:30:01.950 --> 00:30:05.250
but you don't have that connection to make them a suspect,
530
00:30:05.369 --> 00:30:07.789
where you can tie some physical evidence into them.
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00:30:08.529 --> 00:30:11.670
Filmmaker Barry Wernick took Maura to the location of the
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cottage privatized Parker and Holloway had come to believe was
533
00:30:15.890 --> 00:30:18.750
burned to hide the evidence of Jennifer's murder.
534
00:30:19.289 --> 00:30:21.589
This is the shed that burned down that night.
535
00:30:21.609 --> 00:30:21.730
Yeah.
536
00:30:22.339 --> 00:30:24.859
The stuffed gem with a burning shed. There's all kinds
537
00:30:24.900 --> 00:30:28.519
of theories about that. Now, you just murdered somebody, but
538
00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:31.549
about 200 yards away from where you're disposing the body
539
00:30:31.569 --> 00:30:33.970
in the river, let's light up this shed and fire,
540
00:30:33.990 --> 00:30:34.950
attract people.
541
00:30:35.470 --> 00:30:36.220
Makes no sense to you.
542
00:30:36.269 --> 00:30:38.849
Absolutely not. It certainly can't tie to this case, but
543
00:30:38.890 --> 00:30:40.450
people are trying to make it to tie in.
544
00:30:41.950 --> 00:30:44.579
Wernick also brought him to the bank of the Red River,
545
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.220
where he believes his sister-in-law's body was dumped.
546
00:30:48.619 --> 00:30:51.740
There's nothing on the records of this case or any
547
00:30:52.059 --> 00:30:54.460
eyewitnesses that will tell you that this is where her
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00:30:54.500 --> 00:30:55.400
body was disposed.
549
00:30:55.420 --> 00:30:56.329
Right.
550
00:30:56.940 --> 00:30:58.789
So we're just here basically guessing.
551
00:31:01.069 --> 00:31:03.569
Mora sat down with the private eyes who had been
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00:31:03.670 --> 00:31:06.609
working the case for nearly a decade.
553
00:31:06.950 --> 00:31:09.970
To me, I think it boils down to who had
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00:31:09.990 --> 00:31:13.119
the most to lose by killing her or not killing her.
555
00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:15.059
18 years of child support?
556
00:31:15.380 --> 00:31:15.700
Maybe.
557
00:31:16.660 --> 00:31:17.059
Maybe not.
558
00:31:17.569 --> 00:31:20.339
She told me that she was pregnant.
559
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:22.400
Well, I don't think that we need to speculate about
560
00:31:22.619 --> 00:31:26.339
Rob Holman's motive because he made it clear that she
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00:31:26.380 --> 00:31:27.480
was applying pressure to him.
562
00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:32.779
And there could be no more intense pressure than I'm
563
00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:35.200
about to have a baby and you're the father.
564
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:40.210
That's right. You have to consider it. However, he disbelieves her.
565
00:31:41.069 --> 00:31:43.200
And he admits that in the interviews. Yeah, she said it,
566
00:31:43.210 --> 00:31:45.109
but I don't believe it. I don't think she is pregnant.
567
00:31:45.150 --> 00:31:46.190
Did you believe she was pregnant?
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00:31:46.569 --> 00:31:46.670
No.
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I didn't think she was.
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00:31:49.049 --> 00:31:52.670
For his part, Morrow was surprised authorities seemed to quickly
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00:31:52.750 --> 00:31:57.390
disregard James Hamilton, the ex-boyfriend who wanted to marry Jennifer
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00:31:57.950 --> 00:32:00.400
before she left him when their business failed.
573
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:03.759
She covered all the finances for the business. She's the
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00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:04.980
one that put her name on the loans.
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00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:09.920
Jennifer's father, Jerry, made notes that two months after Jennifer's death,
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Hamilton called him asking about her life insurance policy.
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00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:19.829
And in my experience, money... insurances, all that stuff is
578
00:32:19.890 --> 00:32:22.769
a big deal. Money creates a lot of motive for
579
00:32:22.789 --> 00:32:23.349
a lot of people.
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00:32:24.150 --> 00:32:29.000
What's more, he believes investigators bought Hamilton's alibi that he
581
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was with a friend at that McDonald's more than 50
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00:32:31.819 --> 00:32:34.759
miles away. without thoroughly vetting it.
583
00:32:34.970 --> 00:32:37.029
And I'm not so thrilled about the checking they did
584
00:32:37.069 --> 00:32:39.829
on that alibi. The one thing is you go check
585
00:32:39.869 --> 00:32:42.619
with the alibis, and the next thing you look at,
586
00:32:42.950 --> 00:32:44.740
are these alibis lying to me? So you got to
587
00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:47.160
go check that out. That was never done. Why?
588
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.099
To Joe Mora, the investigation was flawed from the outset
589
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.220
and had authorities approached it differently, they may have gotten
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00:32:55.299 --> 00:32:56.440
more from their interviews.
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00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:00.769
Here's what bothers me about this situation. It's a missing person.
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00:33:01.940 --> 00:33:04.240
They're calling people and talking to people about a missing person,
593
00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:05.819
and the first thing they do is they read you
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00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:11.259
a Miranda warning. Now, that is unheard of.
595
00:33:11.319 --> 00:33:14.500
You're saying that, sure, Rob said, I don't have an alibi,
596
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:15.599
and that might be incriminating.
597
00:33:15.619 --> 00:33:18.160
That was after he already signed the Miranda warning. So
598
00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:21.500
he's already nervous, and he's already saying, oh, I'm being charged. God,
599
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.329
I don't have an alibi. Of course he was nervous.
600
00:33:24.329 --> 00:33:25.410
Most people would be.
601
00:33:25.710 --> 00:33:27.789
But at the end of the day, the men who've
602
00:33:27.809 --> 00:33:31.549
been working this case for years see it very differently.
603
00:33:32.019 --> 00:33:33.960
than the man with the fresh set of eyes.
604
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.880
Circumstantially, there is a lot of evidence in the case.
605
00:33:38.349 --> 00:33:39.380
It is all circumstantial.
606
00:33:39.609 --> 00:33:41.589
But Daryl, I think me and you are a little
607
00:33:41.630 --> 00:33:45.130
confused in reference to circumstantial. I'm saying to you, and
608
00:33:45.150 --> 00:33:48.329
I submit to you, that there's very little circumstantial.
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00:33:47.829 --> 00:33:49.049
Evidence, okay?
610
00:33:49.430 --> 00:33:50.730
We'll have to agree to disagree.
611
00:33:51.069 --> 00:33:53.430
Well, because I'm asking you to give me the facts
612
00:33:53.509 --> 00:33:56.329
on what your circumstantial evidence is, and it's based on theory.
613
00:33:56.490 --> 00:33:57.390
Theory ain't going to cut it.
614
00:33:57.849 --> 00:34:02.309
Like Daryl Parker's theory about Rhonda Fitzwater knowing more.
615
00:34:04.299 --> 00:34:07.319
Everybody's putting all the weight on this woman, and she
616
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:09.719
has nothing to offer to the case. Only that, yeah,
617
00:34:10.099 --> 00:34:12.019
that Jeep was there. Well, we know the Jeep was there.
618
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:15.559
But what Joe Mora does find interesting in the case
619
00:34:15.619 --> 00:34:18.820
file is one of the least examined parts of the story.
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00:34:20.909 --> 00:34:25.530
One year after Jennifer's murder, this woman, Deborah Lambert, who
621
00:34:25.570 --> 00:34:29.289
had seen a news report about the unsolved case, told
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00:34:29.329 --> 00:34:33.179
detectives she saw something when she was driving across the
623
00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:35.500
Red River Bridge on Mother's Day.
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00:34:35.699 --> 00:34:39.780
There was three guys out there and a girl. Two
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00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:43.599
guys had the girl by her elbows, and it was
626
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:46.280
like she was trying to get away from him, and
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they were restraining her.
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00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:51.800
The girl she says she saw... had reddish-brown hair.
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I made eye contact with her, and she was scared, terrified,
630
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:01.039
look on her face. My mom seen her, too, and
631
00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:03.380
she said, that girl's supposed to get raped and killed.
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00:35:04.889 --> 00:35:08.670
But Lambert never called police back then. She said she
633
00:35:08.730 --> 00:35:13.150
was too afraid to get involved. What's more, her story
634
00:35:13.210 --> 00:35:17.530
didn't fit with the investigator's timeline. She put Jennifer near
635
00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:22.050
the bridge at 5 o'clock p.m. But detectives believe Jennifer
636
00:35:22.090 --> 00:35:26.699
left her friend Christy's house around 8 p.m. Deborah Lambert
637
00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:30.579
saying what she saw, she saw at 5 o'clock, that's
638
00:35:30.619 --> 00:35:31.719
not a deal-breaker for you?
639
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:35.769
Absolutely not. In the real world, people are not looking
640
00:35:35.809 --> 00:35:37.929
at their watches and clocks all the time. She may
641
00:35:37.969 --> 00:35:40.250
be wrong on her time and not wrong on what
642
00:35:40.269 --> 00:35:40.869
she witnessed.
643
00:35:42.349 --> 00:35:46.900
Could Deborah Lambert hold the answer to who killed Jennifer Harris?
644
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:03.179
A year and a half after Jennifer's murder, the Texas
645
00:36:03.260 --> 00:36:08.739
Rangers launched their own investigation into the case. They re-interviewed
646
00:36:09.179 --> 00:36:10.059
Deborah Lambert.
647
00:36:10.900 --> 00:36:14.559
And the story was the same. She was very detailed. Redhead.
648
00:36:15.179 --> 00:36:18.699
Three guys. Two were wearing jeans. One was wearing shorts.
649
00:36:19.579 --> 00:36:21.880
Lambert was asked to look at a photo lineup to
650
00:36:21.940 --> 00:36:24.659
see if she recognized any of the men the woman
651
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:28.860
was with. She did. She was very clear that one
652
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:32.070
of the men she saw was Rob Holman.
653
00:36:33.969 --> 00:36:37.969
Maybe Mrs. Lambert is believable. Now the situation is, I
654
00:36:38.010 --> 00:36:41.829
worry about how was that lineup done? How many photographs
655
00:36:41.849 --> 00:36:43.909
do they show? In other words, do they have a
656
00:36:44.250 --> 00:36:48.949
good old boy, Texan boy there with his baseball cap on?
657
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:53.039
And then they had three Mexican photos next to him. Okay?
658
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:54.539
Those are the things I worry about.
659
00:36:54.820 --> 00:36:58.360
The way that the lineup was conducted, we don't know
660
00:36:58.409 --> 00:36:58.989
anything about.
661
00:36:59.170 --> 00:37:00.610
No, and that's crucial.
662
00:37:00.949 --> 00:37:04.250
But Mora can't be confident because there are no details
663
00:37:04.289 --> 00:37:08.409
in the case file about how the lineup was done. Still,
664
00:37:09.070 --> 00:37:14.239
Mora considers Deborah Lambert a missed opportunity to potentially solve
665
00:37:14.300 --> 00:37:15.179
Jennifer's murder.
666
00:37:15.860 --> 00:37:19.869
There's an open lead there that I feel was enclosed. Therefore,
667
00:37:19.969 --> 00:37:23.989
until that lead is closed, it's problematic to say, I'm
668
00:37:24.030 --> 00:37:26.949
gonna disregard what this woman saw and I'm still gonna
669
00:37:26.989 --> 00:37:29.010
focus on Rob and James.
670
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:32.599
Rob Holman, on the advice of his attorney back then,
671
00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:36.599
declined to speak with the Texas Rangers. After working the
672
00:37:36.659 --> 00:37:41.239
case for a year, they suspended their investigation. We wanted
673
00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:44.679
to know why, but they wouldn't comment on an unsolved case.
674
00:37:45.739 --> 00:37:50.119
The conclusion to their report No physical evidence, specific cause
675
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:55.460
of death, or credible witnesses link any particular person as
676
00:37:55.519 --> 00:38:00.989
a suspect. No one can actually follow up with Deborah Lambert.
677
00:38:02.070 --> 00:38:05.690
She and her mother have both passed away. But Alyssa
678
00:38:05.750 --> 00:38:09.230
and Barry Wernick now cling to Lambert's story.
679
00:38:09.590 --> 00:38:11.719
In my mind, I always just believed that she got
680
00:38:11.739 --> 00:38:14.079
in the truck with Rob, and it was just the
681
00:38:14.099 --> 00:38:14.719
two of them.
682
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:18.869
This changes everything. there are other people that know. There
683
00:38:18.889 --> 00:38:20.769
are other people that could possibly speak up.
684
00:38:21.429 --> 00:38:25.960
Now, knowing that there were two other people involved, oh, yeah,
685
00:38:26.099 --> 00:38:26.800
there's renewed hope.
686
00:38:27.420 --> 00:38:30.880
The problem here, I suppose, is that Deborah Lambert's dead.
687
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:34.409
She's dead, but her interview isn't.
688
00:38:34.550 --> 00:38:35.130
She's alive.
689
00:38:35.170 --> 00:38:36.349
You can see what she said.
690
00:38:40.989 --> 00:38:44.619
Neither James Hamilton nor Rob Holman have ever been arrested
691
00:38:44.739 --> 00:38:50.489
or charged with any crime related to Jennifer's murder. During
692
00:38:50.530 --> 00:38:53.449
our reporting of this case, we made several attempts to
693
00:38:53.510 --> 00:38:57.369
contact both men. James, if this is your number, I'm
694
00:38:57.449 --> 00:39:00.130
calling to follow up on a letter I sent you recently.
695
00:39:00.750 --> 00:39:01.840
We got no response.
696
00:39:03.380 --> 00:39:04.000
This is Rob.
697
00:39:04.019 --> 00:39:05.559
I can't take your call right now.
698
00:39:05.619 --> 00:39:07.719
We sent you a letter a couple of weeks ago.
699
00:39:08.099 --> 00:39:10.300
So on one of our trips to Texas, we went
700
00:39:10.380 --> 00:39:13.869
to Rob Holman's home. How are you?
701
00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:15.360
Mr. Holman?
702
00:39:15.969 --> 00:39:17.570
Jim Axelrod with CBS News.
703
00:39:18.389 --> 00:39:20.090
Will you talk to me if I turn that camera off?
704
00:39:21.769 --> 00:39:24.969
Holman told us off camera he never saw Jennifer that night,
705
00:39:25.530 --> 00:39:28.150
and he's been advised by his attorney not to talk
706
00:39:28.250 --> 00:39:32.329
to anyone. His attorney provided this statement to 48 Hours.
707
00:39:32.809 --> 00:39:36.320
Robert Holman has neither been arrested nor charged with any
708
00:39:36.389 --> 00:39:41.699
criminal conduct as it relates to this investigation. This notwithstanding, Mr.
709
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:45.619
Holman has, from the inception of the investigation, been treated
710
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:47.739
by law enforcement as a suspect.
711
00:39:48.489 --> 00:39:48.730
Mr.
712
00:39:48.769 --> 00:39:51.949
Holman has maintained his innocence from the very beginning, and
713
00:39:52.030 --> 00:40:02.320
his position has not wavered. With no resolution in sight,
714
00:40:02.780 --> 00:40:07.119
filmmaker Barry Wernick has a new plan. Barry wants to
715
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:12.940
raise $ 50, 000 under the theory that reward money could shake
716
00:40:13.059 --> 00:40:13.780
someone loose.
717
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:17.860
No shot. You can't put money out there in thinking
718
00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:20.119
that that's going to create evidence for you.
719
00:40:20.659 --> 00:40:23.179
Joe Mora said as much to the sheriff.
720
00:40:23.820 --> 00:40:26.480
This isn't a cold case. This is a frozen case.
721
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:27.019
It's done.
722
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:27.639
It's over.
723
00:40:28.380 --> 00:40:32.639
If you have a prosecutor whose worth is weight, he
724
00:40:32.659 --> 00:40:35.610
would never bring this case to trial. He has absolutely
725
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.469
nothing on this case.
726
00:40:38.730 --> 00:40:41.400
But Sheriff Mark Johnson is not giving up.
727
00:40:42.030 --> 00:40:44.699
I want to solve the case. I want it solved,
728
00:40:44.780 --> 00:40:45.780
and I want it done right.
729
00:40:46.460 --> 00:40:49.000
Neither is private eye Darrell Parker.
730
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:51.800
When Mr. Harris came to the sheriff's office and he
731
00:40:51.860 --> 00:40:54.960
got me involved, I told him that I would get results,
732
00:40:55.940 --> 00:41:00.000
and I can't put it down. Until I'm sure that
733
00:41:00.059 --> 00:41:03.320
either the person is held accountable or I can't do
734
00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:05.119
anything more, I have.
735
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:07.610
To carry it. And if it takes another 15 years?
736
00:41:07.909 --> 00:41:08.659
If it takes another 15 years.
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00:41:10.449 --> 00:41:12.989
The sadness is we all have kids, we all have
738
00:41:13.070 --> 00:41:17.170
family members, and I have a daughter. It's devastating to
739
00:41:17.190 --> 00:41:17.590
not know.
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00:41:21.349 --> 00:41:22.650
I don't know how she was killed.
741
00:41:22.730 --> 00:41:23.429
I wish I did.
742
00:41:23.489 --> 00:41:24.289
I want closure.
743
00:41:24.309 --> 00:41:30.519
I'm going to do everything I can to bring justice
744
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:31.179
for Jennifer.
745
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:37.400
For my dad, he needs to see some justice done.
746
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:42.880
To have walked in my shoes for the last 15
747
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:46.980
and a half years hadn't been easy. We miss her
748
00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:52.889
every day. We miss Jennifer not being here. I still
749
00:41:52.929 --> 00:41:55.309
have high hopes that justice will prevail.
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Thank you.
