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True Crime Documentary - Betrayal at Sunrise The Calculated Plot to Kill Jamie Faith · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: All they wo at five o'clock.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Dallas police say that they are very concerned about the
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: city's murder numbers homicides. To say it was a shocking
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: murderer would be an understatement. Broad daylight. Seven shots, one
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: person killed.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: We see murders all day.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: This one looked different of violent killing in Northolk Cliff
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: involving an American airlines manager, Jennifer and their husband Jamie,
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: were walking their dog seven point thirty in the morning.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: At that time, someone approached from behind and simply started
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: shooting Jamie. Faith was shot seven times.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Did they found one after another?
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: Wampam.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: I knew it was a gunshot. Yeah, you can mail
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: in the air the gunpowder.
• 0:54
  Speaker 4: They don't bother all over.
• 0:56
  Speaker 5: We got a phone call from our mutual friend. Started
• 1:00
  Speaker 5: the conversation with Jamie's gone, and I'm like.
• 1:03
  Speaker 6: What do you mean Jamie's gone? And he like, he's dead.
• 1:07
  Speaker 6: What are you talking about? So I started right away
• 1:10
  Speaker 6: digging and try and figure out. Give me details, give
• 1:14
  Speaker 6: me scenario. What happened.
• 1:16
  Speaker 7: Three times to the head, three times to the chest,
• 1:18
  Speaker 7: and once to the coin and then turns to the wife,
• 1:22
  Speaker 7: knocks her down, takes the time to pull out duct
• 1:25
  Speaker 7: tape and wrap her wrists.
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: Jennifer says that duct tape is used to wrap around
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: her hands to actually grab her and take her rings.
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: I went to that house Monday morning. I briefly spoke
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: with Jennifer Faith. I asked her, can you tell me
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: what happened? She said, it was awful.
• 1:47
  Speaker 5: Here's a guy from small town Mgwanago, Wisconsin, seven point
• 1:52
  Speaker 5: thirty in the morning, residential area.
• 1:56
  Speaker 8: A theft.
• 1:57
  Speaker 6: Something's not right.
• 1:58
  Speaker 8: Somebody would have committed a murder to get a ring
• 2:01
  Speaker 8: that may be worth three thousand, two thousand dollars. Does
• 2:05
  Speaker 8: that make sense right?
• 2:06
  Speaker 9: This isn't Kim Kardashian downtown Paris coming out of a
• 2:10
  Speaker 9: hotel for a photo shoot with a five million dollar watch.
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: A stranger police believe may have killed the American Airlines
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: technology director on that Friday morning.
• 2:21
  Speaker 5: The one thing that entered our mind was because it
• 2:24
  Speaker 5: was during the pandemic, we thought maybe it was a
• 2:26
  Speaker 5: disgruntled employee that he had just laid off.
• 2:29
  Speaker 7: The first time I found out about this case, I
• 2:31
  Speaker 7: heard it on the news, and as soon as I
• 2:33
  Speaker 7: saw it, I thought, that's a hit.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: A hit as in like a professional, a professional hit.
• 2:38
  Speaker 7: Because It didn't make any sense. I've been tracticing criminal
• 2:41
  Speaker 7: law for almost thirty years, and none of it made sense.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Who would want him dead?
• 2:48
  Speaker 10: Nobody.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: I hear the woman screaming for her life. That's terrible.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a movie. So I hurry up and
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: call the police, saying hurry and time. I think he
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: never just got shot.
• 3:50
  Speaker 8: It was October ninth, twenty twenty, and residents of Oak
• 3:54
  Speaker 8: Cliff were still absorbing the shocking murder of Jamie Faith.
• 4:01
  Speaker 8: Dallas police detectives began going house to house.
• 4:04
  Speaker 9: Detectives need any and all information that might be related.
• 4:07
  Speaker 5: To the case.
• 4:08
  Speaker 8: Jamie's own front door security camera captured this haunting photo
• 4:13
  Speaker 8: as he left his house with Jennifer and their dog, Maggie.
• 4:17
  Speaker 8: It was taken seconds before Jamie was shot to death.
• 4:21
  Speaker 8: As heard on this audio. Other cameras captured images of
• 4:29
  Speaker 8: the killer's getaway truck leaving the scene, a black Nissan
• 4:34
  Speaker 8: Titan pickup truck, and it had something unique on its
• 4:37
  Speaker 8: back window.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: What was that?
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: Police initially told us about the tee on the back window.
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: Here in Dallas, if you see a tee on the
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: back window, it's for the baseball team.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: The Texas Rangers.
• 4:50
  Speaker 8: Steve Pickett, a reporter for CBS eleven in Dallas Fort Worth,
• 4:55
  Speaker 8: noted that the cameras did not pick up the truck's
• 4:57
  Speaker 8: license plate.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: And so the begins to find this truck. Right, that's right?
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, who is driving a black Nissan Titan with that
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: t emblem on the back window.
• 5:11
  Speaker 8: For those who knew Jamie Faith, the big question was
• 5:14
  Speaker 8: not only who had committed the murder, but why. Jamie,
• 5:21
  Speaker 8: by all accounts, was a fun loving guy.
• 5:25
  Speaker 4: Jamie was the sweetest person, and I said something not right,
• 5:30
  Speaker 4: Something wasn't right.
• 5:33
  Speaker 8: Shamona Jackson and her wife, Melissa Gonzalez, who lost her
• 5:37
  Speaker 8: hair due to cancer treatments, live next door to Jamie
• 5:41
  Speaker 8: and Jennifer for years, but moved when the pandemic hit
• 5:46
  Speaker 8: they needed more space for their seven adopted children.
• 5:50
  Speaker 4: The first time I met him, we all introduced ourselves
• 5:53
  Speaker 4: and they were like, do I have kids?
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  Speaker 10: And I was like, yeah, we have a lot of kids.
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  Speaker 8: Is it true that the Faith House was a really
• 5:59
  Speaker 8: fun for your kids to go?
• 6:01
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 6:03
  Speaker 8: Jennifer Faith instantly bonded with Shimona, Melissa, and their adopted children,
• 6:08
  Speaker 8: at least in part because she was also adopted the
• 6:12
  Speaker 8: Faith welcomed them like family, inviting them to swim anytime
• 6:19
  Speaker 8: they liked in the Faith's backyard pool.
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, they love to go swimming there. Sometimes they'd spend
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: the night over. She would just leave us the code
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: and we'd come in through the back gate and swim.
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: Give me a sense of what Jennifer Faith was like.
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: She's actually pretty fun.
• 6:36
  Speaker 10: I've never seen her get mad.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: Would you describe them as a loving couple.
• 6:43
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 6:45
  Speaker 8: On the morning of the murder, a cousin of Melissa's
• 6:47
  Speaker 8: called her with the dreadful news. They rushed to the
• 6:51
  Speaker 8: Faith home. Jamie's lifeless body was still on the street
• 6:56
  Speaker 8: right away.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's the gunshot to the head, but he
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: was laying there, just in the street, no covering, no nothing.
• 7:07
  Speaker 10: It was a heartbreaking.
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: Did you hear somebody tell you that someone's passpect To
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: see him there lifeless after we had just seen them in.
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  Speaker 10: It was hard to believe.
• 7:26
  Speaker 8: Two states away in Arizona, Teresa and Ross Jensen, who
• 7:30
  Speaker 8: had known Jamie for years, were floored by the news.
• 7:35
  Speaker 6: And the two of us just stared at each other
• 7:36
  Speaker 6: for a little while.
• 7:38
  Speaker 8: What Teresa Jensen and Jamie Faith hail from the village
• 7:44
  Speaker 8: of Mcwonago, Wisconsin, and were classmates through high school and college.
• 7:49
  Speaker 8: He later introduced Teresa to her husband, Ross, a close
• 7:53
  Speaker 8: college friend.
• 7:55
  Speaker 6: Sixteen years later.
• 7:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, never said Jamie literally changed we.
• 8:00
  Speaker 6: We never what I met.
• 8:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Jamie may have been a successful matchmaker, but he
• 8:06
  Speaker 8: insisted that serious relationships were not for him.
• 8:10
  Speaker 5: He considered himself a confirmed bachelor. For as long as
• 8:14
  Speaker 5: we knew him. He said, I'm never getting married, never
• 8:16
  Speaker 5: getting married, never having kids. I don't want a part
• 8:20
  Speaker 5: of it.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: But that changed in two thousand and.
• 8:23
  Speaker 5: Five, and then he met Jennifer.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: The attraction was instant.
• 8:30
  Speaker 6: In terms of the commitment and the relationship, and that
• 8:33
  Speaker 6: was there. That was there right off the bat. There
• 8:36
  Speaker 6: were two peas in a.
• 8:37
  Speaker 8: Pod, and that notion about not wanting children. Jamie bonded
• 8:41
  Speaker 8: with Jennifer's then eight year old daughter, Amber from her
• 8:45
  Speaker 8: first marriage.
• 8:46
  Speaker 6: And I remember thinking to myself, it's interesting for a
• 8:49
  Speaker 6: guy that didn't want kids, how he stepped right in
• 8:52
  Speaker 6: there and he would go to the dance recitals and
• 8:55
  Speaker 6: super supportive.
• 8:58
  Speaker 8: The two got married in Las Vegas in twenty twelve,
• 9:01
  Speaker 8: and when Amber turned eighteen, Jamie legally adopted her. He
• 9:09
  Speaker 8: was working for American Airlines in Arizona, and Jennifer worked
• 9:13
  Speaker 8: in healthcare administration.
• 9:15
  Speaker 5: I believe all of our friends and mutual friends were
• 9:20
  Speaker 5: very accepting of her.
• 9:22
  Speaker 8: Jamie, Jennifer and Amber continued living in Arizona until twenty seventeen,
• 9:28
  Speaker 8: when Jamie got a promotion and they moved to Dallas.
• 9:31
  Speaker 6: He seemed very happy, yep, said she. They got along great.
• 9:36
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's all you want for your friends, you know,
• 9:38
  Speaker 6: be happy.
• 9:39
  Speaker 8: But the good times ended in gunfire that October morning.
• 9:44
  Speaker 8: It was the day after the couple celebrated the fifteenth
• 9:47
  Speaker 8: anniversary of their first date. In later news reports, Jennifer
• 9:53
  Speaker 8: said she was having a hard time coping with Jamie's murder.
• 9:57
  Speaker 11: I'm not supposed to be widowed at forty eight, you know.
• 10:02
  Speaker 8: Jennifer told cops that the shooter was wearing a blue
• 10:05
  Speaker 8: mask and a blurry image was captured by that security
• 10:09
  Speaker 8: camera near the back of the faith house. But the
• 10:13
  Speaker 8: best lead was that black Nissan truck with a distinctive
• 10:17
  Speaker 8: white tea on the back window.
• 10:43
  Speaker 12: I have three dogs that I walked three four times
• 10:45
  Speaker 12: a day. What seemed like was a completely random act.
• 10:51
  Speaker 12: It could have been any of us.
• 10:53
  Speaker 8: Jennifer Steelen and Jenna Wilson lived in the same Oak
• 10:56
  Speaker 8: Cliff neighborhood where Jamie Faith was gunned down. A man
• 11:01
  Speaker 8: they could relate.
• 11:02
  Speaker 13: To learned that he was in it at a major airline.
• 11:06
  Speaker 13: My husband is in it at a major airline. They
• 11:09
  Speaker 13: were walking their dog a few blocks from us. I
• 11:11
  Speaker 13: was just going, oh, my gosh, because this could have
• 11:13
  Speaker 13: been us.
• 11:14
  Speaker 8: Though many neighbors didn't know the Faiths personally, they immediately
• 11:18
  Speaker 8: stepped up to support Jennifer and her daughter Amber.
• 11:21
  Speaker 12: We have a really amazing community in Oakluff.
• 11:25
  Speaker 8: The day after the murder, Jenna reached out to Jennifer
• 11:29
  Speaker 8: and began coordinating a meal train to provide vegan meals.
• 11:33
  Speaker 8: As Jennifer requested, how many different families were contributing food?
• 11:37
  Speaker 8: Would you estimate.
• 11:38
  Speaker 12: Goodness got to be over fifty Oh definitely if you know.
• 11:42
  Speaker 11: What happened, I need I need.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: That for closer.
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  Speaker 8: As Jennifer Faith appealed to the public for information, money
• 11:49
  Speaker 8: was pouring into a GoFundMe account set up by Jennifer Steelen.
• 11:54
  Speaker 12: It came in fast. It was shocking to see how
• 11:58
  Speaker 12: much people were contributing.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Which money was raised for the gopher, over.
• 12:01
  Speaker 12: Sixty thousand dollars.
• 12:05
  Speaker 9: Finally, thank you for the gift of this amazing man.
• 12:09
  Speaker 8: Jennifer held two funerals for Jamie, one in Dallas and
• 12:14
  Speaker 8: one in Phoenix. Each was meticulously planned.
• 12:18
  Speaker 5: They had all the displays out, little match books for
• 12:22
  Speaker 5: people to take, cards for people to take coasters, more
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: than anything I've ever seen at any other funeral.
• 12:30
  Speaker 8: While she was mourning, Jennifer kept pressing the public for
• 12:34
  Speaker 8: more information about the murder of her husband.
• 12:37
  Speaker 11: Truck is absolutely critical. Somebody has got to know whose
• 12:41
  Speaker 11: truck this is. It's a black Nissan Titan extended cab
• 12:45
  Speaker 11: and had a Texas Ranger sticker in the back window.
• 12:50
  Speaker 8: As they do with every homicide investigation, detectives looked into
• 12:54
  Speaker 8: Jennifer's background. They asked for her cell phone and found
• 12:58
  Speaker 8: that in April twenty twenty, six months before the October shooting,
• 13:03
  Speaker 8: Jennifer had texted a friend to say she had gotten
• 13:06
  Speaker 8: back in touch with an ex boyfriend named Darren.
• 13:10
  Speaker 9: Law enforcement goes through the phone and they look in
• 13:12
  Speaker 9: her phone book and they find the name Darren Lopez.
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  Speaker 8: Jim Holland is a retired Texas ranger and a CBS
• 13:20
  Speaker 8: News consultant.
• 13:21
  Speaker 9: They're going through and they're finding out every single thing
• 13:24
  Speaker 9: they can about both these people, really discovering them.
• 13:27
  Speaker 8: Darren Lopez and Jennifer had dated in high school and
• 13:31
  Speaker 8: reconnected in early twenty twenty. Lopez had a family of
• 13:35
  Speaker 8: his own and was a Special Forces Army veteran who
• 13:39
  Speaker 8: earned a Purple Heart and suffered a brain injury from
• 13:42
  Speaker 8: a roadside bomb Inner Rock that killed nineteen soldiers in
• 13:46
  Speaker 8: his unit.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: He is a military veteran going through a divorce himself,
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: living in an isolated part of Tennessee raising his daughters.
• 14:01
  Speaker 8: Authorities learned Lopez owned this twenty acre property in Cumberland Furnas, Tennessee,
• 14:07
  Speaker 8: and there was something else.
• 14:11
  Speaker 9: Darren Lopez owns a Nissan Titan pickup that just so
• 14:16
  Speaker 9: happens to be black in color.
• 14:19
  Speaker 8: A Nissan Titan, the same make and model as the
• 14:23
  Speaker 8: gunman's getaway truck in Jamie Faith's murder. Texas authorities reached
• 14:28
  Speaker 8: out to law enforcement in Tennessee and.
• 14:31
  Speaker 7: They actually conducted aerial surveillance of Darren's house.
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: Christy Jack is a prominent Texas defense attorney.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: We asked to review this case and lo and.
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: Behold, there's this truck with the tea on the back window.
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: The white tea, the white tea.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: All this time we thought Texas. Indeed it was for
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: the University of Tennessee.
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: But authorities didn't arrest Lopez after finding his truck. They
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: continued to investigate and build their case, digging into his
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: phone records.
• 15:03
  Speaker 9: What they find is this enormous amount of communication between
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: Jennifer Faith and Darren Lopez. Sometimes they're communicating more than
• 15:10
  Speaker 9: five hundred times a day.
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: But starting the afternoon of October eighth, the day before
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: Jamie was killed, Darren and Jennifer stopped talking for approximately
• 15:21
  Speaker 8: twenty eight hours. That same day, Lopez told his daughters
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: he was going out of town on a hunting.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Trip for a few days.
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: According to debit card records, he filled up at a
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: gas station near his home, set his GPS for the
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: Face House, and headed west for the ten hour drive
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: to Dallas. He doesn't realize it, but he's bringing law
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: enforcement along with the ride, with all the evidence he's
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: leaving behind.
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: He's leaving this trail. In some points it's giant markers
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: and signs, and others it's little breadcrumbs.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: They can actual document where Darren Lopez was. They've seen
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: security video of him at a convenience or a gas station.
• 16:08
  Speaker 8: Surveillance photos from an Arkansas gas station show Lopez wearing
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: a blue mask. This same color mask Jennifer Faith told
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: police the killer war at two nineteen am. The next morning,
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: GPS data shows he arrived at the Faith home. A
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: security camera captured those grainy images of him at the
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: vacant house next door.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: It would make you wonder a lot of different things,
• 16:38
  Speaker 9: you know, the level of patience that someone has to,
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: you know, be able to stage five hours early and
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: sit there and wait for this murder to transpire.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: At seven point thirty am, when the Faiths came out
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: to walk their dog, Maggie, cops say he ambushed them,
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: killing Jamie. Investigators say he then drove six hundred and
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: fifty miles back home to Tennessee.
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: Law enforcement has to figure out why did he do it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: Did he do it because of his own motives, because
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: of his love for Jennifer Faith, or did someone else
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: ask him to do it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: In January twenty twenty one, three months after Jamie Faith
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: was murdered, Dallas detectives had discovered evidence, including thousands of texts,
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: that suggested Jennifer and Darren Lopez had a profound connection
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: bordering on obsession, despite not having seen each other for decades.
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: You have Jennifer who's happily married to Jamie, and she's
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: carrying out this tremendous amount of communication with her former boyfriend.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: There's no bigger motive for murder than love or wanting
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: to be with someone else.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: And the texts weren't the only evidence against Lopez. Detectives
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: also had that cell phone data placing him near the
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: crime scene and GPS coordinates that showed his exact route.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: They could track him from Tennessee to Dallas and back
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: to Tennessee.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: To the authorities, It all added up to a.
• 18:29
  Speaker 12: Murder charge, now new this morning, an arrest made three
• 18:33
  Speaker 12: months after an American Airlines employee was.
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: Gunned down while walking his dog in Dallas.
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: Police say Darren Luke.
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: Sergeant Joseph Calhoun was there when police pulled Lopez over
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: on January eleventh, twenty twenty one, in Dixon, Tennessee, not
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: far from his home.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: He appeared to be nervous, but same time he was
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: very quiet.
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: Inside the vehicle. Agents say they found a face mask
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: this same color as the one Jennifer had told police
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: the gunman war as.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: She says that the man had black eyes and was
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: wearing a blue mask.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: As Sergeant Calhoun transported Lopez to the local jail, the
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: investigative team headed for his house. Their authority say they
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: found this forty five caliber handgun.
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: We know that Jamie was shot with a forty five
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: caliber handgun.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: Round Authorities say ballistics tests later matched the gun found
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: in Lopez's house two shell casings found at the murder scene.
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: Even more damning, authorities say that traces of Jamie's blood
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: were found on the gun.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Why the heck wouldn't throw that gun away?
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: You know, I don't know if it wasn't some kind
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: of memento, some kind of symbol of his love for
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: her or what he was willing to.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Do to have her. And on the day that he
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: is arrested, what is he charged with?
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: What he is charged with is a gun crime, a
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: federal gun crime, and at the state level, he's charged
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: with murder.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: He pleaded not guilty to both charges and was transferred
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: to the Dallas County jail, where he was held on
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: one million dollars bail. At this point, police had become
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: increasingly suspicious of Jennifer. Was she involved in the murder
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: plot or covering up for Lopez after the fact. On
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: the day of Lopez's arrest, Dallas detectives brought her in
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: for more questioning. Is that just a coincidence?
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, law enforcements would a time that exactly. I mean,
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: everything is coordinated to ensure that Jennifer doesn't know that
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: Darren's been arrested.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: Detectives say Jennifer denied ever having a sexual relationship with
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: Darren Lopez, but admitted the two communicated every day and
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: the volume was astounding. In the six months leading up
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: to Darren Lopez's arrest, cops say the two texted each
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: other one one hundred and sixteen thousand times.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: When did they have time to sleep, When did they
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: have time to eat?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: It was constant.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: They made sure that they communicate with each other all
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: day long.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: Homeland Security agents dug into Lopez's phone and recovered text
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: messages where Jennifer and Lopez even discussed deleting.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: Texts where they're talking to one another about factory resetting
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: their phone.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: After Lopez texted Jennifer that he had deleted texts. She wrote,
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: big smile over here at that Lopez's phone contained a
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: lot of sexty between the two and many words of love.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: Darren wrote, I love you with all of my heart,
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: and Jennifer responded, sleep my angel, holding you tight.
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: I mean it goes as so far that they're both
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: telling each other good night and talking about, you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: eating chips and salsad.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: But Jennifer Faith was not arrested from the start. She
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: had played the grieving widow. Remember that TV interview where
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: Jennifer pleaded for help in finding the getaway truck.
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: Truck is absolutely critical. Somebody has got to know whose truck.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: This is, because investigators now knew that. Jennifer later woke
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: up panicked that the tea was still on Lopez's truck.
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: She wrote, something is eating away at me, telling me
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: you need to take the sticker out of the back
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: window of the truck.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: At some point he.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Responds to that text message.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It says sticker done, meaning it's been removed.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: He's taken it off.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: Jennifer was euphoric. Oh yay, she texted, and then hours later,
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: I feel so much better.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: It looks like conspiracy. It looks like a connection between
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: those two individuals who are working together to ensure they
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: cover their tracks.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: My gut was screaming at me. I said, hey, things,
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: things aren't adding up.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: If you're going to kill someone, you're going to kill
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: the witness.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: We wondered why Jennifer hadn't gotten shot. We asked her,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: why didn't he shoot you? And she said, I think
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: he didn't have any more bullets.
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: Investigators also learned what Jennifer had been saying to Lopez.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: In December twenty twenty, after she failed to collect Jamie's
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: six hundred twenty nine thousand dollars life insurance policy, Jennifer
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: texted Lopez they aren't processing the claim yet because Detective
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: Walton told them I couldn't be ruled out as a suspect.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: So I called him and basically said, what the f.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: She had the audacity, the boldness to contact the police
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: and be righteously indignant as to why she didn't know
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: what was going on with the investigation and why she
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: had not already been cleared as a suspect.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Jennifer was nothing if not bold. After Jamie died, she
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: began showering Lopez, who was in financial distress with cash
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: and gifts. She got some of that money from the
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: GoFundMe account set up to help her deal with Jamie's loss.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: She'd drain that money within two months of people donating
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: that sum.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Records show that Jennifer paid Lopez cash through a Venmo account,
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: bought airline tickets for him and his daughters, and allowed
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: Lopez to use her credit cards. In an email, she wrote,
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: please don't hesitate to use them for whatever you need.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: This email is Jennifer directly to Darren. Here's both of
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: my major credit cards. MX has no limit, and I
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: think the visa has like thirty five thousand dollars limit.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I pay them both off every month, so you never
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: need to worry about them being declined. There's no limit
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: here to do what she wants him to do.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: Jennifer seemingly was doing anything she could to keep Lopez
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: in her corner, even after he was arrested.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: She sent a message to him, and she sent through
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: a third party, and she was telling him that she
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: would always love him, that she would always be there
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: for him no matter what happened.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: But was it love or loyalty?
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: Jennifer was after she wants to make sure that he
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: does not talk.
• 25:31
  Speaker 14: Go inside the case at forty eight hours dot com.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: In early twenty twenty one, Darren Lopez was behind bars
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: in the Dallas County jail and authorities felt they had
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: a solid murder case against him, but Jennifer Faith remained free,
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: not charged with any crime. Darren Lopez is arrested, does
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: he turn on Jennifer No?
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: No, in no way, shape or form.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: He's being the good soldier.
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, he's the Knight. He has a sense of
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: duty in this honor towards her.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Prosecutors went ahead and built their case against Jennifer without
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: Lopez's cooperation, and on February twenty fourth, twenty twenty one.
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: Forty eight year old Jennifer Faith is now facing obstruction
• 26:26
  Speaker 13: of justice charges related to the murder investigation of her husband.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: Jennifer Faith was arrested, but she was not charged with homicide.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: She was charged with obstruction of justice and in house
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: camera shows her being booked at the Dallas County Jail.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: The obstruction of justice means if you're tampering with or
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: you're destroying evidence to prevent its availability. In a later trial,
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: or to prevent it being available at all, which is
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: what she was doing in destroying or deleting text messages
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: on her phone.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Or asking Lopez to take that tea sticker off his
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: truck's window. The obstruction charge wasn't enough for Jamie's friend,
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: Ross Jensen.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: And I said that wasn't the charges I was expecting.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: And I said, well, that's it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: That's what the charge is. Jennifer later pleaded not guilty.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: I think the police were being very thorough in their
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: investigation and they wanted to bring her into custody. Then
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: she doesn't have another opportunity to destroy any further evidence.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And authorities may have been glad they did.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: In Jennifer's house, they found computers containing a cache of
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: emails that took the investigation in a whole different direction.
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: You know, the emails get absolutely bizarre.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: The strangest and most disturbing emails came from an account
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: in Jamie Faith's.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Name, and on the surface, it appeared as though Jamie
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: sent these messages.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: Most of the emails are too explicit to show on television,
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: and they contain explosive claims that Jamie was physically and
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: sexually abusing Jennifer, and there was more. The emails were
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: addressed to Darren Lopez, revealing an apparent connection between the
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: two men in Jennifer's life.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: It's Jamie faith sending messages to Darren that he is
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: going to harm his wife. He's going to sexually abuse
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: his wife, and he wants Darren Lopez to see it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: He writes, I am finally going to get what I
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: want from her this weekend.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: He was wanting Darren to believe that he was going
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: to sexually assault her in all sorts of ways.
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: The highly charged emails seemed designed to taunt Lopez, to
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: challenge him to action. Enjoy knowing you can't do an
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: effing thing about it.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: He's good evoking him.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: He was provoking him. He was goading him.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: As investing gators looked more closely at the emails, they
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: discovered that some were coming from a second email address
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: in the name of one of Jennifer's male friends. That
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: friend's emails corroborated the claims of abuse. Some even had
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: photos attached supposedly depicting what Jamie had done to Jennifer.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Pictures that showed.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Injuries, pictures that showed injuries.
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: And claiming this is my body, right, this is what
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: it's doing to me, right. And there were messages from
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: the friend asking Lopez for help and getting Jennifer away
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: from Jamie. Jim Holland, now a retired Texas ranger, says
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: the emails clearly made Lopez fear for Jennifer's safety. Lopez
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: wrote to the friend's account, I know I won't feel
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: better about her situation until she is away from him,
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: or she lets me put a bullet in Jamie's head.
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: I keep offering, and she keep keeps telling me no,
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: laugh out loud.
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: It's really pushing daring into this protective mode where he
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: has to help her. He has to be the hero,
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: he has to save her.
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: Holland says, one of Jamie's wounds suggests the emails had
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: their desired effect on Darren Lopez. That gunshot to the groin.
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: I would guess that there's some type of sexual background
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: or connotation to the murder based on the shot to
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: the groin.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: You know, we sometimes use the phrase that you couldn't
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: sell this if you were a screenwriter in Hollywood.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It's like a psychological thriller. Do you agree?
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah? I mean, this is stuff that I don't think
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: anyone could really make up. There's so many layers to
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: the onion. You know, fact is better than fiction at times,
• 30:47
  Speaker 9: in this case for sure.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Prosecutors weighed the emails along with all the other evidence
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: they were collecting against Jennifer, including her payments and gifts
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: to Lopez, and in September twenty twenty one, seven months
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: after she was charged with obstruction, Jennifer was charged a
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: second time.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Jennifer Faith is now in charged with murder for hire,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: a federal offense. A Dallas woman accused of orchestrating her
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: husband's murder could face the death penalty.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: I said, that's the right charge. That's what I was
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: waiting for.
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: In their indictment, prosecutors laid out the murder for higher
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: case against Jennifer, revealing details of the vile email sent
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: to Darren Lopez and a shocking secret about who sent them.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: It was not Jamie at all that was sending these messages.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: Someone else was someone else posing as Jamie, pretending.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: To be Jamie. It was Jennifer all along.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: When Jennifer Faith was finally charged with murder for hire,
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: prosecutors delivered that bombshell Jennifer was the one who wrote
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: all those horrible emails to Darren Lopez.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: There is no question that Jennifer Faith was the puppet
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: master and Darren Lopez was her puppet.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: Pulling the strings and orchestrating her husband Jamie's murder.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: It is mind boggling the wherewithal you have to have
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: to help cultivate fake people, fake emails, pretending to be
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: your husband to try to manipulate Darren Lopez. I haven't
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: seen anything like that in a very, very long time.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Just my mouth on the ground couldn't believe what she
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: had done.
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: The mystery is why what drove Jennifer to want Jamie dead?
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: She seemingly had it all, a husband and daughter who
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: loved her, financial security and a happy home.
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: I think the grass is always greener, and there were
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: a million reasons why. On top of it, if you
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: combine his life insurance and his four O one K,
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: that's more than a million dollars. She wanted more. People
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: always want more. They always want more than what they have.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: They always think having more, having different, having a different person,
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: having someone exciting, is going to be better than what
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: they have.
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: And forty eight hours found that incredibly. It wasn't the
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: first time Jennifer went down this path.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: She did the exact same thing to me.
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: We tracked down this man, Rick Erlob, who was married
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: to her in the early two thousands.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: She's just the most evil person I've ever come in
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: contact with.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: He says. Shortly after they began dating, they took a
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: trip to Disneyland, the so called Happiest place on Earth,
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: where Jennifer spun an ugly story of how she'd been
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: abused by her first husband, physical, mental, emotional, sexual gist.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: It was shocking. It definitely came to a point where
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I wanted to kill.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: Him, and that lasted for a long time.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: But then he says, Jennifer changed her mind. It was like, oh,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: you can't do this to my daughter's dad.
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: There is no evidence of any abuse. Rick says, Jennifer
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: wouldn't go to the police. We reached out to her
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: first husband but got no response. What is it about
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: Jennifer faith that was so IRRESISTI to men do.
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: Think, well, there's something about her personality that really drew
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: men in. She had a way about her of portraying
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: herself as a victim of something.
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: And Rick admits he fell for it. Was he just
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: the dry run?
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah? I think so. I think ultimately where her failure
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: was in Rick is this wasn't a guy who's capable
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: of killing someone. Now, Is Darren a person that you
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: would look at and think he's capable of killing someone?
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: A US Special Forces operative for more than twenty years
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: in the military, who's been in combat. Yeah, this is
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: a guy you know is going to get the mission done.
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: Shortly after the murder for higher charge, Holland says, self
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: preservation kicked in and Jennifer finally revealed the details of
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: her intricate, manipulative plot to have her husband killed.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Jennifer faith decides to accept a plea agreement she will
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: cooperate with authorities.
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: On February seventh, twenty twenty two, with attorney Toby Shook
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: by her side, Jennifer appeared in a Dallas court room
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: and pleaded guilty to one count of use of interstate
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: commerce in the commission of murder for hire. In exchange
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: for the guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to take the death
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: penalty off the table and recommend a life sentence. Jim
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: Holland says, even the guilty plea was vintage Jennifer.
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: She can't allow herself to face the death penalty because
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: she's incapable of killing herself because at the end of
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: the day, that's the only person she really loves.
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: There was one important detail that authorities insisted be part
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: of that plea.
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: She has admit to the fact that her husband never
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: abused her physically or sexually.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: And as for those photos she'd sent showing injuries, she sent.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Images that we know are stock images, fake images, They're
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: not real.
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: Jennifer also came clean about how she'd spent the GoFundMe money.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Her supporters were devastated. It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. Do you
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: feel that you were taken advantage of?
• 37:18
  Speaker 13: It's hard not to feel that way.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Do you feel betrayed?
• 37:22
  Speaker 13: It's hard not to feel that way.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: What kind of person would do that?
• 37:29
  Speaker 10: A monster?
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a monster.
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: She may have used the GoFundMe account to pay Darren Lopez,
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: but court records show that Jennifer did not pay for
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: Jamie's funeral expenses and to this day, oh six five
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: hundred dollars. What's more, court records also show Jennifer has
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: asked that two hundred thousand dollars from Jamie's estate be
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: put into her prison commissary account.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: It's a case of greed, manipulation. It's a tragedy all
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: the way around. She robbed the community of someone that
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: they respected. She robbed her daughter of a father. It
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: was a very selfish act on so many levels.
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: Jamie's parents and sister did not attend the hearing. The
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: family home was sold, and Amber moved out of Texas
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: with their dog, Maggie. She still speaks to her mother
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: twice a week.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: I mean, in the end, Jennifer faith is the only
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: mother she'll ever know.
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: After Jennifer signed her plea deal, Lopez also agreed to
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: answer questions and admitted killing Jamie. He told investigators he
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: reconnected with Jennifer because he was in a very dark
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: place and initially never intended to reunite romantically or break
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: up her family.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: It's difficult to say which came first, whether it's the
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: chicken or the egg, whether their romance was rekindled at
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: the same time as her realization that he's the perfect poet.
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: Now, when you say romance, this very unusual romance, one
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: in which apparently they physically were never togethered.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: They were never physically together at that time, but memories
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: are powerful.
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: Lopez, who hasn't changed his not guilty plea, also told
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: authorities the murder was Jennifer's idea. His attorney has said
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: publicly that Jennifer took advantage of Lopez, who suffered that
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: traumatic brain injury in the army.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: I almost feel that Jennifer is more responsible for Jamie's
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: death than Darren, because Darren was, in my opinion, was
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: just preyed upon by her, and she manipulated him to
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: do what she wanted done.
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: Those who knew and loved Jamie, like former neighbor Melissa Gonzalez,
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: are still hoping with his death.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: He cared about people. It didn't matter what your race, religion,
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: he didn't care about any of that. He was just
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: an easy, golden guy. He was the guy for our kids.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: That meant a lot. The kind of guy that he was,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: you can't just get that anywhere.
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: Friends Teresa and Ross Jensen are grieving too.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: He was just all around wonderful guy. I was blessed
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: to know him.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: I hope that Amber carries some of Jamie forward. I
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: hope she really does something unique and special with his memory.
• 41:03
  Speaker 14: Who do you think is more responsible for Jamie Faith's death?
• 41:09
  Speaker 14: A popular dentist and his wife on an African hunting safari.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: This shotgun blast killed her almost instantly.
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: He said she was packing her gun. It boggles the
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: mind the two experienced hunters for this to have been
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: an accident.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Was there a motive of what happened on the safari?
• 41:25
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