♪ >>> laura was 17 years old, and she had a boyfriend, james kendall.ships. >> it's 1982 in orange county, california. officers have arrived at the scene of a shooting. >> the male victim was already in grave condition. he had suffered a gunshot wound through the middle of the chest and wasn't speaking. she was. >> rather than shooting herself in the chest or shooting herself in the head, she ends up shooting herself in the shoulder, so it's really almost like a superficial wound. >> we found a card inside the car from a local jeweler. she wrote on the card that she wanted jim and herself buried together and that everything she owned should go to her mother. she told the investigators that while he was driving her to this location from his house that morning, she was writing that note. essentially, she's writing a murder/suicide note with a man that's driving her where he thinks to change and go to school, while she's planning out this whole attack and assault on him. >> but this is how despondent, apparently, or angry she was at the idea that her boyfr