welcome to the season premiere of "20/20." >> an all new "20/20" starts right now. >> call the police. >> you've got this woman who's witnessed the worst thing that anybody could see. she's witnessed the slaying her husband. >> it's a horrible way to die,

in front of your own home on a street. >> shooting someone seven times at close range, this was definitely an execution. >> love will make you do some crazy things. >> you take obsessive love. >> she wasn't sleeping. she was scared a lot of the times they were going to come for her overnight. >> you put it together with obsessive hate. >> and then it starts getting darker and darker. >> it's diabolical. >> the past has a way of catching up with you. >> everything that you knew, out the window. >> i have not been involved in a case that had more twists and turns than this particular case. >> every time you peel back a lie, there's another lie right underneath. >> that's a smoking gun if you ever could get one. >> you cannot make this up.

♪ ♪ it's a beautiful ♪ the sun is shining so let's go out to play ♪ ♪ four states now seeing their worst covid surge. >> hurricane delta barreling toward the gulf coast. >> good morning america. ♪ oh it's a beautiful day today it's a beautiful day ♪ >> just after 7:30 in the morning, on a bright sunny day, most people were probably getting ready for work, a lot of people were working from home. this is during the pandemic so people were on lockdown at this time. >> jamie faith, a director for american airlines, and his wife jennifer are heading out for their daily walk with their dog

maggie, seen here on their home security camera. they had just celebrated their 15th anniversary the night before. >> i hear rapid fire gunshots and i immediately dropped to the ground. it seemed very close. >> and i own a handgun. so i recognize a sound. what happened? i walked to the end of my walkway. call the police! >> and i saw what looked like feet and a body laying on the street. but as i started running that way, the killer appeared in the walkway. he was in a mask and a hoodie. i didn't get a chance to see his face, because i saw him with a gun in his hand. i ran back in the house.

a lady at the end of the block had taken upon herself to go and chase after maggie so she caught the dog. >> dogs are barking, neighbors are beginning to come out of their houses. this is absolute chaos. >> some of the neighbors come running, some come very frightened and timidly. >> i came in the house, locked the door, and i grabbed my gun and then i ran back out. i took a chance and ran on down. i went straight to jamie. i looked over and i saw jennifer sitting on the driveway, but jamie didn't look to be alive. and so then i went and grabbed jennifer's hands and we prayed. i couldn't offer her husband back. i could not offer her safety. so for me, when all hope is lost, we look up. it wasn't long after we prayed that the cops came.

>> can you describe kind of what the scene looked like? >> when i saw him, he was lying on the ground on his back. a lot of injuries, i'll just say that. >> he was struck multiple times in the head, chest, and groin. so, he had no chance of survival from these types of injuries. >> this is a normally very quiet neighborhood, it's a nice area, and all of a sudden you have a body in the middle of the street. >> a lot of the moments that occurred were captured on local doorbell cameras. >> one of the cameras captures this heartbreaking moment when jennifer is crying and one of her neighbors comes up to console her. >> when i spoke to jennifer, it was very brief. i hugged her, told her if

there's anything i can do, text me, call me. >> this is a scene of absolute horror. this woman has just seen the worst thing imaginable. ♪ nothing left of us but memories ♪ >> jennifer immediately calls jamie's best friend who lives in arizona. >> right around 7:30 in the morning i got a phone call from jennifer. and she was hysterical, crying. she finally got the words out. and she said, "jamie, he's been shot." i said, "okay, well, let's hope that he's okay." and, she said, "no. he's shot. he's dead." >> jamie and jennifer's next door neighbors, who moved away during the pandemic, got an

early morning call from another neighbor, breaking the news. >> by the time we got there, the police had already started to tape it off, so we couldn't get too close to him. but we did see his body still laying in the street and they hadn't even covered it yet. >> after i saw him there, i still just could not believe it. just in shock. >> i just wanted to make sure, first, that jennifer was okay. >> jennifer is the surviving witness of a murder. she's taken to the police station for a formal interview, which was videotaped. >> it was covid, so a lot of the facial expressions i really couldn't see because she had a mask on. but i just know from looking in her eyes, she was very emotional. >> i turned around and i just saw this person shoot and --

>> she's describing step by step what happened. but, as she gets to the part where somebody shoots her husband, she breaks down. >> why? >> and it becomes very difficult for her to tell her story because she's so upset and she's just falling apart. >> jennifer told the detective that the gunman roughed her up, hit her, tied her hands together with tape, tried to remove some of her jewelry, but wasn't successful. >> he was hitting my face. he was grabbing my arms and trying to take my rings and then all of a sudden i saw a flash of the -- it was silver, the gun was silver. and then he pulled out a roll of duct tape. >> from his pants or -- >> i think, it had to have been i think or i don't know.

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jamie faith was murdered on his daily morning walk with his wife jennifer, just after celebrating their 15th anniversary. >> you've got this horribly bereaved woman who has witnessed the worst thing that anybody could see. she's witnessed the slaying of her husband. ♪ i know the day would come when we would say good-bye ♪ >> you prayed with her? >> yes, i did. i'm a man of faith and i wanted to make sure i still gave her comfort. ♪ nothing left of us but memories ♪ >> jamie was shot seven times, three times in the chest, once in the groin, and three times in the head. >> shooting someone seven times at fairly close range leaves this person with zero possibility of surviving. >> so every one of these shots is significant. you have three in the chest that

are to disable him. you have three in the head, clearly to make sure that he's dead. but you have this groin shot that appears to be very personal. >> three shots to the head and three shots to the chest, that's very typical of training in the military. >> we were going house to house, knocking on doors. we collected all the video that was possible in that area. >> and of course, they're questioning neighbors, friends, family. they're asking, "is there anything going on in his life that could have possibly led to this?" and so far, everyone has the same answer. >> who would have anything against jamie? there's no way jamie could have an enemy. impossible. absolutely impossible. i met jamie at happy hour. we'd play pool and have good conversation and drink some beer and just have a good time.

jamie was charismatic, but in an under toned way, and he was just a really sweet guy. over the years, as i got to know him really well, i'm like, wow, this guy does the right thing always, always, without fail. >> he genuinely cared about people. he would really do anything for a stranger. >> friends describe jamie as the kind of guy who really didn't want to settle down. >> from what i've heard before, he never really wanted to get married and he didn't want to have any kids. >> the thing is, once he met jennifer, all of that changed. >> jamie and jennifer met in 2005. jamie was 34, jennifer, 33. they were living in phoenix. >> they had met -- i believe it was a blind date. i remember her telling me she had just started going to church and they had, like, this meeting, they had to pick, like, a word written on a rock. it was, like, a random pick. and the word was "faith." and so then she went on this date.

and then his last name happened to be faith. and so she just thought this was, like, meant to be. >> when she came into the picture, she went out with him most of the times when he was out with us and they were great together. she just fit right in with the guys. no problem. >> they were just a very loving couple, always kissing, always holding hands you would see them and i'd be like, "y'all so mushy." >> my wife and i decided to go on a cruise for our wedding. jamie was always known for his hawaiian shirts, and she had a matching hawaiian dress for every day of the cruise. it was adorable. jen and jamie were a perfect pair. >> when jamie met jennifer, she already had a daughter who was 8 years old -- amber, and they quickly became a family. jamie treated her like she was

his own. >> jamie adopted her when she turned 18. >> jamie was very successful in his field. he was a director of i.t. at american airlines. jennifer had a master's in speech pathology and had been working at a rehab hospital. in 2017 when jamie got a big promotion, they moved to dallas and made a whole new life for themselves. they found a new circle of friends in their neighborhood of oak cliff. >> living in oak cliff, almost everybody there's hispanic. jamie came in, and he fit right in. it wasn't like this white dude's out of place in our neighborhood. he would go to the little corner store and order tacos and be sitting there talking to all the neighbors. >> melisa and shamona lived

next door with their seven children. >> they really took to the children. and when my mother got sick, they offered to take the children you know a weekend a month just to kind of help and they loved it. the kids started calling them uncle jamie and aunt jennifer. >> we had hit the lottery when we met them. >> every homicide is either a why was this done, or a whodunit? and at the beginning of the investigation, both of those questions are in play. >> the first interview that police gave reporters, they indicated that robbery may have been a motive, but they didn't say any specifics. >> do you think, sir, that this was a random robbery, or something more sinister? >> right now, we know that the suspect did attempt to take property. >> they were really comfortable financially. they bought big lavish things and i would always tell them, "hey, don't put your boxes

outside while you're buying new tvs and stuff, because you don't want nobody to know what you have." >> when you see someone shot that many times, does that sound off any alarm bells or make you think anything? >> you think to yourself, it is a possibility it could be personal. >> i went through every scenario in the book but none of them made sense. >> the only thing that i could speculate is road rage is a big thing, so i'm wondering if maybe while he was traveling somebody got mad at him enough to follow him home and find out where he lives. >> investigators are also looking into jamie's professional life, because he had just laid off a number of employees at american. >> at least 32,000 employees at american airlines and united will be grounded. >> this was such a difficult time because of the pandemic, and a lot of airline employees had to be furloughed or laid off. >> he was crying. he just could not choose. and he didn't want to let anybody go.

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a violent killing in north oak cliff involving an american airlines manager. >> in the local area of oak cliff, this was a crazy big story. >> jamie faith was gunned down in broad daylight. it's just incomprehensible. >> everybody in the neighborhood was scared. could this person come back and start knocking us off one by one? >> a lot of people stayed

inside. >> i was just looking everywhere and double checking and making sure that we were safe. >> you don't know who it is. could be anyone. >> detectives need any and all information that might be related to the case. >> during the early days, there was a lot of unknowns. >> jennifer did start a group text with 12 to 15 people. >> she had started it as, you're our closest friends and family members, and we just wanted to keep you guys up-to-date. the first couple weeks we would get text messages from jennifer almost daily. jennifer had explained that detectives had found a cigarette butt at the scene, and they were hoping there would be some sort of dna that they could pull from to identify somebody.

and she had alluded that they were looking into somebody that jamie had worked with. >> or -- jennifer told friends -- the detectives asked if there could be any issues in their marriage that would make someone want to hurt one of them. >> what makes it unique is the suspect, according to the witness, attempted to maybe abduct the wife, in that he had some duct tape, he grabbed her, tried to tape her wrist simultaneously trying to pull her jewelry off her fingers. >> there's no real detailed description of the killer because he was wearing a mask, but police do release this grainy photo of the killer's truck that a neighbor snapped as the truck drove away. >> the vehicle is a black nissan pickup truck with an extended cab, and it also has a white decal sticker on the rear

driver's side window. the photo's too blurry to see if there's any plate on the vehicle. >> it's described as a texas ranger decal. we're talking about texas, where there are rabid fans of the texas rangers all over the state. it's texas ranger country. >> and the rangers get on the board only guarded double. it's 2-1. >> texas is not only land of the texas rangers, this is probably land of the pickup truck. there have got to be thousands of pickup trucks in the state of texas with texas ranger decals on them. it's the proverbial needle in a haystack. >> jennifer was frustrated with why, with so many cameras in so many places, can't they find the license plate to get justice for jamie? >> in these text threads as well as messages to other friends, jennifer is encouraging people to go out and look for black

pickup trucks on their own, essentially to help police in their investigation. >> we were looking for it. of course. we wanted this person found. >> if that black pick up truck looks familiar for some reason you are urged to contact the dallas police department. >> as detectives are furiously looking for leads, jamie's family and friends are laying him to rest. >> when jennifer came down to arizona for the memorial she was very distraught, crying a lot. she didn't wanna really speak at the services, which was understandable. so my husband did most of the speaking. >> when i looked up and i looked out it literally was, like, a sea of jamies in the audience. they all had hawaiian button-up shirts on, i think it was like "hey, everybody, dress like jamie would dress." he had a lot of people that cared about him. >> jamie was the breadwinner of the family. she wasn't working.

she had expressed to us, you know, she was nervous about paying the mortgage and the bills. >> i gave her a $5000 check when i dropped her off at the airport after the memorial services here in phoenix. the community really rallied around jennifer and amber. >> some concerned friends and colleagues start a gofundme for jennifer and her daughter amber. >> at first, it was like $5,000 or $10,000, and it just kept going. >> more than $60,000 was raised. people poured love into this family. >> we just stayed in constant contact, checking on them all the time. >> she's like, "there's at times where i cry. and then, there's at times where i don't feel anything." >> she wasn't sleeping, was scared a lot of the times that they were going to come for her overnight. as a neighbor, i wanted to give

her the opportunity to have some aspect of her daily life. so we offered to walk our dogs together. and then it turned out more neighbors also wanted to join in. we would always be on the lookout for the black truck. she was obviously scared. >> jennifer told her friends she wasn't just scared, she was frustrated with a lack of answers. >> but unbeknownst to jennifer, detectives are making progress in the investigation. they can't disclose much about what they've found, but investigators believe that they have found the truck. and they now have a person of interest.

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jennifer faith tells her

friends how gut-wrenching it is to look at that empty chair at thanksgiving, where jamie should have been sitting. >> usually right after thanksgiving, we would go and help them put up their tree. that was, like, something that we did all together every year. so that was hard not doing that, especially with jamie, he's the life of the party and we'd be in our pajamas doing these things. so that we definitely missed. it just wasn't the same. >> more murders and shootings across north texas being linked to a man authorities are calling a serial killer. >> jennifer sends a message to the group text about an alleged serial killer in dallas, and suggests it could be related to jamie's case. >> friends on the group text are wondering if perhaps this could be the guy, the cases seemed very similar.

the man was shooting people around dallas at random, firing in one case, nine times into a victim. so one friend, a retired member of the military, offers his take on the text chain. >> it seemed like a viable lead for the detectives to follow up on, and then she would come back and say they weren't looking into it. all of us were frustrated and thinking that the detectives need to do their jobs, and they need to, you know, not let this fall through the cracks. we wanted somebody to be held accountable for it. i was definitely frustrated. >> it seemed like as the months moved on, the group chat kind of went a lot quieter. >> murder investigations oftentimes are like the proverbial duck sitting on the water. it looks calm on the surface, and underneath, there's a ton of activity. and that's precisely the case here. while it may seem to jennifer and her friends there isn't much progress, detectives are

actually chasing a lead 650 miles away in tennessee. >> it's actually a contact that they found on jennifer's cell phone. the person lives in a small, rural, unincorporated community of cumberland furnace. >> the investigation has now crossed state lines, so now federal authorities, the atf as well as the tennessee bureau of investigation, are brought in. law enforcement begins aerial surveillance of this home and one of the very first things they see is a black nissan titan with a white sticker of "a t" on the back window. this is a home run for investigators. >> what goes through your head? >> i felt that we had our guy. i was very confident. >> we still had to connect the dots because he's in tennessee, he's almost 700 miles away from our crime scene, and so we had to work to get this case airtight. >> are you telling anyone that

you found the pickup truck? >> no. >> we don't want to leak this too far out. >> detectives don't even share this news with jennifer. so she goes on a campaign essentially, speaking out on various news channels in this effort to find jamie's killer. >> all of a sudden someone started shooting at him. every day has been just awful. >> our station scheduled an interview with her. during that interview, jennifer re-lived what happened that day. >> it was a normal day. we got the dog ready and walked out the door, like we always do. i heard running behind me and i turned around to see what was going on. next thing i knew he was shooting at jamie and, um, and then turned around and came after me and tackled me.

>> one of the questions the reporter asked is, what did this person take from your life? >> everything. everything. my partner, my best friend. i just -- i'm not supposed to be widowed at 48. >> she's making a plea for people to be on the lookout for a black pickup truck. >> the truck is absolutely critical. it's a black nissan titan extended cab. a texas ranger sticker in the back window. there's gotta be somebody who knows somebody who had that truck. >> i was very worried that this would become a cold case. what if they never find the killer? >> eight days after jennifer's tv interview, where she pleads with the public to help find the pickup truck with the white decal, police surveilling this

home discover that the sticker is now gone. >> word gets out publicly, and then the person who owns the truck takes the white decal off. in law enforcement circles that's what we call a clue. that is potentially huge significance. >> authorities have also pulled this man's cell phone records, and those place him at the scene of the crime. they now have enough evidence to make an arrest. >> so, who is the suspect? his name is darrin lopez. he's a father who has three school-aged daughters. >> we didn't want to push him into a corner for something serious as a murder warrant. we felt that at some point he was going to leave his house and that would give us the best opportunity. so we could get him on a traffic stop instead of barging into his house. >> the plan on how the arrest will go down is, the atf and the tennessee bureau of investigation will pull the

suspect over. but the actual arrest must be made by local law enforcement, so the dickson county sheriff's office is called in that morning. >> the sheriff's office is told the suspect is a highly trained military veteran and potentially very dangerous. >> this arrest is a high risk arrest. he is a trained killer. so this probably would be the last person that they'd want to engage in any type of fight. >> sometimes, when people are like this, they're at the end of their rope. people have nothing to lose at those points. and it makes it more dangerous for me and my guys when we come after them. >> darrin lopez is in his daughter's car and she's driving when they are pulled over. >> as i was approaching the vehicle, mr. lopez was extremely calm. mr. lopez's daughter was visibly

upset, you could tell she'd been crying for a little bit. i asked mr. lopez to exit the vehicle. he offered no resistance. placed him in handcuffs and placed him in the rear of my vehicle. once we arrived at the dickson county sheriff's office, i escorted him inside the building to an interview room where he was interviewed by dallas, texas detectives. >> what does he say to you? >> he was real antsy whenever i first went in in the interrogation room with him. >> it is what it is. it is what it is. >> very kind of high-strung. at one point during the interrogation, he was acting as if he had a weapon in his holster and he was pointing it at different spots around the room. once we started getting into the tough part of being involved with the murder, he asked for an attorney.

i'm hoping that we can talk. >> i don't think so, not without a lawyer. >> okay. >> the investigators execute a search warrant on darrin's residence. and they locate the vehicle. though the white sticker is missing, there's still an outline of dirt of where the "t" once was. >> what do you find on the property? >> agents located a green bag in his bedroom that contained a firearm that had blood on it. >> was that the murder weapon? >> yes, it was. >> with the blood still on it? >> it is our belief that he possibly kept the gun as a trophy. >> he had several months, several hundred miles to get rid of the weapon and he didn't. >> tonight, lopez remains in custody here at the dickson jail on a fugitive from justice warrant. he will have an extradition hearing here in dickson in the next few days. >> i heard about it on the news and i was like, why would somebody drive from tennessee

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seven months after jamie faith has been gunned down in front of his dallas home, authorities have arrested a tennessee man, who has never even met jamie faith. but it turns out he does know jennifer from decades earlier. it's her high school boyfriend, and date to the prom. now police are pressing rewind on their investigation and looking at the evidence in a new light.

this is a time we were all binge watching tv and learning about sourdough recipes. >> and on one of those first days of the pandemic, jennifer gets an email. it's from her old high school sweetheart, darrin lopez. they haven't talked in more than 20 years. >> wow. i am so happy that i finally tracked down your email and got a chance to say hi. >> this friendly e-mail exchange is about to set into motion a deadly chain of events. >> jennifer and darrin met at salpointe catholic high school in tucson, arizona, when they were 15. they were sweethearts for almost four years, and senior prom dates. the theme was "blue moon." >> this is the quintessential american prom picture. we know this couple, because

many of us were that couple. >> they were in the jazz band together. jennifer played the keyboard, darrin played the trumpet, and that's how they started to get to know each other. >> they shared their first kiss during a band trip to europe. and that kiss was at the eiffel tower. >> i was very impressed with darrin. he was very organized, very polite. one of the things i remember about darrin was his pants, when he was in uniform, were always really well-pressed. he was kind to other people. and i was just impressed by his maturity. >> the two of them even stayed together when they went to college in flagstaff, arizona, but darrin dropped out after a year, eventually joining the army. and that's when things fell apart for the two of them. they lost touch, and darrin married, and he was stationed in south korea. >> in that first email to

jennifer, darrin catches her up on the past 27 years. he says his marriage fell apart a couple years ago, but he has 3 daughters --a 13-year-old and 16-year-old twins -- and 2 stepdaughters. he tells jennifer about his decades in the military, on the front lines after 9/11, deployed to iraq special forces sergeant, an actual green beret. >> if you're a green beret in the united states military in a time of war, you have seen action. they've seen combat, they've seen death. a green beret is not only a trained killer, they are a highly trained killer, and they train other people how to be killers. so, to become a green beret, you are truly the elite of the elite. >> but he tells jennifer that even as an elite combat solider, he thought of her often and that she helped him in ways she couldn't imagine. >> he tells her about this song

by a band called little texas, "what might have been." and he said that he heard it for the first time after he got home from south korea. and he thought about her every time he listened to this song. ♪ i try not to think about what might have been ♪ >> he signs that initial email "as you wish," which is a reference to the cult classic from that time period, "the princess bride." "as you wish," of course, is code for "i love you." >> farm boy, polish my horse's saddle. >> which of course is what wesley says to princess buttercup every time she asked him to do something. >> i want to see my face shining in it by the morning. >> as you wish. >> jennifer's response to this email was literally, "it made my day, month, year, and possibly decade to hear from you." >> i have searched for you myself quite a bit through the years, but never with any luck. you're a hard man to find. oh, lord, where do i start?

>> she included some photos and just let him know basically everything that's happened in the years since they split apart. she talked about her marriage to jamie faith. >> she says that her family knows all about him, because had she married him, her name would have been j. lo, jennifer lopez. >> i have definitely missed you over the years, and there have been so many times i've wanted to talk to you. >> that first email, well, that just opens the floodgates. the emails and texts start all day every day. >> i must say you still are looking very pretty. it felt so good calling you angel and telling you "as you wish." >> please keep communicating as much as you want. your texts and emails are very welcome. puts a smile on my face through the day. >> darrin also confides in jennifer about the injuries he

suffers as a result of his time on the front lines. he was severely injured, suffered a traumatic brain injury. he even sends her pictures after two trucks filled with explosive devices blew up, killing 19 people. darrin was one of only four survivors. >> from his injuries in iraq, he actually did get a purple heart. >> now he says he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, severe migraines, vision loss, and ringing in his ears. a decade after that attack, he's discharged from the military on full disability. >> within three days, 72 hours, of that first contact, they're already discussing plans for jennifer to visit darrin in tennessee, and what jennifer will tell jamie in order to get away for a weekend. >> i plan on taking you to bed

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>> call the police. the shooter was making sure jamie was dead. >> it's my belief, he came down here to fulfill his mission. that's to kill jamie faith. >> a green beret trained killer, they are a highly trained killer. >> looking at what was on her

cell phone, what stood out to you? >> we saw there was a guy named darrin who she dated in high school and college. >> there's reconnecting, and then there is reconnecting, and jennifer and darrin went from 0 to 60 in no time flat. >> you guys have communicated over 24,000 times. >> these two people who lived hundreds of miles away, never see each other, and yet they're so connected to each other. >> darrin is getting e-mails describing horrific instances of sexual abuse. >> and then, a bizarre turn that not even jennifer's best friends could believe. >> it's diabolical. investigators have made a stunning arrest in the murder of jamie faith. his wife jennifer's high school boyfriend, darrin lopez. now, they are unraveling what went on in the months leading up

to the murder. >> jennifer is living two lives here. she lives with her husband in her lovely home in texas. she goes out in the morning for the morning walks and then she has this hot, emotional affair with her high school sweetheart. obviously there are decades to fill in here, and the two start communicating at an unbelievable pace and volume. >> eventually authorities would estimate they were in touch an average of almost 500 times a day. >> text messages, emails, phone calls. who talks 500 times a day? >> that is an incredible volume. essentially constantly in communication with somebody for

the entire breadth of the day. but during this onslaught of emails and texts, some of this communication seems to take on a less romantic and sometimes darker tone. they begin exploring their sexual desires with one another, including some that seemed to be violent. they begin trading email after email explicitly detailing these fantasies. >> jennifer's characterization of her marriage and personal life also begins to take on a darker tone. she says there are some real problems in her marriage. jamie is not treating her well. >> i know today has been horrible again. i take you in my arms and hold you tight. nothing he can do to stop my love for you. you are being so strong for us. >> she clearly said something to him that made it sound like her life was just really terrible. all of a sudden, darrin receives

an email, and it's not from jennifer. it's from jamie. >> man-to-man, i am telling you to stay away from my family. it's obvious that you and jenn can't keep your communications to a friendship, so i am asking that you stop communicating with jenn. >> darrin's response is, "look, i appreciate you telling me this, but i'm not going to stay away." >> she's terrified of you. you gave her nightmares, and who can she talk with about them? she can't tell any of her normal friends what has happened and how you treated her. i will get involved to make sure she is safe and unhurt and do that in any way i can. >> and this is where we first start seeing that jennifer is afraid of jamie. and then it starts getting darker and darker as the emails continue. >> then the next email says, "if

you contact my wife again, i will harm her. and he gets very graphic and violent with his description of what he will do to his wife sexually. it's very frightening. >> we start seeing a picture of the marriage between jennifer and jamie as this abusive, toxic relationship. >> darrin is getting emails describing horrific instances of sexual abuse that she does not want to participate in, with strangers, with other people. >> some of the emails included photos and said, "this is what i did to jennifer today." >> the emails from jamie get increasingly aggressive, almost taunting. and it's almost as if jamie faith is trying to pick a fight.

>> darrin of course says that we need to call the police. and jennifer says, "no, don't. please don't call the police." >> she tells darrin her daughter would not be able to handle jamie being placed in handcuffs in front of her. so, she said that if he does contact the police, she was going to deny it. >> this is not an unheard of response. it is very common in domestic violence situations for the person who's being abused to not want to participate in a police investigation. there's financial dependence oftentimes on the abuser. in this case, she had a daughter. >> darrin is insistent on doing something to get jennifer some help, so, what jennifer brings up is, "here. no, you can contact my friend, rob, and see if he can help." >> i am writing to you to ask for your help. jamie is physically and sexually

abusing her, any other way you think we can help?" >> darrin writes to rob that jamie said he sometimes takes jennifer away from their home to abuse her with multiple other men. >> jennifer had just sent this photograph of a bloody lip, and darrin included that as evidence of this abuse that he sent to rob. >> darrin is sharing in these emails that he is so worried about jennifer. >> i know i won't feel better about her situation until she is out of the house away from him or she lets me put a bullet in jamie's head. i keep offering, and she keeps telling me no. lol." >> i am also very concerned, and if it were up to me, i would tell you to go for it with your idea, lol. i'll give you an alibi. >> as months go by, darrin stays in touch with rob, emailing about jennifer's details of the abuse and what jamie has been

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coronavirus now linked to the white house. >> the day before jamie's murder is jamie and jennifer's 15th anniversary. so, while on one hand she's planning an anniversary celebration with her husband, she is also planning the murder of her husband with her high school boyfriend. >> in the days leading up to the murder, jennifer and darrin's communications are ramping up. now this may be hard to believe given how much they communicate. but in the three days before, their phones are in touch more than 400 times. and two days before, more than 600 times. but then -- silence. the night before jamie faith is murdered, these two have absolutely no communication whatsoever. >> that was one of the things that stood out, that you guys talk hundreds of times a day and the day that the murder happens, there's very little communication.

>> the drive from darrin's to the faith home in dallas is 650 miles. it's all on major interstates. it should take darrin around 11 hours, and that's with stops for gas. >> he went and had his car serviced right before he left town, like you might do if you were about to go on a road trip. >> one thing that darrin does is that he uses his google maps to enter jennifer and jamie's address in texas, literally. >> so we were able to get cell tower location information all the way from tennessee until he arrived in dallas. >> he stopped at the gas station to get all the necessary supplies, he bought a red bull, two dvds, he took out $100 in cash so he'd have enough gas money to get back.

>> what he did not factor in was that there would be security camera video of him at all these gas stations getting gas and snacks with his cash. >> each one is leaving like a bread crumb of the direction in which he is traveling, which lines up with the direction of travel to go to dallas. >> darrin lopez arrives next door to jennifer faith's residence at approximately 2:19 in the morning. >> he actually goes into the backyard of the next door neighbor and he is caught on camera. and he lays in wait and he's ready to ambush jamie faith the next morning.

>> jamie and jennifer faith walk out their front door with their dog, maggie, and start walking down the street just like they did every morning, and now it is go time. >> think about this for a second -- that moment jamie was murdered and jennifer was standing out there with the dog, is the first time that darrin and jennifer have seen each other in more than two decades. >> and their first touch will be when darrin tries to duct tape her hands. >> it is so weird to look at all of the videos again of jennifer on that day. and that one video of her sobbing into her neighbor's arms is that emotion that we're

seeing, and that crying -- are those tears of loss, tears of relief, tears of fear? i don't know. >> the neighbors all start coming out, at which point darrin runs back to his truck, drives back to cumberland furnace. and on the way, he throws jamie's wedding ring, tellingly, out the window of that truck. >> one of the most critical moments in this investigation occurs on that day when police ask jennifer if they can see her phone. >> jennifer seems ready for the detectives to ask this question. she has already deleted all of her texts and calls with darrin before she hands over that phone. >> however, remember that friend of hers, the one she told that she was having an affair with her high school boyfriend and was going to be together with him? yeah. jennifer forgot to delete that text message. >> once they figure out that

she's having this emotional affair with this person named darrin, they're quickly able to figure out who he is because in her contact list she has an address card with his address, phone number, and last name. >> darrin is traveling on i-40. and as he gets around 60 miles from his home, he contacts jennifer on the cell phone. >> even the very night of the murder, she goes from crying to her neighbors and being consoled to texting back and forth with darrin lopez. >> not only does jennifer immediately reinitiate this torrid relationship with darrin, but at the same time she begins reaching out to friends and family talking about how she has no idea who'd ever want to do this. >> she begins talking about money and this gofundme page goes up, started by her friends and jamie's colleagues. she's looking into taking steps

to acquire jamie's nearly $400,000 retirement account. he also had more than $600,000 in life insurance. so, at the same time she's communicating with the person she knows to be the killer, she puts in a life insurance claim. >> although she's told the funds can't be accessed yet, due to the pending murder investigation. >> within days of the murder, jennifer is already withdrawing the gofundme money, and soon after, she's sending darrin credit cards in her name with high spending limits. she also sends him a large screen tv and plane tickets for him and his daughters. but jennifer and darrin have no idea investigators are hot on their trail. >> i contacted jennifer. i told her that i still had some questions about some things. >> the same guy that killed your husband, jennifer, is the same guy that you're communicating with every day. you had over 24,000 text messages and calls. 24,000.

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in the days and weeks after jamie's murder, jennifer is texting what she says are hopeful leads to her group chat, all the while knowing exactly who the real killer, and that friend who responded to her text about the serial shooter, turns out that was darrin, the actual killer, pretending to offer his take. >> darrin is also texting the

group telling jennifer that he's praying for her during jamie's funeral and that he's going to try and watch the live stream. >> i just, i'm not supposed to be widowed at 48. >> it became very evident that the public persona that jennifer faced was portraying was very very different than what she was portraying privately when she was communicating via text with darrin lopez. >> one of the tv interviews, the reporter asked her to bring out a memory book of her late husband, so when jennifer sends a text message to darrin, she says the reporter wasn't that good. i was good. they made me look at jamie's photos, barf. >> it's a black nissan titan, extended cab, texas ranger sticker in the back window. >> another lie. she of course knew it wasn't a texas rangers sticker, but a tennessee volunteers sticker

where darrin is from. >> while she was telling the public how important it was to be on the lookout for that sticker, she was telling darrin to remove that very sticker. >> i have a bad feeling, and i really think you need to get that sticker off asap. like today. >> all the while, she's helping him financially, mailing him credit cards with high limits, and their communications are getting increasingly sexual, they're exploring even further a world of bondage and violent fantasies together. >> jennifer and darrin really think they've gotten away with murder. >> you are amazing. >> so are you. i love us. we are amazing together. >> yes, we are. >> so not so amazing because by this time, the police are zeroing in on darrin.

they've got surveillance photos of him the night before the murder as he's heading to dallas. they've subpoenaed his google records and they've placed his phone near the faiths' home on the night before the >> we knew at that point that this is our guy, this is our shooter. we also believed that jennifer was involved as well. >> we knew that the timing of his arrest and also speaking with jennifer was very delicate. if we arrested him first, we felt like jennifer would shut down on us. we coordinated that once we got him in custody, we also wanted to be speaking to jennife >> i contacted jennifer, i told her that i still had some questions about some things. jennifer agreed to meet. she immediately contacts darrin via text message. >> he said he wants to go over

the investigation and go through some things to start moving forward. >> hmm, okay, he give you a time? >> he didn't. don't text me monday. i'm going to factory reset my phone on sunday night after deleting texts. >> she knows the police are going to learn about darrin at some point. >> jennifer talks to the detectives. she gives him her version of events. >> i want to go through everything. all right. so we'll probably be here for a while. >> okay. >> what are you talking to her about? >> i had her take me through the whole story. >> the person you saw, did it seem to be anybody you knew? >> not a soul. >> not a soul? >> not a soul. i thought about that too, is there anything familiar. there just wasn't. >> have you ever heard of a name of a darrin. >> darrin, yeah. >> who is darrin?

>> he's one of my best friends. yeah. i -- we dated in high school, and he -- but he doesn't know jamie. >> i started questioning, why didn't you tell me about darrin. >> what did she say? >> her whole demeanor changed. >> before jamie's death, how often would you say you spoke with him? >> probably every day. we were at least texting. >> fwas there any intimate talk or anything like that? >> there wasn't intimate talk. >> october 5th, you had over 667 times that you guys called and texted each other. that's a lot. >> 667 in one day. >> october 9th and november 25th, you guys had communicated over 24,000 times. and 13,644 times were text

messages. that's a lot of times for somebody just being friend, and -- >> and i said that he's one of my best friends, and i'm helping him with his kids and stuff right now. >> not only that, darrin has a nissan titan pickup truck. okay. same black, same everything. just like the witnesses took the photos of, same so you got know how i'm feeling right now. you got to think how i'm feeling right now. i'm feeling like you're trying to play me. >> i'm not. >> the same guy who killed your husband, jennifer, is the same guy that you're communicating with every day. you had over 24,000 text messages and calls, 24,000. >> i don't work. he's retired. we talk throughout the day. >> jennifer, it's besides the point. this guy killed your husband. >> how do you know that? >> because i have proof. and guess what, darrin right now

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>> darrin lopez is behind bars. >> back in tennessee, darrin's estranged wife is handling financial matters for him, and she comes across a series of emails on his computer, all of these e-mails from jamie and from rob, detailing the abuse jennifer faced. she contacts detective barnes to hand them over. >> now we're getting these emails kind of threw us for a loop. >> we had heard nothing but wonderful things about jamie faith. and that was very different from the tone of the emails. >> not long after rob gets a call from investigators -- >> they said "can we ask you some questions?" first question i was asked, i believe, "do you have an email that's a gmail?" and he spelled out an email to me. i said, "i've never heard that email before, much less ever used that email."

>> turns out, all those emails from rob were never from rob. they were from jennifer pretending to be rob. >> the emails from jamie to darrin? the same. all concoctions from jennifer faith designed to mislead darrin lopez. >> there was no abuse. it was all a lie. the pictures she included, photos from an old car accident of hers. one was even a stock photo from the internet. >> i felt betrayed. >> my best friend's using my name to do this. jamie is the kindest man around. he'd never hurt anyone, especially jen. >> when i read the affidavit, it's like your reality is just kinda flipped on its head.

everything that you knew or trust, out the window. >> months later, jennifer's charges are eventually upgraded from obstruction of justice to murder-for-hire. >> jennifer faith is now potentially facing the death penalty and her friends are left reeling at the depths of her deception. >> this is a shocking, sensational, and unbelievable story. you cannot make this up. >> it's a horrible way to die. and in front of your own home, outside on a street. how sad is that? and then your wife to be part of it? it is unbelievable.

>> going from supporting her to finding out that she orchestrated and she was basically the mastermind behind everything. >> it's diabolical. the extent that she went to to create this world that was totally untrue, this supposed monster that she was married to, that he was far from. i think he would chase a fly out of his house, probably, before he would swat it. that's that type of guy that jamie was. >> while in custody, she went on a letter writing campaign. >> she sent us a letter. and she was like, "hey, i'm in here. i'm making friends. they made me a birthday cake. we talk every day." and i'm like, "uh, her screws are not screwed in. i mean, this is not a vacation." >> she did send us a letter and

said that she hopes that it doesn't affect our relationship and our friendship. >> trust me as the person you have known for 15 years when i say there is a simple and innocent explanation for everything. even the crap about the sticker on the truck. i wish i could say more, i don't want to jeopardize my case. >> then there's a part in there, i think, where she was even saying that she was making friends while she was in there and helping other people. she's making friends. >> detectives now go to break the news to darrin lopez that all of jennifer's stories about abuse were a lie.

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detectives break the news to darrin that the story of jennifer's abuse was all manufactured. >> how did he react to finding out about all the e-mails? >> he gave us the impression that he had a hard time coming to terms that the e-mails were fake, that he spent so much time hating jamie, that it was hard for him to actually believe they were made up. >> is he more talkative this time? >> he laid everything out about what his life was like prior to re-connecting with jennifer, all the way to through the day of his arrest.

>> one month after jennifer was indicted on murder for hire charges, she indicated she was going to take a plea. i think the reason for that is that the police were so thorough and the atf did such a good job here that there was literally nowhere that she could go for defense. when she took this plea deal, she agreed to plead to count one, which is murder for hire, but they took the death penalty off the table. so she agreed to life in prison, which in federal court, basically without compassionate release means life in prison. >> it was imperative that jennifer faith stipulate the truth that there was no abuse, there has never been abuse, and jamie faith had been nothing but a wonderful husband to her. >> the judge has harsh words for jennifer, calling her pure evil and disgusting and saying she's had a lot of cases, but she can't recall one where she dealt with evil on this level.

>> there's part of me that doesn't feel that she deserves to live her life whether it's behind bars or not. but there's another part of me that is glad that she's got to wake up in that predicament for the rest of her life. >> i loved her. she was a really good friend of mine, and i trusted her. i don't know who she is, and that's scary. >> why not just get divorced? >> as sad as it is, and as bad as it sounds, jamie was more valuable to her dead than he was alive. >> the only thing i still don't understand is, did jennifer ever love darrin? because if she really loved darrin, would she have set him up in the way she did? >> it's been two and a half years since darrin was arrested for the murder of jamie faith. and his fate is about to be determined by a jury here in the courtroom.

>> in dallas, texas, >> do you and each of you solemnly swear that you will a true verdict render? >> i do. >> that is how we officially kick off a trial here in texas. >> darrin appeared very clean cut. his shirts were perfectly starched and pressed as you would expect a military man to have his shirts. >> you're about to hear one of the most heart-wrenching, tragic cases anybody has ever heard in this courthouse. >> both the prosecution and the defense start out with a bang. >> he wants to make passionate love to her knowing she's married. >> they present their wildly different theories on what went down. >> i do not buy that this man was manipulated into murdering james faith. they wanted james faith out of the picture, and they colluded together to murder him. and these are blown up versions of what you saw on the phone, is that correct? >> yes, ma'am. >> there's so much evidence in this case. thousands of text messages and

e-mails. for the prosecution, these e-mails and text messages take center stage in this trial. >> when it's time for the defense to present their case, they go hard on trying to prove that darrin was completely manipulated by jennifer. the defense showed a number of pictures of darrin on the front lines. >> i think it was very important to the defense to present darrin as a war hero, a man with a purple heart. a key part of darrin's defense was that traumatic brain injury. >> his ability to evaluate solutions is diminished because of his emotional disability. >> i would agree, and again, this is more about how he functioned emotionally. >> could darrin tell the difference with what jennifer was telling him, and really what the truth was behind her web of lies? >> his defense is he suffered a traumatic brain injury. that's how this all happened. i mean, you're a veteran. >> i give him respect to what he

did for his country and the type of sacrifice that he put on the line, you know, but there's thousands of veterans that return back from war that make day-to-day efforts to deal with their issues. they don't go out and just murder people. >> and the question becomes, who can best tell darrin's story, well darrin and his attorneys thought it was him. >> do you swear the testimony you're about to give will be the truth? >> i do. >> darrin testifies that at the end of 2019, he was in a really dark place. >> i became extremely depressed. january 1st, 2020, i made my new year's resolution to get back into life. and at that time frame, started to look for jennifer. >> darrin testifies for hours. he gets emotional when he recounts the pain and torture and abuse he says he believed jennifer was facing. >> i couldn't live with it

anymore, not to defend somebody else i cared for. >> he testifies that he thought jamie was making plans to severely beat jennifer around the time of their 15th anniversary. >> as soon as jamie left the house was the first time i would be able to safely take care of the threat to jennifer. and so i acted. i fired my gun into jamie. >> he admits to killing jamie faith. he even almost reenacts what happened that day with the motions in his hands and his body. >> i was transitioning from taking out jamie to now i'm going to attack jennifer to give her her alibi. this is the first time that i've seen jennifer since what? 1993 in person. and i threw her to the ground, and i punched her and slapped her. >> i didn't tell her anything beforehand, and she was, you hear the screams. i mean, there was blood curdling screams.

they were making me sick as i was doing it. >> darrin talks about sitting in jail, how he felt like he had done the right thing. he was a soldier who had done his job, he said. he had protected jennifer from danger. but then he learned that all the e-mails and all the abuse had been a lie. >> i was devastated. i took an innocent life. i took amber's dad from her. >> cross-examination? >> so you're the victim here, mr. lopez, is that what you're saying? >> no, ma'am. i was duped in there. part of it. but i'm not going to say i'm just the total victim. >> jennifer faith found in darrin lopez, a totally ready and willing participant in this -- -- participant. he made all of his own choices, >> jurors are being asked to consider whether or not this is what's known as defense of another. he's arguing that he believes so deeply that she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily

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darrin lopez. >> >> please stand for the reading of the verdict. we the jury, unanimously find darrin lopez guilty of murder as charged in the indictment. >> since the jury found him guilty of murder, they could sentence him from five to 99 years or life in prison. >> darrin is sentenced to 62 years in prison. >> in honor of jamie, i think that the jury did a very good job and found justice for him. >> not having jamie in our group of friends, it definitely left a hole. i just miss my friend. >> i can't bring myself to erase his phone number out of my contacts or our text messages. >> my boys have his obituary on their wall. we just miss him. i still go to the place that we would go and have dinner at. >> one of his coasters from his memorial and the little pamphlet

from his memorial service are hanging on the wall at that place. a lot of people that still remember him still talk about him and just kinda keep his memory alive. >> he is one of the most wonderful people that was on earth because he was kind, and he was caring. jamie was jamie. and that's what you always saw. and that's what you always got. >> jamie faith remembered, his convicted killer, darrin lopez has filed an appeal seeking to overturn his guilty verdict. >> and that is "20/20" for tonight. one more note before we go, and it's a personal one. you have likely already noticed at home by new long time friend and colleague, deborah roberts, we've chased so many stories together. joins us on "20/20." >> the two of us side by side working together again, so let's go. >> we're just getting start. that is "20/20," i'm

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