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him to be, have the wool pulled over his eyes. >> reporter: but, they stood up for him, and thearriage at san diego'historic hotel del coronado w areat hap party. >> i remember thfirst da they were in tgiant ballroom. and they did a very nice ballrooman, you know. and -- a harp d -- >> repter: go figure. >> a big old smile on his ce >> reporter: td to the asid to carlsbad, lifoiast n o diego. anson harper sigon as a eaer aybal coh at lh ho. jas w yty southern california surf, beacvoeyball, public school teacher. >> reporter: where he met the third of those tall friends, andy tompkinson. andy and his wifkristin taught at the same school, casbad gh >> on a campus of 3,0, 2,studts, u tend to notice oerplwhare at thsa eye lev as u. and jasobeing 6'6" and myself being 9" -- >> reporter: there aren't too many people at the same eye leveas.

so youu doice, after whe, wy >> repor two bece fast iend surfing, pick basketball, poker. guy things. d then jason and julie started fami, ja first, then jackie. j names. >> en ifmenot plincards withhes or af , those kidsalwae first. reporter: so it- th- were thereimes when you waed to do sometng with him, and he said, no. soy, i gotta stay home. >> abs -- absolutely. yes >>eporter: home wahere, the rraces at sunny creek. a brand new gad place t far from t beach these we theeighbors. >> reporteo ma neighbhoods now, you d't en know who yo nexor nehbors e, but this, that's nolike this ace all, right? n not at all. >> jie ran the mothetot group in the neighborhood. so she would actlly orgaze all thosactities she waa good mom she was really involved with h

>> repter: a hd to kno exacy just why things changed after joshua, their third, was born2011. julie ju didn't se the same. >> and, as time went by, you would see less and less d less er. >> sheould say, hi, and gein her car d drive away really quick. >> reporter: but she- like she wading from everybody. >> yeah. eporter: but jason? >> he was part of the rmanen landape o neighrhood. he wasre every day. i an, literally,very day >> every day. >> aery hands-on father. >> i'd look out my door to see if he's out d waveyou know, and we'd wk over. bring the ds over d walk on the driveway, and the ds would art playg ght whene go home from school. >> reporter: and then, it was an gust morning in 12. >> y don't know at happen but you know it's not something good. your some -- stach kind of sinks. >> reporter: didn't take a rocket scienst. something was awfully ong. >> there was crime te. myouse iinde the cri tape and the's a police ofcer stationed at the base of myriveway.

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>> repor >> rorr: at 7:30 in the morning on the 8th of august, 2012, michele cullen gaz on the police cars, the crime scene tapeand asked the cop her driveway what's happening? >> you nd to go inside you need to turn on your telesion. >> reporter: a policeman told you this? >> he told me that, yes. what are you tking about? >> repter: thawaappantsoon enoug wn heel out the body bag. >> one of our colleagues and friends called us and said, "i think somethinreallyad has happened. they say that theyound a by upstairs in the master bedroom. looks le it's jason's hoe.">> repit by awfubi and the rest ofheard the ils. the body had been dden under a blant d other de. one bull still lodin the

the neighborhood dad, jason harper. that was trible enou. t wt l. he kide ssg. jue wamissing. and as details uold, we we in complete shock. >> reporter: thiafternoo officers continue their instigation at the harper residee. >> we'relln shock. jason's ad we're ippingut. and they're sang, "have you seen this woman?" >> andhere is she? >> and flashing her plates and her picture. >> reporter:ow. on the news. >>eporteo at hpened? ho invasion? kidnapping? murderuici? >>eporte did you worry aut their kids? >> oh,eah. thas thworst part. >> absutely. bsolutely. eir safety. number one, their safety. are th okay? >> reporr: buthe carlsbad police department had one piece of information the neighbors lacked. which ca whh me in a strange phone a11:0pm theight before rgea jefsmh, was the lead detective. >> t wch comma working that night, got a phone call

resinc >> reporter: a welfare check? emed like an odd request. >>eporter: who was this laer whcalled? >> it was attorney paul pfingst. >>epter: thapaul pfingst? he just happed to behe ex-d.,nd now crinal fee ey whoe eparve well. he'd called anntna exnsn thatnle a 9-1-1 call was n recorded. the cops w t hse ey found jon's by. t nolie and the kids, they were gone. so police edo paul pfingst agn, who sd not toorry. julie and the ds were fine. julie was not a victim. she was his newest cent. he arranged the safe return of the ildr to a loca children's hospital. and then 15 hours after e cops scovered jas's bod pfingst orchestrated julie's surreer

>> reporter: didhe talk you? >> no. >> reporter: but her aorney spoke wiocal reporters. >> she's very set. she's upset about her chdren. she's upset about her health she's upset abouseeing that basilly this pot her life isn shambles. it a catastrophell the way around. >> reporter: so it was. but what happened in the bedroom? ither julie, norttorney int, would say. so the police launched an vestatiotoigure what s liil o i anything? to bin, they h specialists interview the two de chdren, es eht and six, who said their day staed like a l summer morning. anthen and then sometime between eight and 9:00 a.m. -- >> when you were watching

>>h-hu >> yeste >> yesrday morning and y hed the loud -- >> clunk. clunk. >>eporter: a thu at's all they could tella? >> aouthud. >> reporte did ty know a that poi that their father was de >> i don't believeo. reporter: they must have been very confud. yes. reporr: frighted? ea young chilen repte a the onlthin u know are there's a guy wh a bullet he and e kids heard a thump -- >> yes. >> reporter: not aot to go on. >> not a lot. >> reporter: so what did you do next? >> we taedo ighbors who'd possibly seethings one neighbor said that they sa miss harleavright ound 9:05mornnd exiti the --he-- their gated community. >> reporter: so now u know when ty left the house anywa roughly. >> reporter: now theectives did what they could to retrace julie and thkids' movements. duri their interviews, the kids said their mom to them to coffee shop first. >>rom that point they nt to a local play-works, or jum type house place. and from the kids' as that's whereheayed for a

thatitll phone analysis. >> reporter: which led to a disturbing thoht. if thud the kids heardas jason being ot, then t coffee runnd the pladate happed afterrd while he lay, wounded or aeady dead on the bedroofloor. on august h, two days after e shooting, a mediamer nducted an autopsy and recovered e bullet. that killed jason. it came from a .38 caliber han. >> we did nd gun ithe home where mr. harper was fou. >> reporter:ut it was not th gun that killed jason. so, no murder weon and the only spect wasn'taing. >> we believed that thwas gument between t two, and a gun was produced, and she shot him. and we were -- we dn't know why. >> reporter:ot an easy question, under the circances.

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>> rep >> repor bthe me julie ha's attorney arraed for her to turn hersf in, her husbd jason had been deafor a day and a lf. for reasons nobody could understand. they are ba couple. why woulshe shoot th's what carlsbad detective were determined to figure out. julie wasn't talkingso they interviewed frnds and family, and peeled back the layers. sergeanteff smitlearned th a whole year eli, julisent a friendomenlopes for safe keeping. orter: what wa the envepes?

>>eporr: in aternal sty,igns of a marriage at wasn't as perfect as it seemed. julie wrote that "jan yell at me" and, "mayivce is the answer." >>t apared that they we not ppth each otr, and that theirarriage was going towas the end, or divorce. >>eporter: whaver was going on, jason tended to keep to himself, sd his teher friends andy a krist. >> he uld nesay any ill wos or bad things, he kept ve psonal and -- and private. repor but it was pretty clear, they sa, that the maia was winding down.>> arrangents were being made. >> jas's pctually bought a hou down here and h enough ro for jon and l the kids i mean, they were preparing for him to be able to leave. epor julie seemed to be getting ready toet o, o, said sergeansmith. fact, she filed for divorce five dayfohe incid d that samweek madsome

>> ds prior to -- miss harper d taken out out 000 in cash of a dormant account wnderer daughter's name d she'writ $4,500hecks to herself. and it was against a credit card in m harpes name. >> reporter: julad pulled out nearly $20,000. cash und thato ver suspicious. reporte deputy strict torney kth watanabwas assigned to the case on day one. >> reporter: did it suggt you that she had been ardi mone anticipation of somethg? >> she was prepari a ange in her life >> reporter: b did the change volve vorce or mde jus father, ih, livehere. 30 miles or from son and julie's house. this, apparent, was wher julie and the ds spent the night after the shooting. sogt. smith got a search warrant for dad's place and found nothing useful. there were other gunbut them fired bullett lled jason.

eight daater he t a second arch warrant. and this time there was something new. tuckedway the garage attic, in a spot they srched the first time around, a blue backpack, must have been hidden between arches. hey ened up this blue backpack and they discover e harper's wallet, credi cards and id, r passpo, a different gun and son harper la will and stament. >> reporr: also, jason's cell phone. its batteries removed ancall and text history cared. the backpack gun was also clean. nothe onused to shoot jason.thad to be a getayag, the prosecutor decided. she must have packed it up after she killed jason. >> that's the only reason to take a person'last will and testamt. it's because she realized was dead. >>epor julie's bere andfter the shooting raed sorts of questions. and foremost forhe prosetor

was premeditated? and, if so, r holo? >> we believed we could prov rst-degree murder, notn the theory that she had planned is muer the days or weeks before the shooting had taken place. instd we were relying on the theory that, even during this argument, shok enough sts in order to get the gun, that this would've been planned and premeditedeven if it was only for a minute or t before the shooting. repor and that's enou? >> in california that quifie as fstegree murder. >> reporter: so that's what he charged chargeher with. first-degree murder. jue pleaded not guilty but otrwise ke her mouth shut and sat in jail. but strange details kept coming oulike what julis said at her preliminary hearing about the blueacac >> there had actually been

admitted the found the cash inhe backpack and ga ito lie's lawyero lp pay for bail andegal fees. >> repter: wt did you ink when youeard that? >> in myildest dreams i would've ner expted th. >> reporter:y the y, julie's dateified athe prem only after being granted munity. he initially pleadedhe 5th. and even thougbail was ,000,000, julie'family evtually coughed i. and ter thaa year in jail, she movebacknto e houson bger la three doorsdo from chelle miller. >> she knocked omy door toet know that sheasack and th we're gna he a good talk somedayhen this is all over. >> repter: what did you say to r? >> ias just completely shocd. i couldnieve it. >>eporte a tse coortablnotions out he ighbors d maybmielle didn't knothem at l. >> i d't uerand why y it happened, you know what i

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>> repor >> reporter: september, 2014. death, his wulie, th mothf their three children nt on trial fofirst-degr murder. >> she didn't look lika murderer, there's suca thin >> repter: but even though deputy d.a. keith wanabe had ner been able to talk to julie, had never heard her story, he waconfidt. his theme was something called the "teoration of julie harper." >> her life had beco a saster, th in terms her marriageher childr, her health, her financial ste. d we believeas seriously abusing her prcription medication. >> reporter: "lo at this," he told the jury. pill bottles. "thoh julisuer from an auto-immune disease,he said, "this made it cleashe was abusing powerful medations

"loo the mess in julie's bedrm. as if a hoarded here." when jas's body was found, i was hidden uer a blanket and sunddebris e bullet thalled tered from a side-rear ale. he s ot pretty much in thback. whatapped? "julie must havet jason between 8:00 am and 9:00 am," said the prosecuto "whe e kidsere wnstairs watching caoons a ighbor s julie leang justfteram. and she was at la costa coffee roasting 40 minus later. >> she wasn't crying. she wasn't upset. she di't ask anyone to call 1-1. it showed that ts woman had a lloused het. she was pae of mdering her husbanand reallyad the whewithato be abo go o to public and appearbe perfectly normal. >> reporter:it was clearly

wanabe. t s ? remeer, jue d not talk, t ce, to the police, or the prosecutor because her aory never allowed it. but now itas te. defense attorney paul pfgst called jt one witness, jue harper. and she said, es." she did it. she sh him, but, she said, "it wa't murr. why? becae, sheaijasohaer bov by ies, and neigor a colleagues was, in private, an angryabusive husban >> did you videopeason ing -- reptend he he sai re was herecret recording of jason, losing it, over money. >> i don't want to enable your horrible mon waste! and your pr credit score and everhing else. i n't nto enablehat. it's horrible! >> reporter: and tn, this -- >> get a cpool, bitch. fire it out. i can't help it if you're o

too zy wel you know,t let have more wordin my vocabulary than you d seems like the-i-t-c-hs e only word at y can use. >> that's righ right now, that is darright. cause at what you are. >> reporter: "but," saidulie, "it t worse. got physical." >> he grabbed my wrists and my hando forcefullynd twisted it sha that i ant wa rtg into the next y. >> reporr:emember, jas w a 6"thte, about a foot taller than lie. by then they sle in separate room but somemes, sheai wn he got angry, he came to her room and the abustued sexual. >>lamming me up against the wall facfirst. >> and what were you saying? >> i sop stop! what you doi? stop!" >>eporr:ulolthjury

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you then? >> he grabbed meand began yaing my top off. >> i sta >> i started pushing back and somemanad toof wiggle my way free pulling away quickly as i uld mod from there across the rooto my bed. >> what did you do wn you got bed? >> i grabb my gun from under plow. >> reporter: a derringer .38 caliber handgun. >> he was coming towards me with his ms rsed, a he said,

eep ] tch! and i was shing, and ldg holding on to my gun tightly. next thing i knew, i felt -- felt my ha jerk and heard the loud n and he was sll like coming forward at me. d then all of a su, he froze, c froze, completeland justik a tree i a tree in the forest, just fell forward at me. >> reporter: just like a tree, jason, the tall man, the hlet tolleal the ma teach, was dead. so that,inallywas julie' sty, that she was abused woman, w shot her and in

>> on that date, did you still loveour husband? >> yes. >> did you have -- did you want hito be dead >> no. >> rorter: but now, for th first time, julie would haveo facerosecur with a lot of estion coming u-- the crime recreated in court. >> do yoneed a moment, ms. harper? >> but did the witness outmaneuver prosecutor >> this t sest woman that i had ever cross-examed in my life. >> when "datele" cch tnt s %

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>> as you sit here tod, do you believe that your shooting of jason was justified based on your need to defend yourlf? >> i didt intend tohoot hi i on wanted tocare him, or to get him to stop. norape me, not hurt me, or possibly worse. >> this was the smartest woman had ever cross examin in my fe. reporter:odging and weaving. >> yea she was able tthink on the spot. >> reporr: t pill bottles, l necessary for her cal itand prescribed by her doct. she never abused them, she said. bu, d, jason was coming at her when st,hy enthe prosecor wondered, did the bullet enter fm the back? >> do you mind stepping down here and i'm going to have u -- >> reporter: prosecutor tanabe seup a courtroom re-creation. >> okay, i'm going to have mr. rr sta in for jason just because then i can -- >> reporr: but, things didn't quite playut the way the

did julie use this moment to heradvant advantage? >> your honor, the witness is crying now. >> do u need a men . harper? >> no, it's okay. >> okay, position s hands where theyer the record will flect -- >> she bke dowand starte crying and was visibly upset in front of the jy. >> repter: that was maybe not e best sategy on your part th, as it turned o. >> it wa >> it was a powerful moment for her because it aowed her t really retell thstory in an emotional way and bring the juro inther story. >> rorte julieas on the stand for three days. and then the jury hato decide, was she a murderer? or victim in fear for her fe? >> i was jurorumber three in jue harper's trial.>> reporter: jh dyal said he knew early on inhe deliraons it wasn't going to be easy or quick. >> within 15 minutes, we had taken a vote

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deyed julie's trial fo months.and josephine fah k s rnapri29 father lied or birt certificate. the neighbors on badger lane tched anwonder >> she decided she was gonna lk the baby in the stroller through the neighborho. and, you know -- it was like nothing ever ppened. >> that was ry uncomfortable >> it was likeotng had happedin h md. >> yea and everything was fine. >> everything's ne. >> and s's you know, my fe 2.0. >> reporter: well, not qui, of ur. in september, 2015, julie, the judge, t attneys, all asmbled before a brand n ry new sangers to n over. except ts time prosecutoratanabe knew what was coming from julie. anso he canvsed the wiesses. did they ever see signs of abuse? this is sos mother. >> did jul appear in any way to be fearful to you? no.

marks on h? >> no. >> reporter: julie and jason eldest sonake, by this time, 11, on the state othe marriage. >> tl me about how the arguing beca worse >> it just escalated. >>ven though the arguing becameorse, diyou ever see your dad hit yr mom then? >> no. >> reporter: neighbor miche ll saw jason and julie togeth fivys beforjan's son's deh. did yvesee th lou to believe th she wabelybused? >>o, never. >> rorter:ut julie sisr amsaid jie did cfide in that jas was physilly abg her. >> jason had become ve, very angry, wasonstantly yelling at her, would grab her by her wrists and twi them. >> repor nothing about rape though. so, why would the ry believe julie's aim that jason did rape her violent, and reated when jul testifiedshe ked the juryo lo at entries in her private jourls and day

wheverhey sathe word, "sex," said julie, that was de for rape. >> were you making notations of days youad coerced sex? >> yes >> yes. >> reporter: prosecor watanabe, ocourse, di't believehat. but, wn he challenged her, was this real emotion? >> now, ve y ever called the police on jason for any the indents? no. i was verymbarrassed. i was very embarrassed that was ing it. i didn't want -- i didn't wa my family to kno i didn't want myeighbors to know. i didn't want friends to know. repter: manipatn? t awfulth once again, a jury was asked to pass judgment on julie harper. in thperi court of the at cnia. >> reporter: everybodyaited, baited breath. >> we the jun e above an

julie harper guilty of the crime murder, and fix the degree thereof as mder in the second degree. >> reporter: guilty of seco-dege murder on wt the hacuffs, just like that. ju number two was not at all like jury number one. >> no dot at all? >> n no,o, no. t at all. no. >> reporter: but what about the se recorngs, jason yelling at jie? >> i don't want to enable your horrible money waste! >> he did lose h temper at times. but the tapes wereo conveniently done, it seemed to comen jut the time when he was at his worst. at prey goodvidence, but -- i just d e feeling that they were staged >>orter:nd how about tha diary, in whh e word sas supposed to mean rape? >> so it wld say, . th we weo the , a fine dier house, had filet gn >> say -- ying"cuddling." [ laughter >> cuddling, and then wealked and cuddled more," and et cetera >> but that ant rape >> but -- bushe wod say that

d that mno sse tus. >> no disrpe to the first of jurorfr the initial ial, i just dot understand how they cou not have found her guty. repte and so me appointment talk to julie, by then behind s in a san diego county jl. >> i d't t you expd this rult at all. uld be r authat? youe correct inhat, yeah. what was really so shockin was th they could ignore all of thatndependent evidence tse ofy testony. >>eportey th she meant the reg of jason yli, anher claim in r disemeant rape and despite what the jy thought, she has big plans.>> because of what i'vgone through th my husband and the abuse that i've suffered, i am planning and wking with a couple of peop to stt the "jul harper undaon" as a charity befi victi of meic violence and thr families.

start with getting a jury to believe that you we a victim of domestic violence, and at was your problem. go. like, the rst jury did believe that. there'different people that process information, the same informatn, same evidence in ry different ways. >> rorter: the way jan harper's fen processed itas that julie tormented a good and decent man, and then threw him under the bus toav her own skin. the hardest thing i think for me was the rape allegaons. i juthers stway. no way. not rp. >> you know, harp's gone and -- yoknow, we miss him. and we love him. t,ou kw, for her to be put away -- -- -- it helps -- it hel heal. >>eporr: and julie? on jay 15thshwas sentenced to0 yes to lif priso >> a essallym 42 yea old, andt's deatsentce >> reporter: vy true.

lot minds. >> why did you get pregnt? >> i wasuch a go parent, and i had thatove to ge to another child. and real wanted toe able to give and share that ve with my daughter who i le more than ananhing in the rld. >> reporter: her othhildren live with jason's parents now. thby iwi julie's fatr, whsent us a statent repeating julie'abuse claim and saying, "the verdict is unjust we ask him and julie's attorney and h frien and siblings, any of them to sit thonamera d talk about julie, if nothing else, to defend her. l clined >> thank you very ch. rter:arring a ccsfppeal, jul harr will die will dieehd bars, that's aorow.

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