he wasn't my biological child, but my heart, you can't tell it to my heart. i love that boy. it's not fair that he was taken from his children or from his family. >> jesse fell for vince, a man in uniform holding the fort during his long deployments. >> my hat goes out to all military wives. it's not easy. >> it's not.

she was a good mom. she loved the kids. >> reyumted at last, they celebrated. then on the dry home -- >> there was a scar there stranded. vince tells his wife that he's going to go check on them. >> i heard two popping sounds. >> he was lying there with what appeared to be gunshots to the head. >> her husband, father of five, was dead. no one could understand it. >> the type of person that he was, i don't think he ever had an enemy. >> or did he? >> he said we are now in debt to bad people. >> i knew that there was another person that needed to be looked at. >> a winding investigation leading deep into the dark. >> this sounds like a love triangle. >> i believe it was. >> horrific. >> brutal. >> it was like why? are you kidding me? are you kidde

>> hopkinsville, kentucky, cornfields. picture fences and patriotism. just to the south is fort campbell, home to more than 13,000 army soermgs and their families. after facing danger all over the world, soldiers return to a checkive sigh of relief. after all, bad things aren't supposed to has been here, but when one young sergeant returned from a tour in afghanistan, he had no idea the enemy would be much closer to home. >> some guy needed help. >> multiple gunshots to his face and head. >> he had only been back from fighting in the war for such a short period of time, it was tragedy. >> my heart sunk.

>> sergeant vince sent goslin jr., a 28-year-old father of five had sevened in the army for seven years as a quarterback and a mechanic. >> did vince ever express to you what it meptd to him to serve his country? >> he absolutely loved it. >> he's his cousin. but as he explains it, they were much more than that. >> were you kind of like a big brother to vince? >> yeah. we had a bond. he had an outgoing personality. had a crazy little grin. you always knew when he was doing something mischievous. >> and he recalls the miss sjef they got into growing up in a small michigan up to called cadillac. >> we'd go play in the creeks, go fishing, just run around, climbing trees, just anything outdoors. we would leave in the morning, come back at night when it started to get dark. we actually built a raft out of

old barrels that we threw in the water and tied sticks to it. nevada floated, but -- >> soumds like huckleberry finn. >> yeah. >> vince's childhood story wasn't always so idealic. >> his mom left at eight months old, so he was raced with his dad. i think his dad was married six times, so it was a little tough on him. janet madison considered he vince's surrogate mom. she said he spent a lot of time at her house, her son was his best friend. >> he was always there. they did everything together. >> it seems like you two had quite a connection. >> we did. >> what was that about? >> i think a lot of it was i never judged him. vince was -- he was the purest tattoo kid, the droopy pants, the spiked hair, the -- i just treated him just like anybody.

>> and then one day he came to her with some life changing news. was he scared finding out he was going to be a dad? >> he probably was scared but he was afraid that i would be mad at him, and i wasn't mad at him. >> vince had two sons from two relationships by the time he was 18 but janet says he only ever saw them as blessings. >> how was vince as a dad? >> he was awesome. he would change that diaper. he would clean up that puke. he didn't care. his kids were his world. >> then someone else entered his world, a hometown girl named jessie holm. >> vince loved jessie unconditional. and you could see it. he was happy. he loved her. >> how were they when they were together? >> they had a lot of fun. they loved their car, tricking out the cars. >> jessie liking cars, that's a

match made in heaven. >> she went out there and worked on them. they had a lot in common that way. >> and janet says he started to settle down, moved in with jessie's family and bonded with her dad, a vietnam vet. he was the one who suggested the military might be a good way for vince to get on the straight air narrow. so he joined the army in 2005. he was 21 years old. >> this is a boy who's gone from baggy pants and spiky hair to now he's going to have the military cut and the uniform. >> uh-huh. >> that'slike a 180. >> that is a 1 is 80. it's what he needed. >> you must have been proud of him for making that step. >> i was always proud of him. i'm still proud of him. >> the military comes with danger and risks. >> it is. >> did you worry about vince going overseas? >> you always worry. but there's not a whole lot you

can do when your children make decisions except for support them. i wasn't going tell him no don't do it. i think he did the best that he could. i think he knew what he was doing. >> with vince's career headed in the right direction, he took another big step and popped the question. jessie said yes. >> there is a connection between them two that they loved each other to death. you know, they would argue. i think they actually argued just so they could make up. >> some people say that's the best part. >> it is. >> after the wedding, kids as soon as possible followed for the happy couple. two girls and a boy. as a sergeant in the army, vince spent a lot of time overseas, so it was up to jessie to ham the home front and take care of the kids on the own. >> it's not easy having a husband who's away. it takes someone special to endure that and get through

that. >> she said somehow they made it work. >> when you see jessie and them as a family, they looked like a great family. >> by 2012, vince and jessie had been married for six years. despite bumps, tim thought life was good. but shortly after returning from afghanistan, vince's secretary tour there, tim got an unsettling call from him. >> what did he say? >> he just told me that he needed -- he needed to talk to me and he wanted to see to me. he tint want to talk to me over the phone. >> was it kind of cryptic or -- >> i think that maybe he kind of knew something was going on. >> something bad? >> the sound of his voice. it was if something happened, i wanted you to know what's going on, but he wouldn't tell me anything. >> did that leave you with an uneasy feeling? >> it did. >> a few days later on february 3rd vince and jessie went out to

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>> yes. >> jess ie goslin told the operator that her husband, sergeant vincent goslin had been shot when he tried to help a motorist on the side of the road. >> listen, listen, listen. i can't understand a word you're saying. you're going to have to calm down and talk to me. >> jessie said vince came back to the car but was unable to get in because a man was pulling him back. >> he was trying to get in the vehicle. he couldn't get in the vehicle. he screamed for me to go. jesse said she drove away from the scene. minutes later another 911 call came in. >> the guy that's being killed he's dead here down the road from my house. >> this is the man who made the call. >> walter ferguson was getting ready when he heard gunshots.

>> i didn't think nothing of i i. i got in the struck. as soon as i crest the hill i saw the truck's lights came on and he just bolted off. >> what did you do when you saw this truck? >> i mean, well, i mean, i went and turned and and i -- as i came back around i made sure my high beams were on, didn't see his body. >> on the side of the ready walter found a man laying down in the dirt. >> i tried talking to him to see if he was awake, alert, something. i started looking for my phone. i didn't have it on me. so i had to zoom back to the house to call 911. >> crisp county detective ed stokes raced to the scene. >> we were just notified that there had been a shooting on the road and one male possibly deceased. >> tell us what you see when you arrive at the scene. >> the first thing i noticed was sergeant goslin's body lying

here in the gravel with a large amount of blood around the body. >> could you tell if he had been shot? >> we found what appeared to be gunshot wupds to the head and shell cases laying near the body inside the crime scene backed up the thought that he was shot. >> you say he was shot in the head. >> yes. >> and the face? >> correct. >> was this personal? >> it's permanent to me, because that person that shot him nine times wanted him dead. >> you had a killer on the loose. >> we did. >> you had to find out who did this. i mean, they could strike again. >> we felt like we had a person that did not care about anything. >> while detective stokes worked the crime scene, about a quarter mile down the road, deputies were talking to jessie. >> she was crying. times you couldn't understand what she was saying. >> there's jessie on her knees,

collapsed on the side of the road. >> this is a wife who had been through a traumatic situation. >> she is had watched her husband get shot multiple times, yes. >> detectives took her back. her stomach it seems couldn't take the horror. by now, lynn pry o, the commonwealth's attorney had been notified. >> i remember them telling me there was a man that had been killed on the road that his wife was there. she'd be a caller. and that there was another witness that had heard shots but didn't actually see who had fired the shots. >> what did you think when you heard that a soldier from fort campbell had been gunned down. he's barely been home from his tour of duty. >> it hurt. we take a great pride in having

fort campbell as our community. the fact that our soldiers protect us every day and we wanted to make sure that we got justice for him. >> was jessie able to describe the person who shot her husband? >> she initially described him as a black man, and i believe that's pretty basically all the description she was being able to give. >> jessie also described the killer's car. >> what kind of car. >> an old one. one of the big ones. >> what color was it. >> i don't know. like a reddish-brownish color. >> it wasn't much for police to go on. to make it more difficult, walter ferguson, the eyewitness, had seen something different. >> describe the truck that you saw speeding off. >> as he passed me i could see it was a white truck and up saw the four by four on it. but that's about as much as i could see on it. >> so the witness had seen a

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physically distraught. >> i'll get you some water. >> she kept asking about her husband. she still hasn't been told if he was dead or alive. >> your stomach feel better? >> not really. >> street any -- >> no. >> ok. well just sit there -- >> and i want my mommy. and i want my kids. >> finally, the detective came back and broke the news about vince. >> he was pro noupsed dead at the scene. i'm really sorry for your loss. the tragedy news of vince's murder spread fast throughout the base and to family members, janet, vince's surrogate mother got a call from jessie's mom. >> and she said janet, there's been an accident.

vince's been shot. and i was devastated. i was like what? what? what do you mean he's been shot? >> vince's cousin tim immediately left his home in virginia and traveled to kentucky still in disbelieve. >> how can he survive two times in afghanistan and come home to be shot by some worthless thug that didn't even know him. >> you must have felt so horrible for jessie and for the kids. >> absolutely. i must have called her at least 50 times, trying to figure out what's going on and be there for her and the kids. >> i'm devastated for jessie, for the kids. i don't know what happened. i have no idea what just happened, you know, nothing had been told. >> jessie instantly became a widow. >> yeah. >> by now, jessie had left the

sheriff's department and headed home. >> she was picked up by a friend, taken back to her house. >> the day after the murder local police and agents were canvassing the goslin's neighborhood. this is a mix of army investigators and local investigators. >> yes. >> they knocked on the door of kay and william ray, the couple who lived next door to the goslins. what they had to say was so compelling, they asked him to immediately come in for an interview. >> said he had some information about something ms. goslin told you. >> somehow another got involved with a drug dealer. at least $20,000 of meth and got jumped and stole away from him. it happens these guys are supposedly after him for the money. >> the rays explained to the investors jessie had told them about the drug dealers weeks before the murder. >> she seem worried at all about what was going on?

>> she's been scared ever since this has happened she's been scared. fear for her life and her children. >> did they ever say who these people were. >> no. >> where they were from? >> never said nothing about it. >> kay ray convinced jessie she should talk to military investors, tell them what she told local police. it turned out to be a fateful decision. >> they get in and go to cid headquarters. >> with kay ray sitting next to her for support, jessie gave a detail explanation about why she turned down that deserted road. she said as they were driving them she was at the wheel and she started to feel sick. he said there's a road, drive down the road. he told me to drive until there was a spot to pull off. >> she said that's when vince got out to help the vehicle.

she heard gunshots. >> two, maybe three like like popping sounds. and my husband had rounded the edge of the passenger side of the vehicle. he was trying to get in. and the guy was behind him and he kept pulling him back out. and he was hitting him. all my husband kept saying was go, drive, go, get out of here. >> she described a chaotic scene with a random motorist but then investigators asked her about vince's involvement with those drug dealers, suggesting perhaps it wasn't so random after all. jessie told them what she knew. >> he had told me that he had bought a large quantity of methamphetamines. he said we are now in debt to people, to bad people. about $20,000. >> we had to check into his drug

usage, if we could find anything out from friends, family, if he was using or even dealing drugs. j if this story checks out, that's pretty serious. >> if we could prove that, yes. >> while jessie did her best to give leads, police working in the field got a new lead of her own and it sent them in a very different direction. them in a vy different direction. coming up -- >> i actually don't know what's going to happen. >> did vince's killer threaten jessie, too? >> she was getting text messages? >> that's what she indicated, yes, and that he would kill her and her children if she didn't comply with what he was telling her to do. >> when evil was waiting continues. >> when evil was waiting continues. thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance.

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enforcement a possible motive. >> she said vince owed money to drug dealers, a lot of money. >> do you know who they were? >> no, i don't. >> they were getting updates about all the witness interviews but to her, jessie's was the most important. jessie gave police a key new detail. she said on the night of the murder one of those drug dealers contacted her. >> dove to talk to the drug dealers directly? >> she was getting text messages from this man? >> that's what she indicated, yes, and that he would do harm or kill her and her family, her children, if she didn't comply with what he was telling her to do. >> that's what jessie admitted she didn't drive down the road because she was feeling sick. >> i got a text that told me to turn on the road. >> what did the text say? turn on this road or turn on the next road? what did it say? >> it told me to turn on the

road after the stop light. >> all right. she said she felt she had no choice but to go through with what the man said even though she suspected something bad was about to happen. >> i kinda figured it was -- >> as the interview on fort campbell headed into its second hour, sheriffs detectives across town were working on trabing down the truck seen leaving the murder scene. >> walter ferguson, the witness who had described seeing a white colored four by four truck speeding down the road, gave police more distinctive. >> was it loud? >> was it -- very loud. >> the truck sounds very unique,

the fact that it was high off the ground. >> it would tell us that it wasn't just an every day car or truck. we could find it easier, quicker, being lifted up and being loud. >> detectives quickly found neighbors who told them they'd seen a truck just like that many times in the neighborhood. they searched dmv records and found the truck. it was registered to a former soldier who had 4ri6d on base at fort campbell. 24-year-old jared long. >> jared long was very much a person of interest at that point. >> he's not on base anymore. >> no. >> where is he? >> we didn't know. >> so detective stokes says law enforcement immediately got busy trying to find him. >> we actually put a locate out all surrounding states and counties from here to colorado where he was from. and in fact, he was stopped by a trooper in colorado. >> he must have really hightailed it out of kentucky to get to colorado that fast. >> quick.

>> was he driving a raised white struck? >> he was in a light gray dodge pickup truck that was lifted with large tires and loud exhaust, matching the description of the witness. >> you're thinking you might have your man here? >> yes. >> he might have thought he had his man but police decided the fact that jared's struck matched the description wasn't enough to arrest him. >> they stalled as long as they could, i think, and ultimately had to let him go. >> that's potential evidence driving away. who knows what's in that truck. >> yes. >> what's on his clothes. it's all -- it could all be destroyed. >> that was all evidence, potential evidence that we wanted to get our hands on and had no ability to do so at that time. >> that's tough. >> very tough. >> but detectives pressed on and while trying to figure out who jared long was and why he would want vince dead, they uncovered new information about their may witness, jessie.

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wife she seemed to be. instead, she was at the center of a deadly love triangle. >> both men in love with jessie. >> correct. >> jessie in love with one man? >> i believe so. >> to the detective, evidence that jared and jessie were a couple was piling up. like when police ran the plates of the car she was driving the night of the murder. >> it came back to jessie goslin and jared long. >> she owned a car together. how did she explain that? >> she said she cooperate get a loan herself so he co-signed for the vehicle for her. >> so she had a logical explanation for that. j yes. >> by now, police had had enough of her shifting stories and confronted her with what they knew. >> we know it wasn't a black guy. >> yes. >> we know his truck was there.

>> it was not, no. >> everything you said was true. >> no. >> yes, very true. >> no. >> he told her they knew all about herro mannedic relationship with jared. jessie admitted she and jared hung out together but continued to deny there was anything skbul with him. >> he stayed on the house and that was it. >> she did admit vince and she were going through a tough time but claimed they were working things out. >> i'm not just going to walk away from you. i'm not that person. i'm not going to leave you. he actually called friday before we left. >> se said vince knew all about jared. >> vince knew that he had been seeing the house. >> investors didn't believe her. month that were three hours into the interview after repeated by denying she and jared had a

romantic relationship -- >> we did not have sex. >> jessie finally changed her story. >> there was times i knew that jared loved me and i know he loves my kids. >> she shot him nine times. >> when investors told lynn prior that jessie admitted to having a romantic relationship with jared, she knew this was a big moment. >> they were planning a life together. >> that could be a motive. >> absolutely a motive. who was in their way of their being together for the rest of their life? her husband. >> jessie had another possible motive. as a military wife, she would receive a big pay out from her husband's life insurance policy. $450,000. >> she could have benefitted greatly from the death of her husband. >> before the eight-hour interview was over she admitted to seeing jared the day before the murder. >> he told me he was in town.

i said fine. we had lunch and we talked and we did have sex. >> but it wasn't the sex investigators were interested in. jessie had one more story to tell. she claimed that jared talked to the drug dealers and if he roughed up vince that would satisfy them. then she told her what her job would be. >> you need to pull down to the shoulder where you can pull off. i'm gonna set your husband straight. >> but the prosecutor and detectives weren't buying it. instead, without realizing it, jessie had finally given them what they needed. >> why is there enough now to arrest her? >> she's admitted her part in getting him to the location where he was ultimately killed. in kentucky, being an accomplice

to murder is the same as committing murder. >> that grieving wife hysterical by the side of the road, getting sick before police, was being charged with her husband's murder. >> see your hands. step out of the truck. >> because of jessie's admission that they planned to harm vince, police had enough to arrest him, too. they tracked him down again. this time near his home in colorado. >> they called him out, made him go prone on the ground and placed him in cuffs. >> continue this search warrant. >> they had an warrant to search his truck this time? >> they were able to obtain a search warrant for his truck. >> she found a shell casing that ultimately was matched to the shell casings found at our murder scene and they swabbed the truck, which eventually led to evidence that indicated gunshot residue had been left in several places around his

vehicle. while that's not 100% confirmation that someone has fired a weapon, it is very indicative of the fact that whoever handled the driver handle on the door, the gear shifter and the steerlg wheel on there truck had ream fired a weapon. >> colorado police brought jared in for questioning. unlike jessie, he didn't hesitate to talk about his romantic relationship with her. >> we hooked up a while back and was we started going out and the next thing i knew, it -- we were living together. i knew she was married. i knew it was horrible, but -- >> he also admitted to being in kentucky on the day of the murder. but he said he left before dark. >> when do you think you left? >> about 5:30. >> what he didn't know was jessie had already pointed the finger at him.

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prosecutor lynn prior already felt she had a solid case against jared long and after his raeftd police found even more evidence in his truck. >> there was one spot of blood that belonged to vincent goslin on the backback of jared long. >> this is bingo. >> this is more evidence. >> how do you explain the victim's blood on your backpack when you're hundreds of miles away? >> you can't unless you're the person who knew. >> the case against jessie wasn't airtight. >> there was no physical

evidence preliminary reply indicating her. >> did you worry that wouldn't be enough goat her convicted? >> yes. jared long was not able to give us anything with regard to preliminary reply kagt jessie but we knew it was her involvement that got jared to where vincent was killed. >> how were you going to prove that? >> with her own words. >> mark bryant represented jared long handy had a plan that could benefit jessie, too. his strategy was to get jessie's interview with police thrown out. how would he do that? mrs. goslin has told the local police department that she didn't want to talk, that she wanted a lawyer. >> i want an attorney and i want to know where my husband is. >> you have to break up any questioning and they did. and they sent her back home to fort campbell. >> after that, her friend convinced jessie to speak to the

military police on base. >> she spent eight hours with the police after that very day she said she wasn't going to talk without a lawyer. it was just a different police agency. >> she argued in front of a circuit judge. the military police should never have questioned her. the judge agreed. >> he made a decision that that confession that she made implicating our client should be set aside because the law enforcement agency for the military police should have followed the same rules that the earlier police department in christian county had followed during that day. >> jessie goslin's statement was thrown out. the news hit vince's family hard. >> hearing the news that vince was killed was a horrible, but what the justice system did was unfair. >> when they threw that out of court, i was devastated all of again. we thought she was going to walk away. we thought that they were going

to get away with it. >> that was a huge blow. >> it was devastating. without jessie's statement about how this all happened and the planning that went into vincent vest murder, our case was very circumstantial, at best. we still had the physical evidence that jared was found with in colorado and we had the neighbors who had seen him at jessie's house, but the connection between the two and the reasoning behind the murder was gron. >> but the prosecutor wasn't going down without a fight. she filed a motion with the kidnap court of appeals. jessie and jared were meanwhile out and about. how did you feel about them being out on house arrests with just ank el bracelets? >> i was livid. i argued to the best of my ability to the judge about why

someone that was charged with such a heinous murder should be out on an ankle monitor, and none of the arguments that i made were convincing to the judge. >> then everyone waited and waited. four long years went by before the appeals court finally reached a decision and sided with the prosecution. what's that moment like when you get word that it's been overturned and that the statement will be allowed? >> i was very much relieved. >> pryor considered her options and considered that of the two, jared deserved the harshest punishment. >> jared long was the one who pulled the trigger nine times. jared long was the one who took the life of vincent goslin, so we wanted to make sure he received the maximum punishment he could for this crime. >> to do that, she needed jessie to tell the jury the whole story but she and jared planned to

murder vince. >> we needed her testimony about the reasons why they planned to kill vincent and the way that they planned it out. >> so the prosecutor made an offer. if jessie pleaded guilty to complicity to murder and would testify against jared, she would recommend a sentence of 22 1/2 years behind bars. >> she agreed to this plea deal? >> she did. after long talks and very heated discussions. >> so now, with time served, the woman who had played the victim, detrade her husband and lover could spend less than 14 years behind bars. >> some people think the sentence is too light. >> i don't disagree with that, that the sentence was too light. but after discussions with law enforcement, with family members, we determined that it was worth it to have her to be able to say in her own words what happened and why.

>> a different prosecutor then took over the case against jared long. his name was mark blankenship. as he looked over the case, he came to a different conclusion about who was most responsible. >> i felt that the master mind of the crime was jessie. she didn't pull the trigger, but without her, this doesn't happen. what bothered me was that the bar got set at 22 years for the master mimed of the crime. >> so blanken ship did what he thought to be fair and offed jared a deal, too. 30 years in prison for pleading guilty to first-degree murder. jared agreed. >> jared at times was being betrayed at this victim, a little bit of jessie, that she was the master mimed, but vince was shot nine times in the head and the face. >> i know. >> you cannot discount that. >> no. >> for anything. >> no. it bothers me. he should have gotten more than 30 years.

>> tim, vince's cousin was torn about the puppishment. >> jessie should have got more time than she did. she manipulated him. >> is that the jessie you knew, this master manipulator? >> obviously she must have been manipulating us, because i never would have pegged her. >> i believe that she should do life. >> as for janet, the woman who stepped in as vince's mother, it's hard for her to describe the pain she feels. she watched her surrogate son go from a tough kid to a tough soldier. he game that good and honorable man, only to have it all needlessly taken away. >> he wasn't my biological child, but my heart, you can't tell that to my heart. i love that boy, and it's not fair that he was taken from his children or from his family. he had so much potential. he had gone so far.

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