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child. holding the fort during his long deployments. my hat goes off to all military wives. jesse fell for vince. a man n ere was a car, they're stranded. vince tells his wife he's going to go check on it. he was laying there with what appeared to be several gunshot wounds to the head. narrator: her husband, a father of five, dead-- no one could understand it. the type of person that he was, i don't think he ever had an enemy-- narrator: or did he? we knew that there was another person

that needed to be looked at. narrator: a winding investigation, leading deep into the dark-- this sounds like a love triangle. well, it was. it's horrific, brutal. i was, like, why? are you kidding me? [music playing] hello, and welcome to "dateline." growing up, vince goslyn didn't seem destined for the military, but that's where he found his footing. his career was thriving, and he had built a beautiful family. then one night, the father of five was gunned down on a lonely road not far from his base. did his decision to help someone in need cost him his life? or was he targeted? here is "evil was waiting." [music playing] narrator: hopkinsville, kentucky-- cornfields, picket

fences, and patriotism. just to the south is fort campbell, home to more than 13,000 army soldiers and their families. after facing danger all over the world, soldiers return to a collective sigh of relief. after all, bad things aren't supposed to happen here. but when one young sergeant returned from a tour in afghanistan, he had no idea the enemy would be much closer to home. 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 tragic. my heart sunk. narrator: sergeant vincent goslyn jr., a 28-year-old father of five, had served in the army for seven years as a quartermaster and mechanic.

did vince ever express to you what it meant to him to serve his country? he absolutely loved it. narrator: tim hamilton is vince's cousin, but as he explains it, they were much more than that. were you kind of like a big brother to vince? yeah, with him it was-- i don't know. we had a bond. he had an outgoing personality. he had his crazy little grin. he always knew when he was doing something mischievous. narrator: and tim recalls the mischief he and vince got into growing up in a small michigan town called cadillac. tim hamilton: we'd go play in the creeks, go fishing. we actually built a raft out of old barrels that we threw in the water and tied sticks to it, and it never floated, but-- it sounds like huckleberry finn. yeah. narrator: but vince's childhood story wasn't always so idyllic. janet madison: vince's mom left at 8 months old, so he was raised with his dad.

i think his dad was married six times, so that was a little tough on him. narrator: janet madison considered herself vince's surrogate mom. she says, growing up, he spent a lot of time at her house. her son was vince's best friend. janet madison: he was just like one of the other boys. he was always there. we-- they did everything together. it seems like you two had quite a connection. we did. you and vince-- what was that all about? i think a lot of it was i never judged him. vince was-- you know, he was the purest tattoo kid, the droopy pants, the spiked hair, the-- you know. and i just treated him just like me and you. narrator: 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. narrator: 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? janet madison: he was awesome. he changed that diaper. he'd clean up that puke. you know, he didn't care. his kids were his world. narrator: then someone else entered his world, a hometown girl named jessie hull. vince loved jessie unconditional, and you could see it. he was happy. he loved her. narrator: and janet says he started to settle down, moved in with jessie's family, and quickly 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 and narrow, so vince 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. i mean, that's like a 180 for him--

vince. janet madison: that is a 180. it's what he needed. you must have been really proud of him for making that step. i was always proud of him. i'm still proud of him. narrator: with vince's career heading 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. and i think they actually just argued just so they can make up. some people say that's the best part. it is. narrator: after the wedding, kids soon 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 handle the home front and take care of the kids on her own. janet madison: it's not easy having a husband who is away. it takes someone special to be able to endure that, and get through that. narrator: tim says, somehow, jessie and vince made it work. when we'd see him and jessie, and them as a family,

they looked like a great family. narrator: by 2012, vince and jessie had been married for six years. despite some bumps, tim thought life was good for vince and his family. but shortly after returning from afghanistan, vince's second tour there, tim got an unsettling call from him. the sound of his voice, it was-- if something happens, i want you to know what's going on. but he wouldn't tell me anything. narrator: a few days later, on february 3, vince and jessie went out to dinner to celebrate his safe return at a place called o'charley's. they started driving home, back to the base, then turned off the main drag onto this dark and winding road-- fidelio road, where evil was waiting. i coming up, a wife's harrowing tale--

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jessie goslyn told the operator that her husband, sergeant vincent goslyn, had been shot when he tried to help a motorist stranded on the side of the road. jessie was hysterical. as she tried to calm down, jessie told the operator-- after being shot, vince came back to their car but was unable to get in because a man was pulling him back. jessie says she drove away from the scene as her husband had instructed. minutes later, another 911 call came in. this is the man who made the call. walter ferguson said he was getting

ready to visit his cousin when he heard the gunshots. living around here, we hear a lot of gunshots, so i didn't think nothing of it. i got in my truck, started to come down the road. and as soon as i crossed the hill, i saw the truck's lights came on. and he just bolted off. so what did you do when you saw this truck? well, i mean, i went and turned around. and as i came back around, i made sure my high beam were on. i ended up seeing his body. narrator: there, on the side of the road, walter spotted a man lying face down in the dirt. so i stopped, and i tried yelling at him and talking to him to see if he was awake, alert, something. and i started looking for my phone, and didn't have it on me, so i had to end up zooming back to the house to call 911. narrator: christian county detective ed stokes raced to the scene. we were just notified that there had been a shooting on fidelio road, and one male possibly deceased.

tell us what you see when you arrive here at the scene. the first thing that i noticed was sergeant goslyn's body laying 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 wounds to the head, and the shell casings laying near the body inside the crime scene backed up the thought that he was shot. you say he was shot in the head and the face. correct. was this personal? it's personal to me, because that person that shot him nine times wanted him dead. narrator: while detective stokes worked the crime scene, about a quarter of a mile down the road deputies were talking to jessie. she was hysterical, crying, almost sometimes where you couldn't even understand what she was saying. narrator: there's jessie on her knees, collapsed on the side of the road. this was a wife who had clearly

been through a traumatic situation. she had just watched her husband get shot multiple times, yes. narrator: detectives took jessie back to the station to get her statement. her stomach, it seemed, couldn't take the horror she'd just witnessed. by now, lynn pryor, christian county commonwealth's attorney at the time, had been notified. what did you think when you heard that a soldier from fort campbell has 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 part of 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 descriptions she was being able to give.

narrator: jessie also described the killer's car. it wasn't much for police to go on. and to make it even more difficult, the eyewitness, walter ferguson, had seen something different. describe the truck that you saw speeding off. as he passed me, i could see that it was, like, a white truck, and i saw the 4 by 4 on it. but that's about as much as i could see on it. narrator: so the witness had seen a white truck, and jessie said she saw a reddish brown car. investigators had a lot to sort out-- a murdered soldier, a distraught wife, an unknown motive, and a giant secret about to be discovered. jessie reveals a bombshell about her husband that could blow the case wide open. coming up--

if the story checks out, that's pretty serious. if we could prove that, yes. narrator: when "dateline" continues-- [music playing]

was this case a top priority? you have an american soldier gunned down and a shooter on the loose. every detective we had was working this case.

did you worry about the safety of others? at first-- it's always a thought through our mind-- is this a serial killer, because we have no motive yet. so yes, it was very important. he was going-- narrator: back at the christian county sheriff's department, 25-year-old jessie goslyn continued to speak to detectives. she was emotionally and physically distraught. i'll get you some water. narrator: and she kept asking about her husband. jessie still hadn't been told if he was dead or alive. finally, the detective came back and broke the news about vince. [sobbing]

the tragic 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 has been shot. and i was devastated. i was like, what? what-- what do you mean he's been shot? narrator: vince's cousin, tim, immediately left his home in virginia and traveled to kentucky, still in disbelief. how can he survive 2 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.

narrator: by now, jessie had left the christian county sheriff's department and headed home. she's picked up by a friend taking her back to her house on fort campbell. narrator: the day after the murder, local police and agents from fort campbell were canvassing the goslyn's neighborhood. this is now a mix of army investigators and local investigators. yes. narrator: they knocked on the door of kay and william ray, the couple who lived next door to the goslyns. what they had to say was so compelling, they asked them to immediately come in for an interview. the rays explained to the investigators jessie had told them about the drug dealers weeks before the murder.

later that day, detective stokes says kay ray convinced jessie she should talk to military investigators, tell them what she told local police. it turned out to be a fateful decision. jessie gets in with the friend, and they go to cid headquarters. narrator: with kay ray sitting next to her for support, jessie gave a detailed explanation about why she turned down that deserted road. she said as they were driving home, she was at the wheel and she started to feel sick. vince suggested they pull over. she said that's when they saw the vehicle with the hood up, and vince got out to help.

not long after, she heard gunshots. 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.

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. if this story checks out, i mean, that's pretty serious. if we could prove that, yes. narrator: while jessie did her best to give the investigators leads, police working the case in the field got a new lead of their own, and it sent them in a very different direction. coming up-- did vince's killer threaten jessie, too? she was getting text messages from this man? 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. narrator: when "dateline" continues-- [music playing] my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis held me back... now with skyrizi, i'm all in with clearer skin. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ (♪♪) ♪ yeah i feel free ♪

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one day after the murder of sergeant vince goslyn, the investigation was unfolding fast. in the field, detectives were gathering evidence and talking to witnesses. and at fort campbell, the interview rooms were filling up. i'm talking about what you thought might happen-- narrator: in one of those rooms, jessie goslyn-- jessie had given law enforcement a possible motive for her husband's murder. she said vince owed money to drug dealers, a lot of money. prosecutor pryor was getting regular phone 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. she was getting text messages from this man? lynn pryor: 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. narrator: that's when jessie admitted she didn't drive down fidelio road because she was feeling sick. 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. as jessie's interview on fort campbell headed into its second hour, sheriff's detectives across town were working on tracking down the truck seen leaving the murder scene, figuring that if they could find the truck,

they would find the killer. walter ferguson, the witness who had described seeing a white colored 4 by 4 truck speeding down the road, gave police more distinctive descriptions about the vehicle. 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 lived on base at fort campbell, 24-year-old jarred long. jarred long was very much a person of interest at that point. but he's not on base anymore. no. where is he? we didn't know. narrator: so detective stokes says law enforcement immediately got busy trying to find him. ed stokes: we actually put in an attempt

to 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. when he was pulled over, was he driving a raised white truck? he was in a light gray dodge pickup truck that was lifted with large tires and loud exhaust, matching the description of our witness. so you're thinking you might have your man here. yes. narrator: he might have thought he had his man, but police decided the fact that jarred's truck matched the description of the eyewitness wasn't enough to arrest him. lynn pryor: 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, what's on his clothes? yes. i mean, you have-- it's all-- it could all be destroyed. that was all evidence, potential evidence,

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as you looked deeper into this potential relationship between jarred and jessie, how serious was it? from what we could gather, they lived together on base. and if sergeant goslyn came home for any reason, then jarred long would leave for a couple of days while he was here. narrator: it was stunning. stokes was now convinced jessie was not the devoted army 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. narrator: to the detective, evidence that jarred and jessie were a couple was piling up, like when police ran the plates of the car jessie was driving the night of the murder. they came back to jessie goslyn and jarred long.

narrator: they owned a car together. by now, police had had enough of jessie's shifting stories and confronted her with what they knew. he told her they knew all about her romantic relationship with jarred. jessie admitted she and jarred hung out together, but continued to deny there was anything sexual between them. she said they were friends, and he stayed there on the couch, and that was it. narrator: jessie did admit she and vince were going through a tough time, but she claimed they were working things out.

and besides, she said vince knew all about jarred. but investigators didn't believe her. more than three hours into jessie's interview, after repeatedly denying she and jarred had a romantic relationship-- --jessie finally changed her story. he shot him nine times. narrator: when investigators told prosecutor lynn pryor that jessie had admitted to having a romantic relationship with jarred, she knew this was a big moment. they were planning a life together. that could be a motive. absolutely a motive, because who was in their way of being together for the rest of their life? her husband. narrator: and jessie had another possible motive. as a military wife, she would receive a big payout from her husband's

life insurance policy-- $450,000. she certainly could have benefited greatly from the death of her husband. narrator: before jessie's eight hour interview was over, she had admitted to seeing jarred the day before the murder. but it wasn't the sex investigators were interested in. jessie had one more story to tell. she claimed that jarred had talked to the drug dealers, and if he roughed up vince, somehow that would satisfy them. then, she said jarred told her what her job would be. but the prosecutor and detectives weren't buying it.

instead, without realizing it, jessie had finally given them what they needed. why is there now enough to arrest her? because she's admitted her part in getting vincent to the location where he was ultimately killed. in kentucky, being an accomplice to murder is the same as actually committing the murder. narrator: that grieving wife, hysterical, by the side of the road, getting sick in front of police, was charged with her husband's murder. policeman: let me see your hands, now step out of the truck. narrator: as for jarred long, because of jessie's admission that she and jarred had a plan to harm vince, police now had enough to arrest him too. they tracked him down again, this time near his home in colorado. ed stokes: they did a felony stop, called him out, made him go prone on the ground, and placed him in cuffs. radio: yeah, continue the search warrant on time. narrator: they had a warrant to search his truck this time? ed stokes: colorado authorities were able to obtain a search warrant for mr. long's truck.

lynn pryor: they 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. policeman: i want you to take that seat over there. yes, sir. narrator: colorado police brought jarred in for questioning. unlike jessie, he didn't hesitate to talk about his romantic relationship with her. he also admitted to being in kentucky on the day of the murder, but he says he left before dark. what he didn't know was jessie had already pointed the finger at him.

they now had two suspects in custody. and as for that drug dealer story, detective stokes says that was just a hoax jessie cooked up to throw off police. and she told the story to several people, including her neighbors, the rays, who unwittingly corroborated her story. did you ever find any evidence that vince was involved in some type of drug deal gone bad?

no. that men were out to get him and his family? no, we did not. we couldn't find anything that would take us there other than her story. narrator: janet, vince's surrogate mom, was horrified when she learned that jessie, the woman who had seemed so good for vince, was now implicated in his murder. i was devastated. i was, like, why is she arrested? did you think she was capable of killing vince? never, never. why? there's divorce. why wouldn't she just get a divorce? policeman: do you swear or affirm that the statement you've given is true-- narrator: but even with jessie's story and the evidence against jarred, the case was far from closed. an unexpected twist was about to put the whole investigation into a tailspin. did you worry that one or both of them could get away with murder? prosecutors face a major setback. could something else that jessie told police be a lifeline for both the widow and her lover?

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new vaseline radiant x body lotion welcome back.namide. jessie goslyn and jarred long were charged with the murder of jessie's husband, army sergeant vince goslyn. jessie's story about the night vince was shot

had shifted several times. finally, she told police that she and jarred had hatched a plan to ambush vince. her confession was the linchpin of the prosecution's case. then, the investigation took a stunning turn-- now, to the conclusion of "evil was waiting." prosecutor lynn pryor already felt she had a solid case against jarred long. and after his arrest, police found even more evidence in his truck. lynn pryor: there was one spot of blood that belonged to vincent goslyn on the backpack of jarred long. narrator: this is bingo right here. lynn pryor: this is more evidence than i've had in most of the murder cases i've prosecuted. 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 that killed him. narrator: but pryor knew the case against jessie wasn't as airtight. lynn pryor: it was very much a circumstantial case because there was no physical evidence implicating her. did you worry that that wouldn't be

enough to get a conviction? somewhat, yes. jarred long was not willing to give us anything to help out with regard to implicating jessie, but we knew that it was her involvement that got jarred to where vincent was killed. how were you going to prove that? with her own words. narrator: but then entered defense attorney mark bryant. he represented jarred long, and he had a plan that could benefit jessie, too. his strategy was to get jessie's interview with police thrown out. and how would he do that? mrs. goslyn had told the local police department that she didn't want to talk, that she wanted a lawyer. and so under the law, you have to break up any questioning. and they did, and they sent her back home to fort campbell. narrator: but you might remember, after that, her friend convinced jessie to go speak to the military police on base.

jessie goslyn spent eight hours with the police after-- that very day-- she said she wasn't going to talk without a lawyer. so it's just a different police agency. narrator: bryant argued in front of a circuit judge-- since jessie had already asked for a lawyer, 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. narrator: jessie goslyn's statement was thrown out. the news hit vince's family hard. hearing the news that vince was killed was horrible, but what the justice system did was unfair. when they threw that out of court, i was devastated all over again. and we thought that she was going to walk away. we thought that they were going to get away with that.

narrator: but prosecutor pryor wasn't going down without a fight. she filed a motion with the kentucky court of appeals. jessie and jarred, meanwhile, were out and about relatively free. how did you feel about both jessie and jarred being out on house arrest with just ankle 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. narrator: 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. narrator: pryor considered her options and concluded that of the two, jarred deserved the harshest punishment.

jarred long was the one who pulled the trigger nine times. jarred long was the one who took the life of vincent goslyn, so we wanted to make sure he received the maximum punishment that he could for this crime. narrator: to do that, the prosecutor needed not only jessie's videotaped statement, she needed jessie to tell a jury the whole story-- that she and jarred planned to murder vince. lynn pryor: we needed her testimony about the reasons why they planned to kill vincent, and the way that they planned it out. narrator: so the prosecutor made an offer. if jessie pleaded guilty to complicity to murder and would testify against jarred, she would recommend a sentence of 22 and 1/2 years behind bars. she agreed to this plea deal? she did, after long talks and very heated discussions. narrator: so now, with time served, the woman who had played the victim, betrayed

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. narrator: a different prosecutor then took over the case against jarred long. his name was mark blankenship. and as he looked over the case, he came to a different conclusion about who was most responsible. i felt that the mastermind 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 mastermind of the crime. narrator: so blankenship did what he thought he had to, to be fair, and offer jarred a deal too--

30 years in prison for pleading guilty to first degree murder. jarred agreed. jarred, at times, is sort of being portrayed as this kind of victim-- a little bit-- of jessie, that she was the mastermind. but vince was shot nine times in the head and the face. i mean, you cannot discount that-- - no. - --for anything. no. it bothers me. he should have gotten more than 30 years. narrator: tim, vince's cousin, was torn about jarred's punishment. jessie, she should have got more time than he did, because she manipulated him. is that the jessie you knew, this master manipulator? obviously, she must have been manipulating us, because i would have never pegged her. i believe that she should do life. narrator: 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 became a 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. that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm andrea canning. thanks for watching. [music playing] hello, i'm andrea canning, monica peck: she was so alive. to hear that news and realizing that it's amber, how could that be?