and young caden seemed as pleased as she was.who shared his mother and new stepfather's craving for outdoor adventures. >> backpacking on the coast and the mountains, river rafting, how we started kind of an annual adventure days in the summertime. it was all about just sharing that time together. >> yes, and there was that plan erin hatched with her sister amber. >> we always had a dream of growing up and living right next door to each other and, you know, raising up our families. >> and soon the plan expanded beautifully when erin and jason announced they were expecting a child of their own. >> every day i would praise my life, praise my wife and my little baby that i was finally going to have, and it all made sense. >> and then came march 19, 2009. but, as the news and the grief spread, there was still hope, remember, for one of the victims in the crash. justine winter was alive, though barely with a broken neck and broken leg and major internal injuries. doctors told the family they didn't think she'd live through the airlift

deep and wide, the whole valley, in fact, the country, heard about the crash that killed caden and erin and her unborn child and heard a strange and disturbing story that 16-year-old justine winter took deadly aim at erin's oncoming car, crossed the center line, and plowed right into them. on purpose. shocking? oh, yes. as was the alleged reason. justine, said the police, was trying to commit suicide. how did they know? they found the evidence on justine's phone, they said, text messages which she wrote herself and which once county attorney ed corrigan saw them gave him no choice, he said. he charged her with deliberate homicide, montana's equivalent of murder. >> justine purposely went into the wrong lane of traffic and smashed head-on into another car. by doing so, she should have known her actions could have killed someone. and under those circumstances i think deliberate homicide was the only charge we could make. >> you decide to charge her as an adult. why? she was 16. >> she was. the taking of two lives is not, in my opinion, a delinquent act. it is a crime, needs to be prosecut