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it was clear jessie was targeted. one of buck's first thoughts, a crew of tree cutters that recently worked outside jessie's window. >> it made me wonder if they had had thoughts when they were in the trees, limbing our trees above her bedroom, and she was sleeping in there. just wondered if they noticed that here's this teenage girl, sleeping, home alone when joy and i are at work while they're in our yard. >> reporter: buck also told the detectives about a problem jessie was having at her part-time restaurant job. trouble with a co-worker. >> she had come home a couple of times and said that he was inappropriate with her. >> what was he doing that was inappropriate? >> he would often make sure that she had to rub against him as she passed him. >> that must make you nuts as a parent when you hear stories like that. >> when i first heard that i was almost out that door to go over and talk to him about it. >> reporter: the restaurant was just down the road. it seemed possible that this watching the house. >> certainly

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 dealer contacted her. >> did you have to talk to the drug dealers directly? >> reporter: she was getting text messages from this man, she said? >> 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. >> reporter: that's when jessie admitted she didn't drive down fidelio 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 --" or what did it say exactly? >> it told me to turn on the road after the stoplight. >> okay. >> "if you do not your whole family's dead." >> reporter: 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 kind of figured it as we're gonna down here and you're gonna get your ass beat. >> reporter: as jessie's interview on

jessie was hysterical.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 lo

, was he mad at jessie?asn't mad at jessie. he picked jessie because she was convenient. >> reporter: but the da did say there was evidence that showed the seemingly sweet young man had been secretly obsessed with murder. on his computer police found disturbing internet searches. >> what does he do in the days and events leading up to this, uh, to this crime? he does a search for serial killers on wiki, a little bit later serial killers by number of victims. >> reporter: their most alarming find was a violent, pornographic film with a plot eerily similar to how jessie was killed. prosecutors claim daniel used it as an instructional video. >> at some point in the movie he pulls out a binding and places it around her neck. he then strangles her. >> there were searches on serial killers. there were searches on bondage -- >> did dan, then, who was big into the theater, a straight-a student, was he also a serial killer in training? >> i think that's the potential. >> reporter: prosecutors showed the jury all the

both men in love with jessie. >> correct. >> jessie in love with one man?e so. >> 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. >> it came back to jessie goslyn and jarred long. >> they owned a car together. by now, police had had enough of jessie's shifting stories and confronted her with what they knew. >> jessie, we know there was no black guy. >> yes there was. >> no, we know whose truck was there. >> everything that the eyewitness said has been true. >> no. >> yeah, very true. >> no. >> 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. >> jessie did admit she and vince were going through a tough time, but she claimed they were working things out. >> i have always reassured vince that i'm not just gonna walk away from you. i'm

jessie. >> coming up -- >> jessie's neighbors reveal that they too had seen jarred's trucks outside jessie's house. >> how often would you see it there when was vince deployed. >> maybe two or three times a week. >> when "dateline" continues. believe your healthcare should evolve with you, and part of that evolution means choosing the right medicare plan for you. humana can help. with original medicare, you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits but you'll have to pay a deductible for each. a medicare supplement plan can cover your deductibles and co-insurance, but you may pay higher premiums and still not get prescription drug coverage. but with an all-in-one humana medicare advantage plan, you could get all that coverage plus part d prescription drug benefits. you get all this coverage for as low as a $0 monthly plan premium in many areas. humana has a large network of doctors and hospitals, and telehealth coverage with a $0 copay. so call or go online today and get your free decision guide. discover how an all-in-one humana medicare advantage plan could save you money. hum

jessie had one more story to tell.imed that jared had talked to the drug dealers and if he roughed up vince somehow that would satisfy them. then she said jared told her what here job would be. >> he told me you need to meet me on this road. you need to pull-down to the shoulder where you can pull off. >> 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. >> that grieving wife hysterical by the side of the road getting sick in front of the police was charged with her husband's murder. >> let me see your hands. now step out of the truck. >> as for jared long because of jessie's admission because she and jared had planned to harm vince, police had enough to arrest him now too. they tracked him down again this time at

but to her, jessie's was the most important. jessie gave police a key new detail.on the night of the murder one of those drug dealer contacted her. >> did you have to talk to the drug dealers directly? >> reporter: she was getting text messages from this man, she said? >> 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. >> reporter: that's when jessie admitted she didn't drive down fidelio 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 --" or what did it say exactly? >> it told me to turn on the road after the stoplight. >> okay. >> "if you do not your whole family's dead." >> reporter: 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 kind of figured it as we're gonna down here and you're gonna get your ass beat. >> reporter: as jessie's interview on fort campb

. >> jessie in love with one man?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

was he mad jessie? now.had been obsessed with murder on his computer, police foun disturbing internet searches what >> does he do in the days and events leading up to thi crime. a search for serial killers on which he a little bit later, serial killers by a number of victims >> their most alarming find wa a violent pornographic film, with the plot seemingly simila to how jessie was killed >> prosecutors say that daniel used as an instructional video >> he pulls out a binding in places it around her neck, h then strangles her >> there were searches o serial killers there were surges on bondage >> did dan then, who was big into theater, a straight a student, was he also a seria killer in training >> i think that is the potential. >> these items >> prosecutors showed the jury all of the physical evidence the dna, the tapes, the wipes, the likely murder weapons that tied daniel to jessie's. through it all, daniel sat quietly at the defense table looking at no one, showing little emotion >> even when the evidence

>> jessie gave her all. to everything she did. >> she's on a mission. >> her whole life. >> and then, someone took it all away. >> and i was like, jessie? nothing? i jolt her a little bit. and then i knew, this is not good. >> my daughter, won't wake up. >> she had been murdered in her own bed after coming home from a pool party. a party that hadn't been all fun and games. >> she was 19 and these men were in their 40s. we wanted to talk to them. >> did something happen at that party? what was happening around this small town. >> i heard somebody running behind me. then i noticed he had a knife in his hands. >> someone was stalking young women. >> it was either, i try to save myself or i let this guy do whatever he wants to me. >> his dreams were their nightmares. >> the research is on -- search is on bond. could he be caught before he killed again? >> and then we knew he done it. now we just had to prove it. >> hello and welcome to dateline. in small town wisconsin, a 19 year old girl came home from a party,

was he mad at jessie? no. he wasn't mad at jessie. there was evidence that showed this young man was obsessed with murder. on his computer, police found disturbing internet searches. >> what is he doing in the days leading up to this? serial killer by number of victims. >> their most alarming find was a violent pornographic film with a plot eerily similar to how jessie was killed. prosecutors claim daniel used it as an instructional video. >> at some point in the movie he finds out a binding and places it around her neck and then strangled her. >> searches on serial killers and searches on bondage. >> did dan who was big into the theater, a straight a student, was he also a serial killer in training? >> i think that is the potential. >> prosecutors showed the jury all the physical evidence. the dna, the tape, the wipes, the likely murder weapons that tie daniel to jessie's death. through it all, daniel sat quietly at the defense table looking at no one and showing little emotion. even when the d.a. presented evidence the public had ne

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jessi.ery wasn't talking to me in person anymore. in fact, he had told us both to leave him alone. frankly, i was getting tired of playing jessi's games. she was out of control. but she did invite me to finally come meet her in person. i should never have let it slip at work that i was driving to west virginia to visit the virgin. i got a text lashing. seems montgomery still had a thing for jessi, and her virginity. i never did meet with jessi. she got mad at me, claiming all i wanted was sex. our relationship was over. maybe that's why she went back to montgomery. she was an attention junkie, and quite the vixen now. even though montgomery was still mad at jessi for humiliating him, watch how she lured him back by playing the tommy fantasy card. >> now that montgomery and jessi were, quote, friends again, he started confiding in her. i had no idea he hated me so much. >> you'd think jessi would have been freaked out by that outburst. but she seemed to get off on his rage. jessi promised mon

emily: agree with me. >> jessie: you're right.assive cocaine problem and he got extorted by his dealer. he let go of the ship for many years. they did not become the profit machine like they were supposed to and had to lay off hundreds and hundreds of people. the guy, skipper, who i said had a massive cocaine problem had to resign. he stood up bob iger, the ceo of disney while he was waiting for him in the jet after the espys. it was bad. you don't do that. >> greg: he blamed it on the dealer though. >> jessie: that's right. so all of these things are coalescing at the same time. he's letting the anchors like hill have a free ride. she can go on twitter, call the president of the united states a white supremacist and go down "sports center?" are you kidding me? the audience can't do that doing the top ten that week. they can't conceptualize it. they lost track of their audience. their audience is predominantly white males that support president trump and they let that audience totally go. now they have to get back to basics. that'

is little jessie's father. >> when is the last time you talked to jessie?at his home on a cold, winter day to learn more about his son. >> everybody loved him. little kids called him uncle jessie. >> 17 years. >> jessie's father says he had a good heart but his son struggled in school and he didn't make it past the ninth grade. >> at the time he was 17 years old. he came from a family that was a big family. he was a rough kid. he was low functioning in school. he had been in special ed from the time he started school. >> low functioning. >> iq i think at 72 is what he's been measured at. >> and what does that mean? how does he compare to a normal student? >> well, if the normal student is 100, then a 72 in our state, i believe that a 70 is the cutoff for mental retardation legally. and so he was just above that. and he had been in special ed until he'd finally dropped out in high school when he was 16, a year earlier than this. >> jessie knew damien echols and jason baldwin but not very well. they lived in a neighborhood close by. what was your world? what

jessie beck.larry: jessie beck had come to reno in 1938 as a young divorcee brought her little boy along. she had come there from texas. because she had been promised a job by pappy smith. pappy smith is credited with laying the model out for reno casinos. his son had a little tiny gambling outfit called harold's. jessie was gregarious, easy to talk to, natural leader. by 1950 she had risen in the casino and she fell in love with and married fred beck, who owned the keno betting concessions. as the casino grew, so did their business. fred beck died in 1954, about the time dick perry was in college. don: dick was raised in the small town of carlin nevada. he was someone who was a natural leader, hard working. mike: he always had a smile, and he was enthusiastic and optimistic. he got a job at harold's club while he was in college. larry: his job was working for jessie beck as a, uh, at first as a runner, just running tickets around the place. mike: he and jessie hit it off, it was kind of a work-mo

is little jessie's father. >> when is the last time you talked to jessie?t him at his home on a cold, winter day to learn more about his son. >> everybody loved him. little kids called him uncle jessie. >> 17 years. >> jessie's father says he had a good heart but his son struggled in school and he didn't make it past the ninth grade. >> at the time he was 17 years old. he came from a family that was a big family. he was a rough kid. he was low functioning in school. he had been in special ed from the time he started school. >> low functioning. >> iq i think at 72 is what he's been measured at. >> and what does that mean? how does he compare to a normal student? >> well, if the normal student is 100, then a 72 in our state, i believe that a 70 is the cutoff for mental retardation legally. and so he was just above that. and he had been in special ed until he'd finally dropped out in high school when he was 16, a year earlier than this. >> jessie knew damien echols and jason baldwin but not very well. they lived in a neighborhood close by. what was your world?

is little jessie's father. >> when is the last time you talked to jessie? his home on a cold, winter day to learn more about his son. >> everybody loved him. little kids called him uncle jessie. >> 17 years. >> jessie's father says he had a good heart but his son struggled in school and he didn't make it past the ninth grade. >> at the time he was 17 years old. he came from a family that was a big family. he was a rough kid. he was low functioning in school. he had been in special ed from the time he started school. >> low functioning. >> iq i think at 72 is what he's been measured at. >> and what does that mean? how does he compare to a normal student? >> well, if the normal student is 100, then a 72 in our state, i believe that a 70 is the cutoff for mental retardation legally. and so he was just above that. and he had been in special ed until he'd finally dropped out in high school when he was 16, a year earlier than this. >> jessie knew damien echols and jason baldwin but not very well. they lived in a neighborhood close by. what was your world? what wa

you may as well tell us what you did. >> jessie, damien and jason were all arrested hours after jessie'sfession. >> we all, i think, breathed a sigh of relief that someone was in custody that was being accused of committing the crimes. >> pam hobbs is stevie branch's mother. >> based on what the police told you, they were 100% certain these were the guilty guys. >> uh-huh. and so believing in my justice system and believing that the police who are to protect and serve i really felt like they had the right ones and i wanted to do something to them. >> what did you want to do? >> i wanted to bash their head up against the wall, kick their face in. i was just so angry. if i could have got ahold of them i think i probably could have shredded them with my bare hands. >> you wanted to kill them. >> i did. >> but while jessie may have confessed, he soon took it back and steadfastly refused to testify against jason and damien. ultimately, jessie was tried separately, and ultimately, it would be his own words that would convict him. >> he hit him with his fist and bruised them up real bad. then j

they had jessie's confession but he wouldn't testify against the other two.er, get a big break right here in this lake behind jason baldwin's home. >> there was an announcement by the prosecutor that he had a hunch that there was a knife in this lake. >> dennis riordan is damien's attorney. >> the hunch, however, turned out to be a situation where they had informed the press to be there because they would discover -- essentially, because we're going to discover the knife in this lake. >> so the state police divers come and go in there and very quickly come up holding in profile a serrated knife, which is what the medical examiner said had been used on one of the boys. >> a damning discovery that made headlines and all but sealed the fates of damien and jason. ♪ >>> a knife found in a lake, an >>> a knife found in a lake, an alleged murder weapon. rumors of satanic rituals and the words of a convicted killer. all of it adding up to an apparent slam-dunk in the case against jason baldwin and damien echols. anytime we would go to court, you know, they were alway

he loved kids, called him uncle jessie. >> 17 years. >> jessie's father said he had a good heart, butis son struggled in school and he didn't make it past the ninth grade. >> at the time he was 17 years old. he came from a family that was a big family. he was a rough kid. he was low functioning in school. he had been in special ed from the time he started school. >> low functioning. >> i.q. i think at 72 is what he's been measured at. >> and what does that mean? how does he compare to a normal student? >> well, if a normal student is 100, then a 72 in our state, i believe that a 70 is the cutoff for mental retardation legally. so he was just above that. and he had been in special ed until he'd finally dropped out in high school when he was 16, a year earlier than this. >> jessie knew damien echols and jason baldwin, but not very well. they lived in a neighborhood close by. what was your world? what was your day like? what was your life like? >> poor white trash. that's one of the things that made it so easy for them to put this off on us. is because we were expendable. our lives didn'

you shot jessie. her like a dog in the street, and you left her outside this dump to bleed to death. you know, i could say i shot jfk, and it wouldn't hold up in court. you got a gun in my face. i'm going to have your badge for this. you know what, mark? nobody knows we're here. not my people, not your people. no one. it was mulcahey... and louny. they shot dale. and you knew nothing about it? no, i knew. yeah, i knew about dale, that they shot him, but i wasn't there. found out about it afterwards. i told 'em she was on to them. they wanted to t-take care of it, but i said that i could handle her. i wanted to talk to you at the funeral, but i couldn't with everybody there. what's on your mind? i think i know who killed dale. come on, it's that-that punk, shawn percel. no, no, i know percel. he was one of my skips, okay? i know you guys have been hot after him, so i got a tip, and i went and found him, and he told me what happened. he said dale showed up at his house, started to search the place. next

madam fremont, they cried, jessie, jessie, give us jessie. >> a newspaper said she could have been electedueen. jessie benton fremont achieved celebrities much like her husband's with fame out of proportion to her accomplishments, unless we count her husband's fame among those accomplishments. this is to me a very modern story because it is a story about rugged wilderness challenges, but also a story with fame, what you make of the work that you do. about reputation, it was a time when the news media were expanding when democracy was flourishing, when great issues were being debated and the fremonts put themselves at the center of it all. now the first thing that had to happen for them though was the actual exploration, the map making of the west. john c fremont had a reputation, built a reputation as an utterly fearless adventurer who surrounded one difficulty after another. although he was also in reality a rather erratic leader. who would hire men and head to the wildness. he went up the oregon trail as far as what is now wyoming, went to the continental divide there which as supposed t

jessie, jessie, give us jessie. a a newspaper said she could've been elected queen.jessie benton fremont achieved celebrity much like her husband's with same out of proportion to accomplishments. unless we count her husband's fame among those accomplishments. this is to me a very modern story, because it is a story about rugged wilderness challenges but also a story about fame, about what you make of the work that you do, about reputation. it was a time when the news media were expanding when democracy was flourishing, , whn great issues were being debated and the fremonts put themselves the center of it all. the first thing that had to happen for them though was the actual exploration, the mapmaking of the west. john c. fremont had a reputatio reputation, build the reputation as an utterly fearless adventurer who surmounted one difficulty after another. although he was also in reality a rather erratic leader, he would hire groups of civilians, maybe a couple dozen, sometimes more, in st. louis and head out into the wilderness. in 1842 in the and the first expedition