. >> jessie gosselin spent eight hours with the police after that very day she wasn't going to talk without different police agency. >> reporter: bryant argued in front of a circuit judge, since jessie 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, implicaing our client, should be set aside, because the law enforcement agency for the military police should have followed the same rules that earlier police department in christian county followed during that day. >> jessie gosselin's statement was thrown out. the news hit vincent's family hard. >> hearing the news that vince was killed was horrible. but what the justice system did was unfair. we thought they were going to get away with it. >> reporter: that was a huge blow. >> it was devastating. without jessie's statement about how all this happened and the planning that went into vincent's murder, our case was circumstantial, at best. we had the physical evidence that jarred was found with in colorado. and we had the neighbors who had seen