school in thechool district where gary worked for 30 years. nancy littrell was a school board secretary.ust so hard to believe that something so bad could happen in springfield and double unbelief dy you know. my heart has just gone out for poor jessica. >> reporter: the outpouring of was a huge comfort to jessica at a time when she needed it most. word had gotten out that cops her. >> yeah, lots of rumors that i did it. >> that's tough to go out every day and say, "i didn't kill my >> right. and it got very tiring to hear, you know, someone say, "well, you need to look at the daughter. she did it. to gain." >> and they did take a hard look. >> yes, they did. >> they think the daughter has killed him in order to get the money, that she's in cahoots with her fiancee.l? >> you might not have believed it, or your circle of people >> my circle -- my circle was not believing that. >> reporter: and behind the nd prosecutors had come to the same conclusion -- jessica and jason were innocent. >> everything that jessica and the police, the police were able to corroborate and verify. >> and they went through everything. they went through the phone records. the alibi w