Johnetta Hall

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With no seller fees, you keep every dollar you earn. A hard-working army veteran is shot dead with no witnesses. The man's laying on the ground in the middle of the driveway. I think he's dead. This was a complete hoop on it. Your instant gut feeling is this is going to be a tough one. But the victim's sons are convinced they know exactly who's to blame. She was hoping he'd been dying in the hospital. We go back over there and all of his 100,000 pieces worth of mass cars and hunt wheels. Everything was gone. And there's animal species everywhere, so the whole house. The urine smell was so strong she was going to make sure it was unlivable. When investigators finally uncover the truth, it reveals a plot even more bizarre. He told detectives that he was a trained assassin. And what were you supposed to get out of this? A lot of money. She wanted to make sure that she got what she felt like was owed to her. In Southern Indiana, residents of Scott County enjoy a peaceful lifestyle. It's a rural community that's made up of a lot of hardworking, blue collar citizens. It's got a small town feel all the way around. Everybody knows everybody. But on September 27, 2015, that sense of security is disrupted by an alarming 9-1-1 call. The caller, Leo Boutera, says he's a mechanic who came to the house to work on a car. I've got nothing, I've got nothing, I've not been able to open the gate. All right, I'll get an AMS and share it and wrap. When first responders arrived to the scene, there was a gravel driveway that led kind of back off of the road behind another residence. I saw a man lying behind a gate. There was blood coming out of his nose and around his mouth. As I approached, I knew immediately that something was not right. I waved my hand over the top of his eyes. I saw no movement in the pupils. And upon further investigation, I could see that there was a hole in the side of his temple. I checked for a pulse and didn't get a pulse. And I was able to ascertain at that moment that he was obviously deceased. And the caller, Leonard Boutera, was standing there explaining to them what he seemed. He believed that subject to be Bill Reynolds because Leonard was a friend of his. And he was able to tell first responders who Mr. Reynolds was and who his family members were so that contact could be made with him. On a call like this, you can never determine immediately if it's a self-inflicted gunshot wound or not. In this case, the location of the wound, it was a toss-up. Crime scene tech from the Indiana State Police was summons. He moved the body to see if there was a gun underneath. There was no gun, no shell casing, nothing. The Indiana State Police immediately considered this a homicide and were full speed with their investigation. We were going to figure out what happened to Bill Reynolds. Bill Reynolds was born in Dayton, Ohio on July 28, 1946. He grew up in a broken home and learned to fend for himself from a young age. My dad didn't talk about his childhood a whole lot because I don't think it was the greatest. When he was younger, he lived with his mother. And as he got a little older and became a teenager, he moved from Ohio into Indiana. He was a family man. You know, he took real good care of his family, his mom, his sisters. At 18, Bill married his high school sweetheart, intending to start a family of his own. Those plans were soon disrupted. It wasn't long after they got married that he was drafted into the Army. And of course at that point, you know, he had to go to overseas to Vietnam. So I'm sure that that had somewhat of a strain, you know, with my mother and my dad's marriage. While Bill was overseas, his wife gave birth to their first son. But Bill still had several more years left on his tour of duty. He was over about four years. He got all kinds of mental. My dad's seen a lot of things over there that he never talked to us about. It was, you know, the way I understood it was pretty dramatic, pretty traumatizing. He was ready to get out of there. Dad came back from the service to Indiana and then my mother got pregnant again with me. Dad bought a small little house there in Blacher, Indiana. And that's where him and my mother lived and began to raise their family. Dad got a job. He worked at the lumber mill at that time for his brother. And they seemed to be doing really well. My mother and my father was married for about eight and nine years. You know, they had a great relation. And then, I guess they finally just fell out of love and then they went their separate ways when I was about seven. After his divorce, Bill started working as a long-haul truck driver. My dad was very adventurous. The whole truck driving thing gave him the opportunity to explore and do the things that he really liked to do and also get a paycheck for. When he was home, Bill spent his free time refurbishing cars. He liked, you know, fast cars, car vets, firebirds, whatever the new car was that had the biggest motor and the fastest engine. But as he got older, you know, car prices went from $5,000 to $40,000 to $50,000, $60,000, $70,000. I think at that point, he kind of transferred that over to watching NASCAR on TV and collecting the NASCAR cars, the die-cast cars. He started picking his favorite drivers. He felt like they're going to be worth the money someday, so this is going to be an investment for me. By the time he was in his 50s, the kids were grown and Bill was living a solitary life. And he got another chance at love when he met a single mother named Dalyne Cates. He seemed that she had some Tawawa's for sale, so he went over and got a Tawawa. Reed told me, "Hey, I met some more Henry." You know, she has red hair. She reminds me of Reba McIntyre. My dad always had kind of like a TV crush on Reba, so when he met Dalyne, he thought this is the woman that I've looked for my whole life. After only a few months together, Bill asked Dalyne and her grandkids to move in with him, while Dalyne's daughter, Johnetta, worked on the road. Johnetta lived out of state, and she was also a truck driver. On the road a lot. It was never home. Bill was an amazing couple. He was great. Dalyne mainly fell for Bill because of the way he was with my brother, Michael. It's very hard to find a man who is willing to take on the responsibility of a handicapped child who requires 24 hour care. It seemed like my dad and a Maris had a very good relationship. There was one time. I was learning to drive, and I might have accidentally busted the headlight. Bill lied to my grandmother and said it was him who did it, so she wouldn't be mad at me. In 2013, Bill decided to give marriage another try. Dalyne accepted his proposal, but Bill soon faced a new setback. About two years after my dad and him got married, he ended up with cancer on his throat. Going through Vietnam, surviving, making it through all that is a pretty tough guy, so he beat it. He made it. The surgery was a success, and he made it out, okay, so dad was excited, and he was ready to continue on with his life. Less than a year after his recovery, Bill is found dead. in his driveway. Evidence at the scene indicates Bill was murdered. The question for investigators is, why? Anytime you pull up to a crime scene with no witness, no murder weapon, no physical evidence at the scene, and a victim land there in broad daylight with nothing to go off of, your instant gut feeling is, this is going to be a tough one. We take search to residents. At that time, we did not find any evidence or anything that led us to believe that anything had occurred inside it. As the coroner prepares to transport the body for an autopsy, Bill's sons arrive at the scene, and they have a strong feeling about who killed their father. Henry Reynolds and William Reynolds could see their dad laying in the driveway, and they were very upset. The police officers, they telling me to back up, and I melted down, and then I was screaming. They killed him, they killed him, they killed him. Coming up, the prime suspect turns out to be someone close to home. She was acting very odd and strange, and he could just tell something's not right here. And the investigation gets stranger at every turn. We walk into my dad's house, and there's animal species everywhere, and everything was gone. The Scott County Sheriff's Office is investigating the murder of 69-year-old Bill Reynolds, who was found shot in the driveway of his Indiana home. We had no weapon, we had no showcasing, this was a complete who-done it, and we had no witnesses available to us. While the crime scene offers little explanation, Bill's sons tell police they know someone who might have wanted him dead. After the arrival of the family on the scene, they were immediately interviewed by Deputies. Bill's sons explain that their father's battle with cancer had caused a strain on his marriage. And when Bill managed to recover, DeLine was anything but relieved when he was ready to return home. Me and my brother went down to pick him up from the hospital to taking home over there. Dad goes back to the residence, and he starts noticing there's some pretty peculiar things going on. A bunch of his clothes were packed up. DeLine was acting very odd and strange, and he could just tell something's not right here. He said I need some clean clothes, and she said they're outside on the porch. He said, "What's my sh*t doing outside on the porch?" She just said, "I was cleaning." And he said, "I'm cleaning." And he don't vacuum seal people's clothes and put them on the back porch. She was boxing them up to get rid of them. They soon discovered DeLine made some other changes as well. He gave DeLine the power of attorney. So if he don't make it out, she takes care of the belongings. When they was in the hospital, she took all his car titles and put them all in her name. DeLine had put the piece of property in both of their names as well. He kind of put two and two together that she didn't think I was going to make it through surgery. She told me he would die in the hospital. The chilling realization led Bill to end the marriage. Once he filed for the divorce, things got pretty heated. She filed a restraining order against my dad, so dad hadn't leave the residence, and then dad went and lived with my brother. Bill's son say as soon as he moved out, DeLine's daughter, Johnetta Hall, moved in. Johnetta Hall had come back to Indiana and was staying at the residence with DeLine Kates. DeLine did not have many friends, so she would talk about her and Bill's arguments with Johnetta and went to her, which in turn would make Johnetta feel as if she had to defend DeLine. Johnetta was very emotional and very upset. And the problems only got worse. Any time you file for the divorce, you're technically not supposed to touch any of the property or get rid of any of the property. My dad felt like DeLine was hauling all the property off the premises. So my dad talked my brother and I and had taken a video camera in video on as much as we possibly could of what was there. He had probably had over 100,000 pieces worth of NASCAR's and hunt wheels. And he had a DeLine heart junior and his bathrooms from the floor stacked all the way to the cell and he had the goat series and the platinum series in the house. They worked quite a bit of money because they were 24 karat goat cars. The family had indicated to us that the collection was worth probably in excess of $100,000. As we went and videoed the cars, everything was there. He was just trying to protect himself. So at the end, it could be split evenly and fairly in that he was going to be taken advantage of. As divorce proceedings moved forward, in August 2015, the court awarded bill possession of the residence. The judge ordered DeLine to vacate the property by September 20, just a week before bill was murdered. We go back over there and all of his NASCAR's everything was gone. His truck was gone. Everything was gone. She had 12 walls. We walk into the house, and there's animal species everywhere through the whole house. The urine smell was so strong that you couldn't even stand to be in there more than five minutes. I mean, we had to open up all the windows and all the doors. And she was that upset that she had to vacate the premises that she was going to make sure it was unlivable. DeLine had also left behind a thinly veiled threat. When we went on to the living room in his chair said a can of Remington Gunnall. Like, here you go. And he kept saying they're going to kill me. They're going to kill me. DeLine was extremely mad about the fact that she was not awarded the house. She believed it was completely and utterly unfair to her. She cussed, ranted, and raved about it multiple times a day. But despite his concerns, Bill refused to be intimidated. They had spent several days cleaning the house to try to get it to the spot where it was livable. At the night of September 27, 2015, was actually going to be Bill Reynolds' first night back in his residence. It was nothing left, but the murder centrioles. The vehicles with some of them was still there. You couldn't start it or nothing. So that's when he had a Leo Buter come over to his place. So he could start it and drive it around. But when they showed up there, that's when they found him dead. William and Henry Reynolds believe that DeLine had murdered their father, Bill Reynolds, because they were going through a divorce. And she wanted to make sure that she got what she felt like was owed to her. Given the information that had been provided by the sons of Bill Reynolds, detectives decided it was imperative to make contact with DeLine Cates. Investigators call DeLine and set up a meeting with her at her new residence later that night. They sat down on the front porch. It was at that time that DeLine was made aware the bill was deceased. DeLine seemed visibly upset at that news. She indicates that it had her trouble, but she made with him a long time, and she did care about him. Despite DeLine's emotional reaction, police noticed some red flags. She had been cleaning. It had cleaning supplies out, given the fact that they had just left the scene of a murder. It immediately raises suspicions that somebody is trying to clean up evidence. DeLine was asked directly if she has shot Bill Reynolds. And she said, no. It would be more personal to her. She would use a knife or a bat. She would not use a gun. The reaction of hearing this, like, she's saying this right now. She was asked whether or not she owned any weapons. She told law enforcement that she owned a 410 shotgun and a 38 special that she had not seen for quite some time. She indicated it could either be in storage or in some box somewhere from the move. She was also asked if she'd been with anybody to determine whether she was involved or not, or if she has a solid alibi. Miss Case indicated that she had been cleaning her new residence with her daughter, Jonathan Hall. She indicated that Miss Hall left the residence around two o'clock to go get some groceries in Madison, Indiana. Dalyne was asked if she would provide her cell phone. Because in that cell phone, we can tell her GPS location, you know, where she was at at the time of the crime. She expressed that she had nothing to hide in this investigation, and she was willing to give her phone up. Dalyne remains a suspect, but there's still someone else police want to talk to. I needed to make contact with Johnetta to determine her whereabouts and any involvement if any. Chief Deputy Don Campbell made me aware of some recent police involvement with Johnetta Hall. The police had been called out there a couple times for harassment calls or things of that nature. He said, "Johnetta was tough to deal with." We're still left with questions, a lot of questions. After their interview with Dalyne Cates, investigators follow up on her alibi, involving her daughter, Johnetta Hall. You have to work looking at every avenue, every lead. You cannot leave anything unturned. It was decided that I was going to try to reach out to Johnetta Hall. I was actually paying her phone number through our dispatch from recent calls of service. I placed a phone call to Johnetta, and she didn't answer. I left a voicemail and explained that I was an investigator with the Sheriff's Office, and that I needed to speak with her in her presence in investigation. A few hours later, Johnetta shows up in person. Around 8 p.m., the night of the murder, Johnetta arrived at the Sheriff's Office, and we conducted an interview with her. We saw your cabin in, we have a pouch, a little bit, I got support, talk to you about, like, okay, Bill Strang did today. Yeah, just a few hours to go. She did not ask, you know, "Oh my gosh, what happened?" That was a red flag for us, the investigation. Are you curious at all how Bill died? You haven't asked me. I don't know what to think about it. I really don't. I don't mean, but I do want to do a hard build. I don't really get all into Bill's business as far as, you know, who and what he knows. I mean, he's not exactly on a lot of people. It's nice to list the way that I let out. When confronted with the fact that she was not concerned, her explanation was that it wouldn't surprise her if someone had killed him, because that's just the way he had been dealing with people. Some of the drugs that they had him on, they were crazy. Does he have that feelings, can you send a few more backer? I mean, it's still a bit him, damn sale. She had explained that there used to be a great relationship between Dailene and Bill. She blamed the change in things on cancer and that after the treatments, that it changed his personality. He became a vindictive individual and that he was very rude and hard to deal with. I could tell that Jen Adda did not like Bill Reynolds. It was like almost personal based on her demeanor. Jen Adda's behavior shifts her from being an alibi witness to a potential suspect. She was asked the same questions Dailene was asked. Tell us a little bit about your day, how your days went, where you've been. We're trying to establish a baseline. See you up 10, 30, what's to you? You got it. My normal. Got coffee, cigarette, I might see. Started a load of laundry. Jonetta Hall tells law enforcement that she had been helping her mother clean at the new residents, but that she had left the residents to take a rug to a storage unit. She also says that after leaving the storage unit, that she went to in the Circle K in Austin, Indiana to buy bread. After leaving the Circle K, she headed north and headed through the Muscatatuck Wildlife Preserve. And I'm just driving around trying to get myself lost. I was going to really get job loaded too. It's quite country, you know. That's what I did. Struck around. That stuck out as odd to me, you know. It was an odd statement. Why are you trying to get lost? I'm assuming you're by yourself a little bit. I'm older, I'd say I just kind of unwind and well, I haven't had a long time since all of this. So, I decided today, I'm just going to take off. There was nobody to corroborate a verify where she was at when she claimed she was at these places. So, with the not me and witness, we asked her for any evidence. I know, you don't look good for me. I get that all day. And she was eager to produce that receipt to law enforcement to show where she had been at the circle K buying the bread. She provided us with her cellular device and her password to Google and gave us permission to explore that. And in doing so, we were able to extract GPS coordinates locations from a certain time frame before the murder, after the murder and during the murder. To their surprise, investigators find out John Netta's telling the truth. With her statement that she was all up in the wildlife refuge, we were able to find those points and show that she indeed was up there driving around. Officers were able to search John Netta Hall's vehicle. And once again, they came up with no evidence. It was kind of like a kick in the teeth. It kind of set us back. At the end of the initial interview of John Netta Hall, detectives let her leave the sheriff's office. And although she was free to go, officers seemed to have some suspicions and didn't feel comfortable with the way that had gone. So they wanted to make sure they did some additional follow-up to what they had learned. Police talked to Dalyne's neighbors who support her alibi. It was confirmed that Dalyne had been at her residence or on that property for all of the day, had helped the neighbors clean some cabinets. And according to the neighbors, she had not left. Detectives asked them if Dalyne or John Netta had asked them to lie for them about their whereabouts on the day of the murder. They stated that they did not. Investigators still feel like the women aren't telling them the whole story. Just didn't feel like she was answering our questions truthfully or wholly, I should say. Because of the history, the family history, that raised the hair on the back of your neck that you might be on the right path, there are some red flags that need to be followed up on this investigation. Coming up, a suspect's cover story comes under scrutiny. I did she lie. Why did she say she was there by herself? And a murder plot unfolds. He's called him and said, can you pick up my apartment? I got a job to do. And he knew Ben they were going to kill somebody. With Dalyne and her daughter, John Netta's whereabouts, both accounted for. It seems neither woman could have been Bill Reynolds shooter. But since they both have strong motives, investigators still believe they might have been involved. Sometimes people are responsible for murder don't actually carry out the act. They're responsible for potentially planning it, potentially eating and assisting in the murder by providing a murder weapon. There's a whole list of things that could include someone in a crime that can't be ruled out just by a location Alabama. The next morning, an autopsy was performed on Bill Reynolds' senior. There was a partial projectile that was recovered in the 38 caliber range. Dalyne indicated that she had a 38 revolver, but she did not know where that gun was located. Detectives wonder if John Netta might have had a reason to move the weapon. We was able to obtain the surveillance footage from the storage express facility that John Netta had said that she had placed a rug in, and also from the Circle K gas station where she provided us with the receipt. Upon obtaining the surveillance videos, it was learned that John Netta Hall was, in fact, at the storage express in Austin, Indiana, and at the Circle K around the same time, right? But despite her previous claims of solitude, John Netta was not alone. The detectives noticed that John Netta Hall was with two male individuals at both places. And why did she say she was there by herself? With the Circle K surveillance footage, you can see individuals couldn't really see facial features, but we were able to get a picture of the license plate on the vehicle from the storage express's camera. Officers were able to run that plate. It was a temporary plate that was traced back to a male individual by the name of Jacob Mathis. None of our local law enforcement knew who they were. It was important that investigators find out who Jacob Mathis is. We were provided with a possible apartment that he was staying at in Clarksville, Indiana. Number 28th, the day after the murder, police locate Jacob and he agrees to come in for an interview. "Mathas, when I asked you know why you're here, said, 'I have a feeling that something bad has happened.' They knew then that they might have someone in front of them that has knowledge of this murder. They began explaining to Jacob that they were conducting a death investigation. And Jacob openly admitted that he had went to Scott County. The day of the murder, September 27th, he indicates that he and one of his roommates met a lady named Johnetta at a storage facility and obtained some NASCAR memorabilia. He said that he and his roommate was going to start a business where they would sell NASCAR memorabilia or other items on the internet. Although he freely admits his connection to Johnetta, Jacob denies that he or his roommate had any further involvement. "There are certain people he will give names to, but certain individuals he won't say their name." But after hours of questioning, the pressure begins to take its toll. He accidentally lets the name of his roommate carry heeled slip during conversation. Jacob also able to determine that Johnetta Hall is the mother of his roommate's girlfriend, the Maris. They finally confront him and ask about him being in Scott County and if he was at the residence of Bill Reynolds. At that point, Jacob breaks down and confesses to everything. He stated that he would call him and said, "Can you pick up my apartment? I got a job to do." And Jacob stated that he knew then that they were going to kill somebody. They drove about 30 to 45 minutes to a rural area, carried back the car up, kind of blocking. He reported the driveway and the fence. He reported seeing that and Jacob stated that Carrie shot Bill Reynolds in the driveway. And when they got back in the car, Carrie handed Jacob the gun and said, "Wipe that off." He says that he takes a shirt or some kind of cloth material from his vehicle and wipes off the revolver, sticking it, I believe, in the passenger side floorboard of his vehicle. At that point, time, Jacob just became involved in a murder. He further indicated to police that he had been involved with some meetings regarding the killing of the individual between Jennetta Hall, Amarie Spaniard, and Carrie Hield. He told detectives that Carrie Hield had been hired by Jennetta Hall because he was a trained assassin. And that Jacob Mathis was a master body disposal expert. Officers did reach out to the homicide division from Louisville, Kentucky, and nothing ever came of that. There's no reason to believe that any of that was actually true. Based on his statement, Jacob is arrested for murder. And investigators pick up the alleged shooter Carrie Hield for questioning. Hield initially stated that he was not in Scott County on September 27, 2015 at all. We quickly confronted him. There were certain facts that I could prove, and it was like a crazy, the only thing I can't prove is to let out a car and shop bill. You understand that? I know that you and Jacob went up there with the plan to kill Bill, yes or no. He initially pointed to Mathis as the shooter, but the further the interview progressed. We started to point out some inconsistencies with the story, and used some information from Mathis's interview against him, and he initially turned around and confessed. He stated that he did kill Bill Reynolds. That him and Mathis were hired by Jennetta Hall to carry out this murder, and that Jennetta Hall provided them with the weapon to use. And the agreement was that she was to be given the weapon back, and then she would dispose of it. What did she do with the gun? A lot of money. How much? And who did that? What was that money coming from? All the mass curcalls. He took NASCAR memorabilia as payment for this crime. Mary Heild indicated that at first he did not want to commit this murder, but that Jennetta Hall had continued to tell him things about Bill Reynolds to have finally goed him into accepting this offer. The straw that broke the camel's back was she had indicated that Bill Reynolds had been sexually assaulting a Maris Bunyard. I feel really bad for you, sad that you did what you did. Investigators immediately placed Kerry under arrest. Kerry Ray Heild is my son. It made no sense to me that Kerry Ray would do ever do anything like that. On the news say Kerry Ray's mug shot is right there on the TV, and that he was arrested in a murder. That's how I definitely found out about it. I didn't believe for a second that he had done it. Now, detectives set their sights on the remaining co-conspirators. The next step in this investigation is going to be to interview Maris Bunyard and re-interview and potentially arrest Jennetta Hall for the murder of Bill Reynolds. Armed with Jacob Mathis and Kerry Heild's confessions, Indiana Police bring Jennetta Hall in for another round of questioning. At this point in the investigation, we had the statements about her being that Jennetta Hall had hired Kerry Heild to commit the murder and the things that have been offered to him as payment. When confronted with these things, she decided that she didn't want to speak, that she wanted to exercise her right to an attorney, and she was placed under arrest by the Scott County Sheriff's Office. Jennetta's daughter, Maris, is more forthcoming. So on September 29th, 2015, Detective with the State Police and myself interview Maris Bunyard. In my gut, the minute I saw them, I said, I knew. I knew I wouldn't be going home that night. I was still very freaked out over the whole situation. She stated that she was present for several meetings and that they all were involved in conversations and planning on murdering Bill Reynolds. She further indicated that during the move of Dalyne Cates, Jennetta Hall took a handgun, slid it into the purse of Maris Bunyard and told her to conceal it so that Dalyne Cates did not see it being removed from their residents and to go out and give it to Carey Heald. Jennetta kept saying things like we don't want Dalyne to do something stupid. So we snuck all of these weapons out of the house. I never thought in a million years that Carey would actually do anything. Who really accepts to kill somebody for an ex-car in my mind is just not a thing. But a few weeks later, he proved a Maris wrong. Carey told me while we were in the car, he said, he said, I just came back from killing your grandfather. They said I walked right up to him and I put the pistol between his eyes and pulled the trigger. They left him in the driveway, just left him there. Maris' statement implicates her in the murder, but also confirms Dalyne was not involved. After only two days of investigation, three of the four suspects in Bill Reynolds' murder are now in custody. In February of 2016, Maris Bunyard joins her co-conspirators behind bars. It was important that we get, in my opinion, the two biggest players, which were Jennetta Hall and Carey Heald. Carey Heald being the shooter and Jennetta Hall being the mastermind. To do that, we needed the cooperation of the other people involved. Rather than face a jury, Carey pleads guilty in exchange for his cooperation with authorities. Maris and Jacob take similar deals. In September 2020, Jennetta's trial begins. In the prosecution of this case, we had a lot of evidence, but one key piece of evidence that we never ended up with was the murder weapon. Although the prosecution's case was unclear, Carey Heald. cases largely circumstantial, they believe the motives speak for themselves. John Eddell Hall committed this crime because she thought that her mother was getting out of a relationship and not going to get anything. She was extremely upset that she did not get her way and that Bill won and was able to relinquish the property back. I think the motive for a Maris butter to be involved in this was approval of love from her mother. I knew what type of person John Eddell was. I never honestly took the situation seriously until after the fact that it had happened and I didn't do anything. I'm a coward for that. Harry Hild's motive to conduct this murder was financial gain for him from the things that have been promised him by John Eddell Hall. I would label Jacob Mathes as a follower. Hild showed him the tension that I think that he needed and that he would have followed Harry Hild into the gates of hell if he'd let him. The defense argues there is nothing to connect to John Eddell to Bill Reynolds murder other than the word of his confessed killers. But the jury doesn't agree. After a trial that lasted almost two weeks, John Eddell Hall was found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder was given life without parole. And I don't think it took too much for genetic to snap because in my opinion, genetic is a monstrous, vile, and evil human being. She manipulated those kids. She used them to do something that she couldn't do herself. I kept pushing Harry wanting him to tell me everything. What would she have ever said to you to make you want to do this? And he said she painted such a picture of such a monster. And that's what he, you know, fell for. John Eddell Hall had convinced him to go through with this by telling him stories about how Mr. Reynolds had been abusive to her and other family members. However, with follow-up investigation, law enforcement was able to determine that that was not accurate and that had not been occurring. She took my son's life too. She took him. She took him away. John Eddell had been willing to say anything and sacrifice anyone to get what she wanted, including her own daughter. I didn't think that I would be arrested. While in County Jail after I was arrested, I did make contact with John Eddell in an attempt to find out why things had happened the way they had happened and why she was saying the things she was saying. It made no sense to me. And Amaris pays the price. I eventually signed a plea deal for 30 years, suspend 10 of them due 20 with a 75% time. So when all said and done, once I am released, I will do 15 years. If I could turn everything around, if I could change what I did and didn't do, I would. I ate myself every day for not being there for the one person who did love me. Even though myself and my family were very satisfied with today, they're getting life without parole. They're still that void there. I still ain't right behind me. I'm still dealing with it every day. Like I go down and put a new flag on my dad's graveyard. It's a Vietnam hero. And he took care of me and my brother, and he just wanted to be remembered. Cary Hield is serving 55 years in prison for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Jacob Mathis is serving 32 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder. Dalyne Cates was never charged with a crime.