The Corn Rake Witness

[music] My family's name has been drugged through the mud. I get stared at everywhere I go. You know, there's that kid that his dad murders his mom. Well, my name is Tristan Mullis. I am the son of Todd and Amy Mullis. [music] I'll never be the same person as I was before the 10th of November 2018. I walked in the barn and saw her laying on the ground with a cornering stick and out of her back. Delaware County 9-1-1, where's the address of your emergency range? How did this happen? She was half way out of the barn, like I was going to get out and then took him yelled and I ran over there, and she's leaving. What had happened to my family? You see anything? Amy, Amy. It had changed my whole life forever. [music] I remember it like it was yesterday. [music] You're 13 years of age. Can you tell me what you were feeling at that moment? Panic. Panic. Panic. I was panicking. [music] I can't even imagine, you know, 13-year-old finding his mom in that way. Very traumatic. You got a second? Yeah, we just, I just stepped out. Four months later. We got a phone for your help, which you can let us go. The case fax indicate that he was, in fact, the one that killed Amy. The prosecution has this theory that Amy is murdered by being struck with a corn rake in her back. You were the only witness there that day, other than your mom and dad. Tristan was called as a state's witness to testify at the trial. They kept saying he was the key witness of this whole thing. At some point, did you lose sight of your dad? Yes. I felt like whatever I said, I was going to make somebody upset. Tristan, would it be accurate to say that you don't know how much time you were away from your dad when you were working in the hot barn? Yes. We, the jury, find the defendant Todd Michael Mullis, guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree, signed by the jury for a person. It felt like a part of me died. I mean, I just, I've never been the same. There's an innocent man rotting in prison right now for something he did not do. Once somebody's had a trial, the odds are stacked against you. What is it that makes you guys fight for Todd Mullis? 100% I believe Todd Mullis is innocent. He did not kill his wife. Believe the science, believe the facts, believe these experts. Finally, Todd's sight of the story is going to be heard. This was not a murder story. If it wasn't murder, what was it? It was an accident. Amy Mullis fell on the corn rate. I'm 20 now. About to turn 21. I get to finally speak my story, you know, said the record straight. I know for a fact he didn't do it. And how do you know that? Because I was there. Nobody else was there but me. But they got it wrong. That's the corn rate. Tristan, where are we? We're at the farm that I grew up on. This is where me and my brother and sister grew up. These big white buildings here are the hog barns. Tristan Mullis, along with his younger siblings, Taylor Wyatt and his parents Todd and Amy, lived on this 400 acre Iowa farm where they grew soybeans and corn and raised pigs. It's a whole family effort to run a farm this size. And what are you feeling when you like look out here? Just nostalgia. It's just kind of peaceful, you know? And that November morning in 2018 started off routinely. While his sister and brother stayed in the house, Tristan then 13 years old. Was with his parents preparing for a shipment of baby pigs. This is the office. This is the office, yes. Tristan showed me inside the hog barn where they were working. Now we're going into the main area of the hog barn. This is where your pigs would actually be in. Tristan's job that morning was to carry heaters from the front of the barn to each pan. Todd was working on the water supply pipes. Amy was cleaning the lights. What she was doing is she would get on the bucket here and stand up. And she would unscrew it like that, drop it down, get off the bucket, clean it in a separate bucket, and then get back up here and screw them back in. At one point Tristan remembers noticing that his mom looked dizzy and unsteadied. She was getting down kind of slow and really grabbing onto the gate. You could kind of see your lupian swaying a little bit. Just four days earlier, Amy had had a minor medical procedure. And Tristan says he and his dad were concerned. This was her first day back on her feet. We knew something was not right. Tristan says his mom agreed to go into the house and rest. But before she left, they asked if she could do one thing on her way. Get a pet carrier out of the red shed. Tristan says they needed it later that day to protect some kittens from heavy machinery. We asked her if she could get it outside of the door. Tristan says he saw his mom leave. She walked down the side there and walked out that door. The last time I saw her was through that window right in the wall there. Tristan says he and his dad continued working for about an hour and a half before taking a break. We noticed that the pet carrier wasn't outside. So he said, "Hey, can you go get the pet carrier out?" We just figured she couldn't get it. Tristan went to the red shed to get the pet carrier. And that's what he found his mom on the ground with a corn rake in her back. I was just praying that she was still alive. Tristan yelled for his dad and they got Amy into the truck. Tell her we're counting 911 at the address of your emergency reasons. Calling 911 as they rushed to the hospital. I just grabbed her and she went to the truck. Okay, you're headed to the hospital and she's in your vehicle. How did you hear that your mom didn't make it? Dad walked in the room and he had tears in his eyes and told us that mom had passed away. That was sophomore when she went to prom. She loved that dress but I would not have picked it. Amy's mother Peggy, her brother Jeff and her stepfather Randy, are still coming to terms with what happened that day. Your heart stopped. She was my best friend growing up. Amy was a very vibrant person. She had a big personality. She was always concerned about other people, about our family, about her children. Tristan says that he and his father assumed his mother's death had been a horrible accident. That she had just fallen on the rake. But less than a year later, Todd was on trial for her murder. And the name, and by the authority of the state of Iowa, accused Todd Morris of murder first degree committed his follows. Even though Todd and Tristan maintained that Amy's death was an accident, the state medical examiner Dr. Kelly Cruz said it was a homicide. She found a large bruise on the side of Amy's jaw and scraped some bruises on Amy's knuckles, possible signs of a struggle, and noted that while Amy had six puncture wounds on her back, the corn rake only had four times. There were two different directions of the six puncture wounds, and what do those different directions indicate to you? To me, they indicate that she would have to be impaled with the rake at least twice, possibly three times. Dr. Cruz determined that Amy's injuries had to have been caused by someone striking her with the rake. Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations Special Agent John Turbett now retired. was called in to help local law enforcement. I'm thinking at some point Todd and Amy end up in that red barn and Todd attacks Amy and she's hit two or three times with a corn rake. And he says Todd had a motive. We learned that the marriage is not maybe what it would look like on the outside. There were things boiling underneath. Amy was having an affair and according to her brother Jeff, she wasn't happy and planned to leave Todd. Her words to me were, Todd's going to flip out. And what did that mean to you? What did flip out mean to you? To me, that meant that he would not go quietly and he would not give up half of his land in a divorce. And that becomes a big part of his motive of killing Amy. And according to her friend Patricia Christopherson, Amy was afraid of Todd. I asked her why she stayed and she said she was scared of Todd. And if he found out about wanting a divorce or an affair that he would kill her. Investigators say Google searches found on Todd's iPad show that not only did he think about killing his wife, he planned it in advance. You see searches on unfaithful wives and killing cheating wives at different points in history. According to prosecutors, Todd's plan was to send Amy to the red shed that morning, then ambush and kill her, but that wasn't all. He sent his 13-year-old son to go and find his mother, who he had just slaughtered. When Todd testified, he told the jury, he never did those damning Google searches. That he did not know his wife was having an affair and that he did not kill her. Todd, did you ambush your wife Amy and that shed that day and brutally beat her and chop her up with that corn fork? No, I did not. Since Tristan was the only other person working on the farm that day, his testimony was crucial. He initially told police that he had been with his dad all morning, essentially providing an alibi for his father. Tristan later added that he did leave his dad's side twice to get a drink of water and that he briefly lost sight of him. Because he was a minor, Tristan wasn't shown on camera. Do you know exactly how long your dad wasn't in your sight? No. Tristan, would it be accurate to say that you don't know how much time you were away from your dad when you were working in the hog barn? Yes. And according to prosecutors, that gave Todd the time to kill Amy. But Tristan says he was pressured to testify the way he did. Pressured by Amy's stepfather. How would you describe the last eight years? Hell, I would say hell. Tristan Mullis says his testimony at his father's murder trial didn't tell the whole story. And if he could do it all over again, here's what he would want the jury to know about how long it took to get a drink of water that day. I said I don't know how much time. I wasn't saying it could have been 20 minutes or whatever. All he had to do, he says, was walk around this corner. It was a matter of seconds. Right here is the hose that I drank out of that day. And so where do you drink out of it, like right here? Right out of the nozzle right here. You didn't do anything else in here? Nope, and then you walk right back in. And that he says is just not enough time for his father to leave, kill his mother, and come back. There were two ways Todd could have gone. Either through this door, if he went that way. He would walk right past me. You would see. I would have seen him and I would have heard him. So what's the only other way he could have gone out? The only other way he could have gone out is to the end of the barn all the way down at the end. Oh, I see the door right down there. Then to get to his shed, how would he have to do that? He would have to run all the way across the barn and then run all the way down. Then. He'd have to jump the gate, run through the trees, go into the barn, do whatever, and run all the way back. The round trip would have been about the length of four football fields. Come through the door, get back to the spot, not be out of breath, not be panicked, not be, you know, frightened in any way, shape or form. Did your dad seem to be disheveled when any time when you saw him there, or out of breath, or? Absolutely not. For a young boy, it was a lot to handle. I had a girl really fast, going from a 13 year old kid, now taking care of two younger siblings. Trying to lead them. When his father was arrested for the murder of his mother, Tristan, his sister Taylor, then 11, and brother Wyatt 9, went to live with Amy's family three hours away. I'd always promised her that I would look after her children. But little did I know they would be living with us. Amy's mom Peggy. It was hard for us she because we were still grieving. It was painful all around. The kids had to adjust to a new town and a new school. But for Tristan, there was no adjusting to the fact that he was living with family that he says, believed his father was a killer. And I took this day, I tried to get him to change their mind, and they still don't believe that he's innocent. It's caused a lot of tension in that side of the family because of what they believe and what I believe. So with 17 with the help of a lawyer, Tristan took action. He signed this affidavit, accusing Amy's stepfather Randy and an attorney hired by Amy's family of pressuring him on how to testify a trial if asked about how long his father was out of his sight. They said that if I did not answer the question with, I don't know, then I would get in trouble for my mom's death and be sent to a jail for kids called juvenile detention. And that I would be taken out of school and away from my friends. Did you know Randy P. said in his affidavit that you would press your tent? Yeah, no, just tell the truth. Was that hard to read? Yes. Yes it is. Very much so. Because that's the last thing that we did with those kids is tell them to say anything, they speak their own mind. The truth is what we want them to say. Yeah, that was hard, very hard. Today Tristan does not want to talk about his affidavit. It's kind of a sensitive area. But when he rewinds back through the murder trial, all he can see are mistakes and missed opportunities to prove that his mother's death was accidental, started with his father's defense counsel. In a letter to his lawyer written from jail before the trial, Todd asks, "Is there any expert that could verify possibility of it being accident?" In another, Todd made a rudimentary sketch of how he thought it happened. But when the trial began, Todd's defense attorney, Gerald Firehelm, didn't even argue it was an accident. He told the jury that Amy was murdered. Amy Mullis was viciously and deliberately murdered. Just not by Todd. Todd's sister Lynn and brother Mike watched on helplessly. When the defense comes out and says, "Well, we know this was a murder, but Todd didn't do it." Well, that was a opening statement by God. Where did this come from? It made no sense. When we reached out to Gerald Firehelm, he declined our request to be interviewed. But he has said that he never considered an accidental death for Todd's defense. Nobody got to hear any evidence of accidents. Now Todd's family is leaning on new lawyers who hope to overturn his murder conviction. Brother and sister Daniel and Dina Nashwatt have taken over the case. Years earlier, the Nashwatt's were consultants for 48 hours when we covered Todd's murder trial. And when they dug into the case, they too concluded that Todd didn't have enough time to kill Amy. Daniel did the legwork himself, as this video demonstrates. I literally ran the distance that the prosecution was accusing Todd of doing, so he could have committed this alleged murder. And being there and seeing it, it's impossible. It's a quite a distance. There's no way it could have been done just on that fact, and at that point I was 100% convinced. It was a gruesome discovery off a dirt road in Georgia. Hunters had found a body. Was it immediately clear to you that this woman had been murdered? Yes. But who was this mystery woman in the woods? I'm Erin Moriardi, and from 48 hours, this is the woman in the woods. I have never wanted to be wrong, like this in my whole entire life. Benj, the full series of women in the woods, wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Neesie Nash. And I'm Dianash, her daughter. Most nights you'll find us in bed chatting, watching True Crime. So on our new show, Mother Knows Murder, a crime house original, we're letting you in on our hand. Each week, one of us brings a case, and the other one hears it for the first time. And once justice is served, baby, we drag the murder. Listen and follow Mother Knows Murder, available wherever you get your podcasts. I know that's right. Uh-huh. Convince, the Todd Mullis, had not murdered his wife. His new attorneys, Dean and Daniel Nashwatt, did what Todd said he had wanted all along. What is this here? So this is the shed, this is where Amy was actually found. They hired experts, including forensic pathologists, Dr. Jennifer Hammers, a former New York City and Boston Medical Examiner, and Dr. Valentina Nye, a biomechanical engineer. And after going to the scene, examining the evidence and doing tests of their own, they both say Amy was not murdered that day. This does not appear to be a homicide to me. At trial, the state medical examiner testified that Amy had that bruise on her jaw and scraped some bruises on her knuckles. But if Amy had been hit in the face by Todd, Dr. Hammers says there also would have been swelling. The area isn't swollen. If this area is impacted in, let's say, a physical altercation, we very often see pretty quick bruising swelling on that area. As for the scrapes and bruises on Amy's knuckles, Dr. Hammers suggests that those injuries could have come from cleaning those glass light fixtures that Amy was doing earlier that day. As Tristan showed me, they were very narrow. Your mom was cleaning this out by. And? And this is hard. I don't have big hands. But the most crucial question for these experts is how the corn rake ended up in Amy's back. That's right, that's incorrect. Using the state medical examiner's notes, Dr. Hammers drew an approximate diagram of the wounds, labeling them a through f. And then she and Dr. Nye examined the direction of each wound. They like the state medical examiner say the wounds go in two different directions. If you look at a, b, c, d, these wounds travel through the body almost perpendicular and e and f are sharply upward. But unlike the state medical examiner, they don't think the wounds came from Todd striking her with a rake multiple times. That scenario of swinging and re-swinging does not fit as it does not match the physical evidence. If you swing it, the entry points are much more steep, any swinging with these times causes a much steeper entry point and would not generate these wound trajectories. So if someone didn't strike Amy with the corn rake, how did she end up with six puncture wounds in her back? Are you trying to reconstruct what must have happened to Amy? Yes. They concluded that Amy accidentally fell on the rake and helped to create an animation, a warning. The video is hard to watch. After initially falling on the rake, Amy, they say, struggle to free herself from it. None of those injuries are going to immediately incapacitate her, so she would be able to move, to try to remove it from her body. Trying to remove it from her body, they say, she wounded herself further. So what you're saying is that when Amy tried to get the corn rake out of her back, she inadvertently caused greater injury. Yes. Here's their opinion of what happened. When Amy fell, three of the four times pierced her coat and her back, creating three puncture wounds. Dr. Hammers and Dr. Nye say, Amy then tried to get up. She can't roll to her left, otherwise she rolls over top of the rake. She can't sit upright because the rake handles too long and it hits the ground. The only way for her to be able to get up is to roll to her right. As she struggled, they say she managed to free one time from her back. But it still stayed under her coat. They say she fell again, causing the fourth puncture wound. Then Amy once again tried to free herself from the rake. She gets up to her knees and grabs the rake handle. Still trying to break free, Dr. Hammers and Dr. Nye say that Amy inadvertently turned the rake, changing the direction of the times. They say she fell again, causing the fifth and sixth puncture wounds while the times were pointing upward. Falling back onto those last two times explains that upward internal trajectory. Dr. Hammers and Dr. Nye say the clearest proof that Amy's death could not have been caused by someone swinging the rake is the coat that Amy was wearing that day. This is a photo of the inside of the coat, taken at autopsy, but never shown it trial. The four arrows indicate where the medical examiner saw holes in the coat. It's extremely important piece of evidence because it indicates that the clothing has less holes than the number of holes in her body. And why is that so significant? He was convicted on swinging this rake multiple times into her body. How do you swing a four-time implement multiple times and have less holes in the outer clothes and more holes in the body? That is illogical. And they think they know why Amy fell in the first place. Dr. Hammers discovered a potential clue in Amy's medical records. Something the medical examiner later said she didn't look at. Not only did Amy have that medical procedure a few days earlier. She had three medications, all of which can cause some sort of dizziness or sleepiness. Remember, Tristan had said his mother appeared dizzy and unsteady. As part of their work, Dr. Hammers and Dr. Knight walked through the farm. They say that the layout of the red shed likely contributed to the accident. It's very dark, it's very narrow. There's a lot of things in there. To get the pet carrier, Amy had to walk down one narrow pathway, turn right, and then walk down another. Police photos from that day show the pet carrier sticking out. And Dr. Knight and Dr. Hammers noticed something else in those photos. On the ground, there were two pieces of farm equipment called augers that looked like giant drill bits. With the pet carrier being partially pulled out, it seems most likely that she was starting to pull that out. The barn being dark, the auger's at your feet, a tripping hazard, falling backwards. This is the most likely plausible scenario. For Tristan and the Mullah's family, the expert's conclusion is what they've been waiting for. Finally, Todd's explanations right here, they proved it. Science doesn't lie, it was a farm accident. Simple as that. I feel like we had our answer. But when Todd's new attorneys get the chance to present this information to a judge, would it be enough? I'm Kelly O'Grady. - And we're here to tell you about our new show, Straight Up. - Every week, we're ditching the anchor desk to break down the story. The internet can't stop talking about. - And we'll have a cocktail recipe to match the mood. Straight Up is out now wherever you get your podcast. (upbeat music) - Determined to prove that Amy's death was an accident. - You can't argue with the science. You can't argue with the biomechanical engineers. Todd Mullis' new lawyers, Dina and Daniel Nashwatt, armed with their new evidence and new experts, filed a petition for post-conviction relief and got a hearing. They need to convince an Iowa judge in this courtroom that Todd's defense counsel who never investigated the possibility of an accidental death was ineffective, and that if the evidence they have collected now have been presented at his original trial, there might have been a different result. If they can do that, they hope to win Todd a new trial. On that day in court, Todd saw his children for the first time in six years. - I broke down. I broke down. I mean, just to see his face, like tore me apart, I just wanted to jump over the rail and hug him, tell him I loved him. - Winded. - The Nashwatt, along with a team of lawyers from both the Iowa wrongful conviction unit and the exoneration project, are working pro bono to challenge Todd's murder conviction. Nobody listened to Todd at trial. The outcome of his trial would have been different. If the jury had heard everything that the court is gonna hear over the course of this trial. At his murder trial, the prosecution argued that Amy's affair was a reason Todd killed her. But the Nashwatt say there's no clear evidence that Todd had any idea that his marriage was at risk. She was having an affair at that time, unbeknownst to Todd, but never took any action to actually take the steps to leaving. And in the month before she died says the Nashwatt, there were affectionate texts between them. There's messages where they're saying, "I love you back and forth." But what about that conversation that Amy's friend said they had about being afraid Todd would kill her? I think they were, for lack of better words, they kind of throw away statements. Just like if I said it, my husband was gonna kill me if I'm home late, or things of that nature. If she believed he was going to kill her, she would have done something different and she didn't. She stayed. As for those Google searches discovered on Todd Mullis' iPad, searches about cheating and killing unfaithful women, which Todd denied making, but the prosecution said, "Prove premeditation." How do you explain the Google searches? What happens to cheaters in history, killing unfaithful women? That looks bad. Yes, on their face they do look bad, an isolation they do look bad. Dina Nashwatt says that all those searches were made before Amy even began her affair. And she says that many of the searches were about history. But if you follow the search sequence, it goes into different cultures. Including one that asked what happened to cheating spouses in historic Aztec tribe. The state told the jury that all of the searches from Todd Mullis' Gmail account were done on the iPad, but that's not the case. Todd's Google account was used on more than just his iPad, including Amy's phone and a family laptop. So Nashwatt says anyone in the Mullis home could have done those searches. We don't know who did the search. In your capacity with you. But for Todd's attorneys, it's not enough to raise questions about the circumstantial evidence against Todd Mullis. Success at this hearing hinges on the new defense witnesses. They testify without using the animation we showed you earlier. It was not yet ready. Did you reach an opinion in this case, Dr. Hamers, about how you would classify the manner of Ms. Mullis's death? I did. And what is your conclusion after consideration of all of the background evidence and the evaluation of the hypotheses that you considered in this case? My opinion is that the manner of death is best classified as an accident. Good afternoon, Dr. Maye. Good afternoon. During your investigation did you come across any physical evidence that did not fit with this hypothesis of Ms. Mullis falling under the rake in the way that you described? No, every single piece of physical evidence supported this hypothesis. And are these opinions that you could have, you or someone else in the biomechanical field could have offered back in 2019 based on the state of the science then? Yes. Given the evidence, Dr. Hamers and Dr. Nye said that Amy's injuries could only be the result of an accidental fall. That contradicts Dr. Kelly Cruz, the state medical examiner, who declined to speak with 48 hours. Is it true that at the time of Ms. Mullis's autopsy, that because you could not envision a circumstance in which Ms. Mullis sustained these injuries other than someone impaling her with the corn rake? That is the reason you determined that this was a homicide. There is no other way. Yes. Any of those opinions or characterizations have those changed for you at all over this course of time? No. OK, you've reviewed a report that has essentially criticized your findings in this case, correct? Yes. And has that review caused you to change any of the opinions that you've given in this case? No. Lawyers for this date question, Dr. Cruz, and did not bring any new witnesses to dispute the evidence presented by Dr. Hammers and Dr. Nigh. Close your argument on behalf of the state. But they argued at the end of the hearing that Todd Mullis' murder conviction should not be overturned. The state submits that Mr. Mullis has not met his burden of proof on any of his claims. We asked the court to deny his application in its entirety. Tristan did not testify at the hearing, but a deposition in which he described being pressured was submitted. He was a fixture in court throughout, sitting right behind his father. You were there every day. Every single day. I mean, why wouldn't I be there every single day? I know he's innocent. And for the judge to see that, well, his son is the one sitting behind him the whole time, you know? Mr. Mullis has established there is at least a reasonable likelihood that the outcome of this trial would have been different with the overwhelming evidence that the court has seen. This is evidence of an innocent man. This is evidence of a man that deserves a new trial and a trial where he can have his day in court. And with closing argument said and done, Tristan felt confident. I thought he was going to walk out of the courtroom that day after the experts testified. I thought they were going to let him walk out of there to be honest with you. Now they wait. [MUSIC PLAYING] I thought it was going to be a quick. Yeah, this is obvious he needs any trial. This is completely unfair. It wasn't quick. Every day seems like a month. And then when those days turn into months, turn into over a year, it's very tolling on everyone involved. The hearing lasted six days. But it would take nearly 15 months before Judge Laura Parish made her decision. She denied Todd relief. I'm getting any trial. Everything Todd's new lawyers argued was rejected. The judge ruled that Todd Mollis received a fair trial represented by competent counsel. What's more, she placed blame on Todd himself, Dina, described the judge as ruling. The gist of it was Todd wanted to go to trial so the attorney didn't have enough time to investigate. He knew he was going without an expert, which we disagree with. The judge also said that the jury found Dr. Cruz, the state medical examiner, credible, and that her testimony was consistent with the other evidence they relied on. But as for the arguments at the heart of the Neshwats case, the work they did that shows that Amy Mollis died as a result of an accident, Judge Parish said little. She summarized the science, but she didn't analyze the science. If the jury had heard the science, do you think that would have made a difference a trial? Absolutely. Todd would not be in prison right now if a jury heard the evidence that we have here or saw the animation. The decision was devastating to Tristan and the rest of the Mollis family, who had been so hopeful. Well, we threw all the work to prove all this. Through this. And then, yeah. Basically, haven't disregarded? Basically. How frustrated is your family? Very frustrated. Very frustrated. I was dumbfounded that a judge could look at that and decide that. Dina had to break the news to Todd. He was just crushed. It sucked the air right out of him. "I just couldn't believe it. What else do they want? What else do they need? Science doesn't pick sides." Still, there are plenty of people who already have. And believe that judge Parish and the jury at Todd's trial got it right. Is there any chance in your mind that this could have been an accident? No. I think Todd Mullis killed Amy Mullis. The evidence was put before and tested by juries and appellate, you know, judges. And I absolutely believe we got the right outcome on that. If you look at the evidence, there was no way that it was an accident. Amy's brother Jeff said he found the defense expert's conclusion far-fetched. It seemed to me that they were trying to retry the case with some alternate facts and alternate theories. It seemed almost nonsensical, some of the things that were being said. And with Easter? Yes, it was. Amy's brother, mother and stepfather, are hoping that judges' decision will finally shift the focus from Todd and put it back on Amy. There's a hole in her life. But we know she's up there, they have a fucking doubt on us. What's the most important thing that you want people to know about? Amy? The number one thing is how much she loved her kids and how great of a mom she was. We know how we feel about losing her, that I can't imagine how they feel. So what do you do now? We keep fighting. We have an appeal to go to next and we're just going to keep fighting. The science is still on the record just because she didn't analyze it or agree with it or it's still there, still on the record. So we're going to ask an appellate court to hear it now. You're not giving up. No. Absolutely not. Why not? Because we know he's innocent. I lost both my parents at 13. Tristan told us, he's not giving up either. He often thinks of his mom and is determined to get justice for his father. We'll keep you going. We're in faith that one day this will all be set straight. If you were sitting here right now, what would you say to your dad? I love you and I'm fighting every day for you. I'm fighting to get you home. Now streaming on Paramount Plus. I'm Dexter Morvin. I've been killing killers for half my life. It gets to you. You're having a mid-life crisis. I'm not ready for that. He's back. I'm older, I'm wiser, and sharper than ever. Things are going to get messy, but if I can't believe in myself, I can't believe in anything. 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