Andre Jackson

Although Andre's inconsistent statements, the bruise on his face, his appearance at the very beach where Marie's car was later found, all seemed suspicious, they might not be enough for a jury.

We have to be able to say...

Is a jury going to be able to look at the evidence we have and prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt?

Do we take this risk or not?

Even the DNA was not absolute proof.

After all, Andre and Marie were husband and wife.

To find his DNA on her car or even under her fingernails was not necessarily evidence of murder.

After Andre had been in jail for nearly four years, Lewin decided to offer a deal.

We offered him voluntary manslaughter.

He would have had to serve roughly another year, and he didn't want it.

His attitude was, you don't have any evidence.

So the case was going to trial.

Lewin knew he needed more evidence to make the jury believe his theory of the crime.

I believe that they had probably some kind of argument.

What Lewin needed most was a witness, and no one had seen anything on the day of the murder.

Yet Lewin found there was a secret buried in the memory of a grown man who was all of eight years old when a murder was being committed.

Marie's son, Marcus Singleton.

We interviewed Marcus in 2004.

Really the first in-depth interview that had ever been done.

Marcus was deeply conflicted between his feelings for his mom and the love he still felt for his stepfather Andre.