Ash Kelley

Yeah.

However, when Zeb arrived, Misty was nowhere to be seen.

And it was Gene Owens who had allegedly been hired by Misty's boyfriend to kill Zeb, who was there waiting to meet him.

Wow.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

misty's boyfriend had hired gene jason's uncle to kill zeb okay that's simply put okay sort of there's so many people that i can follow that now so the defense went out of their way to insist that this was not a compromise plea but an accurate reflection of the facts and a sentence that fit the crime committed by jason but the assistant district attorney jeremy ingle on the other hand remained skeptical that jason wasn't just the real killer yeah

Engel said, based on the evidence available, the lack of evidence of a motive, cause of death, spoliation of evidence based on the decades-long pause and critical leads in the case, a conviction of first-degree murder at trial, though never a certainty, would present a steep challenge considering all these factors.

So in this case, they agreed to the plea rather than let the case continue to go unsolved.

They publicly said, we don't really agree that that's what happened here.

Like that's not the truth in our opinion, but at least he'll serve some time.

Yeah.

Like we can't let him just walk out of here.

And I really like that they went through with it because he was already serving a life sentence.

So they definitely didn't have to, especially where they didn't agree with the facts.

I didn't think about that.

But they were like, no, you need to be held responsible in some capacity.

Justice needs to be served in some way.

The family deserves that at the very least.