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And wouldn't you know it, when the GBI looked into that claim, they discovered there was a Payless shoe store in Fort Oglethorpe, very close to where Duane was found.

And not only that, surveillance video from that store showed Jennifer going inside and purchasing men's shoes on the day of the murder.

Now, that was everything Jennifer had reportedly provided.

Robert, on the other hand, had not been nearly as chatty.

After he was arrested, his only statement to authorities was that he and Jennifer had dropped Duane off with a sex worker.

After that, the 38-year-old lawyered up.

In the motion to suppress filing, though, Jennifer's defense argued that none of what she'd told authorities initially should be admissible in court because she was not properly read her Miranda rights.

The defense also claimed that the search that had been conducted on Robert's vehicle in late December 2015 and the search warrants for his and Jennifer's phones were unconstitutional because law enforcement's warrants were insufficient.

A few months after the motion to suppress was filed, Robert's team tried to argue that Catoosa County shouldn't be the jurisdiction to handle the case since the crime had occurred within the bounds of federal land.

But the court shut that argument down pretty quickly and ruled that the case would remain in the state's jurisdiction because the law allowed for that.

For the rest of 2016, the case dragged on.

But eventually, in early April 2017, the couple decided to take plea deals.

Robert pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and Jennifer pleaded guilty to aggravated assault.

In exchange, Robert would receive 20 years in prison versus the maximum sentence of life in prison without parole if he'd taken his chances at trial.

The maximum prison sentence Jennifer faced was 10 years behind bars and 10 years probation.

Interestingly, though, just a few months after pleading guilty, Jennifer's defense filed a motion to withdraw her plea.

But then a few months after that, she changed her mind and asked the court to dismiss her request to withdraw.

In the end, Jennifer served several years in prison for her role in the crime and was released early in February 2022.

According to records from the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, her period of supervision post-release has since ended.

Robert Brooks remains incarcerated at a Georgia state prison.