Harold Dow

And they didn't.

A grand jury failed to indict Margaret for the murder of her husband.

But then prosecutors Gary Guymon and Chris Owens caught a break.

Quite honestly, it was concealed in a garbage bag.

A gun was found.

So it looked like trash at the bottom of the lake.

14 miles from where Ron Rudin's body was discovered, ballistics showed that it was the murder weapon.

Incredibly, the gun was owned by Ron Rudin.

No question about that at all.

And Rudin had reported the gun missing six years before he was murdered.

Are you saying basically that Margaret Rudin took his gun and waited all this time to kill him?

One year after the gun was found, two years after Ron's murder, the second grand jury handed down an indictment.

But before prosecutors could arrest Margaret Rudin, she fled.

You're telling us that you've been framed?

On whose part?

Next.

34-year-old Christina Mason remembers the good times growing up with her mother Margaret in Zion, Illinois.

Christina says her mother has been accused of a crime she did not commit.

How does your family feel about you being in jail?

Margaret's mother, Eloise Frost.