Host/Narrator

July 20th, 4.52 p.m.

Please rise.

After 10 days of testimony and less than 10 hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a verdict.

We, the jury, find the defendant, Kevin Dean Eastman, guilty of murder of the first degree.

I think when you hear a guilty verdict in a homicide, my initial thought is gratitude that the injustice of the death itself wasn't compounded by the system not working.

As the court has heard repeatedly, Scott Sessions was a gifted musician.

Kevin got two consecutive life terms, as well as an additional 27 years on some of the other charges.

Kevin Eastman was offered the chance to speak at his sentencing, but he declined.

Thank you.

There was a relief knowing that he's not going to get out.

As for Troy Brunell, the Colorado rancher who says he was unjustly dragged into Kevin Eastman's murder trial, for him, closure has been hard to come by.

I miss talking to her.

I miss her laugh.

She was a great woman.

She was a beautiful mother and she loved all of us and loved all of her friends.

She just ended up being a part of something that she didn't ask for.

She was a victim.

It looks like it's a very small memorial.

You got a little bit emotional when you first saw it.

Yeah.