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Jason McDermott

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
823 total appearances

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Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Four of them were .22s, the same type of weapon used to kill Morgan.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Would Jason McDermott have access to that?

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

He would because the key was just a couple feet away in a drawer.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Jason McDermott went to their house the day before the

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Morgan was killed and then he also went the day of she was killed in the afternoon.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Guns from that cabinet were tested and one came back as a possible match for that stray bullet found in Morgan's car.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

The lab could not say for sure because that slug was too badly damaged.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Undeterred, investigators looked at Jason's movements before and after Morgan's murder.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

One of the things that Jason McDermott had told me was that he had stopped at a local gas station on his way to his parents' house.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

It happened after Jason finished his shift on the day Morgan was killed.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Investigators were able to get security video from that gas station.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

And what they saw became an enormous piece of their case.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Jason was washing his car.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

It's very unusual that someone takes their car through a car wash on a day that was pouring rain.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Oh, it was raining that day?

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

It was raining that morning.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Remember the tire tracks and the mud found on the fence at the crime scene.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

It wasn't a leap for detectives to think Jason's car left those tracks and got splattered in mud.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

Maybe his stop at the car wash was to get rid of that evidence.

Dateline NBC
Breaking Point

backed up, and then went through that portion again, and then ran through the entire car wash.