Jason McDermott

You are easily one of the greatest friends I've ever had, and I hope someday we can start to fix this rift I've created with this mistake.

It didn't work.

Morgan kept her distance.

If the prosecution's right, that's when he starts thinking, I'm going to kill her.

Yeah, I think it is a true definition of if I can't have her, nobody can.

On the 27th of October, Prosecutor Barr says Jason put a carefully orchestrated plan into action.

He says Jason grabbed a .22 caliber revolver at his parents' house, set his phone alarm for 1.20 a.m., then left his apartment without his cell phone, deliberately off the grid.

That suggests a murderer who has thought ahead to what your investigation is going to be.

Barr says Jason then drove to Morgan's house.

When she left for work, he ambushed her from behind and, in his rush to leave, left those tire tracks.

Then Jason drove back to his apartment.

By 2.59 a.m., he was ready to start his shift at FedEx, a murderer with a minute to spare.

When he comes into work, he's all happy and chipper.

All that remained for Jason was to play the grieving friend

Barr left the jury with one final piece of evidence, a detail he noticed in that car wash video.

Barr says after Jason washed his car, he did something only the killer would know to do.

He walks around his car.

Which could be him checking to see whether the mud that came from parking next to Morgan's house was washed off.

It absolutely is him looking to see if the mud has been washed off.

Now it was up to defense attorney Ty Graham to convince the jury.