Jocelyn's Family Member

How could you kiss another man when you knew what you just did to Travis?

Why were you afraid of the consequences if you killed Travis in self-defense? You said that one of your worst fears was for everyone to find out what was going on in your relationship. So why did you talk to 48 Hours and other TV stations?

After all the lies you have told, why should we believe you now?

I'd rather have Travis Alexander back. I'd rather have my buddy back, but we can't have him back. So I'm as happy as I can be given the circumstances.

in the state of Arizona versus Jody Ann Arias.

Ms. Arias, you are still under oath. Do you understand? Yes.

We lived our lives without Dad. He wasn't there. But, gee, his murderer was able to have everything that my father wasn't allowed to have. It's hard to live with, you know?

Why are you hiding? And why don't you care about the amount of pain that you're causing to this entire family?

We knew that he was supposed to use a passport with his photo, but with a different name, Maurice Khalif. Maurice Khalif. Yes.

You were looking for a bald man?

But when Ioannou hauled him in for questioning and fingerprinting, the prints were an instant match to Yazeed.

Jamal remembered transactions, amounts, dates, places. I gave him evidence, papers. Jamal knew things that nobody knew.

So he really had a stark choice to make, deal with his own issues or continue holding the bag for his brother.

She was tough. She did good.

You know, I visited that home shortly after Yazeed fled, and I remember seeing high chairs. It was wrong.

She was a friend of our family.

Welcome to the family.

People did, for some reason, take that as a, you know, oh, well, that's what I thought.

I say he's guilty. I think he's guilty. To me, he's guilty. Definitely guilty. I thought he was guilty before he was even accused. It just seems that way.

I think they'll find justice, and I think that 99% of Mesa County agrees on what that is.

What is your belief in regards to Michael Blagg's innocence or guilt?

How did Michael Blagg treat Jennifer Blagg? Like she was a gift that God had given him. The guy was just an immaculate representation of what a husband should be.

It was definitely an integral part of their lives.

Particularly at first, everybody was just fearful. You know, they thought, is there some escaped prisoner on the loose?

At the beginning, everybody was very supportive. The church really rallied around, and they made little tags with ribbons that said, Hope, you know, Jennifer and Abby.

I'm so glad you could join us on our last voyage and well deserved.

You have to be positive and hope that it wouldn't come to that and it wouldn't take you away from your kids.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving.

Wow, da kommt Tom, der versucht, mit uns zu schwimmen.

Nobody. Nobody. We sat and cried and prayed and wondered, how could this have happened? Who could have done this? None of us could figure it out. It was just pure, absolute shock.

Yes.

We as a family have stayed together so much to support Tim, and we continue to support Tim and Will.

When you lose a child, it changes who you are. It leaves a gaping hole in your soul.

It was like a two-edged sword. I had to feel what his mother must have been feeling.

And you have to pick yourself up and realize that life can kick you in the stomach sometimes. But in the back of my mind, there was Jocelyn. And we can do it.

Well, if you wrote on the timeline, how did you get in the house to write on it? He was looking at prosecution and he just kept talking.

You have to pay for it. It doesn't bring Jocelyn back. And that hole in my heart will take a long time to heal. But we'll make it. We'll make it. We'll be fine.

You knew when you talked to her that you had her attention. And I think that's pretty special.

He wouldn't let her make a lot of the decisions, and it was a control thing. Did he see it as Wesley's house, not Wesley and Jocelyn's house? This was his baby, kind of a status symbol, bigger the better.

The blood and the sand are extremely circumstantial evidence. I mean, they're about as circumstantial as you can get and still be admissible.

A speck of blood was found on Michael Spicer's shirt. Essentially, the prosecution said that a limited DNA profile came from this blood speck, and it could have been Lois McMillan's, but it also could have been one in four people in the world.

It puts Michael Spicer on the south shore of the island sometime in the last decade. That has nothing to do with anything.

Unfortunately, he was home alone that night. That doesn't make him a murderer.

Yeah, it was a very scary experience.

Find us together, Lord.

We do not know who this man is. He's not Clark Rockefeller.

Okay, is it correct the jury has reached a verdict?

But in the end... We, the jury, in the above-entitled action, finding defendant Christian Gerharts-Ryder guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree of John Soas.

She had been talking to this Willard- Numerous times. Numerous times on the telephone. And the one that really put a dagger in my heart that she talked to him for 24 minutes, two hours before it died. Don't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.

No one saw it coming. Late Monday afternoon, emergency crews got the call to Darrell Willard's home after his wife found his lifeless body in his garage.

The intense scrutiny put on the Willard home may have become too much.

Willard had some kind of relationship with Miller's widow before he died.

We did not want him cremated. We just, we didn't want it. It was like he's died and then they was gonna destroy him again.

She just knew how to play your heartstrings.

Can you please get out of here?

August 23rd, text message, calling me names, saying it's going to get real ugly. He's been stalking me and watching me. Very scared of him. I think Chris is capable of anything. Booze and drugs every day. Said he doesn't give a if he goes to jail. Always looking over my shoulder to see if he's around.

I was with her.

I don't feel safe anymore anywhere. My sisters, my house, my sons, stores in town.

I fear for my safety, fear for my life. He has guns.

She loved you so much, yeah.

Before Barry Ward came into the picture, I just felt like nobody cared about Celonia's case.

When Reginald was arrested, it was like a burden, just like a burden was lifted off.

So I called Reginald back. I says, Reginald, have you heard anything? He told me, he said, yes. He said they found her in her car. And he said that she was dead.

I just kind of feel bad for him, you know, because his mom was taken away from him when he was a little boy.

Apparently, she knew Jimmy Ray's voice because she started screaming, come inside, I don't trust him. So she was scared of him.

My beeper went off, and it was Reginald. And he asked me, had I seen Celonia? And I said, no, not since yesterday.

And she said, Saloni went into hysterics, like, no, no, don't go out there. Don't go out there.

I started feeling like nothing was going to be done about her murder, and we would not get justice.

Thank you.

After several days to several weeks, you know something's up. Your mother's not home. The question is, where is she? What's she doing?

We'd live together our whole lives. That was obviously different, you know, waking up every day with, one, your mom's not there, but two, now your brother isn't.

I felt it as soon as I walked into the room. And I think my dad was the one that said that she's not coming home. I just kind of fell into him and just didn't know how to react.

You know, I left out kind of like a shriek and kind of just collapsed in my dad. And I can still kind of feel it.

It's a good picture. That's a good one.

I think my mom was the greatest mom in the world. My mom, my brother, and I had really great times together. I'm also sad because I will never see my mom anymore, not because of what happened.

In moments where I'm really sad, where I'm like, I just need her to hold me. And she hasn't been able to do that in 20 years.

Say hi, Lori.

She was a very caring mother. The memories of her, just us always being happy together, spending time, kind of always the three of us.

It was just a lot of love and affection.

We wanted to talk to you. We've been talking to some fisheries people about some things that have been going on here at the rivers in southwest Montana. Okay.

I'd like to express my family's gratitude to Tom Elfmont for overcoming every roadblock. To Dan Springer, thank you for being a man of your word.

The sheriff lied to my parents, bold-faced lied and betrayed the trust of shocked and grieving parents. Those institutions failed my sister, failed my family, and failed this community.

Dani.

But you didn't plan to kill her? No. And you deny that you threatened to kill her previously, correct?

Do you understand why previous panels have found that you minimize what you did and your intentions?

Mm-hmm.

Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, this is Jeff.

Leslie accompanied me here on several occasions.

When I would hold classes, she would actually shoot with us. Leslie was becoming a very good shot.

We put the girls through their paces. They would move and fire. They would go forward and fire. They would come back and fire. And Leslie did very, very well at that.

Leslie never brought a Springfield, let alone a Hellcat, to class.

I asked her if she was checking on Chris. And she said she was checking on her friend. And that's when I went up to the door. I saw the back door was broken. And then I saw Chris laying there. And then I ran back to my car and called 911.

So when he shot her, wherever it was he shot her, would have contaminated that part of the gun.

Had Leslie taken the gun with her, I assure you the outcome would have been different.

We were talking to him, singing to him, and I was always holding this hand.

I thank my blessings daily that he's here with us. I just wish that this guy didn't take everything away from him.

I was in shock, I think.

I just remember them bringing Chris out on the stretcher to the ambulance. I remember there being a sheet over him. So it made me panic a little bit.

She was a light of a lot of people's lives. She was always smiling. She was a very good mother, lived for her kids, and was an advocate and champion of women, women's rights, and especially women that were abused.

Chris was in a band and a singer, and they had connected, and he asked her out.

I just wanted to get there. I just wanted to get there as fast as I could.

I was on the phone to everyone I could think of because I just needed prayers from everybody.

He lived 65 miles away in a really small farming community.

For a huge tragedy like that to occur the day before Thanksgiving, on Julia's birthday, right before the baby was to be born, it was just so much.

To sit through trial was beyond devastating. Deanna Lamish came to court every day. I had been prepped by the victim's advocate. Things were going to be gruesome. I was going to see a lot. Deanna says she always kept Melissa and her baby Barrett in her thoughts. She was so strong-willed and had such pride. That baby was going to be a strong guy.

guilty of all charges. I could hear people sobbing and gasping, but, like, I couldn't even lift my head. What did you feel?

I know it's the justice system, and we received our justice, but nothing about this is just.

Nothing about this is fair. No punishment in the world brings them back. I miss her personality.

We took toys to a local homeless shelter. To honor Barrett. To honor Barrett. We donated money to the no-kill shelter that Melissa got her cat from. They also sponsored a tree at a local arboretum that Melissa loved. Every year at the holidays, this tree will always be lit as part of their display.

I had said, if he doesn't want to be a part of the baby's life, don't push. The baby is your child.

She knew she had plenty of family support. Everything would have been fine.

She was a go-getter.

I believe that the parents then approached him, but it was not long after that that she had said, he's mad I told them. Because he had kept it a secret?

We have to plan a funeral, and while we were still waiting for things, it was nearly three weeks.

And we're like, no, why? Carl said, the neighbor called, and he said, the house is on fire. So at that point, my heart just sank because we were not sure if Melissa was home or not. I just wanted them both to be OK. And all I could think was, please just have one of them, at least one of them, make it through the night.

We didn't get to kiss his forehead, touch his cheek. The first time we got any kind of Contact. They were in a casket. And the first time I touched his hand, I just remember gasping, just, and I had decided I was going to keep holding his hand. Something Melissa didn't get to do.