Jonathan Hirsch

And of course, the oddest gap year in history, Bart's flight to Mexico under an alias.

Yeah, and this case is fascinating to sort of walk through the trial and everything leading up to it.

The prosecutor, Fred Felkman, he said during the trial, there's this term they use in psycholingo, psychobabble of sociopath.

In other words, a person who knows he's doing something wrong but doesn't really care.

The old time Texas thing was, he's a mean old son of a bitch, okay?

Yeah.

They knew what they were getting into, and they weren't about to mince words, regardless of the sort of nuanced moral territory that Kent was trafficking in.

Exactly.

And this other prosecutor was sort of saying, like, this is an act of betrayal.

It doesn't get any worse than this.

The law has to be commensurate with the crime.

Yeah, and I mean, he's up against a governor who historically has not been particularly keen on commuting these kinds of sentences.

So after six days of testimony in the trial,

including evidence from Steve, the physical items that were recovered from Lake Conroe, the record of Bart's lies, the jury deliberates for just a few hours.

Yeah, I mean, they knew what they were up against.

So they find Bart guilty of capital murder.

And during the penalty phase, Bart actually took the stand, which is really interesting.

He said, I'm 100% guilty for this.

I put the plan in motion.

If I had not done so, it would not have happened.