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Josh Mankiewicz

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And I'm living in this nightmare.

You didn't get that call.

You have any contact with her after that?

Lydia says the silence from Sabrina after her release spoke volumes.

Chris Wilson says her mom was devastated by Rob's sudden death and the loss of contact with her grandchildren. Chris says her mother's health suffered a steep decline. And in June of 2016, she died. She was only 68.

Losing her son.

His death killed her.

That's the thing about betrayal. Sometimes the person we should fear most is the one we trust most. That was a lesson Sabrina Limon was about to learn the hard way. Before they'd even met, defense attorney Clayton Campbell had a feeling he was going to like Jonathan Hearn. He liked Jonathan's parents when they came in to discuss the case.

They believed strongly in their son's innocence, and they seemed like his kind of people. That's because they were devout Christians, just like Clayton. They'd told him Jonathan had been homeschooled, just like Clayton.

The things Jonathan was accused of were nothing short of terrible. Murdering the husband of a woman he was having an affair with. Awful. Well, the more Clayton Campbell dug into the case and examined the evidence...

After all, what did the prosecution have? An affair? Security camera video? A motorcycle and some guns? Well, Campbell thought the security video was too blurry to identify anybody. And the motorcycle? Well, there must be hundreds of motorcycles in Southern California like the one Jonathan owned.

As for the two handguns that were registered to Jonathan, the prosecutor couldn't prove either of them was the murder weapon.

That was encouraging. However, there was one big problem. Clayton Campbell's client wanted to confess his sins right from the jump, just like King David did in that Bible story involving Bathsheba.

For a lot of defense attorneys, that might have been an easy call. Let the client copped a murder, collect the fee, and call it a day. Next... Well, not Clayton Campbell.

The lawyer prayed with his client. He pleaded with Jonathan to not confess his guilt to anyone, not even his family. So for two years, Jonathan Hearn sat in a jail cell, presumably speaking only to God about his guilty conscience. And perhaps his prayers were answered because he did receive forgiveness from an unlikely quarter. That was Rob Lamone's family.

That's Rob's sister, Chris Wilson. How can you do that?

Well, God forgave you. You didn't kill anybody.

As the days and weeks ticked down to Jonathan's trial date, Clayton Campbell poured over the lists of evidence that prosecutors intended to produce for a jury. It was then that he noticed a lot of evidence he expected to see there was missing.

Jonathan had not only told his lawyer details of the affair with Sabrina and details about the murder of her husband, he'd also told where he'd hidden key evidence. For instance, shortly after the shooting, Jonathan told the lawyer how he had replaced the barrel on the murder weapon with a new one.