Laura Day
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He had suffered a gunshot wound through the middle of the chest and wasn't speaking.
We found a card inside the car from a local jeweler.
She wrote on the card that she wanted Jim and herself buried together and that everything she owned should go to her mother.
She told the investigators that while he was driving her to this location from his house that morning, she was writing that note.
Essentially, she's writing a murder-suicide note with a man that's driving her
where he thinks to change and go to school while she's planning out this whole attack and assault on him.
But this is how despondent, apparently, or angry she was at the idea that her boyfriend would break up with her.
She told us that he claimed he was going to kill himself.
And it reached a point where every time she opened her mouth, the story changed significantly.
She tells investigators that she was acting in self-defense.
One of them had to do with possibly being battered by him.
These various claims were all dismissed pretty quickly.
There was no indication that he was anything other than a very nice young man who picked the wrong person to date.
Laura pleads guilty to second-degree murder in the death of James Kendall.
When you were just 17 years old in California, you were convicted of shooting your boyfriend and killing your boyfriend, James Kendall.
I'm not supposed to talk about that.
But while in jail at just 18 years old, Laura meets another inmate two years younger than her and falls in love again.