Rachel Shannon

Of course, during trial, the prosecutor explained that Michael somehow knew everything about the murder, where she was buried, how she died, everything.

And he had a motive.

She wasn't about to drop these assault charges and he was about to get in trouble for them.

Of course, the defense could not argue that Michael didn't kill Erin at all because he literally led an undercover officer directly to her body

so instead they were arguing for second-degree murder.

The defense said that Michael killed Aaron during a heated argument, so there was no planning with that.

They also said that Michael's confession was exaggerated because he was tricked into confessing.

This is a big argument that's brought up in a lot of these Mr. Big cases of, oh, he was just tricked into arguing.

He didn't really know what he was saying.

He was exaggerating to look better in the eyes of the person that he was confessing to.

but he literally led an undercover officer directly to her body.

He explained how he killed her and he explained why.

So it's kind of hard to dispute anything that he himself had said.

There were details that remain the same through all of the retellings of what he said happened.

So it's clear that he killed her and it's clear why.

Of course, the trial also brought forward all of the evidence that we discussed earlier.

And after the trial, the jury went into their deliberation and they came back with a verdict of guilty of first degree murder.

And he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

Of course, he appealed his conviction and he said that he was entrapped by police who got him to admit to a crime that he did not do.

Of course, this was rejected, but to this day, he says that he's innocent.